The "T815 War Truck" continued to drive towards its designated destination. According to "Furious Princess", they have to pass through a large sandstorm area on the way.
Wu Chen also learned more about the background in casual conversations on the way. The first is the emperor of this wasteland: "Immortal Old Joe" and his "V8 Engine Cult".
"Immortal Joe", whose real name is Joe Moore, is a former Australian Army veteran who participated in the "Oil War" and is considered a war hero. After losing the war, Joe Moore returned from the army and returned to China. At that time, Australia was already showing signs of anarchy. He used his prestige to gather a group of veterans to form the "Motorcycle Party", including "Kalashniko" Major Husband, later the founder of Bullet Farm.
The "oil war" was a worldwide war for resources that later evolved into a nuclear war. As the situation becomes more chaotic, more and more people join various criminal gangs in order to protect themselves, which further accelerates the spread of anarchy on the continent. In fact, the Australian government at that time could only control a few big cities. After leaving the cities, the entire country was already in a state of chaos. Joe Moore's initial idea was actually very simple, which was to survive with these veterans. At first, they had some principles of their own, such as not attacking civilians and never harming women and children. However, the arrival of "nuclear winter" made everyone People have lost their principles.
No one knows which side started the nuclear war first. They only know that big cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra were all hit. Fortunately, Joe Moore and his "biker gang" who often carried out activities in the suburbs at that time were not affected. However, the world The apocalyptic vision drove many of his men into madness. They would fight over a pack of cigarettes and shoot homeless old men over a barrel of biscuits. At first, Joe tried to use his prestige to restrain them, but gradually he could not control the spread of this madness, and finally he gave up on these principles.
After the "nuclear winter" that lasted for two years passed, the surviving Joe and his "biker gang" began to move frequently, looking for any available resources. One day they met a group of former MFP police officers (the abbreviation of Main Force Patrol, a highway patrol team established by the Australian government before the war, mainly to target the crime of speeding gangs that was surging in the country during the oil crisis. The protagonist Max of this game The "looters" composed of former MFP members were torturing a group of civilians. Joe Moore sent his "biker gang" to outflank and attack them from behind. The looters left a few corpses and quickly fled. But the "biker gang" did not let go of the group of civilians. The women among them were used as tools for fun, and the men were shot after their belongings were plundered.
During the search for property, a man with a severed nose caught Joe Moore's attention, and he realized that the looters were interrogating the man before being driven away. So Joe Moore promised him to ensure his safety, but the condition was that the secret must be revealed. The man whose nose was cut off called himself Brody. He was originally a banker. On the way to escape with his family, he once visited a fortress composed of three mountains - the "Fortress". It is said that these mountains are connected to the underground. River, where there is an inexhaustible source of clean water. Hearing this, Joe was overjoyed and immediately decided to take the "biker gang" and Brody there, intending to take that fort as his own.
However, Joe Moore was too naive. The people who occupied that "fortress" were not good people. When Joe saw the "fortress" with his own eyes, he realized that it was impossible to do it. The mountain was so high up. It is covered with countless perforations, and the only way up is a simple human-powered lifting platform. The destitute Joe Moore had no choice but to show weakness, saying that he was just here to trade and was willing to exchange the women they captured for some clean water. However, before he could finish his proposal, he was attacked by the fortress. After losing several of his men, Joe had no choice but to retreat and stationed himself in an abandoned lead mine.
How could Joe Moore, who had suffered a huge loss, swallow this sigh of relief and planned to storm the "fortress" after taking a rest. At this time, Brody reminded him that it would be impossible to forcefully attack a place like this, and he must outsmart him. Three days later, the "Motorcycle Party", led by Major Kalashnikov, stormed the main tower of the fortress with many heavy weapons, while Joe himself led a few elite men to sneak up on the back of the auxiliary tower with a lizard tied to a rope. Start climbing. After two days of fierce fighting, the "bikers" on the ground suffered numerous casualties. Just when everyone had given up hope and planned to retreat, Joe Moore appeared on the top of the main tower and threw the warlord who occupied the fortress from the top of the tower. It was announced that the fort had changed hands, and he had since earned the title "Immortal Joe."
"Immortal Joe" is very smart. He knows that this "fortress" alone cannot be defended for a long time. He asked his most trusted lieutenant, Major Kalashnikov, to occupy the lead mine they passed earlier and transform it. Heavy equipment produces weapons and bullets, and can also echo the "fortress". Once either party is attacked, the other party can rush out of the city to help.
