I can rewind time to prevent death

Chapter 335: Chapter 281 Dreams Inside and Outside (4200 words)_2

Yan Junze went to bed late, and he didn’t know how long the dream he just had lasted; he felt extremely exhausted and indeed wanted to sleep some more. He nodded, closed the door, and went back to bed to continue sleeping.

In his drowsy state, however, he couldn’t fall back asleep, as there was always some worry that the dream might recur.

Lost in whimsical ideas, his mind gradually became muddled.

Around ten o’clock, a ringing phone woke him up. Yan Junze groggily glanced at the number, seeing it was an unfamiliar one. He didn’t hang up, however, and pressed the answer button instead.

The voice of a middle-aged man came through the phone, but it sounded dry as if he hadn’t had water in a long time, his throat parched.

“Is this Yan Junze?”

Yan Junze immediately became alert and responded, “Yes, it is. May I ask who this is…?”

“This is the Exorcism team from Tianyi District, Liu Hao, a three-star Exorcist. Zhang Xiaomo asked me to contact you. Where are you right now?”

Yan Junze hadn’t expected to be contacted so quickly by the other party before he had the chance to reach out himself.

Glancing at the time, Yan Junze sat up, “Yes, I’m at Wang Family Bay and can come over any time. How soon are we going to Yan Long’s address?”

“We can do it now,” said Liu Hao. “We’re waiting for you at 136 Priest Street; let’s meet up in about forty minutes.”

“No problem.”

Yan Junze hung up the phone, got up to get dressed, finished washing up, ate the soy milk and fried dough sticks prepared by Second Aunt Wang, and said goodbye to Wang Tao before leaving.

Wang Tao was in the living room, tidying up the gifts other families had brought for Yan Junze, as some of them had only been delivered that morning. The living room was piled with all sorts of things, with every variety of local farm produce imaginable, and someone had even brought two roosters, alive, their feathers shiny and bright—it was just beautiful.

Yan Junze gave a wry smile. He couldn’t possibly take live chickens to school, so he decided to give them to Second Uncle Wang’s family, but Second Uncle Wang stubbornly refused to accept them. After some thought, Yan Junze suggested they simply slaughter the chickens that night; they could stew or fry them, and the family could enjoy them together.

Upon hearing that Yan Junze was about to leave, Second Uncle Wang immediately went over to the house across from them, the one where the little girl named He lives, to have the man of the house take Yan Junze in his van.

Soon after, Yan Junze was on his way to Tianyi City District in the van.

Upon arriving at Priest Street, he got out of the van at the street corner and told the man not to wait for him.

The weather was nice today, sunny but not blinding.

After the van left, Yan Junze stood on the street and looked around; he took several deep breaths. The bakery on the street corner had just baked a new batch of bread, and the scent of toasted bread wafted through the air. A well-dressed lady wearing a rose-red dress passed by, her light jasmine perfume gently tickling his nose. At that moment, Yan Junze’s sense of smell was immensely satisfied, and he began to walk slowly down the street.

After a few steps, however, he paused suddenly.

In his mind, the Spacetime Atlas suddenly popped up involuntarily, with a line of text appearing right after.

[Lockdown node detected strong magnetic field fluctuations; would you like to spend 1,000 Different Dimension points for stabilization?]

“What? Magnetic fluctuations? Spend energy to stabilize?” Yan Junze was utterly confused, as this was his first encounter with such an event.

As he was pondering, he distinctly felt something from the “Evil Spirit Solid Lock” node suddenly break through, and in the next second, his vision blurred, and the Ugly Girl, dressed in gray and with her hair disheveled, appeared in the street before him.

She stood with her head pressed down, silent.

Yan Junze was startled; he hadn’t expected this woman to be so powerful that she could directly break through the lockdown node and forcibly appear before him.

Of course, this was the first time he’d encountered such a situation, and if it were to happen again, Yan Junze would directly use his power to suppress it.

However, this also implied indirectly that a truly Sculpting Spirit-level strangeness would be as formidable as the Ugly Girl.

“Why have you come out?” Yan Junze scolded in a lowered voice, glancing around to see if any of the passersby were watching him.

It seemed that they couldn’t see the Ugly Girl.

