Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"Don't worry, you won't die from the fall."

"Help! Murder... Waaah—" With a large rag stuffed in their mouths, the Yeti team, dressed in exoskeletons, carried them to the edge of the mobile city's deck like they were chicks. "Have a safe trip."

Let go, free fall. With the physical constitution of Terrans, they won't die from falling from this height. After all, the guy who was thrown off the deck of Rhodes Island only spent half a month in Kal'tsit's medical room.

"You dare to trespass on Sanlian Pharmaceutical's territory? Don't you even know whose old town this is?"

There will certainly be lengthy reports about the Yeti security personnel's brutal actions. However, it's hard to say whether their editors will dare to publish them.

After all, offending Lao Xia is different from offending Swire. Although the latter is the eldest daughter of the Swire Group, she is just the eldest daughter; her father is the head of the group.

Moreover, even her father doesn't have absolute power; he also needs to consider his relationship with Longmen, the board of directors, and so on. But Lao Xia's group is his sole proprietorship.

This is like this: if you go against a rich second-generation, you might not necessarily get into trouble because his father might not stand up for him, but if you go against a rich first-generation, you'll definitely get into trouble because he doesn't need anyone else to stand up for him; he can cause trouble on his own.

"By the way, Lao Xia, you're also in the pharmaceutical business. Do you have any products that can compete with Rhine Life? If so, I'll invest and take down those bastards."

Rhine Life Sciences is a pure pharmaceutical company, and pharmaceutical companies require large quantities of basic culture medium raw materials such as starch and sugar. In addition, they also require various chemical reagents.

In a sense, Lao Xia is its standard upstream enterprise. Once Lao Xia's industry expands and monopolizes the entire upstream, it would be easy to cut off the lifeline of a downstream manufacturer. But there is no need for that.

"However, I suggest you stop here. You are investigating their human trafficking and illegal trade, and you do not have law enforcement authority in Colombia."

After this commotion, Rhine Lab will give up on obtaining population from Lungmen, especially since Lao Xia himself is recruiting infected people and various laborers with high salaries.

With costs skyrocketing, they might prefer to hire mercenaries to kidnap their own Colombians. Don't overestimate the integrity and moral standards of these mega-corporations.

"By the way, I might need to go back to Ursus soon..." Old Xia said casually, "There's some troublesome technical work to do."

"I understand, go ahead. Wait, why are you telling me this?" The little tiger waved his hand habitually, then suddenly realized a second later that there was something wrong with the scene and atmosphere of this conversation.

"I'm just letting you know in advance, so you don't think they've run away with the money..."

This is another reason why Lao Xia couldn't leave Longmen before. With such a large sum of money in his hands, if he were mistaken for someone who had absconded with the money, things would get really messy.

"I see. You really should be careful." The little tiger nodded. This was indeed something to be careful about. Terra didn't have UnionPay, and it would be really hard to find someone who had run away with the money. The grassroots governance was basically zero. By the time you found that the stolen Lungmen Dollars were circulating in the market, the other party had already laundered the money clean.

A month later, at the Snowfield Farm, the volcano was still erupting, but the eruption had subsided considerably. The farm was carrying out its second round of wheat and soybean planting. The first batch of soybeans had already been harvested, and the golden beans were piled up like mountains in the drying yard. This batch of soybeans would be sent to be pressed for oil and made into soy protein bars.

In addition to these two staple crops, the infected people cleared out a new area to grow peanuts. According to the agreement between Lao Xia and Talulah, they only needed to use a portion of the crop yield from this land they cleared to pay for Lao Xia's equipment and seeds.

Unlike the land that Lao Xia cultivated himself, the infected people in these places are "employees." Simply put, they are not responsible for anything, from tools to seeds. They only need to bring their hands to work and receive payment according to the amount of labor they do. Whether the land produces a lot or a little has nothing to do with them and does not affect their wages.

However, these self-cultivated lands require them to bear their own profits and losses, so each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

After all, the former completely consumed Lao Xia's resources, while they only contributed physical labor, and strictly speaking, the amount of physical labor was not much.

