Chapter 437: Chapter 437: Another Sweep Through the Otherworld (Part 1)
The original population of eight to nine billion on the Blue Star has now dwindled to the point where it’s uncertain if there are even a billion left globally. Anyway, Dahua Country has only five to six hundred million people remaining.
The grains she acquired can be used to appease the otherworldly populace, reducing the cost of occupying foreign lands. As for the prisoners who instigated the war, it’s sufficient if they don’t starve to death.
After distributing the supplies, Ye Nai returned to the Prisoner Camp. The women and children there had already been settled, and the adults and kids were familiarizing themselves with their new environment in their respective courtyards.
Ye Nai closed the Transmission Port and then reopened it outside the Prisoner Camp, so the warriors could go to the fields to sort out the tents, ton barrels, water towers, and other large items.
At the same time, she opened a new Transmission Port inside the courtyards, directly connecting to the riverside camp of the great noble prisoners.
This time, more warriors went over, armed with guns to maintain order. They first summoned all the women and children, and based on their numbers, sent them in batches through the Transmission Port to the various large courtyards like the female prisoners’ first courtyard, second courtyard, third courtyard, etc., on the other side.
The method of room allocation remained the same, but for mothers with infants under one year old, there were separate boxes of baby supplies and even cribs that matched their children’s heights and sizes.
To settle in a new batch of female prisoners would keep the logistics staff busy for a while, and Ye Nai went to check on the slaughtering again.
As it turned out, there wasn’t even a tail left to see.
During the time she was busy, the butcher invited from Beigen Village had already divided the whole cow into eight parts.
In his view, every part of a cow is edible. However, the warriors tested each part with an Energy Testing Needle and found that farm-raised meat was indeed better than the wild mutant beast. The blood, organs, and bones still couldn’t be eaten, but the remaining meat could.
After discussing with the butcher, it turned out that if mutant beast meat was hunted, parts of the meat with an off-flavor were also discarded by the otherworldly people.
Other than that, the otherworldly people considered the entire mutant beast edible, whereas the Blue Star people would discard a large portion.
Upon receiving this information, the warriors felt reluctant to kill the cattle and sheep being temporarily kept in the shrub pens under the highway.
Seeing Ye Nai observing the crowd, they immediately engaged in a detailed conversation with her, asking if they could go to the Otherworld to get more poultry and livestock to start farming.
Ye Nai readily agreed. She was well familiar with this task, and taking away the poultry and livestock would leave the nobles and soldiers in the chaotic otherworld without meat to eat.
Not only would there be no meat, but now even common grains are hard to come by. Her goal was to cause some logistical difficulties for those armies, with insufficient military food leading to unstable morale.
If the commanding officers ordered the killing of refugees or even civilians for food, that would be their own business and have nothing to do with her.
She certainly wasn’t working for free. Her compensation was a large bowl of stir-fried beef strips and an entire spicy marinated beef tendon.
The cooking team took some of the meat to the kitchen, and the rest was sent to the cold storage by others.
They gave the inedible cow’s blood, bones, and all the internal organs to the butcher. Along with the payment for his services, the butcher hadn’t been this prosperous in a long time, and he was all smiles.
The pile of goods was too big for him to take alone, so Ye Nai opened a Transmission Port to send him back to Beigen Village. He called his family to help carry and move the items, leaving happily.
Seeing there was nothing interesting left, Ye Nai returned to the Prisoner Camp, gave instructions on the other side, and opened a Transmission Port connecting the various wild prisoner camps. She then went to the temporary livestock pens to stimulate the seeds in the soil, creating larger temporary livestock pens.
Then, she took out her container filled with firearms and had the security team members each select their preferred weapons. Fully armed, they went to the Otherworld to start a new round of trading.
The target this time was poultry and livestock.
On the last trade run, when Ye Nai bought supplies, she wouldn’t buy out everything, leaving some goods for the vendors behind her. But this time, she bought out everything, absolutely everything.
Yet, her buyout only included healthy poultry and livestock. By releasing spores, she could get feedback on the health status of the poultry and livestock in the field within seconds, and anything with even the slightest suspicious health issue was not accepted.
When settling the accounts, most sellers demanded gold coins or equivalent resources.
Nowadays, wars are everywhere, and small farming families have long gone bankrupt because if an army passed by and noticed, they would clean out the house, leaving not even a chicken feather behind.
The farmers Ye Nai could still find now were all large farmers backed by nobles, dividing their poultry and livestock into three parts: one for breeding, one to supply the nobles free of charge, and one for sale to earn money. Without that, her family wouldn’t have money for daily needs.
But in these times, there are few who have money to buy poultry and livestock, and if they can’t sell them, it’s highly likely that the nobles would take them in the name of military supplies.
Ye Nai buying poultry and livestock was essentially saving these farmers.
Moreover, she not only bought those raised for meat and eggs but also bought breeding stock if the farmers were willing to sell.
Encountering buyers like Ye Nai excited the other side; they didn’t care about her identity. Even if she was a demon, as long as she could pay or provide resources, she was a good buyer.
Ye Nai placed a Puppet Curse on the poultry and livestock she fancied, so she wasn’t afraid of the sellers playing tricks. After paying, she opened a Transmission Port, controlled the poultry and livestock to pass through orderly, and they stayed in the temporary pens.
From the perspective of the warriors in Town No. 2, Ye Nai was incredibly fast, sending over a batch of poultry and livestock at intervals of just a few seconds each time.
Even knowing it’s due to the massive time difference, it still felt amusing.
The warriors didn’t just stand by idly. Upon realizing that more and more poultry and livestock were coming back, the Wood Element Awakened among them imitated Ye Nai’s method, stimulating the shrub seeds in the soil to form various temporary pens, separating the poultry and livestock.
Especially the breeding stock and offspring Ye Nai sent back received better treatment.
The farmers not only did business themselves but also recommended peers to Ye Nai, all of whom were nearby, and Ye Nai could easily reach them through the Transmission Port.
However, among the referred peers, some were quite fortunate to make deals with Ye Nai and were even willing to sell all their poultry and livestock to escape with their families.
The unfortunate ones faced tragedy; entire families were killed or captured, and their livestock was taken away by the army.
Ye Nai encountered such situations twice and turned back to pursue those departing troops, reclaiming the poultry and livestock they stole and selecting the healthy ones to send back to the East Ridge Secret Realm.
The less healthy ones were released on-site, left for the passing refugees to deal with.
Sending poultry and livestock back at high efficiency, the small and large shrub pens unfurled like a long line, spreading rapidly into the distance.
Seeing that Ye Nai seemed determined not to return until she’d circled the entire Otherworld, the Company Commander in charge of daily affairs at East Ridge Secret Realm had a drone record an aerial video clip. He then quickly reported to the higher-ups, requesting reinforcement and applying for livestock experts to come and plan the subsequent work.