I can rewind time to prevent death

It gave off the feeling of a live commentary, and amidst the surrounding darkness, mystery, and silence, the commentary was even more likely to give one goosebumps.

After entering the negative first floor corridor, they found the reason why the stairwell they had descended was clean and tidy—unwanted items were all piled up inside.

The corridor was filled on both sides with a large amount of cardboard boxes, and mountains of scrap paper that had been copied or printed out.

Fortunately, the corridor was spacious, and even with half of it occupied, Yan Junze and the others were able to pass through smoothly.

The light switches on both sides of the corridor were all broken; otherwise, they would have turned the lights on directly.

And judging by the looks of it, the surveillance on this floor was also broken. If there were any strangenesses here, the security guards and janitors of this building would have the most say. To avoid the strangenesses, they would keep the negative first floor abandoned and basically unmanaged.

Once inside, unless someone came down, they wouldn\'t be discovered, and after entering the corridor, Zhou Dali had locked the broken U-lock onto the closed corridor door handle to prevent anyone from outside opening it.

The space, never seeing sunlight, had become very damp, and the cardboard boxes and discarded documents that were against the ground were all soaked through. The damp, moldy scent permeated the air.

The air was cold, and after a while, Yan Junze noticed that both Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin\'s lips had started to turn purple.

"Dali, take off your jacket and let them wear it."

Zhou Dali was stunned for a moment, glanced at Bao Jie, and immediately showed a look of distress. He took off his coat—which for Bao Jie could serve as a long robe—and carefully draped it over her.

He was only wearing two pieces of clothing, a jacket and a long-sleeved T-shirt. With no alternative, he also took off the T-shirt and reluctantly slipped it onto Jiang Ruixin.

Their mission\'s coordinates were located in the storage room 004 on the negative first floor of the Jianye Building. Walking along, Yan Junze found that the room numbers near the main entrance were counted backwards, starting at 020.

That meant room 004 would be the fourth one from the end.

The doors of the rooms in the corridor were basically all closed, with the occasional door ajar. Yan Junze warned the others not to touch them.

When they encountered an open door, they only shone their flashlights inside to see some scattered and abandoned desks and chairs, without going in.

Yan Junze\'s goal was clear; aside from entering storage room 004, he wouldn\'t go anywhere else.

After a while, Bao Jie suddenly stopped.

"What\'s wrong?" Jiang Ruixin, who was walking alongside, also halted and asked Bao Jie.

Zhou Dali behind them stopped as well.

Yan Junze turned to look at them.

"Did you guys... notice that there are... footsteps behind us?" Bao Jie stammered, her face turning pale.

"Of course, there are footsteps," Zhou Dali said nonchalantly from behind, "Aren\'t I following you all?"

"Not yours," Bao Jie turned around, "There\'s someone walking behind you."

"Ah!"

Zhou Dali\'s face turned white, and he reflexively jumped, quickly turning around.

At least three flashlight beams were cast behind them.

There was nothing there.

"That... that Jiejie... Jiejie, don\'t... don\'t scare me!" Zhou Dali\'s teeth clattered uncontrollably, making a rhythmic sound.

"Ugh..." Bao Jie gagged, "Don\'t call me Jiejie."

"Did you hear that clearly? Could it be the sound of footsteps coming from behind Dali?" Yan Junze asked.

"It seems... yes." At this moment, Bao Jie was also uncertain.

"Well, how about this, I\'ll walk backward, and you guys continue forward, but walk slowly and wait for me," Zhou Dali, feeling guilty, turned around, and pointed his two flashlights toward the back, his eyes wide open without blinking.

Although they moved slowly, everyone was on guard for any strangeness that might suddenly rush out of a room, it didn\'t take long for them to reach the halfway point of the corridor. Just around the corner and down a stretch of hallway, they would arrive at room 004, near the end.

Just as Yan Junze was the first to turn the corner, Zhou Dali at the very back shuddered, his eyes bulging.

He saw a pale hand appear outside the corridor door they had just entered through, reaching through the gap between the doors.

This hand groped around for a while, grabbed the broken U-shaped lock hanging on the doorknob, and pulled hard at it.

"Ow, my goodness, a strangeness!!!" Zhou Dali couldn\'t help but yell out loud.

Everyone stopped, Yan Junze returned to the corner, and together with Bao Jie and the others, they looked in the direction of Zhou Dali\'s gaze, towards the entrance of the corridor they had come through.

Under the flashlight beam, they indeed saw a hand pulling at the broken U-shaped lock as if something was trying to enter the corridor from the staircase.

"Let\'s hurry inside!" Jiang Ruixin urged quickly, stomping her feet in fright.

"Wait," Yan Junze stopped everyone who wanted to run down the hallway. He stared intently at the pale hand, "That\'s not right, there\'s light coming from outside the door too, it looks like a flashlight! That means... it\'s not a strangeness."

No sooner had he spoken than the U-shaped lock was snatched away by the hand and the door opened, revealing the figures of two men, one of whom was wearing a security uniform.

"It\'s people." Zhou Dali breathed a sigh of relief as he saw the situation clearly.

"Who are you? How did you get in here?" The security guard, who had been watching dramas in the security room just now, wore an angry expression and scolded them.

The other man, recognized by everyone, was Zhou Jiajie, whom they didn\'t expect to see at all.

At the moment, Zhou Jiajie looked embarrassed, having been caught by the security guard during his sneaking in, and he stood quietly to one side, occasionally glancing over at Bao Jie.

Yan Junze immediately understood everything, suppressing the anger in his heart, he asked Bao Jie in a deep voice, "Did you tell him?"

"I\'m... I\'m sorry." Bao Jie lowered her head, not daring to look at the others.

"Damn it! Women are trouble! Sentimental women are even more trouble! Women who don\'t like me, only like pretty boys, are the worst kind of trouble!" Zhou Dali roared uncontrollably.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Zhou... Zhou Heng! Enough!" Bao Jie\'s anger surged, glaring hard at Zhou Dali, "Having one more person is an extra pair of hands. I was thinking of everyone\'s well-being. How was I supposed to know Jiajie would alert the security guard?"

"Jiajie?" Zhou Dali suddenly felt a surge of jealousy, "That sounds so affectionate!"

Thud!

Just then, from behind everyone at the corner, a hollow noise came from the direction of room 004, like a hammer striking a steel pipe in a sewer.

"You... you all get out quickly!" The middle-aged security guard\'s face changed, and he couldn\'t help but urge them, "There are strangenesses here, we can\'t stay long."

"It was my miscalculation."

Yan Junze muttered to himself, he glanced at the others who were looking towards room 004, then shifted his gaze to the terrified security guard, and without hesitation, he silently thought: "Rewind."

Time rewound.

The scene before them blurred, and suddenly everyone was standing outside the hallway on the basement floor. Zhou Dali had just broken the U-shaped lock and was standing up.

"Right now, immediately call Zhou Jiajie, whom you have a crush on, and tell him that today\'s operation is canceled, everyone has gone their separate ways. Tell him to turn back too," Yan Junze said to a dumbfounded Bao Jie.