I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse-Chapter 1035 - 1034: Forewarned Is Forearmed—Preventing Future Catastrophes

A composed and gentle voice sounded in front of them.

Jing Shu stopped smiling and shook her head, "It’s nothing, just thought of something funny."

Jun Bao raised an eyebrow, "So you postponed several important meetings, didn’t even attend the Township Government meetings, just because you thought of something funny?"

And you came in front of me laughing?

Jing Shu rolled her eyes, "Of course not, there’s something important I need to discuss with you!"

As she spoke, she took out a glass container from the black box, containing pieces of a lungfish dissected at the theme hotel yesterday.

With a snap, she placed it on the table.

The fragments of the lungfish inside the glass container were still wriggling, not yet dead, its tiny teeth seemingly searching for food, and its eyes still moving.

This scene was undoubtedly bizarre and disgusting. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

However, Jun Bao, intrigued, picked it up to inspect it, even poked a pen inside to prod it a few times, only to be attacked.

"What is this? A new species?" he asked, looking a bit more serious.

Jing Shu nodded and roughly recounted yesterday’s events, adding:

"If I’m not mistaken, it should be the dark mutant lungfish from Africa. These beings are rampant over there now. You should check the international news and updates; you might find something."

Jun Bao frowned, then immediately took a picture, made a call, and had someone verify it.

He then asked, "If this is indeed something rampant from Africa, breeding or migrating from their waters to here, it’s going to be a big problem. But you didn’t find any new lungfish yesterday, which means this thing might have come by coincidence."

Jing Shu nodded, "It might be coincidence, but when you find one cockroach, there might already be millions of cockroach eggs."

Jun Bao tapped his fingers on the table, frowning, lost in thought for a moment, then received a call that confirmed the matter. He opened the images and documents sent by his subordinate and reviewed them with Jing Shu.

He said, "The situation in Africa is severe, indeed it’s lungfish infestation. But the appearance of lungfish helped alleviate their food issues, although it reduced their original average lifespan from 30 to 25 years. This thing might be poisonous to consume."

Jing Shu nodded, "To evolve and survive, they might have turned slightly toxic, but if they really infest the South Sea, and the waves wash them ashore, given their rabid nature of biting anything, the public won’t be able to defend against them easily."

In the past world, these creatures killed many people. Coupled with a lack of preemptive defenses, it caused substantial panic, and people along the coast started migrating en masse.

In this lifetime, since she had discovered them early, she intended to take preventive measures in advance.

Jun Bao nodded, "I understand your point. I’ll dispatch professional marine teams and Corpse Worm catching teams for periodic observation and preemptive prevention. If we can’t hold them off—then we’ll have to abandon the South Sea."

Jing Shu raised an eyebrow, questioning his reasoning since from a profit-oriented perspective, the South Sea was thriving, with more convenient logistics. It couldn’t be abandoned so easily unless—

She looked up and asked, "Has there been news from Wu City?" So, he could suggest abandonment, there must be greater interests over there!

Jun Bao nodded, "The people you asked me to find might have shown up, perhaps alive, or merely living dead."

"What do you mean?"

"Life signs were detected in that area, but it’s inaccessible, something is isolated. I’m having experts check it out, it might be a new Space Boundary," Jun Bao said this with a hint of excitement.

"The bad news is a large surrounding area is isolated, the good news is the bigger the region, the more and denser the energy it indicates. We might be about to unearth something extraordinary."

Jing Shu’s eyes lit up, indeed, Wu City had discovered massive energy in her previous life. However, in this lifetime, because of her involvement, this timeline had advanced by a year and a half, and the disaster in the South Sea was predicted a year early as well.

Perhaps, this lifetime will indeed change a lot.

"It’s definitely new energy, if Wu City really finds substantial new energy, the situation would improve greatly. If challenges arise then, I can apply to explore there."

Jun Bao squinted, contemplating something, and nodded, "Hmm."

Afterward, Jun Bao handed the glass container over to the lab for research, primarily focusing on: whether it can be eaten, how to eat it, whether it can be used as medicine, and how to prevent it from biting people.

In the following days, Jing Shu returned to her routine, and once again became a laid-back individual.

Even in the apocalypse, she believed in enjoying life, letting work go to hell, after all, the factories are up and running, with each department staffed properly.

She took five days off, worked two days, and on those two days, she went around to each factory to sign in, approve documents, make decisions, etc.

The Fermented Corpse Worm Factory was the least worrisome since there was no business pressure. The daily routine was to place clean Corpse Worms into dozens of fermentation tanks and measure the fermentation levels.

Some had to be shipped out monthly, and the excess was supplied to the brewery.

The brewery and laundry powder factory were both under the government above, so she didn’t need to worry about them, the only concern was Black Egg’s branch issue.

Now in the space, occupying several large blocks of Spirit Field, nourished by the Spiritual Spring, Black Egg had grown to obscure the sky and block the sun.