I can rewind time to prevent death-Chapter 384 - 302: The Game Rules of Tricky Silk (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 384 -302: The Game Rules of Tricky Silk (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Actually, at the beginning of the Great Rewind, Yan Junze already had some guesses about how to play the game with the Tricky Silk Boss.

After all, this guy started by using Tricky Silk to control the Yan Family and several other families at Spectacular Courtyard. Not only did he control them, but he also seemed to greatly enjoy preventing them from calling for an Exorcist.

Therefore, Yan Junze felt that if he played the game, it would most likely involve using Tricky Silk to control people.

However, he hadn’t expected that he lacked Rock’s abilities and couldn’t directly control thinking humans, and could only control corpses that were nothing but empty shells.

He ran his fingers over the Stone of Fear he had acquired for the first time; the stone was semi-transparent, with winding lines inside that resembled meridians and were also transparent.

Numerous strands of Tricky Silk with white tips twisted around the surface of the stone. The Tricky Silk was visible and touchable at the end near the Stone of Fear, but at the extending end, it became invisible and untouchable as before.

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However, after Yan Junze held the Stone of Fear, although he could neither see nor touch the other end of the Tricky Silk, he could clearly feel where these strands were going, as if they were his own arms, and he could control them freely.

He focused his thoughts on a female corpse lying closest to him on the ground. Although he still couldn’t see it, he could feel one strand of Tricky Silk slowly descending and resting on the body of the woman.

The Tricky Silk then moved like a slithering snake, the tip quickly finding the corpse’s lips and burrowing into the corner of her mouth.

This action awakened Yan Junze’s memory.

He remembered that when he first entered the Underground Space, he found a white silk thread tip at the corner of the mouths of every standing corpse. Only now did he finally understand how that came to be.

After the Tricky Silk entered the corner of the woman’s mouth, a tug, and the corpse stood upright, still with its eyes closed, standing motionless.

Feeling the connection to the Tricky Silk through the Stone of Fear in his hand, Yan Junze felt that he could control this female corpse.

With a mere thought, he immediately felt the Tricky Silk connected to the Stone of Fear quivering. This tremble was so slight that it would have been imperceptible to the naked eye had he not established a connection.

The female corpse began to move her shoulders and then took a step forward, but stopped immediately.

Maintaining the posture of having stepped forward, her head began to turn.

The male corpse possessed by Rock looked at Yan Junze, that wooden face showing a trace of surprise for the first time; he probably hadn’t expected Yan Junze to be able to perform these actions the first time he controlled a corpse.

But to Yan Junze, this wasn’t anything too difficult. After all, ever since Xiang Er possessed that perfect female corpse, Yan Junze had been watching her grow.

During that time, Xiang Er had discussed with him multiple times her confusions and misunderstandings about control since possessing the corpse. Sometimes Yan Junze could offer suggestions, but other times he was just as clueless.

Once Xiang Er figured it out, she occasionally gave feedback to him, and that’s when he came to understand.

So, compared to ordinary people with no such experience, Yan Junze was far from ignorant.

“You can practice with it first,” Rock said, walking out from the possessed male corpse and crawling back into his own burrow.

Without his control, the male corpse slumped to one side and lay motionless.

Yan Junze glanced at it but said nothing, instead carefully controlling and feeling the presence of the Tricky Silk.

He used not just the one female corpse for control tests but nearly all of the corpses that had not been corroded by Dark Poison and were usable, including the male corpse that Rock had just vacated.

He didn’t know how much time had passed, but after a while of manipulation, he felt fairly proficient.

At that moment, Rock’s tall and slender shadow emerged from the hole in the ground once again.

Simultaneously, a fluorescent glow appeared before Yan Junze’s eyes, and the text that had surfaced earlier reappeared.

He knew that because Rock wasn’t attached to a corpse, he couldn’t speak aloud and was instead using this method to communicate with him.

It was clear that this method of communication would become the main way the two of them interacted from now on.

The text that emerged read, “These are the requirements for this game, you and I, through the Stone of Fear and Tricky Silk, must startle one family each. The two families we startle must fall within the ‘not good people’ category as you’ve defined and we must only scare them without endangering their lives.”

Yan Junze nodded, “Right.”

“There are two families here. One bears the surname Meng, residing in Yannan District, Zhuhua City, running the largest leather factory in the area. They secretly discharge vast amounts of pollutants into the nearby rivers, the main culprits of local environmental pollution, causing downstream inhabitants to give birth to deformed children multiple times. The other family, surnamed Zeng, lives in Tianmeng District, Gaohe City. Eight years ago, in their rural hometown in Tianyi District, they had a dispute over a trivial matter with their neighbors. The couple killed the entire neighboring family, with their son participating in hiding the corpses. They then fled overnight, living incognito in Tianmeng’s Gaohe.”

Yan Junze looked down, watching the text appear on the ground.

With Rock’s abilities, getting this information wouldn’t be too difficult for him. He was just surprised about a place like Yannan District, which was already very far from Tianmeng; how could they complete the task from such a distance?

After pondering for a moment, Yan Junze asked, “During this game, do we need to act separately?”

Rock’s reply quickly surfaced on the ground.

“Tricky Silk can ignore distance constraints, you don’t even need to leave this underground space.”

Yan Junze thought for a bit and said, “I’m not like you. You control those people, I control the corpses here, so I still need to consider distance. Hmm, I’ll pick the Zeng family. Gaohe isn’t too far from Shuntian City.”

He paused, then added, “And you can directly control humans with Tricky Silk, so even if Yannan District, Zhuhua City is far, you can ignore that.”

Rock’s reply appeared before Yan Junze, “That works, the game begins from the moment we’ve chosen, when the Stone of Fear assigned to you is filled with the black fear it represents, that will be the moment the end comes. You’re quite interesting, I didn’t even notice how you got in here. If you lose this game, I’ll use Tricky Silk to pierce every single cell in your body and study you in detail.”

“And if you lose?” Yan Junze countered.

“I’ll let you go and leave this place, no longer pursuing the effects you and your friend who just escaped have had on me.”

Yan Junze nodded. It was only natural that Rock mistook him for a friend of Yan Junze of the current time period, otherwise no stranger would take the risk to entrap themselves in such a situation and face this horror that was incomprehensible in strength.

“However…” Yan Junze tapped his forehead with his index finger. Since entering this place, he had been careful not to touch anything other than the Stone of Fear for fear of Dark Poison.

Moreover, before touching the Stone of Fear, he made sure to check carefully for any signs of Dark Poison before daring to hold it in his hand.

“However what?”

“I’ve been at a disadvantage from the start of this game,” Yan Junze said. “You control humans who could be relatives or even the targets themselves, maximizing the sense of terror, but I don’t have that. You control ordinary people as the perfect means of hiding, unnoticed by others and catching them entirely off guard for the greatest effect of terror, but I don’t have that either. Think about it, if a corpse keeps appearing in public to scare people, the chances of being discovered by an exorcist are high. How can I complete the game then?”

Rock barely hesitated before immediately answering the question with text.

“It’s simple, although you can’t directly control ordinary people, you can use a subsidiary thread of Tricky Silk to connect to the target you want to scare, and the main thread to the corpse. In this way, only the target will be able to see the corpse, creating a customized fright exclusive to them. To anyone else, the corpse will be invisible.”

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Yan Junze’s face lit up with understanding, smiling he said, “I think I have no more questions, we can start now.”

And then, a line of bold text appeared on the ground: “Let’s begin.”