《I Can Rewind》 CH 1 This is the third day after Yan Junze was reborn on this planet after the explosion in the laboratory. The location of his rebirth is a country called Huaying Dadu. Tianmeng District, Shuntian City, was equivalent to a second or third-tier city in C country before Yan Junze¡¯s reincarnation. Unlike other reincarnated individuals, Yan Junze¡¯s parents were alive and well, and his health was so good that even health supplement salesmen who claimed ¡°as long as 98***, take them all home¡± could find no way to start. ***98 internet words for Let¡¯s go, so the phrase would be: as long as they go, he could take them all home. Moreover, Yan Junze was an only child, he had no older or younger sisters, so any orthopedic enthusiast can directly go to the upper right corner***. ***Orthopedic is a slang refers to sibling CPs ***Upper right corner reference to upper right corner of the screen where you can go to find solution/answer to a problem The only difference was that this reborn world was permeated with an inexplicable strangeness. For example, at exactly 2:00 am, the door outside the living room would be knocked on. In the silent night, a pure and mechanical knocking sound that makes one¡¯s skin crawl and hair stand on end. Or, for example, the family strictly prohibited anyone from entering the bathroom after midnight. Usually around 11:50 p.m., the bathroom door would be locked with a key. Of course, people couldn¡¯t be left to hold their urine and feces until morning, so a simple toilet was prepared in the bedroom. After his reincarnation, Yan Junze did not regain the memories of the original owner. Therefore, he had to slowly build his understanding of this family, this world, and the inexplicable strangeness that permeated everywhere. It was on the second day after his rebirth, which was a Saturday, when Yan Junze searched for information online to roughly understand the situation of this world. The so-called strangeness here was referred to as supernatural events. Starting from half a year ago, supernatural events had constantly been popping up in this world. Initially, it was thought to be rare incidents, but soon supernatural events spread throughout the world. Numerous supernatural websites have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and there are a large number of netizens who have uploaded countless supernatural pictures and videos of personal encounters. There were also dedicated chat Organizations, B-station live streams, and so on. Fortunately, if a supernatural event occurred, it was generally limited to a specific area. If one did not come close to the affected area, usually nothing abnormal would happen. It was why Yan Junze¡¯s parents forbid him from entering the bathroom after 12:00 am. Yan Daguo, his father, had set a rule that the bathroom door must be locked every night at 11:50 pm and could only be opened at 6:30 am the next morning. As for the reason behind this, Yan Daguo was tight-lipped. However, there were always exceptions to the rules, and considering that Yan Junze had just been reborn and had not fully formed his cognition in this regard, coupled with him not accustomed to his current body, it was not until he returned to his bedroom after washing up on that Saturday night that he realized his glasses were still on the bathroom sink. This body belongs to a third-year high school dog who spends all day and night reviewing and doing exercises, resulting in over 300 degrees of myopia, but his other bodily functions are still okay. As long as he could get through this year, he would have the courage to lay dead after the college entrance examination. The original owner¡¯s thoughts were somewhat naive that made him speechless. Yan Junze deliberately checked the time, and the clock was already pointing to 11:54 PM. It wouldn¡¯t take more than a minute to go and retrieve his glasses, and it wouldn¡¯t violate the rule set by his father, Yan Daguo. Besides, he had not yet established a deep understanding of the seriousness of entering the bathroom. Supernatural events? Does a cup jump up by itself to catch water, does blood flow from the faucet, does a scary face appear in the mirror, or does a towel hanging on the hook play ¡°Uptown Funk¡± by Bruno Mars? Before experiencing it firsthand, everyone believed that true terror was far away from themselves, and Yan Junze subconsciously thought the same way. Walking out of the bedroom, Yan Junze squatted in the corridor and pulled out the key hidden under the water-absorbing mat in front of the bathroom door. He quickly inserted the key into the lock and turned the door handle. The bathroom is relatively narrow, with a sink and a toilet occupying half of the space, and the remaining space is left for the shower. However, when taking a shower, water will definitely splash onto the sink, and even onto the mirror in front of it. The entire bathroom is covered with red and white checkered square tiles, with only the sink and toilet being pure white. Turning on the bathroom light, the narrow space emitted a warm yellow light, but the overall light in the bathroom was still dim. Yan Junze inexplicably became a little nervous. His blurry eyes scanned various objects in the bathroom, but nothing seemed abnormal. He took a few steps forward, grabbed his glasses from the sink, put them on, returned to the bathroom door, and reached out to turn off the light. With his glasses on, Yan Junze¡¯s eyesight improved significantly. As he turned off the light, his gaze inadvertently swept over the bathroom, and