The people in the corridor were escorted down to the hall. Even being rich and used to these kinds of unexpected situations the people were still uncomfortable. the policemen who were undercover first sealed of the room of the crime scene. They investigated the scene and did not find any clues that may lead to the criminal. At this moment every single person on board was a suspect. The tension was there even if the men and women looked calm. You could say it was the calm before the storm.
Ryse found the entire situation unbelievable he suspected he was dreaming. The turn of events was just too bizarre for this world that was supposed to be modern non-spiritual and all. He secretly pinched his finger, the pain was real though so maybe this world was just simply bizarre. The murmuring started to pick up when the police investigators returned to the hall with grim expressions.
The police investigators whispered among each other and then announced the start of interrogation. No one was allowed to refuse as they were all suspects they had no right to refuse when a life had been taken in this cruise and the police could not believe their alibi's they had to hear everyone's perspective.
Hearing the police's decision the people grumbled. A young lady with an arrogant expression with disdain scoffed at the people, frowning and turning away from them with her guards. The police men started the interrogation ignoring the displeased comments from all these high class people who were simply too arrogant to reason with.
As the rest of the people found their own corners in the hall they witnessed a very strange and gruesome scene. There was faint sound of a snapping cable that they did not not pay attention to, not a second later the large chandelier in the middle of the hall fell right on the arrogant woman and caused an instant death.
The hall fell into a deep silence for a moment as they registered exactly what they had seen. A young woman with red hair was the first to scream causing the rest to finally react. Chaos was what Ryse would describe it as. All the calm had been thrown out of the windows, Keeping appearances long forgotten. They yelled at their guards or screamed at others even started a fight all because of the fear of the unknown situation.
The police was suffering from a headache trying to calm the scene as best as they could only for another similar situation to occur. It was not a chandelier that fell this time rather it was a knife from the table that fell with a clatter next to a chubby man that caused the people to freeze in shock. The chubby man breathed in heavily wiping the sweat off his forehead only to see it stained with blood. He did not have the time to even question why and how before he fell dead.
The only one to see the entire thing was a young lady with black hair not that the rest knew anything about it. Maria who was constantly surrounded by her guards saw the entire scene with a blank expression. She had seen with her own two eyes as the knife suspended in the air by a mysterious force and stabbed the chubby man in the skull and fall to the floor right after. The chubby men through the entire ordeal did not even feel the pain of being stabbed in the skull and even casually wiped his forehead.
The shock from the second accident was yet to be over when someone screamed, Filled with fear a young lady unable to stand any longer suddenly started to laugh hysterically as she along with the others found another one among them dead.
"He is here!" She screamed "He is here and he will kill us all hahaha!" She seemed to have gone crazy as she repeated again and again laughing. Her face had a twisted expression as if she wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. The people next to her took several steps back with pale faces. The police quickly took action to restrain the woman when she suddenly picked up a knife from the table nearby and moved to stab herself.
Ryse watched almost detached from the surroundings his mind buzzed with voices he could not hear clearly. He could not understand what was happening, He could have used Al's help right now unfortunately his assistant AI was not here. Amidst this chaotic scene he seemed to hear a tired voice coming from far away repeating two words over and over 'Wake up', Another faint voice echoed after it 'It's over...everything is over'. Ryse felt cold all over as his hetero chrome eyes saw a group of people appear out of thin air floating just a few centimetres above the ground.
The group included a little girl and the young man who was killed just two hours ago. The little girl locked eyes with him and smiled strangely whispering 'Who are you....Do you know?'
'No....I don't' The thought just suddenly flashed in his mind and he became more and more confused ' Why don't i know? Maria had asked me the same thing' The girl pointed behind him and giggled as she slowly approached. Ryse stepped back he was already scared enough to pass out seeing all these ghosts from afar no need to know what will happen if they come close. The girl paused and tilted her head pointing behind him again. Ryse breathed slowly willing to calm himself as he slowly turned around and found something even more bizarre outside the large windows of the hall.
The scene faded as if he was hallucinating, This caused an unknown feeling inside him to rise the feeling of something being off, something had gone horribly wrong he just knew it. The series of these incidents seemed to be linked. If this was what he thinks it was then they were all doomed to never leave this cruise alive.