I can rewind time to prevent death

However, just a few seconds later, Yan Junze dismissed that guess.

The man in black still sidled toward his direction, showing no interest whatsoever in the crack of the equipment room door that had appeared.

"This won't do."

After a moment of hesitation, Yan Junze decisively walked into the equipment room, turned around to close the door, but not completely, leaving a crack open again.

By doing so, he was effectively forcing the Peephole Strange Creature outside to leave a crack in the door, which had a high probability of attracting it over if its target remained on him, prompting it to actively peer through the crack.

As expected, after leaving the crack open, Yan Junze retreated about five or six steps into the equipment room; the man in black approached, but instead of diving in through the crack or pushing the door open, he maintained his usual demeanor, starting to peer through the crack.

Now Yan Junze had two choices: the first was to close the door, thereby trapping the stranger outside the equipment room, but the door itself could no longer be opened from the inside, effectively locking him in, only able to rely on someone from outside to push it open.

The second choice was to open the door, which would mean the Peephole Strange Creature outside would disappear the moment the door opened. However, what followed could either be a repeat of what had just happened, with no way out of the lab and the door closed, or there could be other unexpected developments.

Regardless, the space now was very peculiar, and experiencing something that hadn't happened before was the best choice rather than choosing to repeat the same risky experiences.

Yan Junze turned to look inside the equipment room, which had five upright display cabinets, each with upper and lower doors. Without hesitation, he went over and opened all the cabinet doors, leaving just a crack.

After ensuring that the opened cracks would not close on their own, Yan Junze returned to the door of the equipment room, hesitated for a moment, then reached out and pulled the door open.

The Peephole Strange Creature outside the crack disappeared instantly. If at this moment Yan Junze chose to walk out, he might repeat the same mistake.

Therefore, he did not leave, but rather, after pulling open the door, he immediately closed it again with the back of his hand.

This time, he shut the equipment room door completely.

He had done so, relying on his ability to "Rewind" if the idea didn't work; he would immediately return to the time before he closed the equipment room door.

After closing the equipment room door, Yan Junze approached the display cabinets and carefully inspected the slits of the cracked doors.

If his guess was correct, there was a good chance that the Peephole Strange Creature would be attracted by the numerous slits after he opened and closed the door of the equipment room.

Whether the creature could enter these display cabinets and peer out through the slits was no longer within Yan Junze's consideration.

That's because he knew that the space in which the Peephole Strange Creature resided was anomalous, and any seemingly irrational phenomena seemed to make sense here; there was no question of rationality or irrationality.

Of course, if Yan Junze's prediction was wrong, he could simply "Rewind" to the time point before the equipment room door was closed and think of another plan.

As he waited, in about two or three minutes, a cold sensation descended, and Yan Junze leaned forward to take a closer look at the display cabinets. Under the glow of his cellphone's flashlight, he indeed saw an eye quietly peering at him through the slit in the third display cabinet.

He had guessed right.

Perhaps even the Peephole Strange Creature didn't know how it had gotten in; it became its instinct to appear at the slit in the door.

Yan Junze immediately backed away to the door of the equipment room and yanked the door with force. Unlike when Chen Kun had tried to open it before, where it wouldn't budge as if locked, the door opened immediately under Yan Junze's pull, revealing the lab outside.

In the room of the laboratory, a faint light shone in from the outside, no longer the same dim, cold atmosphere as before.

Yan Junze's eyes brightened, and without looking back, he immediately walked out.

Glancing sideways, he noticed that the laboratory's door was actually open, with a mop turned around and propped against the doorway to prevent the door from closing on its own.

This time, it should be the right way to open it, indicating that when Chen Kun left just now, he indeed helped block the door for himself.

Since the way back was right before his eyes, Yan Junze no longer had any concerns, and now, he was ready to resolve the Peephole Strange Creature's obsession.

He didn't leave the laboratory, but rather returned to the equipment room, kept the door of the equipment room wide open, and then shut all the double doors of the display cabinets, including the one housing the Peephole Strange Creature.

Afterward, he left the equipment room, pulled the door partially closed, leaving a crack, and stepped back two steps to quietly wait.

In less than a minute, a shadow appeared in the gap, and soon the Peephole Ghost's half-face and those grey pupils leaned into the doorway, staring at Yan Junze.

Yan Junze clapped his hands, saying relaxedly, "Have you noticed anything? You've been trapped in a cycle of space for a very long time."

The other party stared at him silently, without any response.

Yan Junze continued, "Whether you accept it or not, ever since the day you truly died, you have never left this cyclical space. And in my guess, the reason this space was formed is very simple, originating from your obsession. You can't accept the fact that you're dead, which is why you're stuck in this repeated loop here." Your journey continues at My Virtual Library Empire

At this point, the shadow behind the door seemed to move slightly.

Yan Junze accurately caught the other party's movement, and seeing there was hope, immediately continued speaking.

However, just as he began to speak again, about six or seven meters behind him, a shadow stumbled out from behind the open laboratory door, dressed in a grey skirt, with her hair unkempt, silently approaching.

Yan Junze's attention was completely on the Peephole Strange Creature, because he saw it move again, and that grey pupil even gently turned.

The woman in the grey dress reach behind Yan Junze, extending her long and somewhat decayed fingers slowly towards his neck.

Just then, Yan Junze stopped speaking, his nostrils flared a few times, and he suddenly turned around.

"Ah!"

A sharp cry came out from the woman's mouth as her outstretched fingers aimed at his cheek.

Almost instinctively, Yan Junze's blood churned instantly within him, his bones, especially those in his neck, made cracking sounds, and his hairs almost pierced through his skin to sprout, nearly transforming into a Fake Spirit Body.

"No." Yan Junze realized immediately and in the next second, he chose to Rewind.

His head spinning, he was standing back in the equipment room.

At this moment, the Peephole Strange Creature already stood within the third display cabinet, peering out through the crack in the door, but Yan Junze's attention was no longer on it. Instead, he immediately opened the door of the equipment room, didn't step out, but just poked his head out to look in the direction of the open door of the laboratory.

He remembered that the woman who sneak-attacked him had a scent of antiseptic about her. If he hadn't been fully focused on persuading the Peephole Strange Creature at the time, he wouldn't have failed to notice the antiseptic smell.

Not only that, he also noticed something on the woman's chest...it seemed like a camera flitted past, although he didn't get a good look at it, it indeed resembled a camera.

"How could this be, a camera on a corpse?"

Yan Junze mumbled to himself, standing at the door of the equipment room with no intention of going out again. He guessed that at this moment, it was very likely the woman's corpse was hiding behind the open door of the laboratory.

Just as he was carefully observing and even preparing to use "Perception of Strange Events" to probe the hidden woman's corpse, a hand as grey as a dead person's reached out from the crack of the third display cabinet's door behind him. It grasped the door, pushing it outward.