$923, Workshop (1/2)
Ren Qingquan led Su Wu and others through more than a dozen houses in the southwest corner of Xiuhe Village. After climbing up a short slope, an iron factory building surrounded by a steel wire mesh more than ten feet high came into view. Get everyone's attention. On the eaves of every large iron factory building, there is a tall chimney, and billowing smoke is constantly spraying out from the thick chimney.
In the factory building, the sound of crawler drives and machinery roaring was endless.
Around the factory area, tall white poplar trees stand straight up into the sky. The green leaves are turned bright black by the smoke from the chimneys of the factory buildings - it is like a layer of black oil adhering to the leaves and stems, floating in the air. The smell makes people's faces change slightly when they smell it.
Everyone knows where that smell comes from.
It is precisely because everyone knows the source of the smell floating in the air that everyone's expressions change.
"No one can bear the task of burning living corpses day and night, and even the Trick Controllers in the Countermeasures Department are not qualified - seven of the Trick Controllers have already developed serious psychological problems because they burned living corpses in the factory. Problem." Ren Qingquan looked at the factory building surrounded by green-painted steel wire, his face turned pale, "Since then, we have continued to improve our work procedures.
By dividing the steps of burning a living corpse into several different steps, the guilt of everyone involved in the work is reduced.
At the same time, a large number of jobs that can be replaced by machines have been replaced by automated procedures.
Ren Qingquan was talking and walked side by side to the iron gate with Su Wu. He took out a card and swiped it on the gate machine. The iron gate slowly opened and a group of people walked in.
Entering the 'factory area', the first thing that caught Su Wu's eyes was a statue of "King Yama".
King Yama wears a flat crown on his head and a crown of clothes, sitting high on the throne.
At the feet of King Yama, there is a huge incense burner.
A stick of "high incense" that is one foot or even several feet high is inserted in the incense burner, and there are clusters of normal incense sticks inserted around it. Next to the incense burner, there is a long table, and piles of incense sticks are spread on it. On the long table, anyone can use it.
“Although gods are a kind of nihilistic sustenance, people often need this nihility to comfort their souls.
Especially when you are in a desperate situation where struggling is futile. "Ren Qingquan sighed, walked to the long table, took out a stick of incense and lit it. After bowing to the statue of King Yama, he inserted the incense into the incense burner, "Every staff member in the factory will choose Offer a stick of incense to King Yama to seek spiritual solace.
This kind of inner comfort is somewhat useful. Everyone can help themselves to incense sticks if needed. "
Su Wu glanced around and found that furnace rooms for burning incense and candle holders for lighting candles could be seen everywhere in the factory area. These facilities were distributed among various factory areas, accompanied by many gods with the functions of 'afterlife' and 'announcing the dead' Statues, portraits.
He nodded and said: "This approach can indeed relieve the fear and guilt of the staff here to a certain extent.
He turned to look at Lunzhu, Danjia, Zhuoma, Yun Nichang and others behind him, and asked everyone: "Do you want to burn a stick of incense here?
Lunzhu, Danjia and other people who had followed Su Wu all the way from the Secret Realm all shook their heads.
Yun Nishang shook her head and refused.
When Ji Hong saw this, he quickly smiled and said no.
Su Wu turned around, glanced at the statue of King Yama, and walked away from the statue.
In fact, this method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Placing everything on nothingness, your own pursuit will eventually become more and more nihilistic, until you dedicate everything to nothingness and waste your life in vain - just like the people in the hidden realm.
But the others are not Su Wu himself. Their survival is already struggling and extremely difficult, so what else can they talk about?
"Starting tonight, I will teach you the "Supreme Suffering Sutra" and teach you many spells such as the "Heart-clearing Mantra" and the "Soothing Mantra" to calm everyone's minds. "Su Wu said.
"Okay." Ren Qingquan nodded.
Although he knew that Su Wu was powerful and clever, he actually didn't know much about Su Wu, and he didn't know how effective the spells and scriptures Su Wu said could be. Therefore, it was difficult for him to accept Su Wu's promise. What expectations come from.
"The factories in the first to fourth rows from the left are the 'inspection and injection workshops'.
After testing the heart rate and blood pressure of the living corpses to ensure that they are indeed "dead" without heart rate and blood pressure, they will be injected with strong doses of drugs to make them temporarily "sleep".
Next is the "Remains Arrangement Workshop".
