I can rewind time to prevent death

Atop the high platform, Yan Junze was now suspended in midair, observing everything with a God's eye view.

In one crowded corner of the platform, many were whispering secrets to each other. Here, no one wore a head cover, clearly indicating that this was the core location of the Half Moon Association, accessible only to its central members.

Yan Junze was too far away to hear clearly, so he lightly stepped forward, floating over to join the people.

All of these individuals appeared to be at least in their fifties, and each had the red stripes on the arms of their robes, similar to those worn by the lead man Yan Junze had seen in Zhen City.

The only difference was that these people had at least three red stripes on their robes, and the stripes were much thicker.

The elderly man standing in the center had gold stripes on his robe, rather than red ones.

With a raise of an arm from this old man, everyone who was talking immediately fell silent. The buzzing scene fell quiet in an instant.

"Garcia, what about the ninth strangeness? Can't it be determined yet?" the old man inquired.

The curly brown-haired, portly man beside him respectfully replied, "Among the special strangenesses we've captured, we still have over a dozen left, but aside from the eight on the platform, there are very few that meet the Tibam Co-evolution effect. So far, only a few of our remaining special strangenesses barely qualify, and I'm worried that using them to initiate the 'Oath' might not achieve the intended effect."

The elder fell silent.

"Oath? Initiate what Oath?" Yan Junze muttered to himself on the side.

From the looks of it, capturing these special monsters must be what the man mentioned about preparing to initiate some sort of Oath.

The scene around him, with its circular platform, burning flames, and special monsters, seemed somewhat like a ritual sacrifice, yet it seemed significantly different.

After a while, the elder looked up, "We must ensure the best possible effect, or else the 'Oath' might truly not be initiated."

This man named Garcia nodded subtly, "Actually, in Huaying, the Great Capital, the 'Hardy' led search team, codenamed 'Enke,' did discover two special strangenesses in Zhen City. However, they later failed to capture them."

The elder was taken aback, "Why not?"

Garcia explained, "According to Hardy, they were originally prepared to investigate a hospital, but they stumbled upon a much more powerful Sand Corpse and thus decided to capture it first. They only dispatched a drone to the hospital. But now another search team codenamed 'Lucifer,' managed to capture a special strangeness far more powerful than the Sand Corpse, which has become a better substitute. Meanwhile, those two strangenesses in Zhen City's hospital, suspected of exhibiting the Tibam Co-evolution effect, have slipped through the net."

While Garcia explained, he also expressed his exasperation.

After listening to him, the elder mulled over the information, seemingly unwilling to give up so easily, "The initiation ceremony can be postponed, but we must ensure the quality of each strangeness. Hmm, is there any drone video footage from that time?"

At that moment, everything froze, including the blazing flames which came to an absolute standstill.

The scene was paused.

Text prompts popped up before Yan Junze's eyes.

[This is the second Butterfly Effect trigger point, proceeding with correction. Do you want to watch the uncorrected clip?]

"Watch it." As an observer deeply engrossed in the scene, Yan Junze naturally did not want to miss out.

The paused scene resumed.

"Yes." Garcia nodded.

He beckoned with his hand, and soon an underling hurried over, holding a tablet.

Garcia took it, tapped it a few times to open a video, and handed it to the elder.

Yan Junze also quickly leaned in, peeking over the elder's right shoulder, intently watching the video playing on the tablet.

From the drone's point of view, the camera looked down from high above, situated above the corridor of the hospital building at the moment.

This building was the same one Yan Junze had entered during his first Great Rewind.

Before long, the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er came out of a room in succession. Ke'er, in red clothing, immediately dashed into another room nearby, then hurried back out, continuously muttering "Eh, eh, eh."

She went up to her mother, tugged at the Back-faced Woman's clothes, and pointed to the room she had just run out of.

The Back-faced Woman turned and walked into the room, only to emerge quickly after. As soon as she came out, she stood on the corridor, looking around, and with great difficulty let out a hoarse voice.

"Yan..."

At that point, Garcia pressed pause on the video, and pointed at the Back-faced Woman who was calling out. He explained to the elder, "According to our analysis, the 'yan' she just said, in Huaying language, probably refers to a seasoning, the equivalent of 'salt' in our USA language."

"Is that so?" The elder looked skeptical, "Why would she say 'salt'?"

Garcia, also looking puzzled, shook his head and guessed, "Perhaps the two strangenesses were eating someone in the room and felt the flavor was lacking, so they wanted to add some salt for taste."

"The hell, add salt?" Yan Junze's eyes bulged upon hearing this.

As soon as the Back-faced Woman uttered that word, he instinctively knew it was a call for him.

Even so, Yan Junze couldn't understand why, after he told the mother and daughter to leave Zhen City quickly when he was at the supermarket, they went to the hospital again, not to mention yelling randomly on the corridor?!