With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 318: Factory? Ranch!
"hey-hey."

Hearing Yi's words, Gao Yuan suddenly smiled: "I told you, this Bray civilization really cares about the health of the Swamp People..."

Before he could finish his words, Gao Yuan realized something was wrong.

——Except for him, Chen Fan and Isa did not show the slightest smile on their faces.

There was even a hint of fear on Isa's pretty little face!

seem……

Caring about the health of the people in the Swamp is a shocking thing for Chen Fan and Isa!

"You, you guys..." Gao Yuan swallowed and lowered his voice, "Have you found any problems?"

Chen Fan didn't speak immediately. He just looked at the plate in front of him with a serious expression, then nodded slightly.

"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 your slaves first? Even at the cost of creating an extremely good living environment for these slaves?"

Gao Yuan subconsciously raised his hand and scratched the metal skull of his mechanical exoskeleton armor: "In order to... make the slaves work better?"

Chen Fan looked at Gao Yuan meaningfully, then cast his gaze at the Swamp People who walked into the depths of the factory with numb faces: "Then let me add one more prerequisite. The rewards from 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, and he began to think carefully about Chen Fan's words.

Ten seconds, thirty seconds, one minute...

As time passed, the wrinkles between Gao Yuan's brows began to grow deeper.

He felt as if he had touched upon the answer, but there was a thin layer of window paper between them that he could not pierce.

Until Isa's soft voice came from the side -

"The answer is actually very simple." Under Gao Yuan's confused gaze, Isa said softly, "When the true value of slaves lies in their bodies."

Swish!
The layer of window paper that was hiding the truth was finally broken!

The confusion in Gao Yuan's eyes dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, replaced by a hint of fear and shock: "Bree Civilization, they..."

He lowered his voice again and spoke out the chilling fact with difficulty: "Are you raising the Swamp People like livestock?"

As soon as these words came out, Amber, who was sitting at the slate dining table, had her face changed drastically!
He was following Chen Fan and heard clearly 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 felt only a bone-chilling chill in her heart.

He turned his head sharply and looked around. Among those carefully crafted swamp-style buildings, he only saw two densely packed small characters.

eat human.

This production factory, this prison, is nothing but a pasture carefully built by the Bray civilization!!!

“It’s not just the people of the Swamp.”

Chen Fan's indifferent voice came from the side again: "If nothing unexpected happens, all the intelligent creatures in the entire production factory are nothing more than livestock raised by the Bray civilization."

"If we are all livestock..." Amber shuddered and asked in a dry voice, "Then...what is all that work for?"

"Exploiting the value of all intelligent creatures?"

Chen Fan shook his head, with a hint of pity in his eyes.

"Whether it's building a large-scale biological computer or transforming an engineering ship, all the inputs and expenditures far exceed the value you create."

"The Bree Civilization cannot do business at a loss."

"Then there is only one possibility left: these seemingly useless tasks are actually to increase your potential value."

"It's like... increasing the amount of exercise livestock get can make the meat firmer."

"I think you should be clear about this principle, right?"

……

"..."

Amber certainly understood this.

But he was unwilling to accept this cruel fact.

That's his people!
They have the same blood flowing in their veins as him!!
Amber took a few deep breaths and struggled to calm her anger.

"Sir Chen Fan, I still don't quite 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 just for the sake of appetite, right?"

Amber pulled the corners of her mouth and revealed a very forced smile: "I heard that those big birds are vegetarians..."

Chen Fan's eyes were somewhat complicated.

As early as when he realized that the Bray civilization raised the Swamp People as livestock, he actually already had a fairly mature guess.

From a certain perspective, this hypothesis is too horrifying - for Amber in front of him, its power is probably no less than the explosion of the mother planet.

However, due to the lack of direct evidence, as an investigator, he could not arbitrarily give an accurate answer at this time.

"maybe……"

Chen Fan said vaguely: "But I feel that the Bray civilization might really be for..."

