Chapter One: A Very Curious Death

It was a very busy morning during that fine day, and, along Astrophysics Street, the traffic of vehicles passing through the main thoroughfare are significant in volume. Most of those in their cars are dressed for work, which is quite seen as a regular feature of the rush hour. At the intersection between Adam Smith Avenue, the light turns green, and the vehicles are now hurriedly on their way.

One of those commuters and stuck in the morning rush is Captain Great Stanton, an accomplished Team Leader in the Tower of Taxonomy. He is currently assigned to the Fraud Investigation and Estates Mercantile Group, a unit which handles corporate white collar crimes, as well as the detection of fraud in land use when related to the sale of its value. Despite the presence of lobbyists within his job, he has served the Tower with complete devotion and unwavering integrity.

Today, he was driving on the road with the present case he was working on running through his head. The incident of the crime was very curious and almost an impossibility to pull off, which attests to the presence of the lack of lead to who could have have done the bizarre murder. Even the Taxonomists who processed the crime scene are left dumbfounded as to where the evidence they have found from the vicinity is actually going.

How could someone die by his own will? Is that even possible? The two questions sounded preposterous to be both considered as true, and everything seems completely foolish at this point. What if somebody actually set it up?

The way he was found queerly dead in the driver's seat of his pickup truck, with his face completely sunk unto the steering wheel, and a suicide note was conveniently found conveniently lying still in the passenger's seat. At first, heavy metal poisoning was considered as cause of death, if not a natural cause like a heart attack or aneuyrism, but nothing of their suspicions came back from the coroner after the autopsy has been accomplished.

It appears that the body was completely healthy, and that the cause of death was medically "unknown." The coroner said that it was as if the body simply "gave up" on living, so it decided to naturally just shut down and all of a sudden refused to function. 

That medical report sounds very stupid to the primary Taxonomists, as well, and so a second coroner was commissioned to do another autopsy of the corpse. But the report that came back seems to be more confused and vague than what was written in the first instance.

Captain Great was sure that this case is not a matter of suicide (it is even extremely ridiculous for a very rational mind to even entertain the thought), despite the claims by the relatives of the victim of the credibility of the suicide note found in the vehicle. Something must have killed this victim, and his death is not an "involuntary suicide" as proposed by the first Taxonomists that responded in the scene.

All the elements of the crime are not present, because the body simply cannot die on its own doing. There is a murder involved in this case, and a murderer is on the lose. Everybody must stay vigilant because whoever is doing the killing clearly do not want to be found.

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