Rebirth: Love in the Apocalypse - Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Energy Stones
‘Could it really be an energy stone?’ She wondered, eager to confirm her guess.

However, she didn’t dare to go too far.

After all, Mo Chenxuan was still recovering and couldn’t exert his full strength.

Thinking of this, Qin Wu glanced at Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong.

“The energy seems to be denser towards the inner area of the village.” She said and Lin Rongrong nodded in agreement.

“I feel the same.” She said and quickly continued.

“Sister Qin, shall we go to investigate?”

“Brother Chenxuan is still recovering and I don’t feel at ease leaving him here. Will you be okay to go alone?” Qin Wu asked, looking at her two teammates.

“We are only going to find the place with the densest energy. Don’t worry.”

After that, Lin Rongrong and Xu Fei left the house while Qin Wu stayed to guard Mo Mochenxuan.

An hour later, Mo Chenxuan opened his eyes and looked at Qin Wu.

“How ae you doing?” Qin Wu asked with a worried expression.

“Don’t worry. I will be fine after a few days of recuperation.”

Qin Wu nodded when she heard that and then eagerly questioned Mo Chenxuan.

“Brother Chenxuan, did you notice any strange energy while you were meditating?”

“You too?”

“Not just me. Rongrong and brother Xu also noticed it. They have gone to find the source.”

“The source is only a few houses away. Shall we also go?”

“Okay.”

When Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu found Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong, the couple were discussing the merits of using dynamite to collapse the ground.

“What if we destroy the source of the energy?” Lin Rongrong couldn’t help but worry.

For her, the energy was a godsend opportunity and she didn’t dare to risk its destruction.

“How else can we go down there?”

“We can dig.”

“Dig?” Xu Fei couldn’t help but be shocked.

He didn’t know how far underground the tunnel was.

If the tunnel wasn’t too deep underground, digging was not an issue. However, if the tunnel was too deep down…

Before Xu Fei could voice his opinion, he saw Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu.

“Is brother Mo feeling better?” He asked.

“A lot better, thank you.” Mo Chenxuan said, nodding at the couple.

“Sister, this place has the densest energy. What do you think?” Lin Rongrong asked and Qin Wu nodded.

Using his spiritual eyes, Mo Chenxuan could see underground.

Because of this, he knew what they were looking for was directly beneath where they were standing.

Unfortunately, he still couldn’t see what the treasure was.

“You are right. What we are looking for should be down below.”

“I think it’s better to dig than use explosives on this area. Brother Mo, Sister Qin, do you think I am right?”

Qin Wu frowned.

She didn’t know how far from the surface the cave and tunnels were.

Although she knew ordinary explosives could not destroy energy stones, she didn’t know how to reveal this without sounding suspicious.

“I suspect we may have discovered an energy stone.” Mo Chenxuan said and Qin Wu couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Energy stone?” Lin Rongrong asked, her eyes widened in curiousity.

“I overheard about energy stones when Qin Wu and I were looking around the market. It seems that a few people have discovered energy stones since the apocalypse began.”

This was off course a lie!

As far as Mo Chenxuan knew, energy stones didn’t enter the public’s eye until the third year of the apocalypse.

Even then, the crystals were legendary items that everyone knew about but only a few had ever seen.

Fortunately, Mo Chenxuan managed to get one in the twelfth year of the apocalypse.

Because of that, he recognised the familiar fluctuations of an energy stone when he neared the place with the densest energy.

“Energy stone? What is it?” Lin Rongrong asked.

“It’s a diamond-like stone that is filled with attribute-less superpower energy.” Mo Chenxuan said and the others couldn’t help but feel excited.

“Like a spirit stone.” Xu Fei said, recalling the spirit stones mentioned in the cultivation dramas he used to act in.

“Indeed.” Qin Wu chuckled.

She originally thought it would difficult to explain how they knew about energy stones but Mo Chenxuan solved it in crudest but most effective way.

By stating that they heard it in the market, he implied that they didn’t actually know the source of the information.

