A furious shout!
River could not see Su Xiao's movements at all. He only felt everything before his eyes blur.
By the time Su Xiao sheathed his blade, an opening large enough for one person to enter had already been cut into the rolling door at the barn entrance.
Though worried about Randy's safety, River was still stunned by Su Xiao's swordsmanship.
That strike had been even faster than a Cyberpsycho.
River now somewhat understood why Su Xiao knew Rogue, and why he could chat and laugh with her so naturally.
People who were awesome naturally gravitated toward other awesome people.
"What are these...?"
The three of them entered through the newly cut opening. When they saw the scene inside the barn, both of the others froze in place. Only Su Xiao had known what was inside.
Two rows of green-glowing mechanical nurseries stretched neatly along both sides of them. Huge pipes were inserted into the nurseries, connecting them to the machinery and glowing with an eerie green light.
Everything was fully automated. Even when no one was present, the system could operate on its own as long as it had been configured in advance and supplied with enough food and water.
But the things lying in those nurseries were not vegetable or flower seedlings.
They were people.
More precisely, they were the missing children.
A child lay in every mechanical nursery. They wore nothing but underwear, and a hood covered each of their heads. Pipes of the sort used to feed sick cattle and sheep were connected to the hoods.
At that moment, Su Xiao suddenly understood what Harris had meant when he called himself a farmer who took care of cattle and sheep in the email he had sent Randy.
He had meant it literally.
He had