Chapter 350 The Method Was Wrong

Liu Heming stopped at a doorway with a greasy-looking film curtain hanging from it.

She turned to look at the three of them, said nothing, and just sighed heavily.

Ye Sangyu felt uneasy under her gaze and stammered, "Why are you looking at me like that? It's weird."

Sai Xishi stood quietly in front of Meng Shiwan, looking wary. "Don't fall for me, okay? I already have someone I love."

Looking at the two carefree people, Liu Heming's eyes were filled with complex emotions. In the end, he slowly lifted the dirty film curtain.

When the scene inside was revealed, it was as if the air itself froze, and the three of them almost forgot to breathe.

Over the past year, they had witnessed far too many bloody scenes: zombies devouring humans, severed limbs, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but none of them were as horrifying as what they were seeing before them.

Inside the factory were rows of shipping containers. Meng Shiwan had seen these containers in the slum's body recycling center; they were used to hold corpses.

At this moment, the containers were opened, and the frozen corpses inside, like frozen shrimp wrapped in a layer of ice, slid out of the containers.

Someone with a numb expression dragged the corpse with an iron hook to the cutting table. The high-speed rotating blades cut off the thighs of the corpse and placed them in a box. The remaining torso went down the assembly line, was mechanically thawed, and entered the meat grinder, where bones and internal organs were crushed into minced meat and sent to the next workshop.

The cut-off thighs are sent to another production line, where they are thawed, the best meat is removed, and the bones are still thrown into the meat grinder to be minced into meat paste for canning.

It lacks the gore of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but offers a more unique kind of horror.

Those were corpses, and the workers inside skillfully and indifferently dissected them, then packaged them into cans on the assembly line and sent them to people's dining tables.

"Ugh~"

Ye Sangyu couldn't help but lean against the wall and vomit profusely.

The color drained from her face in an instant, replaced by terror. "Disgusting! Demons! Are these people demons? How could humans do such a thing? It's horrifying! Humans are truly terrifying!"

If I were Ye Wenjie, I wouldn't just answer, I'd answer eight hundred times a day: Let the Trisolarans destroy this world, it's too filthy, it's beyond saving..."

Ye Sangyu knew the current situation was difficult for humans to survive, but she never expected that humans had gone to such a low point.

The country's strategic reserves are enough to feed the entire nation for three years, even without any production.

Even though it's only been less than a year since the end of the world, and we're far from being at our wits' end, they've done something so outrageous.

If it were just ordinary people forced into this situation, it would be one thing, but this is a large base, a large base with abundant food reserves. How could they do such a thing?

At this moment, Ye Sangyu felt that her worldview had been shattered.

Sai Xishi couldn't bear to look either, so she walked over to Ye Sangyu and patted her back.

Liu Heming said calmly, "That's the law of survival for animals. In the wild, if newborn cubs are too weak to survive, they will be eaten by their mothers to replenish their own nutrition and ensure their own survival. This allows them to care for the cubs with a higher survival rate, thus ensuring the continuation of the species."

Ultimately, humans are just animals; in extreme environments, it's understandable that they resort to extreme measures.

"It's just that the method was wrong, which makes some people seem even worse than animals."

Meng Shiwan murmured, "Yes, the method was wrong."

The principle that cannibalism is necessary in extreme environments to ensure the survival of the species has long been vividly demonstrated in nature.

Animals are showing humans, in their own way, that this method is feasible when necessary.

The Fierce Bear Base used the wrong methods; they not only engaged in cannibalism, but also forced humans to kill each other.

The people at the bottom of the Bear Base have no job opportunities and no way to get more food. Many of them rely on scavenging corpses to exchange for canned food to survive.

But where did the bodies come from? What would happen if there were no bodies to collect?

In order to survive, people will do everything they can to create corpses, kill, and rob. The slums are turned into gladiatorial arenas, where the weak become the currency for canned food, and only the strong can eat the canned food.

Under this cruel system, corpses were produced in an endless stream. Besides being made into canned goods, the best meat was used to feed livestock, which in turn were fed to the upper class.

Do they think that by purifying livestock, they can eat with a clear conscience?

The upper echelons of the entire Fierce Bear Base are reveling over countless corpses; their sins are heinous, they truly deserve to die.

only……

Meng Shiwan looked up at Liu Heming, her face expressionless and somewhat indifferent.

"Why are you telling me all this? Does everyone who gets a job at a cannery have to learn about the cannery's history first?"

Liu Heming's narrow eyes flickered. "Meng Shiwan, this place is too filthy. I feel disgusted every second I spend here. Since you're here, help us shuffle the deck properly and wash away this filth."

Meng Shiwan raised an eyebrow. "Since we've come this far, you should know that I killed Liu Heyuan. We must have a grudge against each other, right?"

She had thought they would have to continue pretending to each other, but she didn't expect the truth to come out so quickly.

Liu Heming snorted coldly, "Who do you think proposed setting up this cannery? It was Liu Heyuan. He's dead, so be it. Someone like him would have been a menace if he were alive. We have no grudge against each other."

This surprised Meng Shiwan. She thought that Liu Heming had come to entertain her on purpose to avenge Liu Heyuan, but she did not expect that this woman had a bigger heart.

Meng Shiwan shrugged. "I'm not here to be your pawn. Here, there's no reshuffling, only annihilation."

Liu Heming gritted his teeth, "Then let's destroy it. This cancer must be removed. It's too disgusting. The Chuangyuan Base sent a cage, saying it's specially designed to imprison you. That device can suppress your power, leaving you no room to resist. Be careful. If you get locked up, you might really never get out."

Meng Shiwan frowned. "It seems that the Chuangyuan Base has put in a lot of effort to deal with me."

Liu Heming said, "It's more than that. They've put in a lot of effort. As far as I know, all the research at the Chuangyuan Base is being done for you. You'd better be careful."

Meng Shiwan asked, "Is this your pledge of allegiance? To get me to let you go, the deputy base commander? You should know that before this, you were on my kill list."

Liu Heming did not deny it, "I guess so. Release me and my family, and that idiot Liu Teng, and I will provide you with a list of core personnel in the base, as well as their detailed information."