Chapter 67: Chapter Sixty-Six: Water Reservoir Completed

Du Jia Jia, although she is now quite satisfied with her position as the team's head chef, still regrets not having awakened a Special Ability, and occasionally complains about it with Zhao Xiao Yan and others.

She is always anxious, wanting to awaken quickly but fearing that the ability she awakens might be completely useless.

Strictly speaking, the term "awaken" is not used accurately.

According to the guesses of Chen Mu, Tang Jing and others, it is highly likely that all humans currently possess some kind of special ability.

However, many people have not yet realized it.

For example, Chang Junyan earlier.

Who would have thought that growing a bump on one's body also counts as a Special Ability? If it weren't for this guy's inherently odd mindset, anyone else probably wouldn't have realized it by now, and even if they did, they likely couldn't accept it.

Du Jia Jia is precisely worried about this; if she discovered she also had such a silly ability, she would rather never know.

Moreover, from a commonsense standpoint, those who have still not noticed their ability by now likely have little use for it, at least not showing any noticeable improvement for themselves.

For example, Wei Dalei's kind— it's hard not to notice.

And as things stand now, the probability of awakening a powerful ability was never high to begin with.

The few from Senior Three Class 4 are still fairly lucky— Chen Mu, Dong Junwei, and Wei Dalei have successively awakened strong and practical abilities.

But according to He Ying, she has encountered dozens of people over time; very few have an ability that looks strong at first glance, and those few have all died young.

By now, even someone like Sun Yuan can already be classified among the powerful Special Ability users.

Everyone hopes to become strong.

But it is obvious.

This world is not fair.

From the current situation, some abilities, no matter how much they are improved, remain quite limited in function.

For example, Zhao Xiao Yan's enhanced sense of smell— even if she trained her ability to the point of smelling a piece of cake on the opposite side of the Earth, it would only be a greater help to the team.

Assistance is ultimately just assistance.

She certainly cannot rely on her nose to smell enemies to death.

Meanwhile, an ability like Chen Mu's, which currently appears quite comprehensive, is obviously as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

This seems unfair at first glance.

But this world has never been fair.

Some are born into wealthy families, while others have lived in orphanages since childhood.

What can be done?

Blame God?

Fortunately, most people in the team now have a calm mindset; even Zhu Hao and Chang Junyan, who each day happily do ordinary physical labor, have also developed some exclusive recreational activities in their free time.

For example, using Zhu Hao's horn to scratch Chang Junyan's itch.

Evidence shows that silliness is contagious.

Zhu Hao was originally quite normal, but after spending a long time with Chang Junyan he has gradually gone off track, and now with Sun Yuan joining, it's utter chaos.

However.

In terms of optimism and broad-mindedness, even Chen Mu greatly admires these three guys.

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The earlier interruption did not affect the making of the Water Reservoir; Chen Mu's mental strength now is no longer the level where he would get dizzy at the slightest provocation.

His ability has grown rapidly in breadth; nowadays he can control stainless steel of the same volume as himself, but in terms of precision, it is still not satisfactory.

Fortunately, the Water Reservoir does not demand high precision; as long as the whole water diversion project ensures no leaks, an ugly appearance is of no consequence.

About an hour's time.

Chen Mu then made all six faces of the Water Reservoir, consuming many disposable spoons, and the male students tasked with logistical transport also became thoroughly exhausted.

The quality of the plastic sheets was somewhat better than Tang Jing had imagined.

Whether the uniformity of thickness or the smoothness of the edges, both exceeded her expectations.

"The next step is to integrate them."

"Do we not need to make holes? There must be an inlet and an outlet, right?"

"No rush on these; we'll check after finishing, otherwise the positions would be hard to confirm."

"Okay."

"Lao Wei, come try— can you stand these few boards up?"

"No problem."

Wei Dalei glanced at the few plastic sheets on the ground, seeming rather disdainful.

Lao Wei now basically undertakes all the team's heavy physical labor; exhausting his full strength each day is his sole method of training.

His ability manifests itself in the most straightforward way.

But as things stand now, Special Abilities, although they appear chaotic and disordered, actually follow certain rules very strictly.

And the so-called strength enhancement is actually a vague concept; it is unknown whether this enhancement comes from bodily changes or purely from some mystical force that does not exist in reality.

But it is obvious.

Tang Jing is not particularly interested in Wei Dalei's ability.

On one hand, there are Dong Junwei and Chen Mu, who are far more valuable as experimental subjects; on the other hand, regardless of what the source of strength is, the ultimate use is clear, so there is currently no need to insist on tracing its origins.

However.

Although Wei Dalei knows nothing about the essence of his ability, this does not prevent him from training every day; his training method is nothing more than doing heavy labor.

This also counts as making full use of things.

Therefore, Lao Wei is very clear about how much weight he can lift.

The next step is for Chen Mu to piece these boards together, but before that, someone must get the positions right.

Although Wei Dalei's strength was sufficient, when actually operating, they found the difficulty was still not small.

Because the size of the plastic boards had already far exceeded the human physique, some things, even if not heavy, would be difficult to hold due to being too large.

Finally.

Only through everyone's joint effort were the two side boards raised to form a right angle; adding the ground piece, the three plastic boards became mutually perpendicular.

Chen Mu took advantage of this time to hurriedly proceed with the fusion.

After completing this step, the following steps became much simpler.

After fixing the four side walls, the most troublesome part was still the top surface, given that a height of 10 centimeters made it nearly impossible to directly seal the top.

Fortunately, Wei Dalei was there.

Lao Wei squatted down, gripped the bottom of the water tank with both hands, exerted force, and lifted one side; as long as this plastic water tank was laid on its side, the final top board could be easily glued on, then it could be flipped back.

But it was quite obvious.

The 8*8*10 water reservoir's weight was already nearing Wei Dalei's limit, and with its excessive volume, often even strength could not be fully utilized.

It took the boss's strength, and only with everyone's joint effort was the water tank flipped over.

After Chen Mu finished the final bonding and raised the water tank again, everyone let out a sigh of relief.

Although everyone felt the process had been fairly smooth, after finishing they discovered the sky had already darkened.

In the afterglow of the setting sun.

A plastic box was quietly placed near the door, with twelve people standing before it, appearing rather small.

Everyone looked up at this massive object.

They also glanced at each other a few times.

Filled with a sense of accomplishment.