6 Making connections (Part 2)
After meeting up in the other crime scene Philip started whining again,
"I thought we agreed to do this separately"
"We're you able to get anything out of working on your own?" Maria asked him.
Philip; "..."
"I hate to say this but we're going to have to do this together," Maria said solemnly.
Phillip couldn't refute her because he truly had not been able to get anywhere with the investigation yet.
"Where is she?" Maria asked yet again.
"Over there but there's no point in going over to ask her anything because she has already gone 'kuukuu'. She tried to shoot herself earlier with a pistol." Philip replied while pointing at sofa, where she was sitting with her hands cuffed to prevent her from committing suicide.
"Was the pistol your's?" Maria questioned him again looking surprised.
"Of course not...you know that i don't keep weapons on me unless i know that I'm coming for war..... and my hands are more lethal than any pistol" Phillip replied with confidence.
Maria agreed with him this time as she remembered the days of their training and their first mission. Phillip was as strong as 5 fully grown men back then and he even took down an MMA champion, knocking several of his teeth out with a single punch....and according to him he was still holding out when he punched him. Whenever they went on missions together with their peers, Philip was always the one with the highest body count. They were out of bullets one time when they were in another city cleaning up a gang.... Phillip still kept taking them down with his bare hands and dodging all the bullets that came at him from every angle like he had eyes all over his body. With a grab to the neck and a light squeeze he was able to snap their necks like they were chickens.
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Maria told Phillip about the connection between the two cases, which was the eyes that both witnesses saw.
The tried to come up with an explanation but they couldn't. They left to check on the other crime scenes to see if they could get more information but, they were no witnesses in the rest of the three scenes and the death of the other three were just as disturbing.
Towards the end of the day, with the sun setting, they went to one of the pubs in the area to cool down.
They both sat down at a table and ordered for a drink, but Philip was not an alcoholic so he just ordered soda. Chattering could be heard coming from everywhere around them, the other tables were packed with different kinds of people, drinking and chatting. Normally Maria wouldn't step into a low class place like this, she had no choice because of the crime scene they visited last was around here. Phillip wasn't even bothered because he had done a lot of investigations in which he had to be low key and visited this kind of areas very well.
After cooling down for a while....
"Do you think they're on drugs?" Phillip asked Maria.
"They wouldn't see the same thing even if they were on drugs," Maria replied him almost immediately.
"Maybe a new type of drug?" Phillip asked again.
Maria; "..." (Just how dumb and ignorant is he? I guess he knows nothing about using....)
"Let's take a look at all the crime scenes again..... Bathroom, toilet, bedroom, toilet, bathroom....everything is in an enclosed space..... wait..." Phillip finished drinking from his cup and poured another from the bottle....but when he wanted to drink again he paused....
Maria looked at him and staring at his cup and understood that he must have thought of something.
"They all have something in common that we forgot about....." Phillip said while still staring at his cup and seeing his face in the liquid.
"REFLECTION!"
Philip finally said and raised his head to stare at Maria.
"Reflection?... that's true but what about the factory bathroom.... there was no mirror there...." Maria questioned, but Phillip stared at her with a knowing look, as if saying 'you know the answer to your own question'.
"The water on the bathroom floor is also a reflective surface...." she answered her own question.
"But there's no technology that enables a person to kill through reflection." Maria spoke inquisitively, trying to see where he was headed.
"Not yet there isn't.... but do you remember that year at GOTHRI technologies?" Phillip asked
"Oh... It's very possible that this maybe another case like that....But don't you see the difference?" Maria acknowledged his thinking but still had doubts.
"Yes i do.... but what difference does it really make, when a mad scientist invents a new and crazy technology, they have to test it out first.... and most of the times innocent people who are nobodies are the best test subjects, because no one will really pursue the investigation if the dead people are just a bunch of nobodies. The idiot who did this probably lost himself in the crimes and doesn't want to stop."
Crack!
Phillip replied as he clenched his cup to pieces in anger.
Hearing the sound of glass breaking everyone turned to stare at Philip, thinking a fight was about to start.
"I'll pay for that," Philip shouted to the waiter.
Everyone lost interest and continued in their business when they saw that it wasn't a fight.
Maria remembered that ever since she had known Phillip, he had always been a self righteous guy, who wouldn't spare criminals anytime he caught one. She felt that he had a personal grudge against anything that has to do with crime.
"Let's pay them a visit," Maria said while standing up and putting on her jacket. Her face still looked cold as ice and the only time she showed emotions was when she wanted to torture a criminal or when she was with Philip.
"Huh?...who?" Philip asked when he saw her getting up to leave.
"Why are you so slow in catching on?..." Maria asked with disgust written all over her face.
Philip; "..." (Why can't you just explain things properly like a normal human being?)
"We're going to visit all the Labs in the City and check out their science projects....."
Maria explained to Philip.
"Oh.... alright then let's go.." Phillip stood up while thinking to himself, 'now, that wasn't so hard to explain or was it? annoying little....'
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****In A Dark And Enclosed Space****
"How are things going with the ቐሐዘሰአ sacrifice?" The eerie voice from the throne area could be heard again.
"We have progressed by 20% my Liege.." The silhouette of the same creature could be seen again kneeling on the ground with his head bowed.
"20%? That's fast.....but i want you to increase the pace even more.." the voice from the throne area spoke again.
"But my Liege, i thought you wanted us to be discreet?" The creature asked
"Discreet? Yes... Slow? No," The voice from the throne area replied.
"Elphaim.... come in," Immediately the eerie voice said that sentence....
Grraammhh!!
the gigantic doors which were about 50 feets tall at the entrance were pushed open.
A creature with identical features to that of the one kneeling on the ground came in.
He walked over to the front of the throne just right beside the other creature and knelt down.
"Here i am my Liege... what are your orders?" The creature spoke after kneeling.
"Aprhais... I want you and Elphaim to work together as from now on to increase the pace..." The eerie voice spoke for the last time and then disappeared.
"We shall obey My Liege orders..." they spoke at the same time and bowed at the same time before standing up and leaving the throne room.
