The Scavengers

11 month 10-11 days

His Majesty the System saw the original boarder coming out of that weird cocoon, and was about to pounce on him to recognize him, when he suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Is that the big bastard?Why does he look a little different?It seems more dangerous and more annoying!

Xiao Mo came out after changing into a set of clothes and trousers, was blown by the cold wind, shivered, looked at the snow-white eyes again, and blurted out in surprise: "Is the earth destroyed?"

"No." The system made a sound.

Xiao Mo turned his head and saw the miniature jellyfish floating in the air, "...Your Majesty?"

"It's me. Let's discuss, can you let me go back into your body?" The outside world is too dangerous.

"Impossible." Xue Lihong put away his remaining calluses, and mercilessly rejected the system.

The system really wanted to say that I wasn't asking you, but it also knew the influence of this person on Xiao Mo, so it didn't dare to talk to him, but asked Xiao Mo again: "Is it really not possible?"

Xiao Mo listened to the system's voice that was an octave lower, and wanted to laugh: "Have you gotten rid of the control of the mother system?"

"...No, but don't worry about it for now."

"How long is this for now?" Xue Lihong came over.

The system is not easy to answer, it depends on the mood of those light spot masters above, but it has found a way to disconnect from the parent system, as long as it upgrades to another level.

"Isn't this a paradox?" Xue Lihong mocked after listening to the system's explanation, "You always need to be connected to the Internet to upgrade, but once you connect to the Internet, you will be tracked by the parent system. This is an insoluble contradiction."

The system raised its non-existent chest: "I have already thought of a way. I will make a better and more complex maze during this period of time, so that once I get online, I can use the maze to delay the time for the mother system to find me. Here As long as I can upgrade successfully during this period, I can unilaterally disconnect from the parent system."

Xue Lihong refused to give an inch: "What you said is all hypothetical. If you can't make a better maze than last time before networking, if your maze is invalid for the parent system, if your upgrade is not smooth, if you upgrade It is also impossible to disconnect from the mother system, so as long as one of these four fails, my boss will be implicated by you."

The system failed, and it couldn't refute it.

Seeing the pitiful appearance of the miniature jellyfish, Xiao Mo couldn't help pulling Xue Lihong to calm down, and then said to the system in a harmonious voice: "Your Majesty, can you tell me why you have to return to the world again?" into my body?"

The system answered honestly: "There are two elements to my upgrade. First, the recycler needs to complete the task. Second, it requires a lot of energy. And my upgrade is not a step-by-step upgrade, but exceeds the permission of the parent system, modifying some The one with the central rule, then I need more energy."

"Do you have to be in my body to do both?"

"No, as long as you and I maintain a relatively close relationship. But, well, I'm too dangerous outside, even if I don't board on you, I still need a carrier, but which carrier can compare to you, with you Now, those light spots will never hit my mind. In addition, there is another benefit of letting me enter your body, after I leave, have you found that you can no longer hide your excess energy?"

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong looked up at it together.

The system is sure, "You are still too weak to control the huge energy in your body, let alone retract it freely. If I return to your body, I can help you control the energy emission. If you bleed, I can Recover all the energy in your blood, and make sure that no creature or machine will notice your specialness."

Xiao Mo looked at Xue Lihong, not mentioning other shortcomings, this alone was enough to make his heart move.He didn't want to be surrounded by hundreds of mutant creatures after a slight injury in the future, and he didn't want to provoke another super monster.The most important thing is that if he can't be injured, it means that he can no longer fight on the front line, and he can only hide behind Xiaohong every time he encounters something, which he can't accept no matter what.

Xue Lihong pondered for a while, and asked the system: "You said just now that you don't have to enter the boss's body, right? As long as you can establish a close relationship, right?"

The system replied reluctantly: "Yes, but..."

"Can that bracelet be your carrier?" Xue Lihong quickly expressed her thoughts without waiting for the system to raise objections: "I think you should have a way to modify that bracelet, and the boss can't do without the function of that bracelet." , after you use the bracelet as a carrier, it is even more impossible for him to leave you, so that you can still be closely connected at all times, and you can also use the bracelet to absorb the energy of the boss."

"It's not absorbing, it's recycling, recycling what he doesn't need." The system resolutely does not let Xue Lihong discredit itself, and at the same time seriously considers the pros and cons of it.

"I need a lot of energy to modify the bracelet." The system said after thinking twice, "My current energy is only enough to maintain my basic operation."

