Chapter 1094

Teacher Liang Yi, what's wrong with you?

Near the gate, a believer on guard duty gave Lin An, who was standing still, a strange look.

In the next second, Lin An, having regained his composure, silently imitated Liang Yi's appearance and replied:

Oh, nothing.

I'm just trying to remember where I put the thing I forgot.

Having said that, he turned and walked toward a distant building that resembled a dormitory.

The gatekeeper believer furrowed his brow slightly, shook his head in confusion, but then seemed to think of something and paid it no mind.

Captain Lin, holy shit...

Damn, feeding zombies to pigs—I've never seen that before!

There are even chickens here! Those zombies are digging for eggs!

It's hard to imagine; even Zhang Tie, who had seen blood zombies and Red Tower zombies and was quite experienced, couldn't help but look around in surprise.

Zombies go berserk when they smell flesh and blood; that's basic common knowledge.

Not to mention placing a living creature before them; even throwing a sanitary pad at these mindless corpses will cause them to frenziedly devour it.

No reply.

Lin An suppressed his doubts and continually sensed the zombies along the way.

Indeed, they are zombies, and at a glance you can tell they were captured from the outside.

Unlike the artificially made Red Tower zombies, these zombies still bear the wounds from their capture.

Controlling zombies isn't strange to him; after all, the Corpse Emperor's ability can do that.

He can somewhat understand using zombies to raise livestock; after all, Mo Ling has even used zombies as mounts.

But what truly surprised Lin An was that he felt no ferocious aura from these zombies at all; they acted like machines, performing their tasks mechanically.

You should know that whether it's Mo Ling or researcher zombies, no matter how obedient the controlled zombies are, they are essentially just forcibly suppressing the monsters' aggressive instincts.

Moreover, they cannot perform fine work; they can only understand simple commands.

They may not attack you, but they still become frenzied and uneasy when they smell flesh and blood.

Clang! Clang clang!

Passing one factory-like building after another, Lin An suppressed his doubts and slightly deviated from the route.

Seeing the black smoke rising from the factory's chimney, a bad premonition suddenly struck him.

He glanced sideways, seeing no one paying attention to him, and then boldly brought Zhang Tie into the half-open factory gate.

The interior is larger than the exterior.

All that could be seen was a huge pit, over thirty meters deep, excavated beneath a crude factory resembling a steel mill.

Inside the pit, several long conveyor belts were laid on the ground.

And on those conveyor belts, zombies ran mechanically; their motion drove the motors at the belts' rear.

There are many similar devices.

In the left-side area, thousands of zombies sat in a horizontal Ferris wheel device, pedaling bicycles furiously; driven by massive gears, the central rotor began to spin rapidly.

Thanks to the frantic 'labor' of thousands of zombies, the lightbulb at the top of the tower flickered on and off, as if outputting an unstable current.

This is...

A zombie generator?

His gaze narrowed.

Looking at either the conveyor belt device or the bicycles, Lin An instantly realized that the electricity here was generated by zombies.

Lin An looked at the absurd sight before him, his gaze becoming grave.

Using zombies to generate electricity isn't strange; what's strange is the meaning behind it.

In fact, many survivors have fantasized about using zombies as tools—for electricity, transport, hauling...

After all, in many people's eyes, zombies, which violate energy conservation, are essentially akin to perpetual motion machines to some extent.

Theoretically, having a zombie run nonstop would generate a considerable amount of electricity each day.

For example, to power a grindstone generator, you just hang a piece of meat in front of the zombie's head.

In past lives, many safe zones have done this.

But while the idea is good, reality presents many problems. One is zombie wear and tear; unless you give them shoes, the wear on their soles will be shockingly fast. Flesh is flesh, after all. Many of the first safe zones that tried using zombies for power generation eventually discovered, to their dismay, that the zombies' feet would be worn raw from running, ultimately losing their ability to move.

Even if you put shoes on them—never mind how you'd do that—the joints would still wear down.

A single zombie can be used for at most half a month. During that time, not only must you worry about infection, but the potential dangers are equally great.

The manpower required to capture zombies exceeds the output of a single zombie.

Just like a time bomb, once a zombie escapes control, it can easily trigger a viral outbreak.

Of course, these concerns haven't stopped survivors from wanting to exploit monsters.

The smart leaders of safe zones quickly turned their attention to stronger mutants.

Many safe zones have tried cutting off the tongues of lickers, attempting to harness their immense strength and pulling power for electricity or hauling.

But the outcome is obvious.

Controlling mutants is not only extremely difficult, but over time, even a single loss of control can spell disaster.

Many safe zones and gathering places have essentially destroyed themselves from within by their own mistakes.

After learning that lesson, no one thereafter considered using zombies.

People clearly realized that zombies are not obedient livestock; they are mortal enemies capable of destroying them.

Here, daring to do this, Lin An could only think that it must be the Corpse Emperor's terrifying control at work.

But the problem is, what meaning does it have for the king among Zombies to do these things!?

Let the humans here live better?

Looking toward the distance, Lin An even saw a suspected steel smelting facility. If there's no surprise, it's still using zombies to produce what?

Holy fuck...

Lin Dui, this place is really weird...

These zombies are learning to make human things!!

As solemn as Lin An, even Zhang Tie realized where the problem lies here.

Humans can resist zombies, relying on wisdom.

But if a super-intelligent zombie imitates human society... relying on the zombie's tireless, no-consumption trait... this is simply the most terrifying and efficient biological machine..

Suppressing the tremor in his heart, Lin An directly led Zhang Tie out of the factory.

He took a deep breath, straight to the place where the believers reside here.

Recalling the words of these believers in the interrogation calling themselves the New World, Lin An realized the problem of the corpse emperor was likely greater than he previously imagined.

Must capture the high-level here!

Even without seeing this mysterious corpse emperor, Lin An could imagine, this thirdFourth Rank peak monster definitely already possesses super-high intelligence!

If this monster is not killed, letting it escape, once the corpse emperor advances to 4Fourth Rank, there's no doubt it will be a disaster greater than the Red Tower disaster!