The Scavengers

After 9:25 on September 17

Cheng Zai's expression was very calm, as if he had accepted that he would die in six hours - he would not let himself become a monster like an angel.

Xiao Mo glanced at Xue Lihong, as if he was asking for advice, but in fact he had already made a decision in his heart, but he still hoped to get the consent of his partner.

He can perfectly repair damaged things, and he can restore an injured person to the best state of his body, especially trauma and bone injuries, but he is really not good at treating diseases.It is even less likely to change the genes of others.

After all, he has not mastered the repairing ability for a short time, although Xue Lihong helped him analyze: repairing repairs means being able to repair and restore.And repair is the process of removing some excess material, polishing, tidying up and even changing.

If you think in this direction, he should be able to get rid of the virus, and even restore diseased cancer cells into healthy cells.

However, he didn't have many opportunities to experiment with this before. General Qiu and Lei Bing, who knew he had this ability, seemed to have acquiesced that he would not be able to cure diseases. Experience in the disease is almost zero.

He can also recover some people when they are sick, not because he helps the other party expel the virus, but because the other party's body uses its own immunity to defeat the virus in the best state.

But angel virus is not like cold virus and tetanus, and it does not mean that your immune system can eliminate it.

"Virus detection is not 100%, you still have a 3% chance." Xue Lihong said slowly to Cheng Zai.

Xiao Mo glanced at Xue Lihong again, he wanted to try harder.He had never actually come into contact with people infected with the Angel virus before. When the virus broke out, he was doing an upgrade task.After the upgrade task was completed, he returned to Zhongshan base and received the current task, without much rest time in between.

And Cheng Zai was the first person he sincerely wanted to help him recover during this period, and he was also the first patient infected with the angel virus that he was about to come into contact with.

Xue Lihong, who had known her boss's reaction and decision for a long time, leaned against the door and thought about the benefits and possible dangers of exposing Xiao Mo's ability and saving Cheng Zai.

First of all, this Cheng Zai has a good character and a certain background, so he is worthy of being recruited. They will use this person for [-]% of their future tasks.

Secondly, although people with supernatural powers are not all over the world, they are no longer rare items. If Xiao Mo properly exposes a little ability, it may make their missions go more smoothly.

Most importantly, when there is danger, Xiao Mo's ability can guarantee that he will be one of the first people on the list to be protected.

Of course, they don't need to spread Xiao Mo's ability on a large scale, as long as certain people know about it, just like the boss of Zhongshan base, and Cheng Zai's identity is probably not simple.

Seeing Xue Lihong nodding slightly to him, Xiao Mo felt relieved, like a prisoner lifting the restraint, he immediately raised Cheng Zai's arm, "You come in, I have something to do."

"What's the matter? Brother Xiao, I've said everything I can say, but there are some things I really can't say." Cheng Zai grabbed the door frame and didn't want to come in.

Xue Lihong smoothly pushed Cheng Zai in, closed the wooden door, and stood leaning on the door with arms folded.

Cheng Zai looked at Xiao Mo with an unclear expression, he believed that these two people would never harm him at this time, "Brother Xiao?"

"Don't worry, I'm not torturing you." Xiao Mo told Cheng Zai to lie down on the bed.

Cheng Zai suddenly grabbed his collar, and said with a terrified expression, "Brother Xiao, even if you and Brother Xue saved my life, I can't do it with you, let alone a 3P!"

Xiao Mo slapped Cheng Zai on the forehead.

Cheng Zai laughed out loud.

"Stop talking nonsense and let me see the wound on your leg."

"Brother Xiao, are you a doctor?"

Xiao Mo was vague, "Yes, but I don't have a license, quack doctor."

Cheng Zai was still hesitating whether to lie on the bed or not. His coat was dirty and he didn't change. He was afraid of staining the sheets on the lower bunk.

Xiao Mo simply let Xue Lihong push him down.

Cheng Zai was startled, "Brother Xue, you are so strong!" Looking at Xiao Mo again, he understood.

The unknowingly happy straight man Xiao Mo took out an energy crystal, held the energy crystal in his left hand, put his right hand on Cheng Zai's injured leg, and closed his eyes.

Two Cheng Zai appeared in his mind, one was intact and the other was the injured Cheng Zai.

