I can rewind time to prevent death

Chapter 248: Chapter 235 Half a Hide (Part Two) (5000 Words)_2

Yan Junze prepared to search for any classics or written records in the house; usually, the Tianmeng clan had the custom of keeping genealogical records, noting both the living and the dead.

Just like the Yan Family that Junze belonged to, there was also a genealogy in his ancestral home.

Now, all he needed to do was find the genealogy, look through the records of the deceased, and he could locate their burial sites.

Soon, he entered a room that looked like a study, but it was filled with piles of newspapers and magazines, looking very chaotic.

There were only a few yellowed almanacs on the original bookshelves, not a single book in sight.

Yan Junze began to search carefully; although he was facing away, his movements were swift. However, during the struggle with the hide, he couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

At this moment, he believed that if it weren’t for the Back-faced Woman helping him exert strength from the other end, he would have long been completely controlled by this creature. Rewind was the only option.

He quickly found the information of the deceased and checked the names one by one; finally, his finger stopped on the name “Mo Sheng.” Scanning through, he saw that the column for her burial site was blank.

Looking at the records of others who had passed away, their burial sites were clearly written, even including the size of the graves and the epitaphs used. But only Mo Sheng’s column was blank.

However, the time of Mo Sheng’s death was exactly 16 years from her birth, meaning she died that year, right after being desecrated by a former life of the hide.

Yan Junze’s head began to throb with pain; the hide was clearly gaining the upper hand at this moment.

He felt the skin on his forehead was no longer his own, entirely numb, and there was even a sensation as if his head was bulging outward, extremely strange.

He quickly forced himself to focus on finding Mo Sheng’s grave. Since it wasn’t clearly stated here, it mustn’t be an oversight; there had to be a reason.

Upon careful consideration, Mo Sheng’s early death must have had a significant connection with the previous life of the hide, perhaps she couldn’t endure the disgrace and committed suicide.

Or following the ancient village rules, punishments such as being drowned in a pig cage could have been meted out. In those times, girls who suffered accidents that brought disgrace to the family would have their whole lives ruined because of it. They would not only fail to receive forgiveness but might also be subject to severe punishment by the clanspeople.

If she truly had been submerged in the lake, Yan Junze would have nowhere to cry; this undoubtedly made the task of finding Mo Sheng’s body much more challenging, and for the hide, there would be one less effective means to restrain it.

If all else failed, he could only try using the small mirror again or rewind to the time before the hide had approached him.

Yan Junze pondered to himself.

Just then, a shadow suddenly appeared outside the study, moving rapidly. Originally appearing slowly at the door, in the next moment, it swiftly receded.

Despite his extraordinary sensitivity at this moment, Junze could still sense the other’s position. He immediately put down the genealogy and hastily pursued backward.

A sudden surge of pain in his head made Junze stumble, almost falling, but he steadied himself by grabbing the door frame. Across from him, he watched as a shadow behind the door of a room disappeared quickly.

This time he saw clearly, it was the silhouette of a frail woman, but definitely not a human, for no human’s feet would hover nearly two centimeters off the ground when walking.

In other words, the slender woman’s shadow was walking on air.

It must have been the spirit of the woman, preparing to appear before the living as usual, but she hadn’t expected that the other person would be in a Semi-Spirit State and involved in an intense fight with an equally strange piece of hide.

The pressure between the entities caused the woman’s spirit to panic and flee in terror.

Yan Junze didn’t hesitate, quickly giving chase.

The woman fled to a room that led to another hallway, and through it another ordinary room. It was apparent that this home of the village leader was quite expansive.

After passing through another room, he came to a row of pigpens and cattle sheds; the woman had vanished.

Yan Junze stood there, one hand on the door, ignoring the throbbing pain in his head; it felt as if the skin on his neck was tightening, as though a thick rope had been tied around it and someone kept pulling from behind him.

After standing there for a while, Yan Junze noticed something unusual again.

Behind him, to the right on the rooftop, opposite the cattle shed, and at the tattered doorway leading to a field path, heads began to emerge one after another.

Their faces were ashen as death, silent and expressionless, eyes staring blankly, as if looking into the distance, or perhaps at Yan Junze.

Seeing that they were all dead, to Junze, they were just ordinary strangenesses.

Despite facing his Semi-Spirit State and the attached hide, these strangenesses did not leave but kept their distance, maintaining a watchful presence, creating a very eerie scene.

Soon Yan Junze realized that among these people, the woman who had fled was not present, and their cloudy, colorless gazes seemed not to be fixed on him but partially focused on the pigpen. @@novelbin@@

At this point, Junze could feel his breathing getting labored; the support from the Back-faced Woman seemed to be fading, and his Semi-Spirit State was also diminishing.

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