Chapter 318 Factory? Ranch!
"Hehe."
Hearing Yi's words, Gao Yuan suddenly smiled: "I told you, this Bray civilization is still very concerned about the health of the Swamp People..."
Before he finished speaking, Gao Yuan noticed something wrong.
——Except for him, Chen Fan and Isa didn't show the slightest smile on their faces.
Isa's pretty little face even showed a hint of fear!
It seems...
caring about the health of the Swamp People is a shocking thing for Chen Fan and Isa!
"You, you..." Gao Yuan swallowed his saliva and lowered his voice, "Have you found any problems?"
Chen Fan didn't speak immediately, but looked at the plate in front of him with a serious expression, and then nodded gently.
"What, what's the problem?" Gao Yuan was a little anxious and asked repeatedly.
"...Gao Yuan."
Chen Fan glanced at Gao Yuan, whose face was full of confusion, and sighed softly: "Put yourself in their shoes. If you were the Bray civilization, under what circumstances would you put the health of slaves first? Even at the cost of creating a very good living environment for these slaves?"
Gao Yuan subconsciously raised his hand and scratched the metal skull of the mechanical exoskeleton armor: "In order to... make slaves work better?"
Chen Fan looked at Gao Yuan meaningfully, and then cast his eyes on the Swamp Abyss people who walked into the depths of the factory with numb faces: "Then I will add a prerequisite. The rewards brought by work cannot cover the above costs, and may even lead to greater losses. In addition, slaves can also enjoy a good living environment without working, but they need to endure a certain degree of physical punishment."
Gao Yuan narrowed his eyes and frowned slightly. He began to think carefully about Chen Fan's words.
Ten seconds, thirty seconds, one minute...
Time passed bit by bit, and the wrinkles on Gao Yuan's eyebrows began to deepen.
He felt that he seemed to have touched the answer, but there was a thin window paper in between that could not be pierced.
Until Isa's soft voice came from the side——
"The answer is actually very simple." Under Gao Yuan's confused eyes, Isa whispered, "When the true value of slaves is concentrated on their bodies."
Swish!
The layer of window paper that was covering up was finally pierced!
The confusion in Gao Yuan's eyes dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, replaced by a faint fear and horror: "The Bray civilization, they..."
He lowered his voice again and said the chilling fact with difficulty: "Raising the Swamp People as livestock?"
As soon as this was said, Amber, who was sitting at the slate dining table, had changed his face!
He followed Chen Fan and clearly heard the conversation between Chen Fan and the other two. Because of this, he was very clear about the correctness of this inference.
At this moment, Amber only had a biting chill in his heart.
He turned his head suddenly and looked around. In those carefully built Swamp-style buildings, he only saw two densely packed small characters.
Cannibalism.
This production factory and this prison are nothing more than a ranch carefully built by the Bray civilization! ! !
"It's not just the Swamp Abyss people."
Chen Fan's indifferent voice came from the side again: "If nothing unexpected happens, all the intelligent creatures in the entire production factory are just livestock raised by the Bray civilization."
"If we are all livestock..." Amber shuddered and asked in a dry tone, "Then... what are those jobs for?"
"Exploiting the value of all intelligent creatures?"
Chen Fan shook his head, with a hint of pity in his eyes.
"Whether it is to build a large-scale biological computer or transform an engineering ship, all the input and consumption far exceeds the value you create."
"The Bray civilization cannot do a loss-making business."
"Then there is only one possibility: these seemingly useless jobs are actually to increase your potential value."
"Just like... increasing the amount of exercise for livestock can make the meat firmer."
"I think you should know this truth, right?"
...
"..."
Amber certainly knew this truth.
But he was unwilling to accept this cruel fact.
That's his people!
They have the same blood flowing in their bodies as him! !
Amber took a few deep breaths and calmed down his anger with difficulty.
"Sir Chen Fan, I still don't understand..."
After being angry, Amber began to think about a deeper question: "What is the purpose of the Bray civilization raising highly intelligent creatures?"
"It can't be for the desire of food, right?"
Amber pulled the corner of his mouth and showed a very reluctant smile: "I heard that those big birds are vegetarians..."
Chen Fan's eyes were a little complicated.
As early as when he realized that the Bray civilization raised the Swamp People as livestock, he actually had a fairly mature guess.
From a certain perspective, this guess is too horrifying - for Amber in front of him, its explosiveness is probably no less than the explosion of the mother planet.
But there is a lack of direct evidence. As an investigator, he cannot arbitrarily give a precise answer at this time.
