Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 140 Crossing the River and Inside the City

After Li Jianghao asked people to sort out the collected technical information, he chose the direction to cross the river.

Thorne followed the water traces on the ground to find the connection channel of the underground river.

Two of the three pipes there have been blocked by the bodies of infected people. It can be said that the water seeping from the ground is naturally infectious.

But the river that flows from the center of the two mountain ranges, flows through the plains, to Phoenix City, and to the mouth of the sea on the west side of the mainland, can't see any signs of pollution.

On the one hand, the infected cannot move in the water, on the other hand, it seems that the pathogens in this world can hardly survive for too long in the living water, and their infectivity will continue to decline.

Coupled with the fact that pathogens cannot infect animals, this also makes fish farms more able to provide rich food resources than hunter huts in the game.

And the big deal is to boil the water and drink it. Even if the pathogen with reduced activity in the running water is infected, it is only the first and second generation of infected people.

Unless the body recycling of these infected people is recreated as protein clumps, there will be no large-scale infection outbreaks.

In the age of civilization, after some people died like this and caused the outbreak of infection, people after the end of the world have paid great attention to the protection of pathogens, and even with the change of time, some are immune to the infection of the first and second generation pathogens, and the disease mist in the air , and can withstand it for a short time.

Of course, these changes may have to wait more than ten years or even hundreds of years before they can be clearly manifested.

But this also means that human beings, who are also creatures born on this planet, are constantly adapting to changes in the environment.

Creatures can always find a way out for themselves.

Li Jianghao obviously didn't realize this at the moment, he was busy finding a boat from the river, and asked Kagalo to sterilize the boat with the flames of the demons.

Thorne stared at Kagallo's dark green flame, took a few glances, and then turned around again.

He confirmed that this dark green color and the green color displayed by Nurgle's believers were not yet an essence of power, allowing him to temporarily remove Kagaro from the list of people who needed to be torn apart alive and switch to shooting.

When the things here are done, I will find an opportunity to deal with this alien.

Everyone stepped into the boat and rushed directly towards the nearest shock tower.After arriving at the bottom of the shock tower, Li Jianghao felt that his previous height estimate was a bit conservative. This thing is more than 20 meters high, and the electromagnetic coils and auxiliary shock shock equipment extending nearby are densely packed, and the entire Phoenix City is surrounded by it, extending to Near the next Shock Tower.

The wall of their camp looked like a child who hadn't graduated from kindergarten in front of this thing. Only the huge wall built by New London relying on the ice wall could have an advantage in height.

But in terms of its energy storage and energy utilization methods, whether it is the high walls of New London or the steel walls of the camp, they are all weak in front of this thing.

After all, the strength of the embers was limited to protecting the glass dome, and the power lines inside the walls of New London had not been laid until now.

Through the technical manual left by the outpost, Li Jianghao temporarily lifted the security restrictions on the shock tower, and entered the shock tower without destroying its function.

And only after entering the shock tower, did Li Jianghao see the scene on the other side of the high wall from the observation room inside the tower.

The densely packed and uncountable infected people crowded behind the shock tower's cordon, and none of them crossed the line independently.

The swarm wisdom of these infected people prevents them from going back and actively triggering the shock tower to start, but just waiting there quietly, waiting for the shock tower to fail.

More and more shock towers have lost their function, and only these shock towers that are still intact provide lethality, and maintain subtle defenses through the connection line walls between the towers.

Maybe another shock tower is damaged, and the subsequent power supply of the line will not be able to support the next attack of the infected.

Or it's unclear when, even the internal connection lines of those broken concussion towers were damaged, and a hole was torn in the complete protective circle.

No one can tell which of the two situations will happen.

It is more likely that the reactor located inside the city failed, and the tide of infected people inside was like a wild wave after a flood, completely submerging the fragile human survival area outside.

Li Jianghao sat on the chair and relaxed for a while, before he recovered from the numbness of his scalp just now.

After his mental power is depleted, he is now the same as an ordinary person.Even if an ordinary person sees countless infected people gathering together quietly without making any noise, just silently watching the scene of the high wall in front of him, he will not be able to restrain the deepest fear in his heart.

The overwhelming tide of corpses covered up everything that people outside the high-rise buildings could see. Even the empty sky couldn't cause people's sight to shift.

There's nothing more frightening than having something scary staring at you that doesn't do anything or make a sound.

Especially when there is a large group of these things in front of them, and the collective remains silent.

The undead team in the kitchen became cautious in their exploration work, even though the infected people on the other side of the wall did not notice their movements at this time.

Even Kagalo was a little restless and forced himself to settle down.

Among the people present, Thorne was probably the only one who still behaved as usual.

Anyway, in his opinion, the only difference between an enemy who is about to be killed by himself and being killed by himself is that the number is not a problem.

As for the death here, is it called death when the emperor's soldiers die?That is an honorable sacrifice!

In this quietness, everyone completed the technology collection of the Shock Tower, and prepared to retreat to the direction they came from.

After Li Jianghao reset the safety measures of the shock tower, the signal light instructions made a loud sound.

In fact, this sound is similar to the sound of an ordinary car horn, but in the silence of the crowd, the sound is like thunder. The next moment, the roar of countless infected zombies on the opposite side seems to tear people's eardrums. Li Jianghao covered his ears and lowered his body, blood began to overflow from his nose.

Fresh blood dripped inside the protective mask, and Li Jianghao himself could smell the bloody smell.

Immediately afterwards, the vibrations activated by the shock tower directly lifted all the people here, Thorne reached out and grabbed Li Jianghao's body, and threw him back on the boat.

A short while later, the wall began to quiet down and a puff of smoke rose.

The flames purify the bodies of infected people killed by the shock tower, leaving no pathogens to spread.

This is why there are so many infected people gathered here, but the closer they are to the shock tower, the fog of the disease does not form like in the wilderness.

Thorne waited for Li Jianghao to calm down, squatted beside him, and asked:

"Are you still going into the city?"

Li Jianghao looked at the instrument on his arm that detects pathogens in the air, then removed his helmet and gas mask, took a deep breath, and said firmly:

"of course."

(End of this chapter)