prologue

Adam is in a shed with sealed glass containers. Inside them is some powder. He has dipped a large piece of stone which is faintly glowing into a liquid. "This should be enough for it to be broken without exploding."the man reconsiders "It was too expensive". The man then inhales He pours the liquid into a larger container made out of wood, using resin to make it waterproof.

The boy takes out a chisel and hits it with a hammer carefully. "From the advertisement, this thing should remain in the liquid, and if it does it will not harm you if handled properly".

The first strike on the approximately 500 mm by 50 mm by 9mm if the protruding parts are ignored. On the next strike, a piece from the main stone comes free. It was small, but enough for the experiment he needed to carry out.

He went to a small corner where he had arranged everything correctly. He sat behind a wooden shield with an opening where his hands could fit and another opening at eye level to see the results. He also made sure he was cutting perfectly.

He put his hands in the holes and placed the small stone, now still wet with the translucent liquid. It seemed to glow even red. The first hit broke it, but there was no explosion.

"This is great," he thought, before he had almost lost his hand.

He screamed with joy. Two roommates who were in the main house heard him. A roommate wanted to go see what had happened, but she was stopped by the other.

The man back in the shed took the pieces and, using a mortar and pestle, ground the rock into a powder. He put the powder into another glass container. It is now a little compared to the others.

"I should let this dry up, and then it should return to their explosive state and some rest is well deserved."

The man closes everything and goes back to the main house.

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A man stands up after finishing his work. Looking at the detailed drawing of a projectile explosive, glancing at the time, it is past midnight.

"I should really fix my sleep schedule, but this is urgently needed for the next war."

The man goes to the window, looking down from the 16th floor.

"I should sleep. I still need to go to the weapons lab to test some stuff. I've been staying so late..."

The man sees a reflection of a dark figure behind him before he can react. A wire is wrapped around his neck. The man uses his elbow, which lands a couple of blows, but the masked killer does not stop. The man puts his leg on the glass, pushing off it. The killer is pushed back together with the man, but the killer is much stronger. He throws the man onto the wall opposite the window.

The man, now desperate, pushes on the wall, which surprises the killer. Seeing the blood from the man's head, the two go back together, hitting the glass, which breaks...

"Today in the morning

A weapon scientist and another person were found dead.

Can the man on the scene tell us more?"

"So let's talk to the witnesses and neighbours". The camera is pointed at a guard.

"So what happened is, I was doing my rounds around the compound, then out of nowhere something fell. Looking at it, it was the two people."

The camera shifts to the next-door neighbour.

"Well, I don't really know what to say. Apart from the weird sound I heard, I wasn't even thinking this was happening." The man is clearly on some drugs his eyes red.

It changes to the head reporter.

"So we don't know what happened, but what we can see, it seems to be murder. Is it an early announcement of war, or is it an internal thing? We don't know. Stay tuned as we wait for the police to identify the killer because of the smashed face. It might give some clue."

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