The Scavengers

On October 11th

"Still in simple mode now?!" Xiao Mo couldn't help but shouted in his head.

"Your Majesty, you can't send the message back, no matter what! I beg you! I am willing to let you stay in my body, and I am willing to be under your control forever. I just beg you not to send this message back! Your Majesty!"

If he could kneel down to the system, Xiao Mo would really kneel down.

"If I said, you only need to recycle Xuelihong, I'll..."

Xiao Mo suddenly fell silent.

system:……

There was only one idea left in Xiao Mo's mind: "Do you really want to make such an exchange request?"

System, "A Xue Lihong and life on the whole earth, this should be a good choice."

Yes, it is a good choice.The moment the system made such a request, there was only one answer in his mind, and there was no entanglement.

"Think about your family, friends, and so many people you know. If the earth turns into a hell mode, they may not survive. Your eldest brother, sister-in-law, younger brother, nephew, father, Wu Xiaoyuan, Lin Xiaofei, members of the scavenger team All partners must die." The system cruelly stated the facts.

Xiao Mo felt that something was shattering in his heart. At this moment, his mind was extremely clear. He even saw that person stepping out of the endless darkness, with a pitiful and a little malicious smile on his face.

"Is it difficult to choose? Why don't you give your body to me. You have struggled for so long, don't you want to take a good rest?"

Xiao Mo glanced at that person coldly, and said coldly: "It's never me who makes difficult choices, and it's never me who escapes."

The man lowered his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yes, it's like others think you are kind, but you don't know that you are the cruelest one. You... remember it now."

Xiao Mo didn't answer.

The man looked into his eyes and said with certainty, "You've already remembered."

"Yes, I remember." Xiao Mo's expression was light, "I remembered when I escaped from that jar and went all the way out of the underground test center. I remembered that I can use the destructive ability. When I escaped, I My heart is full of hatred, so I gave our enemy to Ling Chi, and destroyed that gang. I also remembered that when the matter is over, you want to come up with it, but I don’t want to give up this body, so I give up your destructive ability. Imprisoned."

There was a trace of deep resentment in the man's eyes, "You are very smart, you know that the ability to share the same ability means that our souls are still connected, we are like Siamese twins in the soul. And you will not hesitate to separate from me. Give up that terrifying and tempting ability, and completely cut off the connection between you and me."

Xiao Mo was still so indifferent, at this moment his expression looked particularly like Xue Lihong, "It's not that I'm smart, it's just that you don't want that ability. I asked you whether you want to destroy the ability or want to control the body, you choose ability."

"that is because……"

"That's because you think you are the original owner of this body. As long as you think, one day you can break out of the prison I set up and escape from me to snatch control of this body, and even kill me completely. But the ability It is the only one, and once you give it up, you can never take it back.”

"Did I choose wrong? You were..."

Xiao Mo interrupted him again, "No, you didn't choose wrongly. At that time, I really hated that ability, hated myself with bloody hands, I wanted this body, but I just wanted to try a normal life, I didn't want to let myself be born There is only pain and blood until it disappears, so I sealed my memory and imprisoned you. And until I met Xiaohong, I was not very attached to this body. When I imprisoned you, I had I thought that if you can break out of the prison, then it will be fine if I return this body to you."

"But you don't want to pay it back now!" The man's voice was full of anger and accusations.

"Yeah, I don't want to pay it back." Xiao Mo admitted that, and he even smiled, "Just now I made sure of one thing, that is, even if the whole world is exchanged, I will not give up my It's... Xiaohong."

The indifference on Xiao Mo's face disappeared, and at this moment his eyes were filled with a gentle and doting smile, "My little red, don't look at him claiming to have lived for more than a thousand years, and he can be like a peas all day long, but he is A child who has not grown up, he wants to believe in someone so much, wants to get along with someone for a long time, and yearns for the hug and dependence of others so much."

The man reprimanded: "He is a control freak! With your ability, he will never give up on you, nor will you allow you to betray him. As long as you live for a day, you will be controlled by him!"

"I know, but so what? I'm not perfect, and he and I have various shortcomings. He doesn't dislike me, and I don't dislike him. Besides, lovers and husbands and wives don't always get along with each other little by little. Did it become family?"

"But are you sure that Xue Lihong likes your soul, or does she want you because of your ability to make him grow?" The man pointed out viciously the biggest problem between Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong.

Xiao Mo chuckled, and the laughter gradually became louder.

"What are you laughing at?" The man didn't want to ask such a low question, but he couldn't help it.

