I didn’t know why, but as I approached the house, I could feel my heart pounding faster and faster. A nervous tension crept all over me. Given that feeling, there was no way I was going in through the front door.
I circled around the house and found a window in the back that was open. Clearly, that’s where Uncle Yao had just come from.
I checked my surroundings, then listened carefully. There's indeed no one in the room. So I climbed through the window. A quick glance at the time—12:05 AM. That guy had told me in the text that I only had thirty minutes, but to be safe, I cut that down to twenty. That meant I needed to get out of here by 12:20 at the latest.
So I had just fifteen minutes left. The lights inside the house were on. The window led onto the side of the main hall. I scanned t
