Rebirth: Love in the Apocalypse - Chapter 68

Chapter 68: Mo Chenxuan Advances
“Brother Chenxuan, are you okay?” Qin Wu whispered, looking at Mo Chenxuan with a concerned face.

“Mmh.” Mo Chenxuan nodded but secretly grit his teeth.

His head was pounding and his sight was a little blurry.

However, he didn’t want to expose his weakness in front of Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong.

For that reason, he downplayed his condition and squeezed Qin Wu’s hand to reassure her.

After sitting down, three pairs of eyes fell on Mo Chenxuan.

“We are in the middle of a mission and don’t have time to retreat. I suggest we each take one energy stone and leave the rest for when we return to the base.” The man suggested.

“I don’t mind.” Lin Rongrong said and Xu Fei nodded.

With that, each of the four took a fist-sized energy stone and the rest were left in Qin Wu’s space.

“Let’s resume our journey tomorrow morning.”

After that, the couples went to their rooms.

“Wu’er, I will enter the space to advance.” Mo Chenxuan said as soon as the door closed behind them.

“Good.” Qin Wu didn’t keep him.

A moment later, Mo Chenxuan entered the space and Qin Wu sighed.

‘I also want to advance to level three.’ She thought but didn’t dwell on it.

While Mo Chenxuan was advancing, Qin Wu entered her space.

When they were in City T, she and Mo Chenxuan planted a batch of vegetables and fruits including cabbages, carrots, onions, potatoes, peppers, garlic, ginger, radish, cucumbers, eggplants, sweet potatoes, and strawberries.

Unexpectedly, these fruits and vegetables matured much faster than they would have when planted outside.

As a result, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu occasionally entered the space to harvest and plant new food.

At the moment, the farmable land was divided into five equal plots.

The first plot had Bok choy, the second had bitter melon, the third had potatoes, the fourth had tomatoes, and the last had peanuts.

These vegetables had only been planted for a little more than a week but they were already showing signs of maturity.

Seeing this, Qin Wu nodded in satisfaction.

She and Mo Chenxuan didn’t need so many fruits and vegetables.

However, they had the Zhang couple, the Legends team, and the affiliated team.

Over time, the number of their dependants would increase and the demand for vegetables would only get larger.

Considering that, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu didn’t relax and always made sure that the land wasn’t idle.

After checking the vegetables, Qin Wu moved to the livestock sheds.

In the past several months, she and Mo Chenxuan occasionally slaughtered a chicken, pig, or other animal.

However, their consumption wasn’t significant so the sheds were still filled with animals.

After ensuring that everything was in place, she moved to the warehouse.

At a glance, the space was three quarters empty.

However, this was expected.

Because Mo Chenxuan’s two spaces were still a secret to Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong, Qin Wu secretly transferred some goods to the man’s space.

This way, her space always had room, ensuring Mo Chenxuan would not be forced to expose his space in order to store more supplies.

As a result, Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong had come to believe that Qin Wu’s space was infinite.

After all, they had found many goods along the way but Qin Wu always had space to collect them.

“I need to transfer some noodle cartons from brother Chenxuan’s space.” Qin Wu muttered and left the warehouse.

This time, she appeared in her space villa.

Although Qin Wu preferred living in Mo Chenxuan’s space, she had still assembled a small villa in her own space.

This villa was fully furnished and could be lived in at any time.

At this time, Qin Wu entered the sitting room and opened a box placed at the centre of the room.

This box contained the energy stones.

At first, Qin Wu didn’t have any business with the stones.

However, while she was walking around the space, she saw the well and suddenly had an idea.

Generally, space water had a purifying effect.

Although the energy stones weren’t tainted by the zombie virus, Qin Wu was curious and wanted to see what would happen if they were soaked in space water.

However, part of the energy stones belonged to Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong.

Considering that, Qin Wu didn’t soak all the stones and only chose three small stones.

After choosing, she dunked one in a basin of her space water, another in a basin of Mo Chenxuan’s space water, and the last was put in a basin of their combined space water.

