Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 146 Wendigo Pharmaceutical Company

When he stepped on the ground again, it was only after ten o'clock in the morning.

The fortress they saw in the middle of the city's subway was empty, not even the infected.

After walking out of the fortress, if it weren't for the ashes of the city walls and the emptiness around it, Li Jianghao might think that this is a city that has not yet had an outbreak of infection.

Because the center of the city is so clean, it seems that something is automatically maintaining the sanitation of the city.

It should have been accompanied by the reduction of human activities, and the invasion of wild crops and animals that have grown significantly, will present the center of the city as an apocalyptic city scene similar to the movie "I Am Legend".

However, the interior of Phoenix City that Li Jianghao saw was so clean, there was no sundries and garbage on the roads, not even the road accidents that should have occurred when the city was chaotic, and the traces of destruction left by various fires.

Because of the protection of the Shock Tower and countless hungry infected people, outside animals cannot enter the city, turning the city into a natural wilderness, Li Jianghao can still understand.

But why those plants on the side of the road still grow firmly within the demarcated range, without any trace of weeds or even the branches and leaves of the big trees growing out of the demarcated boundary?
Could it be that there are some sanitation robots in the city that rely on solar energy to unswervingly carry out urban sanitation and cleaning work?

Li Jianghao shook his head and threw away the idea.

According to the infected people's habit of taking a bite of anything they see moving, if such a robot really existed, it would definitely attract a large number of infected people nearby.

Thorn looked at the gate of the pharmaceutical company in the distance, which looked cleaner and newer than other buildings that were not maintained by anyone.

He walked to the plants on the side of the road and stood still, sniffed them carefully, and said:
"A product of genetic modification, these road markings contain a chemical that can constrain the roots below the ground to delineate the boundaries and prevent their branches and leaves from growing beyond the boundaries. At the same time, the modification of these crops limits Their subsequent growth. They can only grow so big, there is no way to grow any higher."

There was some sadness in Thorn's tone. Compared with ordinary people who have not been transformed, the Thunder Warriors can be considered supermen.But this kind of transformation that brings strength will limit the future development of the Thunder Warriors. Their ending was already doomed the moment they were born.

Soon, after confirming that there were indeed no infected people nearby, they began to stride forward towards the gate of the pharmaceutical company.

The huge letters put together a word that is not a mouthful, but somewhat vulgar, like a name from an ancient nation or legend:
"Wendigo."

Li Jianghao knows that this is a tribe in the American continent, the name for those savages who live in the wild by preying on their own kind.

It is said that the prototype of this savage is the embodiment of the behavior of a patient infected by a certain prion virus, and the root of everything points to the oldest evil, cannibalism.

Li Jianghao explained the meaning of this word, and told everyone by the way that in the legend, Wendigo will turn into a demon image with the head of a beast, which means that those monsters that eat the same kind have completely abandoned the human race and become a new kind of horror. .

Thinking of this, Li Jianghao suddenly asked Thorn:

"How does your environment view cannibalism?"

"Heresy, or necessary behavior in order to survive in a certain environment. But in fact, we will not be affected. In the past golden age, the genetic improvement of basic humans has immune to most diseases that appear on Terra. Prions It’s just a protein particle that can be avoided as long as you don’t eat brains, let alone meat in general. Human meat is no different from other creatures. The corruption among us caused by this behavior is more due to some inability to The reason for saying it. Now that you know the Emperor himself, you should understand what I mean."

Cagallo also said: "All resources can be used, even the same kind. But we will not use the great dedication of the same kind on the lowest energy utilization of eating, that would be too wasteful."

Li Jianghao waved his hands and said, "All right, all of you are big bosses, you can't afford to be provoked."

Arnold and the others listened with great enjoyment, and they listened to what the two of them said as entertainment stories.

Such things as cannibalism did not exist in their post-industrial revolution countries.

If Li Jianghao knew Arnold's thoughts, he might think of a way to make a copy of Das Kapital for them.

Let them have a good understanding of eating in the sense of value compared to eating in the physical sense.

However, in the current environment in New London, the so-called exploitation and oppression is meaningless. It is better for them to seek survival and development with peace of mind, and rebuild civilization in the ice and snow as soon as possible.

After entering the company's gate, a Western-style biological evolution tree is engraved on the minimalist-style central column. From the single-celled organisms in the root system to the various biological species extending from the top, it covers almost every species seen in human common sense. biological species.

As an artistic process, the connected branches of these creatures give Li Jianghao the feeling of some kind of carnivorous plant, and even the obvious symbol of teeth can be seen from the jagged edges of the branches and leaves.

The closer the biological types are, the more obvious this terrifying plant style will be, until it converges on humans at the highest end of the evolutionary tree.

The branches of the evolutionary tree around humans have clearly shown the characteristics of biting and eating, which symbolizes that humans have conquered all other creatures and have the power to use other creatures as food.

The so-called natural enemies of organisms, in natural manifestations, detached from all subsequent cognitions, are the organisms that can prey on the organisms.

Human beings are already the natural enemies of all living things.

Existing human civilization usually refers to the original Homo sapiens, and Homo sapiens once exterminated other human species, completing the anchoring of the wisdom of the original human race in the fire of civilization.

This is a systematic judgment on the original human race, that is to say, no matter which world it is in, the race of human civilization must be the original Homo sapiens.If there are other kinds of human beings occupying the projection of the fire of civilization in this world, then there will be at least three levels of world distortion, and at least three saviors need to participate at the same time to solve that level of disaster doomsday.

Of course, regarding the aberrations of other races occupying the fire of civilization, the current Li Jianghao will definitely not be able to meet them. This is the original words of the system.

However, Li Jianghao always felt that what the system said was like a crow's mouth, and sooner or later he would encounter these messy problems in advance.

Arnold excitedly ran to the ground where the evolution monument was erected to look around, gain some insight for himself, and if he had the opportunity to return to New London in the future, he would have something to tell the children.

Suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something unusual, and shouted:
"Mr. Mayor! Look, in the center of this tree, next to the place of humans, there are other villains! They look very similar to us, but there are some differences."

(End of this chapter)