I can rewind time to prevent death

Ku Zai didn't notice and continued watching the video.

Next door, in the rented room, Xiang Er sat on the edge of her bed with a book, engrossed in reading it.

The book was titled "Scent of a Woman," and she read it methodically, carefully parsing each word.

About four to five minutes later, a strange sensation drew Xiang Er's attention away from the book. She lifted her gaze towards the wall, which separated her room from Ku Zai's.

Xiang Er set the book down and slowly stood up, a hint of puzzlement in her eyes.

After a couple of seconds, her expression suddenly changed, and she exclaimed, "Not good!"

She dashed to the door, flung it open, and bolted out like lightning. She pushed open the door to Ku Zai's room and saw him hunched over on a chair, head hanging down, not looking up even as she suddenly barged in.

Her eyes moved down and saw that Ku Zai's hand was still holding the phone with its screen lit, but the video had ended, leaving the screen in a black state.

Through Xiang Er's eyes, Ku Zai was shrouded in streams of black energy that excitedly flitted across his skin and surged within his body as if they had discovered a treasure.

Xiang Er stepped forward and placed her palm on Ku Zai's shoulder. The surrounding black energy shuddered violently and began to churn in disorder.

But it was only a momentary disturbance before the black energy wrapped around Xiang Er's arm, attempting to invade her as well.

In the previous video, the people who became possessed after watching it would hold hands with another person, seeking the best body to possess. Subsequently, the discarded bodies would be abandoned by the black energy and turned into corpses.

This physical contact was another method for the Possession Spirits to select their ideal host after spreading through the video.

Now that Xiang Er had touched Ku Zai, it was only natural for the black energy to seize the opportunity to invade her. Her body was special and to the Possession Spirits, an excellent vessel for possession.

However, her perfect corpse seemed less tempting compared to Ku Zai's body at that moment.

At this instant, as the black energy was invading Xiang Er's arms, it was because it felt a powerful force attempting to eradicate it.

This black energy was extremely potent, far beyond what Xiang Er had anticipated.

Xiang Er, who initially intended to force the black energy out of Ku Zai, now found that not only was it not retreating, but it was also counterattacking.

Xiang Er realized that her own strangenesses were powerless to repel this black energy. She pressed her right hand firmly on Ku Zai's shoulder and then infused her perfect corpse's Corpse Spirit power into it.

Inside her, the power of Ugly Girl's strangenesses surged to its peak, seeming to inflate her perfect corpse's body.

And with the perfect corpse's additional power, that formidable force managed to stave off the black energy that was spreading up her arm.

But that was all it could do.

Xiang Er was taken aback, realizing she had underestimated the power of the Possession Spirit. She gritted her teeth and desperately summoned all her strength, squeezing every bit of her body and inner strangenesses to their limits.

Visibly, the long hair that belonged to Ugly Girl and blanketed her body now pierced through her skin due to the extreme exertion of power, densely covering her and looking quite terrifying.

Her entire body trembled slightly, indicating she was pushing her limits to keep up the fight.

She was utterly confused. She expected not to encounter any strangenesses more powerful than herself, and if they were indeed that powerful, she should have had a premonition.

She had no idea where this Possession Spirit had come from, how it had found Ku Zai, and why she only sensed the anomaly after it had successfully possessed him.

At this point, Xiang Er didn't know if she could still save Ku Zai or if he had been completely corrupted by the Possession Spirit.

She recalled what Zhang Xiaomo had once mentioned: some very powerful Possession Spirits, once they achieve possession, leave the person unsalvageable even if they no longer need the host.

In other words, at the moment of successful possession, that person was already dead, beyond salvation.

And now, Xiang Er was competing with the Reaper, attempting to snatch Ku Zai's life from death's grasp.

Her body shook violently, and circles of invisible ripples spread from her as the center, pushing tables, chairs, cups, and dishes outward, shattering them all over the floor.

Despite her efforts, Xiang Er could only barely hold off the black energy from creeping up her arm.

Ku Zai remained head-down, oblivious to the fact that Xiang Er was on the brink of collapse.

However, this stalemate also meant that the black energy hadn't fully permeated Ku Zai's body.

Over ten seconds later, Yan Junze arrived at the bottom of the apartment building, glanced at the second floor, and felt an ominous sensation. He sprinted toward the staircase, thundering up to Ku Zai's room.

He grabbed the doorknob and pushed hard, but the door of the rented room wouldn't budge.

Putting more strength into it, he pushed again, and this time the door nudged slightly. However, it was as if a massive force inside was resisting, making it impossible to open.