Ten minutes passed quickly, and by now, Yan Junze’s arm had turned completely black.
But there was no news of Long-tongued Zhenzhen, and not even a whisper of wind ca from the hole’s location.
"Maybe... she can’t co back." An idea he didn’t want to admit surfaced, and Yan Junze shook his head and sighed.
The main issue was that he did not know where Zhenzhen had gone, and which part had gone wrong.
"This won’t do, I can’t let Zhenzhen go in there alone," Yan Junze muttered to himself.
Rewind!
After the Rewind, he released Zhenzhen again and said the sa words to her.
But this ti, Yan Junze was prepared to let Zhenzhen take him with her into the tunnel.
The thod was simple, Zhenzhen holding onto him, surfing through the tunnel as if sliding, the two of them floating and flying inside the tunnel at a similarly fast speed.
At the sa ti point, they arrived at the dead man by the Deadwater Pool, Zhenzhen set down Yan Junze, no longer able to resist the pull, and she imdiately pounced on the corpse that had just raised its head.
Soon, Zhenzhen, possessed by strangeness, made the corpse rise and said to Yan Junze, "Get on my back."
Yan Junze did as he was told.
The stench emanating from the body was foul enough to nearly make Yan Junze vomit on the spot, but he could only endure it now. If he tried to crawl to the Underground Space on his own, ti would have already run out.
Depending on this body, they crawled rapidly, quickly passing through the tunnel and arriving at the Underground Space. Yan Junze hopped down and looked at his fingers, discovering his entire fingertip had turned black.
Last ti, it was about this point in ti when Long-tongued Zhenzhen reached this place.
"I’ll lean against the rock wall over here; once you pull out those silk threads, all these standing corpses will lose control," Yan Junze said.
Zhenzhen nodded and controlled the possessed body to approach the second hole swiftly.
"Be careful," Yan Junze said as he saw a man’s body turn around swiftly, moving toward the crawling Zhenzhen.
Zhenzhen turned her head and delivered a Long Tongue Skill, knocking the man’s corpse flying into a pile of other bodies, then quickly crawled to the second hole and in a flash pulled off all the Tricky Silk.
All the standing corpses fell, losing their control.
But Yan Junze looked down and saw that the Dark Poison on his hand was still spreading.
It seed there were still so silk threads not pulled out.
At this mont, Zhenzhen was already controlling the possessed body to look into the hole.
"There are two more here," her voice ca.
But the very next second, the body shuddered violently, let out a scream, and rapidly got pulled into the hole.
Yan Junze was startled, quickly shining his flashlight over there, only to see that at the mouth of the hole, Zhenzhen’s control over the possessed body was gone, and the sinister Dark Poison had spread about a ter outside the hole and was still spreading, soaking into the rock wall like a rising tide.
"Could the terrifying strangeness from the main mission be inside there?" Yan Junze was stunned.
Just now, he had gone through seven Rewinds in a row; the first was after noticing his fingertips turning black, going back to the spot behind the standing young corpse, the second was Rewind to the mont of being chased by the tunnel corpse and falling into the Underground Space against the rock wall, the third was Rewind to the mont just before encountering the tunnel corpse.
The fourth was a direct Rewind to outside the warehouse, but he still found his fingertips turning black. The fifth again was a Rewind outside the warehouse, but this ti he released Long-tongued Zhenzhen.
The sixth Rewind began, dispatching Zhenzhen to use the strangeness on top of the strangeness to co down and pull out the Tricky Silk.
The seventh was this ti, coming down with Zhenzhen.
Unexpectedly, he discovered that hidden inside the second hole was a more ferocious strangeness.
Most likely, that creature is the "it" ntioned in the main mission, the one with an extrely high level of strangeness.
Although currently Yan Junze could Rewind again, to be honest, his Different Dinsion Energy was running low.
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This indeed confird what was ntioned in the main task: before making contact, it was necessary to ensure there was a sufficient amount of energy to "Rewind".
