The Scavengers

April 11

Xiao Mo didn't sleep well for most of the night, thinking about things over and over again, until Xue Lihong couldn't bear it anymore and suppressed him with her body, making him so tired that he fell asleep, so he got a restful sleep in the second half of the night.

In the early morning of the next day, the two got out of the aircraft, and the pothole from last night had been filled up again by snow.

Xiao Mo stood silently near the pothole for a while, praying for these people and preparing himself mentally.

People say that being close to the hometown is timid, and he is in the same mood now. The more he wants to know the situation of his family and friends, the more he is afraid of knowing. To put it bluntly, he is just afraid of seeing and hearing the same bad news.

"The situation won't be like that. You forgot, they have base vehicles." Xue Lihong came over and said.

"But the electricity inside can't be used... Forget it, let's not talk about it." Xiao Mo took a deep breath, "Let's go."

Xue Lihong said it lightly, but under the influence of Xiao Mo, he also had some feelings for the Zhongshan base to some extent, and it was impossible to say that he was not worried about the situation of the base and team members at all.

But Xue Lihong is the kind of person who becomes more calm when he gets nervous. He even deliberately increased the number of rests this day to ensure that he still has enough energy to cope with anything when he returns to the base.

Xiao Mo made a decision in his heart, and his whole body seemed to have settled down, and the restlessness and uneasiness of last night were no longer seen.

The Zhongshan base covers a vast area, and the city walls are very tall. Although it was damaged by a big storm, the main body still remained. At least from a distance, the general shape of the base can still be seen, and it will not be like some small bases passing by on the way. The whole thing disappeared under the snow cover.

He couldn't see clearly in the snowstorm. Seeing that the base was about to arrive, Xue Lihong was about to find a high place to land—the situation was unknown, he couldn't just fly into the base with Xiao Mo directly, so he had to observe first .

"boom!"

"Clap clap clap!"

The sound of bombs and machine guns reached their ears.

Snowflakes blocked Xue Lihong's sight, but she could still see some clues from mid-air.

"What happened?" Xiao Mo signaled Xue Lihong to let him down quickly.

Xue Lihong stopped in mid-air and watched for a while, then found a high ground and flew over.

Just for a while, the sound of machine guns and bombs became more intense, and occasionally people shouted.

Xiao Mo cheered up, there were gunshots and voices, indicating that the defense line of the base is still there, and the situation of the base will not be unbearable.

Although the dense gunfire also indicated that the base was in great danger, the danger could always be resolved, and it was better than deathly silence.

"It seems that someone is attacking the base." Xue Lihong took out the telescope from her backpack.His backpack is also a strange thing, it can be put into his body when he turns into a bug, and becomes a backpack when he turns into a human body.

Xiao Mo suspected that the backpack might be an organ in Xiaohong's body responsible for storing things, similar to a cow's stomach?But this was not the time to ask about it. He put away the duvet and quickly took out a telescope to look in the direction of the base.

"What the hell is that? An ogre troll?" Xiao Mo blurted out when he saw the monster attacking Zhongshan's base clearly.

The ogre troll, a legendary giant, uses thick bone sticks, chain hammers, and axes as weapons. It likes to eat people, has one eye, bald head, foul smell, thick skin, and has both offense and defense.

The huge monster that was attacking the Zhongshan base was very similar to the legendary ogre troll except that it was not one-eyed and had thick and thick purple-black hair.

No, there is one more mistake, the ogre's attack power and defense power are not at the same level as this troll, and this troll has almost reached the level of the legendary Titans.

It is really possible to kick a big hole in the solid city wall with one kick, and smash the fort with one fist, and the bullets hitting it will not pose much threat, only the shells will make it dodge and roar.

"Goo!" The monster's roar was very strange, as if the cry of a toad was amplified countless times.

"Is that Yun Kai and Wang Cheng?!" Xiao Mo exclaimed in surprise when he saw an acquaintance on the city wall.

Qian Yunkai's attack was as obvious as Cyclops, and Wang Chengcheng stood by his side, protecting him and cooperating in the fight.

Xue Lihong was still observing carefully with the binoculars. After the gunshots, the supernatural beings began to attack the troll in turn. Judging from their cooperation, it was obvious that there were brilliant generals in command.

It's just that the troll is too powerful, and its movements don't match its huge body. Not only is it not cumbersome, it can also be called dexterous.

Fortunately, the troll didn't have many attack methods, so it could only rely on brute force, otherwise it might have already rushed into the base.

Xiao Mo saw through the binoculars that someone had fallen on the city wall, and when his body moved, he was about to rush out subconsciously.

Xue Lihong grabbed him, "Don't worry, look carefully. It shouldn't be a day or two since they met."

Xiao Mo was held down by Xue Lihong, so he could only grab the binoculars again.

