Hearing this, Lu Yan’s mother was initially somewhat puzzled, but then she suddenly remembered what they had read in the novel the previous night. It had mentioned that some people could awaken water based abilities, and yesterday afternoon she had even seen her daughter produce water from her fingertips. That must have been a water based ability.
Thankfully, her daughter had returned after being reborn with her abilities intact. All she hoped for was that her daughter would suffer a little less in this life. She knew that once the Apocalypse arrived, it would be impossible to avoid hardship and suffering altogether, so she did not dare hope that her daughter would never suffer again. She only prayed that Lu Yan would endure fewer hardships and face fewer difficulties.
After taking off her clothes, Lu Yan’s mother submerged herself in the bathtub, leaving only her head above the water.
Once her mother went into the bathroom to bathe, Lu Yan returned to her own room, filled the bathtub with spiritual spring water, and lay down in it.
Since bathing in the spiritual spring required some time, Lu Yan simply lay in the bathtub and fell asleep.
As for Lu Yan’s mother, she had originally planned to soak for a while, wash away the exhaustion from the day, and then come out.
After all, when she had first gotten into the bath, she had not felt anything unusual. It felt just like soaking in an ordinary warm bath.
But gradually, as she washed and soaked, Lu Yan’s mother suddenly felt the exhaustion from the entire day slowly disappearing. She had especially been suffering from a headache because she had not gotten enough sleep after staying up reading the novel the previous night, but after soaking in the spiritual spring water her daughter had prepared, she realized that her headache had actually disappeared.
The longer she soaked in the spiritual spring water, the more relaxed her entire body felt, and she also became much more energetic.
Since it had such an effect, Lu Yan’s mother decided to stay in the bath a little longer. Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep.
She did not know how long she had been asleep when, in a daze, she suddenly smelled something resembling the stench of a foul smelling drain. The horrible odor immediately woke her up.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she sniffed around to find the source of the smell, only to be startled by the water in the bathtub the very next moment. She jumped straight out of the tub with a scream.
“Ahhh!”
“What… what… what… what is going on?”
While wondering how an entire tub of perfectly good water had suddenly become so foul, Lu Yan’s mother quickly rinsed herself thoroughly under the shower. To get rid of the stench, she even used a generous amount of fragrant body wash and scrubbed her entire body thoroughly. Only after confirming that there was no strange smell left on her did she put on her bathrobe and leave the bathroom.
As soon as she came out, she saw Lu Yan running toward her wrapped in a bathrobe.
“Yan Bao, why did you come over without putting on your shoes? You’ll catch a chill like this. Hurry and go sit on the sofa.”
“Mom, did something happen just now?” Lu Yan asked worriedly.
Hearing this, her mother hurriedly said, “Why did that spiritual spring water you prepared for me turn black after I soaked in it for a while? It even started smelling absolutely awful.”
To keep the foul smell from drifting into the room, Lu Yan’s mother had kept the bathroom door tightly shut.
Once the water in the bathtub had been drained, she would go back in and clean the tub thoroughly.
The moment Lu Yan heard this, she naturally understood what had caused her mother’s scream, so she smiled and said, “Mom, don’t worry, and don’t be scared. The spiritual spring can cleanse and refine the body, so that black stuff is all the impurities that were drawn out of your body while you were soaking. If you don’t believe me, take another look at your skin. Hasn’t it become fairer and smoother?”
After hearing her daughter’s explanation, Lu Yan’s mother rolled up her sleeve and carefully examined the skin on her arm.
At first, she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her, so she examined her other arm and then both of her legs as well. After looking herself over, she exclaimed delightedly, “It really has! The skin all over my body has become much fairer and smoother. It’s so clear and radiant, it’s incredibly alluring.”
The moment she said those last three words, Lu Yan’s mother felt that she should not have said something like that in front of her daughter. She hurriedly coughed awkwardly twice before continuing, “Ahem… Yan Bao, your spiritual spring water is so miraculous. Does that mean it can also make someone look younger and younger?”
Lu Yan thought for a moment before answering, “It can. As long as you soak in it once every day, your skin will gradually improve, and naturally you’ll look younger and younger.”
If her skin became better, wouldn’t that naturally make her look younger? Besides, Lu Yan had always bathed in spiritual spring water while she was in the God Realm, so it should indeed have this effect.
Hearing her daughter say this, Lu Yan’s mother could not contain her happiness.
Since ancient times, there had hardly been a woman who did not love beauty or want to become more beautiful, especially as she grew older. All women wished they could remain young forever.
Now that she had her precious daughter by her side, she could become more beautiful with each passing day.
“Yan Bao, you really are Mom’s good Yan Bao.” Lu Yan’s mother cupped Lu Yan’s little face in both hands and showered her with kisses.
Lu Yan felt terribly embarrassed by all the affection.
“Alright, Mom. Since everything is fine, I’ll go back to my room and change first, then I’ll come back. Later, when Dad and the others return, we can let them soak in the spiritual spring water too.”
With that, Lu Yan jumped down from the small sofa in the room and dashed away.
After returning to her room, little Yan Bao changed into a cute little dinosaur pajama set. Then she picked up Xiao Bai and went together with her to Lu Yan’s parents’ room.
Before Lu Yan’s father and the others returned, she pulled her mother along to watch a zombie movie.
In Lu Yan’s eyes, the zombies in movies were actually not frightening at all. Aside from looking somewhat terrifying, they did not possess any abilities and were no different from ordinary zombies. They were not even particularly dangerous.
If a human with enough courage and some ability encountered them, those zombies probably would not amount to anything at all.
One slash, one kill, one after another, they could be dealt with effortlessly.
They were nothing like the zombies of the real Apocalypse, which possessed abilities of their own.
If they encountered a zombie with a high ability level, ordinary humans like those in the television shows could only become food in the zombies’ mouths.
Especially when Lu Yan saw the women in the movie screaming their heads off the moment they spotted a zombie, she almost wanted to slap them a few times just to make them shut up.
In the age of zombies during the Apocalypse, any sound could attract zombies.
The movie was incredibly boring to Lu Yan, and she kept yawning as she watched, while her mother trembled in fear.
Seeing how frightened her mother was, Lu Yan thought for a moment and decided that she should give her some preparation in advance.
“Mom, the zombies in the movie we’re watching now really aren’t scary. These zombies don’t have much attacking power, and we can easily kill them.”
“The most frightening zombies are mutated zombies. Mutated zombies are countless times stronger than these ones. Also, whenever you encounter zombies, you must never scream or make a loud fuss, because zombies use sound to determine the direction of their food. Of course, they can also rely on their sense of smell and track humans by their scent.”
“In front of ordinary zombies, as long as you don’t make any sound, you can generally be considered safe within a certain distance. So if we encounter zombies in the future, the first thing you must remember is to control your emotions. You absolutely must not scream or make any unnecessary sounds.”
“Look at these women in the movie. Other than screaming and attracting the zombies, they’re completely useless. People like that wouldn’t survive for three days in the Apocalypse.”