The Ravage (Mid Chapter 8) teaser

The five of us enter the secuirty control, Hicham (Post graduate computer engineer 3rd main character) rushs towards the camera control and light systems.
      "We are here," Samuel (resort's manager 9th main character) flips the keys back inside his pocket.
      "Good! Now all we need is to see who and how are the bombs are planted, hopefully we get something," I say ( British Detective Curtis 1st main character) while looking at the computer screen.
      "We will, this whole resort is full of cameras, it's very hard for someone to do something without being video taped unless if he or she was in their apartment," explains Samuel.
     I can still Hicham fiddling and typing things on the keyboard, one of the screen actually turns off. the secuirty control isn't big enough, I estimate there could be only 2 guards in here. The heat in this room is very intense due to excessive use of the computers; wires are all over the place but the good news is Samual was right, everything in the resort is video taped.
   "Did you find anything useful?" I ask.
   "Not yet. I searched for yesterday's record but nothing out of the ordinary. I am still looking." describs Hicham.
   "Then why don't you look for the records of two days ago or a week ago?" Noordeen (Medical student who also stays in the resort 2nd main character) jumps in.
   "Somehow I can't..."
   "He can't; we usually keep the other tapes in a different station," interupts Samual.
   "Take me to it then," I look at him.
   "Huh it's outside the resort," Samual continues with his head down.
    That's when Ahmed (6th main character, art student, and 4th main threat in the resort) bangs the brick wall. Everyone of us glares at him, this guy has one temper.
    "Great! Just great! We are stuck in this resort, the police cant get in nor we can get out! All I asked for is a good summer and now I end up hanging around with bunch of guys who can't think on their feet!" he complains as always. Nothing to be surprised about, he expects things to be on plate without hard work.
   "Actually I can hack into the system and get the history records, but I need few minutes to do so," Hicham claims with a wink.
  I nodded back and face Ahmed "Listen, you better calm down, there are people out there who are worried more than you, in order to leave this place, we should work together. I will do my best to keep the people in here calm and safe and let the inspectors out there do their job."
  I can see how frustrated Ahmed is, drops on the floor leaning back on the wall.
 "This can't be possible..." Noordeen whispers to himself. His face experession was confusing.
 "What's wrong?" I inquire.
 "There are two things that worry me about all this. If it was one man who planted bombs around a resort that is 1500 metres from one side to another how come no one noticed it, and i also bet it will take more than 3 days to dig deep. Another thing is if he did plant them how did leave the resort without them exploding since the bombs are controlled by weight which is why no one has to leave nor anyone must enter the resort which alters and changes the weight." Noordeen is very clear and confident with his theory and I haven't thought about those to problems, after listening to him my head is puzzled.
 "What are you saying? What are you suggesting?" inquires Samual.
 "Oh my God! So do you mean that the person who did of this could be in here, in the resort, with us!" jumps Ahmed.
 "I don't know. I am just guessing, maybe one of us is working for him" Noordeen replies.
 "But that's suicide, he is risking his life!" shrieks Samual.
 "Which makes more sense. He mafia group were caught, in order for them to be bailed out of the prison and sentenses, he made us victims for trade, and if everything went wrong we all die including him, so basically the law lost, they lost the boss member of the mafia and the victims. That's why he did all this! And that's why he could be with us all along!" I continue the theory which made me think straight hoping I am right.
 "Yes someone who is capable to turn off the bombs, someone who is smart and good hacker," Ahmed points to Hicham.
 "Now wait a minute! You are telling me, that I am behind all this!"
 "Stop! Just stop! It won't work that way. We can't point fingers at one and other, we should learn how to trust each other..." I am interrupt by Ahmed again.
 "What about you detective?! I have coming here every summer, nothing like this happened until you showed up..."
 "Oh yeah, why isn't it. It seems like you are running away from everything, and ofcourse after we knew about the bombs you suddenly moved away from your friends. You have changed since then!" Noordeen backed me up.
 "Guys! I found something on the cameras!" calls out Hicham.
 We suddenly gathered around him, looking at one the screens, so shocked that our jaws dropped open. This is completly impossible and unexplainable. The view is eye shocking.
 
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Hope you enjoyed this part:
 
There are 12 main characters including the main threats. I somehow thought of a resort instead of a hotel because resort is much big, closed and can be isolated which is more exciting

Replies

stranded
stranded

Great writing. I want to know what they saw. Great story.
etherize
etherize

Fascinating!
deleted_user
deleted_user

Great!! Thank you for sharing!!

I like the idea of it being on a resort...you are right, there is much more space and tends to be more isolated.
ViralLad
ViralLad

Thank you...much appreciat your precious time
ScaredandScarred
ScaredandScarred

Oh no where\'s the rest!! That was so not fair! I want more!!!