The Scavengers

Before 6:19 pm on June [-]

There are not many people in the supermarket, and almost everyone is wearing a mask, some exaggeratedly wearing a raincoat and a motorcycle helmet.

Xiao Mo touched his face, and suddenly realized that he came out without any protection, and it was really a bit of an eye-catching, no wonder the people who passed by when receiving the relief food before would look at him and the children.

Xiao Mo was looking at the map in his mind - Li Xiaoshuang was very close to them, pushing the shopping cart with the child and just about to enter the shopping area when they were stopped by the staff.

"Except for daily necessities, food is limited. Please pay attention to the notices on the wall."

When Xiao Mo heard the reminder, he turned his head to look at the large and conspicuous notice.

The notice stated that in order to prevent some unscrupulous people from intentionally hoarding food, causing food shortages and irrational shopping, staple foods such as rice, oil, noodles, and meat are all out of stock. If necessary, please go to the relief point to collect them.

Condiments, especially salt, can only be purchased by one catty per person at a time.

Chocolate, candy and other high-calorie foods that can be stored for a long time should not exceed one kilogram per person at a time.

Non-staple food such as bread should not exceed three kilograms per person at a time, and fast food noodles should not exceed one box per person at a time.

Purchases of other alcohol and tobacco products are limited, but there are no restrictions on daily toiletries, feminine products and clothing.

Looking at these purchase restrictions, if you look at the food intake of a person for a week, even those who can eat are definitely more than enough.If there are many people in the family, shopping coupons may not be used.

Xiao Mo thought that the loose purchase restriction might be because he was afraid of causing dissatisfaction and panic among the common people.After all, only when people are full can they not be flustered or cranky.

But is this amount really enough for him?Xiao Mo touched his stomach worriedly.

"Where is the target?" the child asked.

Xiao Mo withdrew his thoughts.

The map in his mind is very magical. As his location changes, the map also changes. Now this map has become a floor plan of the supermarket.

"It's around here, it should be across from that shelf."

"Old Xiao!"

Xiao Mo turned his head and saw a man with a scarf wrapped around his head walking towards him with a shopping cart.

"Old Yin, is that you?" Xiao Mo heard the voice, looked at the visitor and said with a smile: "It's a hot day, you don't mind covering yourself too much."

Lao Yin didn't notice the child, he pushed the shopping cart and walked beside Xiao Mo, before he opened his mouth, he sighed, "Compared to my life, what is heat? I haven't mentioned you yet, you are so courageous that you can't even wear a mask." Dare to go out without wearing it."

"It's not contagious, since it hasn't been contagious after three days, I don't think it will be contagious in the future." Xiao Mo smiled, wanting to get rid of Lao Yin as soon as possible.

The two pushed the shopping cart forward together, Xiao Mo consciously approached the task target, Xue Lihong followed Xiao Mo step by step.

"It would be nice if that's the case."

"Old Yin, are you okay?"

Lao Yin sighed again, "I'm so lucky, I just stayed in the hospital for one night and half a day before I recovered."

"Then your wife and child..."

"It's okay, everything's fine. It's just that Xiaofei's grandma and grandpa are gone."

"Condolences."

"What else can I do if I don't mourn? Fortunately, the two old people are in their early seventies, so it's not too bad."

The two chatted a few words.

Xiao Mo thought that Lao Yin was just saying hello to him, but neither of them said anything, and Lao Yin didn't leave either.

Xiao Mo was distracted to see that Li Xiaoshuang didn't move, so he asked Lao Yin, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Old Yin gripped the handlebar tightly.

The child suppressed his curiosity about the opposite side of the shelf, and followed Xiao Mo closely.

Xiao Mo forcibly moved his eyes away from the food, the feeling of hunger crawled from his stomach to his throat, it seemed that every cell in his body was crying out for hunger, but he had eaten so much, obviously not long ago.

Even he has become so edible, how much does the mother of gluttonous beasts have to eat to fill her stomach?

Xiao Mo thought it would be strange if he had already entered the supermarket and didn't buy anything, so he threw any edible food on the shelf into the shopping cart, waiting for Lao Yin to speak.

"Old Xiao, I'm flustered." Lao Yin lowered his voice.

"why?"

Lao Yin looked around, leaned close to Xiao Mo's ear and whispered: "Did you know that many people are spreading the rumor... that this infectious disease is a harbinger of the coming end times."

"Nonsense!" Xiao Mo sneered, "Old Yin, you don't believe in such rumors, do you?"

