Chapter 178
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Little He came over to look at the red-haired youth, “Are you interested in this pet? This pet was just sent here this morning. It’s not very well-tempered, not very smart, and has some defects in appearance. Look, its fur is still red. Pets with dyed fur like this are often damaged, and they don’t feel very good to the touch. Even if it’s trained well, it may not be sellable.”
The red-haired youth cried loudly, gripping Lou Yan’s clothes tightly, his eyes full of supplication.
Please save me!!!
Lou Yan asked calmly, “How was he sent here?”
“He sneaked into a household disguised as a person, but was discovered because he didn’t follow the rules,” Little He grinned, “There are too many pets like him. Even if they accidentally sneak in among us, they’re easily found out. Oh, the smell here is really bad. Let me take you to see the rest?”
So in this world, not following the “rules” leads to these kinds of consequences.
Lou Yan glanced at the red-haired youth. “Mmm, let’s go.”
Despair filled the red-haired youth’s eyes as Lou Yan grabbed his wrist, removing the dirty hand from his clothes without leaving a trace, and discreetly placed something in the palm of the red-haired youth’s hand.
The red-haired youth, already with dim eyes, suddenly looked up at Lou Yan.
Lou Yan didn’t look at him, instead wiping the dirt off his hands with a piece of paper he took out of his pocket. His hands were long, white, with rounded fingertips and neatly trimmed nails, undoubtedly the hands of someone well cared for. The areas wiped with the tissue turned slightly red. Little He secretly looked at Lou Yan’s hands, feeling regretful. If this stowaway could become a pet, he would definitely be the highest quality and most expensive pet.
“What are you looking at?”
Little He snapped back to reality, meeting Lou Yan’s icy gaze.
Little He trembled and quickly said, “Nothing, nothing at all. If you like pets, I’ll take you to see even nicer ones.”
Lou Yan grabbed Little He and turned to leave, his fingers inadvertently touching the latch on the iron gate.
They quickly disappeared from the entrance of the workshop. Red Hair stared blankly, then slowly opened his hand.
In the palm of his hand was a sharp white bone spike that could cut through chains.
…
Afterward, Little He led Lou Yan to look through each workshop one by one. Lou Yan didn’t enter the workshops but only glanced through the windows.
The appearance of these workshops was more or less the same. As the “pets” became of higher quality, the environment for raising them also improved, and the humans living among them became more obedient and beautiful. After looking through four or five workshops in a row, Lou Yan felt increasingly pressed for time.
How long could the iron gate hold back the disciplinary committee members? If they continued to search through each workshop like this, it wouldn’t be long before that group of immortal perverts caught up to them.
Lou Yan tightened his grip on Little He’s collar and forcefully pushed him against the wall. He approached Little He with a grim expression. “Are you intentionally trying to delay time?”
Little He’s eyes wandered, not daring to meet Lou Yan’s gaze directly. “No, why would I delay time? You came to the pet processing factory to see these workshops, right?”
Lou Yan didn’t bother with useless words. He directly swung a fist at Little He’s head, smashing it against the wall. Cracks spread rapidly from his fist.
Little He broke out in a cold sweat, instantly affected by the righteous aura emanating from Lou Yan. “Please give instructions, tell me where you want to go, and I’ll take you!”
“Take me to see the best and most unique things here,” Lou Yan couldn’t specify what exactly, so he emphasized vaguely, “I want to see the most important things here, understood?”
Little He’s expression became contemplative. After a moment, he said with a slight change in demeanor, “I know what you want to see now. Please follow me.”
Following Little He to the end of the road, they faced a wall. Little He felt around the wall until suddenly, a square-shaped hidden door appeared with a rumble.
“The real treasures of the pet processing factory are all downstairs,” Little He turned to Lou Yan with profound meaning.
Lou Yan expressionlessly kicked him in the back, sending Little He tumbling down.
With a series of thuds and groans, Lou Yan heard Little He was still alive. He then walked into the room and descended the stairs to the basement.
The basement was spacious, brightly lit, filled with a strong smell of disinfectant, and various expensive and cold laboratory equipment were neatly arranged, giving it the atmosphere of an illegal research facility from a movie. What was more striking were the twenty or so cylindrical containers filled with green liquid. Inside these containers were creatures with peculiar appearances, connected to breathing machines, eyes closed.
These creatures generally had humanoid shapes but possessed features of other animals such as chicken beaks, cow noses, pig ears… The only one with a normal, even somewhat beautiful human face had a snake’s body below the neck.
The commotion caused by Little He and Lou Yan’s arrival startled the busy researchers in the lab. They looked at Lou Yan in confusion. “Who are you?” “How did you fall down here?” “This person actually came down without wearing protective gear! Quickly, call someone to take him out!”
Little He, with a broken arm, struggled to stand up from the ground and looked at Lou Yan maliciously, saying, “Quick, capture this person! He’s a trespasser who sneaked into our factory!”
“What?!”
The researchers were both shocked and angry. They all dropped what they were doing and approached Lou Yan.
Lou Yan didn’t even look at them. In the blink of an eye, he reached Little He, grabbed him, and pushed him through the crowd towards the depths of the laboratory.
