As Alex and Felicia stepped forward, her gaze went to the first room to her right, immediately noticing the significantly larger area available to the occupant, who, in this case, had slightly tanned skin and black hair, looking to be of Latin American origin.
Unlike the women from before, who seemed to be in semi-permanent bondage, this woman was free from all restraints and was casually sitting on her bed, reading a book whose title was covered. The only thing that made the situation somewhat odd was that she was naked, save for a collar on her throat—likely serving as the medium that Gaia used to manage her.
"Meow…"
"No, she can't see outside. The glass is opaque on her side. It was the same for the rooms upstairs," Alex answered as if reading Felicia's mind, as he'd been doing since the start of their walk. After years of communicating in cat, Alex had learned to read Felicia's micro-expressions with perfect accuracy, allowing him to almost perfectly translate most of her meowing just based on her emotions. He didn't even need to use any unfair means, like actually reading her mind, to do that.
Felicia let out a cute purr that made Alex pause for a double-take as he turned to look at her with a raised brow.
"Meow…" She whimpered shyly, lowering her gaze from the embarrassment of making such a sound.
"Cute," Alex commented before continuing on their walk.
Felicia missed the next couple of cells on her way forward before Alex stopped, prompting her to look up. The woman in the cell in front of them surprised her enough to get a suppressed yelp out of her. With lustrous golden skin and flowing blonde hair, the woman looked like she was wearing body paint, but certain discrepancies forced her to accept that the woman simply possessed golden skin.
"Meow…"
"Yeah, this is a criminal from the Sovereign," Alex said. "Ayesha is quite reluctant to send her people into my hands, but I have still brought quite a few of them here."
The golden woman was currently on all fours, not too far from Felicia's current state, but was completely immobilized. A floor pillory kept her in place, shackling her arms and legs to the device and forcing her to stay in that position as a pole from the ground connected to a metal shackle on her throat, and another pole connected to a metal shackle on her waist, forcing her to maintain her position with a slightly arched back. At the same time, all three of her entrances were currently being assaulted by tentacle-like metal appendages, constantly going in and out of her.
"Meow…" Felicia grew thoughtful as she observed the suction cups extracting Bioenergy from the woman.
"Yeah, women from the Sovereign have better physiques and inherently produce more Bioenergy compared to human women. The only complicated thing was to actually get her to produce it."
"Ou?"
"They are genetically designed to abhor the process of natural births and anything adjacent. I had to establish a whole new hormone infusion regimen to activate those recessed traits for these women."
Looking at the alien woman who looked to be in a state of constant bliss despite the large appendages that had penetrated both her lower holes and her mouth, Felicia's desire not to return here was only reinforced.
These women were criminals of the highest order and likely deserved death, so Alex's actions in exploiting their value were morally ambiguous at best and not nearly the worst thing that he had done. But knowledge is one thing, and actually seeing things is another.
As they moved forward, Felicia saw the imprisoned women in far more varied states compared to before.
Some of them were restrained and being fucked like the Sovereign woman, some were simply lazing around and passing the time, some were working out with quite a high intensity, and some were experiencing a special kind of bondage workout that Alex had only done with Felicia once before, concluding that she wasn't meant for it. As much as Felicia enjoyed pet play, that was about the only thing. Beyond that, she was as far from a masochist as they came and was far more biased toward vanilla intimacy without too many restraints.
At the end of the hall, they exited onto another staircase that led to the lower floors. At this point, Felicia was getting a little tired of all the walking since she had been following Alex along for over an hour by now.
Alex noticed her plight but didn't offer any comfort just yet, leading her down two flights of stairs as she kept moving without a word of complaint. Finally, they entered the negative ninth-floor hallway as Alex paused in front of the first cell on the right.
Felicia took a breath and looked at the sight inside. The breath hitched as she saw a blonde woman in almost the same predicament as her, walking on a treadmill, as Bioenergy was constantly sucked out from her breasts while an appendage protruding from the wall behind her stirred her insides. The only addition to the woman's outfit was the blindfold and headphones, aside from the suction cups on her breasts; otherwise, she was in the same restraints as Felicia. Unable to peel her eyes away, she didn't even notice that this room was even larger than the ones that she'd seen on the negative sixth floor, large enough to be used as the living room of a one-bedroom apartment.
"Let's take a moment, okay?" Alex said as the glass panel slid open to the size of a door.
"Meow!?" Felicia was struck by a wave of panic and disgust as Alex started leading her inside the room.
"We aren't doing anything with her, just resting. Don't worry about it," Alex said, calming Felicia down a little as she hesitantly entered behind him, expecting to be struck by a musky scent of sweat and sex but instead being greeted by a soft floral one produced by a room freshener. Ignoring the woman's constant moans of pleasure, the room looked spotlessly clean, slowly receding the disgust that Felicia felt.
Alex ignored the restrained woman and walked to the bed with Felicia and sat down.
"I don't handle things manually, but this place is kept spotlessly clean by Gaia. I don't have any intention of spending time and effort manually dealing with the biological issues and illnesses that the women here might encounter, which would lower production. This facility is almost entirely mechanized and requires minimal intervention from my side."
Sitting down, he guided Felicia to sit between his legs on her knees as she rested her elbows on his thighs and looked up with a pure, almost thoughtless gaze.
"What is it?" he patted her head and toyed with her earlobe.
Ignoring the woman's moans in the background, Felicia looked around at the walls that seemed to have posters of a very specific metal band, and even what seemed like a closet, before turning back to Alex and giving him a faint mewl.
"Those who haven't yet awakened Qi are still ordinary women and possess no comfort or autonomy over their lives. At best, Gaia gives them some basic benefits in the form of entertainment as a means of motivation. The ones who have awakened Qi, however, are treated differently. They have quite a few privileges, all based on an internal merit point system."
"Uw?"
"Gaia assigns these merit points based on multiple factors—obedience, growth, the amount of Bioenergy extracted over a day, and a few more. They can use these merit points to exchange for privileges. Those include entertainment, life comforts like different clothing, and even the Anti-Age Serum."
"Mm?" Felicia frowned at the mention of the Anti-Age Serum.
"Unlike the normal women upstairs, the ones on this floor have all awakened Qi and provide far more value to me. Even someone who has just awakened provides me with a tenth of a unit every day. It would take over five hundred women to match the output of a single Qi awakener. I am not letting them exhaust their lifespan for no reason. Especially since they can grow."
"Mmm…" Felicia gently elbowed his abdomen with a shining look in her eyes and gently nudged his crotch with her chin.
"Do you want to learn as well?" Alex asked as he pulled open his zipper and lowered his pants.
"Meow…" Felicia gave him a cute meow and licked the shaft that he'd just freed.
"We'll talk about this later," Alex said, resting his hand on her head as she took him into her mouth. "This floor still consists of those with slightly less talent and output, but on the lower floor, every single occupant provides me with over half a unit every day, with some even giving me a full unit daily. Unfortunately, that seems to be some sort of bottleneck point, and I haven't seen anyone break through that number yet. Even with regular training and practice, their Qi growth has become somewhat stagnant…"
Looking at his cat's engrossed expression as she mindlessly fellated him, Alex realized that she probably wasn't listening anymore and stopped talking, choosing to enjoy her meticulous service instead.
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