Moreover, this ti Yan Junze was only carrying out a sub-task and did not intend to touch the main quest. Yet unexpectedly, he still faced interference.
Whether the interference was intentional or accidental, it had already left Junze in a quite difficult situation.
Calculating the seven "Rewinds", along with the ti consud after each, Junze was left with just enough Different Dinsion Energy for about two more "Rewinds", with each no longer than twenty minutes.
After so thought, he chose to "Rewind" again. It was not that he insisted on completing the task, but now Junze was in too deep to pull out. Without finding the cause of the Dark Poison infection, he would be unable to escape this interference.
This "Rewind" only took him back two minutes. It was the mont Long-tongued Zhenzhen tore off the threads from the outside and all the corpses fell.
"Don’t go in yet!" Junze warned aloud.
Long-tongued Zhenzhen, who was about to poke her bizarre body into the cave, stopped upon hearing this and turned back in surprise.
Not daring to touch the corpses with his hands, Junze stood up and said, "There are two Tricky Silk clumps just inside the cave entrance. Stuff a corpse in there first. No matter what happens, imdiately clear the silk clumps as fast as possible."
As to why Junze knew about the two clumps of Tricky Silk inside the cave wall, Zhenzhen was sowhat astonished. However, she did not ask any questions. She grabbed the nearest corpse and shoved it into the cave entrance with force.
The body was only half-stuffed in when it suddenly halted as if eting so resistance.
Suddenly the body trembled, was grabbed by sothing, and was abruptly dragged in, disappearing without a trace.
"Now!" Junze shouted loudly.
Zhenzhen imdiately maneuvered her strange form to the spot inside the hole, spotted the two Tricky Silk clumps, and quickly wiped each one out with her claws, cleaning up all the silk in sight.
Looking down, Junze saw the Dark Poison which had spread to his arm no longer spreading; instead, it began to recede slowly.
"It’s working!" he rejoiced internally. He then heard a strange noise from the opening of the cave, followed by a swift spread of Dark Poison along the edges of the entrance.
By then, Zhenzhen had already retreated from inside the strange body.
Without delay, Junze commanded, "Stuff a few more corpses in there, then we pull out!"
Zhenzhen promptly extended her ethereal tongue and in a swift motion, wrapped it around two bodies, one after the other, and shoved them into the cave, then threw three more corpses to block the cave entrance.
After completing these actions, she manipulated her strange body to crawl over quickly, grabbed Junze, ready to haul him onto her back, and then make a run for it.
Behind them, at the cave entrance, the crowding bodies quickly turned pitch black, as if stained with ink, and began to dissolve, clearing so space at the entrance.
Junze only managed to glance hurriedly behind him, catching sight of this terrifying scene before turning his head and instructing, "Head back the way we ca, using all your abilities, or we’ll both die here. I can only die once, whereas you would be dying for the second ti."
Now, it seed that he still had one more chance to use "Rewind", which he could not afford to use carelessly anymore.
Without being told, Long-tongued Zhenzhen thrust her strange body into the tunnel they had co from with even greater speed than before.
Junze was unaware that when Zhenzhen was using her strange body, this kind of expenditure of Supernatural Energy was most damaging to herself, and he didn’t know what side effects it might bring her after this ti.
But their lives were at stake, so there wasn’t ti to worry about that anymore.
"Hee hee hee hee…"
All of a sudden, from the direction of the Underground Space, an eerie laughter could be heard, followed by an even stronger suction force than before.
Even with her strange body, Zhenzhen was beginning to lose control; the speed at which she had been charging forward drastically reduced, and she was forcibly pulled backward.
In this mont of peril, a voice rang out, surprisingly soone speaking, coming suddenly from inside the Underground Space into the tunnel.
"You like to play gas, huh? I’ll play with you."
How could there still be soone inside?
Junze was taken aback by the voice, which seed sowhat unfamiliar, yet he felt he had heard it sowhere before.
At that mont, the sucking force suddenly lessened, giving Zhenzhen the chance to burst forth quickly.
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