Twenty-Four Hours

1: The Order

        The king makes the daily call to the remaining 1,213 Wiseless. "Good morning Wiseless. Twenty Four more hours and another Wiseless will be abstracted!" The king says enthusiastically. Abstracted is a fancy word for,"being shot on sight, or come for your GEI's"

        I am #1132, or John for likeable terms. I am one of the Wiseless, a group of people born before genetic engineering injections (GEI). A genetic engineering injection is just like genetic engineering, but when you are born already. But anyway, the Wiseless are a group of people who haven't received their injection yet. We are trapped in a holographic dome that is a square mile. Occasionally, we receive many diffrent viruses, do to our dome having landfills on the half paved roads. To the North of our dome is where the rich, genetically engineered live.

        The injection first wipes your whole memory. Then, it activates your DNA to hardware the same as everyone who has the injection. It destroys your DNA repair system so you can't repair the mutation. Then, they can either throw you into the "genetically correct" dome, as the king calls it, or they can kill you if it doesn't work.

        So, every twenty four hours, they randomly pick a Wiseless. That Wiseless must report to the injection facility within twenty four hours, or they will track them down in our square mile space, and shoot them on sight. There have been 19 cases of shootings on sight for not going to the injection facility. This has been going on for 21 years, and over 15,000 Wiseless are now on the genitically modified, rich, clean side. So at 10:00 A.M. every morning, they select a number out of the remaining 1,213 Wiseless. They announce that number on the intercom in the dome.