"Immortal Old Joe" knew very well that people in desperate situations can do anything, but as long as they are given a little sweetness, these people will be easy to control, so he did not take the precious water resources for himself, but regularly sent people to Public distribution allowed the "fortress" to become a homeless colony in that area, which gradually developed into a town.
Two years later, they also found an oil refinery not far from the "Fortress", and there was still a large amount of crude oil stored in the oil storage tanks in the factory area. "Immortal Joe" selected some experienced people from the homeless people under the fortress and asked Brody to lead them to occupy the refinery and start refining gasoline. This Brody became the "mayor" of "Gasoline Town" and was known as "The People Eater".
In "Mad Max", they call this rough-processed gasoline "Guzzolene", which is not the official name of gasoline in English, "Gasoline". Because the oil produced in "Gasoline Town" is very rough and has low combustion efficiency, and there is not much speed when the accelerator is pressed to the end, skilled drivers will carry some refined gasoline with them and manually spray it into the engine to increase power.
From then on, a stable triangular alliance was formed in which the "Fortress" used water sources to produce crops and daily necessities; the "Bullet Farm" produced weapons and consumables; and the "Gasoline Town" produced gasoline. "Immortal Joe" was of course the leader of this three-town alliance. He seemed to be the local emperor of that area.
"Immortal Old Joe" had two surviving children before he occupied the "Fortress". They were both born to women captured during the "Motorcycle Gang" period. However, the eldest son was born with a deformed child, named Crosus (meaning Crosus). ("Giant"); although the second eldest son, Liktu, is physically strong, his brain is not very bright and he has a bad temper. Both children were taken care of and grew up, but "Immortal Old Qiao" still couldn't conceal his desire to continue the family lineage, and kept looking for someone to try.
"Immortal Old Joe" is extremely strict with his women. The "mistresses" who produce human milk in the "fortress" are not his wives. They should be the women who were snatched away and ravaged by his men and then gave birth to offspring and then treated as their own. Tools for producing milk. It's basically a "human cow".
"Immortal Joe" was once a strong and charismatic man, but his fondness for smoking a chromium-lead compound spray (a substance extracted from the lead mine of the "Bullet Farm") later caused him to develop lung cancer at the same time. and lymphoma, gradually causing ulcers all over the body and difficulty breathing. In the later stage, when he wanted to appear in front of everyone, he had to try his best to hide his illness. He had to first cover his body with white talcum powder, and then put on a transparent armor full of medals. The "Sons of War" under "Immortal Joe" also like to paint their bodies white in order to imitate his appearance.
"Immortal Old Joe" became a god in one battle when he captured the "Fortress" and became a role model in the hearts of young people in the wasteland at that time. So he selected relatively healthy teenagers from among the homeless people waiting for alms under the "fortress" to enter his war study class, calling them "sons of war." After all the "Children of War" were selected, they had to give up their original names and use simpler nicknames, such as Nux, who later joined the "Wrath Queen" group, and his former spear. The hand "slits".
"Immortal Joe" also used a self-invented cult that combines "fetishism", "Christianity" and Nordic mythology - the "Cult of the V8" to strengthen his opposition. Under the control of these "sons of war", they shape themselves into the human incarnation of the "V8 God". As long as they "die gloriously" in the war, they can be promoted to the Hall of Valor and drink and have fun with the gods all day long.
Every "son of war" is extremely fanatical. When they reach a certain age, they will be given chromium-lead compound spray. Usually they like to inhale this mist to enter the illusion of communicating with the "V8 True God". Once they encounter it in the war, In critical moments, they will take a large amount of alcohol and enter a state of madness, ready to sacrifice themselves for "Immortal Joe" at any time.
Due to long-term use of this substance, almost all "sons of war" have more or less stubborn diseases, the most common of which is lymphoma. Most of them will not live to be 40 years old. However, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, they usually use blood transfusion therapy, which is to find some healthy-looking wanderers in the wasteland called "blood packs", and transfuse their blood to the weak "sons of war" so that they can Stay alive for now.
The male protagonist Max, who had a relationship with Wu Chen, was accidentally captured back to the "Fortress" during a "blood pack hunt" by the "Children of War".
