Just as everyone was discussing it,
the Alchemy Emperor fell silent for a moment before revealing an even more chilling secret:
"Actually, it might not be chickens or ducks. I discovered a secret: the higher the life form being born, the more essence can be extracted. Things like flowers and grass have virtually none. Their efficiency is extremely low, and they waste an enormous amount of resources. In other words, fierce beasts like tigers, or even intelligent life forms such as primates, are the best choices.
So, what do you think they would choose? Would they sacrifice resources and efficiency by using flowers and plants, or would they choose beasts—or rather, intelligent beings?"
Everyone was startled. Though they did not want to believe it, a thought still surfaced in their minds. The netizens sitting before their computers felt their scalps tingle as they began discussing it.
"Holy shit, could it be slave races from other planets?"
Just imagining that scene made their hair stand on end.
It would definitely be an unimaginable super-factory.
Like a chicken-and-duck assembly line, intelligent beings would be locked inside cages and iron enclosures, slowly moving forward.
And that assembly line would inevitably be incredibly long.
An ordinary person might not even be able to walk its entire length in a lifetime.
Growing, maturing, reproducing, becoming pregnant, giving birth—this assembly line was practically a "Life Line."
They lived out planned lives upon it. The image resembled a dark fairy tale.
"When an entire race spends its whole life on an assembly line... My god!"
"Come to think of it, humans fit the criteria pretty well. We reproduce quite quickly too, multiplying like crazy. If some advanced cosmic civilization discovered us, we'd be screwed. Wait, maybe Earth is already a God Factory. Our population growth is pretty