Chapter 47 Miniature People You Can Play With and Eat 04
The Vegetable Farm, there must be a large number of vegetable people concentrated there, so it is convenient for Jian Bumian to gather them together and prepare a resistance plan together.
After hearing Jian Bumian's request, Talos nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
He quickly arranged a hovercraft and took Jian Bumian out without letting any guards follow him.
Jane Busian huddled in Talos' coat pocket. The inside of the pocket was covered with soft and fine fur. It was like heaven on earth when he stuffed his feet into the fur. The back of his feet could not help but turn a faint red.
The warm atmosphere made people drowsy. Suddenly, Jane Bumian saw a finger inserted. Talos bit the fingertip and blood oozed out of the fingertip, allowing him to fill his stomach.
His eyes lit up, he got up, knelt on the pocket fluff, and let his knees rub crimson. This position made it easier for him to hold the other person's fingers.
He howled and bit the wound on his fingertips, slurping the blood.
The blood of the evil god is naturally condensed from the purest evil thoughts, and is the most delicious food in Jian Bumian's eyes.
In the past, Jian Busian could only suck a little bit of his blood, but now that he has become smaller, he can drink blood in big gulps.
After a while, Jian Bumian's belly swelled up from drinking so much, he burped slightly, and his lips were stained an alluring blood color.
Talos withdrew his finger.
When he let the shrunken Jane Bumian drink his blood, he could clearly feel the boy's small tongue, warm and soft, licking his wound without any guard.
It made his heart feel numb as if it had been scratched by a cat.
Talos forced himself to stop thinking about Jane's sleeplessness and concentrate on operating the hovercraft.
Cairen Farm covers a large area and is located in the suburbs of this city.
Jane Busian took a long nap in her pocket before finally reaching her destination.
His whole body was filled with the cedar scent that belonged to men.
He felt Talos leave the hovercraft and poked his head out of his pocket, looking around curiously.
The Vegetable Farm is not an idyllic farm, but a huge factory with hundreds of years of history. It provides the only edible meat to all citizens every day.
It did not look as sophisticated and clean as the factories in the interstellar era. Instead, it was bloated and dirty. The ground was covered with black mud, the air was filled with the smell of blood, and even the sky above the factory was polluted by the black smoke emitted by the burning vegetable people.
This giant old factory, on its own, supports countless giant families in the surrounding area.
Many surrounding schools, rental units, shopping malls, etc. are built around it.
The giants nearby were fatter than those in the city because they had the freshest vegetables to eat every day. They exuded a greasy smell, and every step they took would make Jane Bumian's eardrums hurt.
Talos, wearing a black fur coat and long combat boots, seemed out of place with everything around him.
The guards stationed at the gate of the Vegetable Farm recognized their monarch at first sight.
The guards half-knelt down.
"Your Majesty, why are you here suddenly?"
"Your Majesty, do you have any instructions?"
Talos asked coldly, "Where is the place where the living vegetable people are kept?"
The guards pointed out a way for Talos: "Just walk in that direction..."
They were very curious as to why His Majesty came here in person to look for living people... Could it be that His Majesty wanted to personally select the people to eat?
Jian Bumian hid in Talos' pocket and stuck his head out. As Talos went deeper into the factory, he saw most of the factory.
The most commonly eaten vegetable man is about 15cm in size. This type of vegetable man is not too small, has brittle and soft bones, and tender meat.
Therefore, most of the vegetable people raised in factories are of this body type.
Jian Busian saw many vegetable people as tall as him being stuffed into baskets like chicks, then pulled onto trucks one by one and driven to a dark processing plant.
The small screams added together sounded particularly harsh.
The vegetable people pulled out of the processing plant building have been turned into various kinds of food.
For example, canned luncheon meat, meat sauce, instant noodle seasoning packets, instant hot pot, etc.
It was drizzling at the moment, the ground was muddy, and the street lamps reflected the colorful food packaging, casting dim shadows on the ground.
