I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 423 - 318: Takeout (Part Two)_2

Chapter 423: Chapter 318: Takeout (Part Two)_2

“Oh?” Yan Junze nodded, “Tell me.”

Sun Changbiao acknowledged with a sound and immediately began to recount.

About a week ago, it was just he and his wife at home, as their son was attending university in another city and hadn’t come home.

When it was almost time for dinner, Sun Changbiao went to the bathroom to wash his hands. He first wet his hands, then began to apply hand soap.

The faucet was on, still gushing water, but soon the flow began to diminish. Sun Changbiao was somewhat surprised, tapped the faucet, yet saw no increase in the water flow; on the contrary, it got weaker.

It felt like the faucet was blocked. Curious, he extended his index finger and prodded the spout, feeling something clogging it.

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With a hook of his finger, a clump of hair was pulled out.

But the hair didn’t fall out completely; it seemed to be still connected to the other end inside the pipe.

Sun Changbiao was extremely puzzled. He reached for the hairs dangling outside and started to tug, thinking if he didn’t pull all the hair out, the whole pipe might get clogged.

However, after pulling for a while, not only did the hair not come out completely, but it seemed to have caught in a knot, perhaps because there was too much hair, which got stuck inside the pipe.

Sun Changbiao gave a strong pull and found it immovable. Just as he released his grip, he saw the clump of hair that he had just pulled out and left in the sink suddenly move and was violently yanked back, swiftly sliding into the faucet’s opening.

This scene startled Sun Changbiao.

He dared not reach out again but instead took two steps back, his gaze fixated in horror on the hair until all of it was pulled back into the faucet.

Sun Changbiao saw clearly that as the hair was pulled back, it wasn’t at a continuous speed, but indeed as if someone on the other end was pulling the hair at different rhythms, just like him.

He watched in horror as all the hair re-entered the faucet and disappeared completely.

Suddenly, a slender finger emerged halfway out of the faucet’s opening—this finger seemed to belong to a woman, and the nails were dirty and damaged, not intact.

That damaged nail was partly flipped, as if it had been broken while straining to pull something.

After this slender finger extended from the faucet, it slightly bent and gripped the edge of the opening; clearly, it was “alive.”

Sun Changbiao was so frightened that he couldn’t speak. At this moment, his wife outside the bathroom just reminded him to come out and eat.

Sun Changbiao didn’t respond, his attention still fixed on the half-finger gripping the faucet. Then he saw the finger loosen and slowly retract back into the pipe.

With a “plop,” a thin stream of water flowed out of the faucet, quite unstable.

Then, the water flow began to increase until, before Sun Changbiao’s eyes, it returned to normal.

Sun Changbiao didn’t dare touch the water again, hastily wiped the foam off his hands with a wet towel, and rushed out of the bathroom.

As for his wife, Wu Xiaoyan, she noticed something abnormal later that evening while washing dishes.

At that time, Sun Changbiao was so scared out of his wits, but because it happened so suddenly, he firmly believed it was just a trick of the eye, attributed to working overtime in the past few days and possibly due to lack of rest.

So after dinner, Sun Changbiao didn’t tell his wife and immediately went back to the bedroom to sleep under the covers.

Uninformed, Wu Xiaoyan started washing the dishes.

While washing, because the sink was filled with a lot of dish soap foam, it wasn’t a clear water surface.

As Wu Xiaoyan washed, she felt something else in the sink; she remembered there were three plates to wash, one large bowl, and two small ones.

But now the large bowl she touched seemed to have multiplied to two.

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Surprised, Wu Xiaoyan took out the other dishes and bowls that hadn’t been washed yet and once again reached into the foamy sink to feel around, and then she touched the larger object again.

But this time, because she was more cautious, it didn’t feel like a large bowl. The surface was hard, but it was an oval-shaped object, and… there were hairs on it.

She suddenly screamed, withdrew her hands from the sink, and stepped back in horror.

In the sink, filled with foam, a black, round object slowly surfaced.

The black part was the hair of the object, and when it revealed a pair of eyes, Wu Xiaoyan was certain, it was a human head.

