The Scavengers

Before 6:19 pm on June [-]

Xiao Mo wiped his face and got up from the ground.Whether or not he harbors a murderous streak, life must go on, even if it gets worse and worse.

But this task has been completed, the impact of the gluttonous beast virus on humans should disappear, right?Everything will be back to normal, right?

Whether the end of the world is not the end of the world, this is an epidemic that will definitely be eradicated, for sure!

For a period of time after he killed Li Xiaoshuang and fell down, those wild cats seemed to have a war among themselves, and the winner was a puppies who had just grown up.

The tabby cat purred threateningly at the fleeing opponents and him who was lying on the ground, and when he saw him getting up from the ground, he stopped purring immediately, his cat fur stood up, and he was nervous about him arched his back.

Xiao Mo looked at it speechlessly.

Huamao's attitude was so weird that he couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

And this look made him see a strange thing.

There is a reddish-brown stone under the right foot of the tabby cat. While barking threateningly at him, the cat bows its head and licks the stone from time to time.

what is that?

Strangely, Xiao Mo's eyes were firmly attracted by that unremarkable reddish-brown stone.He even felt that he smelled a particularly pleasant smell, which tempted him to approach the flower cat step by step.

Seeing him approaching, the cat purred louder, its eyes widened, and its tail stood up high.

Xiao Mo tried to step on the ground hard, trying to scare the cat away.

But the tabby cat, which didn't look like it had just grown up, was surprisingly bold. Seeing him approaching, instead of running away, it jumped on it.

Heck!

Xiao Mo saw the flower cat rushing towards him, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to block it.

As a result, this block caused two more scratches on the back of his originally injured left hand.

"Hiss!" It hurts so much.

Xiao Mo was in a hurry, and with one hand he waved vigorously, and swung away the cat that was about to pounce on him again.

The flower cat screamed, Ningkong flipped a few somersaults, and landed far away on a low bush.

"Meow!" The cat suddenly let out a very shrill cry.

Xiao Mo didn't look at the cat, his mind and eyes were already attracted by the reddish-brown stone on the ground that was only the size of a baby's fist.

Xiao Mo forgot that his hands and neck were in urgent need of treatment, so he bent down and picked up the stone involuntarily.

"Ding, I found a first-level energy crystal."

Energy crystal?what is that?

Really fragrant!

Xiao Mo stared at the reddish-brown stone, and a lot of saliva was secreted from his mouth.

As if possessed, he held up the stone and sent it to his mouth.

The stone barely stopped near his mouth.

Xiao Mo didn't know how much willpower he used to resist sending the stone directly into his mouth.

Brain began to spin reluctantly, Xiao Mo asked the system, "Is this an energy crystal? What's the use?"

The system answered very simply, "Supplement energy."

"Can you eat it?" Xiao Mo asked subconsciously.

The system is silent, as if doing some difficult calculations.

Seeing that the system didn't answer him, Xiao Mo's eyes fell on the stone again.

This stone doesn't look big, but it's quite heavy.

A faint metallic smell entered his nostrils.

This is...the rough stone of copper?Or smelted copper?

Copper... He remembered that this park used to be a copper mine that was hollowed out. It should be normal for a small piece of red copper to appear here.

No, it's weird!

Even if he didn't know much about mineralogy, he knew that it was impossible to find a missing ore in a ground that had been dug out and filled in long ago.

Or is this a piece of refined copper that has been smelted?Who accidentally left it here?

But can an irregular copper ingot have such a great charm?

After enduring and enduring, Xiao Mo still couldn't hold back, and stuck out the tip of his tongue to lick the copper ingot.

When he remembered that the cat had licked the copper ingot before him, the tip of his tongue had already touched the surface of the copper ingot.

Well……!

It's like a pedestrian in the desert drinking a glass of cool ice water, or like a glutton who has been hungry for many days and finally touched the food he dreamed of.

Xiao Mo narrowed his eyes and groaned in enjoyment.

It feels so good!

Simply incredible!

He had never imagined that a copper ingot could be so delicious, so delicious that he wanted to swallow it in one bite.

He licked and licked, and at this point he didn't mind at all that the ingot had been licked by the cat first.

A sense of satisfaction that I haven't enjoyed for a long time spread in my mind.

Since waking up in the morning, he has been in a state of hunger, and it seems that no matter how much he eats, he can't get enough.Today, the amount of food he eats a day is almost five or six times that of before. This is the result of his efforts to suppress it, and it is still not enough.

Unexpectedly, after just two mouthfuls of this suspected copper ingot, he would have a feeling of fullness after eating ten tables full of Chinese people.

When Xiao Mo licked the third bite, he was surprised to find that the copper ingot, which was originally the size of a baby's fist, seemed to have shrunk a bit, and now it was only the size of a lychee.