After a while, Talos arrived at a place where vegetable people were raised.
This is a place completely different from the dark and cold factory.
...The sky was surprisingly blue with white clouds, a rare sight!
The air is very fresh, with a faint scent of grass and trees.
Jian Busian frowned, not understanding why the scenery in the breeding area and the processing area were completely different.
Until Talos said calmly: "The blue sky and white clouds are holographic projections, and the fresh air also smells like chemicals."
Jane couldn't sleep and her eyelids were twitching. She didn't understand why these giants did this.
Most of the staff working in the enclosure are gentle female giants, and they no longer wear dirty blue work clothes, but aprons in warm colors.
At first glance, you might think they were a group of nannies taking care of babies.
They were surprised to see Talos coming over, - Why is His Majesty here?
The leader of the staff stepped forward, bent over, and asked Talos in a seductive tone: "Your Majesty, are you here to personally select the dish people? Do you need me to recommend a few dish people to you?"
Talos ignored her and watched everything coldly.
Jian Busian hid in Talos' pocket and gently wrote the three words "Promise Him" on the palm of Talos' hand.
He needed to understand how the factory worked.
Talos nodded: "Okay."
The staff then took Talos inside, where there was a huge translucent box that almost filled the entire room.
There is a screen outside the box, which shows what is inside the box.
There was a small city in the box!
Jian Bumian would not be mistaken. This small city had brown cement streets, colorful small houses, even a big clock tower, a small park with a fountain, schools, hospitals, shopping malls...
Above the city is the sun and blue sky created by holographic projection.
What’s even more creepy is that there are actually quite a few people living in this small city.
Crowds of people, like groups of ants, walk around in the city.
The staff introduced: "This is a new type of breeding project of Vegetable Man Farm. We send some newly born vegetable men into a closed virtual space to create a happy living environment for them.
They have no idea that they are ‘rookies’ and think they are just ordinary people who will live a happy and ordinary life.”
"The meat of the vegetable people who grew up in this environment is completely different from that of the vegetable people on the farm. Their meat is more tender and delicious, and it is not fat and dry due to fear and sorrow." (*)
After listening to the staff, Jian Busian understood why there was fresh air, blue sky and white clouds in the captive area.
All this is for the vegetables to grow better.
The method of keeping noobs in a virtual environment goes a step further than the original one.
"Your Majesty, we have selected two people with the best meat for you. Please take a look."
The staff continuously zoomed out the screen image, from a corner of the city to a residential building, and finally to a room in a household in the building.
The decoration in the room was very similar to that of the 21st century, and the man with the best meat was lying on the bed, drinking Coke, playing with his mobile phone, looking happy and without any worries.
Another mature rookie is a high school student. He is in class and there are piles of thick exercise books and test papers on his desk.
He looked serious and kept looking down to take notes, thinking that he could really pursue his dream.
The audience in the live broadcast room.
[My sanity value dropped drastically. There was nothing scary at all, no monsters or ghosts, but I felt very scared.]
[…Would I say that I’m drinking Coke and playing with my phone in bed right now?]
[Fuck, we are not the "rookies" of the infinite world, are we? ]
[I work on a dairy farm in the real world. In order to make the cows produce more milk, humans make the cows in the pen wear VR glasses so that they think they are living in a blue sky and grass.]
[These vegetable people have no idea that they are about to be eaten... I feel so sorry. ]
Talos looked cold, frowned, and said in a cold voice: "No need."
The staff showed a look of regret.
She thought that His Majesty would be very fond of this kind of person who grew up in a special environment. It seemed that she could only sell him to other nobles.
When Talos walked out of the gate, there were a few staff members squatting next to the gate eating lunch.
From his low angle in his pocket, Jian Bushian could see the meal the other person was eating.
A layer of green crumbs was sprinkled on the white rice.
