Chapter 169 Hunger Marketing "Are you too kind to humans...
Since then, Li Muqi never mentioned Aunt Wang again.
She asked other humans for advice on parenting and successfully saved the child's life.
Cecilia's plan began to show results. Doberman believed in "scientific human breeding" and not only improved the living conditions of humans, but also secretly kept all the newborns and did not send them to the breeding area.
Taking this opportunity, Cecia got to know the animals in the breeding area and also learned a lot of information about the farm.
“…But I still don’t understand.”
Doberman scratched his head and twitched his ears. "Why do you care so much about the feelings of humans? They are obviously just commodities."
This time, the animals repaired the missing wall, and it and Cecia supervised the work in the breeding area together, and chatted about their experiences with humans.
"Are you too kind to humans?"
It tilted its head and looked at Cecia, "Perhaps, you sympathize with their plight?"
"pity?"
A hint of mockery flashed in her scarlet eyes, and Cecia met Dubin's gaze with amusement: "So that's what you think."
“Have you ever wondered why farms limit purchases?”
She asked in a cold voice, quietly tying the balloon she had prepared long ago to her wrist.
"What you say will touch the other person's heart, increasing your credibility by 50% (E)."
"Some products have purchase restrictions in order to promote hunger marketing, to raise prices to levels that they shouldn't be at... but that's not the case with humans."
Glancing over the animals at work, she patted Doberman on the shoulder.
"Farms are regulated by the government, and the price they sell to people must be within a certain range, but the market is currently in a state of supply and demand."
“For example, if the market demand is 10,000, and you only offer 100, you can achieve the effect of hunger marketing and increase purchasing desire.”
"But the market demand is 10,000, but you only offer 10, or even less than 10. The price is also restricted and cannot be raised further—"
She paused and continued, "I heard that there are already substitutes on the market. I think it's a hairless monkey."
"Long-term and excessive hunger marketing will cause consumers to rebel, or look for cheap substitutes. When substitutes fill the entire market, the value of human beings will also decline."
"Besides, your original intention was not to engage in hunger marketing, but you just couldn't increase production."
"If you want to make more money, you have to increase production before substitutes flood the market."
Listening to her explanation, Dubin seemed to understand.
"So, we need to use scientific methods to raise people?"
Those innocent puppy eyes blinked, looking at her eagerly for knowledge.
"That's right."
Cecilia nodded, with a look of satisfaction on her face, showing that the child was teachable.
"Humans are too fragile for us. Many animals die within a few days after being bought by humans, and the farms have to provide new humans as compensation..."
“That’s another huge expense.”
"It won't work without compensation."
Doberman smiled bitterly.
"Although these are matters related to the sales department, my wife is in the sales department and I have heard a lot about them."
"With the current scarcity of humans, only the rich and powerful can buy them. The creatures sold to them die within two days, which already makes them unhappy. If they are not given replacements, the breeding farm should have closed down long ago."
The fish is hooked.
Hearing it take the initiative to mention the sales department, Cecilia's mouth curled up.
As a demon king, she knows nothing about sales and marketing.
Everything she just said was what she heard from the humans she rescued, and she added some of her own nonsense.
The purpose is to bring the topic to the sales department.
"Don't worry, once scientific methods of raising humans are applied in the farm, we can provide human care services."
She was in a good mood and her voice became much slower.
"Customers who purchase this service will receive care from a specialist. We will take care of people's physical and mental health 24 hours a day, and compensate for death or injury."
"Using scientific methods to raise people, the survival rate of humans will be greatly improved. It will definitely be much less than those customers who raise people blindly. The number of humans who need to be replaced will be much less, and we can also collect more money."
As he listened to her big promises, Dubin's eyes lit up more and more. He wished he could unify the farms immediately and let all departments use scientific methods of raising humans.
"You are right, but..."
Its eyes flickered and it looked shyly at the human dwelling that was gradually being covered.
"The original design of the residence was to facilitate monitoring of humans' every move. After all, they often want to escape and will gather together to discuss plans."
"Now we give them privacy, but we can't see their condition anymore. What if they run away——"
"Do you think I haven't considered this?"
Cecilia looked at it with a half-smile, which made it feel a little ashamed of its immature question.
"Human beings are very complex creatures. We need to monitor them, but we cannot let them know that we are monitoring them."
"How is this possible?"
Doberman was puzzled and licked the corner of his mouth subconsciously.
"To do this, we need to use something I developed."
She fished a black square from her pocket and held it out to Doberman.
The block was very small, no bigger than a little finger. Doberman took it carefully, fearing that he would accidentally drop it and lose it.
"What's this?"
It didn't dare move its furry paws, maintaining the same posture. It looked again and again in front of its eyes, but didn't understand anything.
"A camera, and it's a pinhole camera."
Even though she put on a high profile, Cecia had only been in contact with this thing for a short time.
With the help of several humans, they used the [Word Speaker] for many days in a row to make a pinhole camera that did not require an internet connection and was large enough for the entire three breeding areas.
Facing Dubin's confused eyes, she continued to explain: "With this thing, you can monitor the situation of humans anytime and anywhere without being discovered by them and without affecting their mental health."
