The clock on the wall hit exactly ten o'clock exactly at this moment.
Li En looked away from the clock. Under excitement and confusion, his face turned red and white, and he said a little at a loss: "Now? Now is the final assessment? But, this night..."
Zhu straightened up and began to lose his face slowly. "What? Are you not happy? Are you not ready?"
"No, no," Lean said hurriedly, "I've been prepared for a long time. I've been looking forward to this day! It just came so suddenly... I thought all Mr. Pigs had taken a rest."
"I just received the notice," Fan Ping said reservedly: "There happens to be a job that requires an extra pig. Isn't there an opening? I fought for you for a long time before you accepted it right away.
Test qualifications.”
Lien's gratitude and joy were already beyond words; he rubbed his hands and asked with a smile: "Then I will start now? You will do the test?"
"No, the location of the last test is not here. After all, if you pass, you will need several elders to preside over the transformation process for you." Fanping said almost lovingly, "Come with me... It's time for you to see
Take a look at the core of our headquarters.”
When Lean followed the pig out, he took several breaths silently and quickly, and wiped his palms vigorously on his pants a few times, as if he wanted to wipe away the sweat on his palms.
With the pig leading the way, one by one, the pigs walked back into the hall where the sharp hissing had once sounded. Lean shivered slightly, and his expression became cautious; but Fanping did not reach out to press the switch on the wall.
, just scolded him: "Why didn't you turn off the lights? Don't you know how to save electricity? Also, after the body was disposed of, you didn't know how to wipe it on the ground. Look at the blood on the ground."
While apologizing, Lean carefully followed Pig and walked into an elevator deep in the hall. The elevator slowly dropped deeper underground; when the elevator door opened, Lean's eyes widened and he raised his head.
My feet walked into the darkness - under a row of dim lights above my head, what appeared in front of one person and one pig was a long train tunnel.
At the end of the track, there was a lonely train locomotive sitting, but all the carriages behind it were gone. Zhu Dang climbed up first, turned on the automatic driving system, and sat in the locomotive with Rean.
"Isn't the headquarters in the underground farm?" Lien asked carefully after the carriage clanked onto the road.
"You want the elders to sleep on the dirt floor too?" Fan Ping sneered.
"Oh, no, no, that's not what I meant...I was just a little surprised."
"Some of the internal operations of our farm will be informed to you only after you pass the assessment. What's all the fuss about." Fan Ping said, patting the seat with his pig's trotters, and said: "Look at the front of this train.
Stay in the tunnel for me to get into the headquarters. A freight train will not enter the farm tunnel until tomorrow morning. Do you know what it is for?"
Lean shook his head hurriedly.
"The doomsday energy extracted tomorrow will be put on that train and transported to the headquarters for unified processing." Fan Ping said with a smile, "We are only the third station on this line, and there are several more stations behind it. One
The underground farm is just one stop.”
"So that's it," Lien had just said, but he saw Zhu's expression suddenly paused. Fanping hurriedly put his hoof into his trouser pocket, and dug around in the apparently empty trouser pocket for a while, but found that
A communicator came out that was constantly vibrating and the green light was flashing.
"Fourth uncle?" Fanping seemed to have known who was on the other side for a long time. As soon as he picked him up, he immediately changed into a respectful and serious tone. "Ah? You won't let us go to the headquarters? We are all on the train... Oh, you
Waiting for us at the next stop?"
Zhu listened blankly to what "fourth uncle" said. After a while, he hung up the communicator and put it back into his trouser pocket. As soon as the trouser pocket bulged, it immediately became flat again.
"What, what's wrong?" Lean asked.
"The fourth uncle is in the tunnel of Carroll's farm and said that he would preside over your assessment and transformation process there." Fanping smacked his lips and said to himself: "I'm just surprised that he went to Carlo
What are you doing there...Could it be that Carol has already sold me?"
Its concerns obviously did not cause a shadow in Lien's heart. He was focused on the upcoming assessment and was not paying attention to anything. From time to time, he would mutter something silently, as if he was reciting something over and over again; it was just an opportunity for him to practice.
Not much, the next stop was much closer than the headquarters. A few minutes later, the train slowly slowed down in another dark tunnel and stopped next to a platform.
On the platform, three tall, round pigs were already standing.
They stood motionless, their six pairs of small black eyes staring at the approaching train.
The leader pig, except for black glasses and black shorts, is no different from the other two pigs around him. Ordinary domestic pigs have different physiological characteristics such as color and body shape, but the pig-type degenerate species almost all look the same.
; Even if there is a difference, it is so subtle that it is difficult to detect.
Fanping immediately took a few steps forward, bowed slightly, and said with a smile: "Fourth uncle! Why are you here at the farm? We can go to the headquarters without you having to walk..."
"Has an outsider sneaked in?" Fourth uncle glanced at it and immediately made Fanping choke.
It scratched the pig behind it several times, and then stammered: "Hey, this, you..."
"Stop umming, I already know it." Fourth uncle waved his hoof and said impatiently: "We will discuss the matter of evolution after the assessment. Is this your human assistant?"
Li En quickly stepped forward to greet him, nodded and said, "Yes, I'm just here to take the assessment, Mr. Pig."
Uncle Fourth turned around, motioned for the other pig to come up and unfolded a stack of paper.
"The final assessment is not difficult," the fourth uncle said to Li En in a pleasant tone. "What we need to examine is your most basic cognition. The more fundamental something is, the more important it is. The more we can tell whether you are one of us."
The talents we need. As for details such as farm operations, you can learn those things slowly later.”
Li En nodded flattered and said, "Yes, I will definitely perform well."
In addition to the fourth uncle and the pig that seemed to be "Carol", the pig holding a document also seemed to play the role of an assistant. The pig cleared its throat and said to Lien: "Next,
I will ask you a series of questions, and you cannot think about each question for more than three seconds. Are you ready?"
When Lean hurriedly replied "Ready", the pig named Uncle Fourth took two steps forward, raised his nose, and took a few deep breaths of the cool air in the tunnel.
"...Why does it seem to smell like an evolved person," it said in a low voice, and no one nearby heard it.