Sure enough, although some people on the city wall fell down one after another under the attack of the troll, the others were not in a mess at all, and no one was in a hurry to rescue those who fell.

And those who fell fell into the snow and disappeared just like that, and I didn't see them come out for a long time.

The troll rushed to the base of the city wall several times, trying to dig out those fallen people from the snow, but the attack wave above would also intensify accordingly, forcing it to circle around the city wall.

After going back and forth like this, the troll saw that he couldn't take advantage of it, so he yelled like venting, knocking the surrounding snow into the air, and even lifted the tank that was abandoned at the gate of the city and smashed it hard against the city wall.

"boom!"

The base was extremely popular, but there was nothing they could do about the troll. The opponent's skin was too thick, and ordinary shells couldn't kill it.

"If our missile system can still be used...!" The people at the base gritted their teeth. This kind of powerful weapon can only be used with millet and rifles!

"Back off! The troll is leaving! Finally survived another day!"

People at the base and on the walls cheered.

Seeing that the troll couldn't take advantage of it, he could only leave with hatred after venting. It was huge and easily hungry. It consumed so much and couldn't eat to replenish it. It could only go back and kill wild animals to satisfy its hunger, and come back tomorrow.

"Xiao Hong, are you sure you can deal with that big guy?" Xiao Mo stared at the direction where the troll left.

Xue Lihong didn't know what she saw through the binoculars, the corner of her mouth twitched, and she said, "It's hard to say, I feel that this troll is about as powerful as the giant monster before."

Xiao Mo slammed his head against the tree trunk next to him, "Why are there so many powerful big guys on the earth all at once? These damned alien developers!"

Neither Xiao Mo nor Xue Lihong knew that although this troll was also related to the developer, it really couldn't be blamed on the developer for it to become like this.

The culprit who created such a monster is playing happily in the sky. It chose this body as a toy at the beginning because it felt the strength of the opponent's physical body, but when the light spot turned it into a puppet toy without its own consciousness, it quickly became a toy. Abandoning it, and this puppet was not dead, but turned into a monster that only knew about appetite.

As for why the player became like this, maybe it has something to do with the light spots, maybe it has something to do with his own genes, maybe it has something to do with the stimulants that the developers of the Helushe galaxy put into the earth.

All in all, the formation of this monster can only be said to be a unique coincidence.

What's interesting is that this troll, who only knew how to eat, became obsessed with the taste of a human supernatural being after occasionally eating a human supernatural being. Maybe its instinct made it still seek the path of evolution?

No matter what, the troll just followed the team of supernatural beings who came out to look for food and rescue people all the way to the Zhongshan base, and then entangled for several days. At first, the Zhongshan base suffered a severe loss and lost A lot of manpower also caused the troll to taste the sweetness, so he simply used the base as his own vegetable garden, and came here to plunder when he was hungry.

"Let's go, it's time to go back." Xue Lihong put away the binoculars.

"We just enter through the gate?" Xiao Mo hesitated.

"No, let's go home directly from there." Xue Lihong pointed to the side of the base.

Xiao Mo raised his eyes and saw that amidst the white snow all over the sky, there was only a piece of green that was particularly conspicuous.

Xiao Mo's mood suddenly became very good.This is Little Green, right?It must be it. Apart from it, there is probably no other plant that can be abnormally green all over the mountain in this cold time, and even cover the city walls near Shishi Taibao Mountain with vines.

Little Green was dragging the soldiers who fell from the city wall one by one with vines into the tunnel below.

After all the personnel were rescued back to the base, the earth-type supernatural powers stepped forward and sealed all the tunnel entrances outside the city wall.

A plant-type power user came to hook up with Xiaolu again, holding the very precious conversion power in his hand as a temptation.Xiaolu sent people flying with a vine, snatched the reward this time, and even counted it, and she was sure that it was correct, and she returned to her harmless and cute appearance.

Plant-type power user: ...Master Lu, don't you think there are a few more?

Qian Yunkai picked up the little rattan cat, pushed the twitter glasses, and smiled at the plant supernatural being who got up, "Don't be sad, you are not the first loser, remember to bring more conversion energy next time."

The Nth plant-type power user who failed to hook up with Xiaolu: "...Lord Lu, can you return the extra conversion to me? That is all my property!"

All the supernatural beings laughed together.With the energy in Master Lu's hand, do you still want to get it back?There are no windows!

Xiaoteng cat suddenly raised its head, its green eyes became particularly bright, and its mouth opened like a cat, as if calling.

The plant-type supernatural being was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "No need to pay back! Master Lu, don't be angry, just treat it as my filial piety!"

The little rattan cat jumped up, and the plant-type superhuman screamed.

"... Huh? Where's Master Lu?" The big man who thought he would be whipped a few times let go of his hands covering his head, and scratched his head foolishly.

Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng looked at each other, and they didn't know what happened. In that instant, Lord Lu disappeared.

