Chapter 224: Pig Slaughter Underway—evisceration
Ainuo operated the mechanical arm to flip the entire pig over, facing everyone with its belly up.
Xiang Chuan reached out and touched it. They had all changed into isolation gloves that fit tightly on their hands during the sterilization just now, which could provide real-time tactile sensation feedback to their hands, making it feel no different from touching with actual hands.
The surface of the big fat pig had already been cleaned very smoothly. Xiang Chuan felt that with this level of smoothness, it could probably be used directly to make leather shoes. Although modern people might look down on this quality.
After checking the surface, Xiang Chuan nodded to Ainuo, signaling that he could proceed to the next step.
Receiving the instruction, Ainuo opened another light screen and began operating the instrument to perform a dialysis scan on the pig. Soon, a one-to-one hologram of the entire pig appeared next to the platform.
At this time, Xiang Chuan also opened her own light screen and pulled up the pork structure diagram she had searched for on Geegle earlier. At noon, after repeatedly simulating it more than a dozen times in her mind against this structure diagram, she still felt uneasy, so she had to open the page publicly to operate while comparing it.
This hologram equipment was the operable device used by the meat processing plant when deconstructing a whole cow or a whole chicken. Xiang Chuan took the stylus handed over by Ouyang Yating and first drew a line on the pig head section. With this stroke, the entire pig on the hologram presented a state of head and body separation.
Immediately after, Xiang Chuan pressed a button on the stylus to reduce the operating force, cutting open the pig’s belly. The equipment had completely scanned the internal organs inside the pig body, so after cutting open the hologram pig’s belly, the internal organs inside could be clearly seen. Xiang Chuan removed them one by one, switched the operation mode of the stylus, opened the pork in whole pieces, then drew a line along the midline of the spine, splitting the entire pig in half.
This operation left the animal husbandry employees watching in hologram mode quite puzzled, because in their cognition, only the meat parts of pork were needed, and the pig’s biggest advantage was having lots of meat and few bones. Why didn’t this little girl remove the bones from the start?
The watching students, on the other hand, were somewhat frightened. Mainly because this operable hologram equipment restored the pork too realistically, with internal organs and subcutaneous flesh reproduced faithfully, making the faces of students from other classes look a bit unwell.
Even the Class Eleven students who had observed Class Eight killing chickens and fish up close felt some discomfort. They looked with complex expressions at the Class Eight students carefully observing the big fat pig next to the holographic projection, wondering: How do these people from Class Eight have no reaction at all?
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Actually, there were still some people in Class Eight Grade One who were frightened by Xiang Chuan’s operation, such as Qing Ke and Chou Manman, who were greatly startled by the pig internal organs. When they saw Xiang Chuan use the stylus to remove the hologram pig’s internal organs from the pig body and casually toss them on the ground, they almost screamed out loud.
Mainly because this holographic projection reproduced the pig’s internal organs too “vividly,” even recreating the secretions from the large intestine and small intestine, scaring these students who had never seen fresh internal organs of large livestock quite badly.
However, Xiang Chuan’s actions interrupted their chance to make embarrassing wails.
Xiang Chuan directly divided the entire pig into four major pieces with the stylus. If it were a 21st century pig farmer, they would certainly recognize that she had divided the pork into front leg meat, middle section, hind leg meat, and abdomen.
Before starting, she had opened several light screens that looked completely blank to outsiders. On them were professional pig slaughter illustrations and explanations she had found on Geegle. There was no way around it; this was Xiang Chuan’s first time personally disassembling a pig. Without these illustrative guides and the hologram providing scene simulation, she really wouldn’t have dared to start.
After putting down the hind leg meat, Xiang Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, then waved her hand grandly:
“Yating, Liang Gong, follow my operations here to divide the pork. If there’s anything you don’t know, you can let the AI assist with the operation. After removing the internal organs, don’t throw them away; keep them, I need to process them later.”
With that, she sent the recording of the hologram operation to the two.
Receiving the order, Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong both tensed up completely. They had compressed laser cutters in their hands, and mere pig bones couldn’t stump them, but this was their first time operating on a whole large poultry, truly the first time since birth. Their hands holding the compressed laser cutters couldn’t help but tremble.
