Chapter 33: Lair Management (3)
Yes. This is more like it.
Blaze nodded, staring at the piles of bone, bony jars of blood, sheets of rotten skin, and chunks of flesh laid out before him.
Sounds of fighting echoed outside, while on the inside, the separator churned loudly.
I can’t believe it requires an energy source on top of everything.
Blaze’s problems didn’t disappear by putting corpses inside the separator. Because, unlike the corpse pit, the separator required energy to work.
Thankfully, the corpse pit provided everything. The gases it released alongside flesh acted as a power source for undead structures.
Blaze had to kill a few extra undead to create a pipeline of sorts between the two, but it worked.
The previously open corpse pit was now covered by a thin layer of flesh sheets. The sheets trapped the gases, directing them towards pipelines connecting the separator. While a separate pipe kept delivering flesh chunks for the undead.
Blaze tried to decipher how these undead structures worked, but had to give up. His feeble mind wasn’t developed enough to break down the workings.
Perhaps the Collective wanted him to stay dependent on the system for a while. After all, if he managed to create such structures himself, then the Collective would lose their hold over him.
It will happen eventually. Whether they like it or not.