The Scavengers

September 9th, 25:2pm-4:[-]pm

14:40 pm.

A manhole cover was pushed open, and the man in military uniform poked his head out, looked around, and made sure there was no problem, so he quickly climbed out.

After this person, seven people climbed out of the inspection well one after another, and the last one who came out carefully put the inspection well cover back on.

Everyone didn't smell very good. Fortunately, it was still raining outside, and the amount of rain was not small. After being washed for a while, the stench faded away.

The team leader Zhang Di and Zhang Jian who led the way walked in the front, with Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong behind.

The city is extremely quiet. After entering the city, the traces left by the war are more obvious. On the wall, on the road, on the car... Almost everywhere you can see the traces of bullet holes and bombings. The traces of high-rise buildings are heavier. , the more shell casings rolled to the ground.

Abandoned vehicles are everywhere in the city, and there are also many armored vehicles and tanks left in the city. These vehicles have obvious scratches and cracks.It's good that tanks have tracks, but the tires of vehicles like armored vehicles will be attacked by mutant rats first.The mutant rats don't know to attack the tires, but the angel does.

Flames are still burning inside some buildings, and black smoke is billowing.The doors and glass windows of shops on the side of the road were all smashed or shattered. Occasionally, human skeletons were seen, but not a complete human body.

The meat on each skeleton was gnawed clean, and when one was picked up, one could clearly see the dense tooth marks on it.

Xiao Mo picked up a white leaflet on the ground, which indeed stated matters such as bombing, and "17 o'clock" was enlarged and marked in red, which was very conspicuous.

In addition, there are instructions for this morning's assault and the location of the shelter.

The flyer stated that there were two shelters, one was on the west side, in the direction they came from, but unfortunately the bridge across the river had been blown up, so the other shelter, the East Food Bureau, became the only one for the survivors in the city. s Choice.

It also said that the shelters are not particularly safe, calling for capable people to stay away from City H as much as possible, instead of choosing two shelters close to City H.

When Xiao Mo saw this sentence, he felt a little strange, the shelter was already out of the explosion range, why did he still say it was not safe?But he was in a hurry and didn't think about it.

There were eight people in a group, and everyone walked very lightly. They used hand gestures to communicate when they had something to say, and they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

When a group of people ran past an office building, three people rushed out of it. The three people were very excited, but they didn't dare to shout, and only chased the eight people.

When Xiao Mo turned his head, someone caught up with them and showed him a smile that almost made him cry.

This is probably the third remaining survivor who has not been evacuated so far, and I don't know why these people have not left City H until now.

Seeing Zhang Di and others, these remaining survivors thought that the army had come to rescue them, and they were so excited that they were dying.

But this is not the time to explain, anyway, running with them is better than waiting to die, maybe these people think so in their hearts.

Xiao Mo was busy, and made a gesture of shutting his mouth tightly to the three people.

The three nodded desperately.

Zhang Di only looked back, ignoring the three who followed.

Half an hour later, the group arrived in front of Qianrui Building in the city center.

At this time, the number of people has changed from the initial eight to the early 20s.

Xiao Mo looked up at the huge billboard hanging outside the building, on which were printed several beauties with enchanting figures, and the big golden characters were so conspicuous even on rainy days: Radiance Plastic Surgery Hospital.

Someone upstairs seemed to be waving at them, Xiao Mo was about to squint his eyes to take a closer look when Xue Lihong gently pushed him from behind.

Xiao Mo didn't delay any longer, and followed the lantern mercenary team into the lobby of the building.

Seeing Xiao Mo and others entering Qianrui Building, the dozen or so people who followed thought it was a break, so they also rushed into the building.

The glass door of the hall closed, "Huh!" Most of the people who ran in were relieved at the same time.

Xiao Mo wiped off the rain on his face, raised his wrist to check the time, it was already 15:12, less than two hours before 17:[-].

The team that originally only had the sound of running and panting did not dare to make other sounds until this time.

