I can rewind time to prevent death

"Ah!" Professor Tian's smile froze on his face.

It was at that moment, Yan Junze realized his vision was starting to blur, the office scene before him slowly receding, growing more and more distant.

He knew time was almost up, and he was about to be forcibly returned to the Void he was in just before, so he perked up his ears, trying to catch more of what the two were discussing.

"I've temporarily convinced him, but I don't know when he might slip up in front of others, so we need to speed up our actions," Dong Sheng said: "Let's go ahead and start the 'model' experiment right away, never mind the details, we'll push it through first."

"Weren't we waiting until the weekend? The lab is still working overtime, everyone is present," Professor Tian expressed in surprise.

"There's no way around it, all the data has been crunched successfully, triggering the singularity will just be a minor tremor, no danger. We'll have the Atlas by then..."

Dong Sheng shook his head, his arm waving once.

But at this time, even though Yan Junze tried hard to listen, he could no longer hear anything, only vaguely seeing Dong Sheng gesturing with his hands, then quickly the scene vanished.

He found himself back in the familiar Void.

...

Thump thump thump!

"Who is it?" Zhang Xiaomo looked up at the wall clock; it was just past ten in the morning.

Yan Junze had just left with Xiang Er and Ku Zai not long ago.

Mother Luo Wenli walked out of the kitchen, undoing the apron tied around her waist as she said: "Might be your Auntie Deng, I asked her to go to the market this morning to buy some fresh beef, planning to make beef meatballs for you tonight."

Auntie Deng is the housekeeper hired by the Zhang family, typically coming over at noon and leaving in the evening, and even getting a day off on weekends.

Auntie Deng looked very kindly. Although she met Zhang Xiaomo only occasionally, she still greeted her warmly.

Carrying the fresh vegetables and beef she bought into the kitchen, Luo Wenli went upstairs to fetch the bedsheet and quilt cover, getting ready to wash them.

Zhang Xiaomo sat on the couch, habitually taking out her phone to scroll through it.

The sound of running water came from the kitchen, most likely Auntie Deng washing the vegetables and fruit.

Shortly after, she realized her mother might need help with the quilt cover and bedsheet on her own, so she turned off the phone, stood up, and was about to head towards the staircase leading to the second floor when.

The entire room suddenly plunged into darkness.

Zhang Xiaomo paused, her first thought was a power outage, but the next second she realized it was the daytime, how could there be a power cut? How could it suddenly become so dark that she couldn't see anything?

This was real darkness, the kind where you can't see your hand in front of your face.

A sense of unease started to creep into her heart, she immediately reached into her pocket, grabbed her phone, pulled it out, and pressed the screen lighting button to no avail.

It was as if the phone had broken.

"Mom." Zhang Xiaomo called out.

It seemed like there was no response from upstairs, but the sound of running water was still coming from the kitchen faucet.

"Auntie Deng." Zhang Xiaomo called towards the kitchen again.

Still no response.

"Xiaomo." From one of the rooms upstairs, Luo Wenli's alarmed voice came faintly, "Why has it...gotten dark?!"

"Don't move Mom, I'm coming up to find you!" Zhang Xiaomo immediately shouted.

The situation was very strange at the moment, and Xiaomo remembered her magnetic knife was in her bag, which was placed by the bedside of her parents' bedroom.

She immediately turned and groped forward, making her way towards her parents' bedroom on the first floor by memory.

All around her was black as ink, as if her eyes had been blinded, seeing absolutely nothing.

In such a situation, even Zhang Xiaomo couldn't suppress the fear slowly rising in her heart.

Eventually finding the bedroom door, she groped her way along the corner of the wall inside, touched the edge of the bed, and then found her backpack on the bedside table, pulling out the magnetic knife from the bag.

She immediately activated the magnetic glow.

The magnetic glow lit up weakly, finally dispersing the darkness nearby.

Xiaomo looked up at the window, noticing that it was still pitch black outside.

Without further hesitation, she left the bedroom and started heading towards the staircase.

However, just as she was about to reach the staircase, a shadowy figure flashed past, silently ascending upstairs.

The magnetic glow was fading, until it disappeared completely.

This was not because Xiaomo couldn't activate it, but because she had to conserve her control over the magnetic glow, otherwise, if it were really time to face an enemy later, being unable to activate the magnetic glow could result in serious consequences.

Because of the faint illumination from the magnetic glow just now, she vaguely spotted the fleeting figure and couldn't help calling out: "Auntie Deng?"

She listened intently, the sound of water still coming from the kitchen, but Auntie Deng did not respond.