Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1334: Chapter 61: [Calamity] (4)

Noticing his master’s gaze sharply, the Maid also looked towards the position of the resting pod following Boss Luo’s gaze… But after a few seconds, Luo Qiu automatically looked away.

He let out a slow breath, and his fingers inadvertently brushed over the prayer beads on his wrist.

He could be heard whispering at this moment, “It’s like having an addiction, if you’re not a little careful, you’ll just be drawn to it. This won’t do… at least during this time, I need to be a bit careful.”

With that, he walked directly into the lounge from the doorway—actually, the departing staff began to return.

Luo Qiu and the Maid both pulled up their hoods, leaving only half of their faces uncovered… basically, it was hard to distinguish who was who at a glance.

At least, the attendants working here didn’t have sharp enough senses to make a distinction—when they saw the uniforms of the escort team, they began to behave respectfully.

“Are you here to take away these ‘crops,’ my lords!” The two attendants slightly lowered their heads at this time—the exceedingly strict hierarchy made them not dare to gaze at the other party’s faces without permission… even though most of the escort team were lower-ranked nobles.

“Are you ready?” Luo Qiu asked in a lowered voice.

One of the attendants quickly said, “It will be ready soon, one of them needs to be injected with serum… we’ll inject her right away.”

“Hmm, then go ahead.” Luo Qiu nodded slightly.

The two attendants quickly walked up to the girl who needed the serum injection… but they suddenly looked surprised—prior to the injection, they clearly noticed the expression on this girl’s face was as if she was having a nightmare.

“Strange, why did her index fall so much…”

“Could it be that the noble blood factors are starting to take effect? There have been similar situations recently, haven’t there.”

“Maybe…” The companion nodded, “Inject it quickly, we shouldn’t make the lords wait long.”

“Can I ask, what you said happens often, is it true?” Luo Qiu’s voice suddenly came—after all, he couldn’t hold back, and he couldn’t help but mock himself inwardly.

Perhaps he’s always striving to maintain his nature while also retaining the essence of being human… truly aromatic.

Said, one of the attendants didn’t stop, continuing to inject the serum, while the other respectfully replied, “Yes, but as long as we inject the serum, it resolves very quickly. And now we are using a new type of serum vaccine, only recently developed, which can give ‘crops’ a higher resistance to ‘infection’.

Infection… Luo Qiu still doesn’t know exactly what the so-called ‘infection’ refers to, but he doesn’t intend to just spend money to buy the answer, so he nodded and seemingly casually asked, “‘Infection’… is it really serious?”

Perhaps because they saw that this lower-ranked noble lord seemed approachable, the attendant replied almost without thinking, “Yes, it’s a bit better now and can be controlled. A while ago it was truly a disaster, ‘infection’ burst out like a human plague, I’ve heard that at its peak, about thirty percent of all the ‘crops’ from the Thirteen Clans’ farms were contaminated, either collapsing and committing suicide or going insane and becoming useless. They couldn’t be provided for consumption by the upper-class aristocrats… all they could do was select a few with remaining mobility to be sent to the ‘Breeding Ground’ for mating and production…”

Luo Qiu nodded without a change in expression, casually asking, “Have you studied the causes of this ‘infection’?”

At this time, the attendant who injected the serum had completed his task, and replied seriously, “We began researching this ‘infection’ right away, my lord. After all, we have to constantly maintain the freshness of the ‘crops’…

Luo Qiu smiled and said, “Then tell me your views, I’d like to hear about your research.”

This might just be idle chatter while waiting, or perhaps a kind of test by the nobility? The attendants quickly realized it might be an opportunity—if they could gain the favor of a noble and become their exclusive attendant, they could naturally escape from their current situation—even though being the exclusive attendant to a lower-ranking noble was also considered high-level compared to ordinary attendants.

Like rising from a third-class servant to a second-class one.

They nearly scrambled to answer.

