Chapter 1024: Section 657: Love from the Past (Part 4)
The fleet that Malin was part of set off from Tbilisi, traveling south along this deep canal formed by geological rifts, and upon entering the sea again, Malin learned their current location from Sostak No.3—Persian Gulf.
As they journeyed along the canal, there were biochemical human fortresses everywhere. According to Wanda’s leader, these were rational biochemical humans, and they had headed south, turning these deserted cities into their paradise.
Chaos had little military presence in this region, appearing more in the North of this area.
The Sinai Peninsula and the entire Africa were gone, with no operational satellites passing over Africa, and rerouting surviving satellites was too extravagant. Sostak No.3 expressed that if the biochemical humans could really find something, let them conquer it.
"At least they are still indigenous to Earth." During a week’s time in Tbilisi, Sostak No.3 sensed the biochemical humans’ desire for civilization. In his words, compared to the northern zombies with swinging rods between their legs, these biochemical humans, who knew to wrap themselves in animal skins, were much more endearing.
He had no uncanny valley effect, and Malin heard Matilda complain that those zombies didn’t resemble humans at all, and she had no moral qualms when killing them.
But the biochemical humans were different, even if they appeared more civilized and human-like, precisely because of this, she felt fear.
Malin acknowledged Matilda’s fear because he had seen her subconsciously get alarmed multiple times—those situations where nothing happened, yet she suddenly got spooked.
She feared biochemical humans due to her past injuries and the after-effects of being a Paladin fighting zombies—in her memory, several people in her family had died from corpse venom, giving her reason to resent biochemical humans.