The human head that surfaced had its eyelids closed, appearing to be a woman’s.

But as Wu Xiaoyan got a clear look, the head’s eyelids began to tremble slightly, and then opened, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes that, as the head bobbed in the water, stared unblinkingly at Wu Xiaoyan.

Wu Xiaoyan screamed and turned to flee from the kitchen.

Sun Changbiao rushed out of the bedroom, but after hearing Wu Xiaoyan’s description, he didn’t dare to enter the kitchen at all.

The couple was so frightened that they didn’t take care of anything, they ran back to the bedroom in a panic and locked the bedroom door.

About four or five minutes later, a sound of something hitting the floor was heard, followed by the sound of an object dragging on the ground. The dragging noise continued, eventually coming to a stop outside the bedroom door.

Sun Changbiao and Wu Xiaoyan were so scared they didn’t dare breathe; they hid behind the wardrobe, peering out at the direction of the bedroom door, shaking uncontrollably.

There was no movement, and for a long time, there was silence outside the door.

After a while, just when Sun Changbiao thought the strangeness must have disappeared, he quietly stepped out from behind the wardrobe and was about to approach the door when the dragging sound started up again.

This time, however, the sound gradually receded from the door, as if returning to the living room.

That night was the most painful one for the couple, they dared not close their eyes all night, constantly alert for any noise outside the door.

They curled up on the bed, the sound of dragging from outside kept ringing in their ears; this situation lasted until dawn.

The next day, once Sun Changbiao was certain there was no noise outside, they opened the door and walked around the house, finding nothing.

They then went to the kitchen and saw that the sink, originally full of water, had leaked out overnight because the drain plug wasn’t sealed tightly.

However, there were traces of water stains all over the floor, even under the sofa.

Sun Changbiao hadn’t slept all night, and seeing that the terror seemed to have passed, he quickly poured a cup of hot water, intending to drink it to calm his nerves.

As he held the glass in his hand, the originally clear and transparent water suddenly became muddy, and then an abnormal red color emerged, like blood. Right there in Sun Changbiao’s hand, the water quickly turned into a blood-like liquid.

Sun Changbiao was so scared that he quickly poured it out, and he finally realized that whenever he touched water, strangeness would occur.

Without a second thought, he immediately instructed Wu Xiaoyan to pour out all the water in the house, and then to not turn on the taps again.

After several days of experimenting, they found that using water inside the house would frequently cause strangeness, while outside, they could quickly drink a cup of water in a crowded place without issue. However, if they spent a long time with water, abnormalities would still occur.

Although they had called 4747 a few days ago, the couple had already gotten used to living this way; as long as there was no water, life went on as usual.

After listening to Sun Changbiao’s narration, Yan Junze noticed that Wu Xiaoyan had tried to interject several times but was shut down by this man.

He pointed at Wu Xiaoyan, saying, “Maybe she has something to say.”

Sun Changbiao waved his hand, continuing to silence Wu Xiaoyan, “What does this silly woman know? She’ll only add to the chaos. These past few days she always forgets that we can’t use water. I can’t leave her alone for a second without her slipping up. Just now she even made me a cup of tea, can you believe it?”

After speaking, he subtly pointed at Wu Xiaoyan and then to his own head, whispering, “Had surgery.”

Yan Junze nodded, Sun Changbiao meant that Wu Xiaoyan’s mind wasn’t working well, probably due to having had brain surgery.

Of course, he could also see that Sun Changbiao was treating his own wife as nothing more than a servant.

“Alright, we’re now aware of the general situation here,” Yan Junze stood up.

“This… you’re not going to perform the Exorcism now?” Sun Changbiao stood up, looking confused.

“The time is not right yet,” Yan Junze said with a mysterious smile, “Tomorrow is the best time to clear this strangeness.”

Sun Changbiao still looked puzzled; he felt the person speaking to him didn’t seem like an Exorcist at all, but rather like an early-era Daoist who had to wait for the right moment to dispel strangeness.

“No, something must be wrong, did I inadvertently offend them?”