Unfortunately, there was no immediate reaction between the energy stones and the space water.

Seeing this, Qin Wu was not disappointed.

Instead, she left the space and began practising in hers and Mo Chenxuan’s bedroom in the outside villa.

Six hours passed in the blink of an eye.

During the past six hours, Qin Wu used the energy stone and her superpower increased a lot.

However, she was still a little far from level three and couldn’t feel the barrier.

That said, the energy stone was better than she expected.

After six hours of practice, the stone had only lost a little weight but was still the size of a baby’s fist.

Looking at the stone, Qin Wu couldn’t help but feel excited.

“This stone is more than a hundred times better than a level two crystal core.” She muttered.

“You are right.” A voice agreed and Qin Wu raised her head.

“Brother Chenxuan.” She called; her voice laced with concern.

“I have successfully advanced.” Mo Chenxuan said but a trace of complexity flashed in his eyes.

“Is your body okay? Is the headache gone?”

“Don’t worry. I no longer have a headache.” Mo Chenxuan said and Qin Wu sighed in relief.

In her heart, Mo Chenxuan was the most important.

She hoped Mo Chenxuan could always be healthy and happy.

Because of this, her heart had been restless over the past few days, hoping she could do something to cure the man’s headache.

Fortunately, the breakthrough cured the problem.

However, when she thought of it, Qin Wu couldn’t help but worry.

“Brother Chenxuan, will this happen every time you are about to advance?” She asked with a worried expression.

Mo Chenxuan wanted to lie when he heard the question.

However, this was Qin Wu; his beloved woman and trusted partner.

Even if he lied to everyone in the world, Mo Chenxuan didn’t want to lie or hide things from Qin Wu.

“Wu’er, I wish I could promise that it won’t happen again. However, the truth is that I don’t know. I don’t actually know what is happening within my body.” He said with a solemn face.

“Did something happen?” Qin Wu immediately realised that something was not right.

Mo Chenxuan nodded when he heard the question.

A moment later, he sat beside Qin Wu and took the woman’s hand.

“Wu’er, I have awakened another superpower.” He said and Qin Wu couldn’t help but be shocked.

Before the advancement, Mo Chenxuan had four abilities – lightning, fire, spiritual power, and brain enhancement.

After awakening another, wouldn’t he have five?

Fortunately, Qin Wu was a relatively calm person and she soon suppressed her shock.

“Which ability?” She asked.

“Earth.” Mo Chenxuan answered.

At the same time, he flipped his hand and a brown brick appeared on his palm.

This brick was transformed from his supernatural power but was indistinguishable from an ordinary brick.

“How about your other abilities? Have they changed?”

Mo Chenxuan nodded.

“They have become more powerful but they haven’t developed new skills or mutations.”

“Brother Chenxuan, will you really awaken all the elemental abilities?” Qin Wu couldn’t help but ask.

On one hand, she was happy for Mo Chenxuan but on the other, she was worried sick.

Awakening more abilities meant Mo Chenxuan had more ways to protect himself.

However, it also meant he was a better and more unique subject for research.

If those unscrupulous researchers got a hold him, Mo Chenxuan would likely never see the light of day for the remainder of his life.

Thinking of this, Qin Wu clenched her hands a trace of murderous intent flashed in her eyes.

‘I will never allow anyone to harm brother Chenxuan.’ She silently swore.

“Wu’er, something else happened.” Mo Chenxuan started and Qin Wu immediately looked at the man.

“What?”

“My crystal core has widened.”

Mo Chenxuan awakened a grey power core.

Other than the strange colour, the core was otherwise ordinary and was no different from other power cores.

This time, the core widened to twenty times the normal size.

As a result, the energy in his core seemed like a drop of water in a larger bowl.

If he and the team didn’t need to leave Yejia village, Mo Chenxuan would have stayed in seclusion to try and increase the energy in his core.

However, he didn’t want to delay the team so he came out.

“How big is it?” Qin Wu asked.

“Twenty times the size of an ordinary core.”