From the outside, this place looked like a giant factory, completely isolated from the outside world.
And if tourists wanted to visit, they would have to spend 200 yuan on a ticket.
Bai Zhenzhen thought to herself, "Damn it... Could Xiong Wenwu be trying to boost sales performance by deliberately setting the meeting place here?"
Although displeased, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen still spent 400 yuan to buy two tickets and entered the breeding base.
As soon as they entered, the feeling of being refreshed and cleansed with every breath that they had felt in the reserve disappeared.
Instead, they were met with a dry, bitter air.
Zhang Yu wondered, "Isn't the breeding base connected to the air of the reserve? Is this the air we normally breathe?"
Bai Zhenzhen sighed in her heart, "The demonic beasts in this reserve can't even get a few breaths of the air their ancestors breathed."
Just then, a thick voice rang out, "Long time no see, Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen."
Zhang Yu turned his head and saw a tall figure already waiting for them, it was Xiong Wenwu from Red Pagoda High School.
Seeing the two looking over, Xiong Wenwu said, "Let's talk while we tour, we can't waste the ticket money."
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen followed him to the first stop of the breeding base - the incubation room.
On both sides of the corridor, rows and rows of transparent rooms were filled with various types of demonic beasts, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all incubating something that looked like dragon eggs.
However, half of the rooms seemed to be empty and not in use.
"So, it's a breeding base for demonic beasts."
Bai Zhenzhen looked at the various demonic beasts in the incubation room as if she were in a zoo, and suddenly pointed at a bear, "Haha, Xiong Wenwu, doesn't that bear look like you before your transformation?"
Xiong Wenwu looked at incubation room number 33, where a huge demonic bear was lying on the ground, snoring as it slept.
Xiong Wenwu said calmly, "That's my mother."
"Ah?" Bai Zhenzhen's head went blank.
Xiong Wenwu looked at the two and said, "The breeding base will find suitable mothers from the demonic beasts, and then inseminate them with true dragon bloodlines to create offspring containing the blood of the dragon race."
"I heard that they used incubators directly before, but later the company felt that demonic beast mothers were cheaper, and the breeding base didn't need to produce too much, so they found us a real mother."
"After all, there are plenty of demonic beasts in the reserve, so it's easy to catch them."
Xiong Wenwu looked at the demonic beasts in the incubation room and said calmly, "Although she is my mother, she is just a demonic beast with little intelligence, and she doesn't recognize me anymore."
Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu, who had never encountered such a conversation, were stunned and didn't know what to say.
In silence, the three came to the newborn area.
Inside each incubator were various demonic offspring with different appearances.
Some were sleeping soundly, some were staring wide-eyed at the outside world, and some had a needle inserted into their backs, causing them to cry out.
Xiong Wenwu said indifferently, "The younglings here will constantly receive injections of various medicines, and those who cannot withstand the effects of the medicines will be eliminated..."
Then came the study room, where demonic offspring were seriously watching the screen, which was playing the Red Pagoda Agriculture's induction training for young children, talking about how to cherish the company as if it were their own home.
Bai Zhenzhen exclaimed, "It's actually a young children's version of induction training?"
Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking that Red Pagoda Agriculture was too outrageous.
But then he heard Bai Zhenzhen continue, "They have a job as soon as they are born? Many people outside would envy this treatment, right?"
Xiong Wenwu said with a hint of pride, "The company will provide every demonic offspring born in the breeding base with a job, and they can receive induction training from a young age, instilling the company spirit."
"Because of this, every year ordinary people come to protest, wanting to send their children to the breeding base to study with us."
Walking a few steps forward, they saw a group of demonic offspring doing exercises while shouting slogans: Working together, creating the future, the light of paternal love, illuminating you and me.
In front of them was a portrait of a black dragon, which seemed to be the school director of Red Pagoda High School.
As they continued to walk, they could see that the demonic offspring were getting older and older, from induction training to general education, and after repeated examinations and diversions, more and more demonic offspring were assigned to work to repay their breeding debts, and the number of demonic offspring who remained to study became less and less.
Xiong Wenwu continued, "Originally, this place could produce a large number of demonic offspring every year, who either studied hard, went to university, and became talents for Red Pagoda Agriculture."
"Or they are directly diverted to the company to work, diligently, and become the cornerstone of Red Pagoda Agriculture."
"But since the introduction of the Oasis Group's new technology, the company has decided to change its business direction, a large number of pastures and factories have been acquired by the Oasis Group, and this breeding base is likely to be eliminated."
