Delivery

       The traffic took a halt at the Baker Street where a automated delivery truck felt from the belt and spilled the chemical it was transporting. The acid eroded the asphalt and formed a hole the size of a tennis court with no civilian casualty but serious property damage. A peculiar stench spread around the neighborhood, a group of people started to gather around the site before the police arrived at the scene.

       

       Heavy machinery were sent for emergency repair but the reinforced metal melted at the touch of the ground. A team of chemical cleaning experts were summoned, they took sample of the acid for testing and sprayed white powder on the corrupted ground in plastic green protective gear. The test result turned up showing nothing, an unknown chemical, at least not in the database. They ran the other samples and were given the same output. Unknown. Was there anything contamination that could affected the readings.

       The situation was reported to a superior and then a higher level of authority. Later the military moved in to the block and sealed it with a camouflage tent that went all the way across. No one knew what happened inside but when the sun awoke the next day, as if nothing had happened, the ground returned to it’s original state. Reports on the site were maliciously deleted, banned, manually covered.

       The chemical exposed was the component of an experimental industrial multi-purpose melting solution aimed for speed and efficiency. They certainly figured that out but the stench of it, unlike other similar products, was unbearable.

       People who breathed in that smell were later all committed to the emergency room under the condition ‘Signs of Death’. The local government conducted a full scale research on the matter and maintained communication with the company responsible for the incident. They even went through the why the delivery truck dropped from the belt. The path was clear, straight and was checked that morning. The only possible explanation would be the connector on the truck, but forensic returned with a negative. The container itself was not worn out by the acid, so something or someone might tempered with the truck.

       The investigation went on without hard evidence for a long time, and when the analysis on the computer system that day on the belt showed a temporary break in control, a ghost log existed within the main log. It shed a new light on the investigators. As they tracked along the only sensible trace, it was a disappointment once again. Nothing concrete was left for them.

       The personnel involved in transportation gave solid alibi and showed no motive. The investigation halted with no progress at all like the traffic that day. The case was transferred to the Gathering Dust Department. Until someone confess, or it would never see to the end of the day.

[Did someone try to cover their track doing other thing by making this 'accident' happen? Or was it just another simple system failure within the system? Did anyone benefit from this? Anything happened that day?]