NOVEL WEB Chapter 412: The Limit ( 2 )
After the brief conversation, Jin Xuyan hugged her, bent his knees, and leaped into the air. As a Level Two ability-user, it was a piece of cake for Jiao Lizhi to jump higher than 20 meters, let alone Jin Xuyan, who was much stronger than her.
With just one jump, he reached the top of the dam. After he landed, he let go of his fiancée and stood at her side. He glanced at the nearby guard and said, "Those people who have nothing to do here should leave this place."
The moment they heard his words, the soldiers straightened their spines and replied with a salute, "Understood."
Even though the soldiers didn't know what the two of them wanted to do, Wen Hanli already told them to follow Jin Xuyan's orders. So, they quickly asked the ability-users to leave the dam area and continued with their task, filling the water tank.
After they were alone, Jin Xuyan closed the metal door and said, "Ah Zhi, you can start now."
Jiao Lizhi nodded and raised both of her hands. The next moment, a ball of water at the size of a watermelon appeared ten centimeters away from her palms. The water flowed out from the ball of water and fell into the dam like a river.
With her fiancée guarding her, she didn't hold back at all and increased the energy needed to create water. In less than a second, the water gush became bigger and fiercer. Now, it looked like a waterfall had broken into the dam.
As the water flowed into the dam, the water level soon rose at a steady pace. Within half an hour, the water surface reached the height of three meters, and Jiao Lizhi started to feel a throbbing pain in her head.
She clenched her fist, and the water stopped abruptly. Letting out a long sigh, she said, "Brother Yan, I feel that I'm reaching the limit."
Jin Xuyan nodded and said, "Ah Zhi, you take a rest first. I will check the water."
"Okay," Jiao Lizhi nodded and took out a handful of water-type crystal cores from her space. She sat down and started absorbing the energy.
Jin Xuyan walked to the edge of the dam and checked the number on the wall. After a moment, he said, "Ah Zhi, the water level is slightly above three meters. Judging from the size and shape of this dam, your limit should be around 550,000 liters of water."
Jiao Lizhi nodded and continued absorbing the crystal cores. Fifteen minutes later, a pile of fine dust was scattered around her. After absorbing 100 water-type crystal cores, she finally fully recovered her energy.
Standing up, she felt the energy in her body was a little bit more than before. It seemed that draining her energy continuously was the fastest way to break through to the next level.
"Ah Zhi, how are you?" Jin Xuyan asked.
"Brother Yan, I'm fine. I want to drain my energy a few more times. I can feel that my energy pool increases a little bit every time I drain my energy and recover it back," Jiao Lizhi said.
Their team had lots of crystal cores, so Jin Xuyan had no objection when his fiancée wanted to use them to level up. He nodded and said, "Okay."
The two of them stayed for another hour and filled the dam until it reached the water level of ten meters. When they left the water reservoir area, Jiao Lizhi turned to the guard and said, "I will come again tomorrow."
The guards saluted them and replied in unison, "Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Jiao."
Jiao Lizhi waved her hand and sat on the back seat of the bicycle. Jin Xuyan nodded at the guards and drove the bicycle toward their team's residence.
Not long after they left, one of the guards went to the dam to check the situation. The moment he saw the water in the dam, he was stunned. Standing at the edge of the dam, he stared at the water surface meter with wide eyes.
Seeing that he stood there unmoving, another guard walked over. Patting his shoulder, he asked, "Brother, what's wrong?"
The guard pointed at the dam and said, "Look, the water has reached the 10-meter surface level."
As soon as he said this, the other guard quickly looked at the dam and took a sharp breath. After a moment of silence, he finally found his voice and said, "Could it be that all of this water was supplied by the member of the Phantom Team?"
"If not her, who else could it be? The one staying here is her and the Captain of the Phantom Team."
"Brother, you're good with calculation. You say, how much water is inside the dam right now?" the guard asked.
Shaking his head, his friend replied, "I'm not sure about the exact number. But from a rough calculation, it should be around 1.7 million to 1.8 million liters of water."
When he finished his words, the guards who had just arrived took in sharp breaths in unison.
They looked at the clean water inside the dam and couldn't help but think that the S-rank mercenary team was not just empty talk. Even their water-type ability-users were stronger than other teams' fire-type ability-users.
While the guard was informing Wen Hanli about this matter, Jin Xuyan and Jiao Lizhi had returned to their team's residence.
Seeing their arrival, Xiao Qi said, "Captain, Sister-in-law, you are back. If you don't come back, I will have to find you at Commander Xun's place."
Raising his eyebrows, Jin Xuyan asked, "Did something happen?"
"It's Pei Yixie. She suddenly convulsed and fainted while eating. Sister Jiang already checked on her condition but didn't find anything wrong with her body. But no matter what we did, she didn't wake up at all," Xiao Qi replied.
Hearing this, Jin Xuyan frowned and went to the second floor to check on his half-sister's condition. But before they opened the door, they were startled by Pei Yixie's sudden scream.
"Akhh!"