I can rewind time to prevent death

Yan Junze knew that this guy's world view was being turned on its head, feigned unawareness, and continued to ask, "Can you move now? Let's head back first."

"We're not... not continuing?" Ku Zai asked.

Yan Junze shook his head, "You've been through enough, we'll stop here for today. We won't continue."

"What about the 'Fear Value'? Is it enough? If it's not, I think I can endure a bit longer." Ku Zai said.

Touched by his words, Yan Junze helped him up, "It's enough, we've gotten enough for today."

Within Qishan Public Cemetery, the Different Dimension Energy gathered in just around forty minutes had already exceeded Yan Junze's plan.

In those forty minutes, two waves of strangenesses appeared. The first wave wasn't very powerful. With no particularly special ones emerging, those frightened away by Xiang Er were chased off, and the ones that foolishly resisted were wiped out on the spot.

In the second wave of strangenesses, the transparent air mass creature appeared, fortunately, none were powerful, but they were somewhat special.

These two waves of strangenesses awarded Yan Junze a total of 9600 points of Different Dimension Energy.

This energy was only enough for him to carry out nine Space-Time Rift explorations, but seeing Ku Zai in his current state, Yan Junze didn't have the heart to make him continue, and these nine opportunities for detection might just be put to good use today to find a Space-Time Rift.

Having some energy now was better than having none at all.

Xiang Er came over, took Ku Zai from Yan Junze's hands, and made sure he was steady.

During this process, Ku Zai's eyes were fixed on Xiang Er who was holding him, his lips moved several times, but he said nothing.

The three quickly returned to the entrance of Qishan Public Cemetery and could see their black SUV still parked there. Qian San rolled down the window glass and looked over.

Seeing Xiang Er supporting the frail Ku Zai, he obviously felt quite surprised. He glanced behind the trio, ensuring no strangenesses were following, and then unlocked the car, waiting for them.

At that moment, Xiang Er turned to look back at the interior of Qishan Public Cemetery, then whispered to Yan Junze, "We've been at the foot of the mountain just now, not going up, but there seems to be a pressure at the top of the mountain cemetery that is making me quite irritable."

Yan Junze paused for a moment, turned to look back in the direction they had come, and asked, "Does this pressure make you feel fear?"

Xiang Er shook her head, "It's not exactly fear, just some irritability and unease."

"The strangenesses from the mountain top didn't come down," Yan Junze said.

"Mhm."

Xiang Er adjusted Ku Zai's body, who, upon hearing their conversation, evidently started trembling in his legs.

Xiang Er continued, "Since the distance was too far, I deliberately stood halfway up the mountain and exerted pressure when I was hiding, preventing other strangenesses up there from getting closer."

The three walked to the car, opened the doors, and climbed in.

Yan Junze said to Qian San, "Master Qian, just drive around the outskirts like yesterday evening, circling around Shuntian City, don't go too far."

Qian San looked up at the sky and said deliberately, "It's getting dark soon."

"It's fine, there are four of us, and from now on, there's no need to get out of the car," Yan Junze assured him, knowing what he was thinking.

"Alright."

Qian San started the car, and the SUV left Qishan Public Cemetery, beginning to circle the city's outskirts, staying around five to six kilometers away from the city's edge.

Ku Zai lay down on the back seat which had been put down, resting without a word, while Xiang Er took a small blanket they had brought from the house and covered him with it.

Yan Junze estimated the car's traveling distance and the detection coverage area while contemplating the Spacetime Atlas in his mind.

He looked closely, the energy replenished through Ku Zai's effort over these two rounds was indeed simply a replenishment, it had not broken through the upper limit of energy value like before or illuminated new nodes in the Atlas.

Yan Junze wondered why this was. Could it be that the Atlas had developed a cognitive resistance to the recurring task "Special Attraction," or perhaps the same energy acceptance had surpassed some hidden threshold.

All Yan Junze could do was guess.

Upon reaching the first point where detection could be released, he immediately consumed 1000 points of energy to conduct the area detection.

Moments later, he said, "Continue driving."

Xiang Er and Ku Zai had no idea what he was doing, while for Qian San, it was no longer anything unusual.

