Barring any surprises, every magnetic card on the tables beside these pods represented a living being who had once entered a hibernation pod.
As for where their bodies had gone...
[...You continued observing and discovered that a pipe connected to the side of every hibernation pod. The densely packed pipes ran through the surrounding walls and up to the factory ceiling, where they tangled and crossed before all extending toward the far end of the factory...]
[You followed the pipes to investigate...]
[In the deepest part of the factory, you saw an enormous spherical device, covered in protrusions resembling octopus suckers. Below the device was a row of outlets resembling water pipes, with a transparent, test-tube-shaped glass instrument connected beneath each outlet.]
[The display beside it showed a line of dim gray text: Vaccine Zone-current stock: 0 doses.]
"Zero doses..."
Mu You sighed helplessly.
The main reason he had insisted on coming here was that this was the most likely source of the "vaccine" he could think of. If he could find a vial here, his real body would be able to enter and leave Eden conveniently in the future, without all those restrictions.
As it turned out, his guess had been right. This really was where the vaccine was produced.
However, the stock was zero. In other words, every dose produced so far had already been used up...
["Liars... The robots were lying to us from the very beginning..." Chun Li clutched her head, her voice anguished, unable to believe what she was seeing.]
Mu You sighed. Judging by the situation, the living beings in Eden were merely "chickens and ducks" kept by the robots, carefully raised to maturity, then gathered for "slaughter" once their numbers were sufficient, to be turned into the resources the robots needed.
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