7
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We all went inside. There were still signs of
the old woman living there.
Millie went to the living room and looked up
at the ceiling. Last time, I found the safe
there.
Chad quickly brought a stool for her to stand
Millie knocked on it and found it was hollow.
She got more excited.
“It’s empty! The safe is inside! Find me a
hammer!”
Everyone rummaged through the house and
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quickly handed over a sledgehammer.
After a few hits, the ceiling broke open.
Chad couldn’t wait and stepped on the stool
to help.
“I touched it! I touched the safe!”
The excited voice rang out, and they sped up,
soon breaking a big hole in the ceiling,
revealing a corner of the metal safe.
The two worked together to carry the safe
down and carefully placed it on the floor.
But the safe had a combination, and no one
knew what it was, so they couldn’t open it.
“Buy a power saw and cut it open! There
must be something good inside!”
Chad ran out to buy a power saw, and the
other coworkers eagerly wanted to see the
safe, but Millie was guarding it like a thief,
not letting anyone near.
The power saw was quickly bought back, and
the two held it together, cutting the safe open with madness in their eyes.
“It’s open! It’s -”
Millie’s smile froze because the safe wasn’t
full of cash and gold bars. There were only a
few thin papers inside.
“Where’s the money? Where’s my money?”
She reached out and took the papers out,
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finding only some expired letters. Nothing
else.
The safe was empty. She wasn’t giving up
and crawled inside, trying to find any clues.
“Millie, the treasure you were talking about…
is it the safe? That’s maybe worth a few bucks at the scrapyard.”
“I’m done. Thought there was a big surprise,
but it was just a broken box. We came here
for nothing.”
“Let’s go. So boring. We were fooled.”
Seeing the contents, the coworkers were
speechless and left.
Millie bit her lip, refusing to believe it.
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“No way! No way!”
Chad stepped forward to support her. “Yeah,
it must be in this house. We’ll find it, we will.”
Millie nodded. “Yes, it must be here. We’ll
find it.”
The two searched the house, not giving up.
They looked from day to night, turning the
furniture upside down. Even the mattress was
cut open, but there was nothing.
“It must be in the walls. That’s how it is in the
movies, it must be in the walls.”
Looking at the mess, Millie decided to smash
open the walls.
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Just then, the old woman was released from
the police station.
She was old, and the cops didn’t dare to hurt
her, only scolding her before letting her go.
That’s why she could break in multiple times
and live in the house.