then he suddenly trembled, staring at the corner between the sink and the toilet. There, standing in the corner was a little girl with disheveled hair. The girl was about five or six years old, facing the corner with her back to the bathroom door. She was wearing a red lace dress that exposed her arms and legs, which were covered in bruises. Her neck was twisted 180 degrees to the right, as if it had been broken, but the skin was not torn. Her two small feet were bare, with her right foot¡¯s sole backward and only connected to the leg by skin. A white, bony fragment protruded through the skin, acting as a substitute for the sole to support her weight on the ground. It was reminiscent of Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean, whose prosthetic leg could also hold liquor and was quite impressive. However for the girl in red, it was quite terrifying. What was even more eerie was the girl¡¯s spine, which bent like an old tree trunk, forming an S shape. She stood there, motionless with her tangled and dirty hair hanging behind her. Yan Junze didn¡¯t have time to think about Captain Barbossa¡¯s peg leg and its hidden compartments; the overwhelming sense of fear took over, causing his body to tremble involuntarily. A cold, ominous feeling permeated from the bathroom, spreading towards the corridor. Yan Junze felt his breathing had stopped. This was a supernatural event, something that was erupting all over the world. From seeing it on TV to experiencing it firsthand, he realized that they were not even in the same league. Only now did he realize the difference between the two was as wide as a chasm. His palms and back were drenched in cold sweat, and he wanted to close his eyes and not look at the back of the girl in red. However, he couldn¡¯t move his gaze away from her, still staring at her strange figure without blinking. Suddenly, the motionless girl with her twisted neck slowly turned towards the bathroom door, accompanied by the sound of snapping bones rubbing against each other like an old tree branch breaking. On this silent night, the sound was particularly harsh. At that moment, Yan Junze¡¯s limbs turned ice-cold. He quickly reached out and grabbed the bathroom doorknob, slamming the door shut with a loud bang. He turned the key twice in the lock, taking it out and trembling as he held it in his hand. His parents¡¯ bedroom opened immediately, and his drowsy father, Yan Daguo, and his mother, Li Man, walked out. ¡°How long have you been studying? Why aren¡¯t you asleep yet?¡± Li Man asked in surprise, then looked at the closed bathroom door. ¡°Were you just in the bathroom?¡± Yan Daguo¡¯s drowsiness had completely disappeared, and he immediately grabbed his phone to check the time. 4 minutes to 12 o¡¯clock. Yan Daguo walked out of his bedroom and approached the bathroom door. He twisted the handle and found it locked, then noticed Yan Junze holding the key with trembling hands. Taking the key from Yan Junze, Yan Daguo turned to Li Man and spoke sternly, ¡°I told you to keep the key safe and not just leave it lying around for the sake of convenience.¡± Li Man had already understood what had happened from Yan Junze¡¯s still-shaken expression and simply nodded. Yan Daguo was in a heated mood at the moment, so she didn¡¯t say anything. Yan Daguo turned to Yan Junze and looked into his eyes. Although his gaze was stern, he couldn¡¯t hide the concern in his eyes as he asked, ¡°Did you see her?¡± Yan Junze did not answer. ¡°It¡¯s okay, as long as you don¡¯t enter the bathroom during the time when she appears,¡± Yan Daguo comforted him. ¡°Dad, that thing didn¡¯t appear exactly at 12 o¡¯clock.¡± Yan Junze spoke up. ¡°That¡¯s why I demanded that the bathroom be locked ten minutes in advance,¡± Yan Daguo replied, then turned to Li Man and said, ¡°The key cannot be left in front of the door next time. I will personally keep it and lock the door on time every night, then open it on time the next day.¡± ¡°I won¡¯t let it happen again,¡± Li Man said apologetically as she walked up to Yan Junze and placed a hand on his shoulders. ¡°Dad, haven¡¯t we reported the supernatural occurrences in our home?¡± Yan Junze couldn¡¯t help but ask. Through internet research, Yan Junze had learned that there was a civilian organization in Huaying Dadu called the ¡°Supernatural Event Organization¡±. This organization was born in mystery and had special personnel to deal with supernatural events that occurred throughout the region. These people were called ¡°exorcists¡±. As long as a supernatural event occurred, one could dial the special hotline number 4747 of the Supernatural Event Organization instead of calling the police, because real police officers could not handle supernatural events. However, the number of supernatural events was increasing rapidly these days, and even reporting to the Supernatural Event Organization***, they might not deal with it immediately. ***this is a mouthful to write and say, I¡¯ll just abbreviated to SEO At the beginning of the outbreak of supernatural events, Buddhism and Taoism were popular for a while. However, people gradually realized that various talismans and magic tools used for exorcism, demon-sealing, and ghost-subduing were not effective against modern supernatural events. As a result, some people who blindly believed in tradition kept dying tragically one after another, and everyone realized that only the supernatural event organization could effectively handle these things. However, SEO also paid a high price in order to study how to kill the supernatural. The means to kill them were very secretive, and only specialized exorcists had the opportunity to learn and practice them. Yan Daguo sighed, ¡°I reported this a month ago and they said I had to wait in line, but we still haven¡¯t been in line yet.