Rebirth: Love in the Apocalypse - Chapter 69

Chapter 69: Pleasant Surprise
Qin Wu was shocked.

When a superpower advanced, their core would not increase in size.

Rather, their internal energy would be purified which increased their fighting power and endurance.

This was the first time that Qin Wu heard of an enlarged power core.

“Could it be because you have awakened several abilities?” She asked.

“I have only awakened five abilities but the power core is twenty times larger.”

Qin Wu fell silent when she heard that.

She didn’t know what was going on and could only take Mo Chenxuan’s hand to comfort him.

“Are you uncomfortable in any way?” She asked but the man shook his head.

He felt refreshed and powerful.

Although he didn’t have much energy in his core, he felt like he could fight ten thousand rounds without getting tired.

However, Mo Chenxuan knew his feeling was just the high of breaking through.

If he was really asked to fight ten thousand rounds, he would likely be exhausted before the hundredth round.

“Wu’er, I feel okay and there is nothing to worry about for the time being. Let’s take things as they come.”

“Okay.” Qin Wu agreed.

There was nothing she could do even though she was worried.

For now, she could only keep an eye on Mo Chenxuan to make sure that nothing strange happened to him.

“How was your practice?” Mo Chenxuan asked, looking at the energy stone in Qin Wu’s hand.

Following the look, Qin Wu also stared at the stone and immediately peppered up.

“Brother Chenxuan, the energy stone is so good. I didn’t expect it to have so much energy.” She exclaimed and Mo Chenxuan nodded.

Breaking through required a lot of energy but a few crystal cores were enough to meet the need.

However, this time, Mo Chenxuan needed more than a few.

Unlike Qin Wu who only absorbed a small part of her energy stone, Mo Chenxuan not only refined his energy stone but also an additional three hundred purified level two crystal cores.

Speaking of energy stones, Qin Wu recalled the three stones she soaked in space water.

With a thought, three basins appeared before the two.

“This is…” Mo Chenxuan started but soon stopped, his eyes narrowed into beads.

“Wu’er, look.” He said in an excited voice.

However, he didn’t need to say anything because Qin Wu had already seen what he was excited about.

Of the three basins, two had not changed and the energy stone was still the same.

However, there was an energy stone and one bead in the remaining basin.

At a glance, the energy stone had not changed.

It’s size, weight, and colour were the same as before it was soaked in the basin of space water.

However, for some reason, an extra bead had appeared at the bottom of the basin.

“This bead, …, could it be an energy bead?” Qin Wu wondered, reaching into the basin to take the bead.

A moment later, she held the bead and mobilized her superpower.

Soon after, a stream of pure energy flowed from the palm of her hand, through her meridians, and into her power core.

At the same time, the bead shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“It’s indeed an energy bead.” Qin Wu exclaimed with a happy voice.

“How is the effect?” Mo Chenxuan asked.

“The same as an energy stone. The only difference is that the bead has less energy than the stone.”

“Good.” Mo Chenxuan nodded with a thoughtful expression.

“Brother Chenxuan…”

“Wu’er, I have advanced and my space water is a little more potent. Let’s soak all the energy stones in a mixture of the new space water.”

“Okay.” Qin Wu immediately agreed.

If they could farm a large number of energy beads, she and Mo Chenxuan didn’t need to rely on crystal cores for their practice.

Thinking this way, Qin Wu immediately felt energetic and removed a large bathtub from her space.

Soon after, the two put all the energy stones in the tub and covered them with their space water.

However, after doing that, Qin Wu suddenly startled.

“We forgot to check the efficacy of the energy stones I previously soaked in the space water.” She said but Mo Chenxuan smiled and rubbed her hair.

“I already checked. The efficacy has not been affected.”

“When did you check?” Qin Wu asked in a suspicious voice.

“When you went inside to collect your space water.”

“Awh.” Qin Wu sighed and her body relaxed.

“Brother Chenxuan, should we reveal the energy beads to Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong?”

“No.” Mo Chenxuan immediately answered.

So far, they had exposed the purified crystal cores but not the space water and farmable land in Qin Wu’s space.

Considering that, Mo Chenxuan didn’t want to reveal the energy beads.

“I also think so.” Qin Wu nodded.

Their space and space water were becoming more and more mysterious.

Because of this, Qin Wu didn’t feel safe exposing more secrets even if Xu Fei and Lin Rongrong were their trusted teammates.

“We will give them some energy beads if there is an opportunity in the future.”

“I will listen to you.” Mo Chenxuan smiled.

After that, the two showered and caught up on sleep.

Two hours later, they woke up, cleaned up and met the Xu couple for breakfast before packing up and leaving the outskirts of Yejia village.

Because they spent too much time in Yejia, the team rushed to their second destination and quickly completed the next few tasks.

Retrieving a photo album…

Checking and recording the state of the network tower near …

Collecting large cooking pots from a nearby school…

Collecting mutant plant seeds…

The team completed their tasks and eight days later, they arrived at their final destination.

At a glance, the suburbs looked ordinary.

There were no zombies loitering the streets and no mutant plants along the sidewalks.

The place was superficially peaceful but the four were not fooled.

“Brother Mo, do you see anything?” Lin Rongrong asked.

She still thought that Mo Chenxuan had enhanced vision.

At this time, she naturally turned to him to see if he saw more than they did.

“Zombie and mutated animals. They are all domestic pets that probably used to live in this suburb.” Mo Chenxuan said with a solemn expression.

“How many?” Qin Wu asked, also with a solemn face.

Compared to human zombies, zombie animals and mutated beasts were more powerful.

Most importantly, zombie animals had a higher chance of mutating than human zombies or superpowers.

Because of this, encountering a zombie animal or mutated beast was a risky gamble.

If one won, they would get a powerful crystal core but if they lost, they would die without a burial place.

In Yejia village, Mo Chenxuan and the team won because the zombie rats were powerful but not intelligent.

However, that was a rare combination and unlikely to be duplicated at other places.

Fortunately, team Legends had encountered many life and death situations on their way to the city B base and had long learned to always be cautious.

Even after breezing through Yejia, they were not complacent and treated every opponent as a powerful enemy.

“Seventeen. All level two.”

Qin Wu and the others tensed when they heard that.

From the perspective of Yejia, seventeen, level two zombie beasts were nothing to be afraid of.

However, the team didn’t it that way.

In Yejia, they had an advantage in terrain because they could control when and how many rats they would face.

Unfortunately, that was not the case in this suburb.

If they were not careful, they would be besieged by the seventeen zombie animals and surviving, let alone completing the mission would be a difficult task.

“Are the zombie animals in the direction we are supposed to be heading?” Xu Fei asked, prompting Qin Wu to look at the map.

“Brother Chenxuan, have a look.” She said.

A moment later, Mo Chenxuan sighed and nodded with a solemn expression.

“We can’t avoid them.”

“Can we divide them?”

This time, Mo Chenxuan didn’t answer right away.

From what he saw, the zombie and mutated animals were fighting while eyeing a building.

If Mo Chenxuan had to guess, he supposed there were survivors in that building which had attracted the zombie animals.

Based on that, it was very difficult to draw the enemy from the area but it wasn’t impossible.

Thinking this way, he turned to Qin Wu but soon frowned.

If they had blood, they could use it to remotely lure some zombie animals away from the building.

Unfortunately, hospitals were high risk areas and the two hadn’t had a chance to collect some blood bags.

‘Do we really need to use ourselves to lure the zombies?’ He wondered.

If there were no survivors in that building, Mo Chenxuan and his team would be able to easily lure the zombies.

However, they were just four people and to the zombies, four couldn’t compare to the dozens in the building.