Jian Busian thought it was chopped chives, but after a closer look, he found that it was miniature vegetable figures dyed green. Those vegetable figures were very small, and there were hundreds of them if you just grabbed a handful. They were just right for mixing with rice.
The broth on the side was also made by the vegetable vendor, with greasy broken arms and legs floating on the surface of the soup.
Jian Bumian: “…………”
He felt a little nauseous and looked away.
At the same time, he couldn't help but wonder how these miniature vegetable people, only the size of rice grains or beans, would be raised?
He quietly conveyed his thoughts to Talos.
Talos asked the staff to take them to the place where the miniature vegetable people were kept.
On the way to his destination, Jian Busian saw a farm where ordinary vegetable people were raised.
Only a small number of high-quality vegetable people will be raised in the virtual city.
Most of the vegetable people are raised on farms.
Their living conditions were better than Jian Bumian had imagined.
There are grass, big trees, flowers and blue sky in the farm. The vegetable people, about 15 centimeters tall, are like little chickens and ducks, resting naked in various places on the grass. The grass is filled with laughter and singing.
Compared to the hellish processing plant area, this place seems like heaven.
But they have no idea that their final destination is only hell.
There are many such farms, and only such a large number of enclosures can support the city's meat supply.
Talos walked all the way to the end of the enclosure and came to a place where miniature vegetable people were kept.
The staff introduced: "This kind of vegetable people is very small, we rarely use them as staple food, usually as supplementary food, seasoning, decoration, etc."
"In addition to the name of vegetable people, we also often call them 'seed people'"
Because the person being introduced was His Majesty, the staff members cautiously told him everything they knew, regardless of whether His Majesty knew about it or not.
Jian Bumian: "..."
The name "seed man" reminded him of caviar.
Jian Bumian saw that Talos and the staff had not moved for a long time. Talos stood there like a sculpture. He quietly spoke to them, "Why aren't you moving?"
Talos: "We have arrived at our destination."
Jian Busian had a bad feeling. He lowered his head and looked at the floor, which he had not noticed.
He discovered that the floor was not a real floor, but a "ground" made up of countless densely packed miniature vegetable people.
Jian Bumian: "..."
These miniature green men were too small, and Talos thought that Jane Bumian would not be able to see them clearly. After he drove the staff away, he took the little boy out of his pocket and put him on the ground.
He stuffed a small magnifying glass into Jian Busian's mouth, which he had found from somewhere.
Because these miniature vegetable people are also mini people to Jane Bumian.
Talos had a blank expression on his face and said calmly, "They divide these miniature vegetable people into different enclosures according to their sizes. The place where you are standing belongs to the 3-6cm vegetable people area."
Jian Busian nodded thoughtfully.
He walked all the way to the end, which was a 1 to 1.5 centimeter area for vegetable people.
These vegetable people have become very, very small. After they have shrunk in size, Jian Bumian has to squat on the ground and use a magnifying glass to see their appearance clearly.
Not to mention the giants.
Jian Busian squinted his eyes and saw the appearance of these miniature vegetable people through a magnifying glass.
Similarly, they are no different from normal humans, with hands and feet, intelligence, and the ability to cover themselves and use tools.
Jian Busian even saw them using mud and wood chips to build a shelter from the wind and rain.
But they are unaware of their situation and live numbly like primitive people.
Jian Busian was curious about how these miniature vegetable people usually supplemented their nutrition.
Inadvertently, Jian Bumian saw a piece of cake thrown in the area where the vegetable people lived.
The cake had been eaten by Giant staff and had obvious chips and tooth marks.
And those vegetable people happily climbed onto the cake and nibbled on it like ants.
The cake was a little damp, and it was obvious that it had been there for a while, but the people still didn’t finish the dishes.
Talos murmured, "These vegetable people are very small and only need a small amount of food to keep them alive. The micro vegetable area is also the place where the staff don't have to spend the least effort to manage."
Jane was sleepless and deep in thought.
