Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

In terms of design, they resemble Rubik's Cubes floating in water, and the shelves will even have RGB lights for the merchandise.

As for whether or not human brains are used, that's absolutely impossible, because human brains, given the same volume, are not as powerful as pig brains in terms of calculation ability, and they also have a lot of other problems. So, pig brains are used as the raw material.

After all, most of the computational work of the human brain is done in parts that are not needed by computers, which also generate a lot of heat and consume a lot of energy.

Therefore, the Covenant has no law prohibiting brain implantation, because doing so would have no purpose other than satisfying perverse desires—although there is no law prohibiting brain implantation, murder and cloning are still illegal.

Chapter Thirty-One: Tomorrow's Plan to Persecute the Little Donkey

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In the snowfield, at the marshalling yard, rows of newly maintained Originium vehicles were parked in the open space. About 70% of these were ordered from Victoria by Lao Xia and then delivered by Amiya Logistics. The remaining 30% were assembled from parts ordered by Lao Xia and semi-manually produced by the workshops in the snowfield.

Some of Terra's local production equipment has also been installed in the workshop. After all, the land area in the snowfield is much larger, and with regular spraying of settling aerosols, the chances of natural disasters are greatly reduced. Therefore, there is a very large area available for installing large equipment.

The only problem is that the local workers are of low quality, which is quite different from the situation in Longmen where skilled workers make up the majority.

Therefore, to turn this place into a high-tech production center, it is necessary to gradually move some of the infected people from Ursus to Lungmen, and then move high-tech talents from other places to Ursus.

Such a large-scale population movement is obviously difficult to achieve through current channels. Moreover, in theory, those areas are war zones and harsh, cold lands. Without changing this perception, it is impossible to attract many people to go there.

Apart from people like Xiao Yang who go there purely for volcanic research, very few highly skilled individuals are willing to go. Even if they are, they are probably like Master Ke, who has a bunch of wanted posters and has to go to avoid trouble.

"The transportation mission is over, everyone can rest now." After the last vehicle entered the garage, it marked the end of the emergency transportation for the busy farming season, and the current surplus produce had basically been transported out.

Although nearly half of them were extorted by nobles and warlords along the way, half of them still managed to enter Victoria for sale.

Moreover, as the warlords along the border increasingly derive most of their profits from this route, they have become more attentive to maintaining it.

Of course, there were also some naive guys who tried to monopolize the entire line and monopolize the profits, but they were brought back to their senses by other competitors.

With Amiya Logistics adding prototype Titan escorts to the northern Ursus route, this idiot quickly disappeared.

In the southern section, however, lies General Helag's territory. They charge low fees, have a good attitude, are powerful in combat, and are united—after all, they are destitute and rely on this thing to make a living.

"Wait a minute, guards, don't leave. There's a new job."

"What!?" The crew members who had just emerged from the Titan looked at each other in disbelief. The Titan tank crew consisted of 15 people, including two drivers, four loaders, and one gunner and one assistant gunner responsible for firing and checking, and the other responsible for aiming.

In addition to a logistics support team of three trained shield guards, the large crew consisted of four combat warlocks responsible for protecting the vehicle and the operator of the molten cannon.

If the vehicle is destroyed, the crew can instantly transform into a standard Shield Guard assault team.

The wide vehicle body allowed them to hang their shields on the outside, which not only increased their defense but also made it easier to quickly form a combat formation when disembarking. The vehicle was also equipped with a considerable number of individual weapons. According to Terra's habit of using cold weapons in combat, destroying the Titan vehicle would not bring victory in the battle, but would immediately lead to an assault team of four Flash Shields and two Melt Gun squads disembarking from the vehicle.

"General Helag says the Emperor has sent a special envoy." "The Emperor?" The Shield Guards and Reunion agents exchanged glances. For the Ursus people, the name of the Emperor still held a certain prestige, after all, he had ordered the closure of the mines on the snowfield.

Moreover, for the Ursus infected, whose thinking is still relatively simple or backward, the fact that the emperor is willing to send a special envoy means that the other party recognizes his power and is willing to listen to their wishes. Perhaps the emperor's special envoy can convey the infected's demands to the emperor, thereby promoting the empire's decrees to improve the situation of all infected.

