The Scavengers

The evening of February 11

Qian Yunkai hooked the corners of his mouth, calling everyone to be quiet.

"You two, tell me, what did you encounter in the capital? What did you see along the way? Why didn't Lei Bing come back with you?"

As soon as they heard that it was a serious matter, everyone quieted down and found a place to stand or sit.

Xiao Mo coughed, put down his teacup, and explained his affairs in just a few words: "Not long after we arrived in the capital, we encountered a big storm. Bao Yiyong and the mercenaries of the same foreign company took me into the aircraft, and Xiaohong followed me to rescue me. , and then the aircraft fell in the storm, Xiaohong and I survived, and everyone else died. Lei Bing scattered with us in the capital, hasn't he returned yet?"

"No." Qian Yunkai shook his head, "After you left, the information was cut off, Lei Bing didn't come back, and the supplies that the capital promised us were nowhere to be seen. So you don't know the current situation in the capital?"

Xiao Mo, "We are rushing back all the way. Who is responsible for collecting information now? Tell me about the current situation of the base."

"It's me." Cheng Zai raised his hand, "That's it, I will give the main statement, and everyone will add."

According to what Cheng Zai said, first of all, all the people in the Zhongshan base are now soldiers. Except for the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, everyone needs to obey the command and dispatch of the base. Either they are responsible for laying bricks and building infrastructure, or they are responsible for digging traps and planting underground, all of which are hard work.

Secondly, although the base was warned in advance and most people fled into the underground air-raid shelters, the total population still lost one-third. Many of these people were stranded outside and never came back.

"Two days later, we dared to come out of the air-raid shelter, but it was too cold outside. We didn't get used to it at first, and several of us froze to death. When we were all prepared, we started looking for food nearby, but the situation was very bad." into a supplement.

"Everything was buried under the heavy snow. People in several nearby villages died either in the big storm or in the low temperature. We searched around and only found a dozen people alive. Those crops that were about to mature were killed by large The storm destroyed everything, and none of the plants were confiscated. And the food in the base... If the data General Qiu told our team is true, even if we tighten our belts and eat slowly, it will only last about half a year. No one knows whether the ground is still suitable for planting crops." Wang Cheng said with a sad face.

Others also sighed.

"The higher-ups are now considering whether to collect all the food in the entire base and distribute it uniformly," Qian Yun said.

When everyone in the car heard this, their expressions were not very good-looking.Although they don't know what the stocks of the other mercenary teams are like, the people in the scavenging team know that their food reserves are quite plentiful. Even if the dozen or so of them don't work, they can eat with their stomachs open for three years without any problem.

Usually when they work outside, they eat working meals in the canteen of the base.It doesn't matter if it's unpalatable or not enough, because they can make up for it when they come back.But if Qiu Feng really asked everyone to hand in all the stored food, they would not be able to have such a good life again.

Although they are not overly selfish people, how many people are really willing to let themselves and their families tighten their belts, and let others eat all the food stored at home?

Xue Lihong knocked on the table to signal everyone to come back to their senses, "As long as Qiu Feng is in his right mind, he will not carry out this order, otherwise no matter how bad the weather outside is, he will lose a group of supernatural beings, and they will be the best and most powerful ones." One batch."

Qian Yunkai pushed his glasses, "That's true. For example, we have Lvye and the base car, and we can live anywhere, not to mention you two are back. So although some people suggested that the grain collection be distributed uniformly, General Qiu did not agree. "

"What happened to the troll?" Xiao Mo asked.

"Did you see that? The troll has been here for four days, and it's about to toss us to death." Cheng Zai lay down on the table weakly.Pity him, the former communications soldier, most of the work he does now is hard work, and he is as tired as a dog when he comes back every day. No, dogs are better than him.

Afterwards, everyone chatted about the status quo of the base. In the end, everyone concluded that apart from the catastrophe that the power system cannot be used, there are four major problems that need to be solved urgently at the base.

First, trolls, mutated creatures, and alien monsters harassed the base.

Second, the extreme shortage of heating materials, that is, the lack of carbon and coal.

The third is the source of food, which involves the cultivation of food and the acquisition of meat in the future.

Fourth, without electricity, many things cannot be reproduced, the most needed are medicine and ammunition, and... toilet paper.

Qian Yunkai said again: "In fact, clean water is also a problem. The current water source contains excessive metals, including the snow, but at least the filter device can filter some, and it can barely maintain it. And the old man of the research institute Scientists say that completely isolating the external environment is not suitable for long-term survival. If the water quality cannot be changed naturally in the future, then humans must actively adapt to the current water and food. Maybe our generation and the next generation will suffer from it, but the mother body is The best breeding ground for improvement, after three generations, humans should naturally adapt to the current environment."