"I'm laughing at some people who are jealous and jealous. Are you envious of my ability to repair? You agreed to give up control of your body because of that destructive ability, but now I have the opposite of you, but with people, A more useful repairing ability with the world. Because of this ability I got a lover, a thug, a partner, a family who will never give up on me, are you jealous enough to kill me?"

The man cursed a very ugly word, and after a while he said: "You are the one who wants to kill me!"

Xiao Mo's eyes turned cold, "You think I don't know that you are trying to contact the system, and you want to join hands with it to kill me and replace me as the owner of this body? What are your conditions to lure the system to take action? Take Xiaohong back? Hmm ?”

The listening system: ... I always feel that I will be killed if I interrupt at this time.

The man seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, "This is my body!"

Xiao Mo's eyes were like knives, "You can want this body, you have the right, as long as you have the ability to snatch it back, I will give you a fair chance to compete. But you want to hurt Xiaohong and take him back. Can't!"

"What do you want to do?" The man took a step back, feeling more dangerous than ever before.

Xiao Mo smiled emotionlessly, "What do you think?"

The system has seen it all.

Xiao Mo pinched the center of his brows habitually, "Now, Your Majesty, let's continue talking about our business. Where did we talk just now? You said you want me to use Xiaohong as an exchange?"

System, "Yes."

"Are you serious?" Xiao Mo actually laughed, "You told me before that sending back this news is determined by the rules, and you have no power to violate it, right?"

"……Correct."

"Then that means, even if I take Xiaohong back, you still have to send this information back, right?"

"Correct."

Xiao Mo pressed his forehead, "So are you kidding me?"

Aggrieved, the system continued to spit out the same words: "Yes!"

Xiao Mo smiled helplessly, "You can make a joke, it seems that your upgrade is very good. But in the future, it is better not to make similar jokes again, this is too stimulating to me."

System: Yes, the excitement is really great, the little white rabbit turns into a monster in a second.

Xiao Mo said seriously: "Then can you delay for a while? It's not that you don't want to send the information back, but a little delay."

System: "How long is the delay?"

Xiao Mo's eyes lit up, "How long can you delay?"

"Considering that when interstellar information is transmitted over long distances, some unpredictable situations will cause information loss and delay. The rules require that important information must be transmitted three times."

"how long?"

"Extend Earth time by up to 72 hours."

When Xiao Mo was negotiating with the system, the external situation also changed.

Originally, Xuelihong only collected the components of the purple mist on the outer edge for analysis, but when Bao Yiyong asked a group of people with supernatural powers to enter the dense fog, a sudden change occurred.

The dense fog actually started to wander and spread!

"Back! Everyone back out! There are monsters in the fog! The communicator will fail! Everyone leave!" Lei Bing was surrounded by flames, ran out of the thick fog, and shouted holding the communicator.

People who had just entered the dense fog were also running towards the dense fog, but some ran out, while others lost their way in the fog.

Hearing Lei Bing's call, everyone started to retreat.The soldiers are okay, retreating in an orderly manner, and maintaining the posture of encirclement.But the mercenaries couldn't do it. When they saw the thick fog starting to swim away, they immediately fled in the opposite direction, and several gaps were opened in the encirclement circle.

Seeing this, Bao Yiyong was very angry, and repeatedly ordered everyone to maintain a good encirclement and keep an eye out for any light spots.

But the mercenaries are not fools, and not everyone has isolation suits. Only those who have been named into the dense fog will wear isolation suits.

Suddenly there was a scream in the dense fog.

Lei Bing's angry curses also sounded: "Everyone get out of here! Isolation suits are probably useless! Immediately implement the second plan!"

"Captain Lei, what's the situation inside? Why did you come out as soon as you entered?" Bao Yiyong was wearing the same isolation suit as the other ones. In fact, the specially made isolation suit quickly evaded further away under the protection of four bodyguards.

"Didn't you hear what I said? There are monsters in the dense fog! The isolation suit is useless! The communicator will also fail!" Lei Bing shouted at Bao Yiyong, and then quickly contacted the person who came out to confirm how many people were still missing. escape.

Xue Lihong flew back and picked up Xiao Mo, "Hurry up! The speed of the thick fog spreading is accelerating! Something is wrong inside!"

All scavengers ran towards the base vehicle.

After contacting Lei Bing, he found that half of the people could not be contacted, and two-thirds of them were his soldiers—few mercenaries were willing to enter the dense fog in the first batch, so the soldiers had to set an example.

Lei Bing let out a low growl, and quickly handed over the command to his deputy. Wearing a useless isolation suit, he rushed into the dense fog again. He had to bring his soldiers out!

"Captain!" His deputy wanted to stop him, but Lei Bing shook off his hand.

