Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 112 The Underground Research Institute
After confirming the development goals and the successful production of the first soldier to recover the armor equipment, Li Jianghao decided to take Kagalo and two soldiers to explore the ruins of an underground research institute that was originally recorded in the camp affairs. .

In the records of the command center, this underground research institute is connected to a shelter in the mountains.

Because of the leakage of pathogens in the research institute, the refuge unilaterally closed the access to the research institute, and the other way out of the refuge directly communicated with the valley.

Today, it is already the largest infected area nearby, and only high-speed trains can pass quickly.

After remaking a copy of the silent bow and arrow used by rangers and the breathing mask used by ordinary people, Li Jianghao set off with people.

As for whether there will be a rebellion inside the camp, he has already planned it.

On the one hand, he saved the production camp from destruction, on the other hand, the steam core used by the greenhouse technology he brought was set with a mechanical code.

If not removed for a period of time, the steam core will stop functioning.

Like the core code of the energy tower in New London, only the mayor knows this code.

With a stable food source, these people are unwilling to risk going into the woods to collect food or fishing on the river.

Naturally, I will not think about anything else.

After Arnold, Li Jianghao did not continue to recruit people from New London, but accumulated these quotas and got a rail car without a steam core.

Simply using the energy plant in the camp (a steam wind turbine) to provide power, the rail car took the four people and drove to the vicinity of the underground research institute and stopped moving forward.

Several people walked to the entrance of the institute, where the elevator door had collapsed, revealing a cave at the top for people to pass through.

The infected outside there couldn't climb up, and the large number of infected people nearby were all attracted to the valley, so the periphery here was considered safe.

But the power system inside has no way to maintain the lighting, maybe only the emergency lights can still flash.

Kagaro opened the way in front and walked all the way to the entrance of the underground passage. The elevator shaft there was buried by stones, revealing some corpses. It was not known whether they were those of infected people or the unfortunate victims inside.

There is no way to go down directly through the elevator shaft, but to forcefully break through the elevator maintenance system and slide all the way down the pipeline.

It was only when he landed that Li Jianghao noticed that the maintenance gate of the underground elevator here had already been blasted open.

But walking forward from here, I didn't find any infected people or even human corpses, not even blood stains.

It seems that when the epidemic broke out, the people inside did not try to escape.

I just don't know why it looks so clean here.

But what didn't match this kind of cleanliness was that there was a rancid smell in the air. The mask could only resist the disease that was enough to mutate in the air, but it couldn't stop the spread of the smell.

The face under Kagalo's helmet trembled excitedly, looking at the fork in the passage ahead. He has also studied the current situation in this world and the classification of infected people. The demons are still very easy to learn.

Kagallo said:
"There is a good thing. There are similar individuals in the civilizations we have destroyed before. Just like the self-control mechanism, they are the marginal infected between the second-generation infected and the third-generation infected who are on the verge of mutation. They have a certain degree of rationality. The pathogens have also been neutralized. But they will lose their own will and gradually develop into a group will. Just like your phoenix plan to use electric shock and radiation control to resist the mutation of pathogens. In a very small probability, the infected people here Use this method of group will to confuse the hunting hunger potential that is stimulated in the nerves. Avoid becoming a real, third-generation infected."

Li Jianghao frowned and said optimistically:
"Does that mean there's no danger here?"

Kagalo laughed loudly and said:
"How is that possible? If the consciousness of the infected group does not suppress the desire to hunt and eat, then what we have to face will be a huge monster."

Because the two soldiers who followed them had completed the mutant transformation, the two did not shy away from talking about it in front of the soldiers.

"So, the infected body has not yet entered the third generation, and they still need to eat."

"The infected bodies here are all of the second generation, and they can still be counted as human beings. If they are lucky, they can digest their bodies by themselves, and in the end there is only one infected body similar to a scavenger, responsible for recycling corpses and pathogens. For now, that's a strong possibility."

Li Jianghao walked in the middle of the team, and they walked all the way to the end of the passage, where a display screen flashed slightly and there was some emergency power.

After opening the display, most of the data connection has been lost, leaving only the last emergency options and some file information.

"Warning, a plague leak has occurred inside, and the passages to the shelter and the outside world have been destroyed."

"We couldn't receive orders from our superiors. Professor Charles injected the newly developed inhibitors into all sick people."

"Patients' desire to attack quickly decreased, but something seemed wrong. They all died of organ failure soon, but fortunately, they didn't come back from the dead like those zombies. We frozen their bodies for later research, and look for new research outlets."

"We don't have much food in reserve. According to the latest regulations, patient corpses can no longer be converted into food supplies. But Professor Charles believes that the inhibitor has taken effect and it is safe and qualified to use these biological resources as waste."

"We finally ate these protein blocks. According to the instrument, the amount of pathogens in our body is not enough to convert us into infected people. The situation is developing in a good direction. The passage of the elevator shaft has been reopened, and we can escape. out!"

"Garbled characters, unable to be parsed, wrong data..."

"Professor, teach him, he bred a monster!"

"Warning, someone has stormed into the cold storage warehouse, and the biomass that has not been transformed has been eaten alive—"

"That twisted thing wants to eat all infected people with pathogens - even us? That's not possible, that's not our goal!"

"No, climb up, you can escape by climbing up! We are humans, we are not infected, why? Why should we also—"

All news records are suspended here. Li Jianghao has already made a preliminary judgment about what happened in this underground research institute.

The corpses of pathogens that should have been enough to infect people were injected with inhibitors before being transformed and eaten, which only allowed the person using them to carry the pathogens but not be infected.

The professors in the institute have created an organism that decomposes the mechanism of pathogens.

But the creature also treats the researchers who created it, which contains traces of pathogens, as food to break down.

According to the calculation of the last recorded time, this was already a year ago.

I don't know if that scavenger-like creature is still alive in this underground research institute.

(End of this chapter)