I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 244 - 233 Shocking Discovery (4000 words)_2

Chapter 244: Chapter 233 Shocking Discovery (4000 words)_2

The mission prompt indicates that the Different Dimension Energy is dense for this side mission, which means that the level of the mission is definitely not low, and it may even be more terrifying.

With that thought, he even began to feel like fleeing from Mo Family Village. Fortunately, however, the only high-level missions detected so far were these.

The rest of the mission alerts came like flakes of snow, all ranking at “Anxiety-Inducing”, not even one “Trembling with Fear” mission, nor even the slightly lesser “Hair-Raising” missions; all were at least “High”.

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Yan Junze had already guessed the reason for this: the middle-level tasks at the onset of the Spirit Bridge outbreak belonged to a riskier category and thus were likely dealt with by the exorcists who came earlier.

The ordinary tasks were too numerous, perhaps intended to be cleared slowly after the major dangers had been dealt with.

Little did anyone know that Spirit Bridge would erupt again, leading to several higher-level missions along with a large number of leftover ordinary tasks.

After learning about these few high-level tasks, Yan Junze speculated that it was very likely that Zhang Xiaomo and her group of exorcists had lost contact due to these emerging missions.

That is to say, one must find the coordinates in Mo Family Village to have a chance of finding Zhang Xiaomo and the others.

Yan Junze revealed a bitter smile, shaking his head slightly.

At that moment, the two people who were trying to ingratiate themselves with him across the courtyard looked at Yan Junze with puzzled faces.

They found that Yan Junze had suddenly become very strange; one moment he was surprised and doubtful, the next he was stunned, then his brow furrowed tightly, and another moment he shook his head with a bitter smile— it was an outright live “face-changing” performance.

One of them even quietly took out a Spirit Detector and started scanning Yan Junze, afraid he had been possessed by a Possession Spirit.

But on second thought, that wasn’t right either. Wasn’t the guy in front of them already a Semi-spirit? If a Possession Spirit wanted to possess someone, it would have to ask if this Fake Spirit Body was willing.

“Big… Brother, are you okay?” that person put away the Spirit Detector, a look of sympathy on his face as he couldn’t be sure if Yan Junze had suddenly remembered a tragic and unspeakable childhood.

Finally snapping back to reality, Yan Junze’s eyes focused on the two sycophants before him, shaking his head, “I’m fine, just got a bit lost in thought.”

What he was considering now was that the four missions just now were sorted by their proximity to him, with the first high-level mission that popped up being “Half of a Skin”, which was closest to him, followed by “Corpse Qi Spread” from Yin General Moda, then “The Woman Carrying a Lantern”, and last the mission that appeared was “Red Coffin”.

If he was going to face the danger now, the first he could try was “Half of a Skin”, a “Hair-Raising (High)” level mission.

Now the middle-aged man leading their group went to the courtyard gate, looked outside for a while, but didn’t see the two who had gone to the village entrance return.

After standing for a while, the leader’s countenance shifted unpredictably. He then returned to the courtyard and secured the gate.

“Something isn’t right, Liang and De have been gone for so long and haven’t come back. It should be quick to exit the village from here.”

Someone said, “Perhaps they chatted for a bit longer, after all, it’s safer outside.”

“How about I go take a look?” Yan Junze stood up, devoured the cookie in his hand, and took a sip of bottled water.

The middle-aged leader looked at him, pondered for a moment, and then nodded, “Be careful! Whether you see them or not, synchronize your time with me now, you must not exceed half an hour, you need to return here.”

Yan Junze synchronized his time with him, using the pedestrian sports watches uniformly distributed by the event team this time; he did not suggest anyone accompany him.

And the middle-aged leader did not make that suggestion either.

Now that the courtyard was considered safe, the leader wasn’t worried about Yan Junze going out alone, but if several more exorcists like Liang and De were to go out, the leader feared he would have no choice but to follow them out himself.

Yan Junze slung on his backpack, pushed open the courtyard gate, and quickly walked out.

Because the fog here wasn’t very thick and the surrounding buildings were conspicuous landmarks to follow, he was confident that he could quickly make it to the entrance of the village.

Moreover, if there was enough time, Yan Junze even considered going out on his own to try and resolve the missions he had just detected.

At least, the old well that drowned General Moda, as well as the location of that “Half of a Skin,” were somewhat closer to here.

As soon as he thought of the “Half of a Skin” mission, Yan Junze’s brows raised slightly. He remembered the confirmed mission coordinates were “Mo Xiaofeng’s old residence.”

This place name was very common; it was not easy to find at all. How was one to know which house belonged to Mo Xiaofeng?

At this thought, Yan Junze subconsciously turned to glance at the courtyard gate they had just exited, then his eyes fixed, and he abruptly stopped in his tracks.

Turning around, he looked at the top of the courtyard’s gate where there was an old plaque. The characters on this plaque might have fallen off before, but now they had been redone, which made it possible for him to clearly see the characters on it.

“Little Wind Zhai?”

Yan Junze muttered to himself, no longer moving forward, but instead turned back.

The village had a rather long history, and though mostly inhabited by farmers, there were also those who favored elegance. The few characters above the entrance were quite obvious.

“Little Wind?” Yan Junze stood at the entrance for a while, then directly pushed the door and went back inside.

Seeing him suddenly return, the middle-aged man leading them was taken aback and asked, “Did you forget something?”

“No,” Yan Junze shook his head, then his gaze swept over the people present, “Is everyone who just came in here?”

With suspicion arising, the middle-aged man stood up, scanned the area carefully, and shook his head, “Two people went inside to use the latrine, they seem to be over by the outhouse.”

“Gather everyone in the courtyard, it’s very dangerous here,” Yan Junze suddenly interjected.

The middle-aged leader didn’t hesitate and immediately began assembling the group while Yan Junze quickly walked toward the outhouse.

The location of the outhouse was behind a barn for straw.

Presently outside of the outhouse, Four-Star Exorcist Guo Youliang was staring at the two young men in front of him with a grim expression.

These two young men had given him a start when they appeared before him, unexpectedly turning out to be other exorcists that had entered Mo Family Village.

However, Guo Youliang was now severely troubled.

For him, the difficulty of eliminating that Half of a Skin was not very high, but what was weird was that this skin could fly and imperceptibly attach itself to someone, with no abnormal signs during the process, and even his eyes, which had been imbued with magnetic force, could not detect any clues.

This was the reason why the Half of a Skin had been killing people under his watch, and Guo Youliang was helpless to stop it.

A person after being attached by the skin either ends up killed by him, or would slowly be eroded by the skin and becomes a corpse.

What’s more, the skin could adhere to both the living and the dead without showing any abnormalities after attachment, further complicating Guo Youliang’s efforts to destroy it.

And until now, Guo Youliang had only managed to kill half of the people the skin had attached itself to, giving him reason to suspect that the skin’s purpose in attaching to people was to absorb their Essence Qi in order to achieve its own goal.

Actually, Yan Junze knew that after adhering to 77 people, the Half of a Skin could completely transform and hide within human society.

However, since Guo Youliang had killed half of its hosts, the creature’s plan was thwarted, constantly failing to recover.

Also, the skin had been injured in the chase by Guo Youliang, and because it was always on the run, it hadn’t had the chance to recover from its wounds.

Unexpectedly for Guo Youliang, after a chase around the village, the Half of a Skin had returned to the vicinity of where it first appeared and had once again found new targets to attach itself to.

These two, who had just come out of the outhouse, obviously had just arrived at Mo Family Village.

Both of them stood there motionless, indicating that a transformation had already occurred.

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