I can rewind time to prevent death

At this point, the hospital no longer posed any danger to the mother and daughter, so even though the Back-faced Woman made quite a racket, it was no issue at all.

"Are they eating people in that room?" the old man was still somewhat incredulous.

His words were precisely what Yan Junze wanted to ask.

Garcia nodded, "When the Enke Search Team later rushed to the hospital, according to the footage from the drone, they carefully inspected that room and found traces of human blood and fingerprints, but no bodies were found. They were probably completely consumed by the two strangenesses."

"There was... blood in that room!?" Yan Junze was startled by his explanation.

He remembered that during his first Great Rewind upon arriving in Zhen City, he had stayed in the room with the Back-faced Woman the whole time and indeed had not checked the next room.

When the Back-faced Woman called for Ke'er, Ke'er had run in from outside, likely having been in the next room the entire time.

"What on earth is in the next room? Why are there bloodstains?" He was puzzled.

After hearing Garcia's explanation, the old man no longer had doubts and nodded slightly before asking, "What's with that woman's body, though?"

Garcia explained, "It appears to be due to her cause of death. We examined the footage closely and analyzed that her neck was twisted, her head turned 180 degrees to the back, which is why she was always walking backwards."

The old man had nothing more to say.

Garcia continued and pressed the play button on the video.

In the footage, after the Back-faced Woman shouted the word "Yan," she looked around and suddenly noticed a drone circling in the air above.

"Ke... Ke..."

Ke'er quickly jumped onto her, clinging tightly. The mother and daughter's hair intertwined, forming powerful strands and, looking at the drone, their guard rose to the extreme.

However, during this process, Yan Junze noticed in the video that Ke'er's right palm was clutching tightly onto a heart, one he had seen beating more than once.

He remembered that during the second Great Rewind at the supermarket, he hadn't seen anything unusual about the mother and daughter, nor had he seen Ke'er holding any heart.

It was possible then that Ke'er had found the heart in the hospital.

The old man raised his eyebrows slightly and pointed his index finger at the intertwined hair of the mother and daughter duo, sensing the heightened aura and blurted out, "Tibam Co-evolution!"

When he first viewed the video, Garcia was not quite sure if it really was Tibam Co-evolution, but now seeing the old man pointing definitively at the footage of the mother and daughter, he became certain of his guess.

This was indeed the effect of Tibam Co-evolution.

"Damn Hardy! Damn Enke Search Team!" Garcia cursed vehemently.

If it hadn't been for those guys switching targets to capture the so-called Sand Corpse instead of continuing to track the Back-faced Woman and her daughter, the special strangenesses on this high platform would have already been completely assembled, and they could have directly initiated the "Oath."

"First, put the ritual on hold and continue searching for this kind of strangeness with Tibam Co-evolution effect in USA. At the same time, send two of our strongest squads to Huaying once more, focusing on searching for these two strangenesses, one large and one small," the old man commanded in a deep voice.

"And the Book of Oath?" Garcia pointed to the position in the middle of the high platform.

Yan Junze followed the direction of his pointing and only then noticed that there was an ancient book, resembling a hefty tome, lying quietly in the middle of the high platform. The book was open, but its covers were facing upwards, with its pages spread on the ground.

Since the cover was a similar dark yellow color to the high platform floor, one indeed might not notice the book's existence without paying close attention.

The book's cover seemed very sturdy, appearing almost as thick as half a finger joint, and it did not seem to be made of hard paper but rather some kind of wood material.

Due to the distance, Yan Junze gave it a glance and could only guess.

The old man replied to Garcia, "Close the book for now; we'll open it again next time."

Yan Junze did not plan to go over and carefully examine that ancient book any further because, after the old man had spoken, the text prompt in front of him popped up again.

[This is the first ripple event of the current Butterfly Effect. Do you wish to play the remaining 2202 ripple events?]

Having understood the rough cause of this Butterfly Effect, Yan Junze thought it unnecessary to continue watching; he certainly didn't have time to review each event one by one.

"No need to play it further; correct this ripple event and proceed to fix all remaining ripple events," Yan Junze thought to himself.

The images in front of him quickly rewound back to the moment when the old man asked Garcia if the drone had captured any footage.

Garcia nodded lightly, but his expression was a bit embarrassed: "We did capture it, but the footage is very blurry. We could vaguely see shadows moving on the hospital roof, but it's unclear what they were."

Then Garcia had his subordinate bring over the tablet and opened the video to show the old man.

Yan Junze leaned in and could see that the video was indeed incredibly blurry compared to the one he had just watched. It seemed as though it had been interfered with during filming, and hardly anything was clear, only faint shadows could be made out.

In the end, even the shadows disappeared from the footage, leaving nothing but a large black screen.

"They are all useless," the old man said in annoyance, his voice grave, "Put the ritual on hold for now, deploy all the small squads to search in USA. We must find the strangeness with the Tibam Co-evolution effect in the shortest possible time."