Xiong Wenwu knew that for the demonic offspring who had always lived and worked here, leaving Red Pagoda... was more terrifying than going to work in a factory.
But as a mere high school student, he couldn't change anything, the only thing he could do was to find a way to take care of the people he cared about.
Walking and stopping, the three came to the finished product room.
In the rooms on both sides of the corridor, seventeen-year-old demonic offspring were studying at their desks.
They wore electric shock collars around their necks to keep them awake and relieve fatigue.
The chains on their feet were connected to the desks, representing their determination to study wherever they went.
The feeders in front of them had an automatic feeding function, which could automatically feed them after they completed an assignment as required.
Xiong Wenwu looked at this scene, a trace of nostalgia flashed across his face, and said, "This is to study the general knowledge courses of the three years of high school, in preparation for the junior high school graduation exam of the breeding base."
"After all, whether they can enter high school next year will determine whether they will study or work in the future, so everyone studies very hard."
Zhang Yu thought to himself... damn it, wouldn't they starve to death if they didn't study?
Recalling what he had seen and heard after entering the reserve, Zhang Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "This company is really... squeezing people dry, and still stomping on them with the soles of their shoes."
When they reached the second half, Xiong Wenwu talked about the spiritual vein.
"In the incubation room of the breeding base, in order to ensure the growth of the younglings and the true dragon bloodline, a spiritual vein pipeline is introduced, with air and high concentrations of spiritual energy from the spiritual vein."
"But only the incubation room has this condition, so someone needs to arrange for you to sneak in."
Bai Zhenzhen asked strangely, "Won't we be discovered?"
Xiong Wenwu shook his head, "Most of the breeding base is automated, there is only one person in charge, as long as this person in charge agrees, no one will find out if you蹭 some spiritual vein."
Zhang Yu pointed to the billing device on his body and asked, "What about this?"
Xiong Wenwu said, "The breeding base is on the edge of the reserve, there is an external material transportation channel here, I have already opened up the joints in it, and confirmed that there is no problem, next time I will take you directly through that channel."
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen then noticed that Xiong Wenwu really didn't have any billing device on him.
Xiong Wenwu reminded again, "But if you come in through that channel, you can only stay in the breeding base at most, don't go out, there are too many monitoring methods in the reserve, you will definitely be discovered."
Zhang Yu asked again, "What's the price?"
Xiong Wenwu said, "8000 per hour."
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen looked at each other, and they both felt that this price was not expensive.
After all, according to the price of the outside reserve, in terms of their physique, it would cost several thousand per hour just to breathe without breathing, let alone this is air and rich spiritual energy from the spiritual vein.
Bai Zhenzhen asked again, "Why did you choose to trade with us?"
"I asked around, you two are very poor, right?" Xiong Wenwu smiled, "I don't trust people who are too rich. And you two are so poor that you still have the idea of hitting the spiritual vein, and you came to ask me about the spiritual vein, there are only you two... I can be considered to have no choice."
Xiong Wenwu continued, "Now there is only one last question left, that is, the only employee of this breeding base may not agree to this transaction."
"The person I will take you to see later is her."
"So I need you to cooperate with me to talk to her together."
"You listen to my arrangement..."
Hearing the arrangement in Xiong Wenwu's mouth, a strange look appeared on Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's faces.
Coming to the final souvenir sales area, in addition to the induction training manual, the breeding base's special test papers, the same electric shock collar, and various demonic offspring dolls, Zhang Yu's eyes also swept over the various beast bones, beast blood, and demonic beast meat.
Although demonic beasts have always been regarded as animals, completely different from demonic offspring, seeing this thing here still made Zhang Yu feel awkward.
Coming to the souvenir counter, Xiong Wenwu greeted with a smile, "Sister, I'm here to see you."
This was the first time Zhang Yu had seen Xiong Wenwu smile so happily on his savage face.
But looking at the little panda behind the counter, an incomprehensible look still appeared on Zhang Yu's face, but thinking that the demonic offspring of Red Pagoda High School always called each other brothers and sisters, then it didn't seem strange.
Xiong Wenwu said to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, "This is my sister An'an, if she hadn't helped me recognize words when I was a child, I might have been eliminated long ago."
"She has some opportunities to蹭 the spiritual vein here, which can be introduced to you."
But the little panda behind the counter didn't seem to agree with what Xiong Wenwu said.
She raised her hands high and said with an angry face, "Xiong Wenwu! What are you doing! I said I won't sell the company's interests!"
Hearing this, Xiong Wenwu sighed in his heart, and a trace of helplessness flashed across his face.
