There are many fools among the nobles of the Empire, yet they all live a life above others.

So ordinary people mistakenly believe the best way to cross social classes is to possess force and then learn to pilot a Mecha.

Su Xiaocai admires the way the Empire controls the humans under it, brainwashing them into becoming unthinking dogs, obeying orders without question, and attributing all misfortunes to a bad birth.

If a rebellious wolf appears among the dogs, send enough dogs to deal with the wolf.

Anyway, those who emerge from the battles can become one of the upper class.

Such cunning.

Don’t think the method is stupid. It’s not suitable for the Ten Stars System because everyone can basically read, and most people have some ability to discern right from wrong.

In the Empire, it genuinely works and can last for hundreds of years without decline.

Even though Xiao Wanzi is highly intelligent, it cannot possess the complex and contradictory mind of a human. "Will those captives die?" The Empire doesn’t reclaim them, the Ten Stars System despises them, they’re homeless, and can’t even roam, so death is the only complete release.

"Not necessarily." If they all die, there’s nowhere to bury them, and even burning Insect Man corpses is too much of a task.

Su Xiaocai patted Xiao Wanzi, "Do you pity them?"

"I don’t know what pity is." Xiao Wanzi tilted its head, "If they die, I don’t think I would feel sad."

"Pity is unrelated to emotions. It’s just a sudden feeling, like when you see an abandoned cub and some animals will instinctively take care of it." Su Xiaocai found it too difficult to explain human emotions since they are too complex to articulate, let alone to an intelligent robot.

"If they have no way out, Xiao Wanzi, what would you do?"

Xiao Wanzi immediately analyzed what Su Xiaocai meant, "Are you asking me to make a decision?"

"Yeah."

Xiao Wanzi said, "Caicai, did you forget? I can’t make decisions for humans. I’m just a butler, I can only manage Caicai’s life."

Just as Su Xiaocai thought Xiao Wanzi would stop there.

Xiao Wanzi continued, "If there were a lot of things Caicai couldn’t eat, I would try to make use of waste, can’t waste it. Waste doesn’t mean it can’t be repurposed, it might even become profitable, surplus value is still value."

Su Xiaocai looked at Xiao Wanzi in a daze, then laughed, "Thank you, Xiao Wanzi, for always looking out for me."

"Will Caicai have the uncanny valley effect?" Xiao Wanzi suddenly asked.

It knew that people find the little intelligences of the Law Enforcement Department useful yet also fear them.

"If I were afraid, I wouldn’t have made you." Su Xiaocai didn’t dwell on this, "I have to interview cat trainers tomorrow, this place isn’t suitable for interviews." She didn’t want to publicly expose Huahua and Ah Bao yet.

"Will you come with me to the estate?"

"Yes, wherever Caicai goes, I want to follow." Xiao Wanzi spun around joyfully, planning to change its skin and look beautiful as an interviewer.

This time, the interviewers not only include Su Xiaocai and Ji Li but also the other three cats at home.

These three cats each have different personalities.

The bodyguards pamper them a lot, but even so, they are cats with the nature of a mouse, a bit fierce towards unfamiliar people, especially Yali, who was once tamed by Huahua to suppress its ferocity.

Having cats conduct the interview is naturally simple.

In half a day, without catnip, they have to get familiar with the three cats, or get them to understand simple commands.

This condition is extremely harsh; those who passed the first round and planned to come for the second interview decided not to come immediately.

Of the more than three hundred people who passed the initial selection, only thirty showed up. They almost all live on Capital Star, while those a bit further away gave up.

The interview is held at the entrance of the estate.

Ah Bao’s belly has started to bulge, with at least four little ones inside, and it’s not long until delivery, about twenty days or so.

If they don’t pick someone soon, Su Xiaocai fears it will be too late.

Having the three cats act as interviewers is indeed quite unique, and thus, even the bodyguards who were off duty came to see who can win the seat of taking care of the cats.

Su Xiaocai sat on a small stool, the screen in front of her displaying some experimental materials. She glanced up at these people, "Weren’t there thirty people? Why are there thirty-one?"

Ji Li glanced up, stunned by the sight of a figure, "Xue Zhiyi, what is he doing here?"

Everyone else was trying ways to get friendly with the three cats.

Yali is the fiercest, so others went to fuss over the other two, leaving only Xue Zhiyi crouched under a tree, already getting familiar with the fiercest one.

Yali was the tortoiseshell cat brought back from the fair, extremely fierce when first brought back.

And Xue Zhiyi, somehow, managed to get familiar with Yali just like that.