Inside a room of the slaughterhouse, ventilating fans were running at top speed to replace the air of the room with some fresh air but the stench of blood in this room was too strong to be removed by mere ventilating fans.
Alexander entered this room and felt a strong repulsion. His body didn't want to enter this room. His body jerked as he took a step forward.
"F**k this smell!"
But he still pinched his nose to cut off the air as well as smell and stepped inside with all his courage.
Inside the room, livestock like pigs and sheep were hanging upside down and were skinned alive while they were still conscious, with warm blood dripping down like tap water and their squeaks reverberating throughout the room. He looked one of the rows and then closed his eyes. He wasn't able to look anymore!
[ Kid, you have to do this ]
System detected his emotional instability and comforted him. This time, the voice was a bit caring and motivating.
Alexander shook his head and took a step back, "I can't do it. I was able to keep calm without seeing all of this but… but now, I can't do it."
[ Don't you want to rule the world and protect someone? ]
"I… I… " he tried to speak but wasn't able to speak a word again. With his closed eyelids all he was able to see, was a face of a little girl.
He was determined to find her and protect her for her life, the same way she protected him in his childhood.
He hesitated a bit as his eyelids trembled but he slowly opened his eyes and looked around.
The similar scenery was played again in front of his eyes. The squeaks of pigs were striking his head and heart.
"I think… this is called a test of determination." He mumbled and took a step forward towards a chamber to change clothes.
******
After changing his clothes to a butcher's plastic made clothes, he went towards a worker, chopping the skinned pigs.
"Hello! I am new owner of this place." he greeted the worker.
The worker who was in late 20s or early 30s, lifted his head and looked with a poker face, "I am the chief butcher here, My name is Yang Tao, I heard about you from the manager."
The man with the name Yang Tao was definitely not a man who talks a lot, his expression didn't have any hatred or malice in it, it was just an unwillingness to talk.
"Can you please teach me, a newcomer how to butcher cattle?"Alexander lowered himself as he asked for help. Looking at the cold and indifferent expression of Yang Tao, made Alexander a bit interested in this work.
"Huh?" Yang Tao frowned after lifting his head again.
Thinking that he didn't hear him, due to the noise. Alexander repeated himself, "Can you please teach me this?"
"You want to learn how to slaughter pigs?"He frowned. This didn't make any sense for Yang Tao. A man who can take out 15 million to buy this whole place, why would he need to learn this type of filthy and bloody thing?
Up down up down
Alexander nodded in his usual rhythm.
"Why?" Yang Tao asked with a confused yet frowning face.
"I… I want to gather some courage. I don't have the courage to look at blood." He answered honestly as he didn't have anything else to say.
Yang Tao now realised that this young man hasn't looked down towards the pig he was chopping and was just looking at wall beside him and thus he frowned even more and thought of something for a while and nodded.
"Hold this Knife!" Yang Tao passed him a knife and then pointed at the pig, "Look at it."
Alexander looked down at the pig lying on the table without any outer skin, it was just a pile of flesh and blood. A single look and soon his vision blackened.