I can rewind time to prevent death

The minus first floor was originally an underground parking lot, but at this moment, when the elevator door opened, it was pitch black without any lights, and nothing could be seen.

Beyond the light coming from the elevator, the darkness outside seemed like another otherworldly realm.

At this moment, Zhang Chengjing, Yu Changhai, and those five-star Exorcists all had their eyes closed, unaware of the situation outside.

They could only feel the icy breath emanating from Wu Mayun still moving in front of them, and they couldn't tell whether her hair was still raised.

About four to five minutes later, the three people huddled together clearly felt the temperature inside the elevator begin to rise, and that abnormal icy chill gradually faded away.

After waiting for about three more minutes, Zhang Chengjing finally dared to open his eyes, squinting first, and stealthily looking around.

As expected, Wu Mayun's petite figure had disappeared.

And at that moment, the elevator door was still open, showing no sign of closing.

Yu Changhai and those five-star Exorcists also opened their eyes one after another.

The three people looked down at Team Leader Wang Shu, who was lying dead on the elevator floor.

Wang Shu's entire body seemed shrunken, as if his torso, arms, and legs had curled up into a ball, and it seemed like they could no longer be straightened.

His power was also that of a five-star Exorcist, just slightly weaker than the other five-stars, but Wang Shu possessed strong leadership abilities, was very much favored within the organization, and was especially valued by Zhang Chengjing and others from the veteran rank.

In fact, Wang Shu had only just become a five-star Exorcist not long ago, and he was promoted forcibly by changing the structure of his body's magnetic field receptivity bit by bit through the Magnetic Penetration Field developed by Wan Shouguang. His natural power was actually about that of four stars.

Nonetheless, it was to save the few people in the elevator that he raised his voice in warning, only to be promptly killed by Wu Mayun with a strike.

As the leader, Wang Shu had more access to detailed information about the God of Death, the Reaper, and Demon Spirits, aware of some very subtle taboos that must be carefully dealt with.

Wu Mayun's transformation into strangeness was actually not limited to a single form of intrusion but was unpredictable, with many methods to intrude upon humans.

Severing the connection between multiple people is one form of intrusion; changing one's own appearance, such as covering the eyes with hair after transformation and then catching others off guard by letting them see you, is akin to Soul Capture, which is also a form of intrusion.

That's why Wang Shu immediately alerted everyone upon noticing it.

But, the outcome was such a painful end.

Turning away from the twisted corpse, the three people's expressions were grave as they directed their gaze outside the elevator.

They didn't see Wu Mayun's slim figure.

Yu Changhai pressed the elevator's first-floor button, but there was no response; he also pressed the close-door button to no avail.

The elevator door remained open, with the black abyss of the underground parking space outside, where nothing could be seen.

Wu Mayun had just retreated into this darkness, her whereabouts unknown. It was highly possible that she was lurking not far outside the elevator, but she might have also left; right now, no one dared to take the gamble.

However, Zhang Chengjing and the others knew that after stepping out of the elevator, they could turn left to enter the stairwell. They could reach it in roughly ten meters and directly go up to the first floor from there.

The question now was whether to take the risk.

"Try pressing it again," the five-star Exorcist suggested in a low voice.

Yu Changhai pressed several elevator buttons again, but still, there was no response, none of the buttons in the elevator lit up, though both the display screen and the elevator light were on.

The situation was very bizarre.

"What do we do now?" Yu Changhai looked towards Zhang Chengjing, his voice as if scraped from the throat, very hushed, "Do we leave through here to the stairs? Or exit through the parking lot? We can't just stay in the elevator waiting for death, can we?"

Zhang Chengjing took his mobile phone out of his pocket to check it again, still no signal; ever since they were plunged into darkness from the conference room, they had dared not look at their phones.

It was only after Wu Mayun left the conference room with Yan Junze and Zhang Xiaomo that Zhang Chengjing hurriedly turned on his phone, only to find that there was no signal at all, probably blocked by the Absolute Territory.

"Let's go to..." Zhang Chengjing put away his phone, just about to speak when the electric light in the elevator flickered twice, making a sound of electrical collision.

With a click, the light went out, and the entire elevator was enveloped in thick darkness, blinding everyone's eyes instantly.

Almost instinctively, Zhang Chengjing immediately grabbed the arm of the five-star Exorcist next to him, and the Exorcist reached out for Yu Changhai on his other side as well.

"I've grabbed your hand, did you grab Changhai?" Zhang Chengjing asked.

The five-star Exorcist replied: "I've got him."

Zhang Chengjing's heart settled, then said: "Changhai, don't move yet."

It was pitch black in front of them; they couldn't see anything now, and Wu Mayun might approach this spot any minute, standing in front of the three men.

Yu Changhai did not respond immediately.

After more than ten seconds, Zhang Chengjing sensed something was wrong; fearing for his safety, he spoke again: "Changhai?"

"I..." Yu Changhai's voice came, seemingly he had stayed in place without moving, but his voice trembled slightly, "No one... has grabbed me!"

The scene fell into a sudden silence.

...

Arriving inside the stairwell.

At this moment, not far away, the elevator door had just opened, but Yan Junze and Zhang Xiaomo had already taken each other's hand and headed downstairs without looking back, slowing their pace.