The Scavengers

After 6pm on June 19

After watching Zhang Qian, Xue Lihong slowly walked out of the hotel, stood under the eaves and watched the ink-like rainwater fall to the ground and seep into the earth.

There is almost no rainwater accumulation.

Under normal circumstances, such a large amount of rainwater would definitely cause large and small puddles in some low-lying areas, but now, as if the earth had been hungry and thirsty for a lifetime, it absorbed all the black rainwater into the soil without leaving a single drop.

Or is it not that the earth is too thirsty, but that the penetration of this black rain is too strong?

Xue Lihong paid attention to the penetration of the black rain as it slid over various buildings, vehicles, and creatures. After watching for a while, he didn't know what he saw. A look of surprise flashed in his eyes. After changing hands, he took out an instrument from his backpack.

After collecting some rainwater and putting it into the receiving tank of the instrument, Xue Lihong pressed the analysis button.

After 5 minutes, a dense data map was displayed on the screen of the instrument.

Xue Lihong flipped through the pages.

The composition of rainwater is quite strange, and there are some things that he can't analyze.

But the rain... The kid turned around and went into the store, took out a box of empty beer bottles, put it outside and started to catch the rain.

In addition to these beer bottles, he also took out a small delicate bottle from his backpack and put them next to the beer bottles.

"what are you doing?"

"Nothing." The child put the last collected rainwater bottle into his backpack, and asked the man who walked out quickly, "What's the matter?"

The five words "I have business with you" are clearly written on the man's face.

Xiao Mo nodded, and told the child the reward that the system had just told him.

"Help me analyze and analyze, which one should I choose?"

The child pulled out two plastic stools and sat down under the eaves of the restaurant, "Tell me all about the communication with that system before."

Xiao Mo looked at the store, "Well, let's find some medicine first, arrange the wounded, and then I'll talk to you slowly."

The child was very speechless. He chose to let a man protect him for a period of time because of his kindness, but at certain times, this kindness was also a headache.The child still doesn't know that besides his acquired kindness, Xiao Mo now has an extremely heavy sense of guilt, and is even more eager to do something to make up for the tasks he missed.

"I'll go get the medicine with you." It happened that he also planned to enrich his supplies.He doesn't mind taking more for things that don't cost money.

"The clinic is nearby, and I'll be back soon." Xiao Mo thought the child was worried that he would abandon him, so he quickly took out the key to the third floor and handed it to him, "Go to the third floor and take a hot bath, don't I have a cold, I will go to the supermarket to buy a set of clothes later and come back to change for you."

"go together."

"No." Xiao Mo looked at the child's wet appearance, and rubbed his head in distress and regret, "I'm sick at this time, and it's hard to find a doctor. Be good, be good."

Just now, he was so focused on his family that he didn't notice that the child followed him in the rain for nearly two hours. Fortunately, it was summer.

"Brother, you are very annoying." The child didn't appreciate it.

"..." Xiao Mo held up the umbrella and turned around to leave. After walking two steps, he turned around and held the child's little hand.Forget it, let's take him with him, lest he run to tease cats and dogs or do things that give him a headache when he can't see.

The child looked at Xiao Mo's big hand holding his palm, then looked up at his expression, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, his palm held him hard, and followed the man beside the man, jumping over the creatures that fell on the road and non-living things.

Xiao Mo sighed in his heart, cheap sons are not easy to raise.While thinking, he tilted the big black umbrella a little bit towards the child.

Xue Lihong thought, how long can this person last for his kindness?When troubled times come...it doesn't matter, anyway, it's just a period of time, maybe he left him first?

In a barber shop on Yingjie Street in the community, the popular three-dwelling star Yue Wei'e's affectionate and slightly sad singing voice came out.

Dark night, lights, music, and a walk in the rain can barely be called romantic if accompanied by the right people.But if all life around you is motionless except you and a child...

"Everyone is drunk and I am sober?" Xiao Mo couldn't help but sighed indiscriminately.

"It's a good time to rob." The child said.

"Nonsense!" Xiao Mo slapped the child on the back of the head lightly, without laughing or laughing, and pushed a pram with a sleeping baby inside to the side of the road under the eaves.The baby's mother lay face down on the ground, and Xiao Mo easily turned her over and pulled her to the side of the road.

A van was parked near the baby carriage, and the black rainwater was particularly obvious against the white body.

"Strange, the color of this rainwater..." Xiao Mo finally noticed that the color of the rainwater was wrong. He reached out to catch some rainwater and took a closer look under the lights of the roadside store. He was surprised and said: "It turned out to be black. This is dirty rain ? Will it be harmful to the human body? Could it be related to this virus? Or is it another new virus?”

He was also talking about it, and he didn't expect anyone to answer his question. The system that had no human touch remained silent as always.

A rain with an unusual color would have caused the newspapers and TV networks to make a fuss in normal times, but now...

"Rain has nothing to do with viruses." Unexpectedly, the child answered him, and the answer was quite positive.