Repairing Cheng Zai's body is not difficult. Although Xiao Mo doesn't know the principle, he knows how to do it. Since he reached the third level, he can do it like an instinct.

This was the first time that he continued to check his body after repairing the injured body. Compared with the Cheng Zai in the reference picture, there was no difference between Cheng Zai and his repaired Cheng Zai.

Xue Lihong was leaning on the door with folded arms to watch, guarding the door by the way.But he saw that Xiao Mo's usual time for repairing a seriously injured patient had already passed, and the other person still had his eyes closed, and immediately bounced up and walked to his side.

He didn't move Xiao Mo, but pulled up Cheng Zai's trouser legs to have a look.

The wound has fully healed.

Cheng Zai, who had been repaired, opened his mouth wide and stared at his wrist, where a piece of flesh had been torn off by a mutant mouse, but just now, he saw that piece of flesh growing out with his own eyes. After a while, this The wound disappeared.

Other wounds... He can also feel that the pain is no longer as unbearable as before. On the contrary, it seems that there is a particularly comfortable energy flowing in his body. It is warm, very comfortable, and makes him want to close his eyes and take a good look. Get some sleep.

Seeing Xue Lihong pull up his trouser leg, he opened his mouth, wanting to express his unbelievable surprise, "Brother Xue?"

Xue Lihong put a finger on her lips, "Don't move around, Lao Xiao may be checking the angel virus in your body."

Cheng Zai immediately shut his mouth tightly, he didn't even dare to move too much, for fear of disturbing Xiao Mo.

Seeing that his posture was stiff, Xue Lihong didn't care about him. For soldiers, it's no problem to keep a fixed posture and stand under the sun for hours.

Poor Cheng Zai was just so stiff, not daring to move, even though he was extremely excited!

Xiao Mo zoomed in on the two bodies in his mind, and then he thought about looking at the cell comparison chart.

Then the reference healthy cells and Cheng Zai's current cells appeared together, as if seen through a high-power electron microscope.

I don't know if it's because he has a strong desire to see clearly. The enlarged images of the two cells seem to have been dyed in advance, and the differences between the two can be clearly seen.

He is not a doctor, nor has he studied chemistry and biology, and he cannot tell what kind of cells he is seeing now.

But he could clearly see rod-like particles swimming in the repaired Cheng Zai's cells, which looked very different from the healthy cells in the reference picture.

Is this rod-shaped particle the angel virus?

How would he drive them away?By white blood cells?Rely on human immunity?

Memories rolled over, and suddenly stopped on an open magazine.

What is written on it?

【…The effector T cells produced by human immunity can directly crush or kill the diseased cells when in contact with the host cells invaded by the virus. 】

So how can a large number of T cells be produced?

And how can these T cells be made powerful enough to kill diseased cells infected by angel virus?

Xue Lihong saw the sweat on Xiao Mo's forehead.

Cheng Zai's skin also began to turn a strange red color, as if the temperature in his body was rising.

A fever is evidence of an autoimmune system at work.

Cheng Zai's eyes were dizzy, his head tilted, and he was confused.

Xue Lihong felt that the situation was not quite right, and if this continued, before the virus in Cheng Zai's body was expelled, this kid would probably be burned into an idiot first.

"Old Xiao? Xiao Mo!" Xue Lihong's voice became softer and then louder, "Stop it, you're going to kill Cheng Zai!"

Startled, Xiao Mo opened his eyes suddenly.

Sitting on the ground, his body swayed and he almost fell.

Xue Lihong supported him.

"Oops!" Xiao Mo's face changed greatly when he saw Cheng Zai's appearance.

"What did you just do?"

"I want to improve his own immunity and let the immune cells in his body actively kill those viruses. I, did I do something wrong?" Xiao Mo was worried. If Cheng Zai was restored now, his efforts just now would be in vain. up.But if he didn't help Cheng Zai recover, when the virus in Cheng Zai's body was expelled, he would be almost finished.

Xue Lihong asked him how he improved Cheng Zai's own immunity, but Xiao Mo didn't understand it himself, so naturally he couldn't answer him, he was confused the whole time, and he was doing things entirely by instinct, and he even had a terrifying feeling—he The ability to manipulate him.

"You did the right thing." Seeing Xiao Mo's uneasiness, thinking that the other party was worried that he would kill someone instead of helping, Xue Lihong first affirmed his attempt.

