I can rewind time to prevent death

Standing at the bathroom doorway, Yan Junze turned his head for a look.

By this moment, Huang Chen had already thrown a "Sweeper" at Lv Xin.

The cause was that, after listening to Yan Junze's advice, he deliberately slowed down while leading Lv Jiayan toward the living room entrance, but Lv Xin's face turned an iron blue instantly, and strange gurgling noises emerged from his mouth.

However, before Lv Xin had the chance to stop them, he was already hit by Huang Chen's Hidden Buckle.

Following a burst of white light, Lv Xin was knocked to the ground by the energy emitted from the "Sweeper," and a white humanoid gas emerged from directly above his head, seemingly being forcefully expelled by the energy of the "Sweeper."

But this humanoid gas also appeared to be very powerful, stubborn and unwilling, firmly grasping onto Lv Xin's body.

The scene fell into a stalemate.

Creak...

The door to the master bedroom flung open at this moment. Resentful Granny didn't walk out slowly; instead, she tip-toed and dashed extremely fast, not even glancing at Lv Xin, she charged straight at Huang Chen and Lv Jiayan.

As she sprinted, Resentful Granny's withered cheeks stretched open with her mouth, emitting a noise like the grinding of two hard metals.

Huang Chen threw out a "High-Energy Collapse" directly.

Beneath Resentful Granny's feet, the Hidden Buckle exploded, a ring of energy ripples spread out, pushing her back.

Huang Chen immediately opened the living room door and, grabbing Lv Jiayan's hand, ran out.

But to those present, this escape seemed almost futile.

Resentful Granny sustained no damage, just temporarily halted for a moment, and soon turned around to return, emitting a nauseating noise from her mouth. She leaped over Lv Xin, who was still struggling on the ground, and was about to follow them out.

"Hey!"

Yan Junze yelled abruptly, one hand clutching Lü Qiang, and the other holding Wang Qin, and with these two souls quivering like husks in a sieve, he forcefully dragged them out of the bathroom.

Resentful Granny paused, stopped in her tracks, glanced back at Yan Junze, and then looked at the two freshly-emerged souls in his hand.

In the meantime, Yan Junze even lifted the hand holding Lü Qiang and Wang Qin, as if to say your roast chicken has arrived, if there's nothing else, then go ahead and eat it.

But to his surprise, Resentful Granny outright chose to ignore it, with an expressionless face, she turned around and rushed out of room 503, straight after Huang Chen and Lv Jiayan.

"Not eating?!" Yan Junze looked down at the two shivering souls, "What's going on? Is there something I haven't considered?"

Rewind!

Sitting back in the chair, the four of them joined hands, with the sound of hurried footsteps gradually approaching from outside the hallway.

Apart from Yan Junze and Huang Chen, the other two showed faces full of terror.

Yan Junze pondered for a while, then stood up from his seat and leaned over to whisper to Huang Chen, "Mr. Huang Chen, do you know about strangenesses consuming strangenesses?"

Huang Chen glanced sideways at him, his expression somewhat surprised, yet he still nodded, "Yes. Newly formed souls are like an unstable magnetic field energy, easily absorbed by other strangenesses, thereby strengthening their own magnetic field energy."

Yan Junze looked astonished, "You mean? If a strangeness consumes another newly-born strangeness, the strength of that strangeness can increase?"

"It's possible." Huang Chen said, "It depends on the absorption level of the first strangeness and the integration of the magnetic fields. Some magnetic fields have repulsion and might take some time to merge. Moreover, after merging, it is not certain to strengthen; sometimes it may actually reduce its strength."

"I hope after Resentful Granny eats Lü Qiang and Wang Qin, it reduces your strength, the kind that plummets!" Yan Junze muttered under his breath.

"What did you say?" Huang Chen asked.

"Nothing." Yan Junze shook his head, "Then how can we make this strangeness consume other strangenesses?"

After pondering for a moment, Huang Chen began, "Although I don't know why you're asking this, and I've never tried it... My advisor used to say, if you feed the newly-born strangeness a candle, there's a chance it can attract other older strangenesses that can't help but eat it."

"That works?" Yan Junze exclaimed in surprise.

"I haven't tried it, but what my advisor says wouldn't be false." Huang Chen nodded firmly.

Yan Junze was still somewhat uneasy, "Forgive my presumption, but what rank is your mentor?"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Two stars," Huang Chen answered.

"One star higher than you, that should be reliable," Yan Junze nodded to himself, "Then why didn't your mentor come today?"

"He did, but two days ago, Granny Ren killed him," Huang Chen replied earnestly.

Yan Junze's face turned green in an instant.

At this moment, the two of them were no longer deliberately lowering their voices, so Lv Xin and Lv Jiayan heard their conversation.

It took a good while for Yan Junze to come to terms with this cruel reality, his hand sweating as he muttered to himself, "There... there should be candles in this house, right?"

No matter how unreliable Huang Chen was, and no matter how unreliable his mentor was, as Huang Chen said, they were at this point and had to try to find out.

"Yes," Lv Xin said, "When I was looking through grandmother's belongings, I saw several unlit red candles in the bedroom desk's cabinet."

"Bedroom? Do you mean the master bedroom?" Yan Junze looked at him.

"Mhm," Lv Xin nodded.

He listened attentively for a moment to the footsteps outside in the hall; they had already faded away.

So in a short while, Resentful Granny would appear in the master bedroom and then hoarsely cry out the chilling "pain."

Yan Junze didn't want to waste time with a Rewind, so he took this opportunity to go in and get the candles first.

Deciding this, he shook off the hands of Huang Chen and Lv Xin, stood up amidst everyone's astonished gazes, and quickly walked towards the master bedroom.

"What are you doing?" Huang Chen panicked, "Come back and hold onto us, why go to the master bedroom for candles now? What if there are strangenesses eating you there?!"

Yan Junze didn't pay him any heed; he pushed the master bedroom door open and slipped inside.

The door closed behind him, and he had no time to care, quickly scanning the room's furniture layout. The desk was under the window, not far from the large bed, roughly only two steps away.

The blood-soaked bedding had long been replaced.

Just to be cautious, Yan Junze looked around everywhere under the bed, in the corner of the wardrobe, under the desk, making sure that at this moment Resentful Granny had not yet appeared in the master bedroom.

He immediately walked to the desk and opened the middle drawer, which contained some envelopes, notebooks, a few empty red packets for gifting, and several pens with dried ink.

No candles.

Crouching down, he opened the three smaller drawers on the right side of the desk one by one. The contents were messy, but it was nothing but waste paper and old newspapers.

After removing all the things that blocked his view, Yan Junze carefully searched, but still no sign of red candles in the three drawers.

At this moment, he began to wonder if Lv Xin was deceiving him.

But he had no intention of running away, so he couldn't be triggering the fellow's Spirit-Splitting.

If the right-hand drawers contained nothing, and there were three more drawers on the left, Yan Junze did not stand up. Still squatting, he moved to the left side, about to pull open the drawer.

Suddenly, a click sounded in the master bedroom.

He immediately turned his head to look around; the wardrobe was not open, and there was no one standing behind the door. A few clothes still hung on the wooden rack, with nobody hiding behind them.

Resentful Granny's figure was nowhere to be seen.

Although he saw nothing, Yan Junze's feeling of unease grew stronger, and goosebumps rapidly appeared on his arms.

Just then, on the clean, neatly spread big bed, the quilt began to bulge slightly as if someone's body was forming underneath it, soon shaping into a human figure.

"Pain..." a hoarse voice followed.