I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse-Chapter 1074 - 1173: What? None of the Fuel-Based Items Work Here?

So, that night passed without any major thrills.

Jing Shu slept until ten o’clock. The breakfast at the second camp was already ready. Master Liang made spicy and sour soup, the aroma was simply unbelievable, drifting several miles.

A bowl of spicy and sour soup down the throat, then a bit of fragrant pan-fried synthetic meat, accompanied by a whole grain pancake rolled with some vegetables, tasted exceedingly delicious.

The people from the first team couldn’t help but grow restless: "When on earth will our car be fixed?"

Huang Xiaoxiao was gnawing on the hard, dry compressed biscuits, took a sip of cold water, shivered, and suddenly someone knocked on the car door:

"Dr. Huang, Dr. Chu from the second team is calling us for a meeting."

"Meeting, meeting, what’s the point of a meeting, so full of themselves! Why have a meeting so early in the morning, when will our car be fixed?" Huang Xiaoxiao said irritably.

Suddenly someone spoke up: "They’re in a big tent, it’s especially warm over there—"

Huang Xiaoxiao heard this and said, "In that case, call all our people over to warm up. Bring my uncle too."

So Huang Xiaoxiao took the team to crash the tent; truly, comparing oneself to others is maddening.

Originally the first team brought all luxury equipment; at this moment, they should’ve been in the armed vehicle, in the cozy air conditioning, using various items for research, looking at maps—

Isn’t this what their researchers were supposed to do?

Yet what happened? The car broke down, in this freezing winter, she didn’t sleep all night, her uncle fell ill, and she had to hold everything together herself, and those power users had no good solutions.

The second team’s big tent was set up under a big stone on the snowy mountain, in a wind-sheltered spot, with a stove burning inside the tent, each member of the second team clutching a bowl of hot soup emitting a fragrant aroma.

Dozens from the first team flocked in, making the tent a bit cramped, everyone sat down on the ground in a circle, and Huang Xiaoxiao said: "Have you discovered something?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Chu Zhuohua handed over two reports and said, "There are some findings; you’ll understand when you see them."

Huang Xiaoxiao was puzzled, would the people from the second team really be so kind as to give her their research results?

However, after she got the test report and looked at it, her face darkened, and she passed the report to other members of the first team.

Chu Zhuohua sighed: "The snow water itself seems okay, but who would have thought its essence is insect eggs? Normally it wouldn’t react, but it just happens to react with petroleum-based fuels, which is why any place with burning fuel will spawn those insects—"

At this moment, the entire hall fell silent, and then murmurs of shock and disbelief arose:

"Dr. Chu, what did you say? The snow is actually insect eggs?"

"Is that true? Damn, last night was so hot, I even ate a mouthful, am I going to be parasitized?"

"No way, right? There’s snow everywhere, it can’t all be insect eggs, don’t scare me?"

At this point, Jing Shu and Su Malie both swallowed hard.

Su Malie, bored from traveling yesterday, had been playing snowballs for a while; thinking that the snow in her hands was going to turn into insects, she felt somewhat nauseated.

But Jing Shu’s swallowing was not out of fear, but genuine excitement: "Wow, if the snow everywhere is insect eggs, and if they hatch and relate to new energy, how valuable would that be? It’s a fortune, a fortune!"

Chu Zhuohua nodded solemnly: "Yes, we’ve collected samples from a few kilometers around, all the snow water hatches into insects after special activation. However, we haven’t studied how this insect relates to Dark Energy.

Regardless of the connection, the challenges we face next are difficult; it is known that petroleum-based fuel triggers the hatching of insect eggs.

As for other conditions, it’s still unknown, but after all, it’s a time bomb.

We still need a few days to research the characteristics, weaknesses, and conditions when the insect grows up. Also, the current impact of insects on us needs further study."

Su Malie was completely stiff, even the soup in her bowl lost its flavor.

Jing Shu patted Su Malie and quietly asked, "Exciting, isn’t it thrilling?"

Su Malie almost cried: "Ah Zhu, this is too thrilling, right? The snow everywhere is insects, it scares me like this."

Unlike the shock of the first team, the second team’s faces were as terrified as they could be.

Because they quickly realized the terrifying issue.

"So if gasoline fuel activates insect eggs, can we not filter our fuel? Then won’t our car run?"

"Your armed vehicle isn’t very advanced, can it use electricity instead?"

"But it needs electricity, and the generator needs fuel!"

At this moment, Wu You’ai took out another report and told everyone: "Yesterday, I captured some insects from the fuel and found that they grow fast in the fuel; they may very much like fuel or use it as food, but I discovered through research that they can’t reproduce the next generation. So, where did these insect eggs come from?"

Everyone looked towards the sky.

"Fell from the sky with the snow?"

With a "snap," Huang Xiaoxiao slapped the report in her hand and said: "Now, we should discuss how our first team will continue moving forward."

This was an oversight.

If the fuel can’t be used, the first team would have to abandon all armed vehicles and equipment, and proceed on foot? Wouldn’t they turn from a wealthy team into beggars at once?