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The most important point was that he noticed a detail.

This was that in the previous Rewind, as well as the one before that, it seemed that as soon as the security guard appeared, he intentionally or otherwise reminded everyone that the dried corpse\'s eyes were open, which was terrifying, and they should find a way to cover them first.

Thus, the so-called Zhou Dali, whose muscles and intelligence were inversely proportional, fell for it every time, taking the initiative to find a strip of cloth to cover the corpse\'s eyes.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

This proved that perhaps, that guy outside was equally afraid of the dried corpse\'s eyes, afraid to look at them directly.

Before opening the door, Yan Junze gestured to Zhou Dali to dodge to one side as soon as the door opened, so that his mountain-like figure wouldn\'t block the entrance tightly and prevent the guard outside from immediately enjoying the deliberately prepared hovering stare.

Luckily, Zhou Dali understood the gesture, nodded his head, and as soon as the door opened, he jumped aside like an agile fat rabbit.

Yan Junze firmly steadied the corpse to prevent it from falling, while looking towards the door, only to be immediately taken aback.

Because at that moment, there was no one at the doorway—the guard who had been talking just now had vanished without a trace.

"Pack up the things, and follow behind me," Yan Junze said as he picked up the corpse, only to realize that it was still quite heavy for him, and said to Zhou Dali, "Dali, give me a hand."

Zhou Dali hesitated for a moment, ran over to help lift the corpse, with Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin following behind them.

After stepping out into the corridor, they looked around with their flashlights, but no trace of the security guard could be found.

Yan Junze and Zhou Dali carried the corpse in front, with Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin behind, the four hastened to the exit at the end of the corridor at Yan Junze\'s urging.

"How do you know that person outside is a Strange Body?" Zhou Dali asked as they walked, puzzled.

Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin were in charge of watching for any movements behind them, tense and without the chance to ask Yan Junze; however, they perked up their ears when they heard Zhou Dali\'s question.

"Just guessing," Yan Junze glanced at him, "Speed up, we\'re only safe once out of the corridor."

His urging caused an inexplicable tension and panic among the others, who stopped asking questions and quickened their pace toward the hallway\'s exit.

Suddenly, Jiang Ruixin, who was paying attention to the movements in the rear with the flashlight, trembled, seeing a young security guard step out of a room they had already passed, his face pale and his pupils black, not wielding a flashlight, just following behind the group with a stiff and swift motion.

"Is... is..." Her heart pounding, Jiang Ruixin found she couldn\'t get out a whole sentence, her teeth chattering uncontrollably.

Bao Jie noticed something was amiss and immediately turned around.

It was at this moment that Jiang Ruixin let out another shriek, startling everyone.

Yan Junze swore to the heavens that, once this mission was over, he would immediately disband the Spirit Exploration Team, never again recruiting a female member with a loud voice, especially those with bell-like eyes and unusually loud voices.

Turning his head and seeing the walking style of this security guard, Yan Junze was reminded of the shadow that followed behind Zhou Dali when they first entered the basement, finding at least seventy to eighty percent similarity in the way this guard walked at the moment.

The four sped up again.

"Stop..."

Just then, an empty, angry voice sounded.

The four, who were jogging, unanimously agreed that stopping at that moment would be idiotic, so none of them paid it any mind.

Quickly reaching the corridor\'s exit, Zhou Dali yanked off the U-shaped lock hanging on the door handle and violently pushed the door, only to find that it wouldn\'t budge.

At that moment, the entire space seemed to have become sealed.

"This corpse... has no right to leave!" that voice continued to echo from behind.

"Why?" Yan Junze turned around, propping the corpse in front of him, intentionally or unintentionally facing the corridor.

The figure of the security guard disappeared again, seemingly blending into the darkness further down the corridor.

The other three had not expected that, besides the corpse causing strangeness inside the wall, there were other strange presences here.

One by one they turned around, their faces filled with terror as they faced the depths of the corridor.

"He\'s a coward! A coward has no right to leave," the voice continued.

It sounded like the young security guard from earlier was speaking.

"He just died accidentally, and his body has been trapped in the wall for so many years. Our goal in coming here was to let him find peace," Yan Junze said, moving his flashlight beam around, watching warily.

"No, he didn\'t die accidentally," the voice countered. "He committed suicide! He killed himself because of his overwhelming debts, because his wife left him, and his son even took someone else\'s surname; because coming out, he couldn\'t face his previous life anymore."

"Who are you?" Yan Junze was puzzled. A security guard\'s specter should not be so familiar with a body that had been sealed in a wall for many years.

The voice fell silent and after about ten seconds, finally spoke: "I am... him."

Everyone jolted to a stop.

Yan Junze asked, "What do you mean?"

"He\'s just a coward, undeserving of being human; dead, he should only be buried in concrete forever!" The voice did not answer Yan Junze\'s question but instead muttered to itself, "And I... I am the perfection. The fact tells me that, whether it\'s being human or a specter, one must be ruthless. Ruthless towards others, and even more towards oneself, otherwise there is no way to ever come out on top!"

"What in the world is going on?" Zhou Dali was completely baffled.

He found that he could understand every word spoken by the specter, but when pieced together, they made no sense at all.

Not just Zhou Dali, but Bao Jie and Jiang Ruixin were equally confused.

However, at this moment, Bao Jie seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes began to light up.

Yan Junze seemed to have a realization and spoke up, "I think I understand. You indeed are him. After he killed himself, you began to take shape gradually and hated this suicidal guy, so you transformed into what you are now, a completely opposing... self in behavior, personality, and even motive, an extreme Strange Body!"

After a brief silence, laughter came from deep down the corridor.

The laughter wasn\'t loud, yet it sent an indescribable shiver down one\'s spine.

Yan Junze could clearly feel the goosebumps rising on his arms, but he disregarded them and spoke again, "But I think you\'ve achieved it."

The laughter gradually ceased, and that voice resounded again: "Achieved what?"

"What you mentioned... being ruthless," Yan Junze said. "Nearly all these rooms have corpses, right? They must be your victims for finding replacements."

The voice did not deny it but instead expressed surprise, "Actually, I was puzzled as to why you directly found Room 004 earlier, instead of entering other rooms?"

"Enter the other rooms and we\'d be doomed," Yan Junze scoffed, "How many replacements do you need exactly, to break free from your original body and get out of here?"

"Including you... that would be enough," the voice said darkly.

"That\'s what I thought," Bao Jie\'s eyes shone even brighter as she explained in a low voice to Zhou Dali and Jiang Ruixin, "This specter is actually the same person as the corpse in the wall. But he hates his past self so much, so the specter he became after death is brutal, cruel, and heartless.

He\'s been finding replacements here, and for some reason, when he has enough, he\'ll be able to break free from the body in the wall and leave this place."

"O my goodness, we can\'t let him get out," Zhou Dali exclaimed in shock. "This guy is too evil; if he gets out, who knows how many people he might harm!"

"Let\'s first figure out how we\'re going to get out of here!" Jiang Ruixin reminded.