I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse

Chapter 1081 - 1181: Ah, This Endless New Energy!

We’ll pay it back slowly in the future. As for how to pay it back, there are many ways. In this apocalypse, a free meal doesn’t exist. We have to squeeze out every last bit of value.

When they heard the food wasn’t free, everyone was relieved. If the food really were given for free, they would have suspected some conspiracy.

So, Big Yellow Teeth quickly took out his little notebook to record how much was given out, who took how much, and how much debt was owed. For the remaining time, there were free laborers available.

This place was lively, like it was New Year.

The task of settling the refugees was left to Big Yellow Teeth. Zhen Nantian, Jing Shu, and the others were led by Aliang and Ah Shan to continue further inland. The further they went, the thicker the liquid seemed, like rain pouring down continuously.

Tan Ke, the tall guy, felt cramped in such a narrow place. He hunched over, covering his mouth, and asked, "Why does it smell so bad? Clearly, it’s better outside than inside. Why is Brother Xie in such a deep place? Also, the further I go in, I feel like something is being drained from me."

Aliang’s eyes flickered with an inexplicable light, "Because Brother Xie is different from others, don’t be surprised when you see him. You’re right; staying here drains all our energy. Even though we ate just an hour ago, we quickly feel hungry again." This place is indeed strange.

Silent Ah Shan added, "It’s like you can never get full."

They exchanged glances, understanding each other without words.

As expected, Brother Xie might have mutated, gaining some special abilities, and had to stay in this dark, damp place.

However, never getting full? Jing Shu furrowed her brows, pondering something.

Beep beep beep beep —

Everyone looked at the equipment behind Tan Ke, seeing the numbers on it rapidly climbing until a row of characters appeared, then stopped.

"Oh my gosh, has the Dark New Energy here maxed out?"

"Has it maxed out? Didn’t I see it wrong?"

"A few days ago, we couldn’t find any Dark Energy, and now it’s maxed out just like that? It’s all around us?"

In fact, no one else needed to say it, nor did the instrument behind Tan Ke need to indicate; when Jing Shu came in from outside, she clearly felt like the things in the space were rejoicing.

"Who would have thought! We searched everywhere tirelessly above ground and couldn’t find it, only for the Dark Energy to be hidden here!"

Their pace unconsciously quickened significantly, despite the interior being dark, damp, and unbearably foul-smelling; even Tan Ke couldn’t be bothered by it anymore.

Quickly, they arrived at Brother Xie’s location.

Way in the back, there was a pool overflowing with smoking black thick liquid, its odor eye-watering — a massive pool.

Behind the pool was a deep, bottomless stinking swamp. Could this be a sea of oil?

The viscous pool bubbled incessantly.

And lying in the pool was a person.

From the surface, it looked like a man soaking in a bath, only his upper body exposed, leaning back with his head raised, lost in thought.

Su Malie muttered, "There doesn’t seem to be anything different — but to be able to stay in such a stinking pool is impressive."

The instrument behind Tan Ke was turned off because it had maxed out, incapable of further detection while outside.

Zhen Nantian squinted at the pool of black viscous liquid, with a trace of pleasure in his cool voice, "The stuff in these pools should be the Dark New Energy, shouldn’t it?"

Everyone nodded excitedly.

This was already evident.

Jing Shu felt the excited molecules within her body; even with just a breath, it seemed like endless Dark Energy surged forth, making her take a deep breath: The concentration of Dark Energy here was terrifyingly thick!

The force of the space showed slight looseness, a sign of impatient absorption of energy and upgrading!!

She wondered why the Wu City People migrated thousands of miles to the South Sea and settled so well, although acid rain would fall daily by the sea later, even tornadoes threatened, so why migrate back to Wu City from far away?

In this life, she’d spent a lot of effort planning at South Sea, initially thinking that acid rain and other natural disasters could be countered — but now, she suddenly understood why the tyrant migrated people back in the previous life.

This underground of Wu City held an entire mountain of gold!

Why not return to guard it?

With so much Dark New Energy, I estimate the entire underground coal and oil mutated into new energy... My goodness, Wu City People going from refugees soared to the level of headscarved, per capita oil kings?

Well, you can’t quite say that. If everyone were that rich, then why did I have such a hard time in the previous life? And finding so much new energy, unlike any previous time, it must have been heavily divided in the previous life, meaning another bloody storm was coming.

In short, discovering so much new energy is a great thing, let’s first tackle the immediate challenges.

"It’s not in vain that we worked so hard!"

"Wonderful, finding so much new energy this time, we’ve more than completed the task!"

"Haha, our team has had a bountiful harvest, while the other team hasn’t even made it in, still stuck outside."

Upon this thought, everyone had different reactions; at the time, the other team had entered fully equipped, taking Wu City New Energy like it was theirs with a sense of entitlement and high attitude. But once inside — hey, guess what, they’ve been stuck outside for two months.

I suppose they’re anxious to death out there now, huh?

"Brother Xie, wake up, rescue has come! We are saved! And they’ve brought lots and lots of food!"

Rumble!

The man opened his eyes, seemingly turned over, stirring the black viscous pool until liquid splashed everywhere, "Finally, rescue, huh? I thought I’d be lying here for a lifetime."