The Scavengers

September 9 at 25pm

[The third level mission No. 01 starts.

Task content: Scavengers Xiao Mo are asked to recover the alienated virus samples of Rabies No. 9 Vaccine before 27:23 on September [-]th.

Mission failures are penalized and successes are rewarded.

If the scavengers fail to complete two consecutive missions, according to regulations, they will be wiped out by the system.The system will randomly wait for new scavengers to appear. 】

January 9, 25:13 pm.

The sky was a little dark, and the rain was pouring down non-stop.

The road is wide, with dense forests on both sides.

However, the originally wide road became quite congested due to vehicles parked and abandoned everywhere.

Many of these vehicles are still burning, and some are emitting black smoke, as if they have just been ransacked by the flames of war.

Maybe the government and the army used heavy bulldozers to open a passage on this road, and they just opened a passage in the center of the road that only allows one car to pass through.

A bright yellow off-road vehicle with a very flamboyant appearance came from a distance, and the car was not driving too fast.

The windshield wiper brushes again and again, faithfully brushing out a clear scene for the driver.

Xiao Mo looked at the smoking cars on both sides of the road, the dense bullet holes on some vehicles, and the bones visible to the naked eye on the roadside, and said in a low voice, "It looks like the army has just been sent to clean it."

Xue Lihong, who was driving, replied casually: "That's just right, we can also reach the target location quickly."

Xiao Mo thought the same, "I hope the bridge across the river is still intact."

Xue Lihong made a god-knows expression.

Xiao Mo smiled and closed his eyes to check the map in his mind. The map provided by the system was very useful. He could clearly "see" the green dot representing himself running on the map. As he moved forward, the map was constantly refreshing. , just like satellite navigation, and there is a red dot at the front of the map that keeps blinking.

That was the destination of their trip, and that was their goal.

Xiao Mo opened his eyes and looked towards the front of the road, "It's not that far away, after crossing the bridge across the river is City H. It's already past noon, are you hungry, do you want something to eat?"

Xue Lihong shook her head, "Let's talk when we get to the destination. Finish it early and go back early. Qiu Feng's attitude is weird, and the car is too broken."

That last sentence of yours is the key point, right?But he also wanted to change the car very much. He didn't understand how someone could paint an off-road vehicle that could be used as a military vehicle in such a flamboyant bright yellow!Someone really bought it!

If it wasn't for some aspects of this car that made Xue Lihong dissatisfied, they might have to use this car for a long time, it's scary to think about it!

Oh, I forgot to mention that Qiu Feng is General Qiu, the current military chief of the security base in Zhongshan City.

Before coming, Qiu Feng contacted them by satellite phone, wanting to entrust them to do something, but they declined when they wanted to come to H City.

Qiu Feng didn't say it clearly in the phone call, but he seemed to disapprove of their coming to City H, and asked them to wait, saying that he would check the situation first.

It's a pity that the time limit for the task released by the system is relatively tight. They have to leave as soon as possible. They can only ask Qiu Feng to contact them as soon as he has news, and come out with a satellite phone.

Xiao Mo lowered his head and rummaged through his bag for food. Zhongshan City is far away from H City. In the past, it would have taken more than five hours to drive by highway. But now, they have been on the road for two full days. Most of the time it was detours and wayfinding. If the system could not adjust the map according to his location at any time, they might have given up the car and chose to walk along the highway to City H.

It has only been three months since the first virus outbreak, but the whole world has changed drastically.Although the expected apocalypse has not come completely, the current situation is not much better.

In the past three months, there have been frequent outbreaks of monsters and special viruses around the world. Often the crisis in a certain city has just been resolved, and another area has an accident. It is simply exhausting to deal with.

At the beginning, some countries used missiles to destroy entire cities to solve the problem. After they found out that this situation was not an isolated incident, they did not dare to continue to do so. The country is so big, it is completely bombed, where do they live? , what to eat?

The only consolation for everyone is that both monsters and viruses have their own territory, as long as no human beings take them away from the "drop zone" where they first appeared, they will never exceed that invisible line.

Because of this game rule, people have a little more room to breathe, and the world finally has some hope. Everyone has to firmly believe that as long as those threats are eliminated one by one, maybe they can regain the earth.

"You said our mission goal this time, could the alienated virus sample of the rabies vaccine No. [-] be..."

"Xiao Mo." Xue Lihong called him suddenly.

"Huh?" Xiao Mo raised his head.

"Get the nail gun, there's someone up ahead."

Hearing that there was someone in front, Xiao Mo took out the nail gun from his backpack, stuffed the food he just took out back into the depth of the backpack, and threw the backpack under his feet.

