The Scavengers

December 12 afternoon to evening

Noisy outside, Xiao Mo methodically followed the order arranged by Qian Yunkai to treat the seriously injured patients one by one.

A few minutes later, the quarrel outside escalated, and the sound was clearly heard inside the ward.

Many patients hooked their heads and looked out.

There were neat and fast footsteps outside the door, and the door of the ward was guarded by supernatural warriors.

Xue Lihong wandered out at some point, and when Zhou Fang came over with an apologetic expression, he slipped back to Xiao Mo's side at some point.

Xiao Mo took a break at halftime and took the energy crystal to restore energy.

Zhou Fang forced a smile to Xiao Mo, and said with a tired face, "I'm sorry, I made you laugh."

Xiao Mo raised his head, "I heard that there are other seriously injured people outside?"

Zhou Fang seemed to be at a loss as to how to explain it. In the end, his aide Feng Yang said apologetically, "It's a part of the base managers headed by members of the Planning Department. They heard that you came and asked you to give free medical treatment to the common people. .”

Xiao Mo was stunned for a while, then laughed: "The member of the planning department is doing this again?"

"Because it works." Xue Lihong interjected.

Zhou Fang and Feng Yang looked embarrassed.

Xue Lihong said to his boss with obvious displeasure: "If the Ji Ke can successfully let you go to the survivors for free clinics, he will be a hero who pleads for the people and is the official who is most considered by the people in the base. If it is not successful, That is also the fault of the president and you. The louder he quarrels, the more commotion he causes, and the more he can agitate most of the survivors who don't know the truth."

"Member of Ji Ke...is he crazy? Shouldn't everyone be united as one at a time like this?" Xiao Mo couldn't figure it out.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Fang nodded, "Even if he is not crazy, he is about the same. Councilor Ji is over seventy years old, and has many relatives in his family, but he has only one son, a lot of sons and mistresses, and finally only got one girl. But this is the only one. Her granddaughter was seriously injured in the storm and was rescued by bodyguards desperately. But at that time, you disappeared, and Ah Ning disappeared, leaving only the low-level healer. Although she tried her best, she still couldn't make the girl survive. On the way, he thought of looking for his only son again, and ordered his subordinates and Commander Liu to send people to rescue his son, but the people sent by Commander Liu and Ji Ke were a step too late. His son disappeared in the storm. At one time, he was at a certain mistress's house, and the mistress also disappeared, and none of the bodyguards survived. Later, when the soldiers came back, he forced someone to look for him, but Commander Liu refused."

Disappeared in the storm, coupled with the subsequent heavy snow and severe cold, the fate of the missing person can be imagined.

Xiao Mo was dumbfounded.The white-haired man sends the black-haired man, or the offspring will die, Ji Ke thinks he has nothing to worry about, he probably only wants revenge now.

Qian Yunkai put forward his professional opinion, "Since the spirit of the member of the Jike Branch is not suitable for continuing to be a manager, why delegate power to him?"

Feng Yang explained on behalf of the president: "Because other councilors need a leader, and many members of Councilor Ji's family are in the management of the base, it is not easy to dismiss him, not to mention that everyone is busy after the big storm. Fighting for survival and getting the functions of the base back into operation, no one had the energy to engage in politics at that time. When the base was finally stabilized, Councilor Ji, as a sad person who also lost an important family member, had already recruited half of the survivors. People's hearts."

Zhou Fang added: "After the disaster, everyone needs a scapegoat, someone who can vent their pain, anger and remorse. The Planning Section helped the survivors set a target, which is Commander Liu."

Feng Yang said with a sarcasm: "Member Ji has almost become the spokesperson of public opinion now. His image is still very good to win people's favor and sympathy, especially now he is especially good at crying."

"And now he has his idea on me?" Xiao Mo smiled.

Feng Yang nodded, "You and Vice Captain Xue embarrassed him in public, and then disappeared when he needed it most... Mr. Ji didn't think that your disappearance was unavoidable. He only saw that you came back intact. You also brought a snowmobile that can travel long distances in the snow, and you are a high-level healer, whether it is for personal grievances or for the political interests of some of them, they will definitely treat you Let's do it."

Xue Lihong raised her eyebrows: "Can I kill them?"

Zhou Fang said that he didn't hear anything, and at the same time pointed out that there are many good players in Jike. The Tianlong team, the third largest mercenary organization in the capital base, belongs to Jike. After Bao Yiyong disappeared, the fourth largest mercenary organization Most of the players of the shadow team were also recruited by Ji Ke.

Feng Yang sighed: "Jike was not completely confused at the time. When he sent people to rescue his son, he had already sent people to the research institute to take away the energy conversion device that Bao Yiyong kept."