"That Bao Yiyong brushed us! Damn, he didn't tell us that the communication would fail in the thick fog, and he didn't tell us that the isolation suit is useless, and there are monsters in it! You immediately tell the boss about this! That bastard must have other schemes!"

"Captain, let me go in, you stay!"

"No, my flame seems to be able to drive back the purple mist to some extent, I have to go in. Big head, take them all out of the third ring, don't dawdle, hurry up!" Lei Bing dropped these words, and he couldn't get in touch any more. .

The handsome soldier named Datou had no choice but to order all the soldiers and mercenaries to evacuate quickly, regardless of the encirclement circle, and now life-saving comes first.

Bao Yiyong was still trying to draw everyone's attention to the light spot, but behind him there were some people carrying freezer collection boxes and wearing the same isolation suit as him.The girl named Ah Ning was also wearing an isolation suit and followed Bao Yiyong.

Bao Yiyong's expression was also quite nervous. He said to a tightly wrapped person beside him: "Why does the dense fog spread so much? We didn't find the same situation last two times."

The well-wrapped person spoke a slightly weird Chinese language: "This is a new thing. Our research is just the fur of the fur. No one knows what its characteristics contain."

Bao Yiyong also knew this, but just like he concealed many things about Zhongshan Base during this mission, he always felt that this person also concealed something from him.

Someone who looked like a scientific researcher approached Bao Yiyong, and said anxiously: "Minister, I don't know how long our isolation suits can last. How about letting our people avoid the dense fog first, and then collect them later?"

Before Bao Yiyong could answer, the tightly packed person said first: "No, the previous two collections have shown that not only we like the minced meat, but those non-human beings like it even more. If we can't keep up with the collection, If I come back later, I’m afraid it will be the same as the previous two times, and I can only pick up a little leftovers.”

"But……"

"Don't worry, the isolation suits we wear are the crystallization of the highest technology developed by our company's special materials research institute. Its isolation effect is better than that of the most advanced space suits. Besides, we don't enter the dense fog, just follow the thick fog. .”

Bao Yiyong finally agreed with Bao Yanshinan's opinion. Since he came and released such a large-scale mission, he naturally wanted to gain more, otherwise he would have no way to explain to the capital and Zhongshan base.

There is a saying that the world is unpredictable, the hunter always thinks that he is the last winner, but forgets that he can also be used as a hunting target.

A piercing alarm sounded suddenly.

Then it seemed that someone shouted: "There is another thick fog! It's green thick fog!"

Bao Yiyong and others changed their colors, both joy and sorrow.

Never before has dense fog of two colors appeared at the same time.

"Follow the purple fog first!" Bao Yiyong made a decision.

But his thoughts were quickly shattered, because there was no need to follow, and the purple mist also enveloped them!

In the end, there were not many people who could escape from the third ring. In order to report the news, the big head kept rushing out. His speed ability played the biggest role at this time.

The soldiers who could get on the military card all fled to the military card, but it was too late, the dense fog spread too fast!

And just like a deliberate containment, a new thick green fog appeared, quickly blocking everyone's way out.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will see that the entire inner city of Zhongshan City is covered by thick fog of two colors.The green fog on the periphery is like a donut with a hole in the middle, and the hole in the middle is filled with purple fog.

Relying on their base vehicle, the members of the scavenging team flew directly into the sky and rushed out of the thick fog.

It wasn't until this moment that the members of the scavenging team knew that their base vehicle could still fly!

During this period, Xiao Mo and the others had no time to save the others—the dense fog actually affected the electronic equipment, and their base vehicle almost failed to start.In the end, it was Xue Lihong who forced the base car to give up all other functions except to ensure the personal safety of the people in the car, and to concentrate its energy to rush out of the dense fog first.

Just before the base vehicle rushed out of the dense fog, the power source of the base vehicle crashed due to the impact of the dense fog, and they almost fell back into the dense fog again.Fortunately, they rushed out, and the moment they rushed out of the dense fog, the power source of the base vehicle was restarted, and it slid dangerously against the edge of the dense fog for a while before rising again.

All members of the scavenging team broke out in a cold sweat, and the two children were so frightened that they hugged the thighs of the adults beside them.

The base car landed invisibly and circled around to let the five people on the list get off.

All those who escaped were concentrated in the outer camp, where there were communication vehicles and ambulances left by the military before entering.

Xiao Mo saw an acquaintance, it was Li Wei, a health soldier.Li Wei was busy treating the wounded who had escaped. These were accidentally scratched and rubbed during the escape.

Seeing that there were no serious injuries, Xiao Mo didn't go there.