In a sense, if this were not a poverty alleviation approach, Lao Xia could theoretically dismiss 90% of the farm's current employees, since that's all the work they'd be doing.

So now they are doing the work of one person, and receiving the wages of ten people, which is almost equivalent to poverty alleviation and work relief.

"This land needs to be re-laid after this crop is planted. Also, your water and fertilizer adjustments are not good. There's too much urea and nitrogen fertilizer, and too little phosphorus fertilizer. Next time, switch to other crops to allow the land to recover. There's no rush." ​​After returning, Lao Xia immediately checked the condition of the land and the crops.

"In addition, the coffee plants in the greenhouse will be ready for transplanting in the next round, and I can also start saving seeds for my tropical fruits." These things will be taken to Kazdel for cultivation later.

The land there is completely unsuitable for growing grains; it's only suitable for growing valuable cash crops. That's why Lao Xia said many locals are starving to death—the land has been taken over.

The crops being grown are economically viable, not staple foods. This would be fine if Kazdel were a stable regime in a peaceful state.

Because people rarely starve in areas where cash crops are grown, locals can barter for enough food, including sugar, fruit, and coffee, and may even live better than ordinary farmers. [Compared to sugarcane farmers in Hainan during the Ming and Qing dynasties, their situation was somewhat better.]

However, this would still cause prices to soar, especially food prices. But Kazdel was still in the midst of a civil war, during which cash crops were being cultivated on a large scale. There was no doubt that the local nobles would not hesitate to destroy those food crops.

They didn't care about the lives of the common people. They needed money, lots of money, to buy weapons, hire soldiers, and participate in the great battle for the throne and power. As long as they could ascend that glittering throne, they didn't care how many people died, or whether they died in the fields or on the battlefield.

There is nothing more terrifying than the combination of industrial sheep devouring people and annexation and the struggle for hegemony among feudal lords.

However, there are advantages to a high death rate: the small-scale peasant economy of Kazdel will quickly collapse, and with the collapse of the small-scale peasant economy, any feudal rule built upon it will crumble.

The crown and the throne will roll to the ground together, just like in World War I. On the bright side, it means that the millennia of oppression and suffering in Kazdel will finally come to an end. If they are lucky, they will soon enter a new economic boom due to cash crops and the end of the civil war. As farms are established in places like Kazimir, food trade will become easier.

On the other hand, the worst-case scenario is that all traditions, everything built upon ancient clans, bloodlines, and nobility, will vanish, be crushed into dust, and transformed into something new.

During this period, what was once noble will become base, and what was once beautiful will become ugly. They will all be knocked to the ground and trampled into the mud. For some people, this is nothing short of a terrible scene where black and white are reversed and right and wrong are indistinguishable.

The first to perish were the plantation owners, because industrialized farming meant they either had to join in or be crushed. The second to perish were the nobility, whose resources and subjects would soon be exhausted in the increasingly fierce and brutal war. When people realized that the lord's crown required their own bones to achieve glory...

The last to perish were the "intellectuals" of Kazdel, because they could no longer monopolize knowledge, and their past knowledge, including heraldry, was useless in the new era. Farms needed farmers familiar with the land, workshops needed well-trained and strong workers, and even technical positions needed craftsmen familiar with spinning machines and distillation boilers, not these scholars.

As for Old Xia behind all this, he didn't care at all. He didn't care about management because these guys' knowledge was too outdated. In terms of production, he preferred a blank slate or someone with craftsmanship and experience. He didn't intend to become the king of Kazdel, nor did he need these people to sing his praises.

In conclusion, the Xia Group's reputation in Kazdel may be worse than that of the demons in the future, especially among the younger generation, particularly those born without experiencing the rule of noble lords. Of course, this is assuming that interstellar aid has not yet arrived by then.

If they come, then these old-timers and their descendants will fall into the 5% of the population that can be sacrificed. Well, it wouldn't be a problem if they exceeded that slightly.

Chapter 42 The Kid in Charge

-------------Chapter Dividing Line---------------

About a week after Lao Xia left, at the security department of Sanlian Pharmaceutical, Lao Chen stood in the middle of the security team, gently pressing his hand on the scabbard of Chixiao's sword. "Let her deal with the mess she made."

