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A bolt of lightning tore through the night sky, followed by a rumbling thunderclap, as heavy rain poured down, devouring the city with impunity. In front of a three-story villa, several burly men, looking like soldiers and covered in mud as if they had just experienced a battle, stood motionless gazing at the door, unfazed by the rain pelting their bodies.
A woman dressed in a suit for nocturnal activities stood before them, her face etched with anxiety and heartache, yet she also seemed to stand there helplessly.
"Ah~." Another woman's piercing scream came from inside the house, agonizingly sharp, like the wailing of a wronged spirit on a rainy night, frighteningly eerie. The woman at the door grew more frantic, rushing to the door and pounding on it urgently, repeatedly calling out, "Mandy, open the door, Mandy, open the door...."
But the response was a sound of glass shattering from within the house.
