I can rewind time to prevent death

For Xiang Er, Ku Zai, and Yao Long, it seemed that no sooner had Yan Junze walked behind the trash bins than he was back again the next second.

Returning to the entrance of the alley, Yan Junze spoke, "Just like last time, begin scouring for strangenesses."

Mainly because the Great Rewind to before the laboratory explosion had consumed nearly a hundred thousand of his energy points in one go, an unprecedented amount for him.

This meant his energy was now insufficient, and to carry out the following plans, he must first replenish his energy.

Moreover, Yan Junze had a feeling that this time, a simple replenishment might not suffice, and there might be a need for several more returns.

Xiang Er nodded and asked, "Where to?"

Yan Junze didn't answer immediately, instead he looked up at the sky, surprised, "When did it start doing this?"

Ku Zai took over and said, "Just when we got out of the car, as you entered the alley, I noticed the sky wasn't right, groups of small dark clouds gathering, each spread over different areas."

For some reason, the first thing that came to Yan Junze's mind was the shadow of Wu Mayun, the God of Death.

After transforming into a strangeness, her strength was terrifyingly powerful, beyond any current estimation of her destructive capabilities.

But now, the areas beneath those dark cloud clusters had turned ominously dark, proof that these were no ordinary clouds—this scene was strikingly similar to the environment's sudden change at the exact moment of Wu Mayun's mutation.

"There's something off; don't approach the areas under the dark clouds for now," Yan Junze cautioned.

"Junze."

Xiang Er stood outside the car, at the very moment she pulled the door open, ready to get in, but instead pointed towards the sidewalk up ahead, directing Yan Junze to look in that direction.

Yan Junze glanced toward the sidewalk beneath a bus stop sign, where a long-haired woman in a black business suit was walking, her hair cascading down her shoulders, her arms not swinging as she walked slowly toward them.

Yan Junze scrutinized her and found the woman's face unfamiliar, expressionless, and unnervingly pale without a hint of color.

Today, the streets of Huaying City District were deserted, making it difficult to spot a pedestrian, so the woman's presence, walking the street in such a manner, was highly conspicuous.

"Do you detect any abnormal magnetic field fluctuations?" Yan Junze asked.

Xiang Er shook her head, "No."

Yan Junze looked down at the Magnetic Shielding Clothes Ku Zai was wearing and noticed that the shielding garment was activated, so there was no chance of attracting strangenesses.

Looking up again at the woman in the business suit, she had now considerably closed the distance, still moving unhurriedly, her arms rigidly at her sides, her gaze hollow as she stared straight ahead.

Her face was as lifeless as a corpse, not only devoid of expression but also pale as death.

"She's breathing," Xiang Er's eyes moved away from the slight rise and fall of her chest.

It wasn't long before the woman had come close to them, but she seemed oblivious to the people standing there and continued along her path.

No one spoke again; Yan Junze and Ku Zai were the closest to the woman, Xiang Er stood on the other side of the car door, while only Yao Long sat in the passenger seat, their gazes fixed on her.

The woman did not linger, walking slowly past Yan Junze and Ku Zai, as if they were merely air.

She quickly created some distance from the group.

Ku Zai suddenly spoke up, "I get it, she's Possessed!"

Actually, Yan Junze had already guessed as much. He didn't say so right away because in the direction of the bus stop, another man had appeared. This man, wearing a jacket and trousers and carrying a briefcase, was heading towards the center of the street with the same pace and movement as the woman, not caring for the presence of oncoming traffic.

It seemed that there were far fewer cars on the road as of late, none passing by up till now.

And after Ku Zai voiced his thoughts, the woman, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped moving and just stood there, her back toward the group.

Ku Zai paused, his attention fixed on the woman.

She turned slowly, her empty gaze drifting over, seemingly focusing on Ku Zai.

Unconsciously, Ku Zai stepped back, tightening the collar of his Magnetic Shielding Clothes, but he knew that if the woman had fixated on him, it wasn't due to his special constitution but rather because of the remark he'd just made, which seemed to have caught the woman's attention.

The Possessed woman was bizarre, too, because she could see Ku Zai as though viewing him through the human eyes of her Possessed host.

"She... she can see me?!" Involuntarily, Ku Zai continued to back away as he spoke.

"Perhaps, she's not entirely a strangeness," Yan Junze released the Control Field.

At that same moment, the woman opened her mouth toward Ku Zai, her lips forcefully stretched apart by an invisible force, and with a rip, the corners tore instantaneously, nearly splitting her head in two, blood gushing out!

"Ah—"

She let out an abysmal shriek as she lunged towards Ku Zai in a frenzy.

"Mother of God, help!"

Frightened, Ku Zai jerked and turned to scramble through the open car window, too alarmed even to bother opening the door.

However, the next second, the woman's body convulsed, and she collapsed to the ground, lifeless, her blood quickly spreading over a large area of the pavement.

Yan Junze withdrew the Control Field.

He had distinctly felt that although the woman was hopelessly Possessed, her heart was still faintly beating inside her body, which differed entirely from the Possession method used by the Enchantment Demon, Luo Zhong.