The Scavengers

Xiao Mo still chose to take the elevator, he really didn't have the strength to climb from the second floor to the nineteenth floor.

He didn't believe that four elevators could break two at the same time.

There were no passengers in the elevator this time. I don't know if people were too scared to take the elevator again, or for some other reason.

"That team of soldiers didn't know what they came to the hospital for. The equipment on their bodies looked like they were going to fight." Xiao Mo muttered.

Xue Lihong didn't respond to him.

Xiao Mo put down this question and thought of another question.

"Strange, how could a good cable be broken? And two of them were broken." Xiao Mo couldn't figure it out.

"Did you see the broken cable?" Xue Lihong asked in a low voice.

"Yeah." Xiao Mo didn't deny it.

"Then you haven't seen what the fracture cut looks like?"

"It doesn't look like it was damaged naturally, nor does it look like it was intentionally damaged. The fracture..." Xiao Mo remembered, and he "seeed" that the fractures of the two ropes were uneven, "It's like... "

"It seems to be bitten off by something?" Xue Lihong continued.

Xiao Mo snapped his fingers, "Yes, that's the feeling."

Xue Lihong was silent.

Xiao Mo poked him, "Guess what bit it off?"

"We came all the way, did you notice that the rats and cockroaches were gnawing on things related to metal?" Xue Lihong asked.

Xiao Mo was startled, "You mean?"

"I hope I'm wrong, too."

Arrived safely on the nineteenth floor.

Xiao Mo stepped out of the elevator and let out a long breath.

Xue Lihong smiled lightly.

Xiao Mo slapped him hard, "Don't laugh at your boss." Isn't the employer the boss?

Xue Lihong said leisurely: "I suddenly feel a bit disadvantaged, besides those necessary conditions, you should also pay me a salary."

"Salary? I don't even know how long I can live. Maybe if I fail to complete two tasks in a row, I will be wiped out by the system."

"I am here."

"so?"

"It's a good deal to hire me, and you should pay the wages."

"Two hundred a month?"

"200 taels of gold? Yes, you can consider it."

"Go to hell!"

The two survived the catastrophe, relaxed their mood, talked and laughed all the way until they reached the medical guidance platform.

At the opening of the concave character on the [-]th floor, there is a medical guide desk that also serves as a reception. If you want to enter, you must pass the nurse there.

Xiao Mo was in a good mood, approached with a smile and said, "Nurse, hello, we are here to visit the patient. I heard that he lives on the nineteenth floor here."

The young nurse looked up at the two of them, and replied with a dull expression: "Sorry, the floors above the sixteenth floor are closed to the public. If you need to visit patients, you must make an appointment with the attending doctor."

"We've already made an appointment." Xiao Mo opened his eyes and said nonsense.

"What's the patient's last name?" The nurse opened the reception book, and on the front page was a record sheet that recorded the patient's name and ward.

Xiao Mo wanted to peek at the record sheet, but the young man next to him had already seen all the names on the record sheet, and casually reported his name, "We're here to visit Wang Cheng."

The nurse found Wang Cheng's name in the order of Roman characters, and looked at the appointment status behind the name, "Sorry, this patient has no appointment at this time, and you are not allowed to visit this patient according to the regulations."

Xiao Mo said in surprise: "No way, we have already made an appointment, and we just called yesterday afternoon. Miss nurse, could you please check for us, maybe he forgot to tell you. You know what happened so suddenly last night The coma incident, his family members are very worried about him, let us take a look at it no matter what, for fear that something will happen to him.”

"Sorry, you can call his attending physician and make another appointment." The nurse made it clear that they have strict management here, and not everyone can come in and out at will.

Xiao Mo turned to look at Xue Lihong, what should I do?Do you want to think of a way to distract this nurse?

But Xue Lihong pulled him to her side, making him get out of the way.

Xiao Mo was puzzled, and was about to ask the young man, but he heard a series of footsteps behind him, and the leader had already walked beside him.

"I heard that Director Cai and Director Qian of the Center for Disease Research are both here? We are special commissioners of the National Institute of Bioengineering Science and Technology, and we need to discuss important matters with the two directors." The visitor said in a businesslike tone. Said to the little nurse.

Xiao Mo took two steps back toward Xue Lihong, and looked at the person who came with the young man.

The visitor was in his late twenties. He was still young, but his body was extremely official. He was wearing an ultra-thin and cool suit. It's uncomfortable to look at people.

The special commissioner was accompanied by a foreigner and two entourages in institute uniforms.

Xiao Mo looked behind these people again, and saw, as expected, a dozen or so soldiers with live ammunition.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong looked at each other.

The little nurse also saw the group of soldiers with live ammunition, and the expression on her face immediately became tense, "Hello, what is your name? What can you do with the two directors? Do you have any documents?"

The special commissioner frowned and motioned to the person behind him to show the ID to the little nurse, "You just need to tell Director Cai that my surname is Bao. She knows who I am and what I am here for. I called her yesterday morning."

The little nurse took the certificate and read it carefully several times before she reached out to the phone on the table and started making internal calls.

"Huh?" The little nurse hung up the phone and picked it up again.

"What's wrong?" Commissioner Bao asked impatiently.