"Ah, where did Officer Swire go? What does that have to do with me? I'm not her henchman."

Yelena sat cross-legged on the large chair in the security department, her white boots resting on the table. She shook them at Old Chen. "Besides, aren't you from the Guard Bureau? Why are you asking where someone is in the security department of our pharmaceutical company? We can't possibly let her into the lab, can we?"

“I believe you don’t have the guts to put the Swire family’s only daughter in.”

"Tch—" The white rabbit shook its head impatiently. "Our decision not to let her in has nothing to do with her family; it's solely because of our relationship with Old Xia. However, then again, that's not necessarily true, after all..."

After all, the Leaf Cooling System is about to go into mass production. If Tiger's Originium Arts weren't practically nonexistent, it's hard to say whether some other wet parts might have appeared, like a real Tiger tank or something.

"Uh..." Old Chen took a deep breath. "I believe Boss Xia. He made a fortune in Longmen. He wouldn't want to completely destroy the order of Longmen. Do you know what that Char Siu Cat did?"

"She bought six law firms and then reassigned all of Rhine Life's defense lawyers to clean toilets. She also assigned them the original toilet cleaners. This made Rhine Life feel extremely humiliated, and they walked out of court. You know, this made things very difficult for Lungmen."

Old Chen paused, about to say something, when he saw White Rabbit snap his fingers. A document was handed to Old Chen. "Take a look."

This contains information obtained from Rhodes Island's raid on Loken, as well as approximate data on Rhine's smuggling of people from Lungmen, compiled by the Three Alliances and Little Tiger. "Look at this, imagine if you were one of them, would you consider Lungmen's commercial reputation and the merchants' protests?" As a girl who survived by drawing lots at the mine, Yelena hated this kind of thing the most.

"However, her actions disrupted the order of Lungmen and the order of the judiciary. If money can buy someone else's lawyer's breach of contract to obtain a favorable judgment, then what fairness is left in the law?"

"So, what are you planning to do? I mean, these guys?" Yelena tapped the table noncommittally.

"Call that 'barbecued cat' out and make her stop doing this, and then I'll handle this the way I want, instead of this brutal method."

Old Chen sighed and said, "I promise I'll make those guys pay."

"Then why didn't you come to Lao Xia from the beginning, or use your own methods to deal with those guys from the start?"

"Boss Xia? No, he won't hand them over. He'll only solve the problem using methods we both know..."

"Yes, deal with the person who caused the problem," White Rabbit nodded, pushing up her brown sunglasses. "I know you don't trust us. You're a police officer in Lungmen, you're doing a great job, and you have Lao Wei protecting you. You don't need to make friends with people like us, or potential criminals."

But now you come to our turf and tell me to hand over our people to you to stop something you should have done but didn't.”

“You have no respect or trust for us, yet you ask us to help you. That’s not fair.”

"What I want now is justice. What do you want in order to hand over the person?"

"Inspector Chen, what did I do to make you disrespect me like this? You haven't even called me Miss Yelena yet, and it's all just you calling me 'you' the whole time. You came to me for help but you don't even want to give me any respect. Why should I help you?"

“That’s enough of the conversation.” Yelena jumped off the chair and waved her hand. “Find someone to tell that big cat that a giant snake is bothering her and that she should stay away. By the way, send Vasily; he’s better at running errands.”

"You'll regret doing this..."

"No, Old Xia taught me that if nothing unexpected happens, you came here today without telling your Commander Wei. If you're planning to do anything to us, your suspension order will come down immediately. Believe me, it will be much faster than your search warrant."

Yelena curled her lip. "You don't dare go to Rhine Labs, you don't dare bring their true core to court and throw them in jail. Do you think we're any worse than them? Rhine Labs isn't Raytheon Industries, and we..."

Yelena didn't finish her sentence, but anyone who had seen what kind of escort Amiya Logistics used knew what she meant.

“We respect the order of Lungmen, but that doesn’t mean we can tolerate Lungmen’s insults. Your Commander Wei knows this better than you do. That’s why he doesn’t ask us where that big cat is, and he doesn’t even interfere with the big cat’s behavior.”

