Chapter 59: Three of the Five Must Be Redundant
"We've left Chongqing and are now in Hubei." Qin Shiyu patted Momo's head. "Momo, stop and rest for a while. There's a pond over there. Drink some water."
Li Huiyin was drooping in the sun and whimpered, "Why is it so hot?... Hasn't it gotten colder? Why is it so hot today?"
"What terrible weather." Xu Zhiyang couldn't help but licking her lips. Within two seconds, Zhu Ci handed her an opened bottle of mineral water.
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Meeting Xu Zhiyang's doubtful gaze, Zhu Ci raised his hand disapprovingly and said, "Drink some water."
"Oh." Xu Zhiyang took it and took a sip, then tightened the bottle and put it back. "I'm not too thirsty yet, and I don't know how far the next town is, so I'll save it."
Li Huiyin said weakly: "Why doesn't anyone care about me?"
Xu Zhiyang: "You still have a row of Wahaha in your backpack, okay?"
No one cared about Mu Ke either: "Go down and rest for a while. You'll get heatstroke if you stay in the sun for too long."
Several people nodded in agreement, slid down from Momo's back, and found a tree to rest in the shade.
Before he sat down, Zhu Ci noticed movement in the treetops. He looked up and saw a squirrel over one meter tall.
The squirrel was holding a bloody head of an unknown animal and was chewing it happily. When it saw a few humans trespassing into its territory, it immediately bared its teeth and pretended to rush down to bite them.
Xu Zhiyang was caught off guard and had blood-stained saliva splashed all over him. His face immediately darkened: "Brother, kill it, it has no energy!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Ci raised his hand and made a light stroke. Everyone felt a gust of wind passing by, and the squirrel was broken into two halves.
Zhuci absorbed the wood energy, "This squirrel has a lot of energy."
Qin Shiyu quickly asked, "How long will it take for you to advance to the second level, big brother?"
Zhu Ci pondered for two seconds. "It will probably take another two months. I've killed many small mutant birds with wood energy along the way, and I've spared almost no animals with wood energy... But if I can find a powerful wood energy animal, I'll reach the second level faster."
Qin Shiyu nodded and asked the other two, "Brother Mu, Sister Yin, what about you?"
Li Huiyin sighed: "I'm probably the slowest. I'm at level one and a half now."
Mu Ke: "I entered the second level around the same time as Zhu Ci."
Without waiting for Qin Shiyu to look over, Xu Zhiyang spoke lazily: "Wood energy is at the first level, and gold, water, fire, earth, and half of the zero level. It's a bit difficult to reach the first level, but my healing ability is getting stronger and stronger, and my energy storage can store more than before."
"Well, I'm making progress every day." Qin Shiyu continued to record in his little notebook.
Xu Zhiyang suddenly asked, "What about you? How far have you come?"
Qin Shiyu pushed his glasses up on his nose a little embarrassedly: "I'm not even at level one and a half, there's almost no change."
"No rush." Li Huiyin touched his head: "Take your time."
Xu Zhiyang: "Well, don't worry, I'll help you... But anyway, I'm going to go take a bath in the pool first, this squirrel's saliva is too smelly..."
Momo was playing with the water by the pond. When he saw him coming, he quickly put away his paws and sat on the ground obediently.
Xu Zhiyang smiled and said, "It's okay, go ahead and play. I'm going downstairs to take a shower."
Momo understood, barked, and wanted to jump down too.
"No way." Xu Zhiyang shook her head, "You're too big, it will get stuck in there."
This small pond was relatively shallow and clear, with the water reaching Xu Zhiyang's waist. He simply took off his shirt and washed himself.
It was not until he got ashore and changed into clean clothes that Xu Zhiyang realized that the weather seemed to have changed again. It was extremely hot just now, but now it was cloudy and windy.
Li Huiyin had been sleeping under the shade of a tree for a while when she was woken up by the cold. She sneezed loudly as soon as she opened her eyes.
Mu Ke glanced at the increasingly dark sky and said, "Put on your coat. The weather is going to change."
Zhu Ci quickly opened his backpack and took out a jacket with a tag still on it that he had searched the villa. Li Huiyin saw this and quickly took it with a look of surprise, "Oh, big brother, when did you become so thoughtful?"
"..." Zhu Ci glanced at Xu Zhiyang who was walking towards him with her hair still dripping. The hand holding the clothes paused for two seconds before finally giving it to Li Huiyin.
Xu Zhiyang raised her eyebrows, said nothing, and just sat aside.
A moment later, a coat that still had body temperature was placed on Xu Zhiyang's shoulders.
You don't have to look back to know who it belongs to.
Only Zhuci has this habit. No matter how hot it is, he always wears long sleeves and long pants to cover himself tightly.
Li Huiyin: "I was careless..."
"Let's go. It's best to get to the town before nightfall." Qin Shiyu urged.
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Relying on the compass and map along the way, Momo knew the distance to the next town was not far, so he didn't walk too fast. After an hour, the buildings covered by plants in the distance could be vaguely seen.
However, unfortunately, heavy rain came.
Everyone was soaked and there was no time to enter the town, so Qin Shiyu could only let Momo stop under a big tree to rest.
"Luckily the tree grew taller after the mutation, otherwise we would have been soaked to death along the way."
Li Huiyin huddled pitifully beside Xu Zhiyang, shivering from the cold. Qin Shiyu's face also turned pale, and he could only feel warm by staying close to Xu Zhiyang.
Zhu Ci and Mu Ke braved the rain and picked up some dry branches that were not yet soaked and placed them in front of Xu Zhiyang. Xu Zhiyang immediately reached out to mobilize the fire energy, and a flame appeared in his palm.
Xu Zhiyang used the flames to dry the branches and lit a fire. After several people gathered around the fire for a while, they felt their frozen limbs slowly recover.
At this time, there was no distinction between men and women, and no one cared to look at each other. They all took off their clothes and changed into clean clothes in their backpacks. They put the wet clothes aside and waited for the fire to dry them.
Xu Zhiyang saw that Li Huiyin was a little embarrassed, and knew that no matter how carefree this girl was, she would not be embarrassed to undress in front of them, so she put her hand on her arm and used the subtle energy of fire to help dry her clothes.
Li Huiyin opened her eyes wide: "You still have this ability?"
"Well, let's explore slowly. This way of using fire energy is something we just came up with."
After the clothes were completely dry, Xu Zhiyang withdrew his hand. Seeing that the heavy rain showed no sign of stopping, he worriedly said, "Are we going to have to spend the night here?"
"If the rain keeps going, this is the only way. But it will be safer if we can find a house." Qin Shiyu was wrapped very thickly. Even though he was soaked just now, Xu Zhiyang noticed that the small notebook the child carried with him was not wet by a single drop of rain.
"Then I'll climb up the tree and take a look." Xu Zhiyang took the telescope, stepped onto the tree trunk with one foot, and with his other hand, he easily climbed up the tree by grabbing the branches.
Zhu Ci thought for a moment and followed.
Xu Zhiyang used wood energy to activate plants to build a plant umbrella for himself, and observed the surroundings with a telescope in his hand.
Suddenly, he saw a building very close...
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