Terror at the Ranch (Part Four)

Ranch owner Hornard froze. He stared at the woman, his lips moving soundlessly. A long while passed before he forced a sentence through his teeth. "How can you be so shameless?"

"It's called honesty," the woman said with a smile.

Hornard's eyes widened. "You!"

"Enough of that. Let's get to the point," Xia Lun cut in, his voice grave. "I saw a strange cow in the cowshed just now. Hornard, it seemed to know you. It kept trying to talk to you. And considering the strange cowhide in the corner of the shed and the skinned dead cow where the security consultant disappeared, I think there's a good chance that cow used to be human."

"Turn a person into a cow? Livestock Transformation?" Hornard was stunned. "Isn't that something an old witch does in horror stories? Are you saying our enemy is an old witch? That's far beyond anything normal!"

"Normally, corpses don't come back to life," the woman said with a raised eyebrow and a smile. "And one more thing: Xia Lun was about to speak to that strange cow when the corpse revived. At the very moment they were going to communicate. Looks like the 'old witch' really didn't want us talking to that cow. So Xia Lun's theory does make some sense."

Xia Lun glanced at the woman, his voice even. "I don't need you to judge my theory. There's an easy way to test it. Show us the footage from the miniature camera you secretly installed in the cowshed, and we'll have our answer."

Hornard froze again. It took him a full three seconds to understand what Xia Lun meant. Then he glared at the woman, shocked and furious. "You installed a camera on my ranch?!"

The woman raised her hands in surrender, but her listless