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The Amnesiac Black Panther and His Poor Little Beauty (134)

The quality of the potions from the system store was indeed quite good. Although Lance was startled, after taking one vial of the enhancer, Song Ning visibly lost her previous sickly appearance. Not only did her face regain color, but she also looked much healthier.

"This enhancer is amazing! My God, Lance, look, I seem to be jumping much higher than before!"

On the open ground next to him, Song Ning couldn't contain his excitement and jumped around. His body felt so light that he felt like a little bird, able to jump and leap at will.

The feeling was so wonderful that he jumped around on the spot for a while before realizing that he seemed to have overlooked Lance.

He turned his head and saw Lance looking at him with an expression he couldn't understand.

"Lance? Why are you looking at me like that?"

That look in his eyes was as if he had done something to wrong him, but he was so healthy now all thanks to Lance.

"It's nothing, I just feel that if I had known earlier, I would have come sooner to recover my memories."

Lance didn't want to say it, but looking at Song Ning's eyes, he still spoke up.

Song Ning's bouncy steps suddenly slowed down. He walked quickly towards Lance and then threw himself into Lance's arms, where he was caught and lifted his head from the chest that had always made him feel safe.

"Why do you say that?" His voice was a little soft. "Didn't you discuss this with me before? We were both worried about the danger, so we weren't in a hurry to come. It was a decision made by both of us."

Despite being surrounded by his beloved, Lance still felt guilty. After all, if he had been able to regain his memories sooner, Song Ning would have been healthy and well by now.

"You must be thinking something I don't like, stop thinking like that."

Song Ning, unusually domineering, grabbed her hand, stood on tiptoe, and took the initiative to kiss her.

Love is always a feeling of indebtedness, and Song Ning naturally struggled in her heart with whether she was a burden to Lance.

But now it seems they really are a foolish couple.

There's nothing a kiss can't solve between lovers; if it can't, then kiss again.

Song Ning's tongue felt slightly numb before she finally pulled away from Lance's embrace.

"So, what should we do with these crystal cores? Should we leave them here, or take them with us?"

Behind him, the ground was covered with crystal cores, mainly prismatic and columnar, densely scattered all over the ground. It was the first time Song Ning had ever seen so many crystal cores, and they weren't even fragments, but whole, thick, and large ones.

"Where did these crystal cores come from? Why are they only found on those zombie rats?"

He had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he always felt that he would never know the answer.

"These are crystals that are the result of my energy overflowing. It must be because I had no memory of the time when I fell into this space-time, and my energy involuntarily overflowed and landed here."

As Lance spoke, he waved his hand, and all the crystal cores on the ground instantly disappeared.

"Then why would it appear on a zombie rat?"

"It's possible that the rats couldn't find any food underground, so they discovered that this area of ​​crystal nuclei had energy fluctuations. After eating the crystal nuclei, energy crystals appeared in their bodies as well."

Lance checked and confirmed that he had indeed experienced an energy leak when he fell into this world, which was probably why he had temporary amnesia.

However, what he didn't expect was that these spilled energies would be consumed by living organisms, and that these organisms would even generate energy crystals as a result.

"what?"

Upon hearing about the energy overflow, Song Ning's heart clenched. Why didn't Lance tell her about something so important earlier?

"I'm fine, don't worry."

Lance could tell from Song Ning's expression that he had misunderstood, so he quickly comforted him.

"It's just a little energy leakage, not a big problem. I can recover this energy on my own if I leave it alone."

"If all else fails, I can just redeem it directly from the system shop."

Hearing his repeated assurances, Song Ning finally relaxed.

But then he thought about it again, hesitated for a moment, and pursed his lips.

"But if that's the case, then isn't the base actually using your energy all along?"

The Crystal Core series has been of great help to the survivors, and the base has also developed to its current state step by step thanks to Crystal Core energy.

Two little voices were fighting fiercely in Song Ning's mind. On one hand, his conscience was nagging at what would happen to the base and the survivors without these energy cores.

On the other hand, concern for Lance completely prevailed: could a single system supply energy to all of humanity?

Isn't that too unfair to Lance?

"Don't worry too much about it."

Compared to Song Ning's worries, Lance was not worried about this at all.

"The base should be working hard to restore power. I have two areas where energy is leaking out. This is the main one. The other one is in the underground area we visited before, near that seed research institute."

He felt a vague attraction to that place back then, and now he knows why.

"I'm keeping those crystal cores from being recycled; there are enough to restore the power system at the base."

He had overheard the base's higher-ups discussing this matter, and some of the newly built structures in the base were clearly in preparation for the restoration of the power system later, so it was enough to leave just enough energy cores for the base to restore the power system.

"I see, that's great."

Having resolved all his troubles, Song Ning's health improved, and he even wanted to perform for Lance the feat of walking back on his own.

Then Lance rejected her firmly, and this time he simply picked her up and took her away.

Song Ning tried to argue, "I'm all better now, I can walk by myself, and you must be tired too."

He finally recovered and wanted to walk on his own. He also hoped that Lance wouldn't be so tired, as he had seen how hard Lance had worked to take care of him recently.

"Snapped."

Song Ning stopped struggling, and stared wide-eyed as he felt the burning sensation on his buttocks.

"W-what are you doing?"

"Dry."

Lance succinctly expressed his thoughts.

Of course, he was genuinely happy that Song Ning was healthy again, and this happiness naturally included the fact that the young couple could finally do some risqué things together.

After all, we should cherish the present moment in this apocalyptic world; it was Song Ning who told him this.