At ten o'clock in the night, in a luxury villa area nestled in a valley, Chen Fu was kept under virtual house arrest in the basement of Villa Number 19.
Twenty-one fully armed men and women—eighteen men and three women—were crammed into the basement, sitting or lying about. All of them wore hoods, obscuring their faces.
Their weapons and equipment varied: some were from the United States, some from Mother Russia, and others from Britain... It looked like an exhibition of individual combat gear from various nations, or perhaps a temporarily assembled coalition force.
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