I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse

Chapter 1079 - 1179: What? We’ve Found the People to Rescue?

"Oh no, then we’re screwed. This second batch of rescuers came for nothing, we’ll all be trapped down here together."

"I don’t care about that, I’m just concerned whether they brought enough supplies. We’re all going to starve."

As listless voices sounded all around, Jing Shu’s CPU was burning crazily, and she had the thought, what the heck? Is this for real?

Even a script wouldn’t dare write something like this.

Could this be the army that got trapped beneath Wu City months ago? They found them just like that without lifting a finger? Is Su Malie’s mouth blessed? This is like searching high and low only to find it effortlessly, a shame Jing Shu and the others looked for so long without finding them, and they were buried down here all this time. No wonder!

As the rumbling settled down, a strange sound of sticky mucus wriggling echoed, and everything went silent.

The team snapped out of their shock, and Jing Shu turned on the strong flashlight, suddenly illuminating the pitch-black cavern.

Around the cave appeared figures, their faces indiscernible, with only pairs of eyes visible and big white teeth showing when they smiled. Their entire bodies and faces reeked of foul blackness, as if they’d swum through coal and oil.

"My god, scared the life out of me," Su Malie nearly mistook them for monsters.

"What the heck is going on with these people?"

The crowd began to stir again, Zhen Nantian withdrew his ability, stepped forward calmly, and said, "What’s happening? Did we fall down here and encounter the trapped people of Wu City?"

Jing Shu nodded, "The good news is we seem to have found the trapped group. The bad news is we might be trapped too. Anyway, let’s settle down and see what the situation is."

Others in the pitch-black place couldn’t see clearly, but Jing Shu could see clearly, what the heck—

She patted Hulk, conveying the message, and Hulk transformed into a tall lamppost, shining the flashlight down from above. Everyone could finally discern the surroundings and gasped.

If the outside gave off an endless hopelessness with its snowy mountains, then this place was a narrow and suffocating cavern, all damp and completely black, suffocating and nauseating.

Those surviving here seemed like they’d been pulled from oil, entirely pitch black head to toe.

"Is this—the heart of Dark Energy? Did we just reach the innermost area like this?"

"Amazing, did we find this without any effort? Is all this black stuff Dark Energy?"

"Then aren’t we about to strike it rich?"

"Wait, aren’t you forgetting, all the snow mountains outside are full of insect eggs, if this is the heart, aren’t everything here insect eggs too?"

While the surroundings were clamoring, Jing Shu took out a pancake and handed it to these unlucky ones, "Tell us, who are you, where are we, what’s really going on here?"

Seeing the pancake made of unknown ingredients, the few of them took it and devoured it ravenously.

"We’re all gonna die, none of us will make it out alive."

"Are you the rescue team sent to save us? Pity, no matter how many come, no one can get out. We’re going to be trapped here forever."

Zhen Nantian frowned, "First explain the situation to us, the rest leave to us."

Jing Shu interjected, "Start from the beginning, tell us everything you know. Each of you will get two more pancakes!"

Big Yellow Teeth and his group lost their relaxed demeanor entirely, it seemed there was more to this story.

A few of them brightened up, one man, only his eyes and teeth visible in the darkness, finally said after chomping on the pancake, "Hey, we’re the original residents of Wu City. Last year, during Wu City’s great migration, people from Qingshui River Village joined to migrate to Wu City. But unexpectedly, the previously dried-up Qingshui River suddenly flooded with Black Water, and we got trapped. Luckily, we had enough food, and managed to hold on for two days on rooftops—"

Another quickly continued, "That’s when Brother Xie brought two people from above to rescue us, the flood receded, and just when we thought we were saved, the ground collapsed, swallowed by the earth, leading us to this cavern."

The man supplemented, "This cave is really inhospitable, so damp, full of stinking Black Water, and sticky stuff; we thought we’d die here, but every month, a lot of things roll in, sometimes it’s rubbish, sometimes unidentified creatures, or rotten things, and even people drop in."

"Yes, after surviving several months here, a batch of rescuers came from above."

"Then, three months ago, another batch of rescuers arrived."

Jing Shu frowned, "Even if things roll in every month, what do you survive on? Just eating this rubbish?"

One of them chuckled, and then aimed at the wall, scraping down a lump of black stuff, "It only rolls in once a month, what can there be to eat? We’re starving to death, eat anything, scraping this stuff to eat, for water it’s this Black Water on the ground, starving, absolutely starving, eat anything."