Humanoids Voluntarily Become Slaves, No Food or Lodging Required (Second Update)

San Zong did not speak again for the rest of the journey.

Not until he had settled the metal cylinder in the Flying Vehicle's Small Storage Room and adjusted the temperature and humidity did he seem to make up his mind. He said to Xia Chujian, "Female Sire, San Zong still wants to go back and ask the director first. If the director does not want San Zong either, then can San Zong become Female Sire's slave?"

Xia Chujian: "!!!"

What kind of bizarre turn was this?! Did she, Xia Chujian, look like someone who could afford to keep a slave? Huh? Huh? Huh?!

Xia Chujian could barely feed herself, and she still had an aunt who had been unconscious for three years to support and treat!

She was only seventeen and still had to attend school. The burden on her shoulders was already heavy enough! How could she afford to take on a Humanoid?

Seeing Xia Chujian hesitate, San Zong grew anxious.

He rubbed his pair of hands covered in hard calluses and said in a low voice, "If San Zong cannot return to the plantation, San Zong can support himself, support Female Sire, and support Small Dog!"

"As long as Female Sire agrees to let San Zong follow Female Sire as a slave, San Zong will work hard at farming! San Zong will go to the Exotic Beast Forest and catch prey for Female Sire to eat, as long as Female Sire gives San Zong a place to stay..."

He gestured with his hands. "It does not need to be a big place. Under the eaves by the door is enough, as long as San Zong can lie down and sleep there."

He did not even ask to enter the house. Staying by the door was enough.

He was humble to the extreme.

Xia Chujian pursed her lips. Holding a bottle of water in her hands, she said in a relaxed tone, "I thought you were going to demand food and lodging. I've never seen a... servant who had to support their Master."

She did not say the word "slave." Although San Zong belonged to the slave class, Xia Chujian felt that her social standing was not much higher than his.

They were both at the bottom. Why hurt each other?

San Zong's eyes lit up. "Female Sire agrees?!"

Xia Chujian tilted her head, looked at the Blood Kirin and Kongsang planted in the metal cylinder, and said with a smile, "If you have nowhere else to go, you can follow me. But you know that it will be difficult for you to enter Mulan City. We will have to figure something out."

This was common knowledge known not only in Mulan City, but throughout the entire Beichen Empire.

Children born to Humanoids could only be Humanoids. Even if one parent was a normal human, as long as the other was a Humanoid, their child would only be a Humanoid.

After a Humanoid was born, a specialized government agency would assess the infant.

Humanoids who could shift back into normal human form within thirty days of birth belonged to the Untouchable class and could grow up with their parents.

Those who could not shift back into normal human form within thirty days of birth belonged to the slave class. They would immediately be taken away from their parents and sent to specially enclosed Humanoid breeding centers for collective "rearing."

San Zong was the kind of Humanoid who had been unable to shift into a complete human form since birth, which was why he had been classified as a slave.

He had been sent to a breeding center outside the city after his birth and raised collectively. He had no idea who his biological parents were.

The parents of Humanoid slaves could only treat their own children as though they had died young.

The Beichen Empire managed Humanoid slaves very strictly. They could not freely enter or leave the places where they were confined.

Once they violated this rule, law enforcement agencies at every level of the Beichen Empire could execute them on the spot.

In the Beichen Empire, killing a Humanoid slave was not illegal. At most, one only had to compensate the slave's owner for their loss.

Of course, if a Humanoid slave harmed a normal human, then the slave's owner would have to compensate the victim for their loss.

Therefore, a Humanoid slave who left a Humanoid slave enclosure without legal documentation would basically meet no good end.

Only then did San Zong realize this. A despondent expression appeared on his face.

Seeing San Zong's mood suddenly plummet, Xia Chujian could not bear it either. She said, "I have thought about that too. How about this? I'll take you back first, find you somewhere to stay in the Exotic Beast Forest near Mulan City, then figure out how to take you around Mulan City to the plantations in the south. What do you think?"

San Zong immediately brightened up and nodded vigorously. "Yes! Yes! No problem! No problem!"

He was thrilled beyond measure.

It was late at night. Xia Chujian could not hold on any longer and returned to the Small Bed in the Cabin to sleep.

San Zong was still bustling about in the Storage Room, though no one knew what he was doing.

Early the next morning, Xia Chujian woke up.

She checked her Smart Bracelet. It was only seven in the morning.

It was not especially early, but she could not sleep anymore.

Turning her head, she looked at Ping Qiong on the Small Bed beside her. Curled up in her coat, she was softly snoring and sleeping especially soundly.

Xia Chujian smiled faintly.

She quite liked their little team.

Although everyone had different tempers and personalities, no one had bad intentions.

Her aunt had said that if one could have a group of colleagues without bad intentions in the workplace, that was already the best possible outcome.

Now that they had found both the Blood Kirin and Kongsang, Xia Chujian was in an explosively good mood. At the same time, she could not stay here a moment longer.

She missed her aunt. She wanted to go home.

She got up and went to the small Bathroom, intending to wash her face, only to discover that the Bathroom's Water Tank was full again.

"Female Sire is up? San Zong filled the Bathroom's Water Tank. Is there anything else Female Sire needs San Zong to do?"

San Zong greeted Xia Chujian with great enthusiasm.

