Chapter 508: Buying the Cursed Children

"Brother Lingyun, the condition of those children is very bad!" The airplane cabin door was opened, and Yese Xiayin said to Lingyun with an anxious look on her face.

"Tsk, if only Yuejiang were here!" Busujima Saeko said.

"There's no helping it, Yuejiang seems to be busy with something in another world right now." Lingyun spread his hands, his tone carrying a hint of helplessness. "For now, let's just get these children back to the small town first!"

"Leave the perimeter defense to you all; I'll go check on those children first." Lingyun walked quickly into the cabin.

Inside the cabin, several girls were already lying on the floor, their faces showing expressions of pain. On certain parts of their bodies, there were already signs of deformation. These areas began to recover under the effect of the Purification Light, but immediately appeared again right after.

"It seems that because their bodies are weak and they are carrying injuries, combined with mental exhaustion, the condition of these children is very serious. The erosion rate of the Gastrea Virus in their bodies has already exceeded fifty percent, and my Purification Light can only slightly suppress them!" The light wings behind Yese Xiayin flapped repeatedly, and one ray of light after another fell continuously onto those children.

"Let me do it!" Lingyun opened both his hands, and platinum-colored light emanated from his body, instantly enveloping the Cursed Children present.

Under the shroud of the Purification Light Domain, the Cursed Children in the area could not help but show a look of relief on their faces. The external wounds on their bodies also began to slowly recover under the illumination of this light.

"Hiss—"

Just at this moment, a large group of Gastrea appeared again around the airplane, surrounding it.

"Blood Moon—Funeral!"

A blood-red blade aura whistled through the air, slicing the Gastrea along the way, along with the decayed trees, into two, then shredding them into fragments.

"Akame, you're here!" Looking at the petite figure landing beside her, Luo Yexi showed a look of relief on her face.

"Mm, where is Master?" Akame panted slightly; clearly, that move just now had taken a significant toll on her.

"Lingyun is inside looking after those children; their condition isn't very good," Busujima Saeko said.

"Screech—" A series of vehicles pulled up in front of the airplane along the path blasted open by Akame's blade aura. If Akame hadn't used her blade aura to clear the way, their arrival time here would have been at least twice as long.

"Sister Yexi, how are those little sisters doing?" A little loli jumped down from the lead car; it was Xiaona, who had been in the mission hall earlier.

"Don't worry, Lingyun is there!" Yexi said.

"Quick, let's take those companions back!" Xiaona shouted.

"Yes, Big Sister—" A chorus of uniform loli voices rang out from the motorcade. Little girls under ten years old jumped off the cars one by one, took out various equipment, and ran toward the airplane in an orderly fashion.

"Hum—" Golden light suddenly lit up on the airplane's fuselage. Under the golden light, one side of the cabin was neatly broken open, revealing the situation inside. The little lolis, in groups of a few, used the equipment in their hands to lift the Cursed Children from the cabin onto the cars one by one.

Although they were just children, their actions were extremely swift; in just a few minutes' time, they had transferred all the children here onto the cars.

"Woo—" A strange, roaring sound came, and a large group of flying-type Gastrea lunged toward Lingyun and the others.

"Boom—" A huge black shadow suddenly swooped down from the sky, and monstrous flames spewed from the black shadow's mouth, burning that group of Gastrea into ashes.

Kurome stood atop a giant bone dragon, coldly watching the flying-type Gastrea gathering toward this place. After leaving the Akame ga Kill World, Kurome had abandoned her Teigu, leaving it in the newborn Empire. However, she had also obtained more powerful Undead Magic from Lingyun, and this bone dragon was one of her most powerful henchmen now.

"Yexi, tell me about the situation with this batch of children." Standing on the roof of the speeding car, Lingyun said to Luo Yexi.

"I encountered these children when I was tracking a Cursed Child in Osaka. At first, I thought this organization was just an ordinary child-abduction ring, so I didn't pay much attention to it, just intending to wipe them out while I was at it. But when I reached their base, I discovered that this group of human traffickers was specifically selling Cursed Children." There was a hint of anger on Luo Yexi's face. "Because Cursed Children are shunned by the vast majority of people, even if a Cursed Child disappears, no one will pay any attention, which makes the behavior of those people extremely rampant. If it weren't for the fact that these children's condition is so serious, I would have wanted to completely destroy that organization directly."

"Selling Cursed Children? If there weren't enough profit, no one would do such a thing. After all, the combat power of Cursed Children is not weak, and sometimes you have to take huge risks to capture them! Did you ask who is buying the Cursed Children?" Lingyun asked.

"No, they only know that this batch of Cursed Children will eventually be sold to Meiguo," Luo Yexi said.

"Meiguo?" Lingyun raised an eyebrow. "I remember, in Meiguo, there seems to be a person named Lan Ande! Heh, I see. This guy, he really must die after all!"

"Lan Ande?" Luo Yexi muttered, then a flash of realization crossed her eyes. "I remember that guy; he seems to be one of the Four Sages of this world!"

"That's right, Lan Ande, the highest person in charge of Meiguo's NEXT. If I remember correctly, that person violated the common oath of the Four Sages, subjecting healthy Cursed Children to the Mechanical Soldier Surgery, creating Initiators who are both Cursed Children and possess the abilities of Mechanical Soldiers! In that case, is he buying these Cursed Children to use them as experimental subjects?" Luo Yexi said slowly; the distorted air around her revealed her anger.

The Mechanical Soldier Surgery refers to a plan to use the power of Varanium to create the strongest soldiers to fight against Gastrea, which later disappeared after the powerful strength of the Cursed Children was discovered. This kind of surgery was originally a surgery with a very low success rate, and only those who were already on the verge of death would consider undergoing it.

Due to the constitution of the Cursed Children, it is also necessary to use Hu Zhi Shouhudao that prevent the Cursed Children's bodies from regenerating during the surgery. The success rate of the Mechanical Soldier modification was already extremely low; if Hu Hejin instruments were used to modify the Cursed Children to prevent regeneration, the success rate would be even lower. The number of healthy Cursed Children who lost their lives on the operating table during this process is incalculable.

"I have already been to Meiguo a few times before this and destroyed several of that guy's experimental bases. That guy seems to have sensed something and has hidden himself very thoroughly; I haven't been able to catch him!" Lingyun said slowly. "It looks like I'll have to set aside some more time to go to Meiguo again!"

"I'll go with you when the time comes!" Luo Yexi said.

"No, you, Saeko, Kurome, and Akame keep an eye on those people who traffic Cursed Children during this time and see if you can find any clues. This time, we absolutely cannot let him run away!" Lingyun said.

"I understand." Luo Yexi nodded.