I can rewind time to prevent death

On the other side, Guan Hongna, who had been sent flying, fused once again with that eerie face, issuing a sound similar to that of stuffing a sausage—a sound that made one's scalp tingle.

Yan Junze pulled Duan Ning up, and without time for conversation, they immediately shone the flashlight over.

What they saw was the eerie face once again burrowing into the lower half of Guan Hongna's face. The scene was horrific, as if a person suddenly grew two faces on one head, the upper half only halfway complete, while the lower half, though whole, had twisted features and looked even more terrifying.

Guan Hongna clawed and lunged at the two.

"The magnetic knife... it's useless against her!"

Duan Ning had only time to say this before he quickly leaped to the left, dodging Guan Hongna's lunge.

Yan Junze, on the other hand, leaped to the right.

As he dodged, he released the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er, pointing at Guan Hongna and commanded, "Use your strongest abilities, attack her!"

The Back-faced Woman, upon materializing, instinctively shivered and immediately focused on Guan Hongna, perceiving the pressure emanating from this strangeness, which was no less intimidating than Xiang Er.

Ke'er quickly jumped into her mother's arms, casting a nervous glance at the dreadful Guan Hongna and wanting to hide back inside Yan Junze's Spacetime Atlas.

However, upon hearing Yan Junze's orders, mother and daughter's long hair immediately entwined tightly, coalescing into strands as their aura abruptly changed.

"Ya ya ya ya ya..."

Ke'er's tiny mouth opened, issuing a string of warnings, and mother and daughter's long hair extended swiftly, stabbing straight at Guan Hongna.

The entity possessing Guan Hongna had not yet seized a third victim, so Yan Junze surmised that its full strength had not been completely unleashed.

Still, the entity was close to being an Ethereal spirit; even if it had not fully deployed its power, and even if only a large portion was unleashed, the mother and daughter would be no match. Yan Junze intended to test just how strong the Bond Evolution of Ke'er and the Back-faced Woman was against the attack of such formidable strangeness.

While the mother and daughter struggled with Guan Hongna, he signaled to Duan Ning from the sidelines.

Duan Ning was still shocked at the fact that Yan Junze was a Spirit Cultivator, well aware that as an Exorcist, he usually stood on the opposite side from cultivators.

Seeing Yan Junze beckoning, he immediately became guarded, but his caution diminished once he saw Yan Junze produce an A-level Exorcist Travel Permit. Duan Ning walked over, carefully inspected the permit with the flashlight, confirming its authenticity.

But he knew that the A-level Exorcist Travel Permit was usually only issued to three-star Exorcists and up, yet he hadn't seen Yan Junze use a magnetic knife; instead, he wielded a large mallet to deal with the strangeness.

"You... cultivate spirits?" Before he could thank Yan Junze for saving him, Duan Ning was already pointing at Ke'er and her mother, voicing his surprise.

As he understood, few Exorcists cultivated spirits, and such Exorcists were usually extremely fierce, belonging to a maverick category that the headquarters took very seriously.

Yan Junze nodded. Seeing that the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er managed to bind Guan Hongna with their hair but she still walked freely, grabbing the hair and forcefully dragging mother and daughter toward herself, he did not reply.

Instead, Yan Junze released Long-tongued Zhenzhen and the Crawler Monster, blurting out a single command, "Fight!"

Long-tongued Zhenzhen and the Crawler Monster immediately knew whom their master wanted to fight. Despite the pressure from the adversary, they moved forward to help Ke'er and her mother attack Guan Hongna.

However, even with this reinforcement, Yan Junze knew they were still no match for Guan Hongna. Taking advantage of the moment, he asked Duan Ning, "Why is this flight attendant-turned-strangeness so strong?"

Duan Ning was taken aback and shook his head, "I've never seen anything like this either. According to the pilot's description, Guan Hongna had just died accidentally in the cargo hold not long ago, only to turn into a strangeness, and a very powerful one at that. I suspect she could trigger a B-level event."

"It's not a suspicion; it's a certainty," Yan Junze stated emphatically.

Ke'er and her mother had already undergone Bond Evolution, yet they still couldn't overcome this creature that hadn't fully manifested; if this strangeness were allowed to appear fully, none of the people on this plane would survive.

Now that Zhenzhen and the Crawler Monster were involved, they were barely hanging on for a little while longer, but the battle was still tilting against them.

But Yan Junze didn't include Duan Ning or himself, knowing that even if the two of them joined the fray, they might win, but at a terribly heavy cost.

Even losing one or two entities from his side was possible; Yan Junze had grown deeply attached to these beings, and didn't want to lose any.

Not to mention that for the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er, he did not hesitate to activate the Great Rewind to rescue them; even for the Crawler Monster, Yan Junze would make the same choice.

The creature might be lewd, ugly, and vain, but it had a redeeming quality: it was willing to protect Yan Junze with its life, without considering its own safety.

So to sacrifice them only to deal with an entity that hadn't fully matured and was near Ethereal spirit-strength was absolutely not an option for Yan Junze, who could restart countless times.

Even though the reward for this task offered a substantial increase in Different Dimension Energy limits.

He stroked his chin, not worried at all, and mused to himself, "The crux of this matter probably lies with the flight attendant Guan Hongna."

What had she come into contact with before her death? Or had she encountered a weakened but potent near-Ethereal-strangeness in the cargo hold?