Datou ran into the communication car in one breath, and quickly reported the situation here to Qiu Feng before he could catch his breath.

Qiu Feng was very calm, and asked them how many people escaped and how many people were still trapped in the thick fog, and asked them if they had a rescue plan.

The big head answered one by one, but the rescue plan, only Lei Bing's No. 100 plan, that is to abandon the people in the dense fog, and all the living people go back to the base.But such a plan, Datou and the others certainly couldn't accept it. Including Lei Bing, only less than [-] of the [-] soldiers escaped, and the large army was trapped inside.The same goes for the mercenaries, among a hundred mercenaries, only those with a faster speed and a better sense of direction escaped.

After the final count, only the members of the scavengers escaped.

"Where are Bao Yiyong and the others? Have you seen them? Have they escaped?"

"No, they seem to be stuck in it too."

Qiu Feng pondered, he didn't believe that Bao Yiyong would be willing to risk his life and trap himself in it.Now that this happens, either they are sure to survive in the dense fog and can survive until the dense fog clears.Or there was some unexpected situation beyond their control.

If it was the latter, Qiu Feng wanted to applaud.But considering that there are more fighters and mercenaries trapped in the dense fog, his little schadenfreude has completely disappeared.

"You said just now that you counted the results, and all the scavengers escaped?"

The big head replied: "Yes."

He was envious and thankful for the members of the team, and had no negative emotions.In the cognition of Zhongshan base fighters, the members of the scavenging team have always been very powerful. If they didn't like to keep a low profile, the two honorary titles of the first mercenary team and the first mercenary in the Zhongshan base mercenary list would not be what others thought. .

As for saving lives?Just now, even the soldiers whose duty was to protect the people could only take care of their own lives and fled desperately, so why did he ask the people in the scavenging team to save others regardless of themselves?

Qiu Feng pondered for a moment on the other side, "Ask them to come here, just say that I have a new task for them."

When Datou contacted General Qiu Feng, the system was revealing the information it could reveal to Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong.

Of course, the system didn't want to disclose this information from the beginning, it just couldn't help but want to hit Xue Lihong, and then said a lot after hitting and hitting.

"Did that bastard collect the mist and analyze anything? Just rely on the broken instrument in his hand that should have been thrown into the garbage dump long ago, hehe."

Xiao Mo: That’s right, I even learned Haha.

Xiao Mo took advantage of the opportunity and told Xue Lihong all about the elemental life that the system had told him before.

Xue Lihong looked around, winked at Qian Yunkai and the others, and pulled Xiao Mo aside.

Qian Yunkai and the others knew it, and intentionally or unintentionally covered their captain and vice-captain.

Like other lovers who escaped from danger, Xue Lihong hugged Xiao Mo and asked in a low voice, "Ask it, in terms of level, how many levels can this elemental life be counted by it?"

The system replied simply: "Unknown."

Xiao Mo: Be good!

Xue Lihong continued to ask: "Your Majesty said that there were powerful interstellar adventurers who were successfully optimized by this elemental life before, but they survived, right? Otherwise, those adventurers and developers would not be able to treat this elemental life like this." flock to it."

System: "Yes."

Xue Lihong frowned in a rare way, "So those alien developers consciously want to create elemental life, but they don't know the success rate and rely entirely on luck. Then why do they care so much about elemental life, this kind of life form? What is the effect?"

The system did not answer first.

After hearing about it from Xiao Mo, Xue Lihong shrugged, "I don't think it knows, it's just a system, how could the developer let it know too many things."

"At least I know more than you." The system said coldly.

Xiao Mo sighed softly, "Your Majesty, can you really say nothing? We just want to know a little bit, so that we can at least have the ability to deal with it. I really don't want to die, I want to live, with you, and Xiaohong Together."

The system was silent for a long time, when Xiao Mo thought it would not speak again, he spoke.

"That human being, Bao Yiyong, has actually stated the two known important functions of elemental life, which is also the current general understanding of the role of this life form in the interstellar world.

The first function of this life body is to optimize the material and non-material life bodies to the best advantage, and to make the form evolve to a nearly perfect state.The better and stronger the physical fitness and aptitude, the more optimizations a person can accept. Even the most advanced lifeforms that have used the best gene optimization medicine in the interstellar world can evolve their genes again.

The second function is that it can make the life body optimized by it immune to 99.27% ​​of known viruses and harmful substances in the universe. "

Xiao Mo was shocked by this data, "How is this possible? The universe is so big..."

The system gave an explanation: "Research shows that this kind of elemental life can assimilate the cells of the living body that they evolved, that is, whenever any substance that is not conducive to the living body enters the living body, its cells will automatically produce reaction, to assimilate the substances that are not conducive to it. If you can’t understand, you can think of elemental life as an extremely powerful virus, and its assimilation of other substances is like cancer cells infecting healthy cells.”

