The Scavengers

Before 6:16 on June 12

Xiao Mo hung up the watermelon knife and went downstairs to continue the unfinished work.The boy's buying of the knife was just a small episode for him, and he might forget about it after a while.

When he returned to the counter, he turned off the doorbell without any hassle.This thing is too noisy, as long as he is at the counter, it must be turned off.

While he was busy in front of the computer, he suddenly heard a tender question in his ear: "How do you sell the solar charger for this mobile phone?"

Xiao Mo was taken aback, when did the guests come in?Why didn't he feel it?

As soon as I looked up, I saw a child whose height was barely equal to the one-meter-high counter, who was holding the counter to look at the products inside.

Yo, another acquaintance!It was the little fur kid who slept on the park bench in the morning.

Are the two kids on a date?He came after you left?

Xiao Mo began to consider the possibility that the two children knew each other.

"Uh, you want to buy a phone charger?" Isn't he a waif?Xiao Mo felt that he had made a joke again, luckily the police and the child's family didn't bother him.

The kid looked up, looked at him, and nodded.

Xiao Mo murmured in his heart that the child's family was too irresponsible, but such a small child let him sleep on a bench in the park early in the morning, and the clothes on his body did not fit well and were not clean.

"Did your parents ask you to buy them?"

The child shook his head decisively.

"Then who asked you to buy it?"

"...Brother, why do you have so many questions?"

Xiao Mo was dumbfounded.What's the matter with this little doll's old-fashioned tone?

"I buy and you sell, you don't care who asked me to buy it." The child continued to make shocking words.

Xiao Mo was so irritated that he couldn't speak.

Well, apparently he met a kid who likes to pretend to be an adult, has a high IQ, and is different.

Thinking of playing games with the children, Xiao Mo shook his head, got up and stood in front of the counter, bent down and pointed at the products on the counter and said to the stinky kid, "Do you know which one you want to buy?"

"Well, it's the universal solar charger." The child pointed to one of the chargers in the counter.

"Are you sure? This thing is said to be universal, but there are also many models that cannot be matched. For example, some old models and the latest smart phones..."

"I know. As long as it can charge the Afei 320 smartphone!" The child interrupted Xiao Mo's introduction, and poked impatiently on the glass surface of the counter, "Are you selling it or not? Can five yuan be okay?"

"Five dollars?" Xiao Mo laughed, "Little friend, are you sure it wasn't your parents who asked you to sell cuteness to take advantage of me?"

"Brother, you talk a lot of nonsense! Just say whether you can sell it for five yuan or not?"

"..."

"Hey, are you dumb?" The child puffed up his face and continued poking at the glass impatiently.

Xiao Mo resisted the desire to reach out and pinch the kid's face, "Hey, my price tag is only fifty. This thing is a branded product, and the quality is very good. Even though it's second-hand, I'll guarantee the quality for you for three months, basically. Speaking of it, as long as you take good care of it, it will be fine for three to five years. Well... why am I telling you this?"

Xiao Mo groaned, so he is most afraid of doing business with children, not only will he haggle for you, but also he will not know the goods.

"Five yuan is not bad for this non-technical crap." The child muttered, "Forget it. Do you have a broken solar charger that can't be repaired?"

"Why do you want to be bad?" It's no wonder Xiao Mo was taken aback, it's really that the kid's tone doesn't look like a four- or five-year-old kid.

"You control..."

"Squeak——" The sudden braking made the high-speed tires rub against the road surface and made a piercing whine.

At the same time, "Ah—" the human scream pierced the eardrum.

Inside the store, one big and one small look out together.

"Killed! The truck killed the child!"

Following this mournful shout, Shannan Jiayuan Commercial Street was in commotion.Doors opened one after another, and people who bought and sold things ran out one after another.A large number of people gathered at the intersection.

The main road is outside, and the traffic light is 50 meters in front of the small square of shops facing the street in Shannan Jiayuan.

child?Xiao Mo stood up abruptly, but dared not step out when he walked to the door of the shop.Could it be... no, no.

Go out and have a look, maybe it's just an injury, yes, go out, maybe you can do something, at least I can drive that kid to the hospital!

"You wait here, don't run around!" Xiao Mo rushed out of the counter, gave the child a hasty order and ran out.

"Hello!"

Xiao Mo didn't look back, he didn't even lock the store door.

The child pouted, thought for a while, and walked out with a small backpack on his back.

The truck that caused the accident was parked at the intersection.

When Xiao Mo arrived, the front of the truck was already tightly surrounded, and the crowd who ran out to watch the fun had blocked the driveway.Passing vehicles had to honk loudly and slow down, but unfortunately the effect was not obvious, and many vehicles were stranded within a short while.

From time to time, sighs such as "really poor", "it's a boy", "died so badly", "I can't live" and so on were heard from the crowd.

Hearing these sighs, Xiao Mo became more anxious, squeezed in, and frantically took out his cell phone. Maybe he wasn't the first to call the police, but it would be safer to call the police just in case.

"Hello? This is the end of Ninggu Avenue in the sixth district of Chengnan, at the intersection near Shannan Jiayuan. There was a major car accident here. A child was hit and he is now dead. Please send an ambulance and a police car over here as soon as possible! What's your surname? My surname is Xiao, could you please call the ambulance first? Hurry up! Maybe the child is still alive!"

