For the first time with these hands…
As a precaution, a security guard has been assigned to me as my escort.
For someone like me with absolutely no experience in rough situations, this is honestly a reassuring presence.
This area is still in the midst of a mop-up operation, and it’s unclear how secure it is, so having even one such person accompanying me is comforting.
The space colony is managed using letters and numbers, and since I had been told the location, I was able to reach the place where civilians were being protected without getting lost.
According to what I heard from Mark, they were being sheltered in a large conference room-like space.
When I arrived at the designated location, just as Mark had described, there were about ten men and women sitting in a spacious conference room-like area, their faces showing extreme fatigue.
At the entrance, several fully-equipped soldiers were on standby, guarding this place.
I reported my affiliation at the entrance and was allowed inside.
Upon entering, I was immediately able to speak with one of the men nearby.
He said he had been a ship’s doctor on a passenger vessel, which was attacked a month ago, and he was brought here three days ago.
According to him, they were gathering medical professionals from various places here to perform organ harvesting surgeries.
It’s an incredibly gruesome story.
What he bitterly told me was something he had accidentally overheard the pirates talking about among themselves: the price of harvested organs was higher for children.
He said the pirates were boasting about how many children they had brought here.
Come to think of it, there were many children on the drifting ship, but they’re not here.
Huh?
What’s going on?
They say children are valuable, but only adults are in this place.
It seems the adults here weren’t brought as organ donors, but as slaves to extract the organs.
He also mentioned that if they were deemed unusable, they would be immediately downgraded to organ donors.
This explains why only adults are being protected here, but… if that’s the case, there must be people waiting for organ donation somewhere else.
And based on his story, there’s no doubt that many children are included among them.
It’s impossible that everyone brought here was immediately harvested for organs and discarded.
I contacted Her Highness via radio to report this.
Until my report, Her Highness had been in the central control room, shocked by the severity of the criminal evidence being uncovered one after another, and was vigorously investigating it, without any thought of there being victims.
Upon hearing my report and realizing this fact, she immediately halted the current operations and ordered all investigators and newly arrived riot police to search for civilians, including children.
Her Highness is also conducting searches using monitors in the central control room.
I called all available personnel from [Shunmin] to this location.
Regardless of their department, I summoned all trainees here to take care of the currently protected individuals.
Eventually, more people requiring protection are bound to be found.
I judged it important to secure manpower now.
I left Kate in charge of this area while I watch over the developments.
Soon after, I receive a radio call from Her Highness.
As I had feared, she says they’ve found many children.
I headed to the scene with some nearby trainees and several non-commissioned officers.
The location is apparently in a hospital-like building right next to here.
All the rooms that should be patient rooms are covered with bars, clearly resembling a prison.
Inside, over a hundred children had been abandoned.
The prison was, of course, locked, and the investigators who found it were at a loss.
I took out the laser gun from my waist and started breaking the lock.
No one tried to stop my actions.
Everyone was just watching what I was doing.
Using about half of the laser gun’s energy, I managed to create an opening large enough for a person to pass through.
I immediately used the trainees I brought to start rescuing the children.
For now, we’re taking them to that room where the adults are being protected.
There are two more similar rooms, and the riot police have started breaking the bars there to rescue the children as well.
Without realizing it, I had taken command at the scene, using the radio to call out Erin-san from [Shunmin], instructing her to immediately bring nutritious and easily digestible food that could be prepared in the kitchen to that room.
Also, to secure more manpower, I sent about ten trainees back to [Shunmin] to assist Erin-san.
I was shouting instructions at the scene until my voice was nearly gone.
I’m also worried about the weakened state of the children we’re rescuing.
I had everyone available search for blankets and such, and had them brought to that room.
As I was running around this area giving loud instructions, two girls with tired faces approached me.
One of them, the younger girl, appealed to me with worried eyes.
“Ma-kun is missing. He was taken away yesterday and hasn’t come back. Where’s Ma-kun?”
The child asked me, crying.
I crouched down and gently asked the girl.
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“Is Ma-kun your friend?”
“No, Ma-kun always protects me.”
Then the girl who seemed to be her older sister approached me.
“I’m sorry about my sister. But Ma-kun is a very important boy to my sister, no, to me as well.”
“I see, then we need to search for him. Uncle will go look for him. You two wait here with everyone else, okay?”
At that moment, I thought Ma-kun’s situation was hopeless, but I made the promise to them without saying anything.
How much I would later regret this conversation.
Based on the girl’s story, I had people search for any other places where children might be.
As I was busily running around, suddenly a man was standing in front of me.
The eyes of this person wearing a white coat were completely lifeless.
He looked like he could easily be a ghost from an occult movie, and he told me to follow him.
I followed the man, bringing a security guard with me.
The place we were led to was an area that included an operating room and what looked like an intensive care unit.
There, including this man, two doctors and several nurse-like people were standing in a daze.
Moreover, without exception, all of their eyes were lifeless.
It’s easy to imagine what had happened.
What they had been doing was harvesting organs from living people.
Although it might not have been their own will, it’s still unforgivable.
They probably understand what they’ve been doing, which is why they exude an atmosphere as if they’ve ceased to be human.
Guided by them, as I entered, I saw several children connected to life support machines.
“This child has about ten hours left, I’d say.”
The person who had guided us here said painfully to me.
Then, he presented a medical chart to me.
It said “heart extraction” on it.
“Why?”
I couldn’t help but ask him.
I couldn’t understand why they would go to the trouble of putting them on life support to keep them alive when they would only die after having their heart removed.
The story I heard from him was a demonic act that completely ignored human dignity.
He said it was to maintain the freshness of other organs.
Children’s organs can be sold for any price, but even so, finding organs that match people waiting for transplants isn’t so easy.
They would harvest organs one by one while the children were still alive so they could ship them out immediately when an order came in.
In this child’s case, they received an urgent order for a heart, so they extracted the heart first, but other organs were scheduled to be removed as orders came in.
He said this was a rare case.
This child was just being kept alive as long as possible until the other organs could be sold.
He said they had performed this child’s heart extraction surgery eight hours ago, just before we attacked this place.
“Is there any way to save…”
The extracted heart should be nearby.
He painfully said one word, “Impossible, the heart is already gone.”
………
………
………
After a moment of silence, I turned off the life support machine connected to the child.
The child quietly passed away immediately.
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Given the technologies so advanced that enable interstellar travel, how come the medical technologies were so lacking that and had to resort to organ transplant?
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probably cause the people doing this couldn’t afford to do normal methods etc without risk of getting spotted and prob have to pass background checks etc but either way i say no mercy for the scume behind this
Chinese Authors (Webnovel writers) Are not allowed to write about this type of stuff even though you know they want too. This is why I sincerely appreciate Japanese novels.
But because I know both countries I understand some of the tech, so it’s bizzare to me as well how this sci-fi world can’t save them lol (Me using common sense)