Despite your curiosity, you don’t want to leave your school group and risk getting into trouble.

As you walk up towards the Science and Technology Museum, you glance over your shoulder to see a drone fly around the corner and into the street where the robot went.

You wonder what’s going on. As you continue walking, your mind runs through various possible scenarios …

A secret military training exercise?

Robots escaping from a research facility?

Spy-bots working for a foreign power?

You’re startled out of your daydreaming by an unmarked white van speeding past you, its tyres screeching as it takes the same corner as the drone.

You stop to look back. It’s not long before the van zooms onto the main street again, followed by the drone. You watch them disappear into the distance.

Then you realise your school group is way ahead.

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