"I can't get through, there is no sound on the phone, it seems that the line is broken." The little nurse didn't know why.

"I can't get through the phone, won't you go to them directly? Or do you not know where they are?"

The little nurse was startled by Commissioner Bao's stern voice, "They are in the office, on the nineteenth floor. I'll go find them now, please wait here for a while."

After the little nurse finished speaking, she turned around and ran towards the office. Several offices are in the area above the concave characters.

Commissioner Bao had no intention of continuing to wait where he was, so he raised his legs and followed the little nurse.From the beginning to the end, he did not take a second look at Xiao Mo and the two who were waiting at the side.

On the contrary, the foreigner behind Commissioner Bao turned his head and looked at Xiao Mo and the two of them. Xiao Mo was nothing special, so he just skipped it. Xue Lihong was stared at twice because he was terribly thin.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong didn't speak, and directly pretended to be part of the background.Xiao Mo only nodded to the soldier when he saw the soldier reaching out to pull him out of the elevator.

The soldier glanced at him.

The foreigner, his entourage and the team of soldiers all followed in.

Xiao Mo waited for a while, and when he saw a group of people walking away, he gave Xue Lihong a wink. The two pretended to visit the patient, and walked to the first room on the right of the entrance.

The room door was locked.

Xiao Mo didn't worry about this. Seeing that there was no one around, and the group of people near the immediate office didn't notice this side, he immediately opened his backpack and started looking for hand tools. This kind of simple tumbler lock, he can use a few tools. pry open.

"There is a camera." Xue Lihong whispered in Xiao Mo's ear, passed Xiao Mo, took out the master key and inserted it in the door lock, and the door opened.

Xiao Mo glanced at the camera diagonally across from the corner of his eye... silently zipped up the backpack, carried it behind his back, pushed the door open, and entered the room.

He didn't ask Xue Lihong where she got the master key, he felt that even if he asked, the other party would not answer him.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the young man seemed very similar to that incommunicable system?Maybe the young man is more humane, but when you encounter something he doesn't want to say, you can't get a correct answer of one word from his mouth.

Xue Lihong didn't know about Xiao Mo's mental activities. Seeing Xiao Mo walk into the door, he quickly looked around, focusing on the group of soldiers guarding outside the office. Seeing nothing unusual, he walked into the room and Close the door casually.

It was like a warehouse for spare instruments, with several machines lined against the walls.

As soon as Xiao Mo walked into the room, a system prompt sounded in his head: "The mission goal is approaching, please collect waste."

Xue Lihong didn't need Xiao Mo's guidance this time, and went directly to a large instrument leaning against the wall on the left, "Is the gold-eating bug in there?"

Xiao Mo was surprised, "How do you know?"

"I heard."

Xiao Mo hurriedly listened carefully, but after listening for a long time, he didn't hear anything.

"How did you hear that? Is there any special sound?"

The young man didn't answer, he squatted down and began to look at the instrument whose casing was almost entirely made of metal except for a small display screen.

Xiao Mo also knew that this was not nonsense, so he hurried forward to check it together.

"According to the [-]D image shown to me by the system, that thing should be in this part." Xiao Mo clicked somewhere under the instrument with his finger—this system is the most convenient at this time.

"Approximately how deep is it?" The young man took down the backpack, took out the tools from inside, and began to disassemble the shell of the instrument.

Based on the three-dimensional image in his mind, Xiao Mo quickly judged the depth of the gold-eating bug, and reported it casually.It was strange when he reported the number. How could he know all the dimensions of the instrument just by looking at the three-dimensional map?Almost like a gut feeling... Could it have something to do with his healing abilities too?

"Be careful!" Xiao Mo yelled in a low voice when he saw that the casing of the instrument was dropped.

The young man paused slightly, took out a bright flashlight from his backpack, and aimed it into the instrument.

Xiao Mo also half-kneeled on the ground, and looked inside along the bright light.

Just off the center of the instrument, a fist-sized hole appeared on a piece of metal that looked like a controller. The weird-looking gold-eating worm in the hole was wriggling inside, as if it was eating.

Xiao Mo put on the labor protection gloves, took out the clip, and carefully pulled out the beetle with its fangs and claws.

The beetle with a big belly was pinched uncomfortably, and the two big dark blue pincers were desperately opening and closing.

Xiao Mo held the beetle with a clip and looked carefully, of course he didn't dare to get close to it.

"This one seems to be bigger than the previous seven. Where did this thing come from?"

Xue Lihong held the strong flashlight and continued to illuminate other parts of the instrument, "Look there and there, this bug probably ate all the way in."

Xue Lihong moved the instrument, followed the path where the worms ate, and finally found a small hole the size of a grain of rice on the back of the instrument.

"You know that's not what I asked. Someone put this worm on the casing of this instrument on purpose? Is this the breeder that the system said?" Xiao Mo looked at the small hole and guessed.

"It's almost inseparable. I think the breeder put the eggs in the first place, or put them in when the worms were young. You can see that the path it eats is thin in the front and thicker in the back, which shows that Its food intake is getting bigger and bigger, including its body." Xue Lihong looked at the worm's figure, then looked at the small hole at the beginning, and frowned slightly.

How long did it take the bug to get this big, he wondered?How big can it get if it continues to eat?