I can rewind time to prevent death

Chapter 818: Chapter 458: The Power of Yao Long_2

The call to 4747 was indeed made by the male protagonist, Xiao Yuanrui—he had been trying to reach his wife and home via landline and her mobile phone since he started his journey home from a business trip, but no one answered.

He then tried calling the nanny’s mobile phone, to no avail. Considering that the news had already reported a sudden outbreak of strange events in Gaosheng City, he immediately called 4747 after entering the house.

Little did he expect that he still couldn’t escape.

Zhang Xiaomo carefully carried Xinxin out, placed her on the bed, and wrapped her tightly in a blanket.

Yan Junze called for an ambulance and the security bureau, but the entire city was in such chaos that no ambulances were available for dispatch, and they had no choice but to take Xinxin to the hospital themselves.

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Driving on the road, Yan Junze behind the wheel, Zhang Xiaomo’s gaze shifted from Xinxin and looked out the window.

There were very few pedestrians on the street, and occasionally one could see a team of exorcists emerge from an alley, with safety lines from the security forces nearly on every street.

Seeing this scene, Xiaomo sighed softly and said, “Will the world keep getting worse like this?”

Yan Junze didn’t respond. In fact, he knew Zhang Xiaomo wasn’t looking for an answer; he could feel the weariness, helplessness, and sense of powerlessness in her tone.

He sighed quietly, but at that moment, a thought suddenly emerged.

“Perhaps, after illuminating the entire Spacetime Atlas, we might find the answer!”

Now, it seemed the appearance of the Atlas was closely related to the strangeness of this world, being able to locate and fixate on the Obsessions of the strangeness, gather Different Dimension Energy, and Lockdown the strangeness in nodes…

No matter how one looked at it, there seemed to be an inextricable connection between the two.

Of course, situations like the current state of Gaosheng City are always outliers, resulting from the appearance of an unspeakable grotesque worm-like strangeness and the opening of another dimensional pathway.

Making this connection, Yan Junze suddenly had a bizarre thought.

Could his rebirth here, with the Quantum spectrum from the lab explosion in the previous life, be somehow linked to the frequent occurrences of strangeness in this world?

…

In Luoxia District, 50 kilometers away from the White Star Nuclear Power Station lies Pro Town.

Although the town is far from the city center of Luoxia District and at the edge of the region, it is relatively prosperous, with several sizable residential areas.

Hu Changfei, the general manager of the nuclear power station, bought an apartment in Bright Residential Area. It wasn’t big—120 square meters—and mostly just he lived there, with his wife and children staying back in his hometown and seldom visiting.

The apartment was purchased when the nuclear power station officially started operating, for convenience at work, and because the living environment in Pro Town was much better than the dormitories at the plant.

Moreover, core team members of the company also bought houses in other residential areas of the town, with the company providing part of the housing subsidy at that time.

As each person had a company car, they would go home after work and return to the company the next morning.

The night was deep and quiet.

Bright Residential Area was silent.

The security guards here didn’t have the same work ethic as those in the city’s complexes; no one patrolled at night.

However, the benefit was that there were not many strange events nearby, perhaps due to the proximity of the nuclear power station.

Certain instinctual senses cause the strangeness to avoid areas that would disrupt their own magnetic fields.

However, fewer incidents did not mean none at all.

The recent events had left Hu Changfei frazzled, but fortunately, most were now under control, and these incidents hadn’t caused any severe repercussions.

They were mostly internal issues that could be smoothed over with some money.

At last, he could afford an early rest; he went to bed at ten and slept until two in the morning when he suddenly woke up.

Opening his eyes, Hu Changfei’s sensations and memories slowly stirred, with the sinking sensation of the bed seemingly prompt his awakening.

It felt as though someone had suddenly sat on the bed.

In a daze, he lifted his head and glanced aimlessly around the bed.

There was nothing.

He thought to himself that maybe he was just dreaming, the fuzziness making him believe that the contents of his dream were real.

Hu Changfei turned over, closed his eyes again, and tried to get back to sleep.

Just as he was about to fall asleep again in his heavy drowsiness.

The bed suddenly sank down once more, as if someone else had sat on it; he was jolted and Hu Changfei’s eyes shot open. He sat up abruptly in bed.

He looked around; there was no one else on the bed, and nothing unusual nearby.

But the feeling was clear; the mattress had definitely sunk down, and as he wasn’t completely asleep, this sensation was unmistakable.

He reached out and turned on the bedside lamp; its dim light lit up, driving away the nearby darkness, allowing Hu Changfei to see his bedroom more clearly.

He widened his eyes and looked around once more, still feeling there was nothing amiss.

Just as he was about to retract his gaze, his eyes fixed on the dark spot behind the closed bedroom door near the corner of the wall.

That area was shrouded in darkness, and even with the bedside lamp on, it remained untouched by light, and in that darkness, there was neither sound nor movement.

Yet, staring in that direction, Hu Changfei felt an increasingly intense fear growing inside him.

The darkness was impenetrable; after the bedside lamp was turned on, other than the unopened wardrobe, it was the only place that retained an eerie darkness.

Hu Changfei realized he couldn’t pull his gaze away from that patch of darkness, as if there was something hidden within.