The Scavengers

Before 6:19 pm on June [-]

Finally seeing off the four Buddhas, Xiao Mo heaved a sigh of relief, closed the door and turned around, "What are you looking at?" He felt a little hungry again.

The child put down his palm, "It's nothing. Shall we go to the supermarket later?"

"Wait a minute." Xiao Mo pressed his forehead, wanting to avoid the child, but wherever he went, the child would follow.

"Uh, I have some private matters and need a little personal space."

The child suddenly said: "You have a secret."

Xiao Mo froze, and smiled unnaturally, "Hey, come and play, I'll wait..."

"I need to know that your secret will not affect me. After all, I have already paid a lot of adoption fees in advance. I don't want you, a temporary adopter, to die before fulfilling your responsibilities. I will be at a loss."

"Wait, when did you pay my adoption fee?" A guess appeared in Xiao Mo's mind.

"On the night of the 16th, if you didn't have my super nutrient solution, even if you don't die now, you will be miserable."

"It's you." Xiao Mo had already guessed, but he was still very surprised when he actually heard it.If the system in his brain is really not his illusion, how precious is the nutrient solution that even the legendary system can't distinguish the ingredients?

"Thank you!" There is no way to repay a great kindness, and Xiao Mo can only say these two words at present.

"So can you tell me your secret?" The child blinked innocently.

Xiao Mo looked into the child's eyes and squatted down. He knew that this child was extraordinary, but... could he really trust this child completely?

"Super nutrient solution." The child reminded him.Well, he is the Thank You Chart.

Xiao Mo laughed, and he really needed someone to help him analyze the current situation, at least he needed someone to tell him whether the system that appeared in his mind was real or an illusion.

After thinking about it, even if the child told about him, who would believe the childish words of a four or five-year-old child?And it's not that the child has a handle on him, at least he can produce that kind of nutrient solution, and he has such an IQ and knowledge beyond ordinary children, but he is wandering around, and he probably doesn't want to be noticed.

Xiao Mo pulled the child to sit on the sofa, opened his mouth and asked directly: "Hey, are you still there? What recycling system is that?"

The child raised his head, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.He thought the man's secret was that he possessed some kind of supernatural power, but he didn't expect that the real answer not only exceeded his expectations, but also directly entered the science fiction channel.

"I'm a waste picker training system, not a recovery system in the full sense." The voice in my head replied very seriously.

You are finally willing to speak out again!Xiao Mo clenched his fists, "What does the mother of gluttonous beast mean?"

System: "Explain in words you can understand, the mother of the gluttonous beast is the mother virus of the gluttonous beast virus."

Xiao Mo, who was despised for his IQ, didn't get angry, and asked a second question: "What is the gluttonous beast virus? What harm will it cause if it spreads? I feel hungry all the time now, is it because of the gluttonous beast virus?"

"No, you will feel hungry not because of the influence of the gluttonous beast virus, but because of the carbon-based metal virus and your own extreme thirst for the elements and energy that are lacking in your body after using your abilities. The gluttonous beast virus is still in the incubation period, as long as you Recover the Mother of the Gluttonous Beast before the specified time, and the virus will not break out."

Xiao Mo quickly left the sofa and sat in front of the computer desk, pulled out the paper and pen, and asked while recording, "What is a carbon-based metal virus?"

System: "Non-related tasks, no answer."

Xiao Mo almost broke his pen.

The child followed and lay down next to Xiao Mo.

"What ability do I have? What do you mean by that sentence?"

"The ability of the new scavengers is still being analyzed and cannot be answered at present."

"What do you mean by obliteration?"

A cold and rigid voice answered him in his mind: "If a scavenger fails to complete two tasks in a row, according to the regulations, he will be obliterated by the system. The system will randomly wait for new scavengers to appear. According to the meaning of life and death for human beings, obliteration is The death of soul and body together."