Bang! ! !
A sudden dull sound came from not far away, interrupting Chen Fan's unfinished words.

"what happened?"

Chen Fan subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from, and saw a thin Swamp Man lying face down, motionless on the stone-paved ground.

The dull sound just now was the sound of the other party falling to the ground. The strong impact when falling directly crushed a part of the deformed sarcoma, and dark blue blood mixed with some tissue fragments slowly flowed out from under the body of the swamp man.

It seems that the fall was not light.

In the next second, when Chen Fan noticed that the other person's chest did not rise or fall at all, his heart skipped a beat.

"This……"

Sure enough, almost at the same time, Yi's voice rang in his ears:

[The target's vital signs have disappeared. ]

【Confirmed dead.】

"……died?"

Amber swallowed hard, staring in amazement at the fellow tribesman lying on the ground - if he remembered correctly, just now, this fellow tribesman was sitting quietly at the dining table eating the rationed food like everyone else!
The death of this swamp man did not cause any unusual commotion.

Several "locals" sitting at the nearby table did not show any strange expression at the death of their fellow tribesmen. They just raised their eyelids to take a look, and then turned their gaze back to the plates in front of them.

Nothing is more important than the food in front of you.

after all……

If they don't finish their rations, they will be punished immediately by the monitoring drones.

As for those "locals" further away, who had already finished their rationed food, they didn't even turn their heads back.

Even Nicas, who was sitting next to Amber, only slowed down his eating a little.

"He's dead!" Amber couldn't accept Nicas's indifference. He let out a low roar in a hoarse voice, "Nicas, he's dead!!"

Nicas's eating slowed down a bit again.

He swallowed the food in his mouth hard, raised his head and glanced at the corpse in the distance again, nodded indifferently: "Yes, he is dead."

Amber's expression froze: "You..."

"This is normal." Nicas narrated calmly, "Everyone in this production plant will die."

"A few years ago, I could see people of my tribe dying every moment, no matter the time or the place."

"This is a side effect of the mind-synchronization console. There's no way to avoid it."

Amber was speechless: "..."

Chen Fan's eyes moved, and he asked hurriedly: "Then how do we deal with these dead bodies?"

Nicas looked up at the surveillance drone that was slowly approaching in the sky.

“The drone will give them a preliminary medical examination.”

“Once death is confirmed, 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 suddenly stood up and ran quickly towards the corpse of the swamp salamander.

"Your Excellency Chen Fan!"

Watching Chen Fan's actions, Nicas's numb expression finally showed some fluctuations. He stood up anxiously and shouted in a low voice: "If you touch the corpse of your own kind without permission, you will be punished by the drone!"

Chen Fan waved his hands and ignored Nicas's warning.

Just as he stopped and squatted in front of the body of the giant salamander, a regulatory drone coming from a distance also issued a similar warning message.

Those drones don't want outsiders to come into contact with the dead Swamp People!
"One, quick!"

"Release the nanomachines!"

Chen Fan lowered his voice and gave instructions to Yi anxiously.

He opened his right palm and gently covered the giant salamander's body, which had turned light blue.

A large number of silver-white nanomachines swarmed out and quickly moved towards the corpse under Chen Fan's palm.

A beam of lavender light swept across Chen Fan, and the warnings from the supervisory drone became more severe.

"Identity locked."

"Worker Chen Fan, stop your contact immediately."

【Nanomachines have been released.】

Electronic synthesized sounds sounded at the same time.

Watching the silver-white nanorobots slowly seep into the interior of the light blue corpse, Chen Fan breathed a long sigh of relief.

Whoosh! !

A sound of breaking air came from above his head. Chen Fan stood up slowly and took two steps back.

"I just... want to check on 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 surveillance drone did not speak, but quickly scanned the body beneath it with the lavender beam.

After confirming that there was nothing abnormal with the body, the drone turned to Chen Fan again:

“This is the first warning.”

"If you do it again, you will be punished with a high voltage electric shock for thirty seconds!"

(End of this chapter)