In the corpse preparation workshop, their hair will be cut off, and these living corpses will turn into dead corpses. The corpses are often in a highly decomposed state. After the corpse remains are arranged, they enter the "mortuary workshop", where the corpses are tied up and put into the corpse collection room. Bags are sent to the "Incineration Workshop" via conveyor belts - the incineration workshop is only guarded by one witch controller, who implements an eight-hour shift system during the day and four hours at night. "Ren Qingquan introduced various situations in the factory to Su Wu, and walked side by side into the first factory building from the left with Su Wu.
"Inspection and injection workshop".
The fluorescent lamp reflected a clean and tidy disinfection channel with medical disinfection mats. Su Wu, Ren Qingquan and others changed their shoes in turn, put on white coats, washed their palms, put on gloves, and after passing through the disinfection channel, they could see In the small cubicles separated by transparent acrylic boards, the living corpses were fixed in the cubicles as the staff in white coats pressed the button and underwent various inspections.
Then a second staff member pulled down the gate, and the prepared injection drug was injected into the blood vessels of each zombie through a syringe.
Those zombies, who were unable to move under various restraints and could only scream with ferocious faces, anger, or fear, gradually became quiet in a few seconds or even minutes after the liquid was injected into their blood vessels, and finally fell into a "sleep".
The staff continued to operate the machine, and the next batch of zombies were sent to the transparent compartment.
The compartment isolated the sounds of the zombies, so that people outside could only see their body movements, the struggle and resistance of their expressions, but could not hear the various sounds coming from their mouths.
Several "white coats" patrolling back and forth in the workshop saw Su Wu, Ren Qingquan and others coming out of the disinfection channel. They hurried over, first looked at Su Wu standing in front, then looked at Ren Qingquan who was one step behind Su Wu. After hesitating for a moment, they still called Ren Qingquan first: "Minister Ren."
"There will be no Minister Ren in the future, and there will be no Strange Countermeasures Department." Ren Qingquan smiled and shook his head, stretched out his hand to Su Wu in front of him, and introduced, "The Countermeasures Department and the Investigation Bureau are completely merged, and we will all be under the management of Director Su in the future - this is the Director Su that everyone has been looking forward to! "Director Su!" "Hello Director Su!"
The white coats heard the words and looked at Su Wu again. There was a little surprise in the eyes on the mask, and they competed to say hello to Su Wu.
Su Wu nodded and said, "Everyone has worked hard. Doing this kind of work every day is a double torture for the mind and body. Everyone should go to the office building after get off work. I have subsidies for everyone.
He paused and said, "This subsidy can relieve everyone's psychological pressure."
Hearing his words, the staff's eyes were more joyful, and they spoke one after another, thanking Su Wu again.
When they paused for a while, Su Wu asked, "Did you find any abnormalities in the recent detection and observation of zombies? Or some abnormal zombies?"
"Yes!" The white coat in the lead nodded immediately, took out a notebook, handed it to Su Wu, and said, "In fact, various abnormalities can often be found in the observation and detection of zombies.
The most common abnormality found today is that the injection of drugs at the same dose can no longer make all zombies fall into a coma within three to twelve seconds.
Nearly one-tenth of the zombies can last for twelve to thirty seconds.
There are even very few zombies that can last for three minutes.
The drug resistance of zombies is increasing significantly.
In addition, we found a zombie that came out of the Mingzhou danger zone. Its clothes and attire are completely different from those of modern people. It has long braids and should be from the Qing Dynasty, but its inherited memories are completely consistent with the information of a modern person who disappeared in Mingzhou in the database.
And there is another zombie that keeps the clothes of modern people, but its face cannot be found in the database.
This situation has only occurred so far.
Through communication with this zombie, we found that the memory it inherited could not match any information collected in the database—it claimed to be a Jin person in 1782... "
The zombie with long braids from the Qing Dynasty inherited the memory of a modern person who disappeared in Mingzhou...
The zombie dressed like a modern person, whose facial features could not be collected in the database, had the memory of a Jin person in the Qing Dynasty...
Su Wu looked at the 'white coat' who was speaking and asked, "Where are these two zombies with obvious abnormalities now?
"They have been detained in the 'abnormal zombie observation room'." The white coat in the lead replied.
"You did a good job.
In the future, just like now, if you encounter a zombie with obvious abnormalities, don't deal with it first, and keep it in the 'Abnormal Zombie Observation Room'." Su Wu gave his phone number to the white coat, "In case of emergency, call me directly in the future."
After he gave the instructions to the white coat, he turned to Yun Nishang and said, "Sort out the various contact information of the current resident members, and add their social accounts to the Weird Bureau group.
"Okay!" Yun Nishang responded immediately.
"I will go to see the two zombies later." Su Wu nodded to the white coats, and then led a group of people along the passages between the workshops, walked through several injection workshops in succession, talked with the staff there one by one, and entered the remains sorting workshop.