The heating, lighting, machinery operation, and even the lighting for the statue standing tall in the center of the square all depend on this energy furnace.

The combustion media of the energy furnace are very complex, including wood dug from the vast snowfields, various waste materials from cities that are no longer needed, such as plastics and rubber, and human remains.

In this extremely cold and apocalyptic world, countless lives perish every day for various reasons.

In an era of food scarcity, if corpses are not disposed of promptly, they can easily lead to tragic human conflicts, becoming food for the extremely hungry survivors to fight over.

Although Li Yi was brutal, he was not a pervert. He wanted to build a huge power to serve him, so he would not allow the people within his territory to become those inhuman, cannibalistic demons. Otherwise, who would serve him?

Therefore, the Fire Seed Base has a strict procedure for handling those corpses.

Burning it in the base's energy furnace will not only completely destroy it, but also provide the base with valuable energy.

Although this practice is cruel, it is considered reasonable by the people of the Fire Seed Base.

Even they themselves were willing to be thrown into the energy furnace after their lives ended, contributing their last bit of heat and light to the fire-starting base.

In this extreme survival environment, and under the brainwashing of the base's promotion of "dedication," this concept gradually became a default rule and a lofty belief in the "continuation of the flame."

Now, this furnace, which once symbolized "hope" and "light," is about to become an execution ground for suppressing the rebels.