Qian Yunkai's heart suddenly moved, could it be?

"Chengzi, let's go!"

"Go? Where?"

"go back."

Father is back!Finally back!

Xiaolu sensed Xiao Mo's return and was so happy.God knows how many little monsters it ate in order to run to that capital city. The underground root system has grown and grown, and now I don't know where it grew.

Because of lack of direction?Afraid that his father would come back and miss it, Little Green still left the main body at the Zhongshan base. When a big storm happened, it sensed something was wrong, and immediately used roots to fasten the entire Eleven Taibao Mountain and the buildings on it, including the nearby city walls. .

The square courtyard belonging to the scavengers was even more firmly protected by Xiaolu, and the whole building was covered with vines.

At that time, the base vehicle also flew back.

Cheng Zai and others immediately brought all the family members of the team into the residential area of ​​the base vehicle, including Qian Yunkai's parents, who also specially picked them up from the research institute.

During this period, a big storm came, all electric power was shut down, and the base vehicle could no longer be used. Qian Yunkai, Wang Cheng, and the old couple of the Qian family who went out to pick up people were almost trapped on the road.

It was still a big black dog pulling them with a rope, dragging them into the underground air-raid shelter, and then Xiaolu took them back to Shishitaibao Mountain through the underground root system.

The scavengers in the scavengers knew Little Green, but they didn't know Big Black Dog, but seeing that Little Green had no hostility towards Big Black Dog, and Big Black Dog was very humane and saved them, so they naturally regarded Big Black Dog as one of their own.

The big black dog was left behind in the scavenging team.

At the same time, just because Xiaolu scooped up people from the air-raid shelter through the root system, let the upper echelons of the base know of Xiaolu's existence, and later saw Xiaolu's great power in defense and soil consolidation, so through Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng, Reached a deal with Little Green, and can hire it to work for the base with the conversion, but Mr. Little Green is really not easy to manipulate.

Having said that, as soon as Xiao Lu sensed that Xiao Mo had arrived at the door, she ran back as fast as she could.

Other creatures still need to run for a while, it just needs to transmit the main consciousness back.

So, when he got to the bottom of the city wall, Xiao Mo, who was about to climb up the vines, saw a little vine cat suddenly jump out of the vines and crash into his arms.

With the help of Xiaolu, the two didn't bother to make any effort. Xiaolu directly wrapped them in vines and sent them all the way back to Eleven Taibao Mountain.

Both Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong noticed that this section of the city wall was unexpectedly unguarded, and all the soldiers stationed on the Eleventh Taibao Mountain had also left.

In this way, no one noticed that the two had slipped into the base.

However, the lax guarding of the city wall near Eleventh Taibao Mountain is due to the fact that there is Mr. Little Green and a powerful watchdog here. You must know that even trolls would not dare to run here.

In the past, the troll saw that there was no one guarding here, and wanted to break through here, but was almost sucked dry by the green vines wrapped around the city wall, and several pieces of flesh were ripped off by Dahei, and finally managed to escape, and then never again. Don't dare to approach this land boundary.

The big black dog lying on the top of the mountain in the state of a thinker suddenly stood up on all fours.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong also paused.Where did such a big dog come from?This figure is comparable to that of a full-grown horse.

Dahei smelled a familiar smell, rushed forward, stopped, flicked his tail at Xiao Mo, and whimpered like yearning.

Xue Lihong squinted at Xiao Mo: "Tell me, what evil did you do again? Where did you seduce another one?"

Xiao Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Don't make trouble, it looks a little familiar, and it's probably one of the few animals I saved last time."

Dahei whimpered in a low voice, as if answering him.

Xiao Mo stroked its big head, and the little rattan cat kicked the big black dog on the head jealously.

The big black dog was not annoyed, it bit Xiao Mo's clothes, turned around and led the way.

Xiao Mo smiled, pulled out the hem of his clothes, and followed the big black dog down the mountain.Last time he saved a lot of creatures, but in the end it was only the black dog and the little praying mantis who came to him to repay his favor.Well, Xiaolu has already been regarded as his son by him, so it doesn't count.

It's not like he's doing good deeds in return, it's just that people do good deeds, and the other party gets something in return. It's warmer than being heartless, and it's more motivation for people to continue to do good deeds, isn't it?

The courtyard of the scavengers team was surrounded by vines, Xiaolu only opened a hole in the vines and sent the two of them in.

But Dahei stayed at the gate and continued to guard the top of the mountain. This is the duty it set for itself, probably from a memory long ago.

As soon as they entered the team activity room, the two saw the huge base vehicle parked in the center of the room.

The base car door is closed.

Xiao Mo walked to the door step by step, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Although the base car can't be started, and a lot of functions can't be used, its doors and some switches can be operated manually and mechanically, just to prevent energy problems and facilitate repairs.

