"Mr. Charles, what are you doing?" Lily stood atop the stove and stared in a mixture of curiosity and awe as Charles fiddled with a tin pipe.0

With a deep exhale, Charles lit up the stove. White stream traveled through the cooling pipes and condensed into droplets of water before dripping into a cup.0

Boil seawater over a furnace to get fresh water. It was a straightforward process: heat the seawater to produce steam, cool it, and condense it to get pure water.0

Lily's eyes sparkled upon tasting the distilled water. "This is so refreshing, Mr. Charles! You're amazing; you could even turn seawater into freshwater!"0

However, Lily’s perked ears drooped the moment she saw Charles' gloomy expression. "Mr. Charles, we have water now. Why do you look so up...0