The Scavengers

April 10

According to the information provided by His Majesty the system, the monsters here are called Corpse Dragon Worms. The denominator and male worms are different from the self-fertilization of Gold Eater Worms. The female worms of Corpse Dragon Worms need to mate with the same adult male insects after they have matured to give birth. worm.

And the task deadline at 11:3 on November 17rd is the sexual maturity of the corpse-eating dragon worm inferred by the system.

"How many eggs can a female corpse-eating dragon worm produce at a time? What are their living habits?" Xiao Mo asked the system in detail.

"A single female worm can produce thousands of eggs at a time. The corpse-eating dragon worm female worm is used to laying eggs in the decaying flesh and blood. The hatching period of the eggs is extremely short. If the energy is sufficient, it only takes three to five hours It can hatch and break out of the body. Every ten thousand corpse dragon worms will give birth to a female, and the new female will lead a group of males to migrate to another place with abundant food."

"Then how long are they from egg to maturity, and how long is the longest life cycle? How many times can a female worm lay eggs in a lifetime? How long is the longest life?" Xue Lihong asked the question this time.

Although the system doesn't want to answer Xue Lihong's questions, these questions are all related to the mission. Letting the host know a little more will help him complete the mission, so Xiao Mo assumed that the question was asked, and replied: "Ordinary corpse-eating dragon worms grow from eggs to mature. The period is only one month, and the life cycle is one year. If there is a mutation, the life cycle of the king worm will be greatly extended. At present, there is no clear data showing how long the king worm can live at the longest. And the female worm The longest lifespan is five years, and it can lay eggs ten times a year."

After Xiao Mo finished recounting, he did some mental calculations, and couldn't help pinching the center of his eyebrows, "Mature in one month, lay thousands of eggs at a time, ten thousand in a year, and one female insect will appear for every ten thousand eggs, and each female insect can still live. Five years... days! If there is enough food, these bugs will be infested all over the world in a few years."

Xiao Mo was still a little puzzled: "These insects are called corpse-eating dragon insects. I thought they were scavenging?"

System explanation: "Because when they were first discovered, they lived on corpses, and there were only corpses around them, so they were named corpse-eating dragon insects. However, further research on them later showed that although corpse-eating dragon insects like to treat Insect eggs are laid on decaying flesh and blood, and the eggs are hatched by the heat generated by the decay of the corpse, and the eggs eat carrion as soon as they are born, but normal corpse-eating dragon insects prefer living flesh and blood."

"Weaknesses of these bugs? Characteristics?" Xue Lihong has now built a monster modeling software, and he collects all the characteristics and weaknesses of various monsters that Xiao Mo told him, trying to find some rules in it.

The system answers one by one.

When Xiao Mo told Xue Lihong the answer, Xue Lihong had already edited a task list and sent it to the mercenary list.

Zhongshan base, mission hall.

A man wearing sportswear, a hood, a bulging cowhide bag hanging diagonally, and two small axes stuck in the back of his waist was browsing the task list.

The quest hall was very lively, some came to hand in quests, some came to receive new quests, and some came here just to collect information.

Not many people noticed that man. Nowadays, there are people who carry rocket launchers directly on their bodies. It's nothing more than sticking two axes.

"Look! The 07 organization has released a new mission." Someone noticed the new information that popped up.

Hearing that it was a task issued by the 07 organization, a group of people rushed in front of the huge electronic screen.

The man in the hood didn't look at the big screen, but looked down at the small screen in front of him. He clicked on the first task that just popped up, and read the contents carefully.

"Mission objective: collect corpses of corpse-eating dragon worm king worms. Requirements: corpses must be more than [-]% complete. Quantity: unlimited. Task completion time: unlimited. Mission delivery key points: every time a corpse-eating dragon worm king worm is collected Ready for delivery. Delivery location: negotiable. Contact information:…”

The contact information left by the 07 organization is the instant chat software generated by relying on this mercenary mission system. Now because this mercenary mission system is almost spread all over the world, this originally additional instant chat software has also replaced other chat software and has become Currently, it is the standard contact software for mercenaries all over the world.

Immediately below this information, important information such as the characteristics and weaknesses of the Corpse Dragon Worm are announced.

Many mercenaries are immersed in copying the information, and some of them can even use mobile phones to take pictures.