They quickly reached the end of this level, but Lou Yan felt this wasn’t all there was to the pet processing factory. Under his interrogation, Little He no longer dared to play any tricks and led Lou Yan to open the hidden door to the underground second level.
In the containers on the second underground floor, the creatures looked even more deformed, often combining features of two or three different animals with humans. Several humanoid creatures had swollen bellies, trembling lightly, undoubtedly still nurturing life inside.
Lou Yan’s face grew colder and colder as Little He explained fearfully, “Ordinary pets no longer satisfy people’s demands. Wealthy people want more unique, powerful, and beautiful new breeds of pets. The rarer and more unique the pet, the more sought after they are, and we can make more money. After the development of these new breeds of pets, they need to undergo breeding experiments. Only pets that truly have fertility and reproductive ability are the ones that can truly continue the lineage of new breeds of pets. Pets like these that nurture life inside them will receive our careful care!”
As he spoke, Little He became more and more excited. “But please don’t misunderstand us. Our Victory Factory is a conscientious enterprise and will never intentionally torture these pets. Before conducting experiments on pets, we anesthetize them to ensure they feel no pain at all. And being able to participate in such great experiments is such an honor. If I were these pets, I would be very happy to be the subject of these experiments!”
Lou Yan heard this and coldly chuckled twice without saying a word.
Little He suddenly felt a chill creeping up his back, stealing a glance at Lou Yan’s expression, he dared not speak.
Lou Yan once again led Little He to the end and ordered him to open the next level’s hidden door. Little He complied, already guessing there was something underground, but Lou Yan showed no surprise and moved to enter without hesitation.
However, just as he stepped forward, Lou Yan’s keen ears caught an unusual sound from the floor above.
“That intruder… and the director… downstairs…”
The disciplinary committee members were chasing after them!
Lou Yan quickened his pace and immediately entered the third level. The layout of the third level was similar to the previous two, but the creatures in the containers on this level no longer resembled humans at all. They were either extraordinarily large or as small as two fists. Most of them were even awake, and upon seeing someone approaching, they fiercely pounded the glass containers with their blood-red eyes.
Lou Yan hastily glanced around the third level, finding the creatures terrifying and powerful, but still felt it wasn’t enough.
He shook Little He threateningly and affirmed, “There’s still something underground, right?”
Little He, unsure and surprised, looked at Lou Yan. “How did you know?!”
As expected!
Lou Yan faintly felt the excitement of nearing his target. He narrowed his eyes, gripping Little He’s neck and forced him to open the hidden door to the fourth underground level.
After hesitating for a while, Little He finally trembled and opened the last door under the threat of the bone spike. “This is the last level of the pet processing factory. There really are no other floors beyond this!”
As the hidden door gradually opened, a bone-chilling coldness rushed to Lou Yan’s face. Lou Yan remained highly vigilant and asked in a low voice, “What’s stored in here?”
Little He swallowed hard and said with a mixture of surprise and pride, “We’ve placed a unique pet we caught a few days ago. It’s undoubtedly the most beautiful and powerful pet in the world!”
Little He’s tone grew increasingly excited. His eyes sparkled with fascination and greed as he waved his bulky hands in the air. “It’s nature’s proudest creation, something we can never replicate with technology! Oh, you have no idea how stunning it was when I first saw it. It’s simply the most perfect and incomparable pet in my dreams!”
“We’re so lucky to have captured it! It will surely cause unprecedented excitement and demand at the auction!”
Thud, thud, thud.
Lou Yan’s footsteps echoed clearly in the quiet and dim fourth underground level, each step receiving a response.
Unlike the previous three levels, the fourth level was eerily spacious. There were no piles of laboratory equipment or rows of cylindrical containers. There was only one massive glass container in the center, filled with green liquid that illuminated the creature inside clearly.
With giant wings, numerous eyes closed on the wings, countless tentacles floating in the liquid, and thick black viscous fluid dripping continuously at the bottom…
Beast-like, sharp-curved feet, three pairs of pale arms growing from the back, tattoos crawling on the skin like live snakes…
Countless mismatched monster parts harmoniously converged, forming such a grotesque and twisted humanoid monster. It looked bizarre and strange yet wonderful and miraculous.
The monster seemed to be asleep, eyes tightly closed, leaving only this bizarre body floating gently in the liquid undisturbed.
Everyone who saw it couldn’t help but hold their breath, feeling a terrifying and chilling horror from the depths of their souls, yet unable to tear their eyes away from it.
“How perfect,” Little He murmured with admiration, greedily looking at the creature in the container. “Look how beautiful it is. If we can tame it, it will become the most dazzling pet in the Victory Factory!”
As he spoke, he couldn’t help but scream in excitement.
However, Lou Yan ignored Little He’s words completely.
He stared straight at the creature, approaching the container step by step. Even when the alarm around the container went off loudly and flashing red lights, Lou Yan didn’t take his eyes off.
He stood in front of the container, reaching out to touch it.
This was Fu Xuezhou.
A completely anomaly transformed version of Fu Xuezhou.
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