How to Raise a Baby in an Apocalypse - Chapter 417

Everything happening on An Ran’s body tells Zhan Lian that his wife’s plants are not simple—and that she herself is not an ordinary wood-type ability user. That’s why An Ran can handle a few mice without trouble.

Of course, anyone who has been with An Ran for even a few days doesn’t think she is simple. But no one is surprised—they just accept it as fact.

On the second floor, An Ran opens the storage box on the ground, filled with glittering crystal cores. She grabs a handful. Among the ordinary cores are two copper-skinned zombie crystal cores, each about the size of a marble.

An Ran takes a deep breath and, not daring to absorb two at once, slowly absorbs one crystal core into her body.

After absorbing several copper-skinned zombie crystal cores in succession, An Ran’s body feels pain. At first, it’s like her whole body is being scraped by metal, so painful she nearly collapses to her knees. But gradually, she grows accustomed to the pain and is able to endure it.

She counts the seconds and calculates the effect of one copper-skinned zombie crystal core: it maintains the hardness effect on the fat thorn balls for about five minutes.

Zhao Ru, watching An Ran closely, picks up a copper-skinned zombie crystal core from the box as well. Seeing the effects on An Ran, she roughly guesses why An Ran’s body feels painful at times and comfortable at others.

With grit, Zhao Ru absorbs the energy of the copper-skinned zombie crystal core into her own body.

“Huh?” Zhao Ru frowns and touches her arm, feeling something strange. She glances at An Ran’s pale face and says, “It’s not as painful as I expected.”

An Ran leans weakly on the railing and pokes Zhao Ru’s arm with her hand. “A little hard.”

Not just hard—very hard. An Ran pulls out her saber again and lightly cuts Zhao Ru’s arm.

Startled, Zhao Ru leans aside to avoid the saber and asks, “What are you doing? Calm down! Even though I don’t feel your pain, you don’t have to hurt me like that.”

“Come here, let me try!” An Ran’s face is pale, her lips blood red. The knife in her hand flashes a cold, sharp light, but she smiles kindly at Zhao Ru. “Let me see if you have the same blessing of invulnerability as my plants.”

In an unknown world, humans must grope forward in the dark.

Zhao Ru frowns, thinks about it, and feels An Ran might be right. She walks back and stretches out the back of her fist. “Be gentle.”

An Ran raises an eyebrow, pokes Zhao Ru’s skin lightly with the tip of her knife, and smiles. “Sure enough, the copper-skinned zombie crystal core is really a good thing.”

Zhao Ru’s clean, white skin is as hard as white jade.

For Zhao Ru, a water-type mutant, the copper-skinned zombie crystal core is a blessing—it makes her nearly invulnerable.

Zhao Ru, as a water-type ability user, can accommodate many attributes except fire. This might also be why Zhao Ru doesn’t feel pain after absorbing the copper-skinned zombie core.

An Ran, on the other hand, is wood-type and naturally afraid of metal objects. While she grants her plants the blessing of metal-type attributes, she also endures great pain.

But as the pain wears on, An Ran gets used to it. Gradually, she endures it without changing her expression while releasing her energy—so that no one around notices anything.