I can rewind time to prevent death

Meanwhile, at the same time, the neighboring elevator doors were also closing. However, if Wang Shu and the others could see inside at this moment, they would realize it was completely empty, with no one inside.

Yu Changhai pressed the button for the first floor, let out a long sigh of relief, looked at the others, and then suddenly froze, blurting out, "Old Zhang, where's your daughter and that outsider Exorcist named Yan?"

With that, everyone else came to their senses. They had been too tense just now, and now reduced to mere mortals, they realized they could be killed at any moment by the mutated God of Death.

This led to everyone being on edge and acting cowardly, except for Zhang Chengjing. Not one of them had noticed that Yan Junze and Zhang Xiaomo had not followed them into the elevator.

"They... took the stairs," Zhang Chengjing answered.

The others were taken aback, and Wang Shu looked at Zhang Chengjing with a bitter smile, shaking his head, "Chengjing, I almost forgot that this is so like you!"

Knowing Zhang Chengjing, it was clear to them that he had always been fiercely loyal to the Exorcist organization. As one of the veterans and a five-star Exorcist, he had made significant contributions to the development of the organization and to the training of Exorcists.

But there was one flaw in Zhang Chengjing: he was actually a very selfish man.

In fact, from the opposite perspective, this selfishness could be justified—at least, he was doing it for the good of his own family.

Usually, he showed great favoritism towards Zhang Xiaomo by channeling a vast amount of Exorcist resources towards her, having the weapon master Wan Shouguang customize several magnetic knives for Xiaomo, and arranging for the formidable five-star Exorcist, Feng Huaigong, to be her mentor.

Luckily, Feng Huaigong was not in Huaying District today, or he might have ended up in the same predicament.

"Have you ever considered that if they followed us, maybe they would have had a chance to survive?"

Wang Shu already understood Zhang Chengjing's intention: if Wu Mayun appeared, it was just about using the few of them to attract Wu Mayun's attention, allowing his daughter and her future son-in-law to escape the building.

At the very least, it would prevent Wu Mayun from wiping them all out in one go.

"Then it's their fate," Zhang Chengjing said with a wry smile as well.

Wang Shu nodded: "But now it seems that they are probably in the safest place, at least Wu Mayun is still in the adjacent elevator."

He paused, then continued, "Even if she wanted to interfere, it would be easier for her to attack us in the elevator rather than coming out again and tracking us down to the stairwell."

"I think Old Zhang did nothing wrong," Yu Changhai spoke up, "If we encounter Wu Mayun, it's better than all of us dying together."

"I also agree with that," said the five-star Exorcist.

Just as the words were spoken, there was a ding sound.

Everyone looked at the elevator panel in astonishment and saw that the elevator had stopped, but not on the first floor; it had halted on the fourth floor.

Their faces turned to each other, uncertain.

But now they were on the fourth floor, which according to their previous guesses, should already have been outside of Wu Mayun's Absolute Territory.

So if someone was overtime working here, they probably had no clue about the terrifying situation upstairs and it was normal for someone to push the elevator button planning to go down.

A second later, the elevator doors opened.

A short woman in workwear stepped into the elevator, her head lowered, looking at her phone. She barely glanced at the people inside the elevator and seemed not to recognize team leader Wang Shu and deputy team leader Yu Changhai.

She turned her back to the crowd, bowed her head again to her phone, her right thumb incessantly swiping across the screen.

The elevator doors slowly closed.

Suddenly, Yu Changhai, who was closer to the elevator doors, stretched out his hand and fiercely pressed the button for the third floor, followed by the second floor button.

He pressed the second floor because the elevator had already started moving and he was slightly late, so when it reached the third floor, it might not stop. Therefore, Yu Changhai also pressed for the second floor to ensure the elevator would halt there.

"Changhai, what are you doing?!" Wang Shu exclaimed, stunned by Yu Changhai's sudden odd behavior.

Yu Changhai's gaze was fixed intently on the side profile of the short woman.

Because his position was closer to the woman, he had the clearest view of her among them.

A moment later, Yu Changhai turned his head, his expression one of horror as he squeezed his body closer to the rest of the group, as if to distance himself from the woman engrossed in her phone.

At the same time, he again put his hand on the shoulder of the five-star Exorcist, who reacted and immediately reached out to support Zhang Chengjing.

Just then, the elevator stopped with a ding at the third floor.

But after a few seconds, the elevator doors made no movement; they did not open at all.

The elevator was silent. Everyone's breath was deliberately suppressed at this moment, all eyes focused on the slender woman staring down at her phone.

Click, the phone suddenly dropped.

The elevator resumed its descent, during which the doors had not budged at all.

Shockingly, the woman still kept her head down, as if still looking at her phone, without bending over to pick it up.

Ding!

The elevator stopped once more at the second floor, but again, the doors did not stir.

Then the elevator started moving again and arrived at the first floor.

Ding!

At that moment, the woman's head slowly lifted, revealing short hair and a petite figure which, to Wang Shu, Zhang Chengjing, and the others, seemed more and more like Wu Mayun.

After waiting a moment, the elevator doors still showed no sign of opening.

Just then, the woman's head began to twist, turning slowly towards the back of the elevator space.