“Put on your masks before operating.” Xiang Chuan instructed, looking around, “Everyone else too. The pig internal organs include the pork large intestine, which might have residual excrement inside.”
With that, she pressed the ear clips on both ears, and transparent light membranes instantly extended from the top ends of the ear clips, covering the lower half of Xiang Chuan’s face.
The other students also activated their masks one after another, nervously watching the pork on the platform.
Liang Gong compared the positions on the hologram and drew a line behind the pig ear root, then carefully stepped back to make way for Ouyang Yating’s operation.
Ouyang Yating took a deep breath, activated her compressed laser cutter, adjusted the laser length to the appropriate position, and under Xiang Chuan’s countdown of “Three, two, one, go!”, decisively cut off the big head of this fat pig.
“Wow!”
“Dangerous!”
“Pot! Pot! Where’s the container!”
The pig head was indeed cut off just as Xiang Chuan had demonstrated earlier, but along with it came splashing blood foam and secretions onto Liang Gong, scaring him into forgetting he was wearing protective clothing. He flung the pig head away and tried to wipe the stains off his body.
The pig head was tossed into the air, and the blood foam flowing from the cut instantly scared the Class Eight crowd into fleeing the spot. Some with quicker reactions, like Nancy and Class President Lu Daiqing, hurriedly found the pre-prepared containers and carefully picked up the pig head that had fallen to the floor, placing it inside.
“Classmate Xiang Chuan, should this be thrown away?” Class President Lu Daiqing asked.
“Ah? Don’t throw it, don’t throw it! Find a place to put it first, process it together with the internal organs later.”
Hearing this, Xiang Chuan shuddered all over. Right now, this castrated pig might be the only one that could satisfy her mouth as a 21st Century person and modern person. If the only pig head meat was thrown away, where would she make up for the missing pig brain, pig ears, and pig tongue?
Hearing about internal organs, the Cultural Committee Member Mandy, who was responsible for cleaning them up, and Chou Manman, recognized in the class as having the second boldest guts after Xiang Chuan, both straightened up involuntarily. They had already seen the full view of the pig offal when Xiang Chuan operated the hologram earlier, so now they at least had some mental preparation. But the scene of the pig head flying with blood foam and bits of brain matter was really hard for them to calm down from.
Opening the belly was Liang Gong’s job. He, who had just been startled by the pig head, still hadn’t recovered. He thumped his little heart and stood in front of the platform. The compressed laser cutter in his hand had already been adjusted in length based on the data from when Xiang Chuan disassembled the pork.
“Operate carefully, don’t damage the internal organs. If necessary, during operation, let the AI help scan and check the laser knife’s length.”
Xiang Chuan instructed repeatedly with some unease. She had just done it with a hologram, so it felt not too difficult, but seeing Liang Gong hesitating nearby made her worry.
Xiang Chuan didn’t know much about how mechanized slaughterhouses disassembled pork, but when she was young, she had seen butchers in the village slaughterhouse use huge knives to slowly cut open pig bellies bit by bit, to avoid damaging the internal organs. Modern compressed laser cutters, which didn’t worry about getting stuck by bones, were much more convenient, but in occasions like this where avoiding damage to internal organs was needed, it still made people sweat.
Liang Gong took several deep breaths, and finally brought the knife down along the cutting line marked by Ouyang Yating. The auxiliary scanning AI followed his hand movements closely, providing uninterrupted voice guidance in his earphones to correct his actions.
Finally, one cut all the way through. A beautiful incision was made on the smooth pig belly skin, exciting the watching Class Eight Grade One students so much that they couldn’t help cheering.
Xiang Chuan stepped forward, flipped to check the condition of the internal organs under the belly skin, and only after confirming no damage at all did she heave a heavy sigh of relief.
After thoroughly mastering pig slaughter this time, it’s still better to hand this process over to machines. Watching people, especially introverted minors, use a small knife that can easily cut through thigh bones to disassemble a pig is still a bit too stimulating. Xiang Chuan quietly wiped sweat in her heart.
The dialogue buildup in episode 6 of GQX was so satisfying for this UC fan