Of course, if you accept this task in the task window, then you can get the detailed information printed out by the base.However, to take over the task, you need to deposit a sum of alloy particles or convert energy. If you fail to complete the task, you will not be able to get the deposit back.In this way, mercenaries who are not sure or rich will naturally not take up this task easily.

The man in the hood wrote down the task number, and then walked to the order receiving desk.

As he walked, he said to himself, "It's really inconvenient, I have to manually operate a task."

"Guji." A small furry head protruded from the bulging leather bag, like a kitten, but it didn't meow.

"Do you think the 07 organization will be the host of the 07 recovery system?"

"Guji, Guji."

"Well, you are right. Whether it is a recycler or a breeder, they are unnatural creatures that should not exist. Just like those monsters and viruses, they should be eliminated."

"Gujiji."

The hooded man let out a low laugh, "Why did you report the matter here to the Star Police? What does it matter to us? Don't forget, we signed an agreement and paid a large amount of park fees to play. We only need to kill monsters here That's fine, the rest is a matter for the developers and the local indigenous people."

"Guji Guji."

"Okay, there are a lot of good things here, it depends on whether we have the ability to find them. Not to mention those expensive portable systems, it is this corpse-eating dragon worm king worm... If there is really a king worm, we will I have made a fortune! I heard that this thing is one of the best raw materials for gene stabilization liquid, because it is extremely rare, and every time one appears, it can be fired at a very high price on the interstellar network. It is best to hunt down a few recyclers and Breeders, not to mention successfully peeling off a portable system, I heard that they all have good things from the portable system, such as large-capacity space devices are not cheap, if they are unbound, they should be able to drop, right?"

"Guji Guji."

"Don't worry, we are the first batch of pioneers. As long as we look hard, there will be good things. Of course there are dangers, but are you afraid?"

"Guck!"

"Hahaha! Yes, you are not afraid, you are not afraid of anything." The man in the hood seemed to be a chatterbox, and he seemed to be very confident in his ability, singing and singing with the kitten in the bag as if no one else was around.

When he arrived at the order receiving desk, the man in the hood said that he was going to accept the task just released by the 07 organization, and reported the task number.

The staff looked up, "Please show your mercenary card."

The hooded man flicked his fingers, revealed a card and pushed it over.

The staff member scanned the card, subconsciously looked up at the other party, and compared it with the profile picture that appeared on the computer.

The hooded man seemed to smile at him.

The staff member looked dazed for a while, lowered his head, and after finishing the process, he pushed the card back to the man in the hood: "Okay, the order has been accepted successfully. There is no time limit for completing this order, and you can accept it repeatedly. I wish the task well."

At this time, a dock warehouse in a city about [-] kilometers away from the Zhongshan base.

Xiao Mo took a peek, and saw that Comrade Xiaohong had issued a task that was currently impossible: to capture a living corpse-eating dragon worm king worm.

However, Xue Lihong's main purpose is to introduce the characteristics of the corpse-eating dragon insect through this task. It doesn't matter whether you can catch the king insect. Insects are definitely not something that people with abilities below the third level can deal with.

But sometimes certain things are really unspoken, such as Cao Cao, he will come as soon as he is said.As for the corpse-eating dragon worm king worm, a high-level monster that should never appear at this time, it just appeared under Comrade Xiaohong's unintentional call.

But the king worm didn't show up at first, and it wasn't even at the mission location.

The next day, the last day of October, at 10:[-] in the morning, Lei Bing came to gather with his soldiers, and the other two main members of the scavengers, Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai, also arrived as agreed with Lei Bing.

They didn't have time to visit the interior of the base vehicle, they just circled around the body and praised it.

Lei Bing urged everyone not to waste any more time, the two teams split up and nervously entered the dock warehouse area.Everyone, including Lei Bing, was ready to sacrifice, but!

An hour later, His Majesty the System announced that the third-level mission No. 03 had been completed.

Yes, you read that right.In just one hour, Xue Lihong led Xiao Mo around the warehouse, and picked out the female corpse-eating dragon worms and recovered them. He also killed and ate the other male worms...

Cough, this is the second time Xiao Mo sees Comrade Xiaohong eating insects, and he is still alive, he just opened his mouth wide and threw it into his mouth, chew it, chew it, and swallow it.

Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai: ...during the time we haven't acted together, has Boss Xue evolved (degenerated)?

"Eat it?" Xue Lihong handed out two worms.

Wang Cheng shook his head fiercely, Qian Yunkai pushed the Twitter-made glasses, but took one with great interest.

