Chapter 108: Exploration

After Qin Yu called Zhao Meng and the others into the room, she locked the door behind them. This left the other three rather baffled, and they all began guessing what could possibly require such secrecy.

Qin Yu knew they were puzzled. She pulled Zhao Meng down to sit on the bed and said, "Xiao Meng, I’ve always been using my water ability to supply everyone with water. Over all this time, have you noticed anything unusual?"

At this, Zhao Meng thought carefully for a moment, then shook her head. "No, Xiao Yu, I haven’t felt anything strange. Well... does the fact that your water tastes really good count as something unusual?"

Qin Yu froze. Tastes good? She knew that much. In her previous life, she had already discovered that her water tasted better than anyone else's. But what did that have to do with her special ability?

Xia Cheng came over and tapped Zhao Meng lightly on the head. "You only ever think about how good it tastes." Then he turned to Qin Yu and asked, "Did you notice something?"

Qin Yu nodded. "Just now I used the water in this villa to take a shower, but my whole body turned red and swollen, and my skin felt especially stingy and painful. So I rinsed myself with my own water ability, and after that the stinging sensation was gone, along with the redness and swelling. That’s why I was wondering whether my ability, like yours, Xia Cheng, has some unique property of its own."

"Nangong Yao, make me a water orb and let me take a look," she added.

Qin Yu nodded and casually formed a water orb, then carefully handed it to Nangong Yao. After taking it, he went into the bathroom nearby. No one knew what he was doing in there.

At that moment, Xia Cheng suddenly said, "Xiao Meng, do you remember that period when we were apart from Qin Yu?"

Zhao Meng blinked, looking a little blank. "I don’t remember. What about that time?"

With the expression of someone who had known she would forget, Xia Cheng said helplessly, "You even complained to me back then that the water didn’t taste good at all, that it didn’t give you that refreshing feeling Qin Yu’s water did. You really don’t remember?"

Hearing this, Zhao Meng’s face lit up with sudden realization. Then she said, "I really don’t remember."

Xia Cheng pinched the bridge of his nose. Qin Yu also looked as though she had been defeated by her. Qin Yu glanced at the still-confused Zhao Meng and said, "Xia Cheng, you explain. What happened during that time?"

Xia Cheng straightened his expression and said, "It was like this. After we left you, we had the water you gave us, but it ran out very quickly. After that, we teamed up with another water-ability user. We helped each other out, but how should I put it... their water didn’t taste good at all, and it even caused a stinging sensation. But when we drank your water, it felt extremely comfortable. For us at the time, it even seemed as though some kind of energy was flowing through our bodies."

"But that was at the very beginning of the apocalypse. We knew nothing, so back then I never thought it had anything to do with your water. I only assumed it was the result of my own hard cultivation. Thinking back now, after we left you, that feeling simply stopped appearing later on."

Zhao Meng’s eyes suddenly lit up. "Right, I had that feeling too! But I also thought it was the result of my own hard work in cultivation. After all, I’m so talented!"

The corner of Qin Yu’s mouth twitched. As expected of a married couple—they even think the same way.

"So that feeling was actually because of Xiao Yu’s water?" Zhao Meng said, turning to her with surprise and excitement.

Xia Cheng nodded. "It seems so. If that’s true, then Qin Yu, your water ability is a treasure."

The way Xia Cheng looked at Qin Yu turned thoughtful and profound.

Qin Yu, however, did not notice his expression and instead raised another question. "If that’s the case, does that mean my ability can enhance the energy of other ability users? Then how do you explain what just happened to me? Or is it that my ability has a lot of different uses?"

At this point, Zhao Meng also frowned. After thinking for a while, she said, "How about this, Xiao Yu? Let’s go to the bathroom and test the effect you’re talking about."

Qin Yu thought that made sense, so the three of them walked into the bathroom where Nangong Yao had gone earlier.

When they reached the doorway, Qin Yu saw Nangong Yao sitting in the bathtub, toying with the water. His clothes were soaked through, revealing a beautiful collarbone and the two points of his chest beneath, a sight that would have stirred all kinds of wild imaginings. Unfortunately, the three who saw it had no mind for such things.

Seeing Qin Yu and the others at the door, Nangong Yao curved his lips into a smile. "Come over and take a look."

Qin Yu went in first. She walked over to Nangong Yao, scooped up a handful of water, and applied it to her bare arm. The expected stinging pain did not come. Qin Yu raised an eyebrow. "This is?"

"This is a mixture of your water orb and the water from this villa. How does it feel?" Nangong Yao asked.

"No more stinging pain than before," Qin Yu replied.

At that moment, Xia Cheng and Zhao Meng also stepped into the bathroom. Zhao Meng said eagerly, "Xiao Yu, let me try, let me try."

Qin Yu nodded, then turned on the faucet. Zhao Meng used her hand to catch a little of the water. Almost instantly, her palm began to turn red, and she cried out, "It hurts!"

Qin Yu hurriedly sent over a water orb of her own, and the redness and swelling on Zhao Meng’s hand vanished at once.

Then Xia Cheng tried it as well. This time, however, the ordinary water did not immediately cause his palm to swell and redden. Even after several minutes, it only turned slightly red.

Seeing this, Qin Yu already had a rough idea. She looked up and said, "Xiao Meng usually cooks and does other things using the water I provide, so she comes into contact with it a lot more. As for Xia Cheng, aside from necessities like bathing, he doesn’t usually come into contact with my water. So can we assume that my water makes the human body more delicate and therefore unable to withstand outside stimulation?"

Xia Cheng and Zhao Meng exchanged a glance, then both nodded at Qin Yu.

At that moment, Nangong Yao spoke from the side. "Perhaps it doesn’t make the skin more delicate. Perhaps it pushes the human body toward perfection."

"What do you mean?" Zhao Meng and Qin Yu asked at the same time.

Nangong Yao lifted a handful of water and let it slip slowly through his fingers, smiling as he said, "You have to understand that the human body has many flaws. Since the outbreak of the apocalypse, even ability users have energy that isn’t truly pure inside them. That is also why it becomes increasingly difficult for ability users to advance later on. For some unknown reason, Qin Yu’s water ability seems to avoid that problem as well. In other words, it can remove impurities and bring certain elements in the human body to an extreme state. Of course, the first thing it changes is all the body’s defects."

"So Qin Yu’s water is a priceless treasure?" Zhao Meng said excitedly. They all knew that the higher one went in ability levels, the harder advancement became. And now there was the possibility that they could remove impurities from their bodies and make their energy pure. How could she not be thrilled?

"That part is true, but..." Nangong Yao said a little awkwardly.

"But what?"