Xiao Mo rubbed his forehead, "These four problems, if the lightning clouds disappear, the sun comes out, and the electric energy continues to be used, then at least half of them can be solved, and maybe the temperature will rise. But..."

But the latter is the paradox that he and Xue Lihong had discussed, but it is not suitable to tell everyone in the team for the time being.

"So, General Qiu Feng is still the top manager of the base?" Xiao Mo abruptly changed the subject.

"Yes." Cheng Zai nodded.

"After we leave, how will General Qiu treat you?"

Everyone looked at each other, and finally Qian Yunkai answered: "It can be regarded as taking care of us, and the mercenary team also relies on us. He didn't hide us about the stock of food, medicine, and certain supplies. He even deliberately let me and Wang into base management."

Xiao Mo was not surprised by this, Qian and Wang are both very capable people, it is normal for Qiu Feng to want to absorb them.

"Just one thing, he asked us two days ago, asking if we could transfer some people to Eleven Taibao Mountain, and said that he would pay the rent. I think you should have seen the slightly taller buildings in the base when you came back. They were all destroyed. The buildings on the Eleventh Taibao Mountain are considered to be the best maintained. At the beginning, because of Xiaolu’s quick action, the family members of the soldiers who originally lived on the mountain basically survived, but because the temperature dropped too fast, these people have all transferred Into the underground air-raid shelter."

Cheng Zai waited for Qian Yunkai to finish speaking, and interjected: "But the air-raid shelter has limited space, and when there are too many people, it's really not a place where you can live a good life. Everyone figured it out."

"It's not necessarily unbearable." Qian Yunkai said rationally: "It's just that I don't get used to it. There are human beings living in places with minus 40 degrees, and now it's only over minus [-] degrees. The main thing is to have a time to adapt. There is also living It's too dangerous outside. Some flying beasts are very fast, they catch people and run away, and they can't be shot with a gun."

Xiao Mo already knew what was going on when he heard this, he patted the table lightly, "Eat first, after the meal, Xiao Hong and I will go to find General Qiu."

Underground bomb shelter.

Qiu Feng, who was eating with candles, heard the guards calling and thought he heard it wrong, "What did you say? Captain Xiao? Which Captain Xiao?"

With a smile in his eyes, the guard replied excitedly, "It's Captain Xiao, the super nurse!"

Qiu Feng stood up abruptly, "Let them in quickly! These two brats, I knew they would be fine!"

Qiu Feng made a gesture of punching his fist, he didn't eat, and stared at the office door eagerly.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong came in quickly, and the guards saluted them and closed the door behind them.

Qiu Feng pointed at the two of them, and nodded vigorously, "Very good! Where is my Lei Bing? Where did you throw him?"

Xiao Mo's greeting that he was about to say was choked back.

Xue Lihong pulled the boss back, "He hasn't come back yet? I'm going to settle the score with him. Your Lei Bing patronized the big meal and asked Bao Yiyong to take my boss out. If it wasn't for the big storm, now My boss has long been smuggled to somewhere."

Qiu Feng was defeated by the general, and he didn't mention Lei Bing - he believed that the kid would definitely not die, so he waved his hand, "Come and sit."

Xiao Mo dragged two folding chairs, and sat down opposite Qiu Feng's desk with Xue Lihong.

Qiu Feng sat behind the table, picked up his chopsticks, "Have you eaten? Do you want some?"

Xiao Mo watched Qiu Feng's dinner again and felt that it was right for him to come back.This General Qiu did not say that he shared weal and woe with the common people, but he was able to eat enough. The food he ate was basically the same as that in the canteen of the base, corn cakes with porridge, and a little pickled radish.

Qian Yunkai said that all the meat in the base was supplied to the front-line soldiers, doctors and scientists, while dairy products were only supplied to pregnant women and infants under the age of five.The base executives can’t open another cafeteria. If they want to eat meat, they can find their own way. They can either spend energy to buy it, or hunt by themselves or hire people. All those who want to use their status as a dominance get out.

Probably it was because of Qiu Feng's iron blood and solid showmanship that the base suffered several major traumas and was still able to stand up tenaciously. The base did not have the kind of lifelessness and despair after a catastrophe.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong walked along the tunnel, although they saw that most people's lives were not easy, but they really didn't see any despair or anger in their eyes.

The underground air-raid shelter is not big, with oil lamps and candles lit all the way inside, it is very stuffy, but it is orderly, 10,000+ people live below, but there is only bustling but not messy, the survivors have sad faces, but their clothes are not bad clean.

"We ate it." Xiao Mo expressed his gratitude and let General Qiu take care of himself.

