Absolute Gate

Chapter 95 Fake Water
At Javier Manor, everyone rested for a day.

The main issue is that Wu Zhong needs to recover his internal energy. Compared to him, it's much simpler for the others, as they are all enlightened beings and can borrow again the next day, continuing to owe him.

Wu Zhong's secret to longevity was not borrowed; it was earned through his own genuine skill.

After exhaustion, one must refine essence into qi and circulate energy to replenish it.

Fortunately, as long as the true qi seed is present, the speed of replenishing qi is a hundred times that of refining qi.

Wu Zhong only had seventeen years of internal energy left. He could replenish it fully by using his full power for an hour and a half.

He spent the rest of his time practicing his skills, since he didn't sleep anyway.

After practicing for another ten hours, his skill level reached eighteen years.

He was full of energy and vitality.

When I went outside and arrived at the lake, I found that the lake had changed drastically.

The sinkhole at the bottom has been filled with sand, and the lake water has become much shallower. A group of people are chatting around the lake.

Wu Zhong walked over, stunned, and said, "Huh? I haven't even arrived yet, how come you've already filled in the bottom of the lake?"

Yang Chunsha looked at Peilan, who smiled, walked to the side and turned on a powerful flashlight on the shore, the beam of light shining into the lake.

Wu looked closely and saw a water spider lying motionless in a corner of the lake bottom.

That stuff really is no different from water; it looks exactly the same no matter how you look at it.

However, it is much purer than the natural water next to it, so it can be distinguished by the light beam shining on it.

"Oh? It's already been lured up? You did it?" Wu Zhong looked at Pei Lan.

Perrin smiled slightly: "It's no big deal, Brother Jianglong. Once we figure out its characteristics, there's nothing to be afraid of. I can handle it too."

Yang Chunsha crossed her arms and said, "He got up early this morning and waited outside your room. After I came out and had breakfast, I saw that he was still there, so I told him that you were going to practice your skills."

"So he suggested that we go and get the water spiders up first, so you wouldn't have to go back into the water."

“I figured since he was the one going into the water, I could just do some magic on the shore and agree.”

Perrin interjected, "Brother Jianglong fought a fierce battle yesterday, truly turning the tide. My sister and I don't know how to thank him enough."

“You didn’t go out this morning, I think you must be tired. I felt that capturing the Rain God was such a small matter, how could I trouble Brother Jianglong to go into the water again? I took care of it myself.”

"It wasn't troublesome. My speed at full burst was faster than itss. I led it all the way to the lake surface, my sister pulled me ashore, and Miss Yang Chunsha sealed it up. The thing was then trapped in the lake."

Wu nodded in satisfaction. He had already discussed the capture plan last night, and he intended to capture the enemy himself today.

Unexpectedly, simply because he was a little late leaving the house, Perrin insisted on doing the cooking for him.

Is this what it feels like to be a leader?

Although Yang Chunsha had helped him with many things before, she wasn't proactive. They agreed on the tasks and then divided the work among themselves.

Not to mention Yake, he's a complete idiot and a silent type.

Until this moment, someone suddenly wanted to do the thing before him, and Wu Zhong was still quite uncomfortable without him saying anything.

"Well done." Wu Zhong thought that Pei Lan had a good eye for talent.

He stood by the lake for a while and saw that the water in the lake was gradually being drained.

The terrain was constantly altered by the sand in Yangchun, and eventually the rain god Chak had nowhere to go, gradually becoming stranded in a dried-up puddle.

It looks very large, maybe ten tons?
Perrin said, "We prepared some buckets, but we didn't expect it to be this big."

"To house it, a large water tank of ten cubic meters might be needed."

Wu Zhong shook his head and said, "That's not convenient either. Let's see if we can split it."

Perrin nodded and moved closer, only to have the rain god suddenly rise from the puddle and crash against it like a wave.

"Oh dear!" Fortunately, Perrin was very cautious and immediately retreated upon seeing this, thus avoiding being hit.

The rain god seemed very weak on the shore, unable to move, only stirring up waves in place.