"Oh? How do you know?" Xiao Mo looked sideways at the child.

"According to the test data."

"Testing data...how much is your IQ?"

"Biyou...Old Xiao, don't move!" Xue Lihong grabbed Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo stopped in his tracks, subconsciously lowered his voice, "What's wrong?"

The child slowed down his breathing and said in a lower voice, "Look ahead, don't move, take your breath lightly."

The two stood quietly in the same place holding an umbrella, Xiao Mo only felt that the sweat pores all over his body exploded.

Even though it was a hot day, he felt cold all over.

Something was at the entrance to the narrow alley just ahead of them.

The light and shadow cast by the street lamp faintly projected part of the thing's body on the wall.

The huge half-open silhouette looked like the bone wings of the legendary Western monster, still flapping slightly up and down.

Cold sweat dripped down Xiao Mo's forehead.

He obviously hasn't seen that thing yet, but the sense of terror rising from the bottom of his heart pervades his whole body, making him dare not move.

The breath of the child around him seemed to have disappeared, and it was obvious that there was someone standing beside him, but it seemed that there was no such person at all.

"Pounding! Pounding!" Xiao Mo heard his heart beating faster and faster, and the sound became louder.

I don't know how long it has been...

"Shua!" The huge bone-wing-like silhouette flapped greatly, and disappeared into the depths of the alley in an instant.

"It's gone." Xue Lihong said calmly.

Xiao Mo exhaled softly, "What is that?"

"I don't know, I just feel that it is powerful."

Xiao Mo murmured: "The world has changed, and all kinds of monsters and ghosts have come out."

The child suddenly shook off his hand and ran towards the alley.

"Hey, come back!" Xiao Mo was worried that the child would be in danger, so he hurriedly chased after him.

At the entrance of the alley, an electric car fell to the ground, a woman was under the electric car, and two young men, a man and a woman, were lying beside the electric car.

The smell of blood was strong, and all three of them were probably injured.

Xiao Mo wanted to step over the child to check the injuries of the three, but the child had already stood up from the ground, "They are all dead."

Xiao Mo wanted to freeze his bent waist.

"The brains and blood of the three people are gone."

"What did you say?"

"Look at their heads. Everyone has a hole in the center of their forehead. If you look at their skin, it has begun to shrink, and the blood in their bodies has dried up."

Xiao Mo's pupils constricted, "You mean that unknown thing...it sucks people's brains and blood?"

"The truth is right in front of us."

Xiao Mo dragged the child and ran out of the alley, this place is too dangerous, who knows if that damned thing will suddenly come back again?

Knowing that the system might not answer him, Xiao Mo couldn't help but ran and asked in his mind: "System, do you know what that is?"

"I didn't see the entity, so I can't answer."

Xiao Mo didn't even want to go to the clinic anymore, he just felt that there were so many terrifying monsters hidden in the boundless darkness outside.

But it’s okay not to go!

21:26 pm.

Without exception, all the people in the clinic were unconscious. Xiao Mo hurriedly found some commonly used medicines and first aid items he knew, dropped a considerable amount of money, and was about to leave with the child.

Xue Lihong refused to leave, he was packing some syringes, anti-inflammatory drugs and some drugs that Xiao Mo didn't know what to do in his backpack.

"Hey, hey, you really don't need money, right? Go back quickly!" Xiao Mo had no choice but to throw down two hundred-yuan bills, and instead picked up the child and forcibly carried him out of the clinic.

The child was very dissatisfied, "Are you stupid for spending money at this time?"

"You're stupid! Do you think everyone won't wake up? Watch out for the police to arrest you and spank your ass!"

"Are you lying to children? Even if everyone can wake up, the police still have a lot of things to do in order to stabilize the situation. How can they have time to take care of these small things."

Xiao Mo put the child down, patted the child's butt lightly, and taught him a lesson: "Don't do evil because of small things, understand? Be careful to do bad things and be caught by those monsters!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Mo felt that it was unlucky again, so he hurriedly said "Bah Bah" twice.

The child touched his butt, stared at Xiao Mo with a strange expression, raised his head, and left first.

"What kind of eyes do you have?" Xiao Mo held up a plastic bag and a big black umbrella, and chased after him dumbfounded.

"Believe it or not, there must be quite a few of the first batch of survivors who are harvesting outside." The child turned around, put his hands behind his back, and said backwards.

"People are people, we are us. If everyone is really... Needless to say, I will take you around to search for useful items, but not now, maybe everyone will wake up tomorrow?"

Xiao Mo was afraid of teaching the children badly, so he didn't say a word: How many survivors can there be in the first batch?The world is so big, how many supplies can they take?He and the kids can totally afford to wait.

"You're right." Xue Lihong stopped, as if she had made a decision, and said to Xiao Mo: "Actually, this black rain..."

Before the child finished speaking, he suddenly closed his eyes and fell down without a sound.

"Xiaohong—?!" Xiao Mo was shocked, and rushed over to hug the fallen child.