The Scavengers

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong turned their heads to look at the person who came.

This is a middle-aged man in his early fifties, wearing a military uniform and major general epaulettes.

As soon as the bastard youth saw the middle-aged man, he immediately waved his hand carelessly, "Dad!"

The two patrolmen stood at attention and raised their hands in salute, "Hello, Chief."

The middle-aged man stood at attention and raised his hand in return, then gave his son a sideways glance, "If you don't help, what are you doing here? You're being lazy, aren't you?"

"No way, I don't think the behavior of these two people is weird and not like good people..." The young man couldn't continue, and Xiao Mo kept staring at him with accusing eyes.

The middle-aged major general looked at Xiao Mo, "Please answer my question."

Xiao Mo couldn't make up a good reason for a while, so he could only say vaguely: "We are also employed by others."

"Who? Who hired you?"

Telling a lie requires ten or hundreds of lies, so it's better not to say it and let them guess, so Xiao Mo simply replied: "Sorry, we can't tell."

The middle-aged major general glanced at the metal figure that fell on the ground, and hinted very clearly: "You are destroying municipal public facilities."

Xiao Mo understood what he meant, the other party was threatening him, if he did not name the employers, they would be arrested for destroying public facilities.

"I can repair communication equipment. I didn't mean to eavesdrop, you guys speak very loudly." Xiao Mo said that he was definitely not a spy or saboteur.

The middle-aged major general lightly held his right hand and let go, glanced at the fat worm of unknown species, and said, "You kill the worm, come with me."

Compared with a bug that got into a metal sculpture and two weirdos hired to catch bugs, it is more important to restore communication now. They originally had dedicated maintenance personnel, but the other party was seriously injured last night. It was chaotic, and it became a problem to temporarily deploy people.It would be best if these two people could fix the communication equipment, if not... If there was a problem, he wasn't afraid of them running away.

Xiao Mo didn't expect to bump into the military when he caught the first bug, but he couldn't avoid it. He couldn't see it clearly at night, and it was even more conspicuous. He dared to bet his life that in this chaotic period, at night , There will be police and military patrols all over the road, not to mention the city center.

That being the case, it's better to follow the route map drawn by Xue Lihong to recycle generously. After all, they are catching bugs that look like pests, not killing people and setting them on fire.

Xiao Mo grabbed the bug and looked at Xue Lihong in embarrassment.If he killed the bugs in front of these people, but the corpses suddenly disappeared... How would he explain it?

Xue Lihong silently took out a glass bottle with a tight seal from her backpack, "Put it in here, maybe you can suffocate to death."

Xiao Mo saw that it was the glass bottle that Xue Lihong took out from the backpack, and immediately took it.He had no doubts that the firmness of the glass bottle would be able to imprison the metal-eating beetle.

The worms were stuffed into a glass bottle to seal, because there was a problem with the system recycling, Xiao Mo didn't hand the glass bottle to Xue Lihong, but stuffed it into his backpack.

The middle-aged major general turned around, Xiao Mo put on his shoes and Xue Lihong followed.

The bastard young man came to Xiao Mo's side, and asked excitedly, "Hey, man, what's your name? My name is Qiu Xin, I'm Jiu Qiu, Xin of Sanjin. What about you?"

"My surname is Xiao, you can call me Lao Xiao." Xiao Mo kept his mind open and didn't say his full name.

"What's the name of that diseased tuberculosis hero?"

"You can ask him yourself."

Qiu Xin peeked at Xue Lihong, and said cautiously, "He looks so fierce."

"how come?"

"Really, don't you think that your companion is like..." Qiu Xin desperately thought about adjectives, "a super fierce blade that has been buried deep underground for thousands of years, has just been born, and is desperately thirsty for blood?"

Xiao Mo couldn't help turning his head to look at him, "Are you exaggerating too much?"

Qiu Xin shook his head, "I'm not exaggerating. I'm not good at anything else, and I'm very accurate in reading people. Anyway, your companion is not like an ordinary person."

"Well, he is indeed not an ordinary person, he is a retired mercenary."

Qiu Xin clapped his hands, "I'll just say it! By the way, did he retire because of some serious illness?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Mo was vague again.

