I can rewind time to prevent death

He was preparing to move all the other storage cabinets against the wall. Before coming, Yan Junze had not provided detailed instructions, but now it seemed that the strangeness must be hiding inside the wall.

Yan Junze stopped him, "No need to move them, Dali, take out all the demolition tools you brought, and just drill into the wall—right at this crack."

"Ah! We\'re really drilling?" Everyone stared at him.

"Of course," Yan Junze nodded, "The humidity here is high; the inside of the wall must be soaked with moisture. Be careful not to make too much noise, a hole just big enough for one person to freely enter and exit is fine."

"You mean for you to enter and exit, or me," Zhou Dali looked confusedly at his own robust frame and then at Yan Junze\'s frail figure.

He had made up his mind that if, after drilling through the wall, Yan Junze still wanted him to enter, he would refuse to do so even if it meant fighting everyone here to death.

He would resist to the death!

"It\'s enough if I can get in and out," Yan Junze reassured him with a peace-offering.

"That\'s better," Zhou Dali nodded, set down his large backpack, and took out various tools like a sledgehammer, electric drill, and hammers, tools both useful and useless.

The electric drill was charged and ready to use, which was convenient.

Zhou Dali, holding the electric drill, walked towards the crack, intending to enlarge the hole first. Then, after seeing the structure inside, he would use the hammer to break through.

But just as he approached within five or six steps of the crack, he suddenly froze, as if he\'d instantaneously turned into a clay statue, his index finger already pressing the switch of the drill, its head spinning rapidly in the air.

The guy didn\'t even realize it and just stood there motionless.

"Dali? What\'s going on?" Yan Junze approached, puzzled.

Upon closer inspection, Zhou Dali\'s eyes blinked twice, but his body remained still.

Just then, Yan Junze felt a void in his body as if he had fallen into an abyss, continuously plummeting downward. A sense of panic spread throughout his body, and he felt unable to breathe all of a sudden.

Piercing screams from Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin echoed in his ears, as if they too had encountered a mishap at the same moment.

"Not good, we must Rewind!"

No sooner had the thought emerged in Yan Junze\'s mind than he heard Zhou Dali speak beside him, "The... the crack in the wall... seems like... it has an eye!"

It appeared only this guy was unaffected.

As soon as Zhou Dali\'s words were spoken, the sensation of free-falling that plagued Yan Junze vanished. His body felt heavy again, and he found himself still standing in the same spot, having not moved an inch.

However, he was now sweating all over his body.

It was a hallucination!

He came to his senses.

Turning his head, he saw Bao Jie sitting on the ground, a terrified expression still etched on her face, while Jiang Ruixin leaned against the moved storage cabinet, her hands flailing in front of her. It took another second for her to suddenly come to her senses and stop.

Zhou Dali, meanwhile, blinked and said with trepidation, "Ze, take a look inside the crack... is there... an eye?"

Just at that moment, Yan Junze felt a pitch darkness all of a sudden, all the flashlight beams had vanished.

A sense of fear involuntarily washed over him. He reached out into the darkness, finding nothing.

The endless darkness surged toward him like a tide.

All at once, an icy hand reached out for his throat, its grip as strong as that of a yak, seizing his neck with precision.

In a panic, he grabbed the chilling hand with both hands, but despite his effort to pry it away, he could not move it; it felt not like a human hand but more like a cold, unfeeling machine.

After a brief struggle, the icy hand disappeared, and the darkness around was dispelled by the flashlight\'s light. Yan Junze found himself back at the spot where he was standing just moments ago.

The illusion was gone again.

This time, Zhou Dali was staring intently at the eye peeking from the crack in the wall.

As if something had triggered him, Yan Junze had a stroke of insight and said, "Dali, focus on that eye you see and don\'t blink. Keep staring at it and don\'t move."

The two consecutive immersions into an illusion started after Zhou Dali noticed the eye in the crack of the wall, and Yan Junze realized that as long as Zhou Dali stared at that eye, everyone was fine. But the moment he blinked or looked away, Yan Junze would fall into the illusion.

Clearly, Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin were also falling into different illusions at the same time.

It was a problem with the eye in the crack of the wall.

"Stare... stare at it... What for?" Zhou Dali asked, trembling, "That might be... a Ghost Eye!"

"It\'s not might be, it\'s definitely a Ghost Eye."

Yan Junze decisively pushed Zhou Dali aside and took his place, his gaze preemptively taking over from Dali\'s and locked onto the eye in the crack that reflected a faint glow under the flashlight.

The eye in the crack only showed one eye, as the narrow gap did not allow the other to be seen. This eye likely belonged to a corpse with eyes wide open, unblinking, just peering through the crack at the people outside.

A thin layer of grayish-white film covered the surface of the pupil, but one could still see the lifeless eyeball through the film.

From this distance, the corpse inside the wall was not far from the surface. If the action was quick, it could be excavated shortly after breaking through the wall.

Although Yan Junze didn\'t know why looking away from that eye caused others to fall into an illusion, he didn\'t have time to think it through at the moment.

While keeping his gaze on the eye in the crack, he quickly ordered Zhou Dali, "Use all your tools and break through this wall fast. We need to dig out this body!"

Zhou Dali was startled, then reacted. Without using a drill, he picked up the sledgehammer and swung at the wall.

Thud!

A dull sound echoed.

Since it was in the basement, and storage room 004\'s door was closed, along with the twisted corridors and the closed door at the stair entrance, the sound was very faint by the time it reached outside.

Mainly because inside the building, except for during patrol times, there were no security guards around at this hour, and inside the security booth, the uncle was engrossed in his drama series, not hearing anything at all.

After a few swings of the hammer, the wall caved in, and a large piece of the exterior wall fell off, revealing the stones and a few bent steel bars inside.

By this time, Yan Junze was struggling to keep up. His eyes had been open the whole time, fixed on that grayish-white dead eye. Not blinking at all was simply impossible.

The sour sensation quickly surged, and after his eyelids uncontrollably trembled a couple of times, they forcefully closed.

Simultaneously, darkness fell before Zhou Dali\'s eyes. He stopped hammering, dropped the sledgehammer, and grabbed his own throat, struggling and calling for help loudly.

Bao Jie\'s camera also fell to the ground, and she seemed to be drowning, kicking her legs and grasping at the Void, trying to pull something.

Jiang Ruixin was screaming nonstop, retreating as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

Apart from Yan Junze, all three had fallen into an illusion.

Yan Junze was frantic, forcibly keeping his eyes wide open and staring fiercely again at the pupil in the crack in the wall, even manually propping his eyelids open to prevent them from blinking again.Nôv(el)B\\\\jnn

The illusions of the three people soon vanished, and each, still shaken, stood motionless for a few seconds before slowly regaining their senses.

This time, everyone understood what was going on. Jiang Ruixin ran to help Zhou Dali while Bao Jie picked up her camera to check it and, finding it undamaged, patted her chest in relief and continued filming.

"This no-blinking challenge is really tough!"

Yan Junze propped his eyelids with his fingers, and with his glasses in the way, it was already quite inconvenient. Soon, he couldn\'t stand it any longer and wanted to close his eyes, tears streaming down his cheeks, his face showing signs of agony.

"How about I give it a try?" Bao Jie suggested, batting her watery, large eyes from the side.