Wednesday, July 13, 2011 ?
The tales of Tale 5: The Science Code
It was the weekends and Looze, Rachel, along with Rachel’s best friend Kimberly were going for a science exhibition held at Gallant City Exhibition Hall. Rachel had seen the advertisement for this exhibition last Friday in the newspapers and had taken in much interest. So she decided to call for her best friend and Looze to go together.
“Looze! Remember not to be late for the science exhibition!” Rachel reminded Looze over the phone 2 hours before they were suppose to meet.
“Okay, okay! You don’t have to remind me again and again.” Looze replied with an irritated voice and then hung up.
Two hours later, Looze, Rachel and Kimberly met outside the entrance of Gallant City Exhibition Hall. Looze had worn his favourite white polo shirt with a pair of jeans. Rachel wore a blue top and blue shirt while Kimberly wore a green dress.
“Rachel!” Kimberly shouted.
“Kimberly!” Rachel shouted while hugging Kimberly.
“Must girls always hug each other everytime they see each other?” Looze wondered with an irritated face.
Soon, they started too move into the exhibition hall. Inside the exhibition hall, they saw many interesting things that appeared to be unknown to the world. Of course, Looze had the knowledge of every single object being displayed there.
“Oh look! The human skeleton! I never thought the human skeleton was made up of so many bones!” Rachel yelled.
“Human adults have 206 bones in our skeleton, while an infant has 350 bones in their skeleton. The bones of an infant fuses together as he grows up. And more than half of the 206 bones are found in our hands and feet.” Looze commented.
“Really? Amazing! I never knew bones fuses together as we grow up since a baby.” Kimberly shouted excitedly.
“Kimberly, I saw a section right at the corner about medicine making. Let’s go check it out!” yelled Rachel.
Rachel and Kimberly took off towards the medicine making section. And found out what processes are involved in medicine making. They even get to find out different part of the body of an elephant, lion and other animals in the animals section.
Looze blindly followed them around the exhibition. Then, one the displays in the exhibition struck his interest. He walked up towards a huge chart with the names and chemical formulas of every single compound that have been discovered on Earth.
“What is that Looze?” Rachel asked.
“A chart on all the compounds that have been discovered on earth!” Looze replied with his eyes stuck to the chart.
“They must have spent a whole lot of time getting this chart done.” Looze thought to himself.
“You seemed very interested in that, young man.” a voice came from behind.
“Ah, yes. I’m very curious to know how long it took to complete chart.” Looze said out his thoughts.
“Hahaha, well, this really took us some time. Around a year I could say.” the man of the same voice replied.
“You call a year ‘some time’? It’s so long!” Kimberly shouted.
“Well, it’s for the exhibition after all. Let me introduce. My name is Ray Powell, the person who had opened this science exhibition.” the same man introduced.
“Hey, don’t forget I helped on completing the chart too!” a female voice came from across the hall.
“Who is she?” Rachel asked.
“That is my student. Crystal Lane.” Mr Ray replied.
“Student? What do you mean?” Looze questioned.
“Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself clearly enough. I am a professor at a university in London. My students and I had prepared this exhibition. Other than Crystal, I have another student who is here today too. There she is, meet Caroline Oliver.” Mr Ray explained and pointed to Caroline whom was walking towards them.
“I heard my name professor. Are you talking bad about me behind my back?” Caroline asked.
“Of course not! Why would I do that? I was only introducing you to these teenagers here.” Mr Ray explained to Caroline.
“You better not be talking behind my back.” Caroline joked.
“Alright, I shall be going to the staff office now. I need to prepare for a presentation later.” Mr Ray waved goodbye.
“There is a staff office here?” Looze asked.
“Yes, it is located right beside the washrooms on the left.” Caroline explained.
“Looze, can we continue to look at the rest of the displays?” Rachel asked impatiently.
“Alright, alright. Let’s go.” Looze confirmed.
So, the 3 of them continued to tour around the exhibition hall. Most of the displays fascinated both Kimberly and Rachel, but none fascinated Looze. Looze was only fascinated by the chart of compounds.
