Chapter 119 Ability Conjecture
Han Jiaojiao cursed under her breath, "Glutton."
Helpless, she had no choice but to pick another one. This time, she only used the dagger to pin the rat’s neck so it wouldn’t move and then started to manipulate the water molecules inside the rat’s body using her ability.
About three seconds later, the rat visibly shrank at a rapid speed and eventually turned into a mummified carcass, skin and bones.
Han Jiaojiao thought for a moment, then tossed the small ball of blood in her hand into the bowl, letting the Hourly Beasts lick it up.
She chose another two Mutant Rats, this time not using the dagger or restraining the rats; she attempted to extract the water from the scurrying live rats in the cage.
The process was not smooth, and after a bumpy three to five minutes, the two rats finally died from dehydration, lying motionless in the cage.
She attempted it a total of three times, each experience different from the last.
If drawing water from the plants by the river felt like there was a sheet of tissue paper in between, then extracting water from a Mutant Rat felt like there was a thick towel in the way. For a rat with wounds, it was like dealing with a towel that was torn, and for a living rat, it was like handling an intact towel that was moving erratically.
Han Jiaojiao reasoned that perhaps the thickness of a creature’s epidermis determined the difficulty of extracting water.
Also, the distance to the target seemed to matter. If the rat was too far away, she couldn’t seem to sense the water molecules dancing within the rat’s body.