In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 232 Zhu Tianqing: Why? (3.2K views, please subscribe!)

There was a time when Zhu Tianqing believed that all meat-eaters were bad.

You can eat your fill just like a vegetarian, so why eat meat?
But after personally experiencing life at the bottom of society and realizing that meat and vegetables with the same nutritional value are completely unequal in value, she understood.

Therefore, upon seeing such a large pot of stew with meat, she was not angry at all; instead, she felt that Foreman Song was very kind.

However, a question inevitably arose in her mind.

Isn't Taihua City running out of meat to sell because of all the good deeds it's done?
Where did this meat come from?
Zhu Tianqing couldn't help but look at Song Shan, who had come to get food with her and was clearly going to eat and live with the workers.

Song Shan understood the meaning in the girl's eyes and explained with a smile:
"Life will find a way; if some people ban it, others will secretly sell it."

Zhu Tianqing lowered her head, feeling somewhat sad.

She wasn't so extreme as to want everyone to be vegetarian; she just wanted to improve the treatment of meat-eating spirit beasts. Why did it turn out like this?

At this moment, a worker standing nearby spoke up:

"Little girl, are you going to get your food or not? Everyone else is still hungry."

Zhu Tianqing came to her senses.

Looking at the fragrant stew, every cell in her body felt a strong craving.

"The spirit beast that provided this meat is dead, and it cannot be resurrected even if I don't eat it."

“But if I can fill my stomach, I can carry more cement, earn more money, and repay Aunt Zhang’s family.”

The girl swallowed hard, a thought that she used to consider incredibly sinful arising in her mind.

In the end, she handed the rice bowl to the cook, and with unspeakable shame and guilt, gritted her teeth and said:
"Please...please get me some food, preferably without meat..."

"No, I won't be full without meat, so please have only a little bit..."

"No... since I've already eaten, I might as well eat a little more at once..."

After much internal struggle, Zhu Tianqing, like all the other workers, asked the cook for more meat.

The girl, holding a rice bowl in one hand and four or five large steamed buns in the other, sat on a piece of abandoned building material.

Feel the fat from the fatty meat slide into your mouth, and experience the muscle fibers of the lean meat bursting between your teeth...

Even when she was in dire straits, her Dao heart remained unwavering, and a layer of mist suddenly welled up in her beautiful eyes.

Large tears slid down her mud-covered cheeks, leaving unsightly marks, but she, who cared about her appearance, was completely oblivious to them.

She felt dirty.

She ultimately succumbed to Su Yuan and willingly consumed the flesh and blood of the living beings.

She was no longer the pure and innocent Celestial Saintess.

"I only ate meat to survive, and I will never eat it again."

The girl secretly made up her mind.

Then they ate three large vats of food.

Three large vats were not Zhu Tianqing's limit, but the limit of the construction site canteen.

The girl, feeling a little hungry, walked back with Aunt Zhang.

But after walking for a short while, a dirty stray dog ​​by the roadside caught her attention.

It was a husky. Although it was covered in dirt, its neatly trimmed fur suggested that it had been a pet dog not long ago.

Perhaps because it had been wandering alone for many days, the husky's eyes lacked the wisdom typical of huskies, instead carrying a hint of ferocity.

Zhu Tianqing's heart softened immediately, and she said angrily:
"Who could be so heartless? If you're going to raise a spirit beast, at least raise it properly! Why did you have to abandon it?!"

Aunt Zhang said with a smile:
"Silly girl, dogs need to eat meat too."

"We can't even afford meat ourselves, how can we afford to keep pets?"

"Actually, the abandonment rate of spirit pets has been very high recently."

"At first, we could send them to the pet sales station of the Ten Thousand Beasts Demon Sect, but as more people abandoned their pets, the pet sales station stopped accepting these abandoned pets."

Zhu Tianqing fell silent again.

So after she promoted the idea of ​​equality between humans and demons, not only did ordinary people at the bottom suffer, but even spirit pets at the bottom had no way to survive?
What exactly did I promote?
Her beliefs were subtly changing.

Perhaps we don't need everyone to accept spirit pets; we can coexist peacefully with them.

Many people already have a hard time just surviving.

If you insist on making them raise spirit pets and raise them as family members, what's the difference between that and raising a living father?
"Perhaps the idea of ​​equality between transgender people should not be promoted to the lower class, but rather to the middle class and above."

Zhu Tianqing thought to herself.

But just then, the husky not far away let out a low growl!
The girl turned her head and saw a child who looked only seven or eight years old walking not far from the intersection.

The child and the husky met unexpectedly. Instead of being friendly, the husky's fierce eyes held a hint of greed.

It was as if they were staring at a defenseless prey.

Zhu Tianqing was stunned again.

It was the first time she had ever seen such a fierce look in a spirit beast's eyes. Those eyes were far more ruthless than those of killers and criminals in TV dramas, which sent chills down her spine.

While she was still in a daze, Aunt Zhang had already picked up a brick and smashed it over her shoulder.

But when the hard brick hit the dog's head, the husky didn't run away; instead, it barked even more fiercely.

It seems that it won't subside unless it gets a bite of meat.

Fortunately, at this time, a hunting team that was conducting intensive patrols in the city appeared.

A team member fell from the sky and pressed his knee directly onto the husky's neck, making it unable to breathe.

