I can rewind time to prevent death

This was the beginning of Yan Junze's suspicion.

"It's biding its time," Yan Junze continued in a low voice, "We'll walk slower now, creating distance from the people ahead. I'll find an opportunity to strike and kill it. Once I make my move, you immediately get down on the ground and don't move."

"But now Number 2 has a Semi-Spirit Body..."

Gao Meng exclaimed, but before he could finish, was interrupted by Yan Junze, "You've never seen a strangeness possess another strangeness?"

Gao Meng shook his head.

The rustling noise above their heads continued, as if it was right above Yan Junze and his companion.

"A strangeness with much greater strength can possess another, but it will suffer magnetic field interference, and may experience after-effects," Yan Junze said, pausing momentarily before continuing, "However, this strangeness won't because it is a Possession Spirit, capable of attaching itself to humans. After becoming strong, it can do the same to other strangenesses and possibly to Semi-spirits as well."

By now, the noise above had disappeared.

They had just reached the top of the last metal staircase onto a platform, and the stairs to the basement level lay ahead.

Lin Guo, who was in the lead, was about to step onto the staircase.

Yan Junze, feigning assistance to Gao Meng, intentionally fell behind a bit. In his left hand, he held the Black Spirit Umbrella with the tip pointed, albeit casually, towards the space directly above him and Gao Meng.

An evil sensation rapidly approached; if not for Yan Junze's attention to the space above, he would not have sensed its arrival.

He quickly lifted the umbrella, pressing the button on the handle. The umbrella fabric sprang open with a whoosh. The Number 2 man, who happened to jump down, was blocked by the suddenly deployed umbrella and landed on it.

Before he had time to react, Yan Junze had already triggered the launcher in the umbrella handle.

The dark, reflective metal tip of the umbrella shot out swiftly, its sharp point piercing into Number 2's body with a thwack, going right through—I couldn't tell which part exactly.

That sharp tip, taking Number 2's body with it, shot upwards, and the chain also penetrated his body, embedding itself into the surface of a huge pipe near the ceiling.

And at that moment, Number 2 was hanging in the air like a skewered lamb.

A mass of black energy churned out, seeping from his body's surface, forming a black figure approximately two people tall, which roared and dived at Yan Junze.

Yan Junze was about to turn the umbrella fabric around so that the handle pointed upwards, aiming to let the creature plunge directly into the umbrella.

The next second, the magnetic glow appeared, and a magnetic knife suddenly shot out, slashing three times in an instant, dividing the mid-air black figure's essence into three segments.

The magnetic glow whirled, preventing it from reforming, and the Possession Spirit's magnetic field became chaotically unstable.

The magnetic glow surged again, followed by several successive slashes.

Then the magnetic knife withdrew, revealing Lin Guo's figure. Initially at the very front near the stairway to the basement floor, he had come back at some point unnoticed.

"Turns out it possessed a Semi-Spirit Body!" Lin Guo muttered to himself.

He appeared to have forgotten the existence of this Possession Spirit, but had actually been on alert the whole time. Although unaware that Number 2 had been possessed, Lin Guo had been ready to act all along.

When the situation at Yan Junze's side erupted, he didn't think twice and immediately returned to attack.

At this time, Yan Junze still held the umbrella up and covered over it.

The almost-shattered black shadow was trapped in the Black Spirit Umbrella, offering no resistance, its energy completely shredded.

Yan Junze's eyes widened as he saw a small dot form within the Black Spirit Umbrella, but in a flash it was gone, reminiscent of the previous scene.

If his guess was correct, killing a powerful strangeness seemed to allow the Black Spirit Umbrella to collect energy.

He retracted the chain and the sharp tip of the umbrella fabric, and Number 2 fell from the air. His Semi-Spirit Body began to fade away, and the wound on his stomach had healed due to the Semi-Spirit's influence, leaving only a scar.

However, because the Semi-Spirit Magnetic Field had been disrupted, it was possible that Number 2 wouldn't be able to use his Semi-Spirit Body again for some time.

Yan Junze stowed the Black Spirit Umbrella and then turned to help him, while Gao Meng leaned on the railing, walking on his own.

The group ascended to the basement floor and returned to the first floor.

By now, Exorcists and a large number of security personnel were waiting outside the Huadu Building.

After coming out, the injured were helped onto ambulances. Yan Junze looked around and did not see Zhang Xiaomo.

Then he saw Lin Guo in serious conversation with another unfamiliar man.

A bad feeling rose in Yan Junze's heart; he walked over quickly. The unfamiliar man looked up at him and asked in confusion, "Are you Yan Junze?"

"Yes, I am," Yan Junze nodded, "Has Group 2 not come down? Haven't they completed the task of destroying the server?"

The man spoke gravely, "They have completed it; we detected the server has been destroyed and stopped running. But, we couldn't make contact with the people from Group 2."

"What?" Yan Junze exclaimed, "So, you detected the server shutdown, but it wasn't Group 2 who informed you?"

"Yes," the man replied with a worried tone, "I'm discussing with Lin Guo whether to go upstairs for support."

"We must go, definitely go check," Lin Guo declared decisively.

"I'll go too, I have to," Yan Junze also agreed, looking at the man, "We're going up now."

He remembered that his contact He Yun had said the server was on the 20th floor of the Huadu Building.

Lin Guo also said, "Just Yan Junze and I are enough. Most of the team members are injured to varying degrees. Soldiers value quality, not quantity; more people might not be better."