I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 241 - 231 Into the Perilous Depths

Chapter 241: Chapter 231 Into the Perilous Depths

At the same time, at the entrance of Mo Family Village to the east, just beyond the small grove, beads of sweat the size of soybeans appeared on Guo Youliang’s forehead within a spacious farm courtyard.

As a four-star exorcist, he had never felt this stifled in his life.

Three young people lay beside him, all without breath, and beyond them, within the courtyard five meters away, were the bodies of those who had helped seal off Mo Family Village, scattered haphazardly.

This area was originally considered safe, and Guo Youliang’s role was simply to stand guard here while the exorcism tasks were mostly left to exorcists below three stars.

Unexpectedly, the Spirit Bridge suddenly underwent a new round of eruption, followed by a weakening of its energy.

However, this round of eruption released a few new, stronger strangenesses.

At least in Guo Youliang’s view, he had never encountered a strangeness more troublesome than this one now.

“Perhaps, this thing could be classified as an ethereal spirit!” Guo Youliang speculated secretly, “If it really were an ethereal spirit, that would still be manageable. But this strangeness clearly belongs to the very tricky kind.”

A trace of worry crossed his face, imperceptible to others, as his gaze swept over the corpses of his colleagues at his feet before looking through the open door towards the bodies outside in the courtyard.

At that moment, Guo Youliang realized that his nerves, ever since his advancement to a four-star exorcist, had never been so tense.

In the inner room’s bedroom of this farmhouse, two wounded colleagues, one three-star and the other two-star, lay unconscious.

They were the reason Guo Youliang dared not move from his position.

He had never imagined that this strangeness would completely exceed his understanding.

Because this strangeness was not in human form.

It was not only non-human, but it was also highly intelligent and extremely cunning.

It seemed to know better than to clash directly with Guo Youliang, so it aimed its attacks entirely at those beside him. Anyone targeted by this creature, even with Guo Youliang present, could hardly escape being killed in the end.

Moreover, with every person it killed, this thing seemed to grow stronger, bit by bit getting more powerful.

This thing, too, had appeared suddenly after the last eruption of the Spirit Bridge.

The magnetic knife in Guo Youliang’s hand was not comparable to those of a three-star exorcist. As a four-star exorcist, he had a large amount of magnetic force within him available for use, somewhat resembling a semi-spirit.

However, unlike the half-spirit transformation, a four-star exorcist would not suffer from the backlash; everything was under his control.

With the operation of magnetic force, Guo Youliang’s magnetic knife could extend its magnetic blade instantly to two meters or even longer. Strangenesses below the level created by Sculpting Spirit, namely Wandering Spirits, were basically killed in a second.

As he was immersed in magnetic force for a long time, Guo Youliang also possessed a unique skill unlike that of ordinary exorcists. He did not cultivate spirits, and he did not easily display his unique skill; otherwise, it would cause harm whether to strangenesses or humans.

This was the fundamental difference between a good exorcist and a spirit cultivator with ill intentions.

Of course, such individuals were extremely rare in this world at present, and there was a silent mutual restraint. Otherwise, the world would have already descended into chaos.

The magnetic knife in Guo Youliang’s hand was now over a meter long, the blade glowing with a cyan-blue light, resembling ancient weapons laced with poison.

He slowly twisted his upper body, scanning the room’s furnishings and the bodies on the ground one by one, gripping his magnetic knife tightly, ready to strike at any moment.

The room was very quiet, the eerie atmosphere not only pervaded the entire house but also soaked into Guo Youliang’s heart.

His heart beat very slowly; he needed to calm down, or else he might accidentally let this peculiar strangeness escape.

As Guo Youliang turned his upper body and scanned his surroundings, something under the nearest corpse at his feet began to bulge slightly, as if a snake had slithered into it, silently moving beneath the clothing.

The next second, without hesitation, Guo Youliang’s magnetic knife plunged downward, piercing through the body of his former colleague who had died.

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The knife passed through the chest and into the ground four or five inches before stopping.

Fearing some strangeness within the corpse, Guo Youliang did not touch it with his hands but instead twisted the handle of the knife lightly. The magnetic light burst forth, ensuring that the skin of the upper body was not intact anywhere, to prevent whatever was hiding under the clothes from escaping.

But soon, Guo Youliang’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. He couldn’t feel he had hit anything.

Just then, a slightly overweight man with a frightened face stepped over the threshold and entered the room, covering his chest with his left hand and saying fearfully, “Big Brother Guo, what happened? Why is everyone else dead?”

“Liu Zheng?” Guo Youliang looked up at the newcomer. “Brat, I thought you’d died out there.”

Liu Zheng replied, “I was about to die. Where are the others?”

“Chen Pengyong and the others are wounded, lying in the inner room. Hurry up and go in. Didn’t you hear my order not to come out?” Guo Youliang spoke with great urgency.

Liu Zheng glanced at Guo Youliang’s magnetic knife, which was still stuck in the body of one of their own.

Liu Zheng appeared quite surprised, but he didn’t ask any questions and went into the inner room as instructed, closing the door behind him.

Guo Youliang pulled out the magnetic knife and crouched down to take a closer look at the body at his feet. The skin on the chest wasn’t intact anywhere, but it was impossible to tell exactly where the movement under the skin had come from.

“This skin…”

Suddenly, as if struck by a thought, Guo Youliang’s eyes widened and he stood up abruptly. Before his body could move, he hurled his magnetic knife towards the inner room with his right hand.

The magnetic knife whipped through the air, burst through the closed door, and plunged inside with a wet thud, followed by the sound of impact as it seemed to nail something to the wall.

Rushing into the room, Guo Youliang saw that Liu Zheng, who had just entered a moment ago, was now completely impaled by the magnetic knife at the chest, hanging mid-air against the wall, his feet a dozen centimeters off the ground, motionless.

