I can rewind time to prevent death

Chapter 308: Chapter 267 Event Lockdown (4100 words)_2@@novelbin@@

Because an exorcist squad had helped to request leave from the school authorities before, this time the leave was still for an indefinite period. The school authorities were quite understanding about this and didn’t ask any questions, but inevitably, they started paying closer attention to Yan Junze.

After Yan Junze returned to dormitory 411, it wasn’t long before the director of education, Yuan Lison, paid a visit. This skinny old man carefully looked Yan Junze over and, not finding any changes, appeared to care on behalf of the school and asked a few questions before leaving.

At this time, Yan Junze was the only one in the dormitory, as everyone else was in class, so Director Yuan didn’t avoid saying anything.

However, Yan Junze could tell that the old man had a very good attitude toward him. Everyone knew that this was closely related to Yan Junze’s identity.

Not long after Yuan Lison left, the captain of the school security team, Wang Tao, also knocked on the door and entered.

As for the act of knocking, it was surprising for a security team captain to enter a student dormitory in such a manner.

Usually, when the security team carried out inspections for unauthorized use of electricity, playing poker, and the like, they would enter the dormitories directly, and even kick in the doors if they had conclusive evidence.

If they encountered a locked door, they had many tricks up their sleeves.

For instance, during a gambling raid on one of the dormitories where the door was locked by the gamblers inside, Wang Tao had someone deliberately pull the breaker for that floor.

When the card players inside opened the door in confusion to check, they were overwhelmed by the security team waiting outside, like wolves pouncing on sheep, caught all at once, and criticized in an announcement to the whole school.

So, the fact that Wang Tao knocked on the door of the dormitory was very abnormal.

Yet, Yan Junze didn’t find anything inappropriate about it. This guy might have a favor to ask of him, or perhaps he wanted to curry favor with him for future use of the connection.

Like director of education Yuan Lison, Wang Tao sat down amiably on the bed, chatted with Yan Junze, who was half-reclining, and even patted his shoulder, telling him to call his phone number anytime if he needed anything, always ready to respond.

After finishing his talk and worried about bothering Yan Junze too much, Wang Tao left a note with his phone number on it, and got up to leave.

There was still some time before the afternoon classes ended, and it was heard that the rest of the dorm mates had gone to the laboratory building. Usually experiments meant they would finish even later.

After all, the Peephole Strange Creature there had already been eliminated, not by Yan Junze, but because after Yan Junze had used the “Great Rewind,” the timeline had changed, and it was cleared by an exorcist.

After scrolling through his phone for a while, Yan Junze rubbed his eyes, set the phone down, feeling he had been influenced by Zhang Xiaomo, and was unconsciously reaching for his phone whenever he had a free moment.

He then summoned the entire Spacetime Atlas in his mind.

Currently, the illuminated parts of the Spacetime Atlas still hadn’t reached half, and even by observing the illuminated parts, Yan Junze was basically unable to speculate how large half of the Atlas actually was.

He lacked a tangible reference.

In its full state, the Atlas could store 17,400 points of Different Dimension Energy and had 86 nodes lit, which, when translated into reversible timelines, equalled to about 29 hours.

Yan Junze had formed a habit of keeping the cycle on as long as the Different Dimension Energy was plentiful.

The advantage of this was that no matter where or when he decided to Rewind, he could do it without facing the kind of situation he had experienced before on a bus when he encountered Lv Xin, who had split apart from the Resentful Granny, and was unable to trace back to before that point.

Although he didn’t know how much of the Atlas had been fully uncovered, the area he could see was growing larger, and in the end, this was a good thing. As long as he had plenty of energy, Yan Junze’s chances of surviving in today’s world increased.

In today’s Atlas, the 7th node unlocked [Perception of Strange Events], the 12th time node unlocked [Evil Spirit Solid Lock], the 35th node unlocked [Spacetime Fixed Point Insertion], and the 54th node unveiled [Butterfly Effect].