“This ‘infection’ is caused by the original worldview of the top ‘crops’. My lord, you should know, the more advanced the ‘crops’, the more complex their cultivation process. From birth, they are meticulously cultivated according to the preferences of the upper-class nobles. Farms will raise them based on all sorts of ‘personas’… We all know, why the blood of advanced ‘crops’ tastes particularly good? It’s because during their cultivation, they have already been imprinted with feelings for ‘important individuals.’ Only such single-hearted dedication to upper-class nobles can allow the nobles to taste that long-lost ‘First Blood’ flavor when ‘feeding’… after all, upper-class nobles might no longer find their original bloodsucker victims from the past…”

“Why are you saying all this nonsense! You think the lord doesn’t know?” the attendant next to him immediately interrupted.

I don’t know…

The interrupter then ignored his companion, with whom he had agreed to strive together in the same room, and continued, “Basically, what’s needed is something called the ‘Happiness Index’… Of course, my lord, you also know what this is. So here’s the crux: my observation found that after ‘infection’, it all begins directly with the decline in the ‘Happiness Index’. Initially, we thought it might be due to some external ideological transmission. But after thorough research, we found that the decline in the index of the ‘crops’ wasn’t due to ideological impact. They directly felt fear… or had their ‘Happiness Index’ taken away. They couldn’t feel any ‘happiness’ from their dedication… It felt as if they were abandoned, and subsequently fell into a self-loop. Once the loop is formed, it can’t be broken, leaving them as waste.”

“Source?” Luo Qiu spoke casually… his gaze inadvertently glancing at the hibernation pod that caught his attention initially.

“The source is really unclear.” The attendants shook their heads: “After all, each ‘farm’ frequently exchanges ‘crops,’ maybe it’s cross-infection, or perhaps it’s due to too much breeding leading to mutations… However, we’ve already developed a new type of serum, which can somewhat offset the side effects of noble blood factors while also improving the index of ‘crops’… Although this impacts the lifespan of the ‘crops,’ they only need to be harvested until age eighteen anyway.”

“Prioritize maintaining noble privileges…” Luo Qiu suddenly said, “From the production pattern of ‘crops’ to the final ‘breeding’… it seems like, colonization.”

The attendants could only remain silent.

The ‘crops’ actually have no difference from slaves in a colony. The upper-class aristocrats would leave no value unextracted from those enslaved.

Perhaps applying it to economics also seems appropriate… the capitalist=bloodsucker equation, inside the castle of the Torrido Clan, unfolds in a vivid manner.

“Thank you for your answers.” Boss Luo smiled slightly at this time: “I’ve learned so much.”

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“It’s our honor to serve the master!” The two attendants promptly responded with respect.

“Can they be taken away now.” Luo Qiu shook his head, “We’ll miss the departure time soon.”

“Immediately! We’ll wake them up right away!”

At this time, watching the two attendants busy waking up the three young boys and girls, Maria, who had been standing behind Boss Luo and the maid, suddenly whispered suppressively: “I have always known about the existence of the farm… but really never thought these aristocrats of the Thirteen Clans would become perverted to such an extent. Persona, devotion? Raising humans as the closest beloved, and then washing away their blood… truly a group of lunatics!”

Following Maria’s words, the maid suddenly said, “Miss Cover, I remember you just went to your laundry shop this morning, and you seemed to say that because you bought a batch of True Blood from a farm, you made quite a bit of profit.”

Automatically omitting the word cover, Maria shook her head at this moment and said seriously, “I thought I wouldn’t do business with those blood traders!”

Luo Qiu smiled and said, “Miss Maria, if I gave you a chance to liberate all these crops from the farm, but you need to give your entire life, even your soul… would you be willing?”

Not knowing how this healing-type little brother suddenly spoke on such a heavy topic, Maria was first stunned, then smiled bitterly, shaking her head: “Not to mention whether such a hypothesis can be established… even if it is established, I probably couldn’t do it, right? You also don’t have to laugh at me here, I can only do this much of not doing blood trader business… even if the price is high enough, such a promise may instantly be forgotten.”

