UTOPIA ✔

Chapter 10 - Third Wave

- 24 hours later - 25 December 2012

- World Health Organization

'Sir, there is an emergency' one of the officials from WHO reported hurriedly. 'IT'S RISING AGAIN.'

'We have to report the current conditions to the Dr. Margaret' Paul, one of the head researcher on TQ-Unknown said.

24 hours after Roxanne's telecast, the clouds that started fading, once again grew thicker and were rising rapidly. They looked more disastrous than their first appearance. Those barely affected or unaffected by it previously, started dying and the number of unaffected people started reducing. Second and third quarantine zones fell apart. The only standing was the first which contained unaffected civilians.

'I need the complete report on the situation right now!' Dr. Margaret ordered.

'Yes ma'am' Paul said. 'The clouds first appeared on 22nd around the globe which covered the sky with turquoise color. In 24 hours it began to thicken and rise at a tremendous speed. The clouds then descended at the ground level. When these particles first formed, it didn't affect the human body, is what we thought. But we were wrong. That was our first mistake. Rather than doing nothing, these particles were slowly entering everyone's body to create a base. More like a bomb. As soon as the clouds descended and entered everyone's body, the bomb exploded causing these results.' He said and handed the clip board to Dr. Margaret. She read it and looked back at Paul. 'The clouds began to disappear. Now they are forming again. The affect is even greater than before. The bomb that didn't explode when the second wave hit us, this third wave is detonating them. Not just detonating, but creating more in those who were not affected before.'

'Aren't you miscalculating here-'

'No!' Paul interrupted before she could finish. 'The numbers are correct. There are... um... around 1.2 million casualties around the world and are still rising.'

'What?!' Dr. Margaret Shrieked. 'What you said before, about... the third wave creating more bombs. What do you mean by that?'

'It's exactly what it sounds like' Paul took a plastic pack from one of his associates and unwrapped it. 'We searched the areas around Queens and Manhattan. One common thing we found everywhere was this fuse.' He showed a 2 inch black capsule with "Fuse#7621" written on top of it. 'We found these type of fuses throughout the Queens and Manhattan. It's difficult to notice them. They were perfectly hidden. Once we discovered the 1st fuse we started searching for others. Every fuse has a number on it. We assumed it to be the number of fuses produced. We found more than 500 fuse in Manhattan and Queens respectively and the highest number we found was #20152.' 

'And the lowest?' Dr. Margaret asked.

'#6922. And the search is still going on. We got the data on how these fuse works. They are remotely controlled. There is a small hole on top of it which releases the particles. There are 2 sections inside it. The lower section is the trigger. As soon as the button's pressed, the trigger causes a small detonation causing the glass covering the small hole to shatter. The upper section containing the particle is then released. We've also discovered some that couldn't detonate. Secondly, the fuse contains a small amount of particles stored inside it but given the amount of fuse they'd hidden everywhere is on a larger scale. These particles seems to multiply itself ones released. We are not certain how such a thing is possible in such a short period of time.'

'The virus is definitely engineered by someone' Dr. Margaret thought. 'And how was it done? Creating a new bio weapon like this is impossible. Its scale is too large. No! Maybe, the virus wasn't manufactured but altered. But this is still a theory. Even then this isn't something you can do by a handful of people. Terrorists? No! It's too much for any of those terror groups. Then who? Even laying and hiding these fuses is impossible. Damn it!'