Chapter 407: Slaughterhouse

Wang Yu looked at the "Goddess Fall" spaceship, which resembled a small city in the starry sky, and felt secretly shocked.

Could the Blue Star Alliance of the future really manufacture such astonishing behemoths and conduct long-distance travel in space?

After all, in the current Blue Star, the only planet humans have set foot on is the moon.

Or is it that the era Chen Boshi came from is actually far more distant than previously guessed?

Wang Yu pondered this while continuing to watch the grand battle scene on the giant screen.

By now, the giant screen had focused its lens on some of the outstanding mechs.

Although there were not many of these mechs, most had unique appearances and strength far exceeding other ordinary mechs; they were clearly the mechs of some official mech pilots or even elite mech pilots.

These custom mechs charged into the Star Cloud Beast swarm like wolves into a flock of sheep; most ordinary Star Cloud Beasts could not resist and were shot or slashed to death one after another.

Wang Yu even saw a mech that was pure white, with three pairs of mechanical wings on its back and a giant halo floating above its head, resembling a true angel.

This special mech simply raised both hands, and the halo above its head released a blinding white light, causing hundreds of Star Cloud Beasts nearby to explode and die one after another.

Such terrifying lethality made even Wang Yu's pupils shrink.

This was the first time he had seen such a powerful mech; he wondered if this was the legendary Star-rank mech, and if its pilot was likewise a legendary Star-rank mech pilot.

He did not know if this terrifying destructive power came from the pilot's own Star Mind Power or the power of the Star-rank mech itself.

"Look, it seems to be the 'Archangel' mech."

"That is the Archangel mech. I heard that Prince Aisa spent over half a year and mobilized countless players to collect resources to manufacture it. It's truly awesome!"

"If I had such a powerful Star-rank mech, I would be awesome too."

"Forget it. That Archangel mech is known as the number one mech in 'Star River'. Although that might be an exaggeration, Prince Aisa is indeed the first Star-rank mech pilot in 'Star River' to reveal his identity, and he has been in the top ten of the global mech pilot rankings for years."

"Tsk tsk, a Star-rank mech pilot combined with a Star-rank mech—that combination is invincible. I wonder who the other Star-rank mech pilots ranked above Prince Aisa are."

"Don't talk about the top ten; among the players who have entered the top thousand in the global mech pilot rankings, how many have revealed their identities? As long as they don't voluntarily reveal their identities on the leaderboard, the most we can see are the players' codenames and nationalities."

The many young people in front of the screen began to discuss excitedly after seeing the battle scene of the six-winged angel mech.

Wang Yu took one last deep look at the white mech on the screen before turning and walking out of the Star River Bar.

Half an hour later.

A semi-old yellow sedan stopped in front of Wang Yu. After the window rolled down, it revealed the face of a young woman with somewhat androgynous features.

"Dai Sen, get in. Let's hurry; we should be able to make it back to the factory before the employees start work at two o'clock," the young woman shouted at Wang Yu without hesitation.

"Okay, Ailie. It's my first time visiting the factory, so I don't want to be too late," Wang Yu replied, agreeing, then walked to the other side, opened the door, and sat in the back.

A moment later, the small yellow sedan started again, made a U-turn, and sped away in the direction they came from.

Over an hour later, in a cluster of independent factory buildings on the outskirts of Peng Jie City.

Accompanied by Ailie and another bearded man, Wang Yu stood in front of a large frozen warehouse, watching several workers move frozen pig carcasses onto two large refrigerated trucks.

"Dai Sen, although our slaughterhouse isn't big and doesn't have much of a reputation in Peng Jie City, it supplies pork to over a dozen nearby markets. Our annual sales are very impressive, and we even supply a portion of the pork for several large supermarkets on a regular basis.

The factory is divided into two areas: this side is our shipping and break area, and the other side is the live pig slaughtering assembly line."

After one refrigerated truck was filled with frozen pork and left the warehouse, the bearded man introduced this and led Wang Yu toward the area where pig squeals could be heard.

"Our factory may be small, but the boss has installed the most advanced slaughtering assembly line in Great Ming. As long as the live pigs are driven in, the slaughtering, cleaning, and portioning are all completed in one go, and then transported directly to the warehouse.

The only trouble is that this assembly line often has minor issues and requires frequent repairs," Ailie added from the side.

"Then I really must go and take a good look. It's my first time seeing how live pigs are slaughtered," Wang Yu replied with a hint of excitement, perfectly portraying the curiosity of a young man.

"Haha, actually, this kind of slaughtering assembly line is only interesting the first time you see it. It's very monotonous to face it every day. And it's a slaughterhouse, after all; you must know what the smell is like," the bearded man laughed.

Wang Yu naturally nodded repeatedly and followed the two into another factory building.

There, a long mechanized assembly line was set up. At the entrance of the passage at one end, several workers were using long sticks to drive a group of live pigs inside.

At the other end of the assembly line, half-pork carcasses, cleaned and dehaired, were constantly emerging and being quickly lifted off by other workers to be loaded onto trucks.

The smell in the entire factory building was, just as the bearded man had said, exceptionally pungent.

Wang Yu frowned. Although he didn't cover his nose, he gave the impression that he was subconsciously holding his breath.

"Dai Sen, wear this."

The young woman handed over a mask and put on another one herself.

Wang Yu naturally didn't refuse, thanked her, put on the mask, and walked toward the entrance of the assembly line.

For some reason, although the workers here were all sweating profusely from their busy work, as soon as he entered this factory building, he felt a chill wash over him.

The bearded man seemed long accustomed to the smell here and chatted with Ailie behind Wang Yu as usual.

Upon getting closer, Wang Yu finally saw everything clearly.

He saw that all the live pigs entering the assembly line passage were being stunned by two giant electric shockers on the assembly line, then carried away by the conveyor belt. The entire process was clean and efficient, without any delay.

Even those live pigs didn't have time to let out a squeal the moment they fell; they must have died without any pain at all.

Wang Yu watched all this, his face seemingly showing an interested expression, but deep in his eyes, a hint of shock emerged.

For some reason, the silver talisman deep in his consciousness began to tremble as soon as it approached this place, as if something wanted to force its way out, but it was forcibly suppressed by his powerful divine sense.

While Wang Yu chatted with the two people beside him as usual, he quietly injected a trace of magic power into both eyes. Suddenly, a pale yellow spirit pattern flashed and disappeared in his eyes, and his heart shook.

He had actually used an observation spell, looked at everything before him again, and his heart sank.