"Hey, he can still have such great strength when he is seriously ill, so how powerful is he when he is in good health?" Qiu Xin peeked at Xue Lihong with star eyes of admiration.

Xue Lihong glanced at him.

Qiu Xin's heart skipped a beat, be honest.

When the two patrolmen saw that the middle-aged major general led the people there in person, they left to do other things.

The middle-aged young general was quite transparent, he led Xiao Mo and the others to the temporary command center all the way, without asking any questions.

"Commander Qiu, Commander Yang called just now..." A communications soldier ran forward, saw two strangers at Xiao Mo, and swallowed back the words.

"I'll call back later." Commander Qiu waved his hand.

Xiao Mo turned these two lines of dialogue in his mind.

Why didn't Commander Yang directly contact Commander Qiu with his mobile phone?

There is no landline here, so [-]% of them use satellite phones to communicate with each other. Things that require both parties to use satellite phones to communicate, except for emergencies, are highly confidential events. What will happen?

In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Xiao Mo did not dare to observe the situation inside the command center, and waited for Commander Qiu to bring him to the communication equipment, and he took over and started testing.

Xue Lihong stood aside silently.

Commander Qiu took a look at Xue Lihong, and Qiu Xin leaned into his ear and whispered something.

Commander Qiu nodded to Xue Lihong, who also nodded slightly in return.

Commander Qiu asked a communications soldier to help Xiao Mo, and went to a corner to pick up the satellite phone there.

Xue Lihong leaned lazily on the edge of a long table, and all the phone calls between Commander Qiu and Commander Yang fell into his ears verbatim.

"How is it? Can it be fixed?" The communications soldier with a baby face looked at Xiao Mo anxiously.

He is a high-talented student majoring in communication technology in the military academy. He can use and repair communication equipment whether it is radio, telecommunications, network, or satellite signals.

But that is based on the fact that the main parts and spare parts are readily available. Once the replacement parts cannot keep up, he will get stuck.

Because of some inexplicable psychology, he didn't take the initiative to tell Xiao Mo what went wrong, it just depends on whether he can check it out.

Qiu Xin also wanted to squeeze over to see, but was thrown out by his father to help carry things.

Xiao Mo has been in the society for so many years, how could he fail to see the careful thinking of this communication soldier, but he didn't care, he just wanted to quickly repair the main unit of the communication equipment, and then he and Xue Lihong could go to recycle it The second gold-eating bug.

And the moment he touched the host of the communicator, a three-dimensional image appeared in his mind.

Xiao Mo was startled, and hurriedly asked the system: "What's going on?"

The communication soldier replied: "I don't know what's going on, anyway, it can't be used."

Xiao Mo was alert and did not dare to speak to the system again.

"This is your ability. It has improved a little after you absorbed that energy crystal." The system replied very insincerely.

Xiao Mo looked at the three-dimensional map, almost with an intuition, he immediately found the damaged part.

"Lend me the tool." Xiao Mo said to the communication soldier.

"Hey, don't take it apart if you don't understand."

"I'll pay you if it's broken." Xiao Mo took the tools and took apart the machine, and quickly found the damaged mixer.

"This mixer is broken, is there a replacement?" Xiao Mo asked the communications soldier.

The communications soldier was taken aback. He didn't expect that he would find the problem so quickly. The man didn't even do much testing.

"No. If there was a replacement, I would have replaced it a long time ago. The warehouse of this thing happened to be out of stock, and now I can't transfer it to other army warehouses temporarily." The communication soldier said with a sad face.

"Then the only way to fix it is to take this mixer apart."

The communications soldier doubted, "Can you fix it? These are all ready-made modules."

Xiao Mo turned his head and said to Xue Lihong, who stood aside and minimized her presence, "Come and help me."

Xue Lihong instantly understood what he meant, she wanted him to cover up.

Xue Lihong walked over to "help", just blocking the communication soldier's sight.

This was the first time Xiao Mo used the "repair" ability when he had a clear understanding.

It was a wonderful feeling. When he was thinking about repairing the mixer, a three-dimensional map of the mixer appeared in his mind, and the damaged parts were clearly visible.

And the complete and normal three-dimensional picture of the mixer appears on the other side, as if it were some kind of contrast.

I hope it can be repaired like the picture next to it, Xiao Mo thought subconsciously.