There are not many monsters they encounter along the way, but many dangers, and most of the dangers come from the same humans as them.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, the raindrops hit the roof of the car with crackling noises, and the rainwater splashed on the car windows obstructed the sight very much, Xue Lihong turned on the wipers at the fastest speed.

Xiao Mo's five senses were not as good as Xue Lihong's, so he looked forward for several seconds and saw it!

A group of people in military uniforms ran wildly on the road ahead. While running, the group turned around and shot into the sky.

Someone saw the approaching car and immediately waved to them, as if wanting to tell them something.

"Wow!" A piercing sound like a baby crying or a night bird screaming came from the air.

Xue Lihong's face changed.

"Crack!" Xue Lihong, who was driving the car, slammed on the brakes, grabbed the nail gun, opened the door and jumped out of the car, "Get out of the car! It's an angel!"

Xiao Mo's reaction was not slow. Hearing the word "angel", he grabbed the handrail first, and when the car stopped, he grabbed the fire ax beside his feet, pushed the door, jumped out of the car and rolled on the spot.

It's almost common sense that you can't stay in your car when you meet an angel.

"Shua!" Something flew over the roof of the car, and "Ba Da" landed on the car.

"Crack!" The thing actually scratched the roof of the car, as if it knew that there was food it liked inside the iron sheet.

"I said we should change the car, this car skin is too brittle." Xue Lihong turned around and shot at the roof of the car. He seemed to know that the angel would land on their car without even looking.

"No matter what car you change, you can't stop the angel!" Xiao Mo paid attention to his surroundings, what he looked at was not the sky but the ground.

"Pfft!" The nail gun shot something on the car, and the thing made a shrill cry, and flew up again.

The huge snow-white wings spread out like angels, which is also the origin of the name of this monster.

But no one can see the angel's body, everyone can only see the angel's wings!

The nail gun clearly shot the angel, but it didn't leave any marks on its body.

"Boss, I heard that there is an aerospace material research base in the suburbs of City H." Xue Lihong was not discouraged, and concentrated on dealing with this angel.

"What do you want to do there?" Xiao Mo smiled, holding up the nail gun, "You think that if the city is destroyed, that kind of place can be freely entered? Be careful!"

The two men aimed their nail guns at the rushing angel at the same time.

"Bell—" The satellite phone left in the car suddenly flashed blue light at this moment.

But Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong are far away from the car now, and they don't even know that there is a call.

Inside the security base in Zhongshan City, Qiu Feng saw that no one answered his calls three times in a row, so he clenched his fist and smashed it on the desk in anxiety.

He just got the news that because there are too many angels and mutant mice in City H, and they continue to spread to the surrounding counties and cities, no one knows how big this "dropping area" is. In order to reduce further losses and completely eliminate the The threat was finally declared by the city government of H, and after discussion and decision at the highest meeting, missiles will be dropped on the entire city of H at 17:[-] this afternoon, completely blowing up city H!

17 o'clock, only three and a half hours from now!

Although everyone knows that throwing missiles is like drinking poison to quench your thirst, sometimes you really have to do it knowing that it is wrong.

At present, he is not qualified to be in the highest meeting, and he was busy with other things halfway, so he didn't pay attention to this matter. As a result, he didn't get the exact news until now.

I hope that Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong haven't entered City H yet, no, it should be hope that they have completed their mission and left City H.

Qiu Feng arranged for someone to call Xiao Mo and Xiao Mo every 15 minutes, hoping to contact them sooner.

The group of men running down the road were also dealing with an angel.

Angels are too hard to kill. There is only one vital point on their bodies, which is the head, but their bodies are transparent, and they are not stupid. They know how to shake their heads and shrink their brains to try to hide their vital points when attacking. Therefore, it is almost impossible to kill them with one shot. things.

At the same time, angel wings are impenetrable to ordinary ammunition, and their claws are also extremely powerful. As long as you are caught, it is useless for you to wear iron armor.

They also have a greater ability.

"Kill them quickly! Don't let them open their mouths to summon mutant rats!" A man in military uniform shouted wildly among the rushing crowd.

Xiao Mo and the others are more aware of the habits and lethality of angels.

Seeing that the nail gun could not deal with the angel, Xue Lihong immediately waved and gestured to Xiao Mo.

When Xiao Mo saw it, he pointed his gun at the angel who was rushing towards Xue Lihong, and kept shooting to disturb its sight and distract its attention.

No one wanted to be surrounded by a large number of mutated rats, Xue Lihong no longer hid her clumsiness, rolled on the spot, rolled to Xiao Mo's side and picked up the fire ax he threw on the ground, stood up and rushed forward, exerting all her strength!

Immediately, he jumped high and counterattacked the angel who was rushing towards him.

