I can rewind time to prevent death

The strange baby lifted its head, still squinting, not daring to meet Yan Junze's gaze.

One of the strange babies nodded while the other shook its head.

Seeing this, Yan Junze was momentarily taken aback.

The nodding strange baby looked at the one shaking its head, who, at the same time, looked back at the nodder, and then they reversed roles, the nodder shook its head and the shaker nodded instead.

Both strange babies froze at the same time, their faces the epitome of awkwardness.

Yan Junze couldn't help but laugh, "Alright, I know you don't want to lose Aunt Mei either, so it's settled. When my dad comes to offer incense, you better not come out, or if you scare him, I won't let you two off easy."

This time, the two strange babies finally acted in unison and nodded together.

"My friend should be arriving soon, so I'm off," Yan Junze stood up and looked towards Aunt Mei.

The two strange babies hung their heads, walked to Aunt Mei's side, shrank back a little fearfully, and lay next to her feet without moving.

Yan Junze walked to the entrance of the passageway, stopped, turned to face Aunt Mei, and bowed gently, "Thank you!"

With that, he turned and left.

Once again, the passageway was submerged in endless darkness, without any movement or breathing sound, a complete silence.

In the darkness, Aunt Mei still stared at the door of the passageway that had just closed by itself, watching the direction Yan Junze had left.

After a long while, her lips moved as if she was saying something, but no sound came out.

If you looked closely at her lips, it seemed she was saying, "I thank you too!"

...

On the plane heading to Tianmeng.

Yan Junze gazed at the blue sky outside the window, sitting bored, ready to release Ke'er to hold and play with.

But through his Inner Vision Atlas, he noticed this little one was tightly hugging her mom, with her head buried in the Back-faced Woman's chest, seemingly resting.

A large amount of Different Dimension Energy was slowly flowing into the node.

The longer it stayed in the node, the more it could grow, so Yan Junze gave up the idea of holding her, allowing Ke'er's strength to grow a little faster.

Although Ke'er intended to hide herself, she was never one of those special strangenesses adept at invisibility; Ku Zai and Xiang Er could both see her.

Every day after Ke'er came out, she would either lie on her mother's body or Yan Junze's, and everyone had gotten used to it.

While Ke'er was initially fearful of Xiang Er, she had since become familiar, and sometimes she would sit on Xiang Er's lap to play. However, Xiang Er's strangeness pressure was great, and even with intending to restrain it, after getting close, it still naturally elicited a feeling of fear deep inside Ke'er.

Sitting beside Yan Junze, Zhou Dali had no idea what Yan Junze was thinking. However, his gaze had just returned from taking a glance at Xiang Er in the next seat over.

Rubbing his nearly falling eyeballs, Zhou Dali clicked his tongue and said, "You lucky dog, surrounded by beauties. This girl Xiang Er is almost catching up to my Shang Cuicui."

"Just almost catching up?" Yan Junze said with a smirk.

Zhou Dali laughed awkwardly, then after a moment, stretched out his thumb and forefinger, "Alright, to the average person, she's a tiny bit prettier than Cuicui. But in my eyes, Cuicui is a tiny bit prettier than her."

"You're becoming more cunning with age," Yan Junze teased with a laugh.

"But why do you keep bringing that scrawny guy along?" Zhou Dali quietly pointed at Ku Zai, cautioning, "You better be careful, I feel like this fellow might keel over any second. If he dies by your side one of these days, I'm afraid his family will blame you."

Yan Junze shook his head with a smile.

Zhou Dali continued, "Don't say I didn't warn you, he's been sneakily looking at girl Xiang Er all the time."

Yan Junze asked, "Haven't you noticed? His gaze towards Xiang Er is very unusual."

"Of course it's unusual, otherwise why would I warn you?" Zhou Dali's voice suddenly rose, but realizing Ku Zai might hear, he quickly lowered it again.

"I mean, have you noticed his gaze includes affection, fear, hesitation, confusion, and a sense of being overwhelmed?" Yan Junze added.

Zhou Dali looked puzzled, took another careful peek at Ku Zai, and mused, "Now that you mention it, it does seem to be the case, what's going on?"

Yan Junze laughed, "Perhaps only Ku Zai himself knows best."