Wu Zhong said, "Being stranded is like a fish, only able to jump around in place."

"But you still shouldn't get close, otherwise if you get touched, you'll be banned from swimming for life."

"De Biao, divide it with rocks."

Yangchunsha cast a spell, and the rock rose from its center, splitting into two parts.

This stuff isn't jelly or anything like that; it's just made of water, so it separates very easily.

Of course, the distribution wasn't even; one side had a little more.

The one that was more active was immediately struck by the vibrations transmitted to it when someone approached, and it immediately raised its palms to slap the waves.

As for the smaller one, it was completely silent, with no movement whatsoever.

Wu finally let Onion go up and try, since he had already been infected with the swimming ban effect anyway.

Onion dipped his hand into the water and rinsed it casually: "This is just ordinary water, it doesn't feel alive at all."

"It seems that once the rain god is divided, only the larger part retains life, while the smaller part becomes ordinary water."

As he spoke, he scooped up some water with his hand, intending to drink it.

"Hey, hey!" Wu Zhong hurriedly stopped him: "Don't drink it! It doesn't necessarily mean it has no special properties. We need to test it more."

Onion said "Oh," threw the water back, shook it, and said, "But my hands are still wet."

Wu Zhong tossed him a towel and told him to carefully wipe his hands clean, then put the towel in a glass bottle as well.

"De Biao, continue dividing," Wu Zhong said.

Yang Chunsha nodded, and then used the rock to split the Rain God into four, of which only the largest one was still active, while the others were completely still like normal water.

She didn't stop, she continued to divide it, until each portion of the Rain God's drink could be put into a ten-liter transparent bucket.

There were a full thousand barrels, sitting there; anyone who didn't know better would think some drought-stricken village was storing drinking water.

Of these thousand barrels of water, only the one that was filled the fullest still had activity.

If you tap the side of the plastic bucket, you'll see the water inside automatically churn twice, as if searching for the person who caused the ripples, but with nowhere to go.

"Haha, it caught it just like that."

“This is the correct way to ‘worship’ the rain god… put him in a bottle.”

Wu Zhong smiled, and the group took turns moving all the buckets to the backyard of the main house. Wu Zhong took one bucket and poured it out to study. How could they confirm whether this stagnant water still had a swimming-prohibition effect?

It's very simple, just try it with a fish.

And sure enough, it did exist!

As soon as the fish was poured into the tank, it stopped swimming and began to thrash about in the water, gradually sinking.

Finally, it fell to the bottom of the tank, writhed for a long time, and then stopped moving completely. It floated to the surface again with its belly white.

It drowned! The fish drowned in the water!
"Holy crap, this stuff actually works! And it can infect animals too."

Everyone was shocked to learn that a fish had drowned in the water; no wonder there were no fish in the cave.

A crucial way for fish to breathe underwater is through a continuous flow of water over their gills.

There are two main ways to create this water flow. One is active aeration, where some fish can actively pump water through their gills by using the muscles of their mouth and gill covers. However, this is usually inefficient and can only sustain a minimal level of survival.

Another method is swimming for ventilation. For most fish, especially active fish that require high oxygen levels, they must keep swimming forward.

When fish swim in the water, water flows naturally, in large quantities, and continuously from their open mouths, passing through their gills at high speed. This is called ram air, and it is a highly efficient method.

So even fish will suffocate and die from lack of oxygen once they can't swim, they just die more slowly.

"Luckily it was trapped in the cave. If it had entered the sea, that would have been..." Shi Changpu swallowed.

Yang Chunsha said, "There is no doubt that the ecosystem will collapse."

Wu Zhong pondered, "If this lifeless 'Rain God's Body' were to enter the sea, would it still be distinguishable? Wouldn't it be completely mixed in with the seawater?"

"No, we need to test it again."

He looked back at the thousand barrels of Rain God's body and suddenly felt a surge of pressure; these were practically a thousand barrels of ecological nuclear bombs...

So they began to conduct various studies on this body of water.

