I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse-Chapter 863 - 953: Jing Shu: Let Me Show Off a Little

Everyone on the ship certainly couldn’t just sit around waiting for Jing Shu’s experiment. While Jing Shu went underwater, they had already started taking action.

In this moment, time equaled life, equaled food. Therefore, the first step, mapping and measuring the number and height of nearby air walls, had become the top priority for the elite team and all the crew members.

For a while, the sea was filled with the elite team members like dumplings being dropped into boiling water.

Only a small group remained in the conference room.

Nannan, as a medic, didn’t need to enter the sea. She casually looked over the data mapped out by the various teams from the sea, silently cursing Jing Shu thousands of times in her heart.

Old Zhou tapped on the table and asked, "How is it? Have you calculated how many air walls are around and their heights? What’s the best route?"

Just as Nannan was about to say it’s almost done, Yang Yang had already shared a fairly complete map of the air wall distribution onto the screen and pointed with a laser pointer:

"Here is the distribution map of air walls within two kilometers nearby. I’ve outlined their area and height. Please take a look."

The remaining members and Old Zhou looked up to see a sea surface map where dense obstructions or maze-like barriers were directly and visibly present.

The air walls varied in size, with small ones only half a meter wide, and large ones standing like mountains in the sea, distributed chaotically without any apparent pattern.

If a fleet of large ships wanted to navigate through these irregular obstacles, they would have to wind through numerous twists and turns, akin to solving a maze.

After all, even if an air wall is small, a ship crashing into it cannot pass, and hitting a large air wall is better. Today, two ships were lost by crashing into tiny air walls, slicing the vessels in half.

Yang Yang continued, "Based on the current data, we can bypass these air walls by taking this maze-like route. If someone issues commands ahead as a warning, directing the course without errors, our fleet’s speed can reach up to 20KM/h. However, since we need to bypass obstacles, the journey is expected to be about 40% longer, and fuel consumption will increase accordingly."

Old Zhou nodded solemnly, "This is the best solution we can think of right now. Since we can’t deal with these air walls, we have to go around. Let’s go out and see the markers they’ve made."

Nannan followed the crowd on deck of the official ship, silently counting the time. It had almost been half an hour since Jing Shu placed her bet! She clenched her fist; with no news yet, this means Jing Shu has no solution! Hmph, everyone has to take a detour, and yet she thinks she can make the air device disappear?

The group came to the deck and saw strange, colorful markers drifting in the air above the sea.

Some strips floated in the air, while others tangled strangely on the sea. Each strip represented a differently shaped, mostly column-like air wall.

Indeed, this was the solution everyone thought of: since the air device can’t be seen, they decided to tie these obstacles above the sea using ropes or strips.

This way, everyone could directly see where the air walls were on the surrounding sea surface.

Old Zhou nodded, "It’s a decent method, effectively avoiding collision with the air walls. However, the ship has a deep draft, and there might be air walls under the sea that we need to locate beforehand to avoid any trouble if we hit them."

The group continued refining this task, with data about nearby air walls constantly being relayed over the intercom, and Yang Yang kept adding new data.

Seeing no one was speaking, Nannan coughed and feigned concern: "It’s almost been half an hour, and there’s no news from Jing Shu and her team. While the task is important, I’m afraid something might have happened to them..."

Old Zhou responded with a grunt. With no news this long, he worried, although he never held hope for Miss Jing’s attempt to make the air walls disappear. Thinking that Miss Jing might lose face, he told Yang Yang, "Contact Jing Shu’s team. If there’s nothing we can do, let them stay on the perimeter and be on the lookout for other dangers."

Nannan rolled her eyes. Here, in the Mirror Sea Area, there’s nothing but endless sea and countless rotten corpse insects, not even a trace of life! What danger is left? Favoritism!

Yang Yang nodded and reached Hao Yunlai: "How did your experiment go? Old Zhou means there’s no need to waste more time and suggests you stay on the outside for potential dangers."

Hao Yunlai’s voice crackled over the intercom: "Eh, the experiment didn’t yield good results. We can’t make the air walls disappear directly. Captain Jing Shu asks if the air wall distribution map is available."

The outcome from Jing Shu wasn’t unexpected for those around. After all, if even Code Seven couldn’t, what chance does an ordinary person like her have?

Yang Yang caught the crucial point and continued: "It’s ready."

Nannan felt secretly pleased while the others were refocusing on the data being reported by their teammates.

Within a few minutes, Jing Shu appeared on deck, dripping wet, asking Yang Yang for the new air wall distribution map while holding a peculiar red-black stone.

As Jing Shu came up, Old Zhou and the others refrained from mentioning the bet, causing Nannan to grow anxious. She stepped forward, blocking Jing Shu and Yang Yang, and coughed, saying:

"Although I won’t hold the bet against you, a person ought to be true to their word, right? Since you lost the bet, you should apologize to me in front of everyone at dinner tonight."

Nannan tilted her head, her voice was exceptionally gentle and soft, making her seem magnanimous.

No one said a word.

Old Zhou kept silent too, watching Jing Shu. Since she lost the bet, she should admit it. Even though he favored Miss Jing, and tried to cover for her earlier, he wondered why Miss Jing insisted on coming back to this.

Unexpectedly, Jing Shu brushed Nannan aside with a wave, as if not hearing her, and took the distribution map to read it.

Nannan fumed, "You!!"

Jing Shu finished reviewing the map, relaxed her brow, and completely ignoring Nannan, said to Yang Yang and Old Zhou, "Our experiment indeed didn’t succeed much on these large air walls. But leave the smaller ones below three meters on this map to me."

Jing Shu spoke while marking multiple XXs on the map with a pen, continuing, composed and slightly flaunting, "We’ll clear these smaller air walls. Yang Yang, look, by following this line, we can plot a straight course, can’t we? Your previous route is too cumbersome."

After Jing Shu finished speaking, everyone looked on as if they’d misheard.

Yang Yang’s lips curled slightly, confident and calm.

Old Zhou incredulously scratched his ear, "Miss Jing, what did you say? Could you repeat that? You said you can make the air walls under three meters disappear??"