Similarly, the oxygen delivery equipment in the space in the car can also be activated manually—it will be opened automatically when the power is cut off. As long as it is not in space or in a non-oxygen environment, the vent hole can be opened to allow the outside oxygen to be directly injected into the space to ensure that the living organisms in the space Will not die from lack of oxygen.

The car door was opened from the inside, and a familiar child's voice sounded: "Brother Cheng Zai, you forgot to bring your keys again!"

Xiao Mo smiled, "Xiao Fei?"

The child stood at the door in a daze, looking at the two adults outside the door stupidly.

"Why, you haven't known me for a few days?"

Xiao Fei suddenly screamed and jumped up. Instead of jumping into Xiao Mo's arms, he turned around and ran into the car, shouting as he ran, "The captain is back! Both the captain and the vice-captain are back! Ahhhh ——!”

There was a commotion in the base car, and many people rushed to the door together.

"Xiaomo! Xiaoxue!" This is Deng Anjie - the adults took turns taking care of the children at home, and it happened to be her turn to be at home today.

"Second Uncle! Brother Xue!" This is Xiao Leduo, Xiao Mo's nephew.

"Captain! Deputy team!" This is Wu Xiaoyuan, the youngest student in the team.

"Second brother, you are finally back." This was his father.

"Xiao Xiao, Xiaoxue! You are finally back, and everyone is worried about you." Wang Cheng's parents are also there. These two are not in good health and cannot go out to do hard work. They are raising flowers and growing vegetables at home with Father Xiao Some dry goods and the like.Father Wang is a bit impatient, Mother Wang is slow-tempered, and both elders are very good people, and they are much more reliable in their actions and words than Father Xiao.

Qian Yunkai's parents are not here. These two have not planned to retire yet, and they are still fighting on the front line. Even if all the machines and computers are not available now, they are still doing research and protecting various specimens with local methods.

Xiao Mo's eyes were red, the old man and the children were all there, the others must be fine, that's great!

Needless to say, the excitement and joy of the team reunion afterwards, everyone was reluctant to leave the living room, they all surrounded Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong, asking them about their experiences during this period, especially the changes in Xue Lihong's body were too obvious - everyone Even though he was thinner, he became stronger, not to say that he was too strong, but because he was too thin. This healthy cool guy is still very different from the sick boy.

Later, it was Deng Anjie who used her sister-in-law's courage to tell everyone not to pester Xiao Hexue any more, let the two have a good rest first, and instruct everyone to boil hot water and cook, and let Qian Yunkai wait. Talk to them when they get back.

Xiao Mo and the two of them were also not polite, carrying a few large kettles boiled with coal, went back to the bedroom in the car and enjoyed a hot bath, and even soaked for a while.

In the end, Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng rushed back when Xiao Xue was taking a bath, and soon Cheng Zai and other members also came back from get off work one after another.

Hearing that Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong had returned, everyone was happy and excited, as if they had a backbone.

Old Wu patted his chest and said that he would have a big dinner tonight.

Everyone raised their hands and feet in agreement.

That night, everyone took out many good things that they were usually reluctant to eat, and no one was willing to leave the living room. The car was as lively as the New Year.

Little green, little mantis, and big black, with Xiao Mo as the center, formed a triangle and stared at each other.

Little boy Wu Xiaoyuan tilted his head and looked at it for a while, wanting to come over and get in the way, but classmate Xiaofei hugged his neck and said, "Let's not fight for favor, they are all little monsters, we can't beat them, be good."

The little monster Wu Xiaoyuan who was still a cub clenched his fist.

Xiao Mo: "..."

Dahei thought he was the biggest in size, and he wanted to give in to the two smaller ones, so he gave way and squatted next to Xuelihong's legs.

Xue Lihong stroked its back appreciatively.

Dahei narrowed his eyes comfortably.

The little mantis waved its sickle claw threateningly at Xiaolu.

"Shua!" A green shadow flew over, "biaji!" The little mantis was drawn into a window grille.

The little rattan cat uttered a silent meow, followed Xiao Mo's thigh on a catwalk, and squatted into his arms.

Well, the Xiao family's small rankings are released:

The boss, Little Tengmao, is called Lord Lv by people in the world.

The second child, the little mantis, calls himself the ancestor of the mantis.

The third child, Dahei, has unknown force value, and is the darkest one by visual inspection.

The fourth child is Wu Xiaoyuan, a little monster who has not yet grown up.

The fifth child, Lin Xiaofei.Psychological boss?The most sensible one?

Xue Lihong looked at the one, two, three, four, five in front of her, pulled Zhang Shuai's dead face, and hugged Xiao Mo into her arms: Boss, mine.

His Majesty the system in the bracelet: "Oh."

All the people present, except for a very few people who noticed this drama of fighting for favor, everyone else was still caught in the joy and excitement of the backbone's return.