The first question is whether it will completely integrate into ordinary water bodies. The answer is yes.

The lifeless body of the Rain God was motionless; if poured into an ordinary water tank, it would be impossible to find.

They sprinkled in dust, and the water became just as murky, making it impossible to distinguish which substances had special properties.

Then they tried it on a living rain god, and Perrin exclaimed, "We really can't let him into natural waters, especially the ocean, that would be a disaster!"

"The reason why the Rain God's true form is pure and can be distinguished by light underwater is because it is alive, can move, and can expel impurities from its body into ordinary water."

“But stagnant water won’t be like that; once impurities and turbidity get in, it will be exactly the same as ordinary water.”

Wu Zhong pondered for a moment and said, "Let's try distilling it again and see if we can extract it from ordinary water."

Everyone brought out distillation equipment and began heating and cooking.

Water vapor continued to rise and condense in another pot.

As the large pot of water dwindled, everyone's hearts sank lower and lower.

Living rain gods can be captured because they can move, but what about dead ones? They completely dissolve into the water, and if they can't be extracted, they're too dangerous.

Wu Zhong frowned in deep thought, feeling that he was losing control: "It's better to keep the Rain God as a whole. The stagnant water that separates out is more dangerous than the living one."

"Pour the water back to the rain god and see if it can be reconstituted."

Yang Chunsha suddenly exclaimed, "Wait a minute, look, this last patch of water just won't boil dry."

"Hmm?" Wu Zhong looked at the bottom of the distillation pot, and sure enough, a large pot of water had boiled dry, leaving only about ten liters of water, which wouldn't evaporate no matter what he did.

White steam rose around it, but it didn't even boil.

After the last drop of ordinary water evaporated completely under the high temperature, only a stagnant pool of water remained in the pot.

"Holy crap, it's definitely liquid water!"

Everyone realized that this was another characteristic of the Rain God's water body.

It is absolutely liquid water, and even when the boiler temperature is extremely high, it remains completely still.

Based on its absolute properties, urine, let alone a boiler, would probably be a lump of liquid water even if placed on the surface of the sun at a million degrees Celsius.

Wu Zhong had all the onions test the temperature, since he was already infected and prohibited from swimming, so it didn't matter.

Onion got burned: "Wow, it's so hot!"

The water taken from the boiler was extremely hot and continued to radiate heat.

Wu Zhong said, "Because it can't evaporate, it doesn't dissipate heat as quickly as regular water..."

"Since it cannot evaporate, it most likely cannot freeze either."

Sure enough, they tried freezing it, and after it had been in the cold storage for a long time, it remained liquid.

The onion felt extremely cold to the touch.

Then some chemical reagents were tested, but it was useless, completely useless; it didn't participate in the chemical reaction at all.

Wu Zhong sighed, "It's confirmed. The Rain God can only remain in a liquid state; this is determined by its absolute properties."

"Its properties are exactly the same as normal water, but because its properties only dictate that it must be liquid water, it can neither evaporate nor freeze."

"What a standard and absolute characteristic!"

Wu Zhong deeply felt the absolute nature of urine; it was water, but it had to be this kind of water!

"The rain god is like a master who has returned to simplicity. In normal environments, it can disguise itself as water and be indistinguishable from the real thing. But once it encounters extreme environments, it stands out from the crowd and can no longer hide. It directly exposes that it is not real water."

"Physically, this thing is indeed made entirely of water, but in reality, it's fake water."

Yang Chunsha shouted, "Let's stop calling it Rain God. Or just call the living Rain God. As for these separated dead bodies, I think we should just call them Fake Water."

Wu smiled and continued with some more tests.

For example, when praying for rain, he would first get close to the bucket and pray softly, but there was no response.

Then, onion was placed on the other side, praying alone to the living bucket, and a light drizzle began to fall.

Therefore, it can be confirmed that only this unique living being possesses the rain-praying characteristic, so calling it the Rain God is perfectly appropriate.

The dead body does not possess the property of bringing rain; it is merely a lump of fake water.

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(End of this chapter)