"Wow!" the angel screamed.

As soon as Xue Lihong grabbed its wings, she swung the ax and chopped it down where the head should be.

If you miss a strike, strike again.He had killed several angels before, and he had gradually figured out where they would hide the vital parts of their heads.

The angel tried his best to fly high, Xiao Mo didn't dare to shoot the nail gun indiscriminately again, although the nail gun has been modified, but beyond a certain distance, the accuracy will be much worse, even if he aims at it, it is likely to hit Xue Lihong.

Someone over there let out a cry of surprise, as if they didn't expect that random people they met on the road could jump on the angel and kill it.

Another angel kept screaming, and it seemed that it wanted to fly over to support its companions.

"Hey, brother over there, don't let him yell again!" Xiao Mo yelled over there distractedly.

"Bang!" The sound of ear-exploding gunshots sounded, and the group of people chose high-fire weapons.

Xiao Mo turned his head and took a quick look over there, and found that the angel's wings might be injured, and he tried to fly a few times but failed to fly.

Xue Lihong seemed to have found the angel's head, he raised his hand, and chopped off the fire ax fiercely.

"Crack!"

A large amount of blood sprayed out, an invisible angel appeared, and a human body appeared in the shape of a skinned human being, and fell to the ground with a "bang".

Xue Lihong jumped off the angel beforehand.

The group of people had already been scratched by the angel several times, and they didn't care about the ammunition. They aimed all their guns at the remaining angel and shot them to death.

"Squeak--!"

This scream was different, Xue Lihong immediately yelled "not good" in her heart when she heard it.

The angel's wings exploded into bloody flowers and fell from the sky.

The group of people immediately surrounded it, shooting one after another, shooting bullets at it desperately.

Xue Lihong waved to Xiao Mo, "Go! That angel summoned mutant rats!"

He was loud enough to be heard by the group who were still shooting angels like crazy.

When Xiao Mo heard that the mutated mouse was about to be summoned, he was so frightened that he immediately ran to the car that got off just now.

Xue Lihong also ran back to the car, they couldn't abandon this car, there were still many useful things on it.

Fortunately, only a few holes were scratched in the roof of the car, the car was still able to start, and the group of people stopped shooting the angels, and all ran towards them.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this car, but this did not hinder their speed of getting on the car.

Xiao Mo and the two saw them open the door and get in the car without saying anything.

Xue Lihong saw that the group of six people either sat in the car, or grabbed the luggage rack on the roof, and said, "Sit tight!"

Shift gears, push hard, and step on the accelerator.

The car rushed out with a coax.

A large number of black and gray rats rushed out from the woods on both sides, and soon the road was full of black mutant rats.

Xue Lihong kept driving, raising the speed to the highest he could now.

The three people hanging outside the car were more unlucky. If they failed to get into the car, they would inevitably be attacked by those mutant mice. However, the speed of the car was fast, and their reactions were good. All the mutant mice on his body were chopped off.

Without the command of the angels, although those mutated mice were summoned, they would not chase after the car after losing their target. Instead, they were very interested in the two angel corpses on the ground. The angel didn't respond, and took another bite.

The angel still didn't respond until then, and the mutant rats immediately went crazy, screaming wildly and gathering towards the two corpses!

Layer after layer of mutant rats pounced on the two corpses.

When the mutated rats dispersed again, there were only two slightly strange bones left on the road, and the ground was covered with white feathers.

Seeing that they finally got rid of the group of mutated rats, the three of them who got into the car let out a sigh of relief.

Xiao Mo felt that it was a pity that two angel corpses could be exchanged for two second-level standard energy crystals.

Among the three, a middle-aged man wearing a camouflage military uniform but without epaulettes said, "Thanks, brother, I'm lucky to have met you. Are you going to City H?"

Xue Lihong has never been in charge of diplomacy, so Xiao Mo turned around and replied, "Yes, we are looking for someone in City H, and I have a relative here."

He paid special attention to the clothes of these people, and found that none of them had epaulets or armbands. They were wearing imitation military uniforms, not real soldiers.

The man in military uniform wiped off the rain and blood on his face, "You guys are too late, the inner city of H city was completely occupied by angels and mutant rats two days ago, as of this morning, all survivors who can evacuate Almost all of them were withdrawn."

"You also said almost. How about you? Come to do the mission?" Xiao Mo didn't need to look too much, just looking at the attire and equipment of these people, he could tell that they were a mercenary team.

"Yes, we have received a mission." The man in military uniform seemed hesitant to elaborate.

At this moment, another person suddenly called out in a low voice: "Did you see the bus in front? After the bus, there is a bridge, but the bridge was blown up when the last group of citizens evacuated, and the bus couldn't pass. It's the angel I met here."

