WMSR – QT Chapter 110

WMSR – QT Chapter 110

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Chapter 110: The Senior of the Apocalypse

Bai Yichen noted Lin Jiawen's bewildered expression, knowing full well that the man had no recollection of when his high fever and unconsciousness had commenced, let alone any comprehension of supernatural awakening. Consequently, Bai Yichen gestured toward the bedroom flooring and the surfaces of the furniture, which were coated in a dense layer of microscopic beads of moisture. Lin Jiawen naturally registered a look of utter astonishment, after which Bai Yichen informed him that he had been unconscious for a full nine days, and that these condensation droplets had first manifested on the third day of his slumber...

In short, Lin Jiawen spent the subsequent two days navigating a whirlwind of confusion as he conducted various empirical tests, ultimately confirming that profound physiological mutations had accompanied his sudden collapse: his physical strength had multiplied, his overall constitution had drastically fortified, and most remarkably, he had unlocked the capacity to manipulate water.

This mastery over water permitted him to condense pure, potable hydration directly out of ambient air, or diffuse a basin of water into a room-wide mist. More extraordinarily, his dominion was not restricted to atmospheric moisture; he could commandeer water residing within other material bodies as well—such as, for instance, the fluids inside the human body.

The physical agony Bai Yichen suffered upon the man's initial awakening stemmed precisely from that accidental glance, which had inadvertently disrupted the normal circulation of Bai Yichen's vascular fluids. Even in hindsight, Lin Jiawen felt a lingering wave of sheer terror at the memory; fortunately, it had been a purely unconscious ability fluctuation devoid of irreversible catastrophe, otherwise he would have been entirely at a loss regarding how to rectify the outcome.

In essence, this power was deceptively gentle in appearance yet terrifyingly lethal—capable of claiming lives silently without a trace of violence. No living organism could survive independently of water, and the human body comprised roughly seventy percent water. Imagine a scenario where seventy percent of a person's physiological makeup could be arbitrarily commanded by another entity; executing a targeted assassination required nothing more than a passing thought.

Yet beyond this brutal offensive capability, the ability proved exceptionally pragmatic. Ever since Lin Jiawen awakened his power, Bai Yichen and his companion completely abandoned water conservation, knowing that whenever a shortage arose, Lin Jiawen could effortlessly extract crystal-clear drinking water straight from the atmosphere.

Ultimately, following Lin Jiawen's awakening, their survival crisis dissolved entirely, while their baseline quality of living experienced an exponential leap forward.

However, once the initial phase of exhilaration and novelty subsided, Bai Yichen began sensing an uncanny familiarity regarding the slender man's newly minted powers. Within the apocalypse, the vast majority of awakened individuals manifested physical enhancements—such as muscular reinforcement, or sharpened visual and auditory acuity—whereas abilities governing external elements manifested far less frequently while exhibiting massive disparities in potency. Wielders of water-affinity attributes certainly existed across the wasteland, but the vast majority were confined strictly to extracting ambient moisture with zero combat utility, functioning primarily as logistics personnel responsible for supplying purified hydration within post-apocalyptic survivor safe zones. For a water-system ability to attain the monstrous tier demonstrated by the slender man—capable of manipulating moisture within foreign organic targets and requiring a full nine days of uninterrupted activation—only a single precedent existed within his knowledge base.

Yet Bai Yichen immediately reasoned that the probability of the slender man being that specific individual remained exceedingly low. After all, according to established lore, that individual should have crossed paths with the world's protagonist gong at the absolute dawn of the apocalypse and evacuated this metropolis early on. In contrast, the slender man had spent the entirety of the post-outbreak timeline struggling in grueling isolation within this very urban center, and would have long since perished as zombie fodder had Bai Yichen not intervened.

Carried along by this internal analysis, Bai Yichen nodded with absolute conviction. Mm, it must be pure coincidence. It seems many powerful awakeners in this apocalyptic era simply failed to survive long enough to witness their powers fully mature.

Yet...

Ever since unlocking his supernatural ability, possessing the means to obliterate zombies, harvest provisions, and synthesize unlimited drinking water had supercharged the slender man's self-confidence. Summoning a surge of hard-earned courage, he stepped directly before Bai Yichen and offered: "Speaking of which, we haven't officially exchanged names yet. I—I am Lin Jiawen, and if you don't mind, you can call me Brother Lin."

Having rushed through the entire declaration in a single breath, Lin Jiawen averted his gaze slightly with flushed cheeks, though he rapidly snapped his head back to lock his eyes onto Bai Yichen with a gaze full of intense, burning anticipation.

As for Bai Yichen... why on earth did the name "Lin Jiawen" strike a chord of such profound familiarity?

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Chapter 55: The Senior of the Apocalypse (11)

Surely not. That's statistically impossible...

Yet possessing identical water-system abilities, matching a nine-day awakening duration, and originating natively from this exact city...

With a stiff, wooden expression, Bai Yichen uttered the words, "Brother Lin," before reciprocating with his own alias within this world: "My name is Ling Mengchen."

Following that exchange, he proceeded to interrogate the thoroughly contented Lin Jiawen regarding his background and personal history. Cross-referencing the timeline against historical variables confirmed an undeniable truth: the universe truly lacked such astronomical coincidences.

The Lin Jiawen standing directly before him was, without a shred of doubt, the actual Lin Jiawen!

Should he attribute this to possessing an inexplicable gravitational pull toward the protagonist shous of every universe? It seemed regardless of which reality he traversed, crossing paths with them remained an absolute certainty.

Even so, Bai Yichen remained utterly baffled by a fundamental narrative discrepancy: Wasn't the protagonist shou of this world supposed to encounter the protagonist gong, Xiao Yi, at the very outbreak of the apocalypse and evacuate the city by his side? How on earth did he end up trapped as a lone survivor dodging zombies in this abandoned urban grid before finally stumbling into his path?

Naturally, a perplexed Bai Yichen lacked the context to realize that this entire timeline deviation traced back to a single butterfly effect: his deliberate decision to bypass the school infirmary at the onset of the outbreak.

Because Xiao Yi failed to discover an infected, zombified version of him lying inside the infirmary, the grieving youth did not succumb to utter despair or abandon the campus immediately. Instead, Xiao Yi lingered around the school grounds for days searching fruitlessly for traces of him. That single behavioral shift permanently desynchronized their schedules, ensuring that Lin Jiawen and Xiao Yi missed crossing paths entirely from start to finish.

Ultimately, after wandering through a gauntlet of terrors while evading infected hordes across the city, Lin Jiawen wound up looping through a convoluted series of events straight into Bai Yichen's orbit.

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