The honest corpse-eating dragon worm that was in Xue Lihong's hand immediately burrowed into the palm of Qian Yunkai's hand as soon as it arrived.

"Hey." Xue Lihong stretched out her fingers to clamp the body of the worm, and pulled out the head of the worm that got into Qian Yunkai's palm little by little.

Wang Cheng saw goosebumps rising up in rows, while Qian Yunkai directly pricked the skin of his palm with a knife.

"This is a male insect, it can't lay eggs, and it can't divide itself." Xue Lihong twisted the head of this disobedient insect.

Qian Yunkai breathed out, relieved, "This is the corpse-eating dragon worm? I saw the latest mission released by the 07 organization last night, which has a detailed introduction to this kind of worm."

"Well. Don't walk around, just follow me later, it's best not to leave me more than 100 meters. Boss, did you hear me?"

"Ah, I heard it!"

When Xiao Mo and the three followed Xue Lihong to catch bugs, Lei Bing also led his soldiers to search for bugs everywhere in the warehouse area. He even found time to secretly contact Xiao Mo and asked him in a low voice: "Have you seen any monsters here? Why did you turn around?" Not for a long time? I also brought bait specially. Could it have already run away?"

Xiao Mo turned his head to look at Comrade Xiaohong who was eating the second worm, and slowly turned back with a painful expression, and said to the communicator: "Wouldn't it be better to run away? Our mission is not to kill monsters, but to kill monsters here." canned meat."

"That's right!" Lei Bing was happy, but he was still very uneasy, "But why do I always feel a little empty? Those monsters won't all get into the cans, and when we finally transport them back and open them, it's all right! The base is destroyed. Monsters have taken over."

Xiao Mo laughed, knowing that the person was not in front of him, he still gave a thumbs up, "Imagination is good, you can open a few cans to see."

Xue Lihong felt that it was not good to be alone, so she held a strange insect with whiskers and claws that looked like a crossbreeding of a mutated centipede and hookworm, and waved it in front of Xiao Mo's eyes, tempting him: "Boss, try it? It tastes good, It is very fragrant, although it is raw, it tastes like duck gizzard, and the most important thing is that it is full of energy. Eat it?"

Xiao Mo turned off the communicator, shook his head resolutely, "Don't eat."

Xue Lihong looked regretful, he really wanted to share this delicacy with his boss, this corpse-eating dragon worm was much more delicious than the previous spinach-flavored parasite, and he could feel that this kind of worm was not only harmful to His body is good, and it should also be good for a supernatural being like Xiao Mo.

"I think this kind of corpse-eating dragon worm can be bred artificially. Maybe this kind of worm can become one of the favorite foods of supernatural beings."

Qian Yunkai said that he could take a few back to breed and have a look.Both Wang Cheng and Xiao Mo gave him a broken expression of begging to be let go.

Xue Lihong was a little upset, deliberately twisted off the corpse-eating dragon worm's head in front of Xiao Mo, and put the squirming worm body into her mouth.

Xiao Mo is about to kneel to him, especially if he can't think about what these bugs ate before to grow so big!

System: "...Hmph."

Xiao Mo clutched his throat and asked His Majesty: "What does humming mean?"

"The bug genes fused into that big bastard's body must be very powerful. This is absolute genetic suppression. It's not too obvious to the orc boy, but to the bugs...huh."

Xiao Mo didn't expect that this mission would be so easy. Xue Lihong seemed to know the direction as soon as she came in, and she took them away from Lei Bing and the others. The euphemistic name is: explore separately and reduce time.

Then Xue Lihong walked to the back of a warehouse, and whistled strangely towards the damaged concrete floor.

He wanted to ask what he was doing, but Xue Lihong only put her fingers between her lips to keep them quiet.

Not long after that, he saw corpse-eating dragon worms crawling out from under the concrete floor one after another, lying obediently by Xuelihong's feet one by one.

Xue Lihong knelt down and touched the bugs with her hands.

Xiao Mo was still very worried at the time and wanted to hold him back.

But those bugs were all motionless as if they were stiff.

Xue Lihong seemed to have gotten some information from these bugs, picked a few out of them and kept them, and asked him to recycle the others for energy crystals.

Afterwards, Comrade Xiaohong grabbed those bugs and ate them as snacks while walking. None of the bugs that Lei Bing said was super scary dared to resist.

And the corpse-eating dragon worm female here was finally carried out from the depths of the ground by other male worms, and dedicated to His Majesty Xue Lihong.

