The field minder is working in the fields and talks to the seed distributor who cannot give him enough seeds. The robots realize they have not been given any radio orders today, and that no doors are unlocked. The field minder finds the unlocker and pen propeller and they discuss how there was no radio orders so there must be no more men alive. The radio operator is trapped inside the order room and so it gives them a plan to get him out of the radio station. The robots go and bash a wall using the quarrier's scooper to free the radio operator. They than realize that the unlocker has been following them and that it was not told to follow them and therefore must be destroyed. It is destroyed and the robots move on and find a bulldozer and 2 tractors. The robots conclude that they are country machines and that they should stay in the country because they are afraid of conflict in the city involving robots taking over. It is decided that they go to the badlands, and they set out after the moon sinks. It takes 3 days to get to the badlands and a services robot is left behind because it got stuck in a crevice and could not pull itself out. All of the sudden a flier zooms past them twice and eventually crashes but relays information to the radio operator that there are still humans alive in the mountains. The pen propeller gets it's gyro dislocated and it is concluded that the robots cannot help him so they leave it to rust. The robots reach a cave an find a man that is barely alive, and he calls for food. The robots respond: "Yes Master," "Immediately!"

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