And in the bed where the two injured people originally lay, there was now no sign of life to be felt from them.

Irritated and embarrassed, Guo Youliang took out a green round button resembling a Hidden Buckle from his pocket, and was about to press it against Liu Zheng’s head.

At this moment, Liu Zheng seemed to be unconscious. Just as the green round button was about to be pressed onto him, his head moved slightly, his facial skin rapidly wrinkling, as if a wet towel initially stuck to his face was suddenly being pulled away.

It was not just the face, but also the neck, the chest, and the back—nearly all the skin on the upper body was being pulled by an invisible force, and soon after, half of the skin detached from Liu Zheng’s body.

At this time, Liu Zheng was clearly a dead man; when the skin left his body, what was revealed was an already long-dead obese individual.

This corpulent figure slumped his head, still pinned to the wall by the Magnetic Blade; however, after the skin had separated from him, it rapidly moved across the wall toward the window. The crumpled wrinkles made it look disgustingly nauseating to behold.

On the right side of the skin, the hole pierced by the Magnetic Blade remained, but it was slowly healing.

Guo Youliang pulled the Magnetic Knife out of the wall, letting Liu Zheng’s body fall to the ground.

By now, the skin had already passed through the window and was running along the external wall.

Guo Youliang leaped up, his body arching as he smashed through the window in pursuit.

“Heh heh heh…”

The half of the peculiar skin that ran outside no longer clung to the wall but, emitting an eerie sound, detached from the wall and, catching the wind like a kite, flew over the roof of the farmhouse and away into the distance.

Guo Youliang, being just an ordinary person, couldn’t fly. He had to take a detour while clutching the Magnetic Knife and headed to the back of the house.

…

At the same moment.

Outside Mo Family Village, a short and skinny figure was gradually approaching the entrance of the village through the thick fog.

Frowning, his eyes squinted, as if he could see through the dense fog.

If Yan Junze had been there, he would have recognized him instantly—it was Yan Long, Cheng Jingting’s teacher who appeared in his “Great Rewind.”

Only, during the last “Great Rewind,” Yan Junze had corrected a ripple of the Butterfly Effect, resulting in Yan Long’s failure to capture Cheng Jingting’s soul. Eventually, Cheng Jingting was completely eliminated by Yan Junze in the body of a strange baby in the funeral home.

In his hand, Yan Long held a dark red compass, glancing between it and the fog-enshrouded village intermittently.

After a short while, he chose a direction that bypassed the large farmhouse courtyard near the entrance of the village—where Guo Youliang and the eerie skin had their chase.

Taking his steps, Yan Long soon vanished into the fog as if he had no worries about whether he could find his way out again.

In the innermost part of the village, the Exorcists were firmly controlled by the Lantern Woman and the Red Coffin, while outside, Guo Youliang had completely set his mind on pursuing that elusive Half of a Skin, vowing to grind it into mincemeat for killing so many of his people.

…

Turning off the main road and onto the village’s access road, the bumpiness of the ride did indeed become more frequent.

Yan Junze and ten other Exorcists were seated in two vans, silently watching the unceasing fog drifting past the windows.

As they neared the village, the road ahead became less visible, but it was understood that the blockade’s starting point was about two kilometers from Mo Family Village.

Upon reaching that point, they would have to disembark and walk in.

The group of Exorcists on this mission included two external hires like Yan Junze and eight bona fide Exorcists, the in-house staff.

This team was assembled urgently after a meeting, with the squad leader Huo Zhisen personally setting up the action group.

The Exorcist squads on Tianmeng’s side were in dire need of personnel, even including external hires.

Therefore, anyone with some capability like Yan Junze was urgently recruited, and of all Tianmeng’s four-star Exorcists, there were only three. Two were borrowed by other districts and are currently on their way back, while one was Guo Youliang.

Because the Spirit Bridge incident originally had been stabilizing, with a large number of strangenesses being eliminated thanks to the efforts of existing Exorcists, nobody could foresee that they would suddenly enter an emergency situation again—something completely unexpected by the Exorcist teams.

Other districts were sending more Exorcists, and Yan Junze’s team was the first to arrive here to attempt contact with the group of Exorcists inside Mo Family Village, who had lost all communication. Once there was news, they would immediately inform the people outside.

In other words, they did not need to take unnecessary risks; their job was to fulfill their own mission.

And indeed, the squad leader Huo Zhisen was aware of the urgency; as long as the Exorcists inside were safe and awaited reinforcements, there was no point in this group of relatively weak individuals trying to resolve the crisis—something that seemed impossible even to contemplate.

Of course, Yan Junze didn’t give it much thought; the main reason he came was the high salary of one hundred thousand for this single mission, along with various benefits.

And he could check up on Zhang Xiaomo, whom he hadn’t contacted in many days, and had a legitimate excuse to skip classes. Why not do it?

The vans soon arrived at the blockade. They stopped, everyone disembarked, left behind satellite phones, and each carried a backpack with provisions and essentials before the vans turned around and left.

In three days, the vans would return with even more Exorcists from other districts.

Yan Junze stood on the fog-enshrouded ground, cautious not to breathe deeply or to activate “Perception of Strange Events.” He feared that sensing in this location would unleash a proliferation of strangenesses, and the overwhelming volume of strange events might just burst the Spacetime Atlas.

It was as if he was a wolf cast into a flock of sheep, swarmed with strange events waiting to be addressed—if he so wished.

Of course, this was not a time for recklessness. With the Spirit Bridge below, there were too many uncontrollable factors. He simply took out the Spirit Detector allotted to him and, following the others, headed toward the entrance of Mo Family Village.

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