I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse-Chapter 1062 - 1161: Well, the Lungfish Is Useful Again

Jing Shu suddenly slapped the table, and the entire hall fell silent.

Everyone looked at Jing Shu.

Jing Shu pointed at the gene expert and said, "What did you say earlier? Repeat it."

Everyone looked at the gene expert again, with a sense of schadenfreude.

Although the experts were fiercely arguing just now, in reality, they know who the real boss is whose words count.

Don’t be fooled by the young person being the first in charge now, it’s obvious this is a gilding opportunity where success gives him a good resume and failure gives his family the burden to resolve. Everyone still only acknowledges Jing Shu as the behind-the-scenes boss of this department.

The gene expert coughed, thought for a moment, uncertainly said, "I said our department should increase staffing?"

Jing Shu shook her head, "The previous sentence, you said lungfish could be used either as blankets or for building houses?"

The expert awkwardly replied, "Uh, that was nonsense. I really couldn’t think of any substantial use for lungfish in daily life."

Jing Shu snapped her fingers, "Thank you, you just gave me great inspiration. Allocate 10 more people to your department as credit for what you said today."

Expert: "Ah?"

Everyone looked perplexed, but they turned to the gene expert with envy. This boss seems a bit different from what the rumors say?

Jing Shu appeared somewhat excited.

Honestly, in her previous life, she never figured out what use lungfish could have until after they had migrated back to Wu City, and it was still rampant in various coastal places.

The key is its life force is overly tenacious; it can’t be killed, and eating it is costly with detoxification needed, and it doesn’t taste good.

The issue is it can survive both in water and on land and occasionally emerges to eat people, sometimes even jumping up from the toilet to bite.

Imagine, while using the toilet, you have the lingering fear a lungfish might appear, you have no clue where it’ll dart out and leap to bite—

Just thinking about it causes all sorts of discomfort.

So if you can’t provoke it, why not avoid it? The fish have become so numerous in the oceans that they’ve moved onto land to develop, just keep away from the coast.

However, it wasn’t until later that Jing Shu learned there were tons of lungfish, and people did catch them, sew their mouths shut, and use them as consumables. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

As what consumables?

Naturally, because when the year starts despite the tornadoes, the large sea waves washing lungfish ashore causes an abundance of them. But once the tornadoes stop, acid rain falls.

That acid rain is extremely corrosive, and no one knows what it contains, but regardless of its composition, it corrodes everything, from stones to metals, soft to hard, it’s all corroded clean.

Even the most corrosion-resistant materials like carbon fiber, stainless steel, or PTFE plastic can only withstand the acid rain for more than half a year.

Though getting caught in acid rain won’t kill you instantly, a few hours of exposure will strip your skin off.

Some say, hey, during acid rain, just stay inside, don’t go out, but the problem is within ten or fifteen days, the acid rain will even erode your house.

By then, all usable materials need to be used to cover the house.

The apocalypse has been ongoing for seven or eight years now, the buildings haven’t collapsed, skyscrapers are still standing, but a month of acid rain will corrode almost all structures clean.

So, some people used lungfish to patch things up and fixed them to their houses, others specifically used lungfish umbrellas when going out, although lungfish are somewhat heavy, surprisingly, they are quite resistant to acid rain, perhaps due to their strong life force, while the rain falls, they repair themselves.

Ordinary building materials can be corroded clean within a month, but after laying densely packed lungfish, it can resist for at least half a year.

However, by the time the public discovered this method, the acid rain was nearly over, and by then, everything had been corroded clean, and there was virtually nothing left to resist the acid rain, but the coast was swarming with lungfish, so they simply tried fixing them to houses.

To everyone’s surprise, it worked quite well.

Jing Shu rubbed her chin, and it was due to the expert’s earlier nudge that reminded her of this, in the previous life, by the time they migrated back to Wu City, there were no lungfish there, and naturally, there was no attaching lungfish to walls.

It was only as the acid rain was nearly over that news emerged of such a thing happening.

So, if by then they don’t migrate back to Wu City, then lungfish could be used to defend against acid rain??

Wait—her distant memory opened up, she vaguely recalled that He Yuan City’s originally rampant green algae had found a purpose, almost swallowing the entire city in gigantic form.

This thing was later laser-cut into ropes used for stitching lungfish?

Although lungfish love to bite, once the mouth is stitched shut, no matter how much it squirms there’s no damage, just like crabs when restrained can’t move.

During acid rain, if the tails face up and mouths face down, the ropes won’t be corroded, fixing them around houses, and covering them in mud—a perfect defense against acid rain!

Once they’re nearly corroded by the acid rain, catch another batch and plaster them onto the walls again.