Not long later, an announcement spread across the exhibition hall.
“To all visitors, the presentation by Mr Ray Powell will be starting soon. Please kindly move to the presentation area before the presentation starts. Thank you.” the announcement ended.
“Quick, let’s go to the presentation area. I don’t want to miss out any seats available.” Rachel yelled.
Soon, many people were seated and waiting for Mr Ray to start the presentation. But minutes passed by and Mr Ray did not showed up.
“What is taking Mr Ray so long?” Kimberly wondered out loud.
“AHHHHHHHHH!” a sudden scream broke out.
Looze jumped out from his seat and quickly ran over to where the scream was. As expected, the scream gave hint to what Looze would be getting him into.
Right behind the doors of the staff office, was Mr Ray himself lying on the ground with a knife stabbed into his abdomen. A pool of blood was surrounding the bloody man. Looze went towards Mr Ray and checked on his pulse.
“Quick, call the police! Mr Ray is dead.” Looze demanded Caroline who had let out the scream.
While the police were on their way, Looze reminded everyone to not step into the crime scene. He even asked both Kimberly and Rachel to stop anyone from going in, while he examines the room and the corpse.
Indeed, there was something left behind in the crime scene. Right beside the fingers of Mr Ray was a code left behind.
It says – 6 18 8 3 10
The code was written by Mr Ray using his own blood. Looze continued to look for more clues.
“The room isn’t messy. Mr Ray doesn’t seem to have any bruises on him. It doesn’t show a sign of resistance. Most probably, he was murdered by someone that he is familiar with.” Looze thought.
“And what does 6 18 8 3 10 stands for? Is this a dying message? Or is this left by the culprit?” Looze questioned himself.
Looze walked towards the entrance to see is any possible clues are left there. But from afar, one man peered into the room suspiciously and Looze thought he might be connected to the case.
Minutes later, sirens of the patrol cars can be heard. The police officer came into the crime scene and familiar faces were acknowledged.
“Good to see you Inspector Max.” Looze gave a wide smile.
“You again Looze?” Inspector Max frowned.
“Alright everyone, let’s get to work.” Inspector Max commanded.
“So what have you found out Looze?” Officer Tommy questioned.
“Mr Ray Powell might have been killed by someone he is familiar with. And the numbers written by him might be a dying message that could help us find out who the culprit is.” Looze answered.
“Look at the pool of blood. Blood must have been splattered at the culprit.” Officer Tommy commented.
“Then we should do a luminol test on our suspects’ clothing. Do you have anyone that is being suspected Looze?” Officer Scarlett added on.
“Crystal Lane and Caroline Oliver are suspected. But I doubt there will be a positive luminol test.” said Looze.
“Who are they? And what do you mean?” Inspector Max questioned.
“Both of them are Mr Ray’s student in a university in London. They are just right at the entrance.” Looze introduced.
“And the culprit must have used something to cover over his or her body like a raincoat or had changed their clothes.” Looze continued replying.
“So what I suggest is to look for something like that.” Looze suggested.
“Alright everyone, search the whole exhibition hall for something that can be used to cover the body or discarded clothing that are covered in blood!” Inspector Max ordered.
Looze walked out of the crime scene and toward the exhibition hall. He took a deep breath and started thinking hard. Then again, he saw the same man who was peering into the staff office earlier on. The expression on the man’s face was all anxious and frightened.
Looze continued walking down the exhibition hall. Soon, he passed by the chart of compounds. He looked up and observed the chart. Then, a sudden strike of deductions came into his mind.
“Now I know, now I know who the murderer is! But, I need to have concrete evidence. The problem is how?” Looze wondered.
Looze walked back to the crime scene, hoping that he would find any evidence. As he was walking back, he saw the same man again, hanging around outside the entrance of the staff office.
Inside the staff office, Officer Scarlett was questioning both Crystal and Caroline. She took down all the notes from her questions. Suddenly, Officer Scarlett dropped her pen. Caroline bent down to help Officer Scarlett picked it up.
