The Scavengers

"Gluttony virus? Do you know something?" Qian Yunkai sat up straight.

Xiao Mo wanted to explain, but Xue Lihong interrupted him directly, "I will tell you about these things later, but before that, let's make a deal."

Qian Yunkai already felt that this sickly looking tall young man was much more difficult to deal with than Xiao Mo, and also more difficult to speak.However, Xiao Mo seemed to trust him very much, and even had a faint tendency to let him dominate everything.

"What deal?" Qian Yunkai asked cautiously.

"Don't you want to repay your kindness? You don't need to make a promise with your body. If you do one thing for us, if you finish it, you will pay back the kindness. How about it?"

Xiao Mo understood what Xue Lihong meant, but isn't this not very good?It felt like a blackmail.

Qian and Wang looked at each other.Qian Yunkai kept his eyes closed.

Qian Yunkai said, "This is not the way to repay kindness. Please tell me what it is first. If we can do it, we will definitely help."

Xue Lihong tilted her head to look at Xiao Mo, and said with her eyes: Look, they are not idiots, right?

Xiao Mo was speechless, and secretly teased him.

Xue Lihong leaned on the armrest of the single sofa, looked down at the two people sitting on the couch opposite, and said: "It is a very simple matter for you. If it is not that we are not short of manpower, the time It’s not enough, and I won’t bother you.”

Xiao Mo saw that Xue Lihong's words were too harsh, so he forcibly took over the conversation, "That's right, I received a task, saying that someone put 24 gold-eating female insects in this city. Kill them all and recycle them before midnight, and the gold-eating bugs will spread all over the city."

Then Xiao Mo described in detail the gold-eater's addiction to metal.

Qian and Wang didn't wait for Xiao Mo to finish speaking before they changed their expressions. Wang Cheng said solemnly: "Who did this immoral thing? If this kind of bugs flood the city..."

"Extreme situations such as factory shutdowns, mechanical failures, house collapses, and train derailments may happen." Xue Lihong said that she was not threatening them, and this speculation could become a reality.

"What are we going to do?" Qian Yunkai asked.

"It's very simple, according to the map I gave you, catch those bugs, put them in this glass bottle and bring them back to me or Xiao Mo, remember, it must be completed before eleven o'clock at noon, and the target must not be killed. "Xue Lihong said as she took out another sealed glass bottle from her backpack.

Xiao Mo began to explain the points that need to be paid attention to when catching and preying gold bugs.

Xue Lihong drew five key marks, and handed the map and the glass bottle to Wang Cheng, "We have recovered nine of them today, and Lao Xiao and I will be responsible for recovering the remaining ten later, and you only need to finish These five are fine."

"The bugs are so small, how can we find them quickly?" Qian Yunkai raised the most critical question.

Xue Lihong seemed to have expected that they would ask such a question, and took out a small instrument the size of a palm from his backpack with his backhand.

"This is a miniature metal detector. I made some modifications. Press this button, and it will automatically search for gold-eating insects within 50 meters nearby. You just need to follow the red dot on it to find it. The number next to the red dot indicates the distance. The meter of the target can be accurate up to five centimeters. The time is too short, and I can only achieve this kind of accuracy for the time being."

Just this was enough to surprise the other three, especially Xiao Mo.He couldn't remember exactly when Xue Lihong got this thing out.

Xue Lihong finally said: "I believe that with your abilities, you will be able to complete such a simple task very well."

This sentence became the one that Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng hated the most in the future.

But at this moment they didn't know anything, they sat there obediently and listened to Xiao Mo explaining the matter of energy crystals to them.

"You said you can convert energy crystals?" Qian Yunkai was surprised and envious, it was so convenient to have this ability.

"Yes, but it's not very stable. I just mastered this ability not long ago. The last time Xue Lihong occasionally killed a blood mosquito beast, I discovered that I can absorb the energy of the blood mosquito beast, and then convert it into energy crystals. But the first time Only one was converted at a time. Then I accidentally discovered that energy crystals can be absorbed when treating Xuelihong's wound."

"Do you think we will also need energy crystals?" Qian Yunkai asked again.