"So, he already has a private money printing machine?" Wang Cheng, a former criminal policeman, grasped the key point at once.

Feng Yang: "Yes. So it is even more impossible for him to hand over the management rights of the base. After all, no matter how many materials he has in hand, there will be a day when the exchange will be completed. Only by mastering the management rights can he control the people, and then control the alloy particles produced by the people, and then In exchange for conversion, more abilities can be hired."

Xiao Mo anxiously asked: "How many energy conversion instruments are there?"

This involves the biggest secret of the base, but Zhou Fang still replied: "Only Mr. Yang still has one, and it is now jointly guarded by the Academy of Sciences and the military."

"Are there no new ones? There are only these two in the whole base?"

"No." Zhou Fang was also very helpless, "We refuse to agree to allocate energy conversion instruments to other bases, not only because we want to use this to control the entire energy market in China, but the most important thing is that some raw materials for this instrument are difficult to obtain. The production of two units is already the strength of the entire capital base. Moreover, only Bao Yiyong knows how to make a certain core part of the energy conversion instrument, and even Yang Lao does not know. Now if you want to study it, you must disassemble all the existing converters. open, but..."

"But it can't be dismantled, especially if the other one is taken away by Jike." Xiao Mo was speechless. One of the purposes of their trip to the capital this time was to obtain the latest instruments such as energy conversion instruments and space detectors.

Although he can let the system scan the interior of the conversion instrument of the Academy of Sciences to get all the design drawings, and then ask the system to take a stroll inside the instrument, and even copy all the programs, but as Zhou Fang said, it is the most difficult to obtain now. is the material from which the instrument is made.

Xue Lihong interjected: "It is impossible to successfully develop the energy conversion device from the very beginning. Is there any semi-finished products in front? Or are there any damaged ones waiting to be repaired?"

Zhou Fang and Feng Yang looked at each other, but didn't immediately answer Xue Lihong's question.The purpose of the Zhongshan base is already obvious, Xiao Mo and the others must have come here this time to bring a converter back.But as the top person in charge of the capital base and the nominal president of Huaxia, he is of course unwilling to trade the energy conversion device to a certain base, even if he owes a lot of favors to the base, Xiao Mo and others.

"It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but... I hope you can understand my position." Zhou Fang said bitterly.

Xiao Mo nodded, "I understand, so I didn't threaten you with the condition that I save people. Your Excellency, how about we make a deal? Trust me, you will definitely not feel that you are at a disadvantage."

Use a semi-complete alien spaceship to exchange for a semi-finished converter that lacks core parts.

Xiao Mo also directly told the president that the Zhongshan base had researched something from the crashed alien spaceship.It just didn't make it clear that the base car they drove had a lot to do with that spaceship.

"Alien spaceship?" Zhou Fang had a strange expression.

"Yes." Xiao Mo revealed consciously: "Don't you think that the various disasters that have occurred on our earth in the past six months are too sudden and unnatural? There are also those monsters that the earth did not have."

"Do you suspect that all this is caused by aliens?" Zhou Fang seemed to want to laugh.

"Can't deny that this might not be? After all we found a crashed alien spaceship."

Zhou Fang smiled at his staff, "Okay, I admit it's possible, but aliens? Why would they do these things to the earth?"

Xiao Mo was thinking about whether to reveal more, but Zhou Fang had already waved his hand, "If aliens really have the power to transform the earth, it would be a very simple matter for them to attack the earth. Why are you so devious? Why don't you It is said that these are some human extremists wreaking havoc on the earth's environment, and those monsters are also their secret research, I believe it even more, and this is also the speculation of most scientists."

Xiao Mo nodded, "You're right, I'm just guessing. Maybe the spaceship fell on the earth a long time ago, but it was just blown out by a big storm."

Zhou Fang actually has some doubts, but the situation on Earth is already very bad, he really doesn't want to have another powerful enemy that is almost invincible, let's count him as an ostrich mentality.

Seeing Zhou Fang's tired expression, Xue Lihong sighed silently.He doesn't have much opinion of the president, on the contrary, he has a little sympathy and a little admiration.After the catastrophe, Zhou Fang, the president, did not do much good, and he himself was very clean. Under the circumstances that he neither raised money nor was able to control all the power, if it was an ordinary person, he would have given up on it long ago, and only this , probably because of a strong sense of responsibility to persevere until today, and nine times out of ten he will continue to persevere until he is crushed and boiled dry.

Zhou Fang negotiated with his staff in whispers.They don't know what kind of benefits the alien spacecraft can bring to the capital base, but the base vehicle that can travel long distances in the snow makes them envious.

