Chapter 1535: Chapter 1535: Cursing
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice.
On a table not far away, there was a phone placed in call mode, with the voice on speaker, and the person speaking was Gene.
Someone angrily shouted, “Gene! Let us go immediately!”
A low chuckle came from the other end of the line, “Everyone, please stay calm… As I said, the murderer is among you, and now all I need is your cooperation to find the killer. The Stan Family would never repay kindness with ingratitude.”
Among the trapped guests, an older man scolded, “What do you want?! Their deaths have nothing to do with me, release me immediately!”
A disgruntled woman cursed, “You have no evidence, why are you locking us up?! Don’t think about playing tricks!”
The profit-driven businessman tried to distance himself from the situation, while the perceptive noblewoman understood her vulnerability and banded together with others, hoping to garner more support.
Gene asked, “Do you see the knives to your right?”
Everyone picked up the knives near them and looked at each other.
Then, Gene’s voice came again from the phone, “I specifically left you a right hand free. If anyone is sitting next to the murderer, use the knife in your hand to kill them! As long as the murderer dies, I’ll release you all immediately!”
Many present turned pale instantly.
The knives in their hands felt like hot potatoes, useless to hold, yet impossible to release.
They didn’t dare blindly stab someone, yet feared being stabbed.
“This is insane…” a middle-aged woman murmured, her face ashen, before she screamed in unbearable anger, “You madman! Do you want to provoke us to kill each other?! How could we possibly know who the killer is?!”
Another person said, “Don’t listen to Gene! It’s already daylight, and we’ll be ashore soon enough; he can’t keep us captive forever! Our bodyguards are outside and could rescue us at any moment!”
These words were met with unanimous support.
“Yes, the Under The Rose people won’t sit back either! They’re surely figuring something out outside!”
“How could the Stan Brothers’ men let Gene mess around! Don’t they have any brains?!”
“What brains would they have? Their masters are dead, they’re probably afraid of being punished when they return, and now they’re at their wits’ end!”
All condemned Gene and the Stan Family’s subordinates in unison, as if this could calm their frantic hearts.
Alexander Summers and Gavin Graves whispered to each other, “Lester Williams and Zack Wallace have to take the stairs to bring people up, while the opponents are all tall and have the high ground, our people don’t have much of an advantage.”
“We’re still alive, and the Stan Brothers are already dead, that’s our greatest advantage.” Gavin glanced at his watch, “Besides, they’ve been standing guard outside all night, they must be exhausted and won’t last much longer.”
Alexander nodded thoughtfully, “In that case… Gene might have made a blunder? He’s always so calculating, how could he not foresee this outcome?”
“Is it because of Cherry?” Purple Summers chimed in, “He fears Cherry, even if he has a good plan, he can’t execute it freely, otherwise, he wouldn’t be hiding now.”
She turned to Cherry, “Is there a way to find out where Gene is now?”
Cherry seemed not to hear, glaring straight at the woman across from her, anger blazing in her eyes.
“What did you put in the water?” Cherry glared at her fiercely, “I saved your child! And you repay kindness with deceit!”
The woman looked ashamed, lowering her head deeply.
Hearing Cherry’s words, everyone quieted down, staring at the young couple, either in shock or suspicion, faces showing vigilance.
Those who didn’t understand the language quietly asked what was happening, learning that the couple had tampered with the drinking water, they condemned them, “So insidious! Calculating that someone wouldn’t touch the water at the dining table, they deliberately arranged this…”
The woman cried, “I had no choice! My child is in his hands!”