As the situation unfolded, a growing crowd of curious onlookers, comprised mainly of community residents, began to gather. Ariana’s anxiety swelled, and she didn’t mince words. She confronted the property manager directly, her voice laced with urgency.

“What’s the meaning of pressing issues? Valuables have vanished from my house! If you continue obstructing access to the surveillance footage, I’ll be left with no recourse but to summon the authorities and let them take it from here.”

Then, she feigned dialing the police.

Quickly, the property manager interceded, “Wait, hold on. It’s not that we’re barring you from the surveillance footage. The stark truth is that our community’s surveillance system has been on the fritz for years, rendering it inaccessible.”

This revelation drew a chorus of criticism from the onlookers.

“What?

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let the surveillance system languish for years? What have you been doing

today, but who knows who’ll

tried to appease the angry crowd, asserting, “Ladies and gentlemen, I assure

the commotion continued, Ariana’s

guard and clung to a sliver of hope. She inquired tentatively, “Pardon

been here all along keeping an

the security guard’s response, the spark of hope that Ariana had been holding in her heart was completely extinguished. She lowered her head and managed to utter a feeble thank you. A self-deprecating smile tugged at

and walked out of

sense of guilt crept over the

reality, he took a short break from his work earlier in the morning, so he hadn’t seen anything. But when Ariana asked him about it, the manager had

spending time

his daughter, Holden couldn’t help but think of Melon, and then his thoughts wandered to the images of

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