Jeremiah goes back to the present day and continues the competition for day 3.
"Comadust didn't even tell me he was going back in time to kill Mr. Weiss or otherwise I would never have gone back." Jeremiah thinks to himself and brushes off the event that just took place. "I should go get checked in?" Jeremiah says to himself.
Jeremiah goes to the front desk of the hotel to get checked in. When he gets there, there are cops at the front desk telling him to leave.
"Sorry kid, no one is allowed in this building, its still under investigation and will be closed off until further notice." The officer explained to Jeremiah.
"What happened here? I'm supposed to be in a competition that is held in this hotel." Jeremiah says impatiently.
"Well there was a disturbance here." Said the officer with an uneasy look on his face. He must have also seen the crime scene.
"What disturbance? What kind of disturbance?" Jeremiah asked.
"A…a massacre." The officer said again in a reluctant tone. He knows he shouldn't have told a child there was a massacre in the hotel.
"A massacre?" Jeremiah repeated, then figured it had to be comadust. "He makes it really hard to feel sorry for him." Jeremiah said low under his breath.
"What?" Said the officer because he heard what Jeremiah said.
"Oh, nothing." Jeremiah brushed it off.
"Ok, now look kid, you can't be here, if you need us to call your parents or drive you back home, we'll—" Said the police officer, unfinished.
"No im fine, but if you could tell me about the competition that was being held here." Jeremiah interrupted.
"The competition? The competition of invention?" Asked the officer to be sure.
"Yes, what happened?" Jeremiah asked.
"The competition of invention has been relocated to a building downtown. It's on 157 maple rd." Explained the officer.
"Thank you officer." Jeremiah said while walking away.
"No problem." The officer said.
Jeremiah heads off to 157 maple road. When he gets there he finds the contestants have all been there the whole time since the night he disappeared. He goes to check in at the front desk.
"Sorry but you have been disqualified from the competition since you haven't shown up." The lady at the front desk said.
"No but I have a good reason for that." Explains Jeremiah while expecting them to actually listen to his reason, but he couldn't even explain.
"Sorry but I was given an order to take you off the list, I don't have a say In if you can participate or not." Said the front desk lady.
"Please? can I talk to a manager?" Jeremiah asked.
Just then Dr. Weiss peaks in to the room and tells the front desk lady to put Jeremiah back on the list of participants.
"You are lucky, we'll put you back on the list. You can sign in here and settle in after." Said the front desk lady.
"Mr. Weiss saved me, but I wonder if Mr. Weiss knows anything about me being at the site where he and Comadust had been? Where Comadust used me to go back in time so that he could kill him. Would Mr. Weiss blame me?" Jeremiah thinks to himself.
Jeremiah finishes checking in at the front desk and heads to the room where the contest is being set up by the camera crew.
"Jeremiah, where were you? Did you leave?" Asked Arnold as Jeremiah approached his way.
"Yeah, some stuff happened and something came up but I'll tell you about that another time." Said Jeremiah.
"Ok, well, you didn't miss much but on the day you left there was a problem." Arnold told Jeremiah.
"I heard that it was a massacre." Jeremiah said.
"Yes, it was and anesa and I were the ones who discovered the bodies. It was a nasty scene." Says Arnold with sheer disgust on his face.
"Anesa?" Jeremiah questioned in curiosity.
"Yeah, I'll introduce you to her later." Arnold said to Jeremiah.
"Where was the scene? Where did you find the bodies?" Asked Jeremiah.
"They were found in the back of the building behind the hotel." Explained Arnold.
"Yeah Comadust is a serial killer, it isn't too far fetched to say it had to be him. Especially since he had also been in the hotel at that time and then there were bodies found suddenly. It's not a coincidence, but Comadust is already taken by Mr. Weiss when we went back in time. What can be done about it now?" Jeremiah thinks to himself. "How many people would you say were among them?"
"I don't know. Why do you ask? That is a strange question to ask." Arnold replied.
"I'm not sure, I was just wondering was there a lot of them?" Jeremiah replied.
"There was a lot of them actually." Said Arnold.
"Around how many would you say there were?" Jeremiah questioned again.
"A few dozen at the very least, but does the number amount of them even matter when the murderer hasn't even been caught. No one knows who to even suspect the murderer could be." Arnold replied.
"Really they don't even have a single lead?" Jeremiah said.
"Nope." Arnold shook his head.
"How? Comadust is way too predictable but the cops don't even have a lead on him? He isn't even that great of a killer or maybe he's just pathetic in my eyes." Jeremiah thinks to himself. "Comadust really has it coming. He deserves the worst." Jeremiah continues to think.
"Well, we'll all start the show now. Take places everyone, in three two one." The director counted down.
"Welcome back to day three of the competition of invention, where we have all the brightest of minds on this show. Today marks the last day for all the contestants and a winner will be picked tonight after all the contestants demonstrate their invention for you guys, the audience and as well as the judges." The host presents loudly and assertively to the crowd.