Chapter 6 A Glimmer of Hope: The Monster Corpse Disposal Center
Chapter 6 A Glimmer of Hope: The Monster Corpse Disposal Center
"That feels so good!"
What could be more satisfying than improving your strength for free?
You don't need to fight yourself; just stroll around the battlefield and your strength will gradually increase.
Qin Ming's eyes lit up as he watched the endless stream of monster carcasses being brought in.
A few trucks were just a drop in the ocean compared to the corpses on the entire battlefield.
"Brother, do you know where these corpses are sent for disposal? I'm a student at the top military academy in Jiangnan, and I'm planning to write a thesis on the recovery of battlefield monster corpses."
After getting used to the changes in his body, Qin Ming stepped forward and asked the soldier guiding the route.
"Junior? I'm Yang Xu from the 2051 class of the First Military Academy in Jiangnan. If you want, just follow the convoy. All the bodies will be sorted and processed over there."
The burly soldier turned to look at Qin Ming, his eyes lighting up slightly, and immediately said enthusiastically.
"Oh, it's you, senior! I'm Qin Ming!"
Qin Ming also laughed and said that many graduates of the top military academy in Jiangnan go directly into the military, so it's not surprising to run into a senior here.
"You're from the School of Biology, right? Then you've come to the right place. There are a lot of monsters here, making it convenient to do any kind of research."
You can take some monster meat home and grill it yourself.
There are quite a few of your seniors over there.
Yang Xu pointed in a direction and laughed.
"Can I take it with me?"
Qin Ming was startled. Monster meat must be expensive, right?
"Haha, it probably won't work in other places, but it doesn't matter at our Base 003. As long as you don't take the high-value ones and don't waste them."
Nobody really cares about the meat of some beast soldiers and monsters.
As he spoke, Yang Xu gave a brief explanation, which left Qin Ming speechless with emotion.
Base 003 guards the largest entrance for sea monsters to enter the inland, and those sea monsters are always trying to enter the inland through this point.
Every three to five days, the sea monster will launch a small-scale attack similar to last night's.
Each time, thousands, or even tens of thousands, of monster corpses are left behind.
The bodies of sea monsters are already extremely large, with some beast generals weighing tens of tons, and they are also prone to decay.
Even if they ate monster meat for every meal inside the base, they still couldn't finish it all.
These monsters are not simply going to their deaths.
Instead, they are driven by lord-level and king-level monsters in the ocean to deplete the ammunition reserves in the war base, continuously bleeding humanity dry.
A large-scale beast tide will erupt when the right opportunity arises.
Lord-level and King-level monsters are no less intelligent than humans.
They were well aware that War Base 003 was an exclave, far from the six major bases, making resupply extremely difficult.
How long does it take for a human to train a soldier?
How long does it take for a monster to be born in the ocean?
Most fish lay tens of thousands to millions of eggs at a time, which can grow to full size in a few months.
The number of monsters killed or wounded in each attack is less than the number of monsters that fight each other to the death.
"We can't possibly transport all of this monster meat back to the rear base, since the journey is too long. We can only transport some of the most valuable pieces back to the rear when the supply convoy arrives."
The rest were mostly processed locally, some consumed and some used to refine Crocodile alloys.
Even so, there are still many things that cannot be dealt with.
Look at those things that were shattered and contaminated by heavy artillery and incendiary bombs; they're not only unusable, but their value in refining crocodile alloys is also very low.
Yang Xu pointed with some regret to a heavy truck carrying monster flesh and blood that had been towed back. The monster flesh and blood on the truck was almost completely charred, mixed with monster entrails, and emitted an extremely foul smell.
These monster corpses and flesh could not be thrown into the sea; they had to be burned.
Otherwise, being devoured by monsters will only create more monsters.
For this reason, one of the large incinerators in the facility has almost never stopped operating.
These things are not secrets at Base 003; anyone who stays there for a while will find out.
"I see. Thank you, senior. I'll go take a look over there. I've never seen a monster's corpse so close before, especially the corpse of the Bone-Eating Giant Python."
That's a high-ranking beast general.
Qin Ming's eyes lit up as he listened. The monster resources at Base 003 were so abundant that they were about to be burned!
Surely the Myriad Souls Banner wouldn't despise that contaminated flesh and blood?
Following the direction Yang Xu pointed out, Qin Ming followed the heavy truck all the way to the monster processing center.
Despite being called a monster processing center, it was actually a huge open-air platform where some of the better-quality monster carcasses were piled up, and a large number of soldiers moved around in it, cutting them apart with various instruments.
Including the corpse of the giant bone-eating python, it is all there, but placed in a separate area.
All the monster carcasses will undergo initial sorting here before being transported to other locations.
Qin Ming had no intention of sneaking around; he went straight up to the soldiers on guard and explained his purpose.
If it works out, he'll go in and take a look.
If that doesn't work, then wait until you become a martial artist before trying again.
There are many rules in the military; you can't do whatever you want. Sometimes, even if you want to help, you can't.
Qin Ming was lucky; the reputation of the top military academy in Jiangnan was quite useful, as many officers and martial artists in Base 003 came from there.
After verifying my identity, I was put inside.
Even one of the senior students, Meng Hao, who also came from the Biology Department of the First Military Academy in Jiangnan, personally led Qin Ming on a tour of the place before assigning him the task of cutting up monster meat.
"These are all low-level beast soldier-grade monster corpses. You can use them to practice and take out some of the more valuable materials."
For example, this skull-bone shrimp—its most valuable part is its carapace, but unfortunately, its most precious skull was shattered by heavy machine gun fire.
A lean young man in protective clothing spoke to a shrimp-like monster that was about three meters long, covered in a carapace, and weighed several tons.
The skull of this skull-bearing shrimp was already broken, and most of its head had disappeared.
"No problem, thank you, Brother Meng."
At this moment, Qin Ming also changed into a protective suit and held a long knife specially used for cutting. Under the guidance of the young man, he separated the flesh and scales.
Since they were going to go all out and had managed to sneak in as biology students, they naturally had to do some work too.
Especially when he saw the number of living souls in the Myriad Souls Banner soar to more than 2000, Qin Ming was even more motivated. These were all collected by Meng Hao when he was at the Monster Processing Center.
The overwhelming surge of souls made Qin Ming's eyes light up.
This isn't some monster disposal center, this is his treasure trove!
If we can't go to the battlefield to clean up the corpses, wouldn't it be better to stay at the monster disposal center?
"I have to go do something else now. Call me if you need anything."
Seeing that Qin Ming's movements were fairly skilled, Meng Hao nodded and stopped paying attention, since it was just some worthless low-level monster flesh and blood anyway.
"Okay! Brother Meng, you go ahead and get busy!"
Watching Meng Hao walk away, Qin Ming lowered his head and continued processing the flesh and blood of the bone shrimp.
He plunged the long knife in his hand into the body of the bone-armored shrimp, his entire arm penetrating deep into its flesh. The Myriad Soul Banner within his sea of consciousness moved without wind.
A faint mist of blood flew from the Bone Shrimp's body into Qin Ming's arm. After being refined by the Myriad Soul Banner, it became the purest essence of flesh and blood, and then transformed into a stream of blood-red energy that flowed into Qin Ming's body.
"Hiss! This is the essence of flesh and blood?"
Qin Ming clearly sensed that as the crimson energy flowed through his body, every cell was greedily absorbing the energy contained within it.
His physical fitness is improving rapidly!
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