"I don't know whether to believe it or not, and I want to believe it or not, but why..." Lao Yin's eyes were a little dazed, he seemed to want to say something to Xiao Mo, but he swallowed the words several times.

"Wang Er Er said..."

"Second Wang? Can you listen to what he said?" Xiao Mo snorted.

Lao Yin didn't care, and just said in a daze: "Wang Laoer said that the government quarantined us to kill us, the source of infection, and said that if the disease can no longer be controlled, the higher authorities will send people to shoot us all quietly. Then burn it and bury it."

Xiao Mo frowned.Li Xiaoshuang is on this shelf, how can he get close to her?How to speak to her?

"He said we had to escape, otherwise there would be no way to survive. He also said that the disease center was using us for experiments, and those who were taken away were sent for experiments. Old Xiao, I'm not afraid of your laughing, I'm serious Afraid." Lao Yin looked at Xiao Mo, "I heard that those who were taken away recovered automatically like me, I, I..."

"No, don't listen to Wang's second fart. Didn't you come back? If the disease center really wants to take you for an experiment, it won't let you out of the hospital at all."

"Really?" There was a gleam in Lao Yin's eyes.

"Trust me, nothing will happen." Xiao Mo comforted him, and at the same time wondered that Lao Yin was not this kind of mother-in-law, why did he become so frightened after being ill once?

Lao Yin opened his mouth, hesitated to speak, "You don't know..."

I don't know what?Xiao Mo felt that Lao Yin must be hiding something, but since he didn't want to say it himself, he couldn't force people to ask.

"This is mine! I got it first!" A sharp cry suddenly sounded from beside them.

It's Li Xiaoshuang!She was jostling with a man by the chocolate aisle.

"Ding! Pay attention, the task target appears, and the scavengers are ready to recycle."

Xiao Mo tightened his grip on the cart.

"What did you get first? Didn't you see that it was in my hand? Crazy!" The man wearing a special anti-virus and dust mask from a chemical factory threw the last big bag of chocolates into the shopping cart and pushed it out of the way again. woman.

Li Xiaoshuang is handsome but not weak at all, she went up to grab the man's eyes, and cursed loudly: "I got the bag of chocolates first, and you snatched it! Shameless, a big man!" Men actually rob women's things!"

"Stinky woman! How dare you do it! I can't beat you to death!" The masked man saw the woman grabbing him, and waved his hand to slap Li Xiaoshuang.

Xiao Mo couldn't see it, and wanted to take this opportunity to get close to Li Xiaoshuang, to see if it was possible to persuade her to go to the hospital or ask her a little bit about her situation. He still hoped to solve the problem without killing the other party. As for him, he would be obliterated if he could not complete the task ...he didn't know what to do.

Pulling the child behind him, Xiao Mo pushed the shopping cart and bumped the masked man's waist gently.

The man swayed and didn't hit the woman, so he turned around and scolded: "I'll wipe it! You're blind, don't you look ahead when you walk?"

"Sorry, I didn't notice." Xiao Mo raised his hand and smiled.

"It's fine if you didn't notice it? You hurt my waist, what do you say?" the masked man yelled.

"Bumped? Let me see, I happen to know how to massage with both hands, do you want me to give you a couple of pushes?" Xiao Mo opened the door for business, who hasn't seen it?This kind of man who dares to attack women in public is generally shameless. The softer you are, the harder he is. The best way to deal with this kind of man is to be harder than him.

"I'll wipe it! What, you want to do it?" The man in the mask had a dirty mouth, turned the shopping cart in a different direction, pushed the shopping cart with both hands and bumped into Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo grabbed the oncoming shopping cart with one hand.

The man in the mask pushed hard, but he didn't push.Push again, still no push.

"I see that your cart is normal, your waist is [-]% uninjured, or do you want me to check it for you again?" Xiao Mo said, clutching the car body tightly.

The masked man stared at Xiao Mo fiercely.

Lao Yin walked to Xiao Mo's side.

At this time, the woman took advantage of the man in the mask not paying attention, grabbed the bag of chocolates in his shopping cart, put it in her own shopping cart, turned around and ran away.

"..." Xiao Mo looked at the back of the woman speechlessly, then at the masked man glaring at him, and touched his nose.First contact mission objective failed.

Lao Yin also couldn't help laughing, patted Xiao Mo on the back and said: "It's not popular to be brave in righteousness in this day and age, so let's clean up the snow on our own."

Xiao Mo shrugged, "It's not a bad thing to act bravely, I'm afraid of encountering this kind of top quality." He had to find a way to talk to that woman.

"Ha ha!"