How is this going?

The sense of vigilance that came from nowhere finally restrained his desire to continue licking the copper ingot.

Take this copper ingot back and show it to the kid, maybe he knows something.

Xiao Mo abruptly moved the copper ingot away from his eyes, and quickly stuffed it into his trousers pocket.

Only then did he think of the cat that was waved away by him.

Is the cat okay?

A sense of guilt rose in Xiao Mo's heart.

Although the cat scratched him, he swung it away hard, and he also robbed people of their love.

Could it be that the wild cats were fighting over this copper ingot?Is the mother of the gluttonous beast staying in the park to deal with the wild cats because of it?Xiao Mo faintly felt that he touched something.

After looking around, Xiao Mo didn't find the little cat that was purring at him just now.

Did you run away?

Xiao Mo raised his right hand that was bitten by Li Xiaoshuang and touched his neck. It was strange that the wound that was so painful just now was not too painful, and the bleeding had stopped.

Look at the left and right hands...

There was indeed no blood coming out of the wound, and it didn't hurt to touch the wound.

etc!What about the wound?

"Knock!" Xiao Mo's heart trembled violently.

How is this going?His hands were obviously hurt badly before, even if the bleeding stopped, it's impossible for such a big wound to disappear so quickly, right?

"System, did you do it?"

"That's your evolutionary direction."

"Evolution?" Xiao Mo was a little dumbfounded.

"Your body has mutated due to some coincidence. The direction of the mutation is a bit complicated. I'm analyzing it."

"What do you mean by coincidence?"

The system paused for two seconds, and said: "The carbon-based synthetic metal virus and a special high-level nutrient solution, plus my punishment for you, the three happened at the same time, causing six sets of genes in your body to have a strange sequence. way. I am trying to replicate this kind of coincidence, but after my careful calculation, I found that this kind of coincidence can only happen with a chance of one in ten billion."

"One ten-billionth?"

"Yes, after calculation, for now, your evolutionary direction is unique on Earth."

Xiao Mo didn't know whether he should be happy or sad, "This evolution has given me the ability to heal my body?" He always thought that he was a small supporting role in this big stage of life, but now he seems to be looking forward to it. The direction of the protagonist or secondary protagonists?If he can survive smoothly.

"Yes, this is part of your ability. Although the carbon-based synthetic metal virus can also mutate some human genes, resulting in a certain special ability, but their mutated gene arrangement is 1.1% different from yours."

For some reason, the ruthless system added another sentence: "The genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees is 1.2%, so, strictly speaking, you should now belong to humanoids."

The system then reported a bunch of data, which seemed to be comparing Xiao Mo's genes with other people's genes, but Xiao Mo didn't listen carefully.

His mind is extremely chaotic right now—he turned into a humanoid!Is this some new kind of personal attack?

Even if he is 32 years old, has never married a wife, never had a girlfriend, and has a crush on his sister-in-law, maybe...he also has a hidden killer attribute, but it doesn't mean that he will be assigned to a chimpanzee as a relative, right?

He obviously doesn't like bananas!

Xiao Mo, who was classified as humanoid by the system, went berserk. Instead of going back to find Xue Lihong and Ding Qiao immediately, he made a detour and went straight to the public toilet in the park.

The utilization rate of this public toilet is not high, and there should be few people in it at this time.

But Xiao Mo, who left in a daze, didn't see that in the bush where the cat landed just now, there was a strange big lump bulging at the root of a vine.

The bag squirmed, as if something was struggling inside.

And just under that bag, a small reddish-brown granule the size of half a fingernail is secreting from the root system of the vine.

After Xiao Mo entered the public toilet, he went straight to the sink, turned on the faucet, and began to scrub his hands vigorously.

He was so stimulated that he could no longer maintain the calmness of an adult!

Since he woke up, there were too many things that happened that day, and it was almost too much for him to bear.

The remaining bloodstains on the hands turned into bloody water and flowed into the sewer.

The sound of "squeaking" water seemed to remind him of something.

The thorny vines in the park, the wild cats fighting in groups, the magical reddish-brown stone suspected to be a copper ingot, the gluttonous beast virus, the carbon-based synthetic metal virus, the mysterious and cruel system, the mission that made him kill... these things were originally That's enough to mess with his nerves, now add his self-healing hands and neck.

Xiao Mo stretched out his hand to cover the neck where a piece of flesh had been bitten off. Not only was there no piece of flesh missing, but he couldn't even touch a wound.

Humanoid...

Xiao Mo lowered his head and stuffed his whole head under the faucet.

When Xiao Mo regained his composure and went back to find Xuelihong and Ding Qiao, the crowd gathered in front of Liangoule Supermarket Plaza was clamoring and shouting.