Zhang Di waved his hand, Zhang Jian and others immediately scattered to check the hall for any danger.

Qianrui Building is an office building specially used for renting. The reception desk is at the entrance of the lobby on the first floor, and the other areas are divided into several restaurants and a convenience supermarket. The second floor and above are mostly the offices of various companies.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong stood in a relatively loose back-to-back posture intentionally or unintentionally, and the two quickly scanned the hall, looking for the safe exit and the relatively concealed and easy-to-hide position immediately.

Someone came towards Zhang Di in military uniform, Weiyu smiled a little, as if he wanted to strike up a conversation with him.

Zhang Di didn't wait for the other party to speak, and dispelled most of these people's hopes with one sentence: "We are not soldiers, but mercenaries. We are here to rescue the mission target. You follow us, we will not expel you, but you must keep quiet all the way , you can’t make trouble for us, and we won’t be responsible for your safety.”

Hearing this passage, someone collapsed on the spot, covering their faces and whimpering.

But most people had a sense of determination that "I can't leave again unless I take this opportunity". Some people boldly asked Zhang Di how long they would stay here.

Zhang Di replied: "At most half an hour."

Those people immediately slumped to the ground when they heard the words, some drank water, some ate, and half an hour was enough for them to take a good rest.Some people rested, and many people ran to the supermarket and restaurants on the first floor.

Xiao Mo glanced at this group of people, they were all young and strong, there was no old man or child, the youngest was seventeen or eighteen years old, and the oldest was no more than fifty.

He thought, it's not that there are no old and weak hiding in this city, but even if they see soldiers, they don't dare to run out casually when they only see a few of them. own home.

These people who followed into the building comforted each other and asked each other why they hadn't escaped until now.

Xiao Mo listened carefully, and some said that they were separated from their relatives, friends or lovers, and wanted to find them, which was delayed till now; But now there are quite a few people who don't want to die anymore.

The above reasons are relatively normal, and two of them have the most bizarre reasons.

One person said that in order to protect the company's property until the last moment, well, looking at the face of this person, he is also a very serious and responsible person who is a bit pedantic.

One person said that he slept so deeply that he didn't know about the leaflet distribution in the morning. When he heard the drone's broadcast, he thought it was a dream. Later, when fighter jets came to attack the angels in the morning, he was too scared to come out. He didn't go out until just now. I saw the content of the leaflet when I was looking for something to eat, and then ran quickly, and finally saw them.

Xiao Mo suspects that some of these people are taking advantage of the situation to rob. Maybe they have robbed too many things and are reluctant to leave like this. Such people always want to get more, and the result of their growing greed is that they are stuck until now.However, there were quite a few people with a lot of backpacks, and he couldn't tell which of these people was the more dangerous looter.

"Did Qiu Feng call?" Xue Lihong asked him, he saw that Xiao Mo wanted to call back.

"By the way! I almost forgot if you didn't mention it." Xiao Mo quickly turned around and asked Xue Lihong to take out the satellite phone from the backpack.

Xue Lihong didn't want the people in the hall to see that they had satellite phones, so she dragged Xiao Mo to a secluded place, and then found out the satellite phone to call back.

Zhang Di walked in front of Xiao Mo, he originally wanted to issue a command directly, but suddenly changed: "Is that a satellite phone?" He couldn't hide his envy.

Xiao Mo didn't answer directly, but instead asked him: "What's the arrangement?"

Zhang Di re-evaluated the value of the two of them in his heart. At this time, there are only a handful of people who can have a satellite phone and can still get through, except for the military and the government.

"It's safer inside the building. Let's go upstairs to find someone. You stay on the first floor. It would be better if you can find some water in the supermarket."

Xiao Mo agrees, it's not that Zhang Di is so generous that he can sell the whole supermarket, but that the convenience supermarket can see from them that there is basically nothing in it except the shelves.

"At that time, we will gather here, and we will contact you through the walkie-talkie."

Zhang Di raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "At most half an hour, no matter whether we can find the mission target or not, we will come down on time."

