I can rewind time to prevent death

As Yan Junze stood outside in the hallway, he was completely baffled by the past few minutes.

He just saw the hallway door open for a while, then close, then open again, and close once more.

Moreover, every time it opened and closed, there was no sign of anyone operating it, yet the speed at which it moved was as if someone was pushing and pulling it.

There he stood, outside in the corridor, watching the door open and close, reflecting on life in the same way, never knowing when a door would open for you, and then suddenly shut, until the last time.

The door opened again, but this time, there was finally someone inside. And that person, on seeing Yan Junze, jumped in fright, then showed a look of joy.

It was an uncontrollable, genuine happiness, as if seeing a savior.

Yan Junze said, "Guo Jintao? It is indeed you!"

Guo Jintao immediately turned to speak to someone inside the room, "Chen Kun, the door's open, it's the hallway! And, Yan Junze is here!"

At that moment, Yan Junze remembered the mission hint, which mentioned that the strangeness in this mission was obsessed with geometry. Although it could see him, the thing had been living in a geometric world after its death.

The door's constant opening and closing, without seeing anyone, very much resembled the connection between different spaces to some extent.

"Chen Kun is in there too?" Yan Junze asked.

"Yeah," Guo Jintao nodded like a pecking chicken, pointing towards the direction of the equipment room, "We couldn't get out. The door kept opening to the inside of the equipment room, so he simply went into the equipment room and let me open the door from the outside. Finally, it has connected to the outside, but... but he's still back in the equipment room."

Yan Junze entered, gesturing to Guo Jintao not to close the lab door; In fact, without being told, Guo Jintao had already propped the door open, fearing it would close again.

Approaching the door to the equipment room, Yan Junze was startled by the eyes and the half face of a pale corpse peeking through the crack.

However, he quickly calmed down and turned to Guo Jintao, "Is this the Peephole Strange Creature?"

Guo Jintao was taken aback, realizing he had forgotten to warn Yan Junze.

But immediately after, he showed a look of amazement, clicking his tongue in admiration, "Brother Yan is awesome. To see the Peephole Strange Creature and show no fear at all!"

This Brother Yan was indeed worth clinging to.

"To make the Peephole Strange Creature disappear, we can either open the door or close it completely," Guo Jintao reminded.

"Yan Junze, are you here?"

Chen Ku's voice then rang from inside, it seemed indeed as Guo Jintao had said, he had gone into the equipment room.

"I won't close the door now; I'll open it instead, be alert," Yan Junze spoke.

Since closing the door could lead to anomalies in space, he thought the best approach was not to actually close the door, as it would be too unpredictable and hard to control.

Therefore, opening the door was the right move, at least according to Guo Jintao, who had said that whether the door was closed or open, the Peephole Strange Creature would immediately disappear.

After pushing open the door to the equipment room, the eye and half-face behind the crack vanished almost instantly.

Then, the inside of the equipment room was revealed, with some display cabinets, but very few devices actually placed there. Most were just documents and piles of old instruments.

Yan Junze turned on the flashlight on his phone, shining it inside only to find the room completely empty! Chen Kun was not there.

Turning his head toward Guo Jintao, he exclaimed in surprise, "What's going on? There's nobody here."

"Ah!" Guo Jintao not only didn't run over but instead stepped backward, retreating to outside the corridor, "Take another look, look more carefully, how can there be nobody? I just heard Chen Kun speaking."

Yan Junze's eyes swiveled as he said, "There's indeed something very strange about this place. You go back first, and Chen Kun and I will be back in a bit."

As he spoke, he went to the corridor, pressed his hand against the door, and signaled Guo Jintao to leave.

In fact, as soon as Guo Jintao finally saw the corridor outside, he had wanted to leave, but he had been holding back because of the camaraderie between classmates.

Hearing Yan Junze say this, he readily nodded in agreement, "Okay, I'll wait for you guys in the dormitory for half an hour. If you haven't come back by then, I'll bring the others over to rescue you!"

While speaking, he quickly walked away, as if fearing something chasing him from behind.

Yan Junze smilingly said from behind, "By then, there's no need for a rescue; just coming to collect the bodies would be faster."

Guo Jintao's body shook violently, and he didn't dare look back, running even faster.

"Haha, this guy!" Yan Junze shook his head with a smile. His words were intended to scare Guo Jintao because if people thought that encountering strangeness was easy and they could always get through it smoothly like the mission "The Brother on the Bunk Above," they'd be mistaken.

After Guo Jintao left the building, Yan Junze didn't hesitate to enter the laboratory and closed the door to the corridor behind him.

Although the Rewind loop was always active, he had just stepped out to create a point in time on this timeline where he was outside in the corridor. That way, if later they encountered danger inside or couldn't come out, he could immediately activate Rewind and return to the moment he was standing outside the corridor.

Back in the laboratory, the place had once again become silent. It was empty and chilly, exuding a slight coolness.

This chill seemed to emanate from the fear of the unknown and was also seemingly given off by the cold instruments. Just after standing in the room for a while, Yan Junze's skin was already breaking out in goosebumps.

He tightened his collar and turned his head towards the door of the equipment room that was left open. There was not a single person inside, just as deserted as the outside laboratory.

The Chen Kun Guo Jintao spoke of seemed to have disappeared just like that.

Meanwhile, Chen Kun stood inside the equipment room, staring in shock at the door that had suddenly closed in front of him; the Peephole Strange Creature that had been behind the crack of the door in the laboratory vanished without a trace.

He immediately went up to it, grabbed the doorknob, and tried to pull it open with force, but the door wouldn't budge and seemed to be locked.

Just a moment ago, Yan Junze had told him to be careful and to push the door open from the outside, but why had it closed so quickly? And it seemed to be locked as well.

After pulling a few more times and confirming he could not move it, a chill ran up his spine and Chen Kun shivered, quickly turning back to see that there was nothing behind him.

No sooner had he turned his head forward again than he stiffened and slowly turned back around, his gaze landing on the left corner of a display cabinet.

There, a man dressed in black was standing with his back turned outward, motionless, looking almost like a shadow of the display cabinet if one didn't pay close attention.

Chen Kun, trembling, turned to face the man in black, stretching his right hand behind him to fiercely twist the doorknob, but the door remained immovable.

Then he noticed that the man in black had begun to move.

This man's movement wasn't to turn around and walk, nor was it to walk backward like the Back-faced Woman, but to edge along the corner of the wall and the side of the cabinet little by little in parallel steps, with the rest of his body unchanged, still with his back turned outward.

Chen Kun watched this scene in horror; this time, he could see very clearly, this man in black was undoubtedly the Peephole Strange Creature.