Qiu Feng was not polite to them either, picked up the bowl and drank half of the porridge, put it down, wiped his mouth, "I know your team has delicious food, but you don't like me, hehe."

Xiao Mo didn't deny it, and smiled: "Tomorrow, I'll ask Lao Wu to bring over two boxes of canned meat."

"Send it to the army canteen, just to give them an extra meal tomorrow. There are a lot of them, you'd better send a few more boxes, maybe six boxes."

"Okay." Xiao Mo agreed.

Qiu Feng is not the kind of leader who wantonly kills people, it is not easy for anyone these days, and Xiao Mo and the others' food reserves are not blown by strong winds, he is already very satisfied with a few boxes of autumn wind.

Xiao Mo also understood that Qiu Feng's request for canned food was not so much an expression of intimacy as an expression of intimacy. "Why are you eating now? Are you busy?"

"Busy, I'm going crazy. It's great to see you two come back." Qiu Feng sighed, and then asked, "When did you come back? Did you encounter any danger on the way? How is your health?" ? Can you take it?"

"It's okay. What's the matter? Is there a serious injury?" Xiao Mo knew that the other party had a mission as soon as he heard Qiu Feng's question.

Qiu Feng nodded hurriedly, and said with a bitter face: "Yes, there are many, some ordinary doctors can't cure them, and there are no other healers in our base except you. Alas, it is only now that we find out that our Chinese medicine is better. Western doctors can even diagnose diseases without equipment. No, I dare not do major surgery.”

Qiu Feng's words were a bit biased, probably because he had been hit too much during this period.

"The field doctors and guards trained in the army are still very good." Xiao Mo comforted.

Qiu Feng shook his head, "It's a pity that we don't have many experienced Chinese doctors. There are a few soldiers in the ward who are already waiting to die. Can you go and see them later?"

"of course."

"I won't thank you anymore, that's boring. Come on, there is still some time, tell me what you saw in the capital and on the road, now the outside news is cut off, and no one knows the situation of other bases. Outside now How's it going?"

Xiao Mo heard the words, and he roughly described their experiences in the capital and on the road in detail.

After listening to this, Qiu Feng put down his chopsticks, and couldn't eat the rest of the meal.He looked at Xue Lihong, forced a smile, "Boy, you have changed a lot, have you taken any magic medicine?"

"Does my boss count?" Xue Lihong raised her eyebrows.

Qiu Feng laughed, "Forget it, of course it does. If you didn't know that even if you eat the flesh of a person with supernatural powers, you won't be able to produce supernatural powers, Xiao Xiao might have been gnawed out of his bones long ago."

Xiao Mo raised his hand as a gesture of begging for mercy, then looked at Xue Lihong and asked him with his eyes.

Xue Lihong nodded, it is better to leave such a great matter as saving the earth to the authorities.

Seeing their flirtatious glances, Qiu Feng couldn't stand it and said: "Is there something else? Come on, even if you tell me that aliens are going to invade the earth at this time, I won't be surprised, anyway, the earth is like this."

Xiao Mo laughed, "I'm right, the aliens have indeed come."

Qiu Feng: "...what?"

Xiao Mo nodded vigorously, "Really, I won't lie to you."

Then he developed the earth by aliens, turned the earth into a playground, released alien monsters, transformed the earth's environment, discovered mysterious life spots... and everything else.

Qiu Feng: "..." There is too much information, he seems a bit unable to accept it?

Forget it, he'd better eat, maybe when he's full, the matter will be settled.

There was silence in the office.

Qiu Feng slapped the table and yelled loudly, asking the orderly to help clear the table, and then asked the guards to quickly notify the management to come to his office for a meeting.

After the orderly cleared the table, he brought a large teapot filled with boiling water and a set of cups.

The base management will come soon.

The management of the base who could be summoned by Qiu Feng at this time are all his confidantes, and Xiao Mo and the others are also acquaintances. There are six people in total, namely: Director Zhang who manages the mercenary office, two regiment leaders, Shan Jun, the captain of the second special team, Cai Jinhua, the head of the research institute, and Jin Shan, the boss of Fengrui Group, a well-known businessman, is Qiu Feng's brother-in-law.

Xiao Mo also went out and brought in Qian Yunkai, Wang Cheng and Cheng Zai who were waiting outside, so that he would not have to explain it twice when he got home.

Ten minutes later, a secret meeting was held in Qiu Feng's office in the underground air-raid shelter.

Because of its importance, this meeting was later recorded in the annals of history, and it was honored as the Shuguang Conference, which became one of the compulsory questions in modern history. However, at this time, no one thought that it was so far away, and the people who came to the meeting looked very relaxed. ——They knew that there must be something important to be called so late, but who would have thought that this meeting would be related to the future of the earth and even the entire human race?