Xiao Mo checked the time with him, "Okay, see you in half an hour!"

Zhang Di glanced at Xue Lihong who was on the phone in a hidden place, and led him upstairs.

When Xue Lihong came back, the satellite phone had already been put into his backpack.

Xiao Mo also felt that it would be safer to leave the phone with him, "Is it General Qiu?"

"Well, he also knows that City H is about to be completely bombed, so let's evacuate quickly."

Xiao Mo was curious, "How did you answer him?"

Xue Lihong leaned on him, "I said that we have entered City H and saw the leaflets, and we are fleeing. General Qiu is very sad, and he suggested that we find a bicycle."

"Haha." Xiao Mole pulled Xue Lihong down to sit down and took a break, "What else did General Qiu say?"

Xue Lihong leaned over and whispered something in his ear.

Xiao Mo was startled, "The superiors actually agreed?"

Xue Lihong shrugged, "It's not a nuclear weapon, why don't you agree? Those mutant mice are not easy to destroy."

"Fuck!" Xiao Mo whispered: "Then we really have to run faster, I don't know if I have the ability to recover when you and I have turned into a pool of black water."

Xue Lihong smiled lowly.

"I don't know where I can get protective clothing." Xiao Mo shook his head, "Forget it, I don't think so much. The emperor eats a lot, no matter what, let's fill my stomach first."

Immediately, he took out a lunch box, took out two salted duck eggs, and handed a pack of compressed biscuits to the young man beside him.

Xue Lihong disliked this combination, "I don't want to eat compressed biscuits, I saw you have hidden beef jerky."

"There's not much beef jerky, so keep it. This pack of biscuits has been opened. It's hot, so finish it quickly." Xiao Mo himself took a piece of compressed biscuit and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Maybe we will be killed, and it's useless to keep the beef jerky."

The corner of Xiao Mo's mouth twitched, he peeled off the shell of the duck egg, and gave the two whole egg yolks to the young man, "Eat it!"

But Xue Lihong raised the corner of her mouth and said, "I prefer egg whites."

Xiao Mo ate all the two egg whites and threw him a pack of beef jerky.

Xue Lihong ate two red, oily and fragrant egg yolks, and was unpacking the beef jerky when she heard a commotion from the stairs on the left.

They didn't wait for half an hour. In fact, not long after Zhang Di and the others went upstairs, they saw people rushing down from upstairs, and their mission targets were also among those people.

Because of the mutated rats, none of the survivors dared to stay downstairs, and all stayed above the fifth floor.When Zhang Di and the others ran over, these survivors who dared not run out by themselves and could only wait for rescue had already seen them.

Xiao Mo patted Xue Lihong, drank his saliva, quickly packed up and stood up.

Xue Lihong took two pieces of beef jerky, opened her mouth wide, stuffed them in and chewed slowly, then wrapped up the rest and stuffed them into Xiao Mo's backpack.

Xiao Mo wondered how he could stuff two big pieces of beef jerky in his mouth and still make his teeth move.

Zhang Di stood in the hall and shouted to the survivors who ran down together: "Who is Ni Wei? Yang Kangping? Li Yong? Feng Lan? Gong Yangling? We are the light mercenary team. Your family hired us to take you out of the city." .”

"Me! We!" Several young people rushed forward.

"I'm Ni Wei, did my cousin send you here?" A man with a huge travel bag rushed up to Zhang Di and whispered.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong noticed at the same time that this man was surrounded by two men and two women. All five of them were carrying a bag on their backs, and they were holding bows and arrows and other weapons.

All five of them had weeping expressions on their faces.

There are five mission targets, one is quite a few. Although they look a bit haggard and have some injuries on their bodies, they are young and not very hungry. It seems that they still have the strength to run along.

Xue Lihong looked the five of them up and down, outdoor training club?The equipment is okay.

Xiao Mo was more curious about the reason why these five people were stranded in the city. If their parents had the ability to contact mercenaries to pick them up at this time, why didn't they come to rescue them when they could still escape?And these five youths are all good at hands and feet, why didn't they evacuate with the main force?

