I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse-Chapter 866 - 956: Selling Water

The two small teams were harvesting the Air Wall above, and she had to tirelessly follow behind them, gathering the harvested Air Walls and storing them in the space.

The higher-ups were ruthless, ordering round-the-clock operations without interruption, so she naturally couldn’t stop either.

After all, every few hours, the mud strip would shrink a bit, which genuinely consumed her Spiritual Spring, so she naturally couldn’t waste it.

Not to mention, after Jing Shu spent a whole day collecting Air Walls, the Magic Cube Space finally showed signs of energy loosening, and the flow within the space returned to normal, making it even more impossible for her to stop!

Jing Shu could feel that these Air Walls were indeed filling the space’s energy, gradually upgrading and changing. The opportunity for the Magic Space to upgrade was here, and even if she had to go without sleep for three days and nights, she would follow behind them to collect every single Air Wall into the space without a miss!

Otherwise, who would be willing to be a free laborer for her to cut the Air Walls next time?

As the massive fleet forged ahead tirelessly, everyone’s hearts were on edge.

The issue with the Air Wall obstructions in front seemed to have been resolved.

However, after such a long journey, they still couldn’t see any islands. Did the people who returned from the islands two years ago remember it wrong?

At yet another daily evening meeting, everyone was half-leaning at the table, burying their heads in frantic eating.

A few days ago, everyone’s food intake visibly increased, but in the past two days, everyone had been eating like starved ghosts, eating more and getting hungry faster, wishing they could eat every moment right in front of the rice pot.

Whereas before, one person might have eaten meals for two, now everyone’s food intake had increased by at least seven or eight times, with someone like Code Seven increasing terrifyingly by tenfold!

The terrifying thing was that even though no one was overeating or gaining weight, everyone was losing a lot of weight instead!!

What on earth was happening??

How could eating more lead to losing weight??

"What the hell is this terrifying place? I’ve lost five pounds."

"You’re still okay; I’ve lost ten pounds directly. You know the fat cook next door, the two hundred pounds big guy who gains two pounds just drinking cold water? Guess how much weight he lost?"

"How much did he lose?"

Many people’s ears perked up; they were curious too.

"Oh, woe is me, he lost 40 pounds straight; I almost didn’t recognize him when I saw him. That thick layer of sagging skin is truly scary."

"Apparently, in the whole fleet, the only one who didn’t lose weight seems to be Old Zhou??"

All the bodyguards looked up with admiration, thinking, Old Zhou is really something!!

Old Zhou coughed unnaturally.

Jing Shu’s team instinctively lowered their heads further, focusing entirely on eating, actually, they hadn’t lost much weight either, but this was really too envious right now, better to keep a low profile.

Only Jing Shu: "???" Her face full of question marks, why was she gaining weight when everyone else was eating and losing weight? Touching the little bit of flesh on her belly, Jing Shu was utterly distressed.

When everyone talked about losing weight despite eating, her heart leaped for joy, wasn’t this her lifelong dream? Thus, whether resting or harvesting Air Walls from below the sea, she secretly ate freely.

Back then, there was a sense of hunger and fullness, but this unnerving place is weird; no matter what she ate, she couldn’t feel full, so she kept eating. Who would’ve thought!

"Does anyone have anything to report?" Old Zhou helplessly started to noisily eat a bowl of Compressed Biscuits soaked in water. There was no choice; this damned place was weird. Not eating would leave one unbearably hungry; even his appetite had become surprisingly large.

If one didn’t eat — the consequences would be severe! Two guys who forgot to eat after working through the night directly starved to death in their sleep!

When discovered, they were nothing more than skin and bones, all the flesh on their bodies sunken.

This terrified everyone from skipping meals; they had to eat more!

Now, everyone had to eat eight meals a day, even during meetings.

Big Yellow Teeth was the first to hold up his chopsticks: "Even if we are all frantically eating, the more ordinary people are, the quicker they lose weight, while the stronger individuals lose weight more slowly!"

Big Yellow Teeth was quite an ordinary person. If he hadn’t added thirteen meals a day, he would probably have been skin and bones by now; even so, he lost ten pounds.

"True, Code Seven at the head of the team only lost a pound or two. Small team leaders and B-level, A-level elite members lost three to five pounds."

Someone was puzzled: "Back on South Sea Island, weren’t people in a deep sleep? I thought we would just fall asleep, but I didn’t anticipate we’d be on the brink of starvation!"

"We haven’t even landed on the island, and it’s already like this. Who knows what will happen once we get on the island." Finally, someone was having second thoughts.

"We need to think, our food supplies are running out!"

Saying this, everyone present didn’t look too pleased!

The surge in food consumption had exhausted the originally sufficient supplies, even Old Zhou was now eating Compressed Biscuits soaked in water; next meal, everyone feared all that would be left was Cockroach Meat!

Despite their high protein content and the fact they are filling, still... they were hard to swallow!

"We have cockroach meat to eat, so no worries there, if you can eat, you can drink, the key problem is that we don’t have enough water now, we might just die on the way before finding the island."

Yang Yang’s eyes were surrounded by dark circles, he hadn’t slept well these past few days. He displayed the collected data: "At this speed, we’ll reach in about another two or three days, hang in there, everyone. As for water — 500 cubic meters have been purchased from Captain Jing Shu’s ship above, ensuring each person has a basic supply of 10 liters of water a day. For any more, people will have to think of their own way to trade with Captain Jing Shu."

As soon as he said this, the entire conference room turned, looking at the heads-down eating five-member group.

"What? Captain Jing Shu actually brought so much water??"

"Captain Jing Shu, how much water do you have left? Could you spare a little for our team?"

"Yeah, each person having only 10 liters is nowhere near enough after our meal intake increased, I need to drink at least a dozen liters of water a day now."

"Captain Jing Shu, how much water do you have exactly?"

"Yeah, spare us some, once we reach the Middle East, we’ll repay you tenfold." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"Think about it, aren’t you curious why when everyone else is out of water, Captain Jing Shu not only sold 500 tons to the ones above but still has available, seemingly not a small amount. Where did Captain Jing Shu get all this water from? Could more be sourced? This way, everyone wouldn’t lack water."

For a moment, everyone was talking at once, questions coming from all sides; curiosity mostly, but a few just trying to get a free ride.

Jing Shu coughed to quiet everyone, then said:

"Honestly, I’m not afraid of everyone laughing at me...