There were twelve people in total, almost filling up the small basement office.

Qiu Feng was very distressed and asked someone to bring some gasoline lamps, which were brighter than kerosene lamps.

Xiao Mo repeated the most important things he had said to Qiu Feng before.

Everyone's expressions were almost the same as Qiu Feng's before, and some people burst out laughing, but the laughter disappeared after a smile.

Everyone knew that it was impossible for Xiao Mo to tell them a sci-fi story on such an occasion.

Qiu Feng walked up and down in the office, finally stood beside Xiao Xue and the two, leaned on the desk and said: "So the biggest problem for all human beings now is the layer of lightning clouds above our heads and those from outer space... Aliens from the shitty galaxy?"

"It's the Helushe galaxy." Xiao Mo said clearly.

"Why?" Mr. Jin, who is in charge of the base's business transactions, couldn't help asking: "It's not that I don't believe what you said, but... why did the evil developers of the Helushe galaxy develop the earth? It was to transform the earth into a Playground? Compared with the huge cost of development and voyage, how much benefit can they get on the earth?"

Xiao Mo opened his mouth, President Jin interrupted him, and asked again: "If the developer just wants to develop the earth's minerals, various creatures, and various elements they need, then I can still understand, but such a development, isn't it? Shouldn’t it be quietly? In short, I can’t figure out one thing, that is why they have to spend a lot of money to develop the earth into a playground? Everyone knows that game companies make money, but they definitely don’t make as much money as energy and mining. ?”

"This is just the opinion of you people on Earth." A cruel young voice suddenly sounded in the conference room.

Everyone looked up in shock, and the muscles of a warrior like Shan Jun immediately tensed up. He didn't even notice No.13.

Xiao Mo was about to introduce His Majesty when he heard the young voice continue to say: "Developers develop the earth into a playground, naturally because the playground can bring them greater and more benefits. If you just simply develop the earth, dig the earth If you sell the earth’s minerals and special products other than humans, sooner or later the minerals will be exhausted. If you sell the earth’s humans as slaves, there is a danger of being noticed by the interstellar police, not to mention the birth method and maturity time of the earth’s people. That's not a good slave choice."

"This is?" Qiu Feng asked Xiao Mo in a low voice.

Xiao Mo asked him to wait a moment, and listen to His Majesty the System to finish speaking.

The system continued: "For how to maximize the benefits of the newly discovered planet, the developers of the Helushe galaxy have long had many mature and successful experiences, and the development of the playground is just one of them. Maybe you will feel that the initial investment is more However, there is not much difference between this investment and sending people to the earth to mine, manage and develop, etc.

Once the playground is built and word of mouth spreads, players can continuously create a lot of benefits for the developers.As for why players choose Earth, it's just like you like to buy lottery tickets. They are all speculative, and you always feel that you can make a big fortune with a small amount.The most important thing is that, in your opinion, aliens occupy the earth for minerals and energy, etc., but you ignore the point that is most likely to bring benefits to players. "

"What is it?" Xiao Mo asked instead of everyone.

The system said seriously: "It's civilization. Systematic, unbroken, and complete civilization."

Everyone was stunned.

"Then why the developer..."

"If you take out a complete civilization of one or even several alien creatures at once, it may set off a wave of enthusiasm in the interstellar, but it's just a while. But what if you don't take it out at once? Instead, some people slowly flow out from various channels intermittently A civilization item that is completely different from the known civilizations of the Helushe galaxy, such as a painting, a pair of words, a broken book, a statue, a crystal ball... mysterious, a small amount, is the point that arouses people's greatest interest For example, Atlantis on your earth, such as the Mayan civilization.

Then, after the items of these mysterious civilizations flowed out, some people used examples to prove that they had been to the location of this civilization and obtained some very affordable treasures.Of course, such a treasure land must also be full of dangers. Danger means excitement, and it also means greater wealth that is not easy for ordinary people to obtain.Imagine how crazy the people of the Helushe system will be in the playground of the earth when these news spread. "

"Fuck! Are these alien developers too good at playing?" Boss Jin scolded, but as a true businessman, he had to admit that this kind of development method can maximize the benefits.

If he thinks differently, he might do the same.But now it is the earth that is being developed, and their earthlings are being consumed, so this enmity is irreconcilable.

Others have almost the same idea as Mr. Jin: only win-win can make friendship last, and unilateral exploitation will only lead to resistance.And a certain developer in the Helushe galaxy is no longer stepping on the bottom line of the earthlings, it is trying to drive all the earthlings to death-after all, the price of a destroyed mysterious civilization and a living and complete civilization is not the same in the market!