Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 144 Day Number Mechanism, Terrible Conjecture
As for why he had to stay at the relay station until daytime the next day before moving on, Thorne's opinion was that Li Jianghao needed real sleep to rest.

And, he needs to go out alone to observe what kind of state the corpse tide near the shock tower is like in the middle of the night.

Those gadgets have no change in the movement of the sun during the day, but even when the visual organs are damaged, they can always aim in the direction of the shock tower, waiting desperately for the shock tower to fail.

This low-level group consciousness is very new to Thorne. He also learned a lot of knowledge while participating in the transformation of Thunder Warriors.

Swarm consciousness may not be obvious to ordinary people, and many even claim that they were born free.

But biological performance cannot deceive people, just like the so-called herd mentality, which essentially requires the body to secrete some substances to promote the body's actions.

After becoming Thunder Warrior, Thorne became absolutely more rational, even more rational than when he followed the Emperor, and even thought about the relationship between ordinary people, Thunder Warrior and the Emperor.

In a sense, collective will is nothing more than the same change that biomass exhibits in response to changes in the external environment when the number of individuals reaches a certain level.

Not to mention that these infected people are completely driven by pathogens, poor organisms that only know how to eat and spread pathogens, and they don't even have the possibility of resisting this biological change and showing the so-called free will.

Unlike the lunatics who have the probability of having some genetic defects among human beings and rarely secrete biomass to drive body actions in response to the outside world, these people will either become a big event or a tragedy.

There is such an observation group in front of him that there is absolutely no exception. Of course, Thorne will not miss any opportunity to observe.

If we can find some key behaviors among infected groups through observations in different time periods, it will play a great role in the camp's resistance to large-scale corpse tides in the future.

Li Jianghao doesn't even think as far as Thorne. As Yun Hammer, remembering the timeline clearly has already overloaded his brain.

Not to mention that the Warhammer world criticized by outsiders is nothing more than changing the background of primitive people's fights and adding a mysterious description of those jokes, as if highlighting one thing is enough.

In fact, as the predecessors of the Astartes, the tactical cultivation and thinking shown by these Thunder warriors with unexposed genetic defects far surpassed any master of military theory.

As for after the genetic defects were exposed, they were all thrown into the garbage dump of history by the emperor. Does anyone still care about the harm caused by the defects of the Thunder Warriors?

When the sun rose, Li Jianghao waited for Thorn's return.

The latter is like an invisible leopard that has a huge body but does not have any extra actions and will not attract the attention of any creature, walking in the block.

After Thorne came back, his face was serious. Although his face was always serious, everyone could tell that Thorne had observed some terrible facts.

Thorne said: "Those groups of infected people are counting. And they are counting down, as if heralding the arrival of a certain time. From the ancient Terran classics, I have recorded about the first twenty thousand years. Saw it in an evil ritual called voodoo. The sacrifices that were forced to eat the brains of their relatives were used as an hourglass for some kind of prophetic countdown. You speculated that the world's plagues were followed by protein conversion technology that did not prevent Prion infection caused by cannibalism, and an outbreak caused by multiple infections. If the two principles are consistent, then I believe that after 214 days, the shock tower will completely fail. Compared with our estimated one to two years The time is much less, less than a year."

When Li Jianghao heard the first sentence, he directly asked Arnold to confirm the shock tower data collected before to see the follow-up maintenance time of a single shock tower.

He has no reason not to be nervous, because in the game of hundreds of millions of zombies, the development camp has a time rule that can predict the waves of corpses!
If the tide of tens of millions of corpses is counting, but at the time of the date change at midnight of a day, it means that their counting is related to the number of days.

This means that these infected people retain the game's number of days mechanism, even the difficulty mechanism!

What kind of hook has the mechanism of this world set for the infected!

Doesn't that mean that the infected don't even need to go to the reactor, or even actively consume the shock tower? If no one triggers it, they can wait until the end of the count, and then effortlessly cross the protection of the shock tower. Enter the outside world.

214 days, only 214 days left.

"What method are they counting? I mean, if we can understand this method and modify the numbers, is it possible to stop this corpse wave at the time it is scheduled to erupt?"

Li Jianghao asked quickly, without even letting people set off directly to the underground railway channel to complete the originally planned goal.

Compared with their exploration, it is more important to determine the date of the outbreak of the corpse tide in Phoenix.

If there is any way to modify the counting method, it is like cheating by artificially opening a modifier to prevent the computer from sending troops.

Thorne said lightly: "If it is a small number of infected people, or even a group of less than a million, this kind of counting method may not necessarily appear, or in other words, this counting method will be displayed. Only tens of millions of corpses Quantity can show this performance. I climbed up the tall building and watched the division according to the inner circle of the defense line, divided into time zones and compared with the running shadow of the moon as a scale, and observed this change. I can’t describe it in words, just It’s as if your wisdom cannot understand that the composition of elementary particles is moving in disorder, but you, composed of countless elementary particles, are doing what you think are orderly movements.”

Li Jianghao couldn't understand the principle, he just wanted to know if this counting method could be modified.

Thorne's answer was very helpless: "No. We need to move the tide of corpses with tens of thousands of scales to change the position, and add 15 minutes to this number of days. But this will be overwhelmed by the flow of corpses, because they have no individual distinction. It’s the back, and the back is the front. It’s just the time change brought about by moving the variable, even if you add one day, but when the night time changes, the sequence number that was moved to the front will automatically become the first item, all of which are meaningless.”

Li Jianghao took a deep breath and manually entered the number 214 on his terminal.

His camp development time, only 214 days left.

According to the game time, it is reasonable to say that the camp that has been developing normally for more than 100 days has reached the late stage.At that time, all the technologies that should be developed were almost developed.

But Li Jianghao never imagined how to resist the tide of 2000 million corpses by relying on the technology in the game.

It has been more than 40 days since he came here. Until now, technology has only completed the accumulation of quantitative changes in essence, and there has been no substantial change.

In the next 200 days, unless the system opens him up again, at the current speed of development, even if the camps on the entire wasteland and the underground shelters work together, plus the full assistance of Negan's brother, this wave of corpses can be resisted. down.

After the work is done, the vitality will be seriously injured, and all the development and accumulation will be destroyed.

(End of this chapter)