But just because ordinary people couldn’t see her didn’t mean Exorcists couldn’t. It was fortunate that Yan Junze had left the van on the street corner; if he had gotten off right in front of 136 Priest Street, the Ugly Girl’s appearance would have been exposed immediately.

The Exorcist named Liu Hao had already said that he was a three-star Exorcist, so if a real strangeness appeared, he wouldn’t be like the one-star Exorcist Huang Chen, who couldn’t clearly perceive it.

The Ugly Girl kept her head low, without saying a word.

“Why did you come out?” Yan Junze asked in a low voice again.

The Ugly Girl slightly lifted her head, and Yan Junze turned away, pretending to look at the passersby, actually unwilling to look directly at her face.

“I wanted… to see the beauty of this world, and to understand what you mean by ‘ugly,'” the Ugly Girl said softly.

Before Yan Junze could respond, she turned her head to look at the woman who had just walked by, the one with the scent of jasmine perfume wafting from her.

“Is she… beautiful?”

Yan Junze felt somewhat helpless as he redirected his gaze from the passersby to the Ugly Girl.

The deformed and terrifying features of the Ugly Girl made the corner of his eyes twitch slightly, and he shook his head, “I don’t know if that woman is beautiful, but her appearance is certainly nice; at least it’s pleasing to a man’s eye.”

“Is this what beauty is?” the Ugly Girl asked curiously.

“No,” Yan Junze shook his head again, “That’s not the beauty I’m talking about. Beauty is a perception, not just visual, but something that comes from within, starting with the soul. That woman looks good, but I don’t know if her soul is beautiful, which can only be judged after getting to know her.”

At that moment, the woman wearing the rose-red dress who had walked some distance away suddenly slipped. She almost screamed but steadied herself in time, fortunately not falling.

She then touched her head; there was a strange pain that seemed to come from her scalp, but it wasn’t too strong.

Only she knew that she hadn’t actually slipped, but felt as if someone had tugged at her hair. Yet now that she touched it and looked around, there was no sign of any hair loss.

At the same time, the long hair of the Ugly Girl, which draped around her waist, had grown a bit without anyone noticing.

“This, must be some kind of beauty,” she thought.

Yan Junze couldn’t hear the inner thoughts of the Ugly Girl. He only feared that bystanders would see him suddenly speaking to the air, so he lowered his voice and said, “I’m taking you back now, don’t resist. There’s an Exorcist ahead. If they see you, you will be in danger.”

The Ugly Girl nodded silently.

Just as Yan Junze was about to retract her, he saw her shake her head again. The Ugly Girl raised her hand and pointed her index finger towards Priest Street, not far ahead and directly opposite Yan Junze.

“She’s also very strange, why only take me?”

Yan Junze was taken aback, following the direction of the Ugly Girl’s finger. A sudden realization struck him as he saw a short-haired strange woman crouching at the corner against the wall about twenty meters away from him.

For the present Yan Junze, this scene was all too familiar.

It was not only similar to the scene where the Lantern Woman appeared in his dream but also reminiscent of the last time he saw a strange woman resembling Liao Jing next to the stone steps outside the canteen after his first dream of the Lantern Woman.

At this moment, Yan Junze realized what he had discovered.

It seemed that every time he saw the Lantern Woman in his dreams, when he woke up, a bizarre woman performing the same actions as the Lantern Woman would appear in the real world, encountering him by chance.

Possibly, she was the Lantern Woman’s incarnation in reality!

Seeing the stranger woman’s back, crouching behind the corner, Yan Junze speculated wildly.

The passersby kept walking past the crouching woman, although her posture was odd, none of them glanced at her. Clearly, they couldn’t see her.

But Yan Junze was sure that if he went over there, the woman crouching would stand up and turn towards him.

However, it didn’t seem like there was a lantern placed next to her.

“Although she is a bit strange, I don’t know her, and we have no connection,” Yan Junze answered the Ugly Girl.

The Ugly Girl tilted her head, looking at the crouching bizarre woman: “Is she… beautiful?”

“Let’s go, we’ll head over there first.”@@novelbin@@

Yan Junze didn’t answer; at that moment, a whimsical idea popped into his head.

The Ugly Girl didn’t know what he was thinking and didn’t speak further, simply following beside Yan Junze, almost shoulder to shoulder, as they walked towards the inside of Priest Street.

And from this point entering the street, no matter the distance, they would inevitably pass by behind the crouching woman.

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