The Scavengers

Many people in the park noticed Xiao Mo's strange behavior, but everyone was busy, and no one came here to see what happened. Anyway, these metal shapes are not worth a lot of money.

"What are you two doing?" A young man in his early twenties swayed over and looked at them very curiously.

"Catch bugs." Xiao Mo said perfunctorily.

The young man froze for a moment, "Aren't you stealing this statue?"

Stealing a statue... Xiao Mo swallowed a mouthful of old blood, and corrected him casually, "This is not a statue."

The young man said to himself, "Actually, you should go to department stores or gold shops to steal gold, silver and diamonds. They are much lighter and easier to handle. It is said that many people ran to get them, and the police couldn't catch them."

"You didn't go?"

"I want to go, but my dad won't let me."

Xue Lihong pulled out the saw blade.

Xiao Mo hurriedly asked: "What?"

"It can't be sawed completely, the middle is empty." Xue Lihong switched sides and continued sawing.

The distance on the outside near the location of the gold-eating bugs is even shorter, and Xue Lihong only sawed twice before pulling out the saw blade.

"Step aside."

Xiao Mo retreated.

"What are you going to do? Are you really going to steal this statue? Are you stupid? See, the two policemen in the outer circle have been watching you all the time, just to see if you two stupid B are really planning to steal the statue .”

Xiao Mo didn't pay any attention to these bastards, took out a gauze net of unknown texture and wrapped it around the place where his left foot and the base met, and when Xue Lihong broke the statue, he put the net on it.

"Hello!" the young man yelled.

The two patrolling policemen who had been paying attention to the two looked at each other, pulled out their pistols and walked over.

Xue Lihong nodded to Xiao Mo, exerted a little force on her wrist, and with a "da", the metal shape connected with only one layer of metal skin was disconnected from the base.

The young man opened his mouth wide enough to stuff an egg.

As soon as Xiao Mo saw the fracture, he immediately covered it with a net.

The young man stared at Xue Lihong excitedly, took out his mobile phone, pressed the shortcut key, put it to his ear and called, "Oh, Dad, hurry up and answer the phone, hey, I saw a sickly sick man, He actually broke the metal statue with his bare hands!"

The two patrolmen also paused, but immediately ran over at a faster speed.

Xiao Mo tightly suppressed the gauze, not daring to move.

A bag bulged in the middle of the gauze, and that bag was still struggling.

"You... what is that?" The young man pointed at the bag in surprise.

Xue Lihong picked up the figure with one hand and leaned against the young man's arms, "Hold on."

"What? Ah! It's so heavy!" The young man almost fell down holding the shape, "Hero, don't bully people like this!"

"What are you doing?" Two patrolmen came over.

"Catch bugs." Xue Lihong punched the bulge.

"Wait!" Hearing the prompt from the system in his head, Xiao Mo hurriedly stopped him, "I want to catch it myself, it doesn't count if someone else kills me."

"What's that?" The patrolman also saw the throbbing bulge.

Xiao Mo pressed the bulging part, pinched it with two fingers, and grabbed it.

The gauze opened, revealing the true face of the bug inside.

It is a translucent beetle with a pair of large dark blue pincers on its head and an upper body that looks like a longicorn at first glance.

The worm has a sharp head, sharp spines on the chest, and an egg-sized abdomen that is extremely bloated compared to the thumb-sized upper body.

"This bug looks so strange." The two patrolmen looked at it with relaxed expressions.

The young man was also very curious, he put down the shape and came over, "What? What exactly is it?"

Xiao Mo didn't care about other people's reactions, and only asked Xue Lihong nervously: "Do you think this thing is dangerous?"

"It's not afraid of light, and it doesn't react when it sees people." Xue Lihong took out a pencil and poked the bug lightly.

"Hey!" Xiao Mo couldn't stop it in time, this kid was too courageous.

The large pliers on the worm's head suddenly stood up, and stretched out the pliers to grab the electric pen.