“Thank you.” Officer Scarlett thanked Caroline with a wide smile.
With a blink of an eye, Looze gave a wide smile. He walked towards Officer Tommy and whispered into his ears.
“Officer Tommy, could you do me a favour?” Looze pleaded.
“Sure, what do you need?” Officer Tommy agreed.
“I would like you to find an important evidence. A very important evidence for this murder case…” Looze smiled.
Minutes later, Officer Tommy came back reporting to Looze.
“So what have you found out?” Looze asked.
“It’s confirmed. It is indeed as you had guessed. But how did you know?” Officer Tommy reported with doubt.
“I shall explain later. But first, could you ask Inspector Max, Officer Scarlett and the two suspects to gather here? Call Kimberly and Rachel in as well, including him. I shall announce who the murderer is.” Looze gave a grin.
Not much longer later, everyone gathered at the staff office. Looze prepared to make his deduction speech.
“Why are we all gathered here?” Crystal asked.
“This is because I am going to reveal who the murderer is.” Looze replied.
“Reveal who the murderer is? Who do you think you are?” Crystal laughed.
“My name is Looze Tale, a detective!” Looze pointed out.
“Looze Tale? That famous high school detective?” Caroline was stupefied.
“Alright, time for me to reveal who the murderer is. And it is one of the two of you!” Looze pointed to Crystal and Caroline.
“Are you crazy? One of us is the murderer?” Caroline replied agitatedly.
“Yes, it is one of you. And I would be glad to say that it is you, Miss Caroline.” Looze announced.
“Me? How can it be me?!” Caroline denied.
“You see the numbers on the floor that is written by Mr Ray? That is actually a dying message that points out to you. The numbers 6 18 8 3 10 actually spells out your name.” Looze deduced.
“It is very easy. The number represents the atomic mass of five of the elements in the periodic table. The element with an atomic mass of 6 is Carbon. The element with atomic mass of 18 is Argon. 8 will be Oxygen, with 3 be Lithium and 10 be Neon.” Looze further explained.
“If you were to change those elements into their chemical formula, while keeping the numbers in the order that is written, that will give C, Ar, O, Li and Ne. This would spell out C-A-R-O-L-I-N-E, which points out to you, Miss Caroline.” Looze added on.
“Uh… No way, but, that doesn’t mean I am the real murderer. Crystal can be the murderer too!” Caroline denied.
“That would be impossible. This is because Miss Crystal is with his ex-boyfriend during the time of murder.” Officer Tommy replied.
“Could you please come out, Mr Johnson?” Officer Tommy ordered.
The same suspicious man appeared from behind the walls and admitted that he was actually with Miss Crystal during the time of murder. He was trying to patch up with Crystal when they had broken up few days back.
“He can be lying too! He is Crystal’s ex-boyfriend! He can be covering for her!” Caroline shouted.
“Where is your bracelet may I ask?” Looze let out a grin.
“What does my bracelet got anything to do with the case?” Caroline panicked.
“When I had first met you, you were wearing your diamond bracelet on your right hand. But just now when you were picking up Officer Scarlett’s pen, I saw that the bracelet was gone.” Looze explained.
“I… I… I had taken it out. It was getting a little uncomfortable on my wrist.” Caroline stuttered.
“Then would you mind taking it out for us to have a luminol test on it? I am sure that it would react with the blood that had been splattered on it while you killed Mr Ray. Even if you had cleaned it thoroughly, it wouldn’t work. Luminol is very sensitive to human blood.” Looze countered.
“That’s right… I kill him. It was because he had always been bias to Crystal! He always neglected me, never thought about me. He even wanted to ask Crystal to be his assistant! I could not stand it, that’s why…” Caroline fell onto her knees, crying.
Caroline was taken away into the patrol cars, looking at the scene, Looze let out a sigh, wanting to know why people want to commit crimes. Rachel and Kimberly stood beside Looze, looking at the sad scene of another person being taken away.
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