And among the most recently unlocked spacetime nodes, the 82nd node activated a new [Strange Event Lockdown] feature.

This function seemed to pair with [Perception of Strange Events].

According to the function description, once [Strange Event Lockdown] was activated, a strangeness scene (that is, a task), would be instantly locked in the current state.

For a limited time, the strangeness couldn’t escalate, even if many factors of unrest or instability would be enough to elevate the level of strangeness several times within the event, but once locked, it would remain as it was before the lockdown.

Of course, the Different Dimension Energy consumed is proportional to the length of time the event is locked. To keep an event locked indefinitely would consume a substantial amount of Different Dimension Energy.

This feature was very powerful. If facing a troublesome creature that Yan Junze couldn’t deal with at the moment, he could lock the opponent’s level state for the time being.

Once the conditions were met, he could then look back and deal with the task, which would seem effortless.

In essence, this was exploiting a loophole in time.

At this moment, Yan Junze suddenly remembered the terrifying boss in Mountain Park that he had been completely unable to deal with at the time, not just unable to confront, but he couldn’t even solve the Dark Poison released by the opponent.

Fortunately, he had managed to dodge a bullet.

Just then, Yan Junze’s right index finger started to feel a bit numb, and he looked down to see that there was nothing unusual.

He stretched out his other hand and gently pinched the finger, thinking that he might have inadvertently pressed on it earlier.

After rubbing it for a while, the numbness gradually disappeared.

A wave of sleepiness came over him, and Yan Junze closed the Spacetime Atlas in his mind and quickly fell asleep.

When he became conscious again, he found his vision shrouded in pitch-black darkness.

He seemed to be standing in a black starless sky, everything around him was as dark as ink.

Yan Junze looked around and felt his head was still heavy, with a lingering sense of sleepiness.

Standing still for a while, unable to discern his location, Yan Junze decided to walk a few steps forward, then he found himself beginning to move.

In the boundless darkness, he started to tread carefully forward, just like he had done inside the space of the Red Coffin.

Only this time, unlike the Red Coffin where he had to crawl, there was no need to here.

Time passed, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, Yan Junze found himself still trapped in the darkness, unable to find a way out.

He simply stopped and turned around on the spot, trying to see if there were any abnormalities in any direction, or any hint of light that could penetrate the darkness.

He soon made a discovery; when he turned in a certain direction, there seemed to be someone crouching or sitting on the ground within the pitch-black night before him.

Uncertain, he chose this direction and prepared to walk over.

But at that moment, Yan Junze found that he seemed unable to move anymore and could only stay in place.

In the pitch darkness before him, the crouching figure now seemed to be moving, with a faint light gradually appearing above the silhouette, casting a hazy shape.

The figure was a woman.

Her hair draped softly over her shoulders, and she was indeed crouching on the ground in a long white dress, except she was facing away from Yan Junze.

The scene felt strangely familiar, and for a moment Yan Junze stood frozen, feeling a sense of déjà vu.

He rubbed his eyes, straining to see better, but still could not make out the person’s appearance.

Just then, the woman in white slowly stood up; she had been crouching until now.

She began to walk backward, moving in Yan Junze’s direction.

At first glance, Yan Junze thought she was the Back-faced Woman, but upon closer inspection, she was nothing like her.

Closer and closer she came.

Her backward-walking posture was elegant, as if gliding above the ground, her arms bent as though she was holding something in front of her.

As she continued to approach, almost turning towards him, Yan Junze felt his heartbeat suddenly start to quicken.

The next second, he woke up with a start, his eyes wide open, breathing gently, only to find himself still lying on his dormitory bed. It had all been a dream.

Yet the scene from the dream remained vivid in his memory.

Panting, Yan Junze sat up, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, the memories from the dream persisting. He clearly remembered that in the last moment of his dream, he had seen what the woman was holding in her hands.

It was… a lantern.

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