I can rewind time to prevent death

Bang!

Just as Cheng Jingting finally recognized Yan Junze, he took a solid hit from a club to his forehead.

Cheng Jingting's head spun, stars bursting before his eyes, but with his hands held by Shen Wanqiu, he could not defend himself.

Yan Junze kept hammering down with the club, one blow after another, while saying, "Recognized me? Does it feel good? Are you satisfied? What the hell have I done to you for you to try and make me look like a fool and go viral over and over? Are you crazy or what?"

Moments later, Cheng Jingting's head was a mess of bruises, swollen so badly he looked like Sakyamuni.

However, Yan Junze also realized a problem, which was that hitting a person with a club did not have the same effect as hitting strangenesses.

Hitting a person could only inflict physical damage, depending entirely on the hardness of the club. But when hitting strangenesses, it could disperse their magnetic field and deplete their energy, making each strike much more effective.

Yan Junze quickly gave up on continuing to beat Cheng Jingting.

Yes, using the word 'beat' is more apt.

Cheng Jingting at this point was obviously different from an ordinary person; although his head had been beaten to the point where even his mother wouldn't recognize him, his body had undergone a mutation, and even with his head swollen like a pig's, it still wouldn't endanger his life.

Hence, Yan Junze once again turned his attention to the baby, determining that eliminating the strange baby to free Shen Wanqiu's hands to deal with Cheng Jingting was the best course of action.

The strange baby had once again climbed onto Shen Wanqiu's head, but Yan Junze swiftly swung his club sideways, glancing off her scalp and striking the baby hard, sending it flying off like a baseball.

With a squelch, it stuck to the wall like a clump of mud.

But this mass of flesh did not stand still, continuously wriggling. It was conceivable that, given time, the baby would reform and attack again.

With the baby no longer a distraction, Shen Wanqiu again bared her elongated fangs towards Cheng Jingting's swollen "pig's head," and she looked ready to bite down.

At the critical moment, Cheng Jingting let out a loud shout, and from under his feet, a billow of mist rolled out. It seemed illusory, but Yan Junze had seen this scene before.

During the battle between Resentful Granny and Back-faced Woman, the same scene had appeared. According to the exorcist Huang Chen, this was a manifestation of the Spiritual Realm formed during battles between high-level strangenesses.

But Cheng Jingting before them was not a strangeness; he was a flesh-and-blood person.

Yan Junze stared in shock at Cheng Jingting, who was emitting a large amount of mist, and then looked at Shen Wanqiu.

Under Shen Wanqiu's feet, mist had also started to spread. It was understandable that this woman had evolved beyond her original state, but what was going on with Cheng Jingting?

Indeed, the situation was complex. Cheng Jingting, who could nurture spirits, was not as simple as Yan Junze had initially anticipated.

At this point, Cheng Jingting's skin had turned a dull, lusterless gray, akin to that of a corpse, devoid of any shine, sagging and drooping, his hair withered, limbs wasted away.

Though it appeared as if his body was significantly degenerating, Shen Wanqiu now began to tremble slightly, as though her strength had reached its limit. The mist at her feet started thinning, getting enveloped by Cheng Jingting's mist in return.

From Cheng Jingting's direction, Yan Junze could feel the strangeness magnetic field rapidly intensifying, gradually overshadowing Shen Wanqiu.

Simultaneously, Cheng Jingting's seemingly weakened limbs firmly grasped Shen Wanqiu, his fingers sinking into the flesh of her arms, encircling the bones with a series of cracking sounds.

Shen Wanqiu's body shook even more violently.

At that moment, the mass of flesh on the wall reassembled itself into the strange baby, baring its teeth and crawling down the corner of the wall towards them.

"This really is troublesome!"

Seeing this, Yan Junze activated his Semi-spirit State and immediately released the Crawler Monster.

"Kill that baby."

He commanded the Crawler Monster, and his body hair had already grown rapidly. Extending his arms forward, a mass of hair stretched out, quickly wrapping around Cheng Jingting's neck and shoulders.

At this moment, Cheng Jingting appeared like a dead man, with no sense of feeling. As the hair wrapped around him and pierced through his skin, burrowing into his body, he still showed no reaction, merely biting Shen Wanqiu while holding her in his arms.

