Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1455 Where to go
"Then that's none of my business." Gal threw the cigarette on the ground, stubbed it out with the sole of his shoe, and walked on.

"Let's talk about the future later. We can't starve ourselves just for the sake of the future. This is not something we need to worry about."

Garr's reaction was exactly what Lin Fan had expected. She didn't try to persuade him further and followed him forward.

“The goods here are generally average; they’re mostly for the labor industry,” Gar explained as they walked. “The demand for labor in the Greystone settlement is always high. When there’s a shortage of workers, they have to buy them to supplement the workforce. Larger quarries are always in high demand in heavy industry like quarries. Unfortunately, the supply is limited.”

"Isn't this enough?" Antonio gestured with his hand, "It looks like quite a lot!"

“That’s all we have.” Gal pulled out another cigarette. “You won’t find this kind of stuff when you go to the Loess Plateau again.”

"So what did we say?" Antonio crossed his arms, "He who does not plan for the future will have trouble in the present. You say you're not worried, but when you can't find a big guy like that next time, you'll be the one worrying."

"Who cares?" Garr chuckled noncommittally, a cigarette dangling from his hand. "Just focus on today's tasks and worry about tomorrow later. Why think so much? You people are always worrying, but what are you really doing?"

Garr raised his chin, gesturing for them to look at the imprisoned people.

Antonio wanted to say something more, but then he felt Lin Fan tug at the back of his shirt, so he stopped talking.

"What about them?" Lan Bingru looked at the thin people. "Those people are so thin, they won't be doing heavy work on the construction site either, will they?"

“They’re not cut out for heavy work.” Garr lit another cigarette. “They’re all skin and bones, they don’t look strong. But there’s a market for people like them.”

"For many miscellaneous, tedious, and repetitive tasks, our orcs are expensive to hire, so they come in handy. They're cheap, practical, and eat less. They won't constantly talk about human rights, nor do they have the energy to cause destruction. Light industry factories love this kind of work. As long as they're fed and provided with lodging, these people are much more useful than the orcs of Graystone."

“Of course.” Bonnie, seeing that Gar had been talking for a while without anyone stopping her, started to chime in again, eager to join in. “No matter what, the Graystone settlement is still better than their Loess Region. This is a real upgrade in quality, what’s there to complain about?”

Think about how much effort she put in, how many methods she tried, and how much suffering she endured to get to Silvermoon City. These people don't have to do anything to be brought from the Loess Region to the Graystone Settlement.

Although she herself didn't think gray stone was good, it depends on who you compare it to.

Loess region? No matter how many more years they evolve, they won't even reach the threshold of a graystone settlement, let alone be picky.

Look at where they live now. They're fed and clothed, they don't have to do any work, and they still have such lifeless faces...

No wonder these people, despite all their evolution over the years, are still stuck in the loess plateau. Their brains haven't evolved; they don't know what's good for them!
"Working in a factory? That sounds pretty good." Lan Bingru frowned, not quite sure.

“What’s so great about it!” Antonio said with an exaggeratedly bitter face. “I doubt their factory has eight hours a day and two days off a week. 996 might be considered a blessing. It’s probably all 007. They don’t treat people like human beings at all.”

“They should still be treated as humans,” Lin Fan retorted. “It’s just that this is the Annie Demon realm, where humans are the lowest level of intelligent beings and have no human rights. Beastmen are the counterpart to our general understanding of humans.”

“Ah, right!” Antonio paused for a moment. “That’s exactly what I mean. Anyway, people are just living tools here. The so-called improvement in living conditions is just that the minimum conditions in Graystone are better than in Loess… Tsk tsk tsk! According to the technological level of Annemo, these basic tasks should have had suitable automated machinery long ago… Could it be that machinery is more expensive than people, so they chose to buy the cheaper ones?”

“You’re right!” Garr nodded. “It’s cheap. If there’s a cheap option, who would choose the expensive one? Besides, once you buy the machinery, you have to use it carefully and maintain it from time to time. These are all ongoing costs. In the Greystone settlement, who doesn’t have a shrewd business sense when they can start a factory and make money? They’re all very calculating.”

“But if we buy people, we still have to provide them with food, lodging, clothes, and medical care. Aren’t those also costs?” Lan Bingru asked. “How can they be the same?” Jia’er laughed. “The more expensive the machinery, the more carefully it needs to be handled. Not to mention that the parts used for maintenance have to be of high quality, even the oil has to be oil that matches the price, the purer the better, to increase its lifespan. These people?”

He scoffed, "As long as they have food and shelter and don't starve or freeze to death, that's enough. Why be so fussy? As for medical care... minor illnesses will heal on their own, and there's no need to spend money on serious illnesses; it's a waste of time. Anyway..."

"You can always buy a new one if you die," Lin Fan replied.

“Yes!” Garr nodded. “If they don’t replace them with new ones, where will our business come from? Isn’t this a virtuous cycle in the market?”

Lan Bingru had never imagined that a virtuous cycle could be applied here. The concept of "human" here transcended mere human representation; it became more concrete in her understanding.

"But...but now you're giving them good food and drinks..." Her mind was a mess, and she couldn't think straight, so she mumbled.

"Oh dear!" Bonnie thought Lan Bingru was a fool too. "If we don't raise some meat for them, they're all just skin and bones, almost dead. How can we sell them? It's like packaging them, giving them a makeover so they look like they can work, and the price will go up. Brother Gar, oh?"

“That’s right.” Garr looked at Bonnie with the affirmation of a kindred spirit. “Raising good servants can fetch a good price. Moreover, in recent years, some of the upper echelons of Graystone Settlement have begun to emulate Silvermoon City, taking pride in having servants in their households. The most direct way to see a person’s status and wealth is to look at how many servants they have. After all, money is something that is hard to define and cannot be carried around to show how many people are. Servants are different; you can see how many there are at a glance.”

“However, they can’t afford the high-end goods in Silvermoon City, so they can only find them here. This has given us a new business: finding the best quality goods. Besides providing them with good food and drink, we also have to train their skills, since the servants of the wealthy are different from these people. Of course, the prices are different too.” Gal grinned.

"You still offer this service?" Bonnie had never heard of it before.

“That’s right.” Gal said proudly, exhaling a long puff of smoke. “Who doesn’t keep up with the times? It’s not like we’re turning down money. How do you think our boss knows us?”

"You're not trying to buy high-end goods from my boss, are you?" Bonnie asked, getting straight to the point.

“Exactly.” Gal nodded affirmatively, gesturing with his chin towards Lin Fan and the others. “In your Silvermoon City, aren’t only the upper class able to buy these high-class servants who are swindled from outside?”

“Hey~” Bonnie quickly waved her hand to interrupt, “How can you say it’s a lie? It was clearly a sincere invitation…”

"Don't give me that nonsense!" Garr ignored her. "Anyway, those people in Graystone have followed suit and are determined to buy it."

Adrian wasn't about to let go of a ready-made money-making opportunity, but he didn't have the right people at his disposal, so he went directly to Boss Bonnie.

As a result, all the wealthy people who were eager to buy Graystone backed down when they heard the price.

Having clearly recognized the economic gap between themselves and Silvermoon City, they had no choice but to settle for second best and let Adrian and his team start new businesses.

Training in servant skills? Adrian said he was an expert!

As a result, servants also appeared in the lowest level of the Anniemo's Gray Stone settlement.

And it is becoming increasingly popular.