"Cheng Zai only has six hours, and we still have tasks to do. If we can solve it now, we should do it now. It's better than doing nothing." And he also wanted to see how far Xiao Mo's ability could develop. . "But his body can't support it, you need to think of another way."

Xiao Mo hugged his head, "I'm not a real doctor, I don't know how to save him..."

Xue Lihong is always the calmest of the two, "You've been doing repairs, haven't you?"

Xiao Mo didn't know what he meant, so he lowered his hand and nodded blankly.

"And what about the other way around? What if instead of repairing, you destroy?"

"destroy?"

"Yes, to destroy a certain thing, such as the angel virus in the human body. If you can repair it, you must be able to destroy it, and destruction is always easier than building and repairing. If you can do this, you can be in the same body as Cheng Zai. With our own immune system working together, we may be able to kill all the angel viruses before Cheng Zai burns himself to death."

Ding!The light bulb in his head lit up, Xiao Mo cheered up instantly, and put his hand on Cheng Zai again, "Yes, you are right, I can try to destroy it."

As he thought this way, a picture reappeared in his mind, an enlarged picture of a single angel virus.

Without a reference image, how do I destroy and kill it?

Wait, repair... Since it is a repair, can I get rid of things that don't exist?

When Xiao Mo thought about repairing himself, there seemed to be invisible molecules around him rushing towards his repairing object, filling up the missing and damaged parts, so could he achieve his goal of getting rid of the virus just by doing it the other way around?

But how do you do it the other way around?

Xiao Mo was still thinking in his mind, but his body had already moved one step ahead.

When Xiao Mo came back to his senses, he suddenly found that the angel virus was disappearing!

What did I just do? !

Why did he know how to do it before he thought about how to do it?No, he still didn't know, but he did it!

Thinking about his ability again, it seems that his ability has been very good from the very beginning, and there is no process of other supernatural beings slowly upgrading from low to high.Although he is also exercising his ability, it is exercising his proficiency, not improving his ability.

At first, he thought that his ability was so powerful because of the mutation mentioned by the system, but now... he suddenly felt scared.

"System, what did you do to me?" Xiao Mo asked sharply in his head.

System: "I have done many things to you, what do you mean?"

Xiao Mo was so frank with the system, feeling powerless, "My ability?"

"Your ability is only known to you. I can only provide you with training methods suitable for you based on your physical data. However, to what extent it will develop in the future and what variation it will have is beyond my control, nor Can predict."

Xiao Mo suddenly asked: "Aside from you, who else is in my body?"

System: "...Do you notice that there are other conscious bodies? I can help you with a complete body scan. Wait a moment."

The system began to scan the host's body without waiting for Xiao Mo's consent.There are other consciousnesses in the body of the host, but it doesn't realize it. This is simply the biggest shame in the system world of the same type for it.

Xiao Mo closed his eyes, he now instinctively knew that he needed energy, more, a lot of energy!

Time passed bit by bit, Xue Lihong looked down at her watch, they had already missed dinner time.

When Cheng Zai woke up again, it was as if he was fished out of the water.

Xiao Mo sat on the edge of the bed leaning against Xuelihong's arms, he was so tired that he couldn't even stand up.

"Brother Xiao!" Cheng Zai sat up abruptly. Although he was covered in sweat, he felt extremely relaxed.

"Congratulations, you are the 3%." Xiao Mo said weakly.

Cheng Zai got off the bed in disbelief and took two steps. His injured leg healed, and all the wounds on his body disappeared, and...

"Am I that 3%? Brother Xiao, you mean... I'm fine? I'm not infected with the angel virus?"

Xiao Mo nodded with difficulty.He consumed too much, and the energy crystals could not allow him to recover quickly.

"Cool!" Cheng Zai squatted down suddenly, grasped Xiao Mo's hand, and said affectionately: "Brother Xiao, do you want a threesome?"

"Get lost!" Xiao Mo scolded with a smile.

Xue Lihong poked Cheng Zai over with a finger. Although this kid wanted to poach his corner just like Lei Bing, his force value was too low to pose a threat at all.

Cheng Zai got up and sat directly on the ground, with a crooked smile on his lips, but his eyes were red, "I never knew I would be so lucky."