Yan Junze's hair began to speed up as it drilled into Cheng Jingting's body. However, since Cheng Jingting had undergone mutation, his body might look weakened, but it was actually hard for the hair to penetrate him. If it had been any other creature as ordinary as the strangenesses, it would have been completely impaled by the hair by now.

Thump!

At that moment, the Crawler Monster was unexpectedly bitten on the shoulder by the strange baby and flung away, crashing behind the computer desk.

After all, the foundations of the Crawler Monster were too weak. Although it was constantly nourished by Different Dimension Energy in the Spacetime Atlas, it was still no match for the baby.

Its forked tongue had just wrapped around the strange baby when it immediately began emitting a copious amount of white steam, as if it was about to be cooked.

That moment, the tongue hung outside its mouth, still emitting heat, too embarrassed to pull back inside, looking extremely awkward.

Yan Junze, with a steeled heart, released the two naughty strange babies once more.

This was the first time these two strange babies had been summoned to assist him since he had taken them from Aunt Mei.

Since the strange babies were afraid of brightly lit places, upon releasing them, Yan Junze also extended some of his hair to push closed the only window that was open in the room and drew the curtains shut.

The next second, the room became very dark, and as the two strange babies appeared, Yan Junze immediately said, "Assist the Crawler Monster, kill that strange baby!"

The two strange babies hesitated for a moment, then looked towards the bed. At this moment, the baby on the bed had just thrown the Crawler Monster. Its pitch-black eye sockets turned, seemingly fixing their gaze on the twin strange babies.

Thump! Thump!

The two strange babies pounced without a word, their eyes flashing with an inexplicable excitement. In an instant, they leaped onto the bed, wrestling and biting viciously with the strange baby.

"Break!"

Since the Semi-Spirit State had been activated, Yan Junze had completely twisted his head one hundred eighty degrees. The hair that had extended out now possessed maximum offensive power, a large amount of it drilling into Cheng Jingting's body.

The hair, like steel spikes, forced Cheng Jingting to redirect much of his energy towards fighting the hair, and the force he was using to press down on Shen Wanqiu weakened instantly.

Shen Wanqiu's head tilted back, and she viciously bit into Cheng Jingting's neck. Visible to the naked eye, a green poison began spreading along the skin of his neck.

Meanwhile, the hair inside Cheng Jingting's body, while extending toward the pulsating heart, was withering away in huge patches. But soon, it was replaced by new hair stubbornly aiming for the fiercely pulsating heart.

Yan Junze could clearly feel that this bizarre body of the man before him was just too strong. It was impossible to pierce through him with the hair alone, so he resorted to the next best thing, aiming to penetrate his heart as a more direct method.

Finally, the situation tipped completely to one side, the strange baby unable to fend off both the Crawler Monster and the two strange babies at the same time. Much of its flesh was bitten off.

On the outside, Shen Wanqiu was finally gaining the upper hand, infecting Cheng Jingting's skin with the Corpse Poison from her teeth, while the hair Yan Junze had drilled into his body was also close to reaching the heart. In every aspect, Cheng Jingting was being suppressed to the verge of death.

Just then, Cheng Jingting's eyes regained a momentary clarity. His lips moved slightly, blood trickling from the corners of his mouth as he gasped and said, "Spirit Guarding, Spirit Guarding, guide me into the spirit, the spirit returns to the beginning, those who kill me shall die!"

At the same moment, two pieces of information popped into Yan Junze's mind.

[Detecting intense Butterfly Effect fluctuations.]

[Previously detected 3 Butterfly Effect incidents. Estimated energy cost to resolve them is 1000 points. A fourth powerful Butterfly Effect fluctuation detected—expected energy cost to handle it is 2000 points. If clearing all, current energy is insufficient...]

"What?" Seeing these two messages, Yan Junze froze in shock.

After initiating the "Great Rewind," he had 2300 points of Different Dimension Energy left. He had used two small rewinds in this room, but the time was short and the energy consumed was negligible.

But now, he had caused a Butterfly Effect that would need a total of 3000 points of energy to settle. What should he do?