¡± Yan Junze was speechless. Although this world was very strange, there¡¯s no shortage of social favors. When they said they had to wait in line, some people might have been constantly cutting through special relationships. Waiting for the exorcists from the SEO to arrive might take forever. In the meantime, the only solution was to temporarily seal off the area. Thankfully, the girl in red in the bathroom didn¡¯t seem to be the type who is looking for trouble. Although her appearance was a bit disturbing for the spectators, she looked as quiet as a quail. As long as they didn¡¯t go into the bathroom during the time she appeared, nothing should happen. Yan Daguo worked in an office at a paper mill as an ordinary employee with a monthly salary of less than ten thousand yuan. Yes, just over three thousand yuan. The mother was a cleaning lady at a cleaning company, it seemed that the couple are of one mind, as her monthly salary is similar to Yan Daguo. They lived in an old-fashioned community with the house having only two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and a kitchen. It was not realistic to ask the Yan family to move out and leave this haunted place. Now that they had reported the supernatural event, it was unrealistic to rely on Yan Daguo¡¯s and Li Man¡¯s connections to cut the line. So the situation remained deadlocked. Unless the supernatural event caused a huge impact and affected a large area, and the government applied pressure, the SEO would not come to deal with it quickly. Otherwise, things like the little girl in red appearing suddenly in the bathroom would have to wait in line for three to five months, which was unfair to her docile and adorable character. Yan Junze returned to his bedroom. His mother, Li Man, followed and comforted him with several words. Yan Daguo checked the lock on the bathroom door again and confirmed that the living room door was also locked. Finally, the couple turned off the lights and went back to their own bedroom. However, Yan Junze couldn¡¯t fall asleep. The scene just now was the first time he had ever witnessed the existence of a ghost with his own eyes, and the vivid sense of experiencing it still gave him goosebumps. There was another reason why he couldn¡¯t fall asleep. After seeing the girl in red in the bathroom, a map suddenly appeared inexplicably in Yan Junze¡¯s mind. CH 2 At the moment when Yan Junze saw the little girl in red, the map appeared in his mind almost simultaneously. However, at that time, Yan Junze was completely immersed in the visual sense and the terrifying atmosphere, that he had no time to pay attention to it. Now lying in bed, he finally had time to see what it is. The map was not real, but a complete illusion that only existed in his mind. Yan Junze waved his hand in front of his eyes and indeed, there was nothing there. In the map, a large number of linear veins appeared, with nodes connecting each line to the next. Currently, only one node at the bottom was lit up, while the rest of the nodes were gray. ¡°This is¡­¡± Yan Junze felt very familiar with this thing, as if he had remembered something, suddenly, he was stunned. Before the explosion of the laboratory in his previous life, the research on temporal and spatial collapse relied on a kind of quantum map, also called a space-time map. These nodes were quantum convergence points that needed to be overcome in the experiment, formed an energy accumulation areas, which is a collection of nodes converged by some kind of undetectable energy . The entire map was finally connected through node transmission, which result to a progression in time. (Ah, this paragraph can be skipped!) It¡¯s what people call ¡°traveling through time and space.¡± However, Yan Junze thought that the experiment had not succeeded, but now the map was in his mind and it was very complete. Did that mean that the experiment had actually succeeded, but only shown itself this way, using himself as the carrier? In his previous life, Yan Junze was only an ordinary assistant in the laboratory and was not a researcher. However, the explosion was so powerful that both researchers and assistants were affected. As he was wondering, Yan Junze was shaken again. After paying attention to the map, the map had clearly changed, and rows of fonts flashed out. [The construction of the space-time map is complete. The energy of another dimension and the complete dimensional space transverse wave have been detected. Currently being analyzed¡­] [Analysis succeeded, currently translating¡­] [Translation is successful. The wavelength is called ¡°Resentment¡± in this world, and a ¡°mission¡± has been established based on the complete wavelength value. Would you like to display the mission?] Although he was just an assistant, Yan Junze still had some understanding of this space-time map. The space-time map is highly intelligent, and at the beginning of its creation, it was endowed with the ability to intelligently analyze and construct illusory space-time. Now, in retrospect, it should be that the space-time map detected an inter-dimensional energy emitted from the ghost and, and analyzed the wavelength value based on the ¡°resentment¡± to form the so-called ¡°mission.