However, Talulah, who has gradually come to realize the cold reality beyond her idealism, does not think the matter is so simple.

If we're talking about managing a farm, she's just the tallest among the short. If we're talking about managing a movement, Big Daddy is more suitable than her, but Big Daddy isn't suited to be a leader.

However, when it comes to dealing with the nobles of Ursus and the ministers sent by the emperor, and probing their intentions and intentions, you won't find anyone more suitable than Talulah in the entire snowfield.

"Deploy the Titan team, and the Yeti team as well. Don't give them any excuse to underestimate us."

Talulah frowned slightly. She and Old Xia had discussed it that day, and it was inevitable that the farm and the Xia Group would come into the view of the upper echelons of Ursus.

It's simply a matter of forcefully annihilating them or compromising and cooperating. Regardless of the approach, the other side will either openly or covertly probe their strengths and weaknesses.

"A nation is not a village or a small business; it is not an individual. Within a nation, any issue can be divided into a maximum of five factions," Lao Xia once said.

A vested interest group consists of staunch supporters. Anyone who opposes something and affects their interests is considered an enemy. Their personal attitudes and thoughts are irrelevant; as long as the benefits they gain from it outweigh those offered by the other party, they are considered staunch allies.

The most typical examples are the warlords and junior officers who have accepted benefits from Amiya Logistics. If the emperor wants to completely block this route, they will definitely be the biggest voice of resistance, but their power is not enough to change everything.

One is the ordinary supporters, who don't have much vested interest but support the cause for their own future gains or simply because of shared values. This group needs to maintain and prevent the enemy from winning over the country as much as possible, and Hrag is one such group.

One faction is the neutral faction, which takes a wait-and-see attitude and tries to win them over as much as possible. For example, the previous emperor and the imperial government belonged to this faction. They did not know or had only heard about what was happening on the snowfield and were not prepared to deal with it in any way.

The remaining two factions are irreconcilable and can only talk with bayonets and bullets, such as those who take pleasure in exploiting the infected, and the noble class who plunder, exploit, and profit from the infected and the mines.

Another group consists of those who, although they are adversaries, are still potential allies, even if they oppose you due to differing ideologies, values, or shared interests.

However, since it is not a matter of fundamental interest, it is possible to change them as much as possible through reconciliation and negotiation, turning them into a faction that at least tends towards neutrality.

After being taught by Old Xia and analyzing her own aristocratic education, Talulah was horrified to discover that the Black Serpent and Koschei were not the kind of factions that were completely irreconcilable. What they wanted was war and the resources to feed the people of Ursus, whether it was obtained through plunder or by reducing the number of people they needed to support.

He was simply implementing the survival rules of the "Land of Suffering," in other words, showing Ursus that it was not a harsh land of suffering, but a land of hope that could indeed be built into a great nation that did not require the sacrifice of anyone.

Or should we submit to him, turn the infected into an invincible army on the snowfield, destroy the surrounding countries, and provoke war—the Black Serpent will become an ally of the Reunion Movement overnight.

Although this is difficult, it is certainly not an irreconcilable conflict. On the contrary, those nobles under his command and his allies, whom he originally thought could be won over, are the ones who must be eliminated.

They have already profited enough from the blood of the infected, and their families have become wealthy from it. This is their fundamental interest, irreconcilable, and can only be eliminated physically, just like a beast stained with human blood can only be put to death.

Even though they are currently receiving dirty money from Amiya Logistics and poaching Black Snake's employees, they seem to be friends that can be won over.

However, in reality, the contradictions are completely irreconcilable, unless the Reunion Movement wants to gain privileges as "special infected persons".

Instead of liberating all the infected, let alone all the oppressed.

According to Lao Xia, if she chooses the last option and liberates all the oppressed, then at least half of Terra will be her enemy, and her only friends will be a group of short-sighted and irrational lower-class people.

Not to mention the external pressure she would face would be many times greater than it is now, even if she managed to win by relying on Lao Xia's technical skills, what would happen then?