"this--"
Faced with such a new thing, Du Bin could not believe it with just a few words.
But after seeing the neat screen and the real-time broadcast of human movements on it, it was convinced and wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Cecia.
Of course, they didn't come up with this thing to restrict human freedom like before.
One is to reduce the Doberman's suspicion and objections, and the other is to observe whether humans have any abnormalities and make timely corrections if there are problems with the environment.
If someone wants to escape, send your own people to persuade them.
After all, she was confident that she could get all the humans out unharmed, but if the humans escaped on their own, unnecessary casualties would be inevitable.
…
As the breeding area had not been supplied with newborns for a long time, they began to feel dissatisfied and found breeding area three, where they discovered several lively babies.
Most of them were wearing familiar bracelets.
Those were children abandoned by them because of serious and incurable illnesses.
The original momentum of going to war to hold the culprit accountable was largely lost, and even the purpose of the trip began to change. One by one, they shamelessly asked Doberman for methods.
Even staff from other breeding areas came here after hearing the news and were completely impressed by the "scientific breeding method".
At the same time, Cecia, who had achieved success, did not stay.
Instead, on Dubin's recommendation, he went to Sales Department 5 where his lover worked.
"I have heard of your deeds, and thank you for your help with Dubin."
The three-petal mouth opened and closed, and the whiskers trembled. The tawny ears drooped on both sides, and the dark eyes were full of sincerity.
Doberman's lover turned out to be a cute lop-eared rabbit.
It extended its soft paws to Cecia and introduced the situation of the sales department: "We have never had trouble with sales, and we don't need to attract customers, but..."
Is it true that there is no reproductive isolation between dogs and rabbits? Aren’t they at the upper and lower levels of the food chain?
Cecilia secretly complained, but she smiled politely on the surface.
"I guess you've heard about how popular humans are. Due to their scarcity, they've become a status symbol."
The Lop-Eared Rabbit sighed, not looking happy about the popularity of the product.
"Therefore, those who want to buy humans basically have a certain status and position. We can't afford to offend any of them."
"So the problem for the sales department is who to sell the limited number of humans to, and how to politely reject the purchase requests of other animals without offending the other party..."
"What's so difficult about this?"
Cecia took it and a smile appeared on her face.
“It would be better to adopt a lottery system.”
“…Draw lots?”
Hearing the words he had never understood before, the lop-eared rabbit's ears twitched and he quietly closed the distance between the two of them. "Can you tell me more about it?"
"certainly."
She nodded.
This was the purpose of her trip. She was afraid that the animals would not be able to understand it, so she discussed it with Li Muqi and others for a long time before choosing the most simple and easy-to-understand method.
"To put it simply, you shouldn't reject customers, but instead give them a false impression—"
“Let them think that they were unlucky not to get it.”
"Sorry, I'm still a little..."
The lop-eared rabbit tugged at his sleeves. As an excellent student, this rabbit felt for the first time in his life that his IQ was not enough.
"It's okay, let's talk about what you did before."
Cecilia has a gentle attitude, like a teacher who guides students step by step.
"Since the problem of the sales department is how to select and reject customers, then you have previously considered many aspects based on the status of the customer and only accepted the most distinguished guests, right?"
The lop-eared rabbit nodded obediently.
"This is too obvious. Other animals can see your selection criteria. In the long run, customers of slightly lower status will no longer buy humans."
She sat on the soft sofa and put a pillow behind her.
"If they are rejected all the time, they will develop a rebellious mentality and will not always ask for trouble. In addition, there are already alternatives such as hairless monkeys."
“Once customers get used to buying a competitor’s product, they won’t come back—you’ll continue to lose customers.”
Although the future became more and more miserable as he heard about it, the Lop-Eared Rabbit became more and more excited.
It is an old employee, having joined the farm earlier than Doberman, and is almost one of the first sales staff.
Having worked in the farm for eight years, it is very familiar with the human market. The current situation is indeed consistent with what Cecia said. Many customers who have been rejected by them many times no longer come and turn to buy competing products.
Although hairless monkeys are not as novel as humans, they are cheap and abundant, and have begun to seize the lower-end market.
Although their sales department is anxious, for some reason, the number of wild humans found in recent years has been decreasing, and the survival rate in the farms has not been improved.
The number of humans they can sell to is decreasing instead of increasing, and they can only worry.
The appearance of Cecilia gave it hope.
"Can the lottery system you mentioned solve this problem?"
The lop-eared rabbit asks questions humbly, and its desire for knowledge is almost written on its face.
"Yes."
Cecia took the opportunity to rub the soft rabbit fur and continued, "Drawing lots means collecting the information of people who want to buy and then randomly drawing them."
"For example, if there are 10,000 people who want to buy, but there are only 10 humans available, then we will randomly select 10 people from these 10,000 people."
She took a sip of her coffee and leaned back.
"As for who gets drawn, it all depends on luck. This way you don't have to offend anyone, and ordinary animals will also get the chance to buy."
"Although other ordinary animals were not successfully purchased, they saw hope and only attributed their failure to purchase to their bad luck."
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