Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower-Chapter 52 - Water

Chapter 52: Chapter 52 Water

Chapter 52 -52 Water

No matter whether they harbored any resentment, now they were decaying and weathering just like ordinary corpses, with the air filled with a suffocating stench.

Fearing that passing through the area filled with corpses would lead to inhaling pathogens, Bai Junjun had no choice but to activate her Special Ability, using her sense of plants to detect the surrounding air, trying to choose paths free of corpses as much as possible.

However, no matter how much she tried to avoid them, there were still corpses on the road.

Old Uncle Qiu shook his head repeatedly, “I had served in the military to quell the unrest in the Barbaric Wastelands, and back then, whenever there was a dead body, vultures would circle overhead waiting to feast on the rotting flesh. But now, with corpses strewn everywhere, not even a single vulture can be seen. This shows how difficult these times are; even the vultures can’t survive.”

Bai Junjun thought to herself, that’s for sure, those vultures must have long been wiped out en masse.

Once, they hovered over the corpses, but now, with bodies everywhere, they had become targets of human scrutiny instead.

No matter how numerous the vultures were, they couldn’t withstand the onslaught of mankind, and hence they gradually became extinct.

Now, with the ground covered in bones and no scavengers left to clean up, all that could be done was to wait for them to naturally decompose, or perhaps one day when the world would be united once more, the new Emperor would order the commoners to clear the land; until then, they would just keep lying there, exposed to the wind and sun.

Although they felt a sense of the impermanence of life, the group didn’t let this delay their progress.

When the sun was high, they finally caught sight of the East River’s shadow.

This tributary stretched forward to meet with the North River.

From here, all they needed to do was to follow the tributary downstream, cross the North-South River, and they would be able to see Biluo City.

However, on the escape route, the areas along the rivers were most frequented, for when people were hungry, they could drink water and, if lucky, catch a fish or something.

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Therefore, there were also many dead along the riverbanks, some of whom had even died while lying by the water.

Madam Liu initially wanted to wipe her face by the river to remove the fatigue from the journey, but upon suddenly spotting a rotting corpse half-submerged in water and half-drying in the air, she felt dizzy, almost wishing she had never approached the river.

Washing her face with the water was out of the question, utterly unwilling and impossible.

The men of the Qiu family fared no better, their hunger turning into nausea at the sight.

Bai Junjun also felt helpless, agreeing that it was indeed better not to touch such river water, who knew how many pathogens had bred in it, and it would be a loss if they avoided starvation only to contract malaria.

After scanning the surroundings, she noticed there were quite a few trees around and said, “Since we can’t drink from the river, let’s collect some dew to drink instead.”

Dew?

The crowd first felt joy, then helplessness arose, “How can there be dew in the middle of the day?”

The weather was gradually warming, and the morning dew had mostly evaporated long ago.

“I’ll try my luck.”

After saying that, Bai Junjun took an empty water bladder and went into the nearby jungle, Bai Sasa and Bai Lingyu naturally followed, with Qiu San, Qiu Er, and Xiao Shan tagging along; Xiao Shan was there to play, while Qiu San and Qiu Er simply went to protect the children.

Qiu Da and Madam Liu began to build a stove by the river, while Old Uncle Qiu, reverting to his old skills, casually found a wooden fork, hoping to try his luck in the river.

However, at that time, Madam Liu thought that even if there were fish, those fish might have grown from feeding on the rotten flesh at the riverbank; she didn’t dare to eat such fish.

Of course, she knew that this was no time to be squeamish; they were, after all, fortunate enough to possibly have fish to eat while others had resorted to eating their children.

So, Madam Liu stayed silent, picking up firewood without complaint.

Meanwhile, Bai Junjun entered the jungle, and Bai Lingyu along with Bai Sasa instinctively focused their eyes on the base of the trees, attempting to find something edible among the bushes.

Qiu Er and Qiu San, following Bai Junjun, looked up at the tree leaves instead.