Xia Chujian nodded in thanks. "Thank you, San Zong. Rest for a while. Once I'm done washing up, I'll make breakfast. Oh, what do you like to eat?"

San Zong scratched his head. "San Zong eats anything. San Zong is not picky."

"...How about Unicorn Cattle Meat Buns, Tantai Royal Rice Porridge, and egg pancakes?"

San Zong swallowed. Before he could say anything, Small Dog, which had been circling at his feet, had its eyes light up.

"Wu Er Fu! Wu Er Fu!" It kept pouncing toward Xia Chujian, displaying its excitement.

"I know, Small Si Xi. I can make Si Xi Meatballs too..." Xia Chujian could not help laughing, feeling wonderful.

Small Dog did not know what "Si Xi Meatballs" were, but hearing its own name in them made it bounce around even more enthusiastically.

Xia Chujian played with it for a while before going to the small Bathroom to wash up.

She had only intended to wash her face and rinse her mouth, but seeing how much water there was, she could not resist taking another shower.

Refreshed when she emerged from the small Bathroom, she first went to the Storage Room to check on the Blood Kirin and Kongsang San Zong had planted for her.

The Blood Kirin was still a Seed, buried in humus soil without the slightest movement.

Of course, it had only been one night. If it had already sprouted, that would have been absurd.

Therefore, the only little seedling in the entire cylinder was the Kongsang.

It resembled an orchid, but was only half as tall, so delicate that one had to hold one's breath to approach it.

Xia Chujian could not help gently touching its fine, mist-green leaves. Deep among the leaves were tiny moon-white petals, equally hazy.

"Wu Er Fu!" Small Dog ran over in a daze, jumping up as it tried to nuzzle the little plant it loved.

Xia Chujian jumped in fright. Her finger accidentally brushed the tiniest bit of petal, picking up a trace of pollen invisible to the naked eye.

She felt nothing. Casually picking up Small Dog, she let it play with Kongsang a little longer.

Small Dog was quite well-behaved too. It merely pressed its fluffy head against Kongsang, then struggled to get down, seized Xia Chujian's pant leg in its teeth, and urged her toward the kitchen.

Xia Chujian smiled and followed Small Dog to the small kitchen to prepare breakfast.

After hearing that she was making Beef Buns, San Zong had already minced the thawed Unicorn Cattle Meat for her.

He had also kneaded the dough made from Plain Girl Flour.

Xia Chujian was quite surprised. "San Zong, you can cook?"

San Zong shook his head. "San Zong only knows how to mince meat and knead dough. San Zong cannot do anything else."

"At the plantation, San Zong also helped in the kitchen, but the head chef only let San Zong be an Assistant. When they cooked, San Zong had to leave."

Xia Chujian said, "Oh. Your head chef is really a piece of work."

San Zong opened his mouth, wanting to say that the head chef was not a thing, but a normal human.

But then he felt that Female Sire probably did not mean it that way.

He did not know how to respond. Seeing that Xia Chujian had already begun wrapping the buns, he immediately turned and left.

Xia Chujian wiped her hands with a tissue and quickly wrapped thirty plump, white Unicorn Cattle Meat Buns. Each weighed a full half-catty, with thin skin and generous filling.

Once the Beef Buns were wrapped, the fragrance of the rice porridge had also emerged.

While steaming the Beef Buns, she cooked twenty egg pancakes in a pan. Breakfast was ready.

Ping Qiong had already woken up while Xia Chujian was cooking the egg pancakes.

The mouthwatering aroma had left her ravenous. She was just short of squatting beside the stove to wait for the food.

Xia Chujian said, "Cai Jie, go call Song Mingqian and the others to eat. There is room to eat here, and Meat Buns are best right out of the steamer."

Ping Qiong nodded repeatedly. "I'll go, I'll go! I'm going right now!"

She had slept especially well the night before and had no idea Xia Chujian had done so much that night.

After Ping Qiong left, Xia Chujian went to the Storage Room, placed the Lid on the metal cylinder containing the Blood Kirin and Kongsang, then stacked the vine-woven cloth baskets on top so that Li Fu would not open it with his meddlesome hands and see what was inside.

She intended to borrow this Flying Vehicle for the time being.

When Ping Qiong brought Li Fu and Song Mingqian to the Civilian Flying Vehicle, Xia Chujian did not see Ye Shijie.

She raised an eyebrow at Ping Qiong.

Ping Qiong spread her hands helplessly. "Ye Dui does not not want to come. He... is badly injured. It is too cold outside, so he cannot come out."

Li Fu said, "Ye Dui's Mental Strength has dropped by one rank. There are no medical facilities here, and after a night, he has developed a fever."

Xia Chujian felt somewhat guilty.

But her expression remained unchanged as she said, "I understand. Let's eat first. After we finish, we can prepare to return to Mulan City."

"...You found the Blood Kirin?" Li Fu asked uncertainly.

Yesterday, he seemed to have seen the Blood Kirin, but the fight afterward had been so intense that he did not know whether that Blood Kirin was still alive.

Xia Chujian nodded.

She took out the first Blood Kirin she had found the day before and said, "There. It is enough to turn in for the mission once we get back."

Li Fu and Song Mingqian gathered around, curiously examining this legendary plant.

"It's quite interesting. It really does look like a little Kirin. Look, it's so plump here..."

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