Then he saw... no, it should be felt, as if something very tiny around him was concentrating on the mixer in his hand, and the burnt and burnt parts were being repaired little by little.

Xiao Mo felt that it had been a long time, but when the realization of "has been repaired" appeared in his consciousness, he raised his wrist to check the time, and found that less than 2 minutes had passed.

Xiao Mo deliberately dawdled for a while longer, seeing that seven or eight minutes had passed, and then put the mixer back in place.

"Okay, try it and see if it works." Xiao Mo stood up and said to the communication soldier.

With a face full of disbelief, the communications soldier switched to a channel and started calling the other party.

Soon there was a response from the opposite side: "Team Three, I am Team Three, and Team Three called the Headquarters, asking the Headquarters to send people to block Nan'an Hospital! There are monsters here! It's a real monster! Headquarters, Headquarters, can you hear me?"

Just as the communications soldier was about to answer, a big hand grabbed the answering machine, "I'm Qiu Feng, Zheng He is that you?"

The opposite side was quiet for a while, and then shouted: "Commander! It's you! Aren't you at the headquarters? Why did you run out?"

"I'm here to find out the actual situation. What's going on in your place? What monster are you talking about?"

"It's a winged, big belly..."

Hearing this, Xiao Mo didn't intend to listen anymore, he had already guessed what the monster that soldier named Zheng He encountered was.

Out of the corner of Qiu Feng's eyes, he saw Xiao Mo and the two walking out of the command center, thinking for a second whether to keep the two of them, but what Zheng He yelled on the other side immediately took all his thoughts.

Qiu Feng secretly said in his heart that it's a pity, forget it, he is not someone with malicious intentions.

If it wasn't for such a chaotic time, he would definitely not let those two people slip away from him easily. Those two people must know something, maybe they know more than him, and they also seem to be very useful.Well, and that weird bug...

The communication soldier was very excited, and wanted to stop Xiao Mo and ask him how he fixed it, but it seemed that the chief didn't keep them on purpose, so he couldn't speak casually, so he could only hold back.

How did that person fix it?I didn't see him take out any spare parts for replacement.The communications soldier's heart was itching, and his face was flushed by this unsolved mystery.

Xiao Mo was also afraid that the army commander would keep him, so he left the tent of the command center and ran to his bicycle. Fortunately, the bicycle was still there.

The two rode on the bike and were about to head to the second destination.

"Hey, hey, wait, wait!" Qiu Xin threw away the garbage he was carrying, and rushed towards the two of them.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong wanted to pretend that they didn't see it, but the kid rushed very fast, and just blocked the direction of the two of them.

"I said brother, are you still going to catch bugs?" Qiu Xin stopped the two of them and asked.

"Yeah." Xiao Mo looked at him with a smile, he thought this kid was quite pleasing to the eye, although he was a bit silly.

"Then can you take me with you?"

"No."

"Come on, I just want to catch a bug like that with you."

"What do you want that bug for? It's not a fun thing, if you don't do it well..."

Qiu Xin quickly waved his hand, "I'm not playing with it, I raised a little thing, and it likes to eat bugs. I've never seen this kind of bug, and it's so big, I think it must like it."

Xiao Mo twitched the corner of his mouth, "In this way, if there is any extra, I will remember to keep it for you." But he sincerely hoped that the No.20 five gold-eating bugs would not be found again.

"Then let's put it this way. My mobile phone number is 15815815888, do you remember?"

Such a wealthy number, can you not remember it?

Xiao Mo hesitated for a while, compared with the fear of being exposed, his conscience prevailed in the end, "Hey, boy, tell your dad, that monster is called the Giant Winged Blood Mosquito Beast. It likes darkness and hates bright light. It haunts at night, has no vision, but is extremely sensitive to the smell of blood. The triangular-shaped head has three functions: insect antennae, animal sense of smell and radar. I saw these on the Internet, you can search online, it is said that someone is offering a reward Capture these monstrosities."

"Hey, brother, speak slowly, I didn't remember! Don't go, brother! What exactly are you talking about?"

Xiao Mo pedaled his bicycle like a hot wheel, in fact he regretted it after he finished speaking, he thought maybe he should leave the city.

Xue Lihong looked at him, feeling a little amused.