Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Healing Plants

“They are about to die.”

Grace said while pointing at a wooden crate in which they planted tomatoes. The more she looked at crates that were in similar situations, the more exasperated she felt.

Since she had been busy with other matters, she barely visited the rooftop greenhouse in the past few weeks, and as a result, almost every other pot or crate was filled with dying plants.

“Who was responsible for looking after this place again?” She asked, turning to face the group of six people who followed her to tend to the greenhouse this particular morning.

She watched as they all exchanged glances among each other before Seth answered her question. “You didn’t assign anyone for the task.”

That’s right. She was the real culprit as she completely forgot about taking care of this important matter. Even though she had thoroughly set up the greenhouse so that it would require least amount of daily care, but that didn’t mean it should be left on its own to thrive, especially when the temperature outside had dropped to -20°C.

A deep sigh escaped Grace’s lips and she returned her attention back to the crates arranged around the rooftop. Now because of her carelessness, they would need to work from the very scratch once again.

She was about to tell the team to separate the crates with already dead, or almost dying plants, when she noticed Dr. Kian stepping toward a crate with almost dead bell pepper plants.

Without distracting him with her question, she watched in silence as he stretched out his hand and placed his fingers in the soil of the crate. The realization of what he was trying to do hit her just seconds before she noticed the golden light leaving his fingers and seeping into the soil.

What happened next left everyone stunned. Grace, the rest of the five members, and even Dr. Kian – they all stood there staring at the plants that suddenly turned bright green from their deadly yellow and brown state, looking alive and fresh as if they weren’t on the verge of death just seconds ago.

“That’s… cool.”

Someone among the rest five broke the silence, pulling everyone out of the trance that had settled over them. Dr. Kian turned to look at Grace and she smiled at him, both praising and encouraging him.

As if her support was what he needed, he returned his attention to another crate with almost dead plants and once again performed the magic of his healing powers.

That’s right. His healing powers could heal… not only humans, but any other being that held the strength of being healed. It was something no one thought about, not even Grace or Davian as they never heard or witnessed anything of this sort in their previous timeline.

Even though there were some known people who inherited the superpower of healing in the previous timeline, these people mostly worked for either the government or the rich people, and they only healed humans.

People with the healing powers were known as healers and despite their unique powers, they were still not strong enough to heal anyone with zombie bites. The most they could do was to heal people with wounds or illness. But there wasn’t even a single incident where any healer was seen healing a plant, tree, or an animal.

“How are you doing this?” Grace found herself asking as she watched Dr. Kian healing another pot of nearly dead plants. She was intrigued to know how he was using his powers, especially when it hadn’t been too long since he unlocked his powers and had barely learned to use them.

In response, he just gave a little shake of his head as he too didn’t know how he ended up doing what he did. “I was just wondering if my healing powers will work on these plants and wanted to test it.” He began as he found a pot with all dead plants just for a tiny one that was barely surviving.

“Rune told me that there are many ways to make our powers work, but the easiest and most effective among them was just to let our powers know what we really want. Once we learn that, to convey our truest messages to our powers, we start controlling our powers from then on. So that’s exactly what I did. I tried to tell my powers that I want to revive these plants, and somehow, it did work.”

It sounded so simple, but Grace knew the truth was far from that. Forming this implies form of connection with one’s power was the hardest part of all. Even after weeks of continous practice, she was nowhere near as good with her connection to her power as Dr. Kian was.

“It’s not working on these ones.” Dr. Kian said once he realized that despite his constant tries, his powers were failing to revive the dead plants. So far, the plants he had successfully revived were the ones that were on the verge of dying, but this particular pot was filled with dead plants except for one. That one plant did become alive, but as for the others, they showed no sign of recovery.

Grace gave his shoulder a light squeeze, trying to comfort him. “It’s alright. We will replace them with new ones.”

Dr. Kian gave a little nod of his head in response before he moved to revive another crate of almost dead plants. On the other hand, Grace distributed the work among the rest of the team to find the pots with dead plants and take those plants out so that they could be replaced with seeds.

For the rest of the morning, they all worked diligently, plating new seeds and then tending the pots with flourishing plants. It was just a matter of time before the rooftop greenhouse was going to start producing its first batch of harvest.

And this time, Grace didn’t repeat her previous mistake as she appointed a group of four people to look after the greenhouse.