Chapter 1030 Celebration (1/2)

The house was washed down, but it didn't collapse completely. It had to be knocked

down to make way for the foundation.

The smashed mud walls would be reused as far as possible to reduce the people's

workload.

Godzilla helped to break down the wall. The sledgehammers that the Africans had to

hold in both hands were like toys to him. He smashed the wall open, swinging one

hammer in each hand.

Li Du saw Brother Wolf looking around. He was going to ask what he saw when

Godzilla called out, ”Hey, watch out, snake!”

Hearing his voice, Li Du looked around in surprise and said, ”A snake came out of the

wall?”

After Godzilla smashed open a section of the wall, a yellowish, brownish speckled form

appeared. It was about half a meter long, flat and wriggly.

Just as they saw it, several children hastened to snatch it.

”Damn, they are really a group of warriors!” Lu Guan said with admiration. ”Should we

take snake catching training from these kids?”

Brother Wolf smiled and said, ”This is not a snake. It's an African lungfish.”

Sophie was surprised. ”This is a lungfish? How could it be? It was in the wall.”

Li Du remembered something he had seen in a film, and said, ”As far as I know, African

lungfish are amphibious. They can breathe with their lungs, which may be as long as

their body.”

Brother Wolf nodded and said, ”Yes, lungfish are unique. They can breathe with their

gills in the water, but they have a special bladder and lungs in their body so that they

can breathe air outside the water.”

Sophie was surprised. ”But it was found in the wall. Don't tell me it can live outside

water for years. It is impossible.”

Brother Wolf shrugged and said, ”I don't know, but when the dry season comes, the

ponds that the lungfish live in turn into puddles of mud. Then the lungfish dig a hole and

burrow in. Then, they release a mucus-like substance. The mucus can turn into

membrane-like protection for the lungfish.

”The mucus maintains a certain humidity and allows air to enter. At the same time, the

lungfish breaks up some of its muscle and fat into nutrients to survive, and the

metabolic rate is reduced to one-sixtieth of its active state. It hibernates over the

summer.”

Buick, who was working, hurried over to have a look and smiled. ”A fish that could be

good for a stew if it weren't too small. I once saw someone find a one meter long fish in

the wall.”

Li Du remembered hearing something similar once, but he had thought it was fake

news.

Now he had come across a real fish that could be trapped in dry soil for years!

Li Du overestimated the ability of lungfish to survive without water. Later, Buick told him

that the house was only a year and a half old. It looked so dilapidated because there

was too much soil and too little sand and rock, so the house was not strong and its life

span was short.

Even so, Li Du thought African lungfish were awesome. They could live out of water for

a year and a half without any nourishment. It was amazing enough.

He looked down at Little Flathead, who was holding a piece of wood under his feet and

poking around. He decided that both of these must be the most amazing animals in

Africa.

It was the so-called ”African chaos, the honey badger decides”. This was not just a

saying. Little Flathead was unbelievably amazing.

Little Flathead could move freely in the tribe, and no one dared to touch it. Even the

children knew it must not be provoked.

It's not that the honey badger was lethal. but you couldn't afford to mess with it. If you