¡± Yan Junze guessed that if he wanted to obtain a part of this inter-dimensional energy for the space-time map, he would have to complete the ¡°mission¡± constructed by the space-time map based on the ¡°resentment.¡± But the mission is¡­ ¡°Display.¡± Yan Junze hesitated for a moment and came up with this idea. The next moment, a paragraph appeared in his mind. [Mission Name: Washing hair Mission Level: Panic (Low) Mission Background: March 7th is Ke¡¯er¡¯s birthday. The beautiful and clean Ke¡¯er loves red the most. On this day, her mother dressed her in a newly bought red dress and promised to take her to the amusement park. However, a merciless truck separated them forever. After the accident, Ke¡¯er¡¯s hair became very, very dirty, with sticky blood mixed with brain matter. Ke¡¯er, who loves cleanliness, hates this dirty long hair, so she has always longed to wash her hair, even if she sees someone else wash their hair, she will be perfectly satisfied Mission Description: Wash your hair in the bathroom at home after midnight, for at least three minutes. During this period, it is strictly forbidden to do anything unrelated to washing your hair Mission Reward: 100 points of inter-dimensional energy Mission Punishment: Unknown Mission Tip: 1. The evil spirit cannot be locked 2. Completing the mission can form a stable rewind line. Note: You are washing your hair, she is watching.] Staring at the mission in front of him, Yan Junze was momentarily stunned. The space-time map released a mission based on the resentment of the captured wavelength. This so-called wave of resentment obviously came from the girl in red he had just seen. He just didn¡¯t expect that the space-time map would capture so-called inter-dimensional energy this way. In terms of the intelligence of the map, capturing energy, forming resentment into a mission, and then obtaining energy by achieving resentment, the causal relationship should be interlinked. In other words, before triggering the space-time map, Yan Junze didn¡¯t dare to have the idea of ??touching supernatural events, but now it¡¯s different. Since the space-time map can absorb inter-dimensional energy, if enough energy is absorbed and the entire map is successfully lit up, he may be able to freely transform space-time, allowing himself to return back to Earth before the explosion. To obtain more energy, he must complete missions. It has to be said that the way to complete the mission is somewhat strange and terrifying. Not to mention everyone in this world, at least some people in daily life are very afraid of washing their hair in the bathroom alone. Because after lowering the head to apply shampoo, in order to avoid shampoo entering the eyes, they are usually closed. At this time, some timid people will always feel scared and think that someone is standing behind them. That creepy feeling will accompany them until they finish washing their hair. Yan Junze usually doesn¡¯t have these thoughts, but he has also experienced them. Especially after watching a horror movie, when washing his hair alone in the bathroom, his whole body will unconsciously tense up, and images from the horror movie will appear in his mind, coupled with his own associations, causing him to unconsciously turn his head and look behind him while showering. If it¡¯s just washing your hair in the bathroom, it¡¯s okay to say, but now Yan Junze is worried whether this process would be dangerous. At least after midnight, the spirit of the little girl in the red dress will appear in the bathroom. Washing hair in this situation is even more exciting than being escorted to the execution ground. Now it seems that this ¡°golden finger¡± doesn¡¯t seem to be of much use! After releasing the mission, he was left to complete it himself, nothing else matters, but what if there is danger in the process? Yan Junze continued to let his imaginations run wild, his thoughts kept oscillating between the space-time map and the mission of washing hair, he could no longer fall asleep. Time passed unconsciously, and the clock on the living room wall slowly pointed to two o¡¯clock. Just at this moment, Yan Junze¡¯s eyebrows suddenly frowned slightly, feeling that there seemed to be a black shadow passing by outside the window of the bedroom. The shadow was walking very slowly, so slowly that when Yan Junze noticed something strange and immediately turned his head to look with his glasses on, he could still see the passing shadow clearly. His bedroom was adjacent to the public hallway outside, and usually, when he opened the window, he could see the neighbors passing by. In addition, the lights outside the corridor were sound-controlled, so it could cast the shadows of people passing by onto the window, making it very clear. The figure that walked by was somewhat hunched and the footsteps were sporadic. Before long, the sporadic footsteps disappeared, and the dark figure disappeared along with it. From the looks of it, it should be a neighbor who returned home at night. Yan Junze speculated that activities like playing cards and eating late-night snacks, regardless of time and space, would never change in people¡¯s minds. There are many people who have such preferences, and it¡¯s normal. Just as this thought crossed his mind, a crisp knocking sound echoed through the door. Judging from the source of the sound, it should be someone knocking on his own door. When the knock occurred two nights ago, Yan Junze only heard it in a daze. He didn¡¯t pay attention to it as he was still drowsy, and only remembered it the next day. However, at this moment, Yan Junze¡¯s heart inexplicably tightened