"Will it be any danger to my boss?"

"During this period, he can't use energy to repair, and his own recovery will also slow down, so it's best not to let him get injured."

"about how long?"

"Up to 24 hours."

Xiao Mo said that he could accept this time.

Although Xue Lihong really didn't want the system to come back, they couldn't refuse the benefit it offered. At least until Xiao Mo could control his energy leakage, they couldn't do without the system.Helpless, Xue Lihong could only admit this, but he did not forget to warn the system at the end: "You must ensure that you can withdraw from my boss's body at any time, and that you cannot cause any damage to him."

His Majesty the System swallowed his anger: "This time it's not a complete boarding, but only part of it. You can leave at any time. I guarantee that it will not cause any harm to Xiao Mo when you leave. It is equivalent to the portable optical brain that everyone in the Helushe Galaxy has. It can’t help Xiao Mo to connect to the interstellar network, other functions are much more powerful than ordinary optical brains, even military custom optical brains are not as good as me, of course I mean after I keep upgrading and cracking various obstacles in the program.”

His Majesty the System said the last sentence in a very low voice, Xiao Mo smiled and stretched out his arm wearing the bracelet.

Xue Lihong remembered the name of the Helushe galaxy, this is the second time the system mentions this galaxy.

In fact, His Majesty the System still underestimates himself. It is a professionally customized portable system that was put on the playground of the earth by the developer as a hidden reward. Ordinary optical computers do not have such intelligence or functions as it.Probably only the portable system specially trained by the military for high-level fighters can be compared with it.

Of course, the developer made a lot of restrictions on the system rules when launching these systems, to ensure that the recyclers and breeders of the earth cannot use the system to do too much, and can only be manipulated by the system.In addition, in order to prevent the earth people from controlling the system and using the system to obtain knowledge beyond the earth's civilization, all the launched systems do not contain a knowledge system, and their databases only contain relevant knowledge related to tasks and that developers need to instill in advance for development.The developers even set a self-destruct order for all systems, once they fall into the hands of the earthlings and they cannot control the earthlings, they will destroy themselves immediately.

But who would have thought that there would be a repairer on the earth, and even a super life like a super bug like a light spot?It actually allowed a rigid system that was completely impossible to get out of control to have feelings and a desire not to disappear, and thus step by step to the point where it wanted to completely get rid of the control of the mother system.

In any case, when a portable system that is more powerful than an ordinary optical brain is out of control, it is bound to have a certain impact on the development of the earth, and this certain degree is directly proportional to the degree of affection between it and the earth host.

Now our arrogant system, His Majesty, has taken the first step that is taboo and most feared by all advanced civilizations. It repositions itself as the portable optical brain of the earthling Xiao Mo.

The definitions of portable optical brain and portable system are completely different in the smart world.The most basic point is that the portable optical brain is required to serve its master 100%, not to do any harm to the master, and to do its best to meet all the requirements of the master.

Xiao Mo doesn't know this point yet, but it doesn't matter, when he encounters a problem that neither he nor Xue Lihong can solve, he will definitely ask His Majesty the system for advice, and even if His Majesty only solves one of the ten problems, over time, the rest The effect can also be imagined.

Time goes back to the present.

His Majesty the System entered the bracelet, and began to make extensive modifications to the bracelet, for which all the items in the bracelet were thrown out by it.

After discussing with Xiao Mo, Xue Lihong simply decided to rest at the same place for a day, and then set off after the system finished modifying the bracelet.

The two were too lazy to find another place, and directly used the half-repaired Kino company aircraft as temporary housing.

Seeing that there was no danger around her, Xue Lihong, who had been screaming hungry since waking up, couldn't help but burrowed into the small snow mountain formed by the corpse of the King of Alien Beasts—he didn't want Xiao Mo to see him eating People rushed back to the aircraft.

Xiao Mo didn't particularly want to see his family's Xiaohong eating, so he smiled and promised not to peek at him.

With nothing else to do, Xiao Mo recounted all the items thrown out by His Majesty.

There are still too few items for winter, so we need to focus on collecting them.

Most of the normal food is left for the team and the family before leaving. They don't bring much, so we should also pay attention to watching.

There are also other weapons such as weapons. There are not many nails in the nail gun, but there are still a dozen gunpowder guns—all of which he picked up and repaired. There are very few bullets in stock. Less consumables.