Especially when Xue Lihong said intentionally or unintentionally that it only took them one day to reach the capital from the Zhongshan base, Zhou Fang and the others were completely moved.

"The spaceship must still be at Zhongshan Base?"

"of course."

"Half intact?"

"Correct."

"I think the Zhongshan base has already done some research on the spacecraft. I wonder if we can get this information?"

"This needs to be negotiated between you and General Qiu, we are only responsible for spreading the word." Xiao Mo refused.

It's no wonder Zhou Fang believed this sentence, "Okay, I'll talk to Lao Qiu about the details. How soon can we expect to see the spaceship?"

"If it goes well, it will be a few days sooner or a month later."

"Okay." Although Zhou Fang was fascinated by the spaceship, he didn't promise anything on the spot. Instead, with this transaction condition, he immediately summoned Yang Lao and other scientific researchers, as well as military representatives Liu and Wei.

When Ji Ke got the news, he said gloomily to the congressmen who came over: "Not long after Zhou Fang and Xiao Mo and his party met, Liu Lan and the others will be called for a meeting, which means that the Zhongshan base must make a big deal with the capital. .”

"Can our people find out what they talked about?" someone asked.

Ji Ke shook his head, "Zhou Fang sent his confidants to Xiao Mo's side, and our people couldn't get close to them at all. They held a meeting, and the outside was also guarded by supernatural warriors from the garrison area, so my people couldn't infiltrate."

"Then what should we do? If the Zhongshan base fully supports Zhou Fang..."

"Qiu Feng is a wolf, the most cunning old wolf. Not to mention that all the bases don't care about others now, even if the Zhongshan base slows down, he will never easily intervene in the affairs of the capital when the situation is unclear. Everyone knows the capital base It's a hot potato right now."

"Then let's just watch Zhou Fang leave us alone and make a deal with the Zhongshan base alone?"

"I'm more curious about the risk of Zhongshan base sending people over so quickly. What exactly is it trying to trade? Food? Weapons?"

Ji Ke shook his head again, and said slowly: "If you are Qiu Feng, what do you want most when the capital base is no longer able to remotely control the Zhongshan base?"

"...Energy conversion instrument." A member of the council said.

"Ninety-nine percent possible." Ji Ke said with a sullen face, and immediately ordered his subordinates to send more people to guard their conversion device.

The councilors present looked at each other, they all wanted to get the converter, but Ji Ke hid the device so well that now no one except him knew where the device was.

Zhou Fang finally agreed to the transaction conditions proposed by Xiao Mo, but said that the capital must first see the alien spacecraft before handing over the semi-finished product of the energy conversion device.

After Xiao Mo asked Qiu Feng for instructions, he said that there was no problem.

Afterwards, Xiao Mo proposed other deals. These were tasks assigned to him by Qiu Feng, which should have been Lei Bing's work.

But Lei Bing and Xue Lihong didn't know what they were up to, and Captain Lei ran away after his leg injury healed.

Xiao Mo asked his family Xiaohong, but the young man pretended to smile mysteriously, but didn't say what he asked Lei Bing to do.

In addition, Xiao Mo originally wanted to tell Zhou Fang everything about the alien developer, but Xue Lihong stopped him.

The young man said to Xiao Mo: "President Zhou may be a good man, and he is also a qualified president in peacetime, but so many disasters and complicated current situation have dragged him down."

"How to say?"

"Our president hopes to get the support of the military on the one hand, but on the other hand he is reluctant or afraid to completely stand on the opposite side of the House of Representatives. He is stepping on a tightrope."

"I think he just doesn't want to split the military and the government, and make the country more dispersed." Xiao Mo couldn't help but speak for Zhou Fang, he had a really good impression of Zhou Fang.

"It's not the country, it's the capital. As the president of a country, he can't even fully control a base in the capital. In my opinion, he is no longer suitable to be a ruler who can turn the tide."

Xue Lihong pressed Xiao Mo's shoulder, and said seriously: "Boss, you must understand that the requirements for a ruler in times of disaster are different from those in times of peace. In the current situation in China and the world, we would rather have a resolute and powerful dictator. Zhou Fang is not ruthless and decisive enough. He is not suitable to bear the burden of the entire human being. If you tell him the truth, there will only be two results: [-]. He will either be completely crushed by this bad news; [-]. According to his Personality, I speculate that he is very likely to think that he bears the burden of humiliation, that he thinks it is for human beings, and chooses to continue to compromise with people like Ji Ke."

"But sooner or later we have to tell the truth to all mankind, at least to the heads of the bases. Only in this way can we concentrate our efforts against the enemy."