Xiao Mo hesitated to speak to Xue Lihong.

Xue Lihong stared at him, "What did His Majesty say?"

Xiao Mo asked him to wait a moment.

System summary: "Now you understand, the appearance of this elemental life form is the most wonderful thing for developers and adventurers, they will be crazy about it, and all known and capable interstellar life will want to come to Earth try your luck.

But these are tantamount to disasters for the earth and the creatures living on the earth.You can't keep these elemental lives, but you will suffer from them.

This harm refers not only to the adventurers who came for the elemental life, but also the elemental life itself.Because your body can't bear the transformation of elemental life at all, and you can't even bear the mist it breathes out. "

Xiao Mo didn't believe it, "Even if our abilities reach level ten?"

The system said cautiously: "Those with tenth-level abilities can try it, but it is not recommended."

Xiao Mo exhaled slowly, and relayed the story to Xue Lihong.

"I have a question, please answer me, Your Majesty." Xue Lihong looked into Xiao Mo's eyes and said, "You said that no life in the interstellar world has been able to capture this elemental life so far, so those adventurers want to use it How does the elemental life optimize its own body? Is it just to annoy the other party and wait for the other party to crash into your body?"

The system reluctantly said: "Okay, this bastard got the idea, but the answer is also that he doesn't know."

Xiao Mo felt uncomfortable, "Don't call me Little Red Bastard."

System: "He was originally a bastard. What I said was the truth, not insulting him. There is not much information about elemental life in the database of this system. I only know that the objects entered into the body by elemental life have no rules. It is not to anger them. , and they crash into you."

"That is to say, it depends entirely on chance, or the mood of those elemental beings?" Xiao Mo had a headache.

System: "You can also understand it in this way."

Xiao Mo looked up at Xue Lihong, first relayed the words of the system, and then suddenly asked Xue Lihong: "You let all the team members participate in this mission, are you sure you can capture that kind of elemental life?"

Unexpectedly, Xue Lihong shook her head, "I didn't know it was an elemental life, I thought it was a kind of genius treasure I had heard of, a kind of fungus. You know that some fungi can also emit light, very It is tiny and can emit smoke-like spores.

Have you heard of Che Ma Zhi?It is one of them. It is mentioned in Baopuzi Xianyao that mushrooms grow in deep mountains, under big trees, or beside springs. Its shape is like a palace, or like a chariot, or like a dragon or a tiger. , or like a human, or like a bird, or like a spot of light, five colors are impermanent, there are a hundred and twenty kinds, you need to walk close to it, cut it with a bone knife, dry it in the shade, and grind it into powder. Those who eat it can live at least a thousand years to thousands of years years old, and may even ascend to immortality. "

Xue Lihong said vaguely again: "In addition, I also heard some practitioners mentioned that they had seen a kind of colored light spot, some people thought it was a fairy medicine, captured it with ancient methods, and it turned out that this person It is said that he was going to ascend to the immortal, but he also left a little fairy medicine. I suspect that the ascending immortal here may not be able to withstand the explosion.

The same is likely to be true for the ascending immortal mentioned in Baopuzi's Immortal Medicine Chapter.At that time, human beings couldn't understand it, so they thought it was the dissolution of soldiers, or the ascension of the soul from the body.It is also possible that the body of some people can withstand the optimization and transformation of the elemental life, and then appear special performances such as light body and spirit, which may also be said to be immortal. "

System: "Huh?"

Xue Lihong said: "So when I first heard about this kind of light spot, I thought it was because of the great changes in the world, especially after the black rain, that the "spiritual energy" in Zhongshan City and some places was rich, and even produced this kind of light. The legendary Xianzhi. I once heard by chance what methods those cultivators used to capture Xianzhi, and their lifespan is indeed much longer than ordinary people.”

The system didn't even satirize Xue Lihong, but said thoughtfully: "Perhaps the earth has produced elemental life before. As for the capture method you mentioned, use a bone knife? What kind of bone? This must be a legend, theoretically It simply doesn't work."

After listening to Xiao Mo's report, Xue Lihong sneered: "The method of capture I learned from those practitioners is not using bone knives, but I don't want to say what method it is right now."

System: ... a nasty bastard big trash.If you ask me anything in the future, I won't say anything.

At this time, some soldiers came to Xiao Mo, pleadingly saying that General Qiu Feng invited them to come over.

Seeing the soldier's expression, Xiao Mo knew what he wanted to say to General Qiu.