Xiao Mo nodded, took out the energy crystal that had absorbed a quarter and handed it to him, "This time I was lucky, I converted two, and this one is for you to use first. You can use it when you feel tired or can no longer use it. When you can, try to absorb it, but first you have to find where your energy nest is."

Qian Yunkai felt that this kind of favor was a bit big, but after thinking about it, he still accepted it. He decided to pay back double to Xiao Mo when he hunted the blood mosquito beast in the future.

Xiao Mo began to quickly explain the concept of energy nests, and specifically explained that most people's energy nests are located in the pineal gland in the frontal center, in the middle of the line connecting the two nipples, and three inches below the navel.That is to say, the upper, middle and lower dantians mentioned by Taoists.Some people also appear on the soles of the feet and palms.

This is what the system just told him.

It was rare for Xiao Mo to see the system take the initiative to speak, and wanted to ask it a little more, but the system stopped talking.

Xiao Mo had no choice but to ask Qian and Wang to find the location of his energy nest in these five places first, and teach them how to feel the energy nest.

Someone pointed it out quickly, Qian Yunkai was still looking for his energy nest, and Wang Cheng had already found it.

"Mine is in the lower abdomen. It turns out that this is the energy nest. It's amazing." Wang Chengxiang couldn't help asking, "How do you know this?"

"Exploration, coincidence, speculation." Xue Lihong, who quickly took a battle bath, just heard the question, and said: "We got in touch with combat faster than you, so we can discover and research our own abilities before you, but That's all, Lao Xiao and I are still exploring our abilities."

"Thank you!" Qian Yunkai also found the location of his energy nest, and he said this thank you very sincerely.

Because he and Wang Cheng knew how important the knowledge about powers and energy crystals was to them, especially when people in the world didn't know what was going on, these pointers had already allowed them to go ahead.

Xiao Mo rubbed his forehead, he seemed to have persisted to a certain extreme, his brain felt abnormally heavy.

Xue Lihong patted him, "Go take a shower and take a break. From now on, we have an hour and a half to rest, and we will start in an hour and a half."

Wang and Qian also saw that Xiao Mo was unwell, and quickly asked him to rest first. Wang Cheng also offered to let him rest for a while, so that he and Qian Yunkai could find two more gold-eating female insects.

Xue Lihong shook her hand, "You guys are just getting familiar with abilities, five is already a lot."

Xiao Mo got up, but his feet were weak, and he fell to the ground.

Wang and Qian were startled, Xue Lihong quickly picked up Xiao Mo.

"What happened to him?" Qian Yunkai asked hurriedly.

"Energy overdraft." Xue Lihong hugged Xiao Mo and walked quickly to the bathroom.

Wang and Qian look at each other.

Qian Yunkai was a little uneasy, he didn't know Xiao Mo's ability, but he only saw that Xiao Mo healed his knee in such a short time, obviously he paid a great price.

"He absorbed the energy crystals before he treated you, but he didn't absorb much, probably because he was in a hurry, and then he began to treat you." Wang Cheng whispered.

Qian Yunkai nodded. Although his eyelids were closed, he saw it.

"Xiao Mo... is a good man." Wang Chengdao: "He doesn't need to help us, he doesn't give us treatment, he doesn't expose his abilities, and he doesn't need to tell us about energy nests and energy crystals. He even teaches us how to use them. He even took us to his house knowing that we might be caught."

Qian Yunkai was silent.

"That Xue Lihong is not easy to get along with at first glance, if Xiao Mo is not here, he will definitely not care about us."

"What do you want to say?" Qian Yunkai asked.

Wang Cheng scratched his head, "I don't know, I just feel... We owe a lot of favor."

In the bathroom, Xue Lihong pressed the receiver hidden in her ear, showing a faint smile. It seems that the two people rescued by Xiao Mo this time are not bad. If there is anything wrong with these two people, he will never It will make it possible for these two people to get out of this room. He is not like that idiot Xiao Mo, who thinks that they are both mutants and easily believes that the other party will not betray.

Then the young man ignored Xiao Mo's weak resistance, and stripped him naked, leaving only a pair of underwear for him, and stuffed him into the bathtub that had already been filled with hot water.

