I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse

Chapter 796: Prison Wall Plunder

Jing Shu had the rotten mermaids clear out all the mud from around the underground foundations of Nanhai Prison. The prison was swarming with rotten corpse insects. This left the forlorn foundations, complete with an entire wall and door, hanging in mid-air.

Then, the rotten mermaids transported the entire massive reinforced concrete prison wall and gate. After the Hulk licked them clean, the over 700-square-meter area was completely enclosed.

When Fatty Liu came the next day, his jaw nearly dropped. The area, empty just yesterday, was now encircled by an oppressively high wall.

Atop the high wall was fearsome barbed wire, both imposing and solemn.

"Hey, this is really strange! An entire high wall appeared overnight, and this gate looks just like the one from the prison I once stayed in," Fatty Liu said, his mouth agape, just as the heavy gate creaked open.

Jing Shu arrived, wearing a pair of black gloves that seemed to be made of an indiscernible, writhing material, dragging something behind her.

She saw Fatty Liu, his mouth still hanging open.

"Miss Jing, what a coincidence! Did you set up this wall? I thought our Nanhai Prison had suddenly moved here—it gave me quite a fright! But if it’s your doing, that’s good, that’s good..." Fatty Liu wiped his sweat. He was noticeably perspiring less than before, suggesting the medicine Jing Shu had given him was quite effective.

How did he know this gate was from Nanhai Prison? Jing Shu wondered. I thought I did it without anyone noticing. Well, it seems anyone can tell I took the prison gate.

"Ah, wasn’t it that time when I was a tenant and accidentally sold my landlord’s property as if it were my own, landing me a few years inside... Ah, no!" Fatty Liu accidentally let the truth slip. He quickly covered his mouth and shook his head violently. "That’s not the point! The point is, is this really the gate and high wall from Nanhai Prison?!"

That Fatty Liu was quite a character, actually doing what many tenants only wished they could but never dared: he sold his landlord’s property. His fate, however, was grim. A lesson to all: don’t ever do anything illegal or disorderly on our land.

Jing Shu nodded. "Yes, I spent a fortune on it. Feels secure, doesn’t it? By the way, from now on, no one patrolling or catching insects should come within a meter of this wall."

"Ah? Oh, okay." As a professional manager, Fatty Liu understood that some wealthy people valued their privacy highly.

Despite this, Fatty Liu still added, "Actually, we’re pretty secure here, Miss Jing. Though the high wall brings a sense of security, the overwhelming oppressiveness makes it hard to breathe. And it feels like living inside a prison..." It gives me a rather eerie feeling.

Jing Shu nodded. "You’re right. I’ve considered that as well. So, you see..."

As she spoke, she kept dragging what seemed to be an endless vine, winding it around the high wall.

The vines were thick, robust, and a glistening green, with ferocious thorns protruding from them. They were surrounded by brightly colored, beautiful flowers.

In no time, the oppressive and suffocating high wall was completely covered by the vines and flowers. It was a dazzling sight, as if transporting onlookers into a fantastical, fairy-tale world of a magical forest, brightening everyone’s mood.

Fatty Liu exclaimed, "Ah, this... this is indeed quite beautiful! I had no idea such pretty flowers could still be cultivated after the apocalypse. Miss Jing, may I ask where you got them? I’d like to plant a batch by the roadside too; they’re so much nicer than that dark grass."

Saying this, Fatty Liu reached out to touch them.

SMACK!

Jing Shu slapped Fatty Liu’s hand away from the vine. "You might not have seen the Yun Gui Zhetian Biri toxic vines, but you’ve surely heard of them, right? They’re highly poisonous. You’d best not think of cultivating them. If handled poorly, the whole village could end up dead."

Fatty Liu’s hand was slapped red. He didn’t care about the sting anymore. He took a big leap backward, tremblingly pointing at the poison vines.

"Miss Jing Shu, you, you, you... You actually brought that terrifying thing here! Those mutated poison vines spread all over Yun Gui in just three years! Even if you uproot them completely, they just keep growing back everywhere. They’re known as one of the great toxic tumors of the apocalypse!

"This, this, this... It’s all over! It won’t be long before our place is also overrun! My bonus, my hard-earned estate... Oh, heavens!..."

Jing Shu: "..."

"Hey, hey, hey, stop your howling. I’m a professional from the Medicine Association. I have special medicine to suppress them; it’s not going to cover the whole South Sea with poison vines. But you, do you still want to cultivate these?"

Fatty Liu’s head shook like a rattle-drum. "No more, no more! Don’t worry, I won’t let anyone come anywhere near here!"

Seeing the formidable Jing Shu casually hang dozens of meters of vines, interspersed with thorny flowers, on the gate, the fairytale-like vibrant beauty now cast a shadow in Fatty Liu’s heart. He felt a chill down his spine.

Miss Jing Shu is too terrifying, Fatty Liu lamented inwardly. I don’t like her anymore!

After Fatty Liu scrambled away, cold-eyed snakes, flicking their tongues, crept out from behind the vines.

Some snakes were only as thick as Fatty Liu’s thumb, while others were thicker than his thigh. Two huge, intertwined snakes on top of the high wall looked down at where Fatty Liu had disappeared.

What a pity,

the two giant snakes thought. We almost had a chance to swallow that guy whole. Jing Shu clapped her hands. "Alright, this is your new home. From now on, keep a good watch. Don’t let any strangers or creatures approach, and make sure not a single vine grows beyond the high walls."

After speaking, Jing Shu went into her new villa, not caring whether the entwined snakes understood human speech.

I was so fed up with these two snakes and their incessant breeding in the space every day, Jing Shu recalled. They produced dozens of broods, so many that I couldn’t even keep up with brewing snake and tortoise liquor. Still, selling their sloughed skins to the Medicine Association earned me quite a lot of points.

Now that they have a new home, I can finally have some peace. I won’t bring them on my trip to the Middle East this time.

When I leave, I need to tell Mr. Jing to regularly collect their sloughed skins and harvest venom from their fangs.

Most importantly, moving these snakes out will save over twenty cubic meters of space!

Jing Shu walked through the gate in the high wall, letting out a sigh. She had been busy day and night getting the new villa ready, and at last, it was nearly done.

Inside the gate was a desolate, barren plot of over two hundred square meters and the villa’s neatly maintained front yard.

The soil on the barren plot was unsuitable for cultivation. Jing Shu still had to buy several hundred tons of specially processed fertile soil from the Northeast at an auction.

This stuff had its price driven sky-high. Whenever she asked sellers where the soil came from, they’d all claim, "It’s from some place in the Northeast."

It was just like before the apocalypse: whenever you bought hairy crabs, they’d all be claimed to be from Yangcheng Lake, or how oysters were always said to be from Rushan.

So when buying things, you really have to keep your eyes peeled.

After buying the soil, I’ll find an excuse to transplant a few types of fruit trees from my space, Jing Shu planned. I’ll set up an orchard and a vegetable garden so my family can taste what these fresh, exotic fruits are really like.

Poor Mrs. Jing hasn’t tasted cherries or durians in so long. Adding some special fruits from the South Sea region, transplanting a few coconut trees, mango trees, and the like would be nice.