Xue Lihong quickly retracted the electric pen, without being caught by the bugs, "It shouldn't be dangerous. You can see that it didn't release any liquid or gas when it was stimulated, and it didn't change violently. Just be careful with the pair of pliers and don't get caught by them." Just fine."

As she spoke, Xue Lihong flicked the insect's lower limbs with the electric pen again, "Besides, it has no wings and its legs are not well developed. Even if you let it go, you don't have to worry about it running away. Try throwing it on the ground to see See? Don't worry, with me here, it won't be able to escape even if it grows wings."

Even so, Xiao Mo was still extremely careful.

He didn't throw the bug on the ground, but put it down carefully, and the moment he removed the gauze, he raised his foot and stepped on it vigorously.

Stamping with your feet is the first reaction of most people to dealing with insects.

But when he raised his foot, he found that the beetle was still tenaciously alive, and was trying to use its big pincers to drill a hole out of Xiao Mo's sole.

"Hey, this bug's vitality is so tenacious! It's stronger than a cockroach." The second-rate youth called.

The two patrolmen also sensed something was wrong, "What kind of bug is this?"

Xiao Mo didn't believe in evil, and stomped hard again, and crushed it heavily with the sole of his foot for a long time.

"Hiss!" Feeling the pain, Xiao Mo raised his foot... The beetle was still alive, a pair of pliers were inserted into the sole of his shoe, and its head almost got into the sole of his shoe.

The corner of Xue Lihong's mouth twitched, like a smile but not like a smile, "Hey, that's a gold-eating bug, a bug that can eat metal. Although your soles are made of rubber, it doesn't like to eat them, but when its life is threatened , I don't think it would mind poking a hole."

"..." Xiao Mo couldn't help cursing after his head short-circuited for a second, and asked in his mind: "System, how do we recycle this thing? Do we have to kill it?"

System, "When all mission targets are recycled, the life status must be guaranteed to be zero, and there are more than 80% of the remaining parts, otherwise the system will not be recycled, and the mission will not be considered complete."

"It means that if I want to kill all the mission targets, I still have to leave their bodies?"

System, "You can also understand it this way."

Xiao Mo took off his shoes, took out a pair of thick labor protection gloves from his backpack and put them on, took out a pair of clips to pinch the bugs out, and motioned Xue Lihong to lend him the saw blade just now.

Xiao Mo squatted down, pressed the bug's back with one hand, took the saw blade and sawed its head.

The second-hand youth whispered on the side: "You are so cruel! This bug looks strange, maybe it is a new species, and you just killed it like this? Please, let me take a picture of it anyway, and I will post it on the Internet. Fans are also welcome."

The patrolman also asked: "What exactly do you two do? What kind of bug is it? Why is it inside the metal statue? It's called a gold-eating bug? Does it only eat metal?"

The patrolman who was questioning saw a hole the size of a fist in the bottom of the building where the left foot was.

The beetle seemed to feel pain or threat, and waved a pair of large pincers very fiercely.

Xiao Mo firmly held down the back of the beetle, and sawed the beetle's head vigorously, but after sawing for at least a minute, the head of the beetle was still well connected to the body, and the sawed part left a white mark and was There were no other injuries.

Both the bastard youth and the patrolman couldn't believe their eyes, and the bastard youth eagerly shouted, "Let me try, let me try!"

Xiao Mo saw for a while, feeling helpless, looked up at Xue Lihong, "Do you have a lighter?" He doesn't smoke, and he forgot such an important thing when he packed his tools.

"I have a lighter. But you have to tell me exactly what this bug is? What do you do? Why do you have to kill it?" The patrolman who asked the question took out the lighter and asked repeatedly.

Xiao Mo didn't want to attract attention, but there are so many people here, it's basically impossible for them to recover the bugs without hiding it from people's eyes, and now there are only three people watching, which is not bad.

"We can't go into details, but this kind of bug really can't stay. You have also seen that it eats metal. If this kind of bug is allowed to spread in the city..." Xiao Mo's words stopped short.

"How do you know that there are such bugs here?" A strange voice added.