The next day Max, Diego, Robert, Wilfrid, Noctil, and Moe awoke at the break of dawn with the collaborators looking forward to possibly seeing their female cohorts even if they were unable to communicate to them. They got up, received breakfast from the NanoI agents, consisting of avian eggs, a grain biscuit. They said some prayers to get ready for their day. In the female bunker, Soundy, Miriela, Carmen along with the collaborators Izzy, Lucee, and Ashay all got up and had a similar routine. They all finished and got ready to go out to the fields where they were going to receive a tour of the slaughterhouse and farm fields all together.
“Make sure you remain silent when in the company of the female cohorts” A NanoI agent ordered, “Let’s move”.
He directed them to the elevator that led them outside to the farm fields where there was native terloubian avians and equids grazing outside peacefully in the sunlight with a large slaughterhouse factory looming off in the distance. The groups caught eye with each other, and realized their bunkers were adjacent elevators. They all fought the urge to say or act towards each other but just gave each other a look of deep love and understanding that if they talk to each other, they might have to face the final destination, or in their terms be murdered. They grouped together with NanoI guards watching over them with weapons and syringes ready should they break from their agreement.
“This,” the NanoI agent beckons to a field growing legumes, “is where you will be starting tomorrow, collecting the legumes which are in season at this time. Should you excel here, we will then send you to herding the equids and avians to their night posts and day posts as well as send the ones fit for consumption to their final destination in the slaughterhouse. It’s a lot more rewarding being a part of their primitive end, so we reward hard work in the fields with a chance to slaughter the animals, or at least prepare them in the machines that automate their slaughter.”
“How much energy is consumed from machines that automate the slaughter?” Robert interrogates.
“Good, I forgot to mention, along with no mingling between the sexes, we expect you all to not have questions, I will let this slide but do not ask questions just do the job!” The NanoI agent responds.
The collaborators look at each other with disapproval but stay silent not wanting to test the armed NanoI agents.
“You will find viewing the native terloubians slaughter as a kind of ecstasy. If you are lucky, sometimes Triunfeo and M come personally to view the slaughters themselves and you can stand alongside our appointed by Giestian leaders themselves.” The NanoI agent exclaims smugly obviously proud of his position within Triunfeo and M’s private agency.
The collaborators feeling appalled look at their new bunkmates expressions and find they are looking upwards with a smile and look of contentment as if they have experienced firsthand this “honor” and look believe what the NanoI agent is saying.
“Now since its your training day, we will show you the tasks being performed across the whole farm.” The NanoI agent proceeds, “The legume collection is simple and you will basically have big burlap sacks and are expected to fill at least three of them per day. Shall you fill five, you will proceed the following day to the slaughter. Shall you become tired in the slaughter, you will be given one day to rest and pray to Giestian and then come back to the fields. The system generally works, as soon as someone is tired, another is working hard, and we can swap you. You all will be here for one year along your companions. Learn and reflect about your mistake for taking actions against Triunfeo and M, repent to Giestian, and you will be redeemed after a years time.” He then beckons them to make their way to the fields.
They observe the workers come out and watch them pick until a few have one burlap sack filled and then the NanoI agent takes them to the slaughterhouse. Inside, they see the workers shackle the avian and equids to the machines that lift them and then one worker goes in with a gun and shoots them in their head and the workers begin carving the hanging corpses and assembling the different meat parts onto a belt that carries them to the automated plastic encasings.
The collaborators think of all the time they spent eating these meat products, and begin to feel a little nauseous when the NanoI agent indicates them to go outside to the avian section where they witness the workers collect eggs and place them carefully in cartons they then stack on a wagon carried by an equid to be taken to a refrigeration chamber next to the slaughterhouse.
As the day closes, they witness rounding up all the native terloubians and placing them inside the barns, an avian barn and an equid barn respectively. At the end of the tour, they sadly look at each other realizing they won’t encounter each other much more than this day.
The NanoI agent indicates its time to go to dinner and evening prayer and watch the television about Triunfeo and M’s accomplishments for the day. They look at each other and smile and then go down towards the bunkers in silence.
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“Are their life forces still reading?” Sid asks Dredona.
Dredona flips her BLD on and commands it to scan for the collaborators life force.
“Life force detected.” The BLD confirms.
“I have such a bad feeling about this” Sid tells Dredona.
“That’s normal, we are facing supernatural, monopolizing, brainwashing loons in charge of all aspects of life.” Dredona responds.
“Yes, but I mean specifically for our friends. I wonder what they’re going through right now.”
“They’re probably wondering the same thing about us” Dredona responds winking at Sid, “Come on, let’s get some rest. We’ve got four more days until the event” She says.
They put down the BLD and go into the separate sleeping quarters to fall asleep.
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