Then, the other team members quickly stepped forward, tied the husky up, and took it away.

Zhu Tianqing: "..."

"Aunt Zhang, why have the spirit beasts become so ferocious?!"

"Isn't this normal?"

Aunt Zhang casually replied, "Spirit beast is just a nice-sounding name; aren't they actually just demonic beasts?"

"These things will listen to you when they're full, but they'll definitely bite their master when they're hungry. Animals are animals. How can you expect them to be as rational as humans?"

Zhu Tianqing felt her throat was a little dry.

She swallowed hard and said carefully:
“I have raised several spirit animals. Although some of them are carnivores, they can also meet their nutritional needs by eating spirit fruits and spirit plants with extremely high nutritional value.”

"If everyone ate fruits and vegetables, wouldn't this kind of mutual killing not happen?"

Aunt Zhang gave Zhu Tianqing a strange look, then smiled and said:

"Then your pets must hate you."

"Hate me?"

Zhu Tianqing almost thought she had misheard.

Aunt Zhang shook her head and said no more.

But her words were deeply imprinted in Zhu Tianqing's heart, making it difficult for her to let go.

The next morning.

Zhu Tianqing received a new message from Song Shan in the workers' group chat she joined yesterday.

The renovation of the factory buildings at a pig farm in the suburbs is a major undertaking.

Even a laborer earns eighty yuan an hour.

Without a second thought, Zhu Tianqing and Aunt Zhang took on the job together.

She remembered that the address was Mr. Cai's breeding base, so she decided to check how he had renovated the factory and whether he was abusing the pigs.

Half an hour later, she and Aunt Zhang squeezed into the construction team's shuttle bus and arrived at the farm.

The work was simple: to renovate the original pig farm, making partitions, applying putty, tiling, installing drainage systems, and so on.

In just over half a day, Song Shan and his team of black laborers quickly completed the renovation of the factory.

Zhu Tianqing, who participated in the entire renovation process, was somewhat angry.

Because this renovation didn't bring about any substantial change at all!
Each pig-raising cubicle appears to have been partitioned and cleaned, but it is still only a mere fifteen square meters.

Even if each cubicle housed a pig, it would still fall far short of her expectations!

"Young lady, don't just stand there, another truckload of goods is coming."

A worker spoke to Zhu Tianqing, who was indignantly standing inside the factory.

"Come here."

The girl quickly agreed, suppressing her thoughts of running to question Boss Cai, and went to unload the goods.

But this shipment felt a bit strange to her; it was a pile of planks and iron frames.

She only recognized what it was after the goods were moved to the factory and the workers assembled the wooden planks and iron frames in the cubicles.

It turned out to be a metal frame bed with bunk beds.

Because it was so simple, the girl had no idea that it was a bed for people to live in.

She asked Aunt Zhang, somewhat puzzled:

"Aunt Zhang, does this Boss Cai want Tieshan Pig to live in a bunk bed?"

"The lower bunk is fine, but what about the upper bunk? The Iron Mountain Pig is so heavy, it probably won't even be able to get up there."

"Boss Cai is deliberately making things difficult for the Iron Mountain Pigs!"

Just as Aunt Zhang was about to speak, she saw a large number of workers carrying large and small bags pouring into the factory.

These workers were not from the construction team; they appeared to be original workers from the farm.

Under Zhu Tianqing's shocked gaze, the workers quickly took out bed sheets and quilts from their luggage, chose their own beds, and made them up.

At this point, Zhu Tianqing finally understood how terribly wrong she had been to say those words.

This isn't a place for the iron-fisted pigs; it's clearly for the workers.

Fifteen square meters, two people.

How is the treatment different from that of the pigs in Tieshan back then?
At this moment, Boss Cai walked into the factory and said to the workers with an apologetic expression:

“Our factory didn’t originally provide accommodation. Lao Cai was thinking of building an employee dormitory to reduce everyone’s housing expenses in the big city.”

"Unexpectedly, problems arose at the staff dormitory, and even the farm is on the verge of closing down."

“I can’t afford to pay wages, but I can’t let you sleep on the streets. I can only renovate the original factory building first.”

"If you really have nowhere to go, feel free to stay in the factory building, it's free."

Upon hearing Boss Cai's words, all the workers cheered, showing no sign of disapproval of the pig smell in the factory.

Zhu Tianqing panicked and asked in a flustered manner:

"No, why are the workers living in places like this? Aren't there already completed staff dormitories?"

Upon hearing this, Boss Cai looked at Zhu Tianqing and spread his hands helplessly, saying:
"There's no other way. Because of the requirements of that Holy Maiden, we must provide a good living environment for the Iron Mountain Pig as soon as possible."

"So I followed Ambassador Su's instructions at the time and placed all the Tieshan pigs into the staff hosts."

Zhu Tianqing was stunned, and blurted out instinctively:

"Why?!"

"The workers have worked so hard for so long, and they can't even get a bite of meat, yet they have to live in a place where a bunch of animals have lived?"

"Why should those pigs live in the staff dormitory? Why can't we change it? Why can't the people at the bottom of society live a better life?"

Boss Cai gave Zhu Tianqing a deep look and said:

"Yes, but what makes them so special?"

"Young lady, if you also have questions about this, why don't you go and ask that Holy Maiden?"

(End of this chapter)