from night city

"Hey Lucy, I haven't been here in a while. Want something to drink?"

Lucy held out three fingers: "Just three glasses of ice water. We have something to do later and it's not convenient to drink."

Claire gave River a quick look.

"Is this your new partner? He looks like he came from the NCPD."

"I'm River Ward."

"You can call me Claire."

Three glasses of ice water were served quickly, Lucy paid, and then saw Su Xiao coming back.

"His grandma's, Rogge said that all her aerostats have been loaned out, and only an old helicopter can be lent to us."

Lucy told a cold joke without expression: "Strictly speaking, Rogge is indeed old enough to be your grandma."

Su Xiao: "..."

……

The three of them took the elevator and arrived on the roof of the house above the "afterlife".

They waited for about a few minutes before they saw a helicopter flying from a distance and landing on the roof.

The person driving the helicopter was neither Crispin Welland nor Emerick, but another Eastern European that Su Xiao didn't know.

"Mr. Su, please come up and tell me the coordinates."

The three people boarded the helicopter and fastened their seat belts. The helicopter slowly took off and headed towards the target location.

Flying in the sky is much faster than running on the ground. It took almost no time for them to reach the place marked by the IP address.

The pilot hovered the helicopter in mid-air, turned back to the passengers and said, "There is a farm below us."

Hearing this, Su Xiao looked down through the glass of the helicopter.

There is a fence surrounding a farm with several standing water towers, a barn and several other houses.

River also saw the farm below, and he couldn't help but said anxiously: "Quick! Let us down quickly!"

"Don't worry, wait."

Lidya Su pointed downward.

In the scanning of the tactical eyepiece, it can be clearly seen that the open space is densely covered with laser trip mines.

At the same time, there are two activated automatic turrets on the front of the house in the middle.

These two automatic turrets are activated 24 hours a day, which means that if someone breaks in by mistake or passes outside the farm fence, they may be attacked by the automatic turrets.

The height of the helicopter is now outside the range of the automatic turret, but if it lowers its altitude and enters the range of the automatic turret...

This 2023 helicopter cannot withstand the strafing fire of two automatic turrets.

Not to mention that there are laser trip mines underneath, which will kill you if you step on them.

Although Su Xiao knew that River was in a hurry, she still didn't want to worry.

He looked at Lucy.

"Lucy, from this height, can you turn off those two automatic turrets?"

Lucy didn't speak, but nodded.

Her eyes flashed red.

A few seconds later, the two automatic turrets lowered their heads, and the infrared laser rays used for aiming disappeared.

Seeing that the automatic turret had been turned off by Lucy, Su Xiao said to the helicopter pilot: "Drive the helicopter above the barn, face the side to the open space, and I will shoot them all down with the machine gun."

Laser trip mines can be hacked using hacking techniques and then disarmed remotely.

But there were too many laser trip mines in the open space in the yard.

It takes too much time to remove them all, so it is better to remove them physically.

Su Xiao signaled Lucy and River to sit still, while he walked to the machine gun position, sat down, and turned on the machine gun's safety.

At the same time, the helicopter also flew above the barn, using the side of the helicopter where the machine gun was located, facing the open space where laser trip mines were deployed.

This ensures that the machine gun will not accidentally hit the barn where the missing children are kept.

Su Xiao pulled the trigger, and the machine gun bullet was thrown out like a golden whip, causing bursts of explosions in the open space.

The explosion lasted for almost half a minute before finally stopping.

All the mines below were finally cleared.

Su Xiao used the tactical eyepiece to scan again to confirm that there were no laser trip mines and automatic turrets before letting the helicopter send them down.

However, due to the detonation of the mines, the ground below was uneven.

Therefore, the helicopter did not land directly on the open ground, but hovered about two meters above the ground.

It's only two meters long. Even Geralt in the latest game with Chinese voice can't fall to his death.

Let alone the three of them.

The three people jumped out of the helicopter respectively. Su Xiao gave the pilot a thumbs up through the glass. The latter also gave a thumbs up, and then slowly drove the helicopter into the air.

Instead of leaving, find a place to land outside the farm.

"Come with me, this way."

Su Xiao took Lucy and River outside the barn. Just through the tactical goggles, Su Xiao could confirm that the kidnapped children were inside the barn.

"Everyone is inside."

River stepped forward and pushed the closed rolling shutter door, then looked around and found that there was no other entrance.

"I'll go look behind the barn and maybe I can find a way in."

"Don't bother me. Leave it to me. You guys stay back."

After asking Lucy and River to retreat, Su Xiao pulled out Murasame from her waist and raised his hands above his head.

"drink--"

A loud shout!

River couldn't see Lidya Su's movements clearly at all, he only felt a blur in front of his eyes.

Then when Su Xiao put the knife back into the scabbard, an entrance had been cut into the rolling shutter door at the barn door for one person to enter.

Although he was worried about Randy's safety, River was also shocked by Su Xiao's sword skills.

This shooting speed is even faster than that of a gambling madman.

River now somewhat understands why Su Xiao can know Rogge and can chat and laugh with Rogge.

Awesome people and awesome people can play together.

……

"these are……"

From this cut entrance, the three people who walked in saw the scene inside the barn clearly. Except for Su Xiao, who had already known what was going on inside, the other two froze on the spot.

Two rows of green-lighting mechanical hotbeds were neatly lined up on both sides of the three people. Huge pipes were inserted into these hotbeds, connected to the machinery and equipment, and they were also glowing with green lights.

These are fully automated operations. Even if people are not here, as long as they are set up in advance and sufficient food and drinking water are provided, they can be automatically supplied.

But the problem is that the seedlings in these hotbeds are not vegetables or flowers.

but people.

To be more precise, the missing children.

On each mechanical hotbed, there is a child lying on the bed. They are wearing only a pair of shorts, with a cover on their head connected to a feeding tube for sick cattle and sheep.

At this moment, Su Xiao suddenly understood what Harris meant when he called himself a farmer who took care of cattle and sheep in the email he sent to Randy.

Co-authoring is literal.

He really regarded the children he abducted as cattle and sheep.

"Randy!"

Standing in the middle of the dark and empty aisle, River shouted.

But no one responded.

It’s weird if someone responds.

These children have fallen into comas, and those who are not in coma are also dead.

How could one possibly respond to River?

In the end, Lucy used the Qilusi prosthetic eye to scan the surrounding environment and finally found Randy's location.

"Where is he."

Randy, like the other children, was fixed on a heavy iron frame and had a huge tube on his face.

Fortunately, although he fell into a coma, he was still alive.

Su Xiao quickly made a judgment and gave instructions to the other two people.

"Lucy, the room inside should be the control room. Go turn off the machine."

"River, call the NCPD. Not only Randy, but also other children are here. Ask their parents to take them...and their bodies away."

The NCPD has done nothing, so at least they must be responsible for the aftermath, otherwise what are they doing with taxpayers' money?

Lucy hurried into the control room, while River contacted the control center through the implanted communicator.

"10-52, repeat, 10-52 situation was found on a farm in the south of the city."

10-52, in the NCPD police communication code, means that support including an ambulance is needed.

"Sending coordinates...Send a team quickly, no, at least send a few more, hurry up!"

After River's words fell, the machinery and equipment in the mechanical hotbed

, all screens turned black.

At the same time, Lucy's voice came from inside: "My side is disconnected."