At the same time, he saw several little greenhorns trying to escape through the gaps in the fence of the enclosure.
But rather than running away, it would be more accurate to say that they were curious about the outside world and instinctively wanted to run out.
The miniature vegetable man is very small in size, and can get out of the gap by just lying on the ground and rolling.
The staff turned a blind eye to these behaviors and were too lazy to do anything about it.
Because they knew that even if these miniature vegetable people escaped, they would not survive.
Not far from the gap in the fence, there were many rotten corpses of miniature vegetable people. Their tiny bodies had turned into white bones, and their limbs would fall apart if the wind blew gently.
They are like ants. If a few of them escape or die, it will not attract anyone's attention or anger.
The staff did not give them numbers like they did for ordinary people. Their unit of measurement was always "a handful", "a pot", "a bowl", etc.
Jian Busian stared at these rookies and frowned.
In fact, compared with ordinary weeds, these micro weeds are the easiest to survive.
They have normal intelligence, are curious, are small in size, and can squeeze in and out of various gaps without attracting attention.
——The most important thing is that they only need a little food to survive.
The cost-effectiveness of survival can be said to be very high.
Jian Bumian glanced around the railing. Besides the corpse of the little vegetable man, there were also some densely packed small footprints, extending far away that Jian Bumian could not see.
As long as there are enough escaped vegetables, there will always be a few who can escape successfully.
Jian Busian turned around and tugged at the other person's trouser leg.
Talos squatted down and looked at Jane Busian with his red eyes.
Jian Busian raised his head and said loudly: "Talos, can you wait here for me? I want to go see a place."
"good."
Talos raised the corner of his lips, stretched out his fingertips and poked the boy's soft cheek.
With a snap.
Jian Busian was poked to the ground again, and his butt hurt.
"Hiss..." Jian Busian rubbed the two painful soft pieces of flesh and muttered, "Talos, can you please stop touching me before I change back?"
Talos: “…”
Talos said nothing.
Jian Busian knew that Talos would not agree easily, so he did not continue to argue with him.
He straightened his clothes and walked towards the route that the little vegetable man had taken to escape.
The little vegetable people did not run out of the Vegetable Farm. The Vegetable Farm was too large. They just ran towards a small hill in the farm.
There are many dense trees on the hill, and the ground is covered with green grass and moss.
There were no footprints of giants, let alone signs of human destruction. It seemed that this hill had never been noticed by giants.
Jian Busian stood at the foot of the mountain, thinking about how to climb up.
But the footprints of the little people disappeared here, they did not climb up the mountain.
So where did they go?
Jane Busian frowned.
Suddenly, he heard someone talking.
—and seemed to be speaking to him.
"……Where are you from?"
"Who sent you?"
“…”
Jian Busian looked around but didn't see anyone talking.
This time he squatted down on his own initiative, picked up the magnifying glass and looked at the ground.
Sure enough, it was the miniature novices who were speaking.
What shocked Jian Bumian even more was that these miniature vegetable people were exactly the same as normal modern people.
The vegetable people that Jian Bumian saw in the captive area just now, although those vegetable people have the same IQ as humans, but because of their living environment, their behaviors are like those of primitive people.
But the vegetable people that Jian Bumian saw now were wearing suits and leather shoes, and some of them even wore glasses.
Like a few miniature humans who traveled from the 21st century.
Jian Busian lowered his head and chuckled: "Hello."
He has a fair and clean appearance, with curved eyes and eyebrows when he smiles. Even though he is like a giant to the young people, he has no deterrent power at all.
The vegetable people let down their guard: "Are you the vegetable person who escaped from the farm?"
“…”
Jian Bumian pondered for a moment, and in order to get closer to the other party, he told a small lie: "Yes."
The leading vegetable jumped onto Jian Bumian's shoes, looked up and said, "Then come here and hide. It would be bad if those giants find you."
Go in and hide?