"Maybe..."
Chen Fan said in a vague tone: "But I feel that the Bray civilization may really be for..."
Bang! ! !
A sudden dull sound came from not far away, interrupting Chen Fan's unfinished words.
"What's going on?"
Chen Fan subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of the sound, and saw a thin man from the Swamp lying face down on the stone paved ground, motionless.
The dull sound just now was the sound of the other person falling to the ground.
The strong impact when he fell directly crushed part of the deformed sarcoma, and dark blue blood mixed with some tissue fragments slowly flowed out from the bottom of the swamp man's body.
It seems that he fell hard.
In the next second, when he noticed that the other party's chest did not rise or fall at all, Chen Fan's heart jumped.
"This..."
As expected, almost at the same time, Yi's voice rang in his ears:
[The target's vital signs have disappeared. ]
[Confirmed dead. ]
"...Dead?"
Amber swallowed hard and stared at the fellow tribesman who fell to the ground in amazement - if he remembered correctly, just now, this fellow tribesman was sitting quietly at the dining table like everyone else, eating the rationed food!
The death of this swamp man did not cause any abnormal movement.
Several "locals" sitting at the nearby table did not show any strange expressions about the death of their fellow tribesmen. They just raised their eyelids and took a look, and then cast their eyes on the plate in front of them again.
Nothing is more important than the food in front of you.
After all...
if they don't finish the rationed food, the monitoring drone will punish them immediately.
As for the "locals" who had finished their rationed food farther away, they didn't even turn their heads.
Even Nicas, who was sitting next to Amber, only slowed down his eating speed a little.
"He's dead!" Amber couldn't accept Nicas's indifference. He let out a low roar in his hoarse voice, "Nicas, he's dead!!"
Nicas slowed down his eating speed again.
He swallowed the food in his mouth hard, raised his head and glanced at the corpse in the distance again, and nodded indifferently: "Yes, he is dead."
Amber's expression froze: "You..."
"This is normal." Nicas narrated calmly, "Everyone in this production factory will die."
"A few years ago, no matter the time or place, I could see my fellow tribesmen dying every moment."
"This is the sequelae of the thought synchronization control panel, there is no way to avoid it."
Amber was speechless: "..."
Chen Fan's eyes moved, and he asked in a hurried tone: "Then how to deal with these dead bodies?"
Nicas raised his head and glanced at the regulatory drones that were slowly approaching in the sky.
"The drones will give them a preliminary physical examination."
"After confirming death, these drones will take the bodies outside the factory for centralized processing."
"As for how to deal with it later..." Nicas shook his head, "I don't know, this is not information I can understand."
"Take it outside the factory for centralized processing..." Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully.
Under the confused gazes of Amber and Nicas, Chen Fan stood up suddenly and ran quickly towards the body of the Swamp Salamander.
"Sir Chen Fan!"
Seeing Chen Fan's actions, Nicas's numb expression finally showed some fluctuations. He stood up anxiously and whispered: "If you touch the body of your own kind without authorization, you will be punished by the drone!"
Chen Fan waved his hand and ignored Nicas's warning.
Just as he stopped and squatted in front of the body of the giant salamander, the regulatory drone coming from a distance also issued a similar warning message.
Those drones don't want outsiders to touch the dead Swamp Salamander!
"One, hurry!"
"Release the nanomachine!"
Chen Fan lowered his voice and gave an order to One in an anxious manner.
He opened his right palm and gently covered it on the body of the giant salamander, which had turned light blue.
A large number of silver-white nanomachines swarmed out and quickly turned towards the body under Chen Fan's palm.
A lavender beam swept across Chen Fan, and the warning of the regulatory drone became more severe.
"Identity locked."
"Laborer Chen Fan, stop your contact immediately."
[Nanomachines have been released.]
The electronic synthesized voice sounded at the same time.
Watching the silver-white nanorobots slowly penetrate into the interior of the light blue corpse, Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
Whoosh!!
The sound of breaking through the air came from above his head. Chen Fan stood up slowly and took two steps back.
"I just... want to check the physical condition of my fellow tribesmen."
Looking at the drone hanging above his head, Chen Fan said softly, "But... he seems to be dead."
The monitoring drone did not speak, but quickly scanned the corpse under it with the light purple beam.
After confirming that there was no abnormality in the corpse, the drone turned to Chen Fan again:
"This is the first warning."
"If you do it again, you will be punished with high voltage electricity for 30 seconds!"
(End of this chapter)
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