Xiao Mo squeezed hard while dealing with the operator of the emergency center.The crowd finally squeezed a gap for him.

Carrying a schoolbag and wearing a school uniform, the boy was twisted and lying on his back more than ten meters away from the front of the truck.

Someone was around him to confirm his life and death, and everyone who put their hands under the boy's nose shook their heads.

Da Tan's blood flowed from under the boy.

Xiao Mo knelt down on one knee next to the boy's head, and stretched out his hand to press his neck.

No pulse.

A man in his 40s, who looked like a truck driver, was crying and walking around the front of the truck without a clue, yelling anxiously from time to time: "I didn't hit him! It was a green light just now, he rushed up by himself! I Didn't hit him... I didn't..."

Suicide or accident?

Xiao Mo mustered up the courage to look at the boy's face.

This was the second time he had seen the face of a dead man.

The first time it was his mother, this time it was a stranger who had only met twice.

The early death of his mother was Xiao Mo's eternal pain. He would never forget the horrible scene when he opened the door of his parents' room and saw his mother dying on the bed with a hideous face.

Liu Ying, his mother, died five years ago at the age of 51. The indirect cause of death was cerebral infarction, and the direct cause of death was asphyxiation.

When the mother had a cerebral infarction, she vomited, but because she lost her body control, she was unable to call for help, let alone spit out the vomit in her mouth.That's why he lived next door but didn't hear anything.

Death by suffocation is the most painful way of death in the world.

His mother's terrifying face scared him so much that he ran out of the room at that time, not even daring to confirm whether his mother was alive or dead.

Closing his eyes, the face he deliberately forgot appeared in front of him again clearly.

It's so clear, is this the second development of his brain?Memory does not retreat but advances?

While thinking wildly, Xiao Mo focused on the boy's face.

He didn't know why he cared so much about the boy's face and expression when he died, and even forced himself to look at it.

The boy's eyes were wide open, and both eyes became blood red due to blood congestion, and a little blood was overflowing from the corner of his left eye.

Xiao Mo couldn't help but wipe away the teardrop-like blood with his fingers.

The bloodshot disappeared as soon as it was wiped, Xiao Mo withdrew his finger and suddenly shivered.

He found... the corner of the boy's mouth was grinning, as if he was smiling.

Xiao Mo took a look and quickly looked away. Except for those with special types of work, no one would keep staring at the face of a dead person, except for perverts.

When Xiao Mo got up, he subconsciously glanced at the young man again.

Yes, the boy was really laughing.

That expression is not so much pain as it is like being freed from some kind of shackles.

Xiao Mo looked at the panicked, tearful driver who caused the accident, feeling a little sad.

The driver looked like an honest man. The man in his 40s was crying with red eyes, and his hands were shaking because of fear.

Looking up at the monitoring equipment at the intersection, I thought that if the boy really ran into it by himself, there should be evidence left here.

"Ding, a new scavenger has been discovered, and the recycling training program has started."

What?Xiao Mo turned his head, and immediately heard the siren.

Rubbing his forehead, maybe the shock of facing the dead again just now was too great, which caused him to have a little auditory hallucination.

He thought he would take the initiative to confess to the police all the actions and words of the young man in his store. Oh, fortunately, he has a video, so there is no need to worry about the police interrogating him endlessly.

Suddenly, Xiao Mo seemed to feel something, and looked up at the crowd watching.

I saw a small figure in the crowd looking at him expressionlessly.Seeing Xiao Mo cast his eyes on him, the child turned to look at the corpse of the boy lying on the ground.

Xiao Mo was surprisingly angry.What about his adults?Who let such a small child squeeze in?Is this scene for children? !

Xiao Mo wanted to catch the child, but the child turned around and disappeared.

Xiao Mo also squeezed out of the crowd, looked left and right but couldn't find the child, he had no choice but to sit down by the flower bed at the intersection as he didn't want to go back to the store.

There has been a long queue of passing vehicles.The three lanes on the left and right were blocked to death.No matter how the driver in front honks, the crowd blocking the intersection just refuses to let go.Occasionally someone gets out of the way, and new arrivals will immediately block the gap.

Xiao Mo couldn't say he was sad about the young man's death, he just felt it was a pity, and he still had a little regret.

If he had left the boy behind, or sold the watermelon knife to him, would the boy still be alive at this time?

No wonder so many people like time travel and yearn for rebirth.

Who doesn't want to correct past mistakes?

Who doesn't want to predict the life and death of their loved ones so that they can avoid it?

Who wouldn't want to turn a blemish into a glory, a sin into a good deed, and regain what was missed?

"Ah! Isn't this the child of Liu Wang's family? My God! How could this happen?" Someone recognized the child.

Immediately, someone contacted the child's parents, but it was strange that no one contacted for a long time.Those who are enthusiastic and know him have already taken the initiative to go to Liu Wang's house to find someone.

The traffic police and the ambulance arrived together, and the crowd finally began to evacuate.

Seeing the boy's body being taken away, Xiao Mo took the initiative to find the traffic police and explain how the boy came to his store.

A traffic policeman who looked about his age and had a different surname followed him back to the store to get his copy of the video, and asked some more questions while waiting.

The child glanced over here, saw that Xiao Mo was busy, then turned around and went back upstairs.

When did this dead child slip back?