That way, Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong couldn’t get to the bottom of things.

“I heard energy stones are harder than diamonds and can’t be destroyed using ordinary means. It doesn’t matter if we use explosives to collapse the ground.” Qin Wu said but Lin Rongrong was a little unconvinced.

After all, they didn’t know for sure that the treasure was an energy stone.

What if it wasn’t an energy stone?

Wouldn’t using explosives risk destroying the treasure?

After thinking about it, she expressed her opinion and the others considered it seriously.

However, after several backs and forth, they still chose to use explosives to collapse the ground.

After all, they had many time-sensitive mentions.

Considering that, they couldn’t spend too much time in Yejia village.

After settling the matter, Qin Wu removed several demotion explosives from her storage space.

Looking at the explosives, Mo Chenxuan narrowed his eyes.

‘After the team levels up, we need to find time to collect the arsenal in the secret bunker.’ He thought.

Although the bunker wasn’t discovered until more than ten years into the apocalypse, Mo Chenxuan didn’t want to take his time.

On one hand, pre-apocalypse weapons were only useful in the early days of the apocalypse.

If he waited until later, the weapons would miss their opportunity to play their greatest role.

However, if he collected them now, not only could the weapons increase their firepower, they could also be used to recruit an army.

Thinking of this, Mo Chenxuan made up his mind.

However, he didn’t say anything but shifted his attention to the current mission.

“In ten.” Xu Fei warned and everyone nodded while retreating from the area.

Ten seconds later, a loud ‘bang’ reverberated in the surroundings and the ground shook for several seconds before settling down.

“Did it work?” Lin Rongrong eagerly asked.

“It worked.” Mo Chenxuan said, leading the team towards the collapsed the ground.

The collapsed had a diameter of ten metres.

From the edge of the hole, the four could see a cave and several tunnels connected to it.

However, debris covered most of the cave and they didn’t see any energy stones.

Still, after the ground collapsed, the superpower energy became two to three times denser than before.

“The energy has become denser.” Lin Rongrong exclaimed, ready to jump into the cave to claim the precious energy stones.

“Our guess was right. There is definitely an energy stone down there.” Qin Wu was also excited.

With the energy stone, Mo Chenxuan could finally advance to level three.

When she thought that advancing would cure her man’s headaches, Qin Wu could barely supress the instinct to jump into the cave.

“We need to move the debris.” Xu Fei said but Qin Wu rolled her eyes.

“No need.” She said.

“No need? Sister Qin, do you have a way?” Lin Rongrong asked.

“I will collect the debris into my storage space.” Qin Wu said and quickly continued.

“I will return it after we search the cave.”

“Why didn’t I think of this?” Lin Rongrong hit her forehead and a trace of annoyance flashed in her eyes.

After that, Qin Wu jumped down, touched a piece of debris and all the connected rocks were collected into the space.

Barely three minutes later, all the debris was cleared and a large cave was revealed.

At the same time, the four saw many sharp stones sticking out of the cave walls.

“Are they energy stones?” Lin Rongrong asked.

“They should be.” Xu Fei said.

In cultivation dramas, spirit stone mines were usually described like this.

Drawing inference from that, he automatically concluded they had encountered an energy stones’ mine.

‘I wonder how many energy stones are here. Will there be low grade, mid-grade, high grade, and peak grade energy stones?’ He wondered.

However, he soon realised he was thinking too much.

After working hard for two days and nights, they only found sixty-seven pieces of energy stones.

Most importantly, the energy stones were of the same grade and there was no distinction in quality.

That said, some of the energy stones were as big as an adult head while others were only the size of a baby’s fist.

“We are lucky that no one came to Yejia village in the past two days but there is no guarantee we will continue to be lucky. Let’s put the stones away and deal with them after we return to the villa.” Mo Chenxuan suggested and everyone agreed.

Soon after, Qin Wu collected the energy stones and dumped the debris she had previously collected before the team left the village.