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“Pew-pew-pew--chk-chk”, were the sounds going back and forth from two innocent and audacious children playing in the backyard. Until they noticed a queer view between the wooden spaced fence. Matt’s orbital is tremendously keen, so he noticed a filthy pool behind a dilapidated house as he pressed his frontal into the fence. Within seconds, it aroused his sense of curiosity.
“John!We should go in!!!”, exclaimed Matt.
“Definitely, bro!!!”, John blurted out. As they inhabited the abandoned property, they noticed an old torned porch swing. As well, as the filthy pool that Matt had seen. These gloomy views within the property still had no impact on the overwhelming curiosity of the children. Eventually, as soon as they set one pedal into the house, the sky tinted into a dark red. However, this still did not stop them from exploring the place.
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Leaving the two children in complete darkness. As they were reaching for the light switch, Matt came upon a thin rope in which he eventually pulled. As soon as the rope was pulled a razor-edged pendulum cut through Matt’s cephalic, cervical, thoracic, abdominal, vertebral, nasal, oral, mental, pelvis, sacral, and perineal. The sound of the pendulum sledging across horrified John, but he still did not realize that his brother was cut completely in half. As John meandered in the darkness, his pollex pressed on a button and a tiny bit of light shined through a burnt light bulb. At that instance, he noticed a chopped off human digital on the floor. This suddenly startled him and made him worry for Matt. Soon he began to shout out Matt’s name, but he did not get any response. Therefore, he retraced his steps and came upon a puddle of blood along with Matt’s cut-in-half body. John bursted into tears and realised that both of Matt’s manus were chopped off. As well as both

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