because he unconsciously linked the person who had just passed by in the corridor with the person knocking on the door. Judging by the person¡¯s walking speed, the time it took to pass by his window and arrive at his doorstep seemed to coincide. Regardless of whether it was true or not, Yan Junze felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest, and cold sweat dripped down his back once again. It was so late at night, and a person was walking around in the corridor with sporadic footsteps, silently knocking on someone else¡¯s door. This person couldn¡¯t be Batman. Yan Junze didn¡¯t get up to answer the door, but subconsciously listened for any movement in his parents¡¯ room next door. The bedroom door was opened, and it seemed like Yan Daguo, his father, walked out with very light footsteps. Before long, Yan Daguo stood motionless in the corridor outside the bedroom, and there was intermittent knocking on the door of the living room. Yan Junze lifted his head slightly and stared at the bedroom door, his breathing almost stopping. Yan Daguo still didn¡¯t move, he stood quietly outside the bedroom door, the strange atmosphere made Yan Junze breathless. Just at this moment, the knocking sound suddenly stopped. The sporadic footsteps rang out again, passing by the door and through the corridor. The hunched figure once again appeared outside Yan Junze¡¯s bedroom window, slowly passing by. Yan Junze could swear that at that moment, his nearsighted eyes behind the glasses were definitely bigger than a bull¡¯s eyes, fixedly gazing at the dark figure passing by outside the window. The sporadic footsteps were like treading on one¡¯s own heart, strangely synchronized with its rhythm. Although the shadow was gone, the sound of footsteps could still be heard. It seemed that the person was slowly walking up the stairs. Then, the sound of footsteps disappeared completely . The sound of the door closing came from the parents¡¯ bedroom, and Yan Daguo also returned to the bedroom at this moment. Throughout the whole time, no one in the room said a word. So damn weird! Yan Junze¡¯s thoughts had not settled yet, and he was suddenly taken back again. The space-time map in his mind appeared again. ¡¾New inter-dimensional energy and dimensional space transverse wave detected, analyzing¡­¡¿ ¡¾Analysis succeeded, translating¡­¡¿ ¡¾Successfully translated, mission has been established, do you want to display it?¡¿ Yan Junze never expected that he had captured a new mission in just a short while. He didn¡¯t think too much and immediately had the idea of ¡°displaying¡±, and then the second mission appeared. ¡¾Mission name: The Old Woman Knocking at the Door at Midnight Mission level: Panic (Medium) Mission background: The neighbor, Granny Ren, has been very distressed lately because her children have not visited her for a long time. She misses them very much, especially her grandson, Yu Xiaochang. But Granny Ren cannot tell them. Can you help her? Mission description: Open the door for Granny Ren when she knocked at 2 am. Mission reward: 200 points of inter-dimensional energy; Mission punishment: Unknown Mission tips: 1. The evil spirit cannot be locked 2. There are side missions that could be triggered in this mission Note: Granny Ren is not dumb.¡¿ At this moment, Yan Junze found that another node of the space-time map had lit up, and the segment connecting the two lit nodes also glowed slightly, indicating that this section of the spacetime line had been connected. At the beginning, Yan Junze could see clearly that only one node was lit up. As for the second node, it should have been lit for some reason after receiving the mission: [Old Woman Knocking at the Door at Midnight]. Although he didn¡¯t know why, Yan Junze knew very clearly what the segment between the two lit nodes meant. The segment representing time could be rewind. For example, if Yan Junze places the first node at the present and sets the second node five minutes later, he can initiate a rewind at any time he reaches the second node and instantly rewind to the time when he placed the first node. The rewind must be done manually, that is, only when one consciously places two time nodes to form a period, that one can use this period to rewind. Beyond this period, it is not possible. Without intentional arrangement, it is also impossible to rewind. Connecting the two received missions enabled Yan Junze to have the ability to rewind. This time, this golden finger was finally complete. Maybe he could try the [Washing Hair] mission, but Yan Junze dare not try to rewind now because the energy of the two nodes looked extremely weak. If he really did it, he was afraid he could only rewind once, the entire space-time map would then be dark and could no longer run. The energy of two nodes that were finally lit up couldn¡¯t be wasted like this¡­ CH 3 Currently, Yan Junze has received two missions in a row, so there¡¯s two weakly lit up nodes in the space-time map, which enabled the first regression line. Through this regression line, he can create a rewind period of no more than 5 minutes. However, this regression line appears unstable and may be extinguished after only one use. Unless Yan Junze obtains the corresponding energy from completing the missions, only then can he light up the nodes and obtain a stable rewind line. If all the nodes in the entire space-time map are lit up, would he be able to travel through time and return to the world he came from? At the very least, if he could solve the current supernatural crisis using the map, would