Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower-Chapter 53 - Ambushed

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Ambushed

Chapter 53 -53: Ambushed

There had been no rain recently, and the leaves as far as the eye could see were dry, completely devoid of dewdrops.

Seeing this, they all had little hope.

Yet Bai Junjun was different. She deliberately distanced herself from the others, lightly touching the tree trunk and easily connected with the tree.

During its growth, the tree relied on water transpired from its roots to be transported to the trunk and leaves, with a water content that reached 80%, much higher than that in the human body.

Many people, extremely thirsty, would cut the bark to drink the sap from the trees, but this water, unrefined and likely unpleasant in taste, could also contain toxic substances, so unless absolutely necessary, people would not cut the trees to extract water.

However, these were not problems for Bai Junjun, who could intervene within the tree to separate and purify the water as her most basic operation.

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Thus, Bai Junjun used her Special Ability to extract the water from the tree, gathering it at the tips of the leaves before pulling out her water bladder to collect it.

In no time, the deflated water bladder had swollen up.

Satisfied, she capped it and began calling for Qiu Er and Qiu San.

“Come over here, there’s water here,” she called.

“Really?” Both Qiu Er and Qiu San were delighted and came over to see that this tree indeed was different from the others which were very dry; the leaves here, however, were lush and dripping.

They joyfully opened their water bladders to start collecting water.

Giving water to the two wasn’t like turning on a tap. After all, both had common sense, and she couldn’t just mislead them.

Bai Junjun simply made it so that the leaves would drop dewdrops. A leaf on other trees might yield one or two drops of morning dew at most, but these would drop dew incessantly.

Yet the youth didn’t notice this bug and earnestly continued collecting water.

Bai Junjun first took the full pot back to Madam Liu, then returned to continue collecting water.

Qiu Er and Qiu San nodded in agreement; it was not far, just a hundred or so steps away.

And on this path, they seemed to be at the tail end of the group, with nothing around but corpses, so they felt secure.

At this moment, Qiu Da had just finished setting up the stove to start a fire, while Old Uncle Qiu had gone for a stroll along the riverbank. Unfortunately, he found nothing. He had picked up a bamboo tube and was about to make a makeshift stove for cooking mushrooms.

When Bai Junjun returned with the water, it surprised the three of them. “There’s still so much morning dew at this time?”

“Quite a bit,” Bai Junjun said with a smile. “The plants by the river aren’t lacking in water, which is normal.”

The adults were momentarily stunned, finding her words seemingly reasonable.

With a clean water source, Madam Liu’s face lit up with more smiles.

She pulled out the mushrooms and wild vegetables from her pockets, waiting for the water to boil to cook the mushrooms.

It was only then that Bai Junjun took the remaining water bladders and walked back into the forest.

At this time, Qiu Er and Qiu San were still collecting water, Bai Sasa was leading Bai Lingyu to search for food nearby, and Xiao Shan wandered alone close by, and soon noticed something stirring in the bushes.

Having often caught pheasants and wild rabbits in the mountains, he naturally assumed there was some small animal hidden in the bushes.

Without a word, Xiao Shan pulled out his slingshot and ran towards the edge of the bushes, only to suddenly see a fearsome-looking person charge at him, grab him, and run off with him.

“Ah!!! Uncle Er, Uncle San, save me!”

Qiu Er and Qiu San turned just in time to see their nephew being carried off.

They dropped their water bladders and immediately gave chase.

Fortunately, Xiao Shan was quite strong himself. Being grabbed, he thrashed and struggled, slowing the man’s movements considerably.

Qiu Er and Qiu San were about to catch up when two more people burst from the bushes.