Zhang Di nodded, "Everyone is here, let's set off right away."

Ni Wei shouted urgently: "Let's go! Get out of the city quickly! If you don't come, we will leave too."

Xiao Mo suddenly asked: "Why did you five delay until now?"

Ni Wei looked at him, and the other four also looked at him.

Xiao Mo shrugged, "I just don't want any problems on the way."

Seeing that Zhang Di didn't stop him, Ni Wei said with an ugly face: "It's nothing, just a little delay for personal matters."

The other four people had different expressions, some were mocking, some were sneering, some were bowing their heads, and some were biting their lips.

Xiao Mo withdrew his gaze, "Is it all resolved now?"

"Yes!" Ni Wei glared at Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo turned his head and smiled at Zhang Di, expressing that he was fine.He still doesn't know the real reason why these people stayed, but he has already seen that there is definitely emotional dispute between these five people.

Zhang Di frowned. He only hoped that the five young men would give him a wink in the process of escaping, and not make trouble for him, otherwise...

Afterwards, Zhang Di, who was more cautious, simply verified the identities of the five people again based on the photos provided by the employer.

Those five people were more anxious than Zhang Di, and Ni Wei kept urging Zhang Di to leave quickly.

The eagerness of the five young people also infected others. All the people who were resting in the hall stood up, and those who went to search the supermarkets and restaurants also came back.

"Okay, let's go now!"

Zhang Di didn't delay too much, and after verifying the target was correct, he immediately handed over the five players to his team members in a one-on-one manner.

"Quick, quick! If you don't want to die, move now! If you can't run, you have to run! Remember, no noise is allowed. Those who scream when they see mice first use things to block their mouths, and everyone takes weapons. , try to reduce the load, pots and pans and other things that can make noise are not allowed! Remember! Only you can save yourself, don't expect others to come back to save you! Including you!"

Zhang Di turned his head and said mercilessly to the five men and women: "If you do anything that drags down the entire team, I don't care if you are the mission target or not. If you need to give up, I will give up! We protect you, but not yours. nanny!"

A trace of disgust and impatience flashed across Ni Wei's face, and the other four had unhappy expressions, but they wisely did not object.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong were at a disadvantage as outsiders, and each was assigned a girl to protect them. This may be a happy thing in normal times. After all, the two girls are very beautiful, but when they were running for their lives... But neither of them said anything. What.

The heavy rain turned to light.

Nearly thirty people of different dresses and ages, led by a few strong men, walked through the abandoned city quickly but very quietly with their bodies half bent.

Not long after they came out of Qianrui Building, a few more people were added to their staff.

Later, when walking through the city, I don't know whether it was Zhang Di's military uniform that played a role, or because of the large number of them, more and more people ran out.

Even you can't imagine that there are so many remaining survivors in this city that has been devastated by war once!

Xiao Mo raised his head and looked up at the sky worriedly. Just now, they had encountered no less than one angel along the way. When the rain stopped completely, there might be more angels coming out to look for food.As for the people who ran out from various hiding places, some of them followed them, and some of them alarmed the angel and failed to hide, so they were captured by the angel.

Xiao Mo was carrying a military backpack, and a tool belt was tied around his waist. Various portable tools were hung or inserted on the belt, and he followed the two young girls with a fire ax in his hand.

Beside him is the extremely thin Xue Lihong who looks like he has just recovered from a long illness.

Xue Lihong was equipped with a modified nail gun in his right hand, except for his backpack that he never left when he went out.

The two girls and the person in front of them were already out of breath, but they were still running hard.

"Shua!" The snow-white wings flew across the sky, and the rain stopped at some point.The angels probably heard the sound or smelled the smell, and they were looking for the escaped food all over the city.

Xue Lihong's body fell down, and before she got down, she dragged the girl on the right with the hammer down, kicked her into the bottom of the car, and rolled herself into the belly of the car on the other side.

