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"Ah!"

Yan Junze was startled when he heard Tang Zhengyi continue over the phone, "It's really a coincidence, you haven't contacted us for many days, and just this morning I had the studio check the surveillance equipment in FH Community to make sure it was still functional. Who would have thought that not long after turning it on, I saw you..."

"Did you record everything?" Yan Junze asked.

"Almost everything." Tang Zhengyi said, "We haven't installed cameras in the underground garage, so there's no footage from there, but aside from inside your home, we've captured almost every single frame in the corridors."

"What a coincidence indeed," Yan Junze marveled.

However, it seemed as if Tang Zhengyi became somewhat hesitant, stammering for a while before asking, "Mr. Yan, may I ask about your relationship with the exorcists?"

Yan Junze guessed what he was thinking and replied, "There's no special relationship, we just interact quite frequently."

"Mhm." Tang Zhengyi didn't probe further, "This video content is somewhat shocking, so we also need to study it. We may have to get consent from the exorcism team at Tianmeng before it can be released, and there may be several parts that need editing."

"No problem, you do what you see fit."

As for the video platform "Open Your Eyes," Yan Junze believed they had a better sense of judgment than he did. After all, he was not a professional in this field.

Now that his house was destroyed, repurchasing furniture and repairing doors and windows would cost a considerable amount of money.

If the video sold well, that would be great. At least he could use the money to cover these expenses, and there might even be some left over.

After ending the call with Tang Zhengyi, whether the video could be sent out or not would be something to wait for in the coming days.

After the hallway scene was cleaned up, the staff of the exorcist team conducted a final check inside Yan's house, collecting some debris before withdrawing completely.

From start to finish, no police were involved.

Zhang Xiaomo called not long after Huang Chen and the others left.

Yan Junze briefly explained what had happened, and Zhang Xiaomo was full of marvel over the phone at his idea of using one strangeness to counteract another.

However, since the incident was resolved, she no longer needed to rush to Shuntian City. She said she would look for Yan Junze later to catch up.

Yan Daguo, his father, returned home around noon because he had worked a night shift the previous evening. He had slept on the sofa at the factory when it was nearly dawn, which was why he got home late.

When he arrived home, Yan Junze was tidying up the living room.

He couldn't move the large pieces of damaged furniture, so he had cleaned up the broken wood, debris, glass shards, etc., and placed any movable items to one side.

The broken items were ready to be thrown away, while those that could still be used would be utilized for the time being.

Yan Daguo was completely baffled by the scene, and besides the secret of his ability to rewind and the mission he had to complete, Yan Junze didn't hide anything else.

After learning about the cause of the mess, Yan Daguo said nothing at first. He inquired whether Yan Junze had been injured or if there was anything off about his health.

While helping to clean up, he also kept an eye out for any unusual reactions from Yan Junze. He was, in fact, unconcerned about the loss to their home.

What's broken is broken, as long as everyone is safe.

"The exorcists just checked the house again to make sure there's nothing abnormal left behind," Yan Junze added in order to soothe his father's worries.

Yan Daguo nodded, "When your mother comes back later, I'll explain things to her. As you know, if it's not explained properly she'll keep bringing it up."

Yan Junze smiled.

He moved the large pieces left from the damaged furniture out of the room, piling them in the corridor first. Yan Daguo was still not reassured by his son's explanation and made another trip to Uncle Li's place next door to get some information.

Of course, Uncle Li was terrified, and his view of the details wasn't very clear. Moreover, during the time when the two strangenesses were fighting fiercely, Uncle Li was so scared that he ran into his bedroom to hide and didn't dare to watch at all.

Later in the evening, when his mother, Li Man, got home, she was inevitably shocked. It wasn't until late at night that the father and son managed to calm her down.
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After a rough estimate, they concluded that the household had lost a sofa set, a coffee table, a television, three wooden chairs, and some odds and ends. Since none of the items were high-end goods, the total damage was estimated to be around ten thousand yuan.

Yan Daguo figured they could slowly replace the other pieces of furniture, but they had someone come to install a new window on that very day.

Li Man was very worried that this incident would affect Yan Junze's studies, so once the house was in order, she immediately sent him back to his bedroom to focus on studying and not to think about anything else.

As for the frequent occurrence of their son attracting strangenesses, the couple had formed a common view that their son's physique was definitely special and that he might indeed follow the path of an exorcist one day.

This prospect left them somewhat at a loss. In this era, the profession of exorcist was undoubtedly very respectable, but it also seemed fraught with danger, as evident from the events of today.

The physical destruction caused by the strangenesses was significant enough to make the couple reassess the exorcist profession they used to respect immensely, and they began to worry.

Yan Junze returned to his bedroom, first placing his books on the desk—just for show—then took out the statue of the Yin Yang Master, Lin Yishan, from his backpack.

The statue was quite heavy in his hand; even if it wasn't made entirely of gold, it surely contained a significant amount of gold.

After opening the statue, Yan Junze vigorously wiped it down with old newspapers, quickly removing the black dirt that covered it, revealing the gleaming golden statue underneath.

However, to completely clean it and restore it to its original state, he would probably need to go to a jewelry store.

Though he had received a replenishment of Different Dimension Energy after completing tasks that day, the Spacetime Atlas' Different Dimension Energy was not filled up but was absorbing slowly.

According to Yan Junze's estimates, without completing other tasks, it would take about a week of this slow absorption to completely fill the current Spacetime Atlas with nodes and timelines.

So, when he was holding the statue that he had just quickly cleaned, he suddenly paused because he felt the rate at which the Missing Different Dimension Energy in the Spacetime Atlas was being restored was speeding up.

What was the reason?

Yan Junze placed the statue on the desk and felt it again, and the rate was normal.

When he picked up the statue again, the rate of energy restoration sped up once more—it appeared he had stumbled upon a treasure!

At this moment, Yan Junze understood what the "Drop the Handkerchief" task meant by the treasure.

The statue could also absorb Different Dimension Energy, or maybe what the Yin Yang Master called "Yin Energy"—either way, the statue was currently filled with a significant amount of Different Dimension Energy.

With it, the Spacetime Atlas could speed up its energy restoration, which could mean directly extracting energy from within the statue.

Thus, as the Spacetime Atlas was restoring energy, the statue was also absorbing and storing it, and could even accelerate the transfer of energy to the Atlas,

Examining the statue closely for a moment, Yan Junze noticed that Lin Yishan looked to be about sixty, exuding a sense of a hermit, if not quite a celestial air.

"It's a waste to use this merely as a statue," Yan Junze mumbled to himself, "why not turn it into some kind of weapon? One that can store Different Dimension Energy and also inflict damage on strangenesses!"

Of course, if the statue were to be turned into a weapon, he couldn't alter its essence, otherwise, Yan Junze didn't believe a hammer, once transformed from the statue, would still serve as a hammer.