In the ruins ravaged by war, a group of illiterate people lacking production skills and management abilities and education will only meet the same fate as uprisings throughout history—a new aristocracy and a new oppressor, the dragon slayer becoming the new dragon.

Without a sufficient number of core members at the grassroots level who have received advanced ideological education, and without a sufficient workforce with production skills, this path is a true dead end and a detour. The path of the Celestial Empire on Earth is not one that anyone or anything can take, nor is it one that can be successfully traversed every time. Even if you let the Celestial Empire try again, there are too many uncontrollable factors involved, and it is not certain that it can achieve a second victory.

"So, is turning them into humans the only thing we can do now?" Talulah poked her head out of the chariot. The flowers of Ursus were in full bloom in the height of summer, making it hard to believe it was a harsh, cold land.

However, this sweet summer lasts only two months before the even shorter autumn begins, followed by a long winter.

"Turning the infected from non-human to slaves is the first step. Then you can skip this step as quickly as possible and turn them from slaves back into humans, but that's all it is, just turning them back into humans."

Old Xia said, "You become like ordinary farmers and city dwellers, exploited, at the lowest level, but at least you are treated as a tool of people. That's the limit of what you can do."

"Don't think too much, Talulah!" The silver-haired dragon girl patted her face. This was already a very difficult thing that required everyone's efforts to achieve. It was impossible to reach the sky in one step. The reason why the infected and most of the lower-class serfs of Ursus could not realize their ideals was because they were not even considered human beings at the moment.

We must first turn them into humans, because only humans can think and learn. A group of wild beasts driven by survival only have how to survive the next winter night in their minds. Wild beasts cannot establish a society!

Compared to Talulah's dilemma, Witt, sitting in the military escort vehicle, seemed a little more relaxed. The scenery on both sides was typical of Ursus' summer landscape, with lush green forests passing by the roadside, and occasionally farmers from small villages under General Hrag's protection could be seen tending to moss in their fields.

Taimai needs to be harvested in the fall, and it only ripens once a year. This is completely different from the super wheat that Lao Xia grows, which doesn't care about climate or weather. As long as water, fertilizer, and soil are guaranteed and there is no extreme weather, it can achieve seven harvests in two years (with a break in between for fertilization and land preparation).

Although the latter's instructions state that it is "industrial wheat" which is not recommended for human consumption, it is only not recommended and is not actually toxic. It may taste a bit unpleasant, but is refined starch something that everyone can afford to eat?

“You have to work all year round, covered in dust and sweating profusely, just to make a living…” Witt said in a low voice. The farmers’ faces were deeply lined, and their pale complexions showed that years of malnutrition and high-intensity labor had severely depleted their health.

Even so, after deducting the taxes levied by the imperial tax collectors and the extortion by various bureaucrats, the remaining tama was barely enough to make ends meet, no, perhaps not even enough to make ends meet.

They still had to rely on acorns, wild apples, berries and grass seeds to barely feed the laborers, while the women and children went hungry. This was a good thing only in General Helag's territory.

After all, some Ursus nobles don't even allow farmers to enter the forest to harvest, because the forest is also their private property.

"The Xia Group's farm is just ahead, but over there..." You can see the defensive facilities left by the previous imperial blockade policy and traces of small mobile towns that had been docked there.

However, no soldiers were seen in the area that was theoretically supposed to be a blockade line; there was only a small outpost, or rather, a stack area attached to the outpost.

"Brother, here to pick up cargo again? We haven't delivered any from the north, but we have some new stuff coming over..." the sentry greeted him warmly. This was a comfortable and lucrative job; all he had to do was keep an eye on the cargo boxes to prevent them from being taken away by bandits and wild animals, and he could even grab a few bottles of good wine or canned goods to treat himself.

Moreover, the transport teams that come to pick up goods from Hrag usually give them some benefits, so the other party was very enthusiastic, "Did you get the dates wrong?"

"We're escorting a high-ranking official to the north." "Not from Amiya Logistics?" The sentry peeked out; normally, he would have stopped them if they weren't from Amiya Logistics.

