Over ten thousand people worked in this factory alone, yet in a single morning, the Army overseers had seized over a thousand of them on various pretexts and sent them off to generate electricity.
"Not working hard enough" was a perfectly ordinary excuse. Some had even been dragged away to generate electricity for "looking dissatisfied and showing suspected disloyalty to the Marshal" or "shaking their legs and affecting power-generation efficiency."
Things only settled down in the afternoon.
All day, these people lived in terror, afraid they would be the next ones seized and sent off to generate electricity.
Fortunately, the Army overseers became much gentler that afternoon and stopped frantically rounding people up to become Bio-Trophies.
The truth was simply that the nearby power grid was already packed with people and needed no new additions.
These people had eaten and drunk well aboard the colony ships. They were generally very healthy, with plenty of organic matter stored in their bodies, making them ideal candidates for Grid Amalgamation.
Bio-Trophy worked by directly converting the organic matter inside a living organism into electricity. In theory, it could drain every last bit of organic matter from a creature, leaving only bones.
To avoid being sent off to generate electricity, Song Zhong suppressed his pride as a gang boss and worked diligently.
He really did work very hard, surviving his first morning under the Interstellar Human Military Junta.
At noon, they had a brief half-hour break, with a meal squeezed in.
Thanks to strict waste-sorting legislation, citizens of the Interstellar Human Military Junta conscientiously sorted their rubbish. With the help of mature waste-processing and recycling systems, Xi Yan had pushed recycling rates to new heights.
Almost one hundred percent.
That was right: anything that physically existed could be sent to a recycling station for