The Scavengers

"You don't have to worry so much. Since I told you to push all the sources of news to the Internet, then I naturally have a way to cover it up. Believe me, with the current technology, it is absolutely impossible for them to find us from the Internet."

After taking the reassurance pill given by the young man, Xiao Mo felt more at ease.

The next target of the two is the city's TV station.

The TV station's gold-eating bugs are easier to catch, so they lie on the signal tower.

The two took advantage of the confusion to go upstairs, climbed directly to the signal tower and caught the bug.

There was no one on the rooftop, Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong discussed how to kill the bugs, the first gold-eating bug stayed in the glass bottle for a long time, but was still full of vitality.

Xiao Mo also told Xue Lihong what the system told him about the recovery conditions of the task target.

"Burning with fire may not leave the whole body." Xue Lihong reminded him.

"Then flooded with water?"

"Okay, if you can't be submerged, try using electric shock."

The two put the second worm into the glass bottle, filled it with water, and sealed it tightly.

The third target was in a kindergarten. Because of the coma and confusion last night, the kindergarten was forced to take a holiday, and there was no one in it.

The gate of the kindergarten was wide open, and the security guards at the gatehouse probably all ran home.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong just walked into the kindergarten so generously.

To be careful, Xiao Mo went there first and destroyed the monitoring equipment installed in the security room.

The worm got into the sports equipment, and with Xue Lihong, the Hercules, catching the worm was not a problem at all.

The fifth goal is more difficult to achieve, and it is actually in the traffic bureau's parking lot for violations and accident vehicles.

The parking lot is still guarded, but due to lack of manpower, not all guards are in place.

Xue Lihong asked Xiao Mo to wait outside, and after confirming the location of the target, he directly found a place where no one was around and jumped in. After about ten minutes, he jumped out again with the gold-eating bug in his pocket.

"Has it been photographed by surveillance?" Xiao Mo took the worms and put them into a glass bottle, shook them, none of the worms in it died, and their vitality was absolutely tenacious.

"No." Xue Lihong said with certainty.

Xiao Mo felt relieved, "This bottle won't hold it anymore."

"Let's kill together later."

The sixth target is on a railroad, and the seventh is in a newly constructed building.

By seven o'clock in the evening, the two had caught seven gold-eating bugs.

During the period, Xiao Mo really missed dinner, and after calling Deng Anjie to explain that he couldn't make it back, the two casually bought something to eat on the way.

The eighth goal, the city's first hospital.

It was more than seven o'clock in the evening, and the city's No. [-] Hospital was still full of people.

Xiao Mo found the guidance desk of the hospital, where there was a floor plan introduction of the whole hospital.

After finally squeezing into the crowd, Xiao Mo showed Xue Lihong the location of the gold-eating bug according to the map in his mind.

"It's on the nineteenth floor of the inpatient department. I don't know what this room is used for, and it's not indicated on the floor plan." Xiao Mo whispered in the young man's ear.

"This is a radiological sign, X-ray, CT, MRI are all possible, maybe the radiology department."

"Then shall we go register and pretend to be patients?" Xiao Mo looked at the young man and felt that he looked alike without pretending.

Xue Lihong looked back at the crowded registration hall, Xiao Mo also turned his head to look, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "Forget it, if I didn't say anything, let's go directly."

The inpatient department was previously blocked due to the epidemic, but at this time, the blockade is meaningless. In addition, a large number of new patients need to be arranged. The doors that were originally blocked have also been opened, only wrapped in plastic sheets Haven't had time to be evacuated yet.

The inpatient building is in a concave shape, with two elevators and stairways on the left and right sides of the opening.

The map in Xiao Mo's mind shows that the target is the first room on the right of the concave entrance on the nineteenth floor.

Xiao Mo wanted to use the elevator on the right, but Xue Lihong stopped him and motioned him to take the stairs.

"The target is on the nineteenth floor!" Xiao Mo also thought about the earthquake last night, maybe it's best to climb the stairs for safety, but the problem is that they have to climb the nineteenth floor.

Xue Lihong looked at the elevator and said nothing.

"Is there danger in there? We don't have much time, if we put a lot of energy into climbing the stairs..."

Xiao Mo also had his own reasons. He was afraid that he would run out of energy. By twelve o'clock tomorrow, he would have to recover 24 bugs. If he didn't save his energy, he would be very tired now.

Xue Lihong glanced at him, ignored her intuition, and pressed the upward arrow.

The elevator arrived, and the two stepped into it with other waiting patients.

Xue Lihong's height is more than 190 cm by visual inspection, and his height is particularly conspicuous in the elevator, absolutely standing out from the crowd.

It stands to reason that this person should be a special luminous body that attracts attention wherever he goes, no matter in terms of appearance or appearance.But the strange thing is that with so many people in the elevator, no one paid much attention to Xue Lihong.

Xiao Mo is very curious about Xue Lihong's special skill that can hide her sense of existence.

The elevator goes up one floor at a time.

When they reached the sixth floor, Xiao Mo couldn't help but asked Xue Lihong in a low voice, "Is there anything wrong with this elevator?"

"You also think something will happen to it?" Xue Lihong looked at him.

Xiao Mo was dazed, "What do you mean I 'also' think something will happen to it?"

The voice of this sentence was a little louder, which caused the passengers in the elevator to look at him together.

Arrived at the ninth floor, the elevator door opened, Xiao Mo hesitated for a moment whether to get off or not.

Before the body moved, the passenger standing at the elevator entrance directly pressed the door close button.

As the elevator continued to rise, Xiao Mo's heartbeat gradually accelerated. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the elevator was getting faster and faster.

"Ding!"