there be even more amazing things waiting for him after lighting up the entire map? If that is indeed the case, Yan Junze must carefully consider which mission to complete first. The first mission he triggered is [Washing Hair], with a mission level of [Panic (Low)], while the second mission is [The Old Woman Knocking at Midnight] , with a mission level of [Panic (Medium)]. Although the mission description of [Washing Hair] appears to be more terrifying and dangerous than [The Old Woman Knocking at Midnight], the former¡¯s level is only ¡°low¡±, indicating that it is not as dangerous as the latter. Yan Junze was puzzled by this. However, the mission prompt explains that there are still side missions to be triggered for [The Old Woman Knocking at Midnight] which may be the reason for its slightly higher level. Therefore, it seems more reliable to choose [Washing Hair] as the first mission. After weighing his options, Yan Junze finally succumbed to drowsiness and fell asleep after making his decision. The next morning. Yan Daguo got up early and opened the bathroom door to make sure the little girl in red had disappeared. He then washed up and hurried to the factory. Li Man also got up early. The cleaning company had scheduled her to clean two homes in the morning, keeping her busy. After cooking a bowl of noodles for Yan Junze, Li Man followed Yan Daguo out. Yan Junze quickly finished his noodles, took out his phone, and looked through his call history. He saw the name ¡°Zhou Heng¡± appearing frequently, so he dialed the number. Soon, the voice of a young man came, somewhat impudently saying, ¡°Hey, Xiao Junjun, are you missing your grandpa already?¡± A close friend, probably the close friend of the original owner of this body. Yan Junze knew he had guessed correctly and said, ¡°Zhou Heng, come and wait for me at the gate of my residential area. We¡¯ll go to school together.¡± ¡°What did you just call me?¡± Zhou Heng sounded a little surprised. ¡°I don¡¯t have time to chat nonsense with you,¡± Yan Junze deliberately made his tone heavy, ¡°Remember to hurry up. Call me when you get there, I¡¯ll come down.¡± ¡°Okay, you must be up to no good, you little brat!¡± Zhou Heng laughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I, Zhou Dali, will always be your big brother. If anything happens, I¡¯ll take care of what happens.¡± Hanging up the phone, Yan Junze thought for a moment and said to himself, ¡°Is this guy¡¯s nickname Zhou Dali or Brother Dali?¡± He called Zhou Heng to come and pick him up for a reason. Without the memories of the original owner of this body, Yan Junze didn¡¯t know the location of the school, so he used this method. However, his interactions with his classmates would certainly be different from before, so Yan Junze planned to use his experience of encountering supernatural events as an excuse to create an image of a teenager who had just experienced terror, was a little confused, and had a different behavior from before. ¡°It¡¯s impossible to call this guy Brother Dali, because this nickname¡­ sounds a little unmanly.¡± Yan Junze stood up and walked towards his parents¡¯ bedroom. As expected, Yan Daguo did not take the key to the bathroom with him, but instead left it on the bedside table. There were three identical keys, all on the same keychain. Yan Junze took one of them, and then took the key to his own bedroom and replaced it with the bathroom key. The locks were the same, and the keys were similar in shape. Unless you looked closely at the teeth of the key, you couldn¡¯t tell that it had been switched. After changing the key, Yan Junze put the bathroom key next to him, ready to do the [Washing Hair] mission later tonight. After waiting for a while, the phone rang, and Zhou Heng¡¯s voice came through the speaker, as if he were using a megaphone, saying that he had arrived at the entrance of the residential area . Yan Junze picked up his single-strap backpack and left the house, locking the door behind him and walking downstairs. The residential area was called Fenghua, and it was indeed very old, at least forty years old. The tallest building was only seven stories high, and Yan Junze¡¯s building, Building 7, was only five stories high, with his family living on the fourth floor. The old woman who knocked on the door in the middle of the night, Granny Ren, lived on the fifth floor. As he was about to leave the residential area, Yan Junze looked back at the fifth floor. There were four doors on the fifth floor, and he didn¡¯t know which one Granny Ren lived in, but the entire fifth floor looked quiet and still, with no one going in or out, giving off a sense of gloom. A boy carrying a single-strap backpack was standing at the entrance of the residential area. The moment he saw him, Yan Junze understood why this guy was called ¡°Zhou Dali¡±. If measured by cross-section, this guy was at least equivalent to three thin Yan Junzes, not to mention his hammer-thick limbs. Was this guy from a martial arts family? Yan Junze wondered. But he knew in his heart that although this world was different from Earth, it wasn¡¯t filled with magical power or cultivators. There weren¡¯t so many bizarre settings. For now, only the exorcists of SEO were able to deal with supernatural events, so even if Zhou Dali¡¯s body is as strong as a cow in heat, he wouldn¡¯t be of much use in dealing with the supernatural. ¡°I¡¯m here. What do you want to tell me?