Jessica had initially thought that her intervention would have some effect. After all, while Mark had been somewhat reckless, he was still capable of listening to advice.

But now, Mark seemed to have completely gone mad, refusing to listen to anyone's advice. He even started hurling insults at Jessica, who came to mediate, which nearly made Jessica, the classmate with the best family background, faint from anger.

I don't know how it started, but in the blink of an eye, these classmates who were quite friendly when they first entered the villa were now fighting and tearing at each other like mortal enemies.

Things happened so fast that by the time Yao Anna realized what was happening, a boy was already lying on the carpet in front of her, his head bleeding profusely.

"Enough! Enough! Luke is injured, all of you stop!"

Jessica was the first to react among the group of young people fighting together. She screamed as she looked at her unconscious companion on the ground and shouted to Mark and the others who were still in shock from the fight: "Hurry, help them!"

As she spoke, she pulled out her phone with trembling hands, but whether it was due to panic or some other reason, her hands were shaking so much that she couldn't even press the buttons.

However, when she pressed the button, she discovered that there was no signal at all in the house!

Undeterred, Jessica muttered "God" as she turned and rushed into the living room. Reaching the children, she softened her tone and pleaded, "Where is your home phone?!"

"Over there." Although the girl's eyes were still full of wariness when she looked at Jessica, she still raised her hand and pointed in a direction. It was a small cabinet next to the fireplace on the wall, with a landline phone that looked like a candy box on it.

Jessica rushed over and grabbed the phone as if she'd seen a savior, but before she could even dial the number for help, a clear, melodious ringtone came from the other end...

'Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!'

Deck Marbot Street Candy Store is pleased to offer you special Christmas Eve candy deals!

They have all kinds of chocolate donuts; why not have one to sweeten this cold winter night?!

Jingle bells, jingle bells!

……'

It was a cheerful telephone advertisement, but at this moment it sounded particularly eerie.

It's late summer, and Christmas is still a long way off. Why are they putting out ads like this now?! Shouldn't Halloween come first?!

However, only Song Mengmeng and Yao Anna, who were standing aside observing what was happening in the living room, noticed that the ringtone was strange; Jessica didn't pay much attention.

She quickly dialed the police, but no matter what she did, all she heard on the other end of the line was the same endless advertisement.

Jessica was in despair. She slammed the microphone she was holding onto the ground, causing the landline phone on the cabinet to fall to the floor as well. Despite the shattering pieces, the cheerful tinkling music continued to flow through the living room...

"You, you did this on purpose?!"

Jessica, panting heavily, turned her head as if she had just realized something, glared at the children huddled in the corner of the living room, and gritted her teeth: "This phone call can't be made at all!"

The inability to make phone calls means they have no way to contact the outside world.

But Luke is now so badly injured...

"I suggest you ask them if they have a first-aid kit first."

Song Mengmeng peeked out from behind Yao Anna and timidly suggested to Jessica, "If we just leave it like this, your friend might really lose too much blood and be in mortal danger."

This well-intentioned reminder was like a wake-up call for Jessica, instantly energizing her. She turned and asked the children for a first-aid kit.

However, to Jessica's surprise, when the first aid kit was mentioned, the children all had expressions of fear and confusion on their faces.

They seemed to have no idea what a first-aid kit was.

"A hemostatic agent is something that can stop bleeding! When you're sick or injured at home, don't your parents help you stop the bleeding?!"

Livre had also calmed down by now and joined Jessica in trying to coax the children in front of her so that they would hand over the first aid kit obediently.

"We don't know." The eldest girl, the one who had led Song Mengmeng and the others to the room yesterday, bit her lip and after a long while spoke softly to Jessica and the others in front of her, "We don't know where that thing is!"

The girl's answer only shattered the last shred of reason in Jessica and the others.

Jessica's ferocity was no less than Mark's outburst. Her expression suddenly turned ferocious, like a mother wolf wanting to tear her prey apart, as she pounced on the children.

The children's reactions were so skillful it was heartbreaking.

It seemed they knew Jessica would make a move; before Jessica could even reach them, the little ones had already scattered and screamed.

Jessica clearly hadn't expected the children to react so quickly, so when her first attack failed, she let out an angry scream that nearly blew the roof off.

Using almost every vicious word she could think of, Jessica's shrewish behavior not only frightened the children but also shocked her companions.

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