The man in the mask didn't dare to confront Xiao Mo head-on, and wanted to catch the woman, but he didn't, and yelled at the woman's back.

The police on patrol ran over when they heard the scolding, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing? What are you making a fuss about? You all think life is so good, don't you?"

When the masked man saw the police coming, he didn't dare to make trouble anymore, relaxed his body, glanced at Xiao Mo with disdain, grabbed the shopping cart and cursed: "Idiot! Who did you think that stinky woman was? You're a bastard!"

Xiao Mo took a step forward.

"Hey! What are you doing? Have you paid for these things? Put them down! Don't eat them!" The patrol police who just arrived shouted at the other shelf.

The masked man with an unclean mouth heard the sound and ran to join in the fun, and immediately heard his sneer: "Where is this a female refugee? She rushed to eat without paying the money. I really don't know who is shameless."

Xiao Mo's heart moved, he gave up the idea of ​​teaching the man with dirty mouth, and instead took the child and Lao Yin to push the shopping cart to the next door to them.

Next to the shelf next door, Li Xiaoshuang, who had snatched the chocolates, was frantically stuffing potato chips into her mouth. The cartoon mask hanging by her ear was crumbling. There were already several bags of potato chips that she had torn on the floor.

Xiao Mo looked at the garbage on the ground, and found that the bag of chocolates that Li Xiaoshuang snatched just now had already been eaten by her.

In such a short time, I don't know how she stripped so much chocolate and stuffed it down.

"Don't eat any more! Put this thing down! Put it down quickly!" Seeing that just yelling at her could not stop the woman, the patrol police could only step forward to stop her.

But Li Xiaoshuang didn't care about it, and waved away the policeman's hand to stop him, grabbed another bag of potato chips on the shelf, tore it open, and poured it into his mouth.

Xiao Mo swallowed with a "gudong".

"There is indeed something wrong with that woman. She seems to be unable to control her appetite." The child stood on tiptoe and whispered to him.

"See?" Old Yin murmured.

"What?" Xiao Mo tried to arrest Li Xiaoshuang, but he couldn't bear to look at the food.

"That woman is not the first..."

"What's the first one?" Xiao Mo managed to tear his eyes away from the potato chips.

Lao Yin did not answer, and said to himself, "Four shopping coupons are not enough. Not enough for me, not enough for everyone. The relief food is so little, and there is a limit on purchases. They want to force us to death. They want to live Starve us to death..."

"Old Yin?"

"Wang Lao Er is still forcing me to sell him shopping coupons. If I sell them to him, what should I eat?" Lao Yin's face became more and more ferocious.

The barrage of shouts from the police on patrol caught the attention of shoppers.

People in twos and threes came here.

The temporary manager of the supermarket and other patrolling police also ran over here when they heard the sound.

Li Xiaoshuang and the police got entangled in a bunch. The police didn't dare to really hurt her, they just wanted to stop her, but Li Xiaoshuang looked thin and weak, but she was extremely strong.

Li Xiaoshuang pushed the policeman aside, grabbed the bag of potato chips on the shelf, and poured it into his mouth as he tore it.

"Kacha Kacha", a large amount of potato chips leaked from her mouth.

The aroma of food gradually filled the air.

Do you want to stop her in the past?But the police are right there...

Xiao Mo suddenly licked his lips, he seemed to have not eaten potato chips for a long time, he used to despise these fried foods that are easy to get angry, but now smelling the fragrance, he actually felt that he used to despise The stuff of today has become very tempting.

"Boom!"

"Crackling!"

Somewhere there was another crash and the sound of something falling.

Xiao Mo didn't pay attention at first, but after a while, there were a lot of shouts.

"What are you guys doing? Put the things down! No food until you pay! Put it down, put it down!"

"Lao Li, Lao Li! This is Liangou Le Supermarket, bring someone over here! Here we go again, another group of foodies have gone crazy!"

"This is mine! I snatched it first!"

"Give it to me! Give it to me! I want to eat!"

"I'm so hungry! I can't take it anymore, I want to eat, no one can stop me!"

"Let go! Ah! How can you hit someone?"

"Stop! Stop hitting!"

"Where's the police? Hurry up and call the police!"

"Sir, you can't push the shopping cart out without payment!"

"Stop him! Stop him!"

"Dad! Where are you, Dad? Wow——!"

what happened?It's only been a few minutes since he came in, why is it such a mess?

The sounds of yelling, scrambling, goods being torn open, things falling to the ground, police scolding, adults screaming frantically, and even children crying...all poured into my ears.