Xiao Mo originally thought that there were a lot of things stuffed into the bracelet, but after checking it, he found that there were not many.Looking at the thermometer again, it has already exceeded the highest value that can be measured by mercury temperature, which means that the current temperature is at least 39 degrees below zero.

Xiao Mo raised his head and looked into the distance, looking at the boundless world, and then looked up at the lightning clouds in the sky, feeling sad.

The sun does not come out, not to mention that the temperature will get lower every day, what will the plants do?

Without plants, there would be no crops, and without crops, what would humans eat?

"I hope the lightning cloud will disappear soon." Xiao Mo prayed in a low voice.

"You'd better not count on that." The system whispered.

Xiao Mo raised his eyebrows, "Can you talk now?"

"I'm an intelligent system. If I can't be distracted and multi-purpose, what kind of intelligence is it?" His Majesty the system said proudly.

Xiao Mo asked with a smile: "Why did you say that just now?"

"If there were no lightning cloud, the storm wouldn't be forcibly terminated in the middle of it..." the system said what it found in the sky above.

Xiao Mo was startled, "You mean the lightning cloud has become the earth's protective film?"

"That's almost what it means, otherwise it would not be dozens of fireballs, but dozens of super greedy and cruel players. Think about how players treat NPCs when you play games, those alien players see You are just like watching NPCs, especially if you kill you, you can drop treasure."

"What treasure can we drop?" Xiao Mo didn't understand.

"There are too many. For example, alloy particles, this is the lowest level of energy. And the conversion energy you have researched is actually the compression energy of a hundred alloy particles. Of course, according to the normal gameplay, in order to maximize the benefits, players generally The earthlings who produce alloy particles will not be killed, but will be raised in captivity, so that they can provide him with alloy particles for a long time. However, this kind of gameplay is quite time-consuming, and some individual players are unwilling to play this way, and would rather kill chickens and get eggs."

"In addition, the players who come here basically know that there are recyclers and breeders among the people on Earth. Both of them have portable systems on their bodies. Not to mention the system itself, the various rewards given by the system are also very tempting to players. In other words , the recyclers and breeders are equivalent to the bosses on the earth, and the difficulty of overthrowing them is different according to the level. But it is undeniable that the higher the level of the recyclers and breeders, the player's profit from knocking them down is also More and more. Think about what those players will do to find out who is the recycler and breeder among the people on Earth."

The system hesitated, and then said: "In addition to players who want to get treasures quickly, there are also players of the research category and special categories. They will be curious about the people on Earth and will capture them as guinea pigs for various experiments. There are also some... who are unscrupulous, ahem, and they don't mind mating with earthlings, or letting earthlings mate with their pets or war beasts."

The more the system talked, the darker Xiao Mo's face became.

"You said that the second batch of players also came in, and they are in the sky now?"

"Yes. But you don't have to worry about them. They basically don't have a good end. Whether they can survive depends on the light spots and the energy they can accept."

"But they will come again in the future, and the light spot can't stay in the air all the time, right?"

"Players will definitely come again. The developer has paid such a high price for development, and the initial investment has not been recovered. How could he give up on the earth like this? Especially... I think the information about the light point has now been sent back to the Helushe galaxy. As long as the development Shang will definitely send someone to come when he hears about the light point.”

"Will the point of light be captured?"

The system sneered, "If the elemental life is really so easy to capture, it won't be so precious. It's just that when the developer finds out that the earth not only has this kind of miraculous life, but also has such a large number, it must be even more impossible to give up on the earth. The earth is also a bit good, if the developers find so many elemental life but find that they can't capture them, maybe they will suspend the development of the earth and change it to a protective guard."

"That is to say, they will guard the outer space of the earth until they figure out a way to capture and use the light spots?" Xiao Mo asked.

"Yes. So I told you not to pray for the lightning cloud to disappear. Because if the lightning cloud exists forever, those developers will not be able to enter the earth and can only find a way in outer space. But if the lightning cloud disappears and the light spots return to the earth, then Both developers and players will flock to the earth. At that time, maybe the developers will directly wipe out all intelligent creatures on the earth, that is, human beings, in order to eliminate future troubles.”

Xiao Mo was horrified, but he also admitted that the system's speculation was likely to come true.

However, if the lightning cloud does not disappear, the sun does not come out, and the temperature continues to drop, human beings and various creatures on the earth will still perish.

This is also a paradox.

What on earth should they do?Where is the way out for the earth?