I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 750 - 435: Strangeness Piggy Bank

Chapter 750 -435: Strangeness Piggy Bank

“This is not a dream,” the thought emerged, and Zhou Wenfei’s forehead broke out in a cold sweat.

Upon closer consideration, if he had been in the real world all along, then the woman behind him was also real, not just a figure in a dream.

And at this moment, he was truly awake, not within a dream.

Once this thought took hold, Zhou Wenfei could no longer contain it, he reached out to touch the back of his hand, feeling very real, then pinched himself, which also hurt.

He bit down on the tip of his tongue unwillingly, and it hurt so much that tears came out of his eyes.

It was real! There was nothing more real than this.

He wasn’t dreaming, but why had he left the bedroom after waking up, to find himself sitting in the living room?

He had no mood left for doubts.

Now, not a sound came from his surroundings, as if the woman had vanished.

But Zhou Wenfei was clear, she had just hidden away, if he didn’t go looking for her, and this wasn’t just a nightmare, then she would be waiting somewhere for him.

After much hesitation, the inner turmoil even led Zhou Wenfei to consider ending his own life at this moment, rather than searching for the woman who was hiding.

But more than ten minutes later, he stood up with a rigid body, his movements slow.

It wasn’t that he wanted to slow down deliberately, but at the moment his body seemed unresponsive, completely numb.

Zhou Wenfei turned around with difficulty, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and then looked around the room, aided by the dim light from outside the window.

Not far behind the chair where he sat was a coffee table, and right next to it, snug against the sofa, that area looked very normal, nothing amiss.

On the other side was the old-fashioned TV wall, and below the TV was a decorative cabinet half a meter tall – too small to hide a person.

Zhou Wenfei’s gaze wandered farther and then settled near the corner stand-alone air conditioning unit.

This air conditioning was usually turned on only during the summer, and to prevent dust, was covered with a diamond-patterned light blue dust cloth.

Yet now, by the wall near the air conditioner, there was a somewhat abnormal dark shadow.

The distance being somewhat great, Zhou Wenfei couldn’t see clearly, he strained his eyes, but still could not be sure if that was a person, only feeling that the more he looked, the more it resembled one, and unconsciously, in his mind, he had sketched out the image of a woman with disheveled hair.

At this thought, a deeper chill enveloped his heart, he didn’t approach but instead took two steps back, turned around, and quickly reached the living room door, unlocked the latch on top, twisted the doorknob with force, intending to run straight out.

But with this twist, the lock did not respond at all.

“I… can’t get out!?”

Zhou Wenfei, shivering, turned back around, looking in the direction of the air conditioner, the shadow was still there.

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It was then that he decided to dash towards the bedroom, but passing by the bedroom meant getting very close to the corner where the air conditioner was.

But at this moment, he disregarded everything, always keeping an eye on the direction of the shadow, he crossed the area nearest to the shadow in a few strides, rushed into the bedroom door, immediately shut it, and then locked it, leaning against it to listen.

All done in one breath, as if he had gone through extensive training, this was a level of performance that a person could exhibit when pushed to the edge.

After listening for a moment, it was silent outside the door, no sound came in.

The bedroom was also pitch-dark. Zhou Wenfei breathed a little easier, and carefully reached out to press the light switch, but there was no response.

Fortunately, his eyes had fully adjusted to the dark, and although the bedroom was darker than outside, if he looked closely at his surroundings, he wouldn’t bump his legs into furniture while moving.

Certain that the woman was still standing by the air conditioner and had not bothered with his escape, Zhou Wenfei felt slightly more at ease; he pressed the light switch again, still no response.

He turned and groped his way to the bed, each step taken lightly, making sure not to make any noise.

Arriving at the bedside, he quickly found his phone charging, feeling more settled, he hurriedly lit up the phone’s screen.

The pale yellow glow of the screen lit up his face, he checked the time, it was just past three in the morning.

Zhou Wenfei carefully pulled out the charger, remaining silent throughout.

His attention stayed focused on the bedroom door, slowly bending his knees to kneel on the bed, lifting a corner of the blanket, about to crawl in, when the upper half of a woman appeared before him, her lower half still covered by the blanket.

Long hair covered her cheeks, emitting a chilling laugh, her head turned slightly, looking at Zhou Wenfei.

“You… found me.”

In the corner of the living room by the air conditioner, where the shadow resembling a woman might have hidden, Zhou Wenfei, due to extreme tension and fear, had forgotten that what was actually placed there was an almost life-sized porcelain vase.

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In front of an old residential building in the Aries City District, Gu Dekang hung up the phone and looked up at the sky.

Although it was just past six-fifteen, the sky was already darkening.

He chuckled lightly, harassing the operators with daily calls was a first for him.

The higher-ups had already made it clear, they sent him to check things out. If the strangeness was just scary but did not harm people, they should detain the prank caller and keep him with it for a couple of days.

If the strangeness tended to hurt people, they were to eliminate it straightaway and then bring Zhou Wenfei to the safety bureau, detain him for five days before dealing with arranging an apology to the miss on the switchboard.