"Crack!" Xue Lihong slammed on the brake again.

Xiao Mo was used to it, and when he felt the forward momentum, he immediately reached out and grabbed the handrail beside him.

It was even worse for the three people in the back, they all hit the back of the front seat.

Xiao Mo waited for the car to stop, then turned around and said helplessly: "You should have announced such important news earlier."

The three of them were wronged, they didn't want to say it earlier, didn't they have a chance?

The people inside the car were miserable, and the three people outside the car were even worse. They were almost thrown out of the car.

Everyone got out of the car, including Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong. They put some useful things in the car, mainly food and water, into their backpacks.

Xiao Mo picked up the satellite phone, saw the caller ID on it, and was about to call back, but saw the man in military uniform looking at his phone.

Satellite phones are a rarity these days, and ordinary mercenary teams don't even think about owning them.

Xiao Mo didn't want to cause trouble, and it was not suitable to make a sound at this time. Thinking about it, he quickly adjusted the sound of the incoming call to vibrate, wrapped it in a plastic bag, and stuffed the satellite phone deep into the backpack.

Seeing Xiao Mo noticing him, the man in military uniform smiled awkwardly and turned his head away.

When the other mercenaries saw that they were loading things, they avoided them on purpose, and they didn't want to cause any misunderstanding.

However, this mercenary team is secretly guessing their identities, satellite phone + coquettish off-road sports car = unusual identities?

Xiao Mo looked back at the scarred car for the last time.I can finally say goodbye to you, thank you for your hard work all the way!

The mercenary team was watched by angels near here, and no one dared to speak after getting off the car.

No one knows where the original angels came from. Some people suspect that they were once human beings and later mutated into this way, but no one has been able to catch the original angels to prove this judgment.

No one knows exactly when they appeared, it seems that by the time people find out, angels are everywhere.

After repeated bloody lessons, people finally concluded a rule, that is: Angels are extremely sensitive to sound, especially to human voices.

Angels like to eat people. Not only do they like to eat by themselves, but they also like to share their prey with their pet mutant mice.

People are afraid of angels, and they are even more afraid of mutant rats, especially mutant rats commanded by angels.

Almost without exception, in cities where angels and mutant rats appeared, they had no choice but to abandon the city and flee.Angels can still be shot with a lot of ammunition, but how can mutant mice be killed cleanly?

Moreover, there has always been a saying among the survivors that some of the people bitten by angels and mutant mice will lose their minds and develop various symptoms such as rabies. When the convulsions stop and develop into paralysis, seven of these patients will [-]% will die, and [-]% may become an angel without humanity.

Sadly, there is currently no cure for the pre-rabies-like symptoms, and there is no chance of recovery once converted into an angel.

This kind of bacteria that causes human infection and even mutation is currently called angel virus.

A group of people crossed the bus and walked to the bridge as quietly as possible.

The battle marks left here are heavier, and there are many bones everywhere, especially on the broken bridge.

From here, you can see how miserable the city H was after the war. Many high-rise buildings were emitting black smoke. Thanks to the heavy rain, the fire did not spread, but the city full of ruins in the rain looked more like a doomsday scene.

Xiao Mo wanted to ask those mercenaries if they knew the details of City H, but he couldn't ask, so he had to give up temporarily.

A tank was parked on the other side of the broken bridge, and there were several cracks on the solid and thick body!

Xiao Mo's eyes contracted. Are these cracks caused by mutant mice or angels?

Xue Lihong was also looking at the tank.

The man in military uniform raised three fingers.

Xiao Mo asked with his eyes: What do you mean?

The man in military uniform made a mouse crawling gesture, and then raised three fingers.

Xiao Mo understood, the other party was telling him that there are third-level mutant rats in City H!

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong looked at each other. The last task they had when they were upgraded from level two to level three was to hunt down the level two mutant rat king. If Xue Lihong hadn't exchanged his life with an arm, their task might have been Can't finish it.

Although the mutant mouse king is much stronger than the ordinary second-level mutant mouse, the second-level mutant mouse is the second-level, and the third-level mutant mouse is not weaker than the second-level mutant rat king. If there are three-level mutant mice in this city, there are still many. , how terrible is that?

Fortunately, his current strength is also at level three, and Xue Lihong's strength seems to be improving with his strength?

But Xue Lihong didn't say that her ability was improving, but that her actual ability was gradually brought into play.In other words, he thought that the perfect restoration of Xue Lihong was actually not perfect, at least he failed to restore Xue Lihong's true strength along with it.

Xue Lihong herself didn't really care about this.This guy seems to be calm and relaxed no matter how dangerous the situation is.