I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 424 - 319: Takeout (Part Three)
Chapter 424: Chapter 319: Takeout (Part Three)
Yan Junze was set on leaving, walking toward the living room door with Xiang Er in tow.
At this point, Xiang Er also felt somewhat puzzled.
To her knowledge, exorcism didn’t depend on any specific time, and as long as the strangeness was present, it could be exorcised if the capability was sufficient.
She didn’t understand what Yan Junze was playing at.
As the two approached the door, an anxious Sun Changbiao followed them to the entrance, with his wife Wu Xiaoyan seeming at a loss, worried that she had done something wrong, and uneasily followed suit.
Yan Junze turned around and said, “No need to see me out.”
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Sun Changbiao was inwardly frantic, thinking I’m not trying to see you out, how can you leave now?
Unable to hold back, he was about to speak, when Yan Junze’s next comment stopped him in his tracks: “On the day you encountered the strangeness, did you receive a wrongly delivered takeout?”
Startled, Sun Changbiao nodded and said, “Yes, it arrived right around dinner time. Seeing that this foolish woman hadn’t prepared dinner yet, I lost my patience and ended up eating it.”
“What was this takeout…?” Yan Junze inquired.
Sun Changbiao hesitated, as if recollecting: “Uh, it was some kind of dry mixed glass noodles, with ketchup, onions, and beef granules. It was sour and had no soup, not very tasty.”
“Pasta,” Yan Junze murmured to himself, then asked, “What did the deliveryman look like?”
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“Couldn’t see very clearly,” Sun Changbiao shook his head. “The guy was both skinny and tall, probably over forty as well, but it’s quite dark outside in our hallway, so I couldn’t make out his face well.”
“Skinny and tall?”
According to Sun Changbiao’s description, Yan Junze compared the appearance of this man who delivered pasta with that of the man who delivered pizza to Si Nannan and felt that their statures were quite similar, likely the same person.
This indicated that there weren’t many people delivering the eerie takeout. One was the tall, skinny man, and the other was the shorter, middle-aged man.
“But… but, master, why can the strangeness only be exorcised tomorrow?” Seeing that Yan Junze had already walked outside, Sun Changbiao couldn’t hold back and finally spoke up.
Yan Junze offered another teasing smile, “I didn’t bring my tools.”
Once out of the complex, walking on the street, Yan Junze took out his phone to check the information on the other families who had experienced strangenesses after eating takeout.
Xiang Er leaned over, curious, “Why does it have to be tomorrow?”
Yan Junze countered Xiang Er’s question, “After seeing Sun Changbiao, what did you think?”
Xiang Er, who had been following Yan Junze for some time and quickly progressing, thoughtfully nodded, “His gaze towards me was very aggressive, and moreover, he didn’t treat his wife like a family member.”
“Anything else?” Yan Junze pressed on.
“He… He…”
Struggling to articulate her thoughts, Xiang Er hesitated as Yan Junze took over, “He might be hiding something from us.”
“Exactly.” Xiang Er nodded. “He kept preventing his wife from speaking.”
“Such people disgust me, so it’s only natural for him to suffer a bit longer,” Yan Junze concurred.
Xiang Er voiced her concern, “If the strangeness isn’t exorcised today, what if they get killed by the strangeness tonight?”
Yan Junze began to laugh, glancing inwardly at the mission information that had popped up in his mind when he entered Sun Changbiao’s house, no longer saying a word.
Back at the hotel next door, Yan Junze was making plans in his mind, preparing to spend the whole of tomorrow visiting all the families afflicted by strangeness due to the eerie takeout.
The addresses of these families were all in the Southern District of Tianmeng, not too far apart.
Only after collecting enough information would he be able to speculate and make a judgment to find out who the delivery person was.
Yan Junze believed that only by locating the ultimate source of the takeout, would the issues of the people haunted by the strangeness after eating it be truly resolved. Currently, if he were to exorcise each strangeness one by one, he would probably die of exhaustion.
Returning to Shuntian City anytime soon was out of the question.
Back at the hotel and lying on the wide, soft bed, Yan Junze swiftly fell into a deep sleep.
Xiang Er sat in the chair beside the bed for a while, waited for Yan Junze to fall asleep before heading to the bathroom for a shower, and then wrapped in a bath towel, she stepped out barefoot and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, silently observing the city under the cover of night.
She thoroughly enjoyed this sensation, recalling how on her first stay in a hotel with Yan Junze, she had stood by the window watching the night view all night long.
At such times, Xiang Er felt a sense of belonging to the city, as if she had integrated into every social circle, and could communicate effortlessly with anyone. This contrasted starkly with her previous life and left her feeling intoxicated.
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At Sun Changbiao’s home,
after Yan Junze and Xiang Er had left, Sun Changbiao’s face darkened.
Huffing with irritation, he returned to the bedroom, shut the door, took off his jacket, sat on the bed, and lit a cigarette, not caring whether the room was ventilated, and began to smoke heavily.
Seeing his demeanor, Wu Xiaoyan became even more anxious. She wasn’t worried about Yan Junze failing to exorcise the strangeness, but she knew her husband was very angry. Based on past experiences, this anger was likely to be taken out on her.
After aimlessly turning off the TV in the living room and checking the doors and windows, she cautiously opened the bedroom door and stepped inside.
Sun Changbiao didn’t even look at her as he smoked and said, “What did you want to say earlier? Constantly trying to interrupt while I was talking to the exorcist master. Don’t you know any better?”
Wu Xiaoyan hurriedly shook her head, “Because… you… what you said was not right.”
