I can rewind time to prevent death

When they left the grass, Yan Junze was holding Zhang Xiaomo by the shoulders.

Zhang Xiaomo quietly leaned her head on his shoulder, quiet as a quail. After a moment, she asked, "Where did you buy this lipstick?"

"What about it?" Yan Junze inquired.

"Now, my lips feel smooth and very comfortable. You should apply more in the winter to prevent chapped lips," Zhang Xiaomo said softly.

The image of Huahua twisting a finger around an orchid appeared in Yan Junze's mind.

When they returned to their rental, the sensible Xiang Er had already prepared a steaming hot pot, and Ku Zai was washing vegetables, his hands red and trembling from the cold as he carefully placed the cleaned vegetables into a basket.

Zhang Xiaomo came over, rolled up her sleeves and said, "Let me do it. You're too frail, rest more and don't catch a cold."

Ku Zai glanced at Yan Junze and, seeing that he made no objection, nodded his head.

Sitting in front of a small heater inside, the four of them happily enjoyed the hot pot.

Zhang Xiaomo said she would ask her teacher after returning home and get the contact information of the master craftsman, and then she would inform Yan Junze.

In the following days, Yan Junze was pulled aside by Professor Di Zhiwen, an expert in the study of time, to assist him in his research on the theory of time line curvature.

Professor Di Zhiwen, needing to complete a high-quality paper to be published in the most authoritative academic journal of the Great Capital, did not dare to be negligent and managed to capture Yan Junze, asking for leaves of absence on his behalf from other teachers, spending over two weeks with him.

Spending all day and night with Professor Di Zhiwen, Yan Junze had no time for himself.

Fortunately, the paper was successfully published and had received a commendable response within the academic community of the Great Capital.

In the process, although Yan Junze did not have the professional depth of Di Zhiwen, as a practitioner with profound control and application of the time line, he offered many theoretical insights, which, to others, were mere speculations, but he knew were practically applicable.

Yan Junze then locked himself in the lab and took his magnetic field knowledge seriously, carrying out experiments where possible, making sure not to overlook any detail.

One month later.

Having used instinct to perceive and control magnetic fields, he now began to grasp some tricks after understanding various theoretical aspects and conducting extensive practice.

This provided more foundational knowledge for his goal of crafting a Black Spirit Umbrella.

In his spare time, he would sit in the dormitory, drawing and writing, further enriching and perfecting the concept of the Black Spirit Umbrella, paying attention to every detail from each rib and support point to the handle, including how it would be used as a weapon and its effects in combating strangenesses.

Of course, he also considered necessary precautions against Fang Ning's appearance under the moonlight and so on.

The more detailed the design became, the more the concept of the Black Spirit Umbrella matured.

A few days after Zhang Xiaomo left, she called Yan Junze to inform him that her teacher in Huaying District had given her the contact information of the magnetic knife craftsman, who was currently committed to a new Exorcist team project.

In the olden days' terms, he was in closed-door research, and the entire team was working intensively, which might take about two months to conclude.

According to Xiaomo, they were most likely researching a helmet that controlled the thoughts of living beings, tentatively named the "Prohibition Illusion Helmet," likely based on the prototype they had confiscated from those Americans, further developed into the results now.

The completed device was excellent news for controlling spirits like Zhao Qi.

Yan Junze knew well that if he could control Zhao Qi effectively, this spirit's lethality was truly frightening.

Naturally, that assumed he hadn't succumbed to madness himself.

Having time to prepare thoroughly, Yan Junze detailed the umbrella's structure in the atlas, analyzing how the Black Spirit Pearl would function, as well as how the magnetic forces within the construction of the umbrella would interact to unleash its maximum potential, describing these on the drawings.

Since he had previously resolved "problems" for his bunkmate without a magnetic knife, and had cleaned Ke'er's hair, he knew about controlling magnetic forces better than an ordinary three-star Exorcist.

Having used Zhang Xiaomo's magnetic knife once, it proved his high level of control over magnetic forces, extending the knife's magnetic glow to its limits.

So, in terms of analyzing the magnetic paths inside the Black Spirit Umbrella, Yan Junze was confident in his designs, with perhaps a few minor adjustments required. If achieved, the umbrella's power could be tremendous.

In the following month, Yan Junze took on two cases from the Exorcist team's liaison He Yun. Neither of the cases was complex, and the strangenesses involved were not special.

Both tasks were rated "Trembling with Fear," and posed no difficulty to resolve. In total, he received 1600 points of Different Dimension Energy from the two tasks, increasing the energy capacity in the atlas even further.

Soon after, Professor Di Zhiwen came to find him, saying that he had been invited by the authoritative academic journal of Huaying District and was preparing to take a trip there soon.

Since Yan Junze had helped tremendously with the paper as his assistant, the professor extended the invitation to join him if he was interested.