That voice asked, "Can the mechanical lock on your front door be opened?"
Everyone: ???
Instinctively, many eyes turned to the doorway.
Only Pedro Langley, after a pause, glanced at Nora Scott.
Nora Scott was stunned for a moment, realized, and grabbed Miguel Smith's phone, heading to the balcony.
"Rivers?"
"Mm."
"That villa has been sold." Once she confirmed the identity, Nora understood and asked suspiciously, "Didn't the new owner change the lock?"
This is Fátima's friend, Hardy Rivers.
Coincidentally, Hardy Rivers' residence is next door to the villa she lived in, so they are regarded as "neighbors," the kind you can pass by while walking a dog.
She spent several years intermittently transforming that villa into a "Mechanism Villa," one of her most satisfactory mechanism works.
To raise funds for Biel Hall, she had to sell that villa, along with another one in Anchel.