When Jian Busian was wondering where to hide, a small entrance large enough for him to enter appeared in front of him.
This small entrance was embedded in the wall of the hillside and was slightly darker in color. He thought it was a piece of mud wet by rain, until the mud opened to both sides, and he realized that it was a small door disguised as the hillside.
The little people jumped in.
Jian Busian also followed him in. The small entrance was obviously designed. It was 18 cm wide and even the tallest vegetable could enter.
Jian Busian went in and his pupils shrank slightly when he saw everything inside the hill.
There are many tall buildings standing inside the hill, and there are many overhead bridges crossing between the tall buildings. There are many protruding observation towers embedded in the mountain wall, and on the observation towers are small parks with small trees, fountains, swings...
Overpasses and high-rise buildings are stacked up all the way to the top of the mountain... The entire mountain has been hollowed out by these villains!
——Antxue.
This was Jane Bumian’s first thought when he saw this scene.
The little people living in the lower parts of the high-rise buildings heard Jane's sleepless footsteps, and they all leaned over the windows or the edge of the overpass, poked their heads out, and chattered about it.
"Wow, he's so handsome."
"Is he going to stay here?"
"I haven't seen such a big mini-man in a long time."
“…”
The leader who led Jian Bumian here coughed a few times and introduced him to Jian Bumian:
"You may find this scene very abrupt."
"But you are not mistaken. This is a city we built with our own hands. We have lived here for hundreds of years."
Their ancestors came from vegetable farms that were established hundreds of years ago.
Because their ancestors were so small, only a few millimeters to a centimeter, it was difficult for the giants to notice their presence.
So some of them managed to escape from the captivity and came to this hill.
To the giants, the hill was just a wasteland slope.
But for them, it is a rich little world with countless inexhaustible resources. Over time, they have multiplied there from generation to generation.
Some people imitated the technology of the giants, starting with how to build houses, and built this huge and developed city step by step.
The mini people, who are called "vegetable people" and "seed people" outside, are born here generation after generation, then go to school, work, and continue to contribute to the mini people clan.
But they knew that outside was still a hellish vegetable farm.
They will take in compatriots who escape from the vegetable farm, no matter what size, as long as they are mini people, they will take them in.
After listening to the introduction of the villain leader, Jian Busian took a breath and couldn't help feeling a little shocked.
Not only Jian Bumian, the audience in the live broadcast room were also shocked.
[Why can't I think of that? The IQ of the little man is obviously the same as that of the giant, why can the giant build a city but the little man can't?! ]
[When I saw that the little people could live like civilized people in a virtual environment, I had a hunch: would there be a non-virtual little people city here? ]
[The city made by the villain is so exquisite, just like Yixue, so prosperous and sophisticated...]
[The giants could never have imagined that the little people could turn this inconspicuous little dirt hill into a city, right? ]
The leader of the villains was very enthusiastic towards Jian Bumian. He asked other villains to bring food to Jian Bumian.
The food portions and containers they prepared were just the right size for Jane Bumian's height.
The food was some chopped berries and leaves, which had a sweet smell and were served on a round porcelain plate.
But Jian Bumian actually saw white meat inside.
The leader was afraid that Jian Bumian would think that this was the meat of his own species, so he quickly explained: "This is the meat of an insect. The shell has been peeled off and it's roasted. You can eat it without worry."
"But..." The little man scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "We have been eating this insect for seven days, but it is too big and we can't finish it."
If this kind of insect is left outside, it will not be used as meat by giants, because it is not even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth. Therefore, it has become a special meat supply for small people.
"Thank you." Jian Busian didn't despise it. He picked up a small piece of insect meat and put it in his mouth to chew.
The taste is pretty good, no fishy smell, like lobster meat.
While eating, Jian Bumian said to them:
"Have you ever thought about having a war with the giants?"
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*In order to make human meat better, a beautiful fake environment is created. This setting is derived from and pays tribute to Liu Cixin's "The Devourer"
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