"Not now. Before we solve the problem of breaking through the lightning clouds and flying out of the earth, before we repair enough spaceships, and until we have trained qualified spaceship operators, these things should not be leaked. As for the future, even if If you want to tell some people, you have to make a choice. As for the majority of human beings, they just need to accept the truth at the end." Xue Lihong still spoke so coldly.

Xiao Mo exhaled, it seemed that in Xue Lihong's heart, Zhou Fang had already been excluded by him from the future human core ruling class.

Qian and Wang also agreed with Xue Lihong's words.

In the end, Xiao Mo was persuaded to hide the truth from Zhou Fang.

At the same time, the survivors encouraged by the Ji Ke relied on the law to not blame the public, and a large group of people rushed all the way to the entrance of the medical center in the air-raid shelter.

Many people shouted at the door and begged the healers to come forward and save people.

Some even brought over their own wounded and sick.

"Government inaction! Ordinary people suffer!"

"The government hides healers and only serves high-ranking officials and military supernatural beings!"

"The military is corrupt and no longer the people's army!"

"Zhou put down the stage! Zhou put down the stage!"

"We need healers, we need medicine, we need doctors, we need to live!"

A large number of soldiers arrived, but they could only form a human wall to block the troublemakers.

Ability fighters can't even use ice walls or earth walls to seal the door, because it will trigger the nerves of the troublemakers and easily cause the troublemakers to attack.This kind of thing has happened many times, not wanting to expand the disaster, not wanting to harm Chi Yu, the soldiers can only threaten with guns, and dare not use their abilities first.

The soldiers didn't do anything, and the rioters who called themselves petitioners didn't dare to do anything, which really made the military anxious, and in the end no one got a good result.Now that Zhou Fang is suppressing the military, the military is patient and patient.

Zhou Fang trembled with anger when he heard about this situation, and while sending more people to protect Xiao Mo, he patted the table and asked people to go to the Ji Ke, ordering him to comfort the petitioners to go home.

Ji Ke avoided seeing him.

God knows how much Zhou Fang wanted to send someone to arrest Jike and others by force to the gate of the medical center, and shoot them in front of the troublemakers, but unfortunately they couldn't.

Xue Lihong lowered the curtains and stopped looking outside.This kind of thing just proves that Zhou Fang is not cruel enough. Who would dare to put the same thing in the Zhongshan base?I'm afraid that as soon as the people gathered, they were "invited" by the army to move bricks with mud.

Xiao Mo's mood was somewhat affected.

Xue Lihong hates other people's moral kidnapping of his boss the most. Of course, he would not go to trouble those outside who don't know the truth, but the accumulated resentment is all accumulated on the culprit behind it.

The young man walked to Xiao Mo's side and said, "We're leaving tonight."

"So fast? But we haven't got the information of Jinuo Company yet." Xiao Mo hesitated.And he hasn't treated the wounded yet. There are too many injured people. Even if the number of injured people is less than one-third of the original number, the base is large, and there are still a lot of people left.

"You don't have to worry about the materials. You can lend me your Majesty later, and I will get all the materials."

Without further ado, Xiao Mo spoke to the system, took off the bracelet and handed it to the young man.

Xue Lihong took the bracelet Xiao Mo handed him, and continued: "I guess the Ji Ke will do something to us tonight."

Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng looked at Xue Lihong together.

Wang Cheng reacted the fastest: "You mean he will send someone to seize our base vehicle?"

When he got out of the car, he saw some people wandering around the car without being afraid of the cold. Cheng Zai also contacted them just now, saying that there were more and more unknown people braved the severe cold to visit the car.

"Well, hide Cinderella's pumpkin cart, so Cinderella can only keep it." Xue Lihong put on the bracelet and smiled lightly.

The system wanted to do something to him, and it was hard to hold back.

Xiao Mo regretted, "If I had known earlier, I would have made the car invisible, so that they wouldn't know how we got here."

"Then the effect of our persuasion to exchange the converter will not be as good as it is now." Qian Yun laughed.

The people in the team basically already know important things such as the alien developer and His Majesty the system.

"That's right. Then before we leave, do we want to talk to His Excellency the President?" Xiao Mo didn't want to stay in the capital base as a target either.Fortunately, he has basically helped bring back the seriously injured patients, and the low-level healer and the doctors at the base can also handle the remaining injured and sick.

"No need. His side is not clean. I'll go out for a while. When I'm not around, don't be alone." Xue Lihong told Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng not to leave Xiao Mo's side, and then called the little mantis, and in the blink of an eye With the system His Majesty disappeared from the ward.

Xiao Mo smiled at Qian and Wang, and stood up from the sofa chair, "The rest is over, shall we continue to treat the injured?"

Qian Yunkai agreed that before they left the capital base, at least the people here could not see anything strange.