I can rewind time to prevent death

After returning home, there were no more instances of shared perspective with the Back-faced Woman in the following days.

Yan Junze himself had tried several times to activate his Semi-Spirit Body, but to no avail.

In the last perspective sharing, Yan Junze felt that if the metal house he saw was in the city, it would be very conspicuous and impossible to go unnoticed.

Moreover, there was a mysterious blaze burning underneath the house which made it even more peculiar.

Now it seemed he had reached a dead end.

Having stayed at home for a week, during which he had a few phone calls with Zhang Xiaomo and Guo Youliang. Although it was inconvenient to explain everything to Guo Youliang, indirect inquiries also confirmed that he had no more useful information to provide.

Thinking it over, Yan Junze went to the utility room in the underground garage.

When he pushed open the small door of the utility room, Aunt Mei was standing motionless in a corner of the dark room.

Since the light inside was broken, Yan Junze could only dimly make out Aunt Mei's silhouette. As he turned on his phone's flashlight and shone it toward her, he saw Aunt Mei's disproportionately shaped body facing him with a creepy smile on her face.

Truth be told, even with mental preparation, this eerie scene still sent an inexplicable chill down his spine.

"Aunt Mei, I hope I'm not disturbing you. There's something I want to ask you," Yan Junze forced a smile and, overcoming the goosebumps all over his body, walked in.

Aunt Mei shook her head lightly.

From another corner of the room, there was a scuttling sound of quick movement. Soon, two strange babies crawled out, one after the other, and came to Yan Junze's feet. Averse to human eyes, both babies kept their heads down but constantly rubbed against Yan Junze's pant leg, appearing very affectionate.

Seeing this scene, Aunt Mei's smile grew even more bizarre.

But Yan Junze understood all too well that these two wanted to enter the Spacetime Atlas, as Different Dimension Energy inside was abundant, offering a more pleasurable experience than gnawing on aromatic candles.

Yan Junze ignored them for the moment and looked up at Aunt Mei, "Aunt Mei, although the way you speak often makes me dizzy, that tremor seems to have some effect on my nervous system, but now I have no choice but to seek your wisdom."

Aunt Mei nodded.

Yan Junze continued, "I want to know how to find the strangeness I'm looking for, no matter how far away it is."

Aunt Mei's smile slowly faded, replaced by a look of bafflement.

She did not speak, meaning no trembling voice formed in Yan Junze's mind. Instead, she bowed her head, seemingly deep in thought.

A long time passed before Aunt Mei slowly raised her head with a slight furrow in her brow and shook her head.

A trembling voice then resonated in Yan Junze's mind: "Ignoring distance is impossible. Within Shuntian City, a search can be conducted, with results in ten days."

Yan Junze, with a worried face, sat down on a nearby cardboard box and shook his head, "They aren't in Shuntian City, nor are they with Tianmeng. They could very likely be towards the edge of Great Capital, or even..."

As he spoke, a sudden thought flashed through his mind and Yan Junze blurted out, "Or even, whether they are within Great Capital's boundaries is uncertain."

"Why seek them?" Aunt Mei inquired.

Yan Junze sighed softly, "To be honest, they may have encountered danger, otherwise, I wouldn't have..."

Before he could finish, a sudden crack sounded in Yan Junze's mind, exploding like a bolt from the blue.

An unfamiliar image surged into his consciousness, appearing before his eyes like a flash of lightning and then vanishing.

In the image, Ke'er's little mouth was agape, emitting a "yah yah yah" sound, struggling frantically, yet she was surrounded by a raging fire, along with her red dress, about to be completely engulfed by the mysterious flames in the next second.

From the Back-faced Woman's perspective, Yan Junze found that he, too, was aflame with fierce fire, searing his body, and all imagery paused at that instant.

The Back-faced Woman's screams rose, but her body couldn't move at all.

Yan Junze's body jolted violently, his muscles tensed as if in that instant, an incomparably powerful force extracted something that had been inside his body, leaving an empty void.

His mind roared, the shock of the fall made all vistas before Yan Junze vanish as though plummeting into a dream, where everything became unreal.

Staggering, he leaned backwards and fell onto the cardboard box, then rolled onto the floor, immobile.

The two strange babies were startled and immediately pounced over, squeaking and squealing, constantly turning their heads back to look at Aunt Mei.

Aunt Mei's expression also changed. She walked over like a Weeble, looked down, and saw that although Yan Junze's face was pale as paper, his breathing was steady, not in mortal danger.

After hesitating for a moment, she began speaking through the tremor directly into Yan Junze's mind. She only said two sentences when Yan Junze's body suddenly shivered, and he began to awaken.

"What happened?"

Upon waking, Yan Junze felt his body was still very weak and immediately examined the Spacetime Atlas within. He found no irregularities in the Atlas, and [Automatic Rewind on Near-Death] had not been triggered, indicating that he had merely fainted and was not in any life-threatening danger.

But why had he fainted?

Aunt Mei's voice echoed again in his mind: "I've checked, your Semi-spirit has completely vanished."

Yan Junze's head buzzed, taking a moment to register her words. He tried to struggle to his feet, but he was too weak to even sit up.

"Aunt Mei, what... what did you say? My Semi-spirit has vanished, what does that mean?"