Possibly due to the accumulated exhaustion and the recent high-tension situation, Ku Zai fell asleep quickly in the car, while Xiang Er quietly turned to gaze out of the window, saying nothing.

Every so often, two sentences on repeat would resound in the car.

"Stop here."

"Keep going."

The sky had long since darkened completely, but fortunately, the streetlights lining the suburban roads of the city were mostly functional, and the occasional broken ones did not obstruct visibility and impede traffic.

Circling around Shuntian City was soon to be a completed task, yet at this moment, in Yan Junze's mind, only a little over 1000 energy points were left—just enough for one final detection.

A sense of foreboding similar to last night descended upon him; his entire scalp tingled with discomfort, making it hard to imagine enduring another fruitless day after expending so much effort.

"Stop."

When they reached a three-way intersection, Yan Junze spoke up once more.

Qian San stopped the car, took the cup of strong tea that had been steeped earlier, unscrewed the lid, and guzzled down a big gulp before shaking his neck.

Yan Junze took a deep breath. If this last attempt yielded no results, he wouldn't hesitate to continue the search, but...

He glanced back at Ku Zai slumped over in the back seat, sound asleep, evidently from being overly exhausted and stressed.

If they failed to find the space-time rift with the energy depleted today, Yan Junze would tirelessly proceed with the search every day, which meant that Ku Zai and Xiang Er would continue to endure hardship.

However, for Ke'er and the Back-faced Woman, he now had no choice.

He spent 1000 energy points to initiate the last detection.

The moment the detection began, a line of text suddenly flashed across his mind, vanishing in less than a second, so swiftly that Yan Junze was momentarily stunned.

He immediately employed Inner Vision to focus on the text message in his mind.

[A space-time rift detected, located on the right side close to the Shuntian City direction at the Zhulin Road intersection. This rift is currently in a weakened state, steadily diminishing, and is expected to reach a critical point of weakness at midnight, disappearing around 12:30 AM.]

Yan Junze had experienced firsthand the difficulties in finding space-time rifts; some of them have very short durations, which is a major reason they are hard to detect.

It was highly possible that by the time Yan Junze reached a certain spot, the rift there had already weakened and vanished.

The duration of each rift's existence varied, some lasted long while others short, and the one Yan Junze had finally detected was about to weaken and disappear after midnight.

He immediately checked the time; it was almost ten o'clock at night.

Entering the rift in its current state was certainly not feasible. He was left with only a little over 600 unused Different Dimension Energy points, and had no excess energy to use in the Great Rewind.

It's important to note that initiating the Great Rewind required 200 points, while employing Butterfly Effect Stabilization demanded 500 points. The total already exceeded what he had, not to mention the additional energy needed to correct any ripple events.

Unless he opted out of using the Butterfly Effect Stabilization and directly initiated the Great Rewind.

No sooner had the thought arisen than Yan Junze dismissed it. Without the Butterfly Effect Stabilization, there was no telling whether he would save Ke'er and her mother, and upon returning to the current timeline, he might find his entire life trajectory had dramatically changed.

It was not an option; the instability was too great, beyond his control.

But the weakening space-time rift would not wait for anyone. After 1:30 AM it would vanish, and then he would have to restart the aimless search, with no idea how much energy and Different Dimension Energy it could potentially consume.

"We can't give up on this space-time rift."

Yan Junze made up his mind, but if the energy wasn't sufficient, even if he managed to enter, he had no certainty of success and might even risk losing his life there.

The energy had to be ample enough—to not only activate Butterfly Effect Stabilization but also possess enough to repair any ripple events and ensure a substantial reserve for his personal Rewind Energy.

He couldn't afford to miss any of these elements.

Thinking thus, Yan Junze gritted his teeth and said, "We've found the target."

Qian San, who had been listless all along, was suddenly jolted awake, immediately sitting up straight to look at him.

Xiang Er in the back showed surprise: "Did you find it?"

Ku Zai, hearing the sound, groggily opened his eyes and looked over, then propped himself up with his arms on the seat, slowly sitting up.

"It's just..."

Yan Junze turned his head back, his expression tangled as his gaze settled on Ku Zai.