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"Let\'s do this," Yan Junze spoke to the pitch-black corridor, "If you let us go, we won\'t take the corpse with us, nor will we harm it in the slightest, otherwise..."

As he said this, he turned his head to look at Zhou Dali. "The hammer in my brother\'s hand is enough to turn your actual body into a pile of minced meat within ten seconds."

"You dare threaten me." The voice suppressed anger.

"I have no choice, I need to protect myself." Yan Junze shrugged.

In fact, he was very clear about why that guy had chosen not to appear at this time, because the corpse in his hands was facing the deep end of the corridor, and the guy was still afraid of the eyes of the corpse.

The entire basement floor fell into silence.

After a long while, the voice said, "Fine, as long as you leave the corpse, you may go. However..."

"However what?" Yan Junze asked.

"I don\'t want to see the corpse\'s ugly, pitiful, and lonely demeaning appearance again. Cover his face, leave the corpse, and get lost!"

Yan Junze thought for a moment and nodded, "No problem."

"That won\'t do," Zhou Dali panicked, "If we leave the corpse behind, he might kill us before we even reach upstairs!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the door of the corridor behind them burst open, and the voice said, "I keep my word. Cover the face of the corpse, leave it behind, and you can leave now."

Yan Junze stopped Zhou Dali from continuing to speak, took off his own jacket, covered the corpse\'s face with it, wrapped the sleeves behind the body, and tied them together very carefully into a knot.

He then gestured for Bao Jie, Jiang Ruixin, and Zhou Dali to exit first.

However, when he looked at Bao Jie, Yan Junze made a gesture for her to set down the camera she was filming with on the ground.

Bao Jie put down the camera in her hand, making sure the lens was aimed at the direction of the corpse, and then began to step backward.

The three quickly exited the corridor door and stood at the stairwell entrance.

After checking the knot he had tied, Yan Junze started to back away too, but just as he was about to exit the corridor, the corridor door slammed shut with a loud bang.

The three outside at the stairwell were startled and rushed toward the door, with Zhou Dali swinging his hammer to smash at it, but the corridor door was as solid as a rock and completely immovable.

Yan Junze inside the corridor paused, and Ke\'er on his back began to twist and turn, clearly becoming restless and anxious.

A figure emerged from room 016, and it was the young security guard.

However, the guard\'s expression was dark and dismal, his eye sockets were devoid of pupils, a pitch black void, his face pale as paper, his mouth twisting into a cruel smile.

"Didn\'t you just ask me... how many replacements I still needed?" The guard smiled. "Now I\'ll tell you, just one more."

Yan Junze spread his hands wide, "Perhaps I should have anticipated your deceit earlier."

"Too late." The guard walked past the corpse that was propped against the wall, sneering as he advanced towards Yan Junze.

"No, not too late," Yan Junze squeezed out a smile.

At the same moment, the shroud that seemed to be tightly knotted and covering the corpse\'s face suddenly slid backward, revealing the mouth, nose, and... eyes of the corpse.

The security guard subconsciously turned his head to glance, and then his body trembled and he let out a painful howl, as his entire body rapidly withered away.

Strands of a visible gas began to emerge from the guard\'s hair and clothes under the illumination of the camera light, growing more and more abundant.

Yan Junze began to back away once again.

At this time, the corridor\'s door suddenly loosened, and Zhou Dali happened to bump into it with his shoulder from the outside, instantly opening the door.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The three people who were anxiously waiting outside were stunned for a moment, staring wide-eyed as the guard\'s tall and thin body rapidly shrunk amid the piteous howls, quickly becoming the size of a child and still swiftly getting smaller.

Before long, the arrogant figure completely transformed into white gas, which was absorbed by the dry corpse\'s eyes.

The coldness in the entire corridor began to recede rapidly, and the temperature started to rise.

Click, click, after the lights in the corridor flickered a few times, some of them suddenly switched on, bringing a rare brightness to the gloomy, pitch-black basement floor.

"So that guy... is he dead?" Zhou Dali looked around.

"He was already dead," Yan Junze said.

"I should say…" Bao Jie explained, "that extremely mutated Strange Body was absorbed by its original body."

"Why was it absorbed?" Zhou Dali asked, puzzled.

"They say the eyes are the windows to the soul," Jiang Ruixin analyzed on her own, "I think, even though this man\'s strangeness went to the extreme after his death, his original body wasn\'t bad. Especially his eyes, which showed the kindness in his heart, so the mutated strangeness was afraid to see its own eyes."

"Then why do we also experience hallucinations when we see those eyes?" Zhou Dali was even more confused, "Are we all bad guys too?"

"You are, we aren\'t," the two girls corrected him.

"It could also be partly because his grievances could not be vented," Yan Junze chimed in.

At that moment, the dry corpse leaning against the wall began to disintegrate bit by bit after absorbing its Strange Body, turning into powder, including the tattered clothes that also turned to dust within seconds.

In front of everyone\'s eyes, the corpse disappeared cleanly.

"It seems this is his true rest," Yan Junze muttered to himself.

A task prompt from the Spacetime Atlas surfaced in his mind.

[Peeking From the Crack in the Wall, Anxiety-Inducing (High), complete, received 300 points of Different Dimension Energy]

At the same moment, after the new Different Dimension Energy filled up, the Spacetime Atlas lit up another 4 nodes, totaling 14 lit nodes so far.

The lengths of time between these nodes are not completely equal, but they generally follow a multiple pattern. For example, the smallest segment of the timeline uses 50 points of Different Dimension Energy (5 minutes), and the slightly longer timelines are around multiples of 50 points, such as 102 points or 149 points.

With 14 nodes lit, it means that the 12th node seen a few days ago was also lit, and on this node, a segment of text was now clearly displayed in Yan Junze\'s mind.

The text was: "Evil Spirit Solid Lock has been successfully activated."

Yan Junze focused on the four characters "Evil Spirit Solid Lock," and soon another line of text appeared.

[Activating the Evil Spirit Solid Lock, certain Evil Spirits can be locked as slaves or chosen to be converted at an opportune moment, preventing them from harming others. The lockdown mode has three levels of locking strength: large, medium, and small. Please choose the appropriate strength according to the level of the Evil Spirit.]