But considering how long the two sides have been cooperating, there shouldn't be any problems, and that car doesn't look like something an ordinary person could ride in.

"Raise the roadblocks and let them through!" The convoy roared past. "Is this what you call a blockade?" Witt asked with a half-smile. "I have never agreed to the Duke's strategy. Besides, the people carrying out the blockade are not my men," Herag said expressionlessly.

"That's true." The expenses for the blockade line come from the Imperial Treasury. Is there anything about this shady dealings that he, as the Minister of Finance, doesn't know?

"Hmm, they're coming, follow them..." The Herag men automatically stopped and made way, leaving only two Ursus armored vehicles to follow, while the rest of the vehicles turned back. "What's going on?" Witt asked, puzzled as to why the guards had all left.

"Next is their territory. Look, their escort team is here."

"Rumble—" The wide tracks left deep marks on the soil. After a very cumbersome and difficult turn, two Titans sandwiched the convoy in the middle, with Yetis assault vehicles on both sides. The Yetis, wearing full protective suits and exoskeletons, took off their hoods and waved to Hrag.

What do they mean by this?

“Let’s follow them; they’ll be responsible for our safety.”

“It is indeed very…safe.” Witt looked at the thing on the Titan that was comparable to a city defense artillery corps with a strange expression. What does a 12-meter gun rail mean? It’s about the level of a twin 203mm naval gun.

[203mm/L55 specification, roughly this size including the breech...]

As for the thermoelectric secondary cannons and anti-infantry machine guns, he didn't quite understand them, but he could tell they were some kind of fast-firing weapons.

"Duke Kosiché is truly remarkable." How did he manage to contain a force with such armored capabilities in the Northern Plains?

Although the Ursus Fourth and Fifth Armies were not weak, they were scattered across a wide defensive line, and a single combat formation of these armored units could blast through any defensive position except for a mobile fortress within 5 minutes.

"He certainly has a skill, but that skill hasn't been displayed on the front lines, and..."

Herag didn't like to speak ill of others. He didn't know what Mr. Witt had seen in the military report. It wasn't that the Black Serpent had cornered them in the North Plain; rather, they had cornered the Black Serpent in the North Plain.

The reason the blockade line still exists is simply because the other side doesn't want to escalate the situation and hasn't continued its attack.

Otherwise, the Patriots' Shield Guards, equipped with the Meltdown Assault Vehicle and the new "Tarz High Explosive Incendiary Bomb," could easily tear through half of the defense line and launch a very enjoyable decapitation strike.

"By the way, who is that? I mean the one leading the vehicle?"

“Talulah, Kosich's adopted daughter, but her presence here means she has already betrayed her adoptive father.”

“I see—” Witt fell into deep thought. Perhaps this was a breakthrough that could be used.

Chapter Thirty-Two: It's not a donkey!

Chapter 32

The current existence of the blockade line is an unmanageable situation for the Black Serpent. The blockade line can prevent the flow of northern resources into the south and prevent southern resources from entering the north, thereby gradually suffocating and eliminating the strength of the infected resistance. This is the ideal situation.

In reality, while ordinary people and small business owners were blocked, large business owners were able to freely enter and exit the blockade, and it wasn't just Amiya Logistics personnel who were affected.

Because of the volcano, Xiao Yang spent several months designing a volcanic Originium diffusion barrier based on Lao Xia's Originium settling system. She had actually started researching this kind of thing a long time ago, and even her parents and grandparents had started researching it.

Almost half of the Originium particles on Terra's surface and in the atmosphere come from volcanic eruptions. Combined with the amount ejected by human industry, the atmospheric Originium content is getting higher and higher, which means that natural disasters are becoming more frequent, and the proportion and probability of infection with Oripathy will also increase.

For most nobles and those in power, this was not a matter to consider, because the units of "quickly" and "frequently" in geology usually refer to centuries, or at least decades.

Those in power may not need to consider this, but scholars are deeply worried. Charts and distribution maps have clearly illustrated the consequences if this phenomenon continues.

However, once it was discovered that their research could not turn the waste gas and Originium waste energy emitted by the factory back into pure Originium, no one invested in this research anymore.