After all, a conflict between Swire Group and Rhine Life would only benefit Lungmen, and wouldn't even affect Lungmen's drug supply. That's how businessmen are; they might fight each other to the death, but they also appreciate each other because of shared interests.

"I said, it's about time to see the guests off. This is the security department, not a bus stop. Do you think just anyone can walk in here?"

Clearly, Old Chen was kicked out; Sanlian didn't agree to her demands. However, she wouldn't understand the meaning of giving up.

"What did Rhine Life say?"

"They're ready to sue for peace. It won't cost them anything. They have plenty of experimental subjects. If they can't get them from Lungmen, they'll get them from somewhere else. The bureaucrats and nobles anywhere else are no better, or even worse. In comparison, the losses from fighting against both us and the Primordial Era at the same time are far too great."

At least that's the signal Rhine Lab is sending right now: hand over a few scapegoats, turn the page on this, and continue doing business.

As for human trials, they can be conducted elsewhere; there's no need to specifically target people from Longmen.

"So, you really threw those top lawyers into cleaning toilets?" the white rabbit asked curiously. "Didn't they resign?"

“So, I hired your Yeti Security to guard the outside…” Swire stirred her coffee. “How could they dare?”

Although Little Tiger used the excuse of increasing the firm's security level to hire people, everyone knows that those lawyers are all shrewd and wouldn't risk their lives by resigning only to be kidnapped by a Yeti the moment they step out the door.

The example of the deputy director of Rhine Life last time is still fresh in our minds. Although there was no evidence to prove that they did it, people in this line of work don't need evidence. If they had that suspicion, they wouldn't have taken the risk themselves.

"You really intend for us to take action?"

"No, I am a police officer myself, and I would never allow you to do such a thing..." the little tiger said righteously. "I really just asked people to strengthen security. The misunderstanding is their misunderstanding. Even if they really choose to resign, I will only give them an exorbitant breach of contract compensation bill."

"Besides, when did you pick up Boss Xia's bad habits?" The little tiger's eyes sharpened, and his gaze moved to Yelena's legs, where she was happily rubbing her tail. If the father and daughter continued to stroke her like this, she would lose her fur sooner or later.

"Sorry, but honestly, it feels really good. What do you use to maintain it?"

"This..." Swire scratched her face, and the two girls quickly shifted their conversation from serious matters to various cosmetics, skincare products, and hair care products.

The characteristics of a rabbit's tail, in particular, require careful maintenance to prevent it from becoming smelly and tangled.

The snowfield, the container landing site. Cutting the container took quite a while. The standard interstellar structural materials are mainly lightweight composite materials and ablation materials. The biggest problem with the spaceship is its own dead weight.

Therefore, armor resistance is impossible for starships. Even covering key areas with a 5-centimeter-thick layer of armor material would increase the ship's dead weight percentage by at least 5%.

This means that with increased inertia, acceleration, deceleration, and changes in course become less efficient under constant thrust. Without inexpensive jump technology, even the ability to reach the desired location is questionable.

Therefore, if a spacecraft does not have a shield system, it generally adopts two methods: one is shield technology, which uses an electromagnet to induce debris within a certain range to collide with a specific target; the other is active defense mode.

To achieve the thickness and strength of armor that can practically withstand bombardment from space-class weapons, this ship is essentially a typical "cannot fly" type.

Conversely, orbital defense facilities can be heavily armored, especially the counterweight defense stations at the end of the orbital port, which are incredibly tough.

Even so, it took a lot of time to cut the container's outer shell. After all, just because it doesn't have armor plating doesn't mean that the strength of its outer shell material is low. It took an entire afternoon to cut open the container's outer shell with a handheld tower cutter. As for the alarm equipment, nobody cared at all.

"Johnny, I have good news and bad news for you. Which do you want to hear?" Old Xia said, looking at the contents of the box. "Tell me the good news first." The other party clearly needed some good news to lift his spirits.

"Oh, so theoretically, you don't have to die. I mean, you can live a relatively... easy life."

"Oh, and what's the bad news?"