His Majesty Xue Lihong gave it to him after confirming that it was a female worm, and he took it back dumbfoundedly.

In this way, His Majesty Xue Lihong walked all the way, summoned all the way to eat, and just cleaned up the dock warehouse area.

"What are you still doing standing there? Now that you have the space bracelet, why don't you use it?" Xue Lihong suddenly said.

Space bracelet?Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai froze their expressions, looked at each other, and finally looked at Xiao Mo together.

"Ah?" Xiao Mo didn't react yet.

Xue Lihong poured the unscrewed worm heads into her mouth like eating fried soybeans, clapped her hands, biting her hands, and said vaguely: "There are a lot of stocks in this dock warehouse. There were these food before. The corpse dragon worm is here, and no one else dares to come here to pick up the leak. Now we have cleaned up the worm, and the rest is naturally the time to sweep the goods. You can load as much as you can, and when your space bracelet is full, Let's go meet Lei Bing again."

Xiao Mo patted his forehead, shock was nothing but shock, the goods still have to be collected, and now it is not for nothing.

As Xiaohong said, because of the guardianship of corpse-eating dragon insects in this dock warehouse area, most of the stocks are full, not just canned meat.

Because canned meat and the like are covered with a layer of iron sheet, the corpse-eating dragon worm is not interested in anything other than flesh and blood, so it is completely preserved.

Xue Lihong led Xiao Mo to collect most of the canned beef and tuna first.

They also found two containers full of fine cotton cloth.This new type of cotton cloth is breathable, wear-resistant, soft next to the skin and has a drop feeling, but because the output is not much, it is a very expensive high-end clothing material.

Needless to say, Xue Lihong asked Xiao Mo to collect all these cotton cloths.

Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai watched as Xiao Mo put his wrist on the pile of goods, and those goods were all gone, without saying a word for a long while.

They also heard at the base that there seemed to be a space system ability user, but the space bracelet?Where did this come from?

Xue Lihong did not give any explanation for this from beginning to end, Xiao Mo wanted to make up a reason, but couldn't find a good excuse for a while.

Wang Qian and the two seemed to see Xiao Mo's embarrassment, Wang Cheng took the initiative to pat him on the shoulder, and said enviously: "Captain, this is a good thing, but you'd better be careful when using it in the future, don't let anyone else in the team No one else knows. You know, it's a crime."

Qian Yunkai also said: "Since you and Boss Xue didn't hide it from us, then you trust us. Wang Cheng and I have nothing to say about this. At this time, it's all fake to pat our chests and say secrecy. It depends on the future." In addition, I have the same opinion as Wang Cheng, Captain, you should not show this space bracelet in front of other people. This thing is too eye-catching, let alone in such a troubled time."

Xiao Mo smiled at the two of them, he had always trusted their character, and never thought of guarding against them.Xiaohong exposed this bracelet as soon as she came up, probably thinking that in the future when everyone is in the same team, there will inevitably be many such sweeps, can she hide it once or twice?What's more, one of Wang and Qian is a criminal police officer and the other is a forensic doctor, both of whom are careful observers.

Besides, the base vehicle was right there, and there were rooms for Wang Qian and the other in the dormitory area, so it didn't make much sense to hide the bracelet.

"The base car and this bracelet are both rewards from the 07 organization." Xue Lihong said at this time, "We will do more tasks from the 07 organization in the future, and there may be other rewards, but I'm not sure what it is. "

When Wang Qian heard that the space bracelet came from the mysterious 07 organization, they were surprised, and they both felt it was a matter of course.

"Wait, boss Xue, what is the base car you are talking about? Could it be the extremely flamboyant car we saw just now?" Wang Cheng asked hurriedly.

Xue Lihong's eyes were cold.

Xiao Mo nodded with a smile.

"Wow, I always think this base car is a bit amazing, it can't be transformed like Transformers, right?" Wang Cheng felt that he was already whimsical enough.

Xiao Mo said vaguely: "You will know when you get in the car."

Wang intentionally felt itchy, but he didn't ask any more questions.

Qian Yunkai had other thoughts. Hearing the meaning of Boss Xue's words, it seems that this space bracelet is not the only one?Maybe they'll get a similar reward in the future?

If this is the case... Qian Yunkai's heart suddenly warmed up, he really wanted to see what kind of magical things would appear in the team in the future.

The space bracelet has passed Ming Road, and it's time to sweep the goods.