Xiao Mo got angry, "Why? What are you? Can I take the initiative to uninstall?"

The child stared at him.

System: "I am the No. [-] training system, responsible for the training of scavengers, and the implanted person cannot take the initiative to uninstall unless they die."

"Even if I don't need you at all?"

"Yes."

"...Then what is the difference between you and a virus?"

"I'm not a virus, I'm a scavenger training system." The voice was still extremely cold and rigid.

"If you can't complete the task, you will erase the system of the implanted person? You are scarier than a virus!"

"Opportunities and dangers always go hand in hand."

"Old Xiao?" the child called out.

Xiao Mo rubbed the child's head indiscriminately, his heart was in a mess, "System, I still have a few questions for you."

"First of all, I need to confirm whether you are my hallucination or real existence." Xiao Mo tapped the desk with a pen, "Now you have to do something to prove to me that you really exist."

After the sound fell, a map appeared in Xiao Mo's mind out of thin air.

"This is the guidance map for the task target." The system said coldly.

Xiao Mo "looked" at the map, and felt very familiar. It seemed to be near his home?

Now a prominent red punctuation point is moving on the map. Looking at the distance, it is not far from his home.

"This is the calculated route that can reach the mission target the fastest."

Following the system description, a blue arrow indicator appeared on the map, and the arrow with a blue line marked the fastest path from his home to the mission target.

"You can walk while looking at the map, or you can turn on the voice guidance module and let me guide you."

Xiao Mo raised a hand and pressed his forehead, "Apart from this map, what else can prove your existence?"

"You can do nothing, wait until the mission time limit is up, and then be obliterated according to the rules."

Xiao Mo had a headache, he found that this system was quite impersonal, as cold as a programmed program...but it was originally a system program.

Xiao Mo told himself to hold his breath, "Can you tell me, what is the meaning of your existence? Don't tell me that you have no obligation to answer, I will not do anything harmful to others!"

"If you want to find a comfort, I can tell you this: the meaning of my existence is to train scavengers and recycle garbage that the earth does not need. In other words, as long as you do the task, you are a hero on the earth."

Bullshit hero! "Were you developed by people on Earth? Which company?" Although Xiao Mo didn't think that the current Earth technology could develop an intelligent system directly implanted in the human brain, he still asked this question with a glimmer of hope.Maybe he can find the developer of this system and ask him to help uninstall?

The system is silent.

"You can't answer that question?"

The system is silent.

The child stared at Xiao Mo who was talking to himself, a little light appeared in his dark eyes like a dead person, as if something had finally aroused his interest.system?Looking at Xiao Mo like this, such a sci-fi level thing actually exists.

"Okay, let's change the question." Xiao Mo gritted his teeth, "Other than my death, what conditions do you have to meet before you can completely leave me?"

This time the system is no longer silent, "Meet the training requirements."

"What counts as meeting the training requirements?"

"Complete all recovery tasks from level one to ten."

"How many scavengers have you successfully trained before me?"

The system is silent.

Xiao Mo laughed angrily, "Then how many people did not complete the task and were you obliterated?"

"21."

"...What level of mission did they complete?"

"second level."

"Was it quicker for me to kill myself?"

The system replied: "Yes."

Xiao Mo decided to take a break at halftime, otherwise he was afraid that he would do something stupid like bang his head against the wall.

Seeing that Xiao Mo finally stopped talking to himself strangely, the child poked the back of his hand and asked, "So your secret is that a system appeared in your brain? Interesting, it only exists in your consciousness? Is there a subject? I'll take a look for you later to see if there are any traces of implantation on your body."

Xiao Mo looked at the child who wanted to dissect him to study, and pinched his face.

The child was still a little hesitant looking at Xiao Mo, and he took out the USB flash drive just now, "Maybe the system that suddenly appeared in your mind is the same thing mentioned in this USB flash drive."

Xiao Mo's spirit lifted, and he turned to look at the USB flash drive.