Xiao Mo was startled, it turned out that it was just the floor, the thirteenth floor, um, what a wonderful number.

"What's going on? Why didn't the door open when we got there?" A passenger standing at the door asked in surprise.

Xiao Mo's heart beat violently.

Xue Lihong looked up at the top of the elevator.

The elevator doors still didn't open, didn't move.

A nurse who was going to be on this floor walked to the door and pressed the door open button several times.

The elevator is still unresponsive.

Apart from Xiao and Xue, the passengers who were still in the elevator suddenly rushed to the door. An old lady was the most nervous and kept saying, "I want to get out, let me get out!"

The nurse who stood by the door and pressed the door button gave a "tsk" and then pressed the emergency call bell.

After a while, a conversation came from the opposite side: "Security Department, is there something wrong?"

"There is a problem with the No. [-] elevator on the east side of the inpatient building, can you send someone to look at it? We are now stuck at Thirteen...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The communication was cut off, the lights in the elevator flickered for a while, the passengers screamed, and the elevator began to descend rapidly!

Xiao Mo grabbed the armrest beside him.

Xue Lihong leaned close to his ear and said hastily, "Go and see what's the problem, hurry up!"

"I've never repaired an elevator!" Xiao Mo yelled.

"I have to fix it if I haven't done it before! Speed!"

Xiao Mo threw himself in front of the circuit board, and pressed his palm firmly on the floor button.

Quick, quick!What the hell is wrong, fix it!

A three-dimensional picture of the elevator appeared in Xiao Mo's mind, not here, not here, look outside, look at the elevator cables!

"Ahhh-!"

The elevator stopped suddenly, and all passengers, including Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong, fell to the ground due to inertia.

"It's a cable!" Xiao Mo yelled, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, "Two cables are broken!"

"Impossible!" The nurse got up and shouted incredulously, "This is a new elevator, or a brand-name product. How could two cables break at once? And how do you know that the cables are broken?"

"I'm from the elevator company." Xiao Mo said nonsense.

The other passengers also groaned and got up, and when they heard that Xiao Mo worked in the elevator company, they immediately asked him, "Can it be repaired?"

A big boy who looked like a high school student pulled out his cell phone and called the police.

Xue Lihong looked at Xiao Mo, Xiao Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead, shook his head, the cable was outside, and the break was too far away from him, it took him a lot of effort just to see it, let alone repair it.

"What's the situation now? Will it still fall?" the old lady yelled, sobbing, pressing the door button desperately.

Another child in his early teens, without a parent around, simply started crying.

Xiao Mo exhaled, and replied: "The safety gear of the elevator should be working now, if this is really a new elevator..."

"Of course!" The nurse didn't know if she was afraid of being blamed by others, and kept insisting that the quality of the elevator was excellent and reliable.

Xiao Mo knew that it was a stress reaction when she was too nervous, so she didn't care, "If it's a new elevator, and we don't have many people, its safety gear should last until we can be rescued together."

"Then can we open the door and climb out by ourselves?" the last male passenger in good shape asked hurriedly.

"I suggest that we'd better wait for rescue." Xiao Mo, who had never repaired an elevator but knew a little about the principle, said tactfully.

"Why? The people who were trapped in the elevator in the movie I saw all opened the elevator door by themselves or escaped through the safety window at the top of the elevator." The high school student who called the police said.

"Then you should have seen some people get stuck at the elevator exit and were cut in half by the sudden movement of the elevator, right? So we don't force the elevator door open unless it is absolutely necessary." Xiao Mo said seriously.

The nurse holding the crying child also echoed.

Seeing that the door could not be opened, the old lady began to slam on the elevator door desperately, crying loudly: "Help! Can anyone hear me?"

Xiao Mo glanced at Xue Lihong, Xue Lihong was not in a hurry at this time, pointed to the top of the elevator and said: "There is no safety window, it is fully enclosed."

Xiao Mo smiled bitterly, "Almost all domestic elevators are like this, and most of them don't have safety windows."

The high school student asked: "Then we just sit and wait? Just now I called the police and reported to the fire department, but no one answered, and the lines were all busy."

"It's so chaotic outside, who can remember us." The male passenger in good shape was anxious.

Xiao Mo had no choice but to remind them, "The nurse just now contacted the hospital's security department. They must have heard our cries and knew something went wrong. I believe they will be here soon."

Sure enough, the rescuer arrived soon.

Xiao Mo climbed out of the elevator, got up and saw a group of soldiers with live ammunition.

Xiao Mo thanked the soldier who pulled him out, and the soldier replied with three words, "You're welcome."

The security guard of the hospital's security department also couldn't stop thanking the team of soldiers.

Another doctor who looked like an administrator couldn't help laughing and saying nice things to a man standing behind a soldier whose face couldn't be seen clearly.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong took advantage of the confusion and left.

Suddenly, Xiao Mo staggered.

Xue Lihong supported him, "Hold on, we'll go back to your house when we catch the gold-eating bugs here."

Xiao Mo touched his stomach and wanted to say that he was very hungry, but he was not as hungry as yesterday, so he held back.It seems that every time he uses his ability, he needs a lot of supplementary food, and today he has used his ability once and a half.It would be great if I could find that kind of energy crystal again, thinking of the deliciousness of that energy crystal back then, Xiao Mo swallowed.

Behind the two, the team of soldiers saw that all the passengers had been rescued, and immediately turned and walked towards the elevator at the other end.In front of them, a man in a summer slim casual suit complained impatiently.

"It's just easy." The soldier leading the team replied in a low voice.

"Don't take the elevator, go upstairs." The man in the suit hesitated and said.

The soldier glanced at them, "We have no problem, you..."

The man in the suit frowned.