"Biscuits? Accept!"

"Battery? Take it!"

"Purified water? Of course I will take all of them! Take as much as you have."

In addition to being useful to the team, of course there are also those that are not very useful to the team.When encountering such things, His Majesty Xue Lihong's reaction was:

"Is this a sapling? It's almost dead, let's keep it for Lei Bing, maybe he can find someone to drag it back and use it as firewood."

"These containers are full of high-end mountain bikes. It's useless for us to ask for them. We'll take a few and keep the rest for Lei Bing."

"This is a processed electronic chip, well, I don't need it, let's keep it for Lei Bing."

"So many steel pipes...we keep some of them, and leave the rest for Lei Bing."

"So much coal, is this going to be transported to the steel mill? I asked Cheng Zai to drive the car over. Winter is coming. I have a hunch that this winter must be very cold. It will be very useful to bring the coal back."

Xiao Mo looked at this tall coal mountain, and persuaded: "There are so many coal here, we can charge one-third of it, right? After all, General Qiu and the others still have to feed so many people."

Xue Lihong gave him an inexplicable look, reluctantly agreed, and then notified Cheng Zai to drive over, and told him to be careful not to be discovered by Lei Bing.

Xiao Mo: Although Xiaohong contributed the most, without Xiaohong, it would not be possible to take this warehouse so easily, but why does he still feel a little sorry for Lei Bing?

Lei Bing and his soldiers were still diligently looking for monsters, but they had almost collected all the good things in half of the dock warehouse.

When Cheng Zai drove over to load coal, Xuelihong took Xiao Mo and the three of them back to the previous canned meat warehouse on a detour, and painfully released a few corpse-eating dragon worms that he was going to use as snacks.

"Notify Lei Bing, just say we found a monster."

Xiao Mo twitched the corner of his mouth and sent a contact to Lei Bing. As soon as Lei Bing heard that they found the monster, he immediately brought people over to support him.

When Lei Bing arrived, he saw Xue Lihong slashing the knife beautifully in the air, cutting the last corpse-eating dragon worm in half.

The blood of the corpse-eating dragon worms was red, and there were many worm corpses left in the warehouse, as well as worm blood scattered everywhere.

Xue Lihong walked over and grabbed her saw blade knife, picked up half a bug with the tip of the knife, and threw it to Lei Bing: "It should be solved. How is your result?"

Lei Bing and all the soldiers: ...It's so embarrassing, we didn't find anything.

Xue Lihong waved her hand tiredly, "Ask your people to drive over to load the goods, and our team is on guard. Remember to keep our share."

"Thank you, brother! Thank you for your hard work!" This was the first time Lei Bing called Xue Lihong his brother.

Comrade Lei Bing, who thought he had eaten for free, would certainly not renege on his debt. Even if he later found out that more than half of the containers in the warehouse were empty, he didn't feel too bad.He saw the hole in the bottom of the container and thought that the strange bugs here had dragged the canned beef away and eaten them.

Xiao Mo looked up at the sky.The actual situation is that Xiaohong and Qian Yunkai violently destroyed the door lock, he followed behind to carry the goods, and repaired the door lock when he came out.

Wang Qian and Lei Bing were also very familiar, and there was nothing unusual on their faces, and Wang Cheng was particularly enthusiastic about helping the soldiers move their goods.Qian Yunkai asked Lei Bing about his experiences along the way.

Fortunately, all the canned pork containers in the other warehouse are still there. Generally speaking, Lei Bing's harvest is still very rich.

Afterwards, Lei Bing also informed the Zhongshan base to send more people over there to move all the goods in the dock warehouse, especially the mountain of coal piled up on the shore, which was in urgent need of Zhongshan base. .

The military truck on Lei Bing's side was only loaded with canned meat.

Up until this point everything looked normal.

The team was ready to set off, and Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai had just stepped into the base car.

His Majesty the system suddenly issued a warning at this time: "Warning warning! The corpse-eating dragon insect king is approaching! Do you want me to issue a task? This is a leapfrog task. After completing the task, you can ignore the remaining tasks of the third and fourth levels, and immediately upgrade Level 2000. Will the recycler Xiao Mo accept the mission? You don't have much time to hesitate. 1900 meters, 1800 meters, [-] meters..."

Xue Lihong suddenly jumped out of the car, turned to face the wide tributary of the river, and at the same time shouted: "Everyone get in the car! Get out of here! Quick!"