lan stepped closer, only to notice a red light blinking on the anklet strapped to Cynthia's leg.

He tugged at the device, and a man's voice emerged from within.

"Cynthia, you trying to make a run for it again?"

"Why the urge to flee, why so disobedient?"

"Do you really wantto break your legs?"

The man's voice, despite its softness, sent chills down lan's spine.

Cynthia, now deaf to the world, seemed to sense the anklet's alarm.

She desperately tried to rip the device off her ankle to no avail.

"Fuck off!"

"Fuck off!"

Her fingernails dug into her flesh, but the anklet wouldn't budge, the man's voice still echoing from it.

"Gone blind, gone deaf, do I need to render you mute too?"

"Get any closer to that door, and you'll get zapped again. Just stay put, stop struggling."

That's when lan realized this basement was no ordinary place.

It wasn't just blocking external signals. It was rigged with various switches.

too close to the exit,

Cynthia had been hit by this

escape multiple times, had grown accustomed to the

trouble now was that lan couldn't communicate

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was running

to his associates and asked, "Can't

tried everything before you got here. The material is incredibly

his temples, "Check for sensors by the

mundane, but the walls and the anklet

choice might be to blow this place, but this lady won't

into a tense silence as these

floor, his bodyguard added, "The floor's made of the

the ground, aware of someone nearby but clueless as to who it

her daughter, blind and deaf, while

mouth.

Maja called out, "Mom."

No response.

over, but she was paralyzed,

in front of her, doomed

tip of her nose, a suffocating heaviness in her chest, and

"Maja!"

startled and hurried to her

"Maja, don't scare me."

reunited,

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