The girl was so angry that she gave Xue Lihong the middle finger.

Xue Lihong was expressionless.

Xiao Mo's reaction was not slow either. The backpack on his body made it difficult for him to get under the car. Seeing that there were two cars that were very close nearby, he immediately pushed the bow-wielding girl on the left to the middle of the two cars. He also rushed over, lay down on the girl again, and then remained motionless, like a dead person.

The girl smelled the smell of sweat coming from the man, and endured it, not daring to move.

Some of the people running in front quickly found a place to hide when they heard the sound of wings flapping, but some people didn't react at all.

Fortunately, no one spoke.

Someone wanted to yell, but the quick-response person rushed over and covered his mouth, and then dragged him down.No matter how anxious someone is, they will only rush out to help knock down or drag those who are too late to react into a hiding place. During this process, everyone is trying their best not to make a loud noise.

"Shua Shua!" The sound of flapping wings faded away.

Xiao Mo slowly turned his head to look at the sky, but he didn't see anything, but he still waited for a long time until the girl pushed him hard, and then he got up.

The girl gave him a blank stare, as if thinking that he was deliberately taking advantage of her.

The corner of Xiao Mo's mouth twitched, and he ignored her.

Under the car, in the shadows... Human figures appeared one after another in places where people could hide.

Zhang Di, who took the lead, turned his head and gestured for everyone to move on.

Xiao Mo tightened his backpack, and was about to keep up with the large army when Xue Lihong, who was leaning against the car, grabbed his wrist.

Xiao Mo mouth-shaped: What?

Xue Lihong pointed to the sky, then pointed to the person running in front, waved her hand, and made a powerful cutting gesture.

Xiao Mo couldn't understand what he meant, and mouthed again: We didn't go the wrong way.

Xue Lihong shook her head.

In front, the two girls assigned to protect them turned their heads and stared at them, waving at them desperately, urging them to follow.

Xue Lihong couldn't say anything more, so she patted Xiao Mo and continued on her way.

The system said: "I suggest you give up the current mission immediately. You see, that bastard also regretted it."

Xiao Mo sighed in his mind: "Shut up, Your Majesty!"

The number of people is increasing little by little, and the destination is still some distance away, but the danger of exposure is getting bigger and bigger.

Xue Lihong wanted Xiao Mo to give up this mission and take another detour, but thought that if those people ran to the destination smoothly, the two of them would meet up because they violated their promise halfway, and there would be trouble. As far as abandoning the nature of the task, he can only choose to continue to perform this task.

Xiao Mo is not afraid of getting lost, he always has a map in his mind, if he is not worried about being seen, he can run faster than Zhang Di.Zhang Di occasionally needs to stop and check the map to avoid making mistakes, so he has no such worries at all.

There are too many abandoned vehicles on the road, and some roads can be tightly blocked even if they have four lanes. The large population and large number of vehicles in big cities can be regarded as a major feature of China.

Xiao Mo's footsteps paused slightly, and he saw someone in a building ahead waving to them again.

Those people were not far away from them, at most 100 meters, but they were at least six floors above, and they could only run down by themselves if they wanted to keep up with their team without shouting.

But by the time they ran down from the sixth floor, they would have probably run across the street at their current speed.

Xiao Mo looked forward, he didn't know if the people in front had seen the people in that building, but none of the people in front stopped.

Xiao Mo chased after Xue Lihong, patted his arm, and pointed to the building.

Xue Lihong glanced at it, and her steps were not slow.

Xiao Mo didn't dare to ask the people in front to stop and wait for those people, everyone was racing against time.

Now I just hope that those people can run down as soon as possible and catch up with them, just like the people who saw them run out before and are now running with them.

Xiao Mo ran past the building, and he saw someone rushing out of the building.

Xiao Mo!Someone was lip-synching at Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo seemed to feel something and turned around.

Old Wu!

Xiao Mo saw an acquaintance, and it turned out to be Wu Wufan, the chef of his elder brother's sister-in-law's shop.