¡± Zhou Heng¡¯s voice was proportional to his body size, and he was basically shouting when he spoke. When he suddenly spoke, nearby pedestrians were frightened, and they all looked at him in surprise. Yan Junze couldn¡¯t help but want to laugh. He waved his hand and put his arm around the shoulder of his friend, while secretly letting Zhou Heng lead the way to Shuntian No.3 High. Zhou Heng didn¡¯t suggest taking the bus, and Yan Junze didn¡¯t say anything. He just described his ghost encounter in the bathroom last night, which made Zhou Heng stun. Then Zhou Heng said, ¡°Speaking of supernatural events, it¡¯s because the community you live in is too old. The probability of supernatural events happening there is definitely higher. In my community, which was just completed last year, all the residents are new, and there is a lot of happiness, prosperity, and peace. There are not so many supernatural events, making it relatively safer.¡± ¡°But¡­¡± Zhou Heng changed the topic, ¡°it¡¯s really unclear now. There is a public toilet on the square of our New Century Home. Let me tell you, for two weeks in a row, no one dared to go to the toilet there.¡± ¡°Aren¡¯t you shooting yourself in the foot?¡± Yan Junze found it funny and asked casually, ¡°Why?¡± As he spoke, he lifted his head and saw the gate of Shuntian No.3 High. The Fenghua community where he lived was only about ten minutes away from the school. If he had known this earlier, he could have found his own way here and wouldn¡¯t have to bother Zhou Heng to come and pick him up. Zhou Heng didn¡¯t notice Yan Junze¡¯s expression and continued, ¡°I heard that there is a female ghost wearing red high heels in that public toilet. Whenever someone is defecating in the toilet stall, the sound of her walking in those red high heels can be heard, and she appears outside the stall very quickly. Do you know Wang Shicong from Class 6?¡± Yan Junze knew fart, but he still nodded. ¡°Wang Shicong and I live in the same community. This weekend, that guy was playing basketball on the square and suddenly had stomach pain and rushed to the toilet. Later, I heard that he had just finished half of it, and then the sound of the red high heels appeared. He could see the shoes through the gap under the toilet stall, and they just stood there motionlessly outside the stall while Fatty Wang was on the toilet.¡± Zhou Heng said vividly. ¡°Apparently¡­¡± At this point, Zhou Heng looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, showing a face of admiration. ¡°Fatty Wang was so scared that he used a poop-cutting technique, his poop was cut into three equal sections. Heck, he didn¡¯t even wipe his butt. He finally managed to pull up his pants, flushed the toilet, climbed over two stalls, and ran out with a mouthful of curse. He has been lying at home and unable to get up. His father has already asked the Class 6 teacher for a leave of absence for him.¡± CH 4 He can¡¯t say it, but Yan Junze really admires Zhou Dali. The originally serious and terrifying red high-heel event was forcefully rendered into a strong comedic effect by this guy, making Yan Junze couldn¡¯t help wanting to laugh. He suddenly wanted to see what Fatty Wang from Class 6 looked like at this moment. The two laughed and talked as they walked into the campus. Once here, Yan Junze finally had a sense of comfort after being reborn. As a former research assistant of the top research lab of country C in his past life, it was completely possible for Yan Junze to obtain a master¡¯s degree in this era, so the knowledge of the third year of high school was not difficult for him. Instead, he enjoyed the peaceful life on campus. Well, if there were no ghosts here. Yan Junze knew that this hope was very slim. In today¡¯s world, where supernatural events were happening one after another, it was impossible for a campus not to be haunted! To elaborate, the campus was the best breeding ground for supernatural events to spread. Yan Junze and Zhou Dali were both in the same class, Class 5 of Year 3, which is a wall away from Wang Shicong of Class 6. Yan Junze even specially inquired about it, and it turned out that Fatty Wang had indeed taken a week off, so what Zhou Dali said was true. It took Yan Junze a day to roughly figure out the things in school. First of all, the grade of the original owner of this body belonged to mid-upper level. Therefore, the sudden increase in his grades now was still acceptable and would not cause any suspicion. Yan Junze was afraid that the other party was a slacker at the bottom of the school. Now that he had taken over as a top student, it would not be good to use his full strength. Then, there were less than two months left before the college entrance examination, so the studies of the third year became very tense. Even if there was any interference from supernatural events, the Supernatural Events Organization of Shuntian City would prioritize handling any supernatural events for the high school level to ensure a clean, healthy, green and pure learning environment without any negative energy. The homeroom teacher of Class 5 was a big-bellied middle-aged greasy uncle named Xiang Decai. However, Yan Junze learned that Teacher Xiang¡¯s knowledge was indeed as wide as his towering beer belly, worthy of his description of being full of knowledge. Yan Junze didn¡¯t have much of an impression of other subject teachers. Apart from Xiang Decai, the only one he remembered was Zhang Tiantian, who taught English. She made Yan Junze¡¯s eyes shine for a moment, but then he immediately extinguished it. Zhang Tiantian was a cute and petite type of girl. Most boys had no resistance to this type, but Yan Junze was an