I can rewind time to prevent death

He wasn't feeling great and naturally wanted to throw the question right back at Yan Junze.

Yan Junze paused thoughtfully before replying, "Enke 3018."

The man turned around, looking at him with surprise, "Weren't you on the first floor just now?"

"Came up to help," Junze answered coolly.

"That's not right," the man said skeptically, shaking his head, "The boss had you stationed on the first floor, you shouldn't..."

Rewind!

Junze stood at the corner on the second floor, watching the guy called "Enke 3023" head downstairs. He didn't immediately follow, nor did he deliberately ask any more questions.

After descending the stairs and turning right, ready to leave, a familiar scene unfolded once again.

The burly man in brown clothing came around the corner, puffing smoke rings, and Junze moved closer.

"Where are you going?"

"When we were searching the third floor just now, something fell out of the window onto the street. I came down to check what it was," he explained.

"Your code?"

"Enke 3023."

The sturdy man in brown considered for a moment; it seemed that those with codes higher than his were indeed responsible for searching upstairs when the boss had been assigning tasks.

"What fell down?" he asked, still not reassured.

"It should belong to one of those two strangenesses we are tracking," Junze deliberately furrowed his brow and shook his head, "but I can't be certain, so I need to go out and check to avoid missing any important clues."

The robust man in brown nodded, seemingly convinced, yet he still leaned against the doorframe, suddenly looking up and asking in the direction of the other side of the doorframe, "Boss, should we let him go out?"

Junze was startled and looked towards the robust man's opposite side.

From that direction, another Brown-clothed Man with his back to the wall turned around. He wore an oddly-shaped metal pistol on his waist, none other than the leader Junze had seen on the third floor earlier.

He never would have imagined this guy would be guarding the door.

After turning around, the leader did not speak immediately but stared at Junze's eyes peeking out of the hood.

Junze couldn't keep looking at him; he lowered his head slightly and greeted, "Boss."

"Where did the thing that fell down land? I'll go check it out with you," the leader said, apparently still not quite trusting Junze, pulling the pistol from his waist and holding it in his hand.

Junze was at a loss for words.

This man was clearly on guard, and if he didn't see anything after going out with Junze, he would definitely make things difficult for him.

The power of that pistol could be guessed, but even if Junze could subdue the other man quickly, he had to consider how much noise it would cause.

It simply wasn't worth it.

Dammit, he couldn't go through the main entrance; this area was under tight control.

Rewind!

Time reverted to when Junze had just descended to the first floor. He didn't head towards the direction of the hospital's main gate but instead turned left toward the corridor on the first floor.

Along the corridor, he encountered two Brown-clothed People. As they brushed past each other, Junze initially planned to nod naturally as a greeting, but he suddenly noticed the other men's utter indifference, showing no interest in interacting, so he mimicked their cold demeanor, ignoring them completely.

He passed two rooms with opened doors on the way. The windows in these rooms faced the sidewalk on the street, but Junze didn't dare to climb out there.

By now he knew that outside the main entrance, in addition to the burly Brown-clothed Man leaning against the doorway, the Brown-clothed Leader was also propped against the wall along the street.

Since they were parallel to the windows of these rooms, the moment he climbed out, he would be spotted immediately.

Junze continued forward, crossing the corridor to the side near the alley where the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er had previously climbed down, prepared to climb out of the window here and jump into the alley. The chances of escaping would be higher.

Who knew that inside these rooms on this side, there would be Brown-clothed People?

Some of them were even peering out the windows, observing the alley, clearly treating this area as a zone under strict surveillance.

Junze was utterly speechless, feeling as if these guys were acting in some spy blockbuster, having set up such an extensive trap.

Was it really necessary to go to such lengths just to catch the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er?

As he passed the doors of these rooms, he didn't pause, but walked past nonchalantly, still drawing the attention of two Brown-clothed People.

One of them opened his mouth, about to call out to him, but just as his lips parted...

Time rewound.

Junze stood at the top of the second-floor staircase, watching the Brown-clothed Man who was descending the stairs alone.

Out of all the times he had rewound to impersonate a Brown-clothed Man descending the stairs, only now did he see such a solitary figure.

The others, including the hefty man guarding the door, were always grouped with the Brown-clothed Leader and had never split up.

As for the only one who was alone before him, that man became Junze's sole opportunity.

"Hey, wait a second," Junze called out softly from behind.

The Brown-clothed Man descending the stairs stopped and looked back, "What's up?"

These Brown-clothed People seemed very indifferent toward one another, and Junze wondered why, even though they were all on the same side.

Junze pointed to an open room door near the top of the stairs, which had already been searched.

"Let's talk inside," he suggested.

The Brown-clothed Man stood on the stairs, unmoving, questioning, "Why not talk here? Why go into a room?"

Junze said mysteriously, "Just come with me, Enke 3023."

With that, Junze immediately turned and walked into the room without looking back, knowing that this would pique the Brown-clothed Man's curiosity, compelling him to follow into the room.