After soaking in hot water, Xiao Mo sighed comfortably at that moment, closed his eyes, and no longer minded Xue Lihong's domineering behavior.

Xue Lihong took out the energy crystal and handed it to Xiao Mo, "I don't think your ability can be used like this."

"I know, the system warned me just now." Xiao Mo held the energy crystal.

"What does it say?"

"It says that abilities should be used gradually rather than blindly. Energy crystals can indeed quickly replenish energy and expand energy nests, but they cannot be completely relied on. It says that people with energy nests, everyone's body has its own ability to absorb floating space in the universe. function of energy."

"That is to say, the energy crystal is an auxiliary. If you want to fully develop your own ability, you need to carry out reasonable and systematic self-training?"

"Yes."

"Will your overdraft these few times create hidden dangers for your body or energy nest?" Xue Lihong's tone was a little gloomy.

Xiao Mo shook his head, "The system said that I was lucky to replenish energy in time, and it didn't damage the root cause, but it will definitely not work if this continues."

"In the future, unless it is absolutely necessary, try not to use your abilities."

"No, it's not that I don't use it, but I use it with reservations." Xiao Mo opened his eyes and smiled at Xue Lihong, "I'll soak for another 10 minutes and absorb this energy crystal by the way. When I was young, I would use it to study the training plan given to me by the system, and I think that thing should be very useful to me.”

An hour and a half later, Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai also tried to share the energy crystal that Xiao Mo gave them.

However, the effect of the energy crystal on them was so remarkable that Wang and Qian felt the difference almost immediately.

When they saw Xiao Mo appear, both of them happily stepped forward to tell their feelings about using the energy crystal, and expressed their thanks again.

Xiao Mo shook his hand to indicate that it was nothing, and then based on his own experience, he told the two of them not to use their abilities indiscriminately. It is best to try a little bit of the limit and range in a planned way, and then train it.

After that, Xiao Mo, who regained his spirit, looked at Xue Lihong with some worry.

Although Xue Lihong took a nap, he was obviously not in good spirits, and his extremely thin body made him look like he was seriously ill.

"Let's go!" Xue Lihong pushed Xiao Mo.

Not much to say, the four of them split up, Wang and Qian still rode the "borrowed" motorcycle, Xiao Mo took Xue Lihong out of his Ford sedan, this time Xiao Mo took a full He bought all the tools he thought he could use, and by the way, gave Qian and Wang a set of spare common tools.

Because Qian Yunkai's mobile phone was confiscated, in order to keep in touch, Xiao Mo took out one of the mobile phone cards from his dual-card dual-standby mobile phone, put it in an old mobile phone, and handed it to Wang Cheng.

At this time, at 23 o'clock in the middle of the night, the mobile phone can still get through.

Not long after Xiao Mo and others left home, two military jeeps with military badges and headlights on the roof rushed into Shannan Jiayuan, and quickly found Xiao Mo's building.

A group of heavily armed soldiers jumped out of the jeep, and a soldier wearing a lieutenant's epaulets rang the doorbell of Xiao Mo's house. Seeing no one answered for a long time, the lieutenant directly pulled out his gun and broke the electronic lock of the building's gate, opened the gate and opened the door. Lead the team up the stairs.

After knocking on the door to no avail, the lieutenant turned on the internal communicator and said loudly: "Report to the commander, no one answered the doorbell, the target may not be at home. Can you break the door?"

There was a second of silence on the other side, "Zheng He, be polite. We are asking for help, not arresting and interrogating, and don't break the door."

"Yes! But no one answered the door. Do you need to call him on his cell phone?"

"No, don't disturb him, it won't be worth it if you scare him away."

"Then we'll just wait here? Have they gone out to catch bugs and haven't returned yet, or have they gotten the news and run away?"

"The roads out of the city have been blocked. Unless they swim across the river by themselves and avoid the patrol boats, they will definitely be stopped. You wait for another half an hour. If there is no one waiting after half an hour...then you go to the police first. Xiao Mo’s family members are all invited to the military area, remember, please!”