exception. He liked beautiful women, but not the type that needed him to take care of them completely. Independent, thoughtful, not cowardly, relying on himself only when necessary, but also capable of handling problems calmly and independently. Yan Junze had no resistance to this kind of girl. (Highlight this important point.) After a day of classes, Yan Junze found that everything in Shuntian No.3 High seemed normal. He hadn¡¯t heard of any abandoned ancient wells or strange 13th steps, or a fifth toilet stall that he couldn¡¯t enter. This made Yan Junze couldn¡¯t help but doubt whether the paranormal events group had set up a barrier in the school, isolating all supernatural events from the school. But, at the same time, Yan Junze constantly reminded himself that there was no supernatural power or cultivation, this is a pure urban supernatural. Zhou Dali was very active in school, and Yan Junze also learned that this guy¡¯s body size was closely related to his family¡¯s genetics. It was said that he was born weighing a whopping 11 catties. Moreover, Zhou Dali liked to repeatedly say a low slogan, which was ¡°Third High has Dali, Dali makes miracles¡±. He¡¯s undeniably a bear. Chinese food was eaten in school, so Yan Junze didn¡¯t spend much money on it. Only some students would go nearby to buy some snacks after school. Yan Junze didn¡¯t have this habit. After finishing his homework quickly, he went home. When he got home, his mother Li Man was already cooking. Li Man¡¯s work had no fixed hours, it all depended on the cleaning company¡¯s schedule. Sometimes, she couldn¡¯t even go home on weekends when it got busy. Yan Junze couldn¡¯t cook, so after finishing his homework quickly, he helped Li Man bring the food to the table and cleaned the kitchen. Later in the evening, Yan Daguo, the father, arrived home, and the family sat around the dining table. The couple didn¡¯t have much anxiety about their son¡¯s grade. If Yan Junze could maintain his previous grades, he still had a good chance of entering one of the top five universities in the Tianmeng district of Huaying Dadu. So Yan Daguo was more concerned about his son¡¯s emotional and physical aspect. After eating a few bites of food, he asked, ¡°Did you sleep well last night?¡± Yan Junze knew that his dark circles had betrayed him. He had only slept for three or four hours last night, and it was normal to have this state. He didn¡¯t plan to hide it. ¡°Well, I couldn¡¯t sleep for a while after seeing that thing. I then fell asleep at some point.¡± ¡°Did you hear any knocking on the door?¡± Yan Daguo asked again. This question could confirm whether Yan Junze was sound asleep before two o¡¯clock. Undeniably, the knocking on the door of the old woman in the middle of the night was more accurate than an alarm clock. ¡°No,¡± Yan Junze concealed the truth. Yan Daguo nodded his head and roughly figured out Yan Junze¡¯s sleep time. Li Man asked, ¡°Have you finished your homework?¡± ¡°I have finished and also reviewed it,¡± Yan Junze put down the bowl and the chopsticks, and drank a few sips of soup. ¡°I plan to sleep early tonight and make up for yesterday¡¯s sleep.¡± ¡°Okay, rest early,¡± Yan Daguo reached out and rubbed Yan Junze¡¯s hair. After finishing dinner, Yan Junze chatted with his parents in the living room for a while. Half past eight, he went to wash up and then went into his bedroom. To prevent their son from being disturbed, Li Man lowered the volume of the TV in the living room. Although she and Yan Daguo deliberately lowered their voices, their conversation still entered Yan Junze¡¯s ears. Yan Daguo said, ¡°Tomorrow, you should buy some calming oral medicine from the drugstore to recuperate our son¡¯s body while he is studying.¡± Li Man should have nodded and said, ¡°Okay, I will go to the drugstore tomorrow morning. Little Ze has been studying hard during this time. Today is the first time I have seen him finish reviewing his lessons so early.¡± ¡°Alas,¡± Yan Daguo let out a sigh. ¡°What¡¯s going on in this world? Ordinary people are already under so much pressure from daily life, and now there are so many supernatural events for no reason. The dual pressures on the body and mind make it impossible for people to live.¡± ¡°Especially when Little Ze is facing the college entrance examination, and our family is in this state. Daguo, can you think of a solution?¡± Li Man asked. Yan Daguo fell silent. After a while, his voice rang out again. ¡°Today, I went to see our factory director. He has connections in the city. As long as we are willing to pay, he said he could help me ask around and get the bathroom issue resolved as soon as possible.¡± ¡°How much?¡± Li Man asked. Yan Daguo probably gestured with his hand to indicate a number. The conversation between the two fell silent again. After a while, Li Man sighed and said, ¡°If all else fails, I will ask the company to advance my salary and add our savings, it should be enough.¡± ¡°We must resolve this as soon as possible,¡± Yan Daguo did not stop Li Man. ¡°I will go to withdraw the money tomorrow, and after we have enough, we will ask the factory director to help us out and quickly resolve this matter so that our son can focus on taking his exams.¡± Yan Junze leaned against the door of his bedroom and probably heard all of this. He suddenly had some complex emotions towards his parents in this life, and then he walked back to his bed and lay down. It seemed that the decision to do the [Washing hair] mission tonight wasn¡¯t too late, as long as he could successfully complete it.