Mystery of the Century

September 8, Year 2024, Coast of the Islands.

Benjamin is working as a bureaucrat in the defense ministry. He is a very honest man to the core. He even has two water bottles for drinking water. The water collected in the office will not be brought to home. Honesty to the core! He lost his wife during her delivery of their daughter. Benjamin loves his daughter Ann very much. He takes her wherever he goes. His world is her daughter. He is happy in cooking for her, sending her to school, getting ready the school uniforms, teaching her and doing the smaller things in life for her. It is a Sunday, his daughter Ann’s birthday. He is preparing balloons and fixing in her room and ordering a birthday cake. He gets a call from the Defense Minister to visit the office immediately. Unfortunately it was his daughter’s 8^th birthday. Since he is called by the national defense minister, he could not refuse. Benjamin told Ann to take food and said her that he will take her out for the birthday in the evening. Benjamin goes to the ministry of defense. He is offered lunch. Immediately after taking lunch, he collapses and falls on the floor dead!

Message reaches Ann that her father has passed away by a sudden heart attack. She cries a lot. She becomes an Orphan and lost everything in her world. He was the world to her and she did not even expect that she will be left alone in this world, struggling. The balloons fixed on the wall were hanging lifeless, the birthday card Benjamin got for Ann was also lying in his shelf. The world turned upside for Ann.

50 Years later, Year 2074

The world changed a lot. AI-Artificial intelligence changed the world a lot. Everywhere, Robots replaced humans in most of the work. Human dependency on robots increased by many folds. There were no shops and all were delivered by Robots. Hardly there was interaction between humans. Machines started ruling the world. Humans lost their intelligence and gave it to the machines. Depression was at its peak since life has become a machine and mechanical without any emotions!

Every country was defended by Robots. Robots were created and trained to defend the country borders in both the land and sea. Computer engineers programmed for all the Robot soldiers. They wrote programs for the Robots to identify the enemy Robots and kill by laser technology. Those computer engineers who were hired for creating the Military Robots were kept isolated and guarded, so the programs were kept as a top secret. The designers of the military robots were always within the Government’s close watch in the Military zone. They were living, like in a prison. Their families too were guarded, monitored with a GPS tracker inserted into their bodies!

November 17, Year 2074, Zenith City.

Corruption never went down. For the recruitment of new Robots, a deal was fixed and successfully lot of money got transferred. Kole, the defense minister was overjoyed with money and power. A lunch party was organized by Kole, the powerful man. He had invited friends and key businessmen. All were checked thoroughly before the entry to the venue. After drinking lot of wine, Kole was boasting of his power and was saying no-one in the world can even touch him. Within minutes, Kole collapsed and fell dead on the ground. The man who boasted minutes before was lying in the floor dead.

The death news of the top Defense minister sent shock wave across the powerful country in the world. A high level investigation was formed by the government to find out the murderer. An important finding came through the post-mortem report for the cause of death as Potassium cyanide in his body. Interrogation of all the high profile visitors of the party, CCTV footage were screened thoroughly but it remained a mystery and the case could not be solved for years. The case became dead even after the investigation went to the PDA [Premier Detective Agency] of the country.

April 26, Year 2076, Canbitha city

Nolan, the high profile Defense minister of the second powerful country in the world Travod was invited to the meeting of military generals. Nolan arrived in a bullet proof plane and was guarded by Robot security guards. This meeting was conducted due to the imminent World war III. After having his lunch, same story continues. Nolan the powerful man fell to the ground dead. The news made the world to sit and notice. Nolan too died of Potassium cyanide in his body.

Every country premier investigative agency assembled as a team to find the murderer in the advanced world of technology and still the murderer was roaming free. It became the Mystery of the Century.

The investigation continues…..They could find the lead.

In the meantime, Ann now 60 years old is living alone in her isolated house in a hill in one of the city in the Coast of the Islands.

Read the remaining story in the sequel to “Mystery of the Century”.

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