I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 751 - 435 Strangeness Piggy Bank_2

Chapter 751 -435 Strangeness Piggy Bank_2

Gu Dekang was thirty-five this year, slightly overweight for a three-star Exorcist—such physique was quite rare among his peers.

But it wasn’t exactly Gu Dekang’s own doing, as his entire family shared this tendency to be plump. From his childhood, he had an excellent digestive system, the kind that would gain weight even from drinking water.

He had taken on this emergency task because he had just cleared the strangenesses in the old-style residential building behind him, which was less than one kilometer away from Zhou Wenfei’s courtyard house located in Qingtian Alley.

After reporting the clearance of the strangenesses to his squad, his boss had suddenly slotted this task into his schedule.

Originally, Gu Dekang was to head to the Third Hospital to join several other Exorcists in dealing with an odd incident in the morgue.

The morgue’s incident had been preliminarily classified as a C-level case, which would have been good training for Gu Dekang, but now his hopes were dashed as another Exorcist closer in proximity had been dispatched by superiors.

Although Gu Dekang was somewhat disgruntled, he couldn’t defy orders.

Naturally, he directed his resentment toward Zhou Wenfei, the person who had persistently pestered the operator with phone calls.

After dealing with the strangenesses, he would definitely make sure to lock this guy up for a few days.

He walked directly to Qingtian Alley, which was neither secluded nor cramped but rather spacious, with relatively bright street lamps that didn’t create an ominous or claustrophobic atmosphere.

“Qingtian Alley number 17.”

Gu Dekang glanced at the informant’s details on his phone, entered the alley, and quickly found number 17 by reading the house numbers.

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He looked around; this solitary courtyard house likely didn’t lack money, but it was possible that it was rented by the residence.

However, being able to rent a courtyard house to live in meant that one’s financial conditions were pretty good too.

It was just before seven in the evening, but the sky had already darkened completely.

There was an exceptionally bright street lamp right in front of number 17. Although there were no passersby anymore, it didn’t induce much fear.

He knocked on the gate of the courtyard and waited for a while, but there was no response.

Gu Dekang pulled up Zhou Wenfei’s number—the informant—on his phone and called it.

Half a minute went by after the phone connected, but nobody picked up.

“Could something have happened already?” Gu Dekang muttered to himself.

He drew his magnetic knife from its sleeve; the knife resembled a hunting knife, with a thin blade and just half an arm’s length, usually concealed in his sleeve.

Examining the courtyard’s gate, which was double-doored that would typically only have half open while the other half was bolted shut, he noted it had a large gap.

Gu Dekang slid the blade of the knife into the gap and flicked it downward, hearing a click. Keeping the blade in place, he nudged it with his toe and the gate opened.

Pushing the gate slightly, Gu Dekang stepped inside the courtyard. From there, he could see the interior was pitch-dark without any lights on.

Perhaps Zhou Wenfei just went out for a bit.

As Gu Dekang speculated, he approached a window outside the room, peered through the glass, and tried to get a good look inside.

The room was too dark to see anything, so he took out a flashlight and shone it through the window.

Most of the interior was obscured by window curtains, making it hard to see clearly.

However, the curtain closest to Gu Dekang was slightly fluttering as if there was a breeze somewhere inside causing it to sway.

Gu Dekang took a closer look but didn’t spot anything like an electric fan or an air vent.

He glanced down at the window lock and noticed it wasn’t properly sealed. He inserted his magnetic knife between the window panes and slowly lifted the latch handle, thereby opening the window.

The window wasn’t fitted with security bars, but he was too heavy to climb through it without risking getting stuck embarrassingly halfway.

He found a broom outside, reached in through the window, and nudged the living room door lock a couple of times until it opened.

It puzzled him that the door hadn’t been deadbolted.

With the magnetic knife in hand, Gu Dekang entered. First, he tried the light switch, which did not work.

Then, he swept the living room with his flashlight beam but did not find anything out of the ordinary. As a three-star Exorcist, his Perception was not as powerful as those of senior Exorcists so, in silence, he sensed the room and detected an abnormal magnetic field, though it wasn’t particularly strong.

While inspecting, Gu Dekang moved towards the bedroom.

Standing at the bedroom door, he paused slightly, only to see a figure lying rigidly on the bed.

He pressed the light switch again, without effect.

The flashlight beam revealed the person on the bed whose chest seemed to be heaving still, yet the complexion was pale and horrific, with entirely darkened palms showing on both hands.

“Zhou Wenfei?” Gu Dekang called out tentatively.

The person on the bed remained motionless.

The next second, just as he was about to step forward, Gu Dekang suddenly felt dizzy as if the world was spinning.

He grasped his magnetic knife and activated the magnetic glow, but his consciousness was rapidly fading. He reached for the doorframe to steady himself and hastily retreated.

After retreating to the living room and turning towards the door, his hefty figure still thudded to the ground, unconscious.

As he lay there in a daze, Gu Dekang’s senses gradually became clearer…

He felt his limbs were incredibly heavy, unable to lift them as if his entire body was stiff.