[AvengingGibbons]

Mines can have toxic gas in them, it's why in the past miners would take canaries down mineshafts. If the canary died then it indicated the presence of toxic gas.. More to my point, the mines may have a toxic gas which drives the mudokons crazy. Maybe this mudokon is being trained to endure the toxicity of the gas so he can work better. And some of the mudokons won't cope well with it, so they become 'wired'. This might be a better way of giving us the 'wired mudokons' instead of making it seem like theyre being gassed with laughing gas like was my assumption when playing exoddus. Maybe the mask is a filter that the vykers are testing to see if the mask filters out the gas. Maybe we'll see a lot of miners using these masks, and possibly wear them when we play as Abe. Maybe we'll have to collect a mask from somewhere in order to access areas that are filled with gas and wired mudokons.