Philip walked out of the apartment and saw Maria's hovercraft in a distance. He stared at the bustling city as different kinds of modern age vehicles could be seen moving across the streets.
The city of Emphris Was the most technologically advanced city in the world. It came into existence in 2042 and has been around for close to 300 years now. The greatest scientific minds came together to create it. E- Ezekiel, M- Mikasa, P- Peter, H- Hauser, R- Rina, I- Ibrahim and S- Sarah (EMPHRIS). They were known as the legends that created the great city. They also launched three artificial moons into outer space and created a medical product that slows aging down. In this age of technology, living to 200 years of age is now a common occurrence. At the age of seventy, a lot of people still look young. You're only considered middle age when you get to 120 years of age. Rumours have it that rich families are able to purchase top grade medicine from Emphris pharmaceuticals that slows down aging even more than the ones sold to general public. Since the creation of the city, diverse technologies have been invented that has helped the police to easily fight crimes and stopped a lot of dangerous gangs from taking over the city, so with time crime rate in the city reduce drastically, until a new gang(Genesis) infiltrated the city. They were able to bypass every security protocols in the City and cover their tracks anytime they committed a crime. One of Philip accomplishments was apprehending a whole gang of them, which helped him climb up the ranks fast.
"Could they be responsible for this?", Philip wondered to himself, "But this isn't their style..... This victim is a nobody who doesn't have ties to anyone, so why would they come after him and in this manner"
*sigh*
"no point in thinking about it here, let me first get to my study and conduct proper investigations before jumping into any conclusions", Philip continued walking forward till he got to the edge of the 200 storeys tall building and stopped.
PAH! PAH!!
The sound of palms colliding twice could be heard across the alley.
~SCCREEEVVVVVV!!!!~
After clapping twice just like magic an hoverlambo appeared in the middle of the street. It looked like it came out of a Science fiction movie, it was azure in colour with a hint of gold.
Gasping sounds could be heard coming from all over the area as everyone stopped to look at the hoverlambo and the owner.
-"OMG! is that the new model of the Hoverlambo series, Overdrive?"
-"Who is this rich bastard?"
-"He's probably a rich playboy showing off his wealth"
-"I thought they only made 12 of this new model"
-"I heard that it's priceless and that when it goes into invisibility mode, no technology in the whole world will be able to lock on to it. It has anti matter phasing mode which makes it to be able to pass through objects"
-"Even if it had a price, i don't think that commoners like us could ever afford to get one of it"
-"I heard that if anyone that has this vehicle can go anywhere unnoticed. Imagine if i had one I'll be able to rob the World Bank. But then again those who can afford this would not need to rob as they already have enough money"
Comments could be heard coming from different parts of the street. Philip, the cause of the commotion didn't even behave like he heard anything because this was all too common to him. He walked towards the hoverlambo as the door tilted upwards and went in.
"{Welcome back master Philip}", Immediately Philip got in he was greeted by voice of the AI
"{Where would you like to go?}", the AI asked.
"Re-enable invisibility mode first and set a course for home at the speed of mach 22", Philip replied almost immediately, "and remind me never to take this vehicle out of the garage again, it attracts too much bloody attention", he added.
********10 Minutes Later********
Inside what looked like a small room a diagram of the world map made from rays of light could be seen floating in the air. A man sat down on what looked like an office chair in the middle of room staring at images being displayed in mid air. This man was none other than Philip.
"Joseph display all of the images and information on all three death cases", Philip rotated some images in the mid air with his left hand and typed on the virtual keyboard with his right hand.
"{Yes master Philip}", the AI replied immediately.
More images appeared around him as he kept filtering through them all, trying to find something substantial.
"The scene of the crime for the first place was in the bedroom, the second one was in the toilet while the latest one was in the bathroom. *sigh*
the only thing i can say that they have in common is the fact that they were murdered indoors.", Philip said with frustration
*Yawn*
"and also the fact that we cannot still uncover the logic behind their death. The first one died due to drowning in his bedroom while lying on his bed and according to investigation and autopsy the bed was not wet, nor was the body moved from the bathroom to the bedroom. It was as if the water just magically appeared in his lungs. The second one while still on the toilet seat, died of blood loss but no blood could be found any where in the toilet and there was no puncture on any part of his skin. The third one was lacerated beyond recognition, with over eight hundred cuts allover the body which was inflicted at the same time which means he was attacked once and also attacked 800 times.
The Orus machine didn't work in their apartments but it worked in corridors which made us to find out that no one went in or came out of the room. Could they have been able to bypass the machine? Genesis maybe? But this isn't their style?", Philip kept trying to figure out the mysteries behind the strange deaths without noticing that it was almost 12 in the midnight.
*******4:00 in the Morning*******
Beep! Beep!! Beep!!! Beep!!!!
"Ugh!", Philip struggled to open his swollen eyelids. He didn't even know when he dozed off. "Damn it, who's calling so early in the morning? Joseph why didn't you mute the call?", Philip asked in annoyance as he sat up and cleaned the drool at the side of his face. He checked the time and found out that he had only been asleep for 45 minutes
"{Sorry master Philip, but the caller said that it was important and had already called twelve times}", The AI replied.
"Who is it?", Philip asked once more
"{It's Miss Maria, sire}", The AI said respectfully.
"Tch!", Philip snorted in reply, "since when did that bitch deserve to be called a miss...."
Joseph; "?"
"Answer call", Philip looked up after picking the call. "Calling me in the middle of the night now hug? When did i agree to become your boyfriend?", Philip asked with a tone full of annoyance, immediately he saw her face,
~"Ohhh? by any chance did i disturb your wet dreams? I probably called by the time you were close to ******* right?"~, Maria replied sarcastically.
Philip; "..."
~"Anyways i don't have time to argue with you.
Five new homicide cases have just been called in; in five different locations. The higher ups want us to check them out to see if they relate with the case that we're investigating. I'm sending you the two locations that you'll be checking out on your own and I'll also check out two locations, after that we'll check out the last location together."~, Maria immediately sent the locations and hanged up before Philip could retort.
"Who the hell died and made you boss?", Philip shouted to an empty screen, before noticing that she had hanged up.
"That bitch hung up on me?", Philip stood up while complaining.
"Five new homicide cases, huh? It's definitely not them, a new gang i suppose.
Joseph get the hovercraft running in five minutes" Philip said while running out of the study and into the bathroom.
"{which one sir?}", Joseph asked while taking control of several robots in the house and moving them towards the garage.
"The fastest", Philip replied while disappearing into the bathroom.
Joseph;"..." {But he said never to use it again.}
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