But only when he was here did Pei Yijun learn that his Father never had any intention of bringing Pei Yixie back. She was only a shield to cover his real goal.
Seeing that there was nothing left to be discussed, Jin Xuyan stood up and said, "I have to go pick up my fiancée."
Taking the hint, Pei Yijun stood up and said, "Captain Jin, I will leave my sister in your care for now."
Jin Xuyan gave him a side glance and replied, "You don’t have to tell me what to do. I will protect my team members."
After he finished his words, he left while saying, "Yixie, remember to close the door when you leave."
"Okay," Pei Yixie nodded, but she had no intention of leaving yet.
Pei Yijun hesitated for a moment before he took out a pouch filled with crystal cores from his pocket and handed it to his sister. "Take care of yourself."
When there were only Pei Yixie and Fu Guai left in the house, he turned to her and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I’m fine."
Fu Guai didn’t know how to comfort someone. So, after she said that she was fine, he didn’t ask more questions and just sat with her there. Time passed slowly, and he was lost in his thoughts.
Suddenly, he felt his shoulder grow heavy. Turning his head, he saw that Pei Yixie had fallen asleep. He thought for a while before deciding to carry her back to their home.
Meanwhile, in the water reservoir area, Jiao Lizhi had just finished draining her energy for the third time and was resting.
After the breakthrough, her limit was around one and a half million liters, or equal to five thousand cubic meters of water, before she ran out of energy.
Assuming that one person received around twenty liters of water, by draining her energy three times, the water was enough for two hundred fifty thousand people.
At this moment, the total residents of the Lin’an City Base were around one hundred fifty thousand people. So, with her alone, they could meet the daily usage demand.
But besides daily consumption, they also needed water for the hydroponic farmland. After she recovered her energy, she continued filling the dam with water.
When Jin Xuyan arrived, she had already drained her energy seven times. Since the water she created was too much, Jiao Lizhi did not bother to calculate it daily.
As she walked out of the reservoir area, she met with Xun Che. Seeing her coming from the dam’s direction, he asked, "Comrade Jiao, did you just finish with your daily training?"
Now, almost all Ability-Users knew that the best way to improve their abilities was to drain and recover their energy over and over again. Thanks to this, the base no longer lacked water-type Ability-Users who came to provide water.
"I’m done for today," Jiao Lizhi nodded.
Hearing this, Xun Che smiled and said, "Thanks to your hard work, we no longer have to worry about the lack of water."
Jiao Lizhi raised her eyebrows and replied, "Commander Xun, praising me won’t make me give the water for free. Even if I’m practicing my abilities, I still have to absorb crystal cores to recover my energy."
"Today, I finished draining my energy seven times and produced thirty-five thousand cubic meters of water and consumed one thousand four hundred level-one crystal cores," she added meaningfully.
The moment he heard this, Xun Che understood her meaning and said, "Comrade Jiao, don’t worry. I will send people to deliver the crystal cores to your house."
"Good," Jiao Lizhi nodded with satisfaction.
With the demand for water less than the supply, the base now would pay one point for one liter of water. So, calculating the exchange rate, the base had to pay her five hundred twenty-five thousand level-one crystal cores.
But due to the limited crystal cores and the difference of energy contained in the crystal cores, the base updated the exchange rate. Twenty points could be exchanged for one level-one crystal core.
One level-two crystal core could be exchanged for two hundred level-one crystal cores. One level-three crystal core could be exchanged for one thousand level-one crystal cores.
As for one level-four crystal core, it could be exchanged for five thousand level-one crystal cores.
With the additional exchange rate, the survivors and the base no longer needed to worry about running out of low-level crystal cores for daily transactions.
Thanks to the base’s payment, Jiao Lizhi’s crystal cores were enough for the team to spend for years.
When she walked out of the water reservoir’s entrance, Jiao Lizhi saw her fiancé was leaning on the wall with his bicycle parked on the side.
With his relaxed posture, his long legs and body’s golden ratio were more prominent. Not to mention women, even men couldn’t help but take a second glance at him.
Seeing this, Jiao Lizhi smiled as she walked over and asked, "Brother Yan, have you been waiting for a long time?"
Hearing his fiancée’s voice, Jin Xuyan snapped out of his thoughts. Turning his head, he straightened his posture and replied, "Not long, I just arrived."
"Brother Yan, do you have any plans for today?" she asked.
Jin Xuyan thought for a moment and said, "I heard from Qin Luzi that they planned to go to Zhuji City to collect machines to refill CO₂ and O₂ tanks. But because of some matters, it has been delayed until now. What’s more, our base indeed needs to resupply the oxygen tank."
"So, we are going to Zhuji City today?" she asked again.
"Let’s go back and inform our members first," Jin Xuyan nodded.
The two of them rode the bicycle back to the Phantom Team’s residence.
Rather than gathering in his own house, Jin Xuyan preferred to have meetings in this place. After all, this was the team’s property, and even with other members visiting, it would not disturb his and his fiancée’s private space.