Perhaps… most choices.

Thus, the farm can always exist in the Unhuman Domain… and the Non-Humans among the Human Race living here only turn a blind eye, and even so-called True Blood Hunters have emerged.

“But such a Miss Maria is also very real.” Luo Qiu said softly, “Able to be loyal to oneself and admittedly acknowledge one’s shortcomings without embellishment… isn’t that great.”

Gonna die!! Gonna die!! Gonna die!!

Please don’t be so understanding of people’s clothing!

Maria took a deep breath… blaming herself for being so unproductive, always unable to resist such types—clearly having suffered quite a bit before because of it, yet still not changing.

She quietly pinched herself, secretly vowing that even as an old woman, she would definitely not fall into the whirlpool of tenderness, and instead said seriously, “Enough of the chit-chat… let’s hurry and leave here. Just in case, you really don’t want to apply some Blood Agent?”

Saying that, this very endowed witch habitually reached for her collar—which, however, was a round-neck uniform of this escort team!

While Maria was thinking about how to stick her hand in, the two bloodsucker attendants had already brought the awakened three young boys and girls over.

Almost indistinguishable from the little Harry whom Luo Qiu encountered at the farm before… the young boys and girls’ eyes are always so kind, their attitudes gentle, like… pets indeed.

The girl who had stared at the serum seemed to have forgotten the fear of shallow sleep; at this moment, her face was glowing again, even bowed elegantly in front of the three ‘masters’.

“What’s your name?” Luo Qiu then looked at the girl who woke up from the hibernation pod he first noticed… probably about thirteen or fourteen.

“Mina!” The girl replied innocently with a tilted head, “Sister, do you need my devotion?”

Before Luo Qiu approached, he bent slightly, and lifted his hat a bit to reveal his eyes, examining while asking with interest: “So, what can you devote to me?”

Showing surprise at the other’s beauty, then flashing a moment of fear because of the other’s gaze… finally becoming slightly flustered due to this question.

But the girl quickly showed a passionate look again, then lowering her clothes on her shoulder, revealing smooth shoulders, shyly said: “They say Mina is a sister-type Persona… will Sister like it? Mina loves you dearly!”

“But you already have someone you love.” Luo Qiu smiled, reached out to gently put back the clothes the girl had pulled down, casually brushing his fingers over the two shallow wounds on her neck, softly said: “And, he probably loves you dearly as well.”

The girl abruptly stepped back a step, even clutching her collar tightly with her hand, looked at the beautiful elder sister in front suspiciously and anxiously, seemingly growing more flustered.

“Mina! You can’t be rude to the adults!” At this point, the girl beside hurriedly reprimanded and then stepped up to Luo Qiu, sincerely apologizing: “I’m sorry, Mina’s grades at school are a bit unstable… please don’t blame her! Perhaps she just finished devotion and is so happy that she got carried away!”

Luo Qiu waved his hand, looked at the girl, casually asked: “Do you feel happy with this devotion?”

The girl nodded vigorously, “Very happy! I love Daddy Popoqi the most! Though I don’t know who will be the master next, Tony is also looking forward to it!”

Luo Qiu then looked at the third young boy, who is even younger, still retaining a bit of innocence on his face, yet energetically nodded.

“Farm, do you like it?” He simultaneously asked these three young boys and girls.

Except for Mina hesitated a bit, delayed a beat, Tony and the youngest boy almost without thinking answered affirmatively.

Tony smiled sweetly, “Being able to live with everyone is also a very happy thing!”

Boss Luo suddenly recalled what Bylegang had said.

——If everyone acts a bit more realistically, then what’s the difference.

No difference… at least in his current black-and-white vision, the soul of the girl in front of him… is dazzlingly radiant.