THE MIST

Peroxide

The site was so disturbing that even the slightest view of it disturbed the soul of the viewer. The bodies laid in the room as patches of dry grass. The limbs have even been cut in order to form a shape by the bodies most certainly resembling that of the Greek symbol 'Phi' (φ). The room was located on the second floor of a building whose first floor was a party club, owing to the high music noise on the night of the murder no one heard even the slightest noise of the undergoing murder. Owing to the problem even more, there were no CCTV's within a kilometre wide radius of the building. The police were perplexed, so were the other residents of the building.

Far off in Berlin, Dieter, a high school boy was standing on the railing of the terrace of a multi storey building. To put it simply, he was fed up of his life and had lost any hope whatsoever. He has failed to pass the last high school year two times consecutively. For his father Johan, a senior scientist at the WGSA (World Genetic Scientists Association), Dieter was nothing more than a shame. Even though Dieter was extraordinary at sports like Table Tennis, and even called for National selections, his father denied it and said he would only approve if he would first pass high school.

And then suddenly, a high speed wind stroke blew, Dieter lost his balance on the railing and landed back on the terrace. "Maybe God wants me to give one more try", he thought to himself and went back to his room. In the evening, one of his friends, Carl now pursuing his degree from GSIT(Genetic Sciences Institute of Technology), USK(United States of Kriston) payed him a visit.

"Long time no see, Carl how is it going at University."

"Meh, just fine, came to visit ya in the semester break, so which university are you applying to."

"Oh ya, you are gonna be a scientist and I am having a hard time passing high school, I didn't pass." Dieter said in a nervously angry way.

"Oh, Sorry to ask; anyways have you seen this photograph?" asked Carl showing him a newspaper cutout in his watch hologram.

The cutout featured a news article in some foreign language probably of the Kriston region where Carl studied. It also had a photograph of what looked like a glimpse of a CCTV footage and the person in that was wearing black shades and probably in his teens.

"That dude looks just like me, but with shades on!" exclaimed Dieter "You have been getting very good at these AI editing softwares "

"No, no that's not edited, it's a local newspaper from Theolacia, Kriston. It's about a recent gruesome murder and the person shown is the main suspect of the murder, though he doesn't even seen like an adult. The article says, that the suspect was never before seen in the locality and appeared near the locality before and after the murder. Even no databases of his face match were found in entire Kriston."

"If they searched the entire Earth-1A databases, they sure would have arrested me by now. But it's very very strange that the person is just my look alike. Oh come on Carl, be honest you are pranking me."

"No, I swear, it's all real, even I was in disbelief, as you don't even have a passport to go to Kriston!"

"I wonder why all these strange things keep happening to me."

"Oh it's already 2 pm, gotta go for a group meeting with the Director, see ya tomorrow."

"Ya, ok bye then."

Dieter went home in utter doubt and disbelief, and just as he reached home, and opened up the television, the default news channel opened up, but before he could change it, the channel was displaying the Noble prize award 2096.

"The noble prize in Medicine this year goes to 'Dr. Franz Liebert' for his groundbreaking research on 'GISPR Tag 8 : genetically modifying live organisms completely', the new technology could totally eliminate disease like Cancer by genetically modifying huge arrays of cells in live organisms which was earlier thought possible only in embryos......."