Chapter 710: Cremator

"The whole army was wiped out?" Qi Lin squinted his eyes. He really didn't know about this news. The organization sealed all the information related to No. 444 shelter. He was the one who just escaped from No. 444 shelter. People have no right to know.

"Yes, the whole army was wiped out. Strictly speaking, except for No. 5, who came back to report to you and your team early in the morning, all the people who entered Vault 444 are dead."

"Has the organization given up on its plan to take back Vault 444? How will the Aedas Consortium explain?"

"That's not something we need to care about... But, having said that, since you came back from Vault 444, you should know about the genetic collapse, right?"

"I can only guess that the genetic collapse is related to the genetic medicine, and I don't know much about the others." Qi Lin said, the other party was obviously testing himself, and in this case, it is impossible for him to express all his guesses together , and he couldn't pretend that he didn't know anything, that would be too fake—so he only mentioned one of the most important factors: genetic medicine.

"That's right, you are very smart, and the organization hasn't disclosed any information about it to you, but you have already guessed that the cause of the gene collapse is the genetic medicine, and based on this, you are already qualified to be my assistant. "The executive grinned and pulled a smile.

"But I still have a question." Qi Lin said.

"Say, I will never hide what I can tell you." The executive officer seemed quite generous.

"If there is a problem with the genetic medicine, why was it not noticed by the organization before, but now it has erupted like a plague on a large scale... Taking a step back, even if time is tight and no clinical trials are carried out, the injection of the genetic medicine is also a problem. It is carried out in batches, and the first batch of people who are injected will definitely show the symptoms of gene collapse first, and the organization should be alerted at that time, but as far as the current situation is concerned, it is obviously not the case."

"The analysis makes sense... Then, do you still remember the last meal you had before you set off on a mission?"

"Is there a problem with that meal?" Qi Lin's heart skipped a beat. He had guessed that there might be some "incentive". So, could that meal be the "incentive"?

"Yes, the simple injection of genetic medicine will not cause the gene to collapse, just like a bomb, if no one triggers its fuse, then it will lie there quietly and never explode. But if the gene If the drug injector takes a special 'interfering agent', the original normal gene sequence will be disrupted instantly, resulting in symptoms of gene collapse."

The executive officer paused, then continued, "Due to regulatory negligence, a batch of 'interfering agent' was added to the canned food, and this 'interfering agent' was the fuse of the bomb, causing everyone who ate this The bombs in the canned people all went off around the same time."

"Who did it? Mastermind?"

"The BOSS behind the scenes must be the mastermind, but this matter was done by humans... In the current refuge, the human forces have been divided into two camps... Tsk tsk... Thinking about it, it is really a headache , Fortunately, I just need to deal with the affairs of the sixth district now."

"Someone has taken refuge in the mastermind?" Qi Lin is not surprised at all. After all, there will never be a shortage of people who are greedy for life and fear of death in any era... For them, perhaps the virtual world built by the mastermind is the best. The perfect "utopia".

"It's not just some people... there are many people." The executive officer looked Qi Lin carefully again, "After talking so much, it's time to talk about the business. Since you are my new assistant, let's start with simple things. Let's do the work."

He snapped his fingers, and a cardboard box was immediately brought to Qi Lin's feet.

"What's this?"

"Work clothes."

Qi Lin opened the carton, and saw that inside was a fully enclosed heat-insulating and fire-resistant suit, as well as a matching helmet and breathing apparatus.

"What am I going to do?" Qi Lin couldn't help frowning slightly. He really couldn't think of any jobs other than firefighters and workers in steel factories that required wearing such clothes...

"Dealing with corpses, there are now more than 80,000 corpses piled up in the entire sixth district, and there are still a steady stream of them coming in from various places. The sixth district cannot 'digest' so many corpses, and these corpses cannot be transported to Go somewhere else... Although it is a pity, we can only dispose of these corpses in an extremely ancient way."

"Cremation?"

"BINGO!" the executive said with a smile.

In the shelter, the dead body is also a kind of resource—flesh, internal organs, bones, nails, hair, etc., all of which are protein in essence, and can be used as fertilizer for crops and feed for livestock after recycling; while in many shelters There is an extremely cheap dried meat for sale in the black market in China. The shopkeeper will only tell you that it is just a new type of pork, but in fact, no matter what kind of meat it is, both the seller and the buyer have no idea. Hidden word.

Generally speaking, more than 70% of the corpses were thrown into the decomposition pond in the recycling plant, about 10% of the corpses appeared on the butcher's chopping board in the black market, and only less than 20% of the corpses were cremated.

The cremation ground in the sixth district was obviously built not long ago. Unlike the cremation grounds of the old era, which had separate "compartments", the processing method here is more extensive-Qi Lin only needs to put the heavy cremation grounds one by one. Throw the body bag into the large pit with a diameter of nearly ten meters, and then pour a fuel similar to asphalt on it.

An equally huge metal cover will cover the entire cremation pit. On the top of the cover are two pipes that are as thick as a person's arms. One is to deliver the oxygen needed for combustion into the pit, while the other is responsible for exhausting the exhaust gas from the incineration pit. The corpse pit, in case the internal pressure is too high to cause an explosion.

Qi Lin pulled down the control gate vigorously, and the flames burned fiercely. The plastic body bag almost melted instantly when it touched the fire, and the exposed corpses were swallowed by the flames at once——

There are a total of eight such crematoriums in the entire crematorium, and each pit can burn nearly 300 corpses per hour.

And Qi Lin's main job is to use a shovel to shovel the ashes at the bottom of the pit into a sack after the incineration is completed-these are all high-quality flower fertilizers, but since incineration of corpses requires a lot of resources , and only rich areas can afford this kind of thing.

However, what makes Qi Lin a little upset is that... he was obviously assigned to be the assistant of the executive officer, why after chatting for a few minutes, he was directly thrown here by the executive officer who was not much older than himself?

What the hell does this even mean?