Chapter 2: Child Criminals
Seven years ago...
"In this moment I'm standing in front of the police station in the middle of a big crowd and the media"
Carla Wallace, a field reporter who has been in the industry for over ten years is in the headlines of the country. She knows in this moment people are anxious to see her news' program.
"We'll know the face of Klein Ramirez, a young man that has been registered with the highest Q in history, and has committed uncountable horrible cases. At the moment he's under control waiting for the sentence of the Juvenile Court..."
Twenty cases of robbery, four serial killer cases, two of the murders were children, an arson case after making a bomb blow up at a building which ended with hundreds of deceased. This is what Klein Ramirez did before his Q results were given, which was very precise because the subject was 15 years old, because the Q detection system starts working at that age. The problem is that the government won't handle with criminal children, there's no way of knowing which children will have a Q positive probability and can be incorporated to a controlled system to avoid them to turn into delinquents.
The last case committed by Ramirez was the murder of his own mother and father, he did it when he was 14 years old. This is another pressure that faces Dr. Nelson, his Q detection system doesn't detect delinquents younger than 15 years old.
After the raising of Klein for the prominence, Nelson had a government grant to develop reactives more precise for an earlier detection age to avoid Klein's story to repeat itself.
Klein is now 15 years old, and there's an information that Nelson has been waiting since he met the boy.
9999
The numbers that show up on his screen creates anxiety for everyone who's in the room, included Nelson who sat still with a stunned expression and a feeling of numbness from head to toes.
In general, nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine couldn't be so high, but if it comes from the detection of Q enzyme this value is the highest registered.
Gerrard: "The value we see is not the absolute value, Nelson." Dr. Gerrard got closer and patted Nelson. "9999 is the highest value the machine can read. If is true, then this boy definitely has a Q value over 10 thousand.
Nelson: "I know." Nelson took a deep breath to try to calm his mind.
Gerrard: "We have set a very high ceiling, it's unbelievable there's people that can reach that number."
Nelson: "We have to take Ramirez's blood test again and run it through a bigger machine to find the real value." Nelson took the phone and typed the numbers in the screen with a shaky hand. If they said Q over 300 was HQ, in which category would 9999 be? It was something the energetic young doctor couldn't imagine. "When will the DNA results be ready?"
Gerrard: "The lab said in half an hour." Gerrard walked towards the young scientific who was the head of the Q detection system at the Anti-Criminal Organization since a very young age. He didn't like having a boss so young when he was a young 30 something years old, and he didn't think Nelson had enough maturity to supervise the job. It's undeniable that Nelson was a great scientist like his father, he has a bit of arrogance which will offend many scientists, especially Gerrard, who was sure he could continue Dr. Kayashima's work better than his own son because he had been in the industry for a long time. "The genes must have mutated disorderly."
Nelson: "I want to see him." Nelson's words made everyone in the lab turn to look at him with the corner of their eyes.
Jerry: "Ramirez?" Jerry frowned.