He didn't believe that he was the lucky 3%, but he believed that he was very lucky to meet a miracle doctor, and then the miracle doctor healed his injury and expelled the angel virus from his body.

"But I will tell others that I am the lucky 3%." Cheng Zai did not ask Xiao Mo to treat other people infected by the angel virus. Recovering him or expelling the angel virus is not an easy task.

"Then why don't you wrap up your wound for a few more days and pretend to be crippled for a while." Xue Lihong asked.

"Okay." Cheng Zai agreed.Don't say thanks for your kindness, so he didn't say much.

Cheng Zai left, and Xiao Mo fell on the bed. It was the first time he used the opposite ability of restoration, his body seemed to be hollowed out, and his head ached.And the system has not responded to him yet.

Xue Lihong took out the energy crystal to restore him.

After Xiao Mo recovered, he hesitated to speak.

Xue Lihong could tell what he was thinking at a glance, "Do you want to save those infected by the angel virus?"

"...I know it's more important to find the original virus."

"Very good, don't forget that it took you two and a half hours and three first-level energy crystals to save Cheng Zai just now, and we are not rich in time and energy crystals."

"You're right, find the original virus and give it to the right person, and when a vaccine is developed, more people can be saved."

Xiao Mo himself knows this truth, but every time he encounters the question of whether to save a person or a train of people, he can't help hesitating, and this time, "There are children among those infected people, now save them." Still in time..."

Seeing Xue Lihong's expression, Xiao Mo dared not speak further.

Xue Lihong's expression was cold, "This is not the Zhongshan base, and the person in charge here is not Qiu Feng, and even Qiu Feng doesn't know your abilities very well, he just thought you knew how to repair and have healing abilities, that's all, he still He often asks you to give free treatment to his soldiers, if you let him know..."

Xiao Mo said awkwardly: "It's not free treatment..."

She was interrupted by Xue Lihong before she finished speaking: "If you let him know that you can get rid of and destroy the angel virus, you will never want to leave the Zhongshan base, and the military and the government will keep you under guard. Yes, then Sometimes your life may not be in danger, and from a cherishing point of view, no one will forcibly take you away for anatomical research, but you must donate blood, spinal fluid, and maybe brain cells for human research every day. You have to be called to cooperate with some experiments every three days, and you will never be free again, are you willing to do this?"

Of course Xiao Mo was unwilling, he was even more afraid of such a life.

"So you can't let others know that you can get rid of the angel virus, any virus that can't be solved publicly now! You can perform individual actions, but you must not publicize it."

"The reason why I agreed to allow you to treat Cheng Zai is to use him as an experiment to see if you can do it, so that when someone close to us is infected with the angel virus, you will not have no treatment experience at all. The second point , and the most important point, although we have not been together for a long time with Cheng Zai, we have experienced life and death together, and that kid told us by his behavior that this person is worthy of trust."

After a pause, Xue Lihong continued: "If Cheng Zai asked you to treat other people just now, or if you were a little bit greedy for your ability, I would not let him out of this room."

Xiao Mo's face was full of confusion, he closed his mouth when he wanted to say something.

Xue Lihong said bluntly: "Kindness is a good thing, but excess kindness will not only kill yourself, but also implicate me and your family. If your ability is exposed and someone wants to imprison you, even if I can Save you to leave, but if your family is controlled and threatens you to surrender, will you go?

And some crazy researchers can't get you to do research, maybe they will arrest your immediate family members to study their genes. After all, you are connected by blood. If you can have such an ability, they will think, then your immediate family members' genes should also have this capability. "

Xiao Mo's face turned pale, but his voice was still steady, "I just can't get over the hurdle of my conscience. I can save people but turn a blind eye. But I'm not stupid enough to put you and my family in danger. .I know, I just..."

"How many farts do you have! If you had numbers, you wouldn't have saved people in such a dangerous situation before. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't even be able to enter the second door now. Don't trouble me, Old Xiao."

"Saving people at that time was different from what I want to do now to save those infected by the angel virus. At that time, I did it without thinking too much because I knew you could save us both, but now I just think about it."

Xiao Mo covered his face, "I'm shameless, right? Not only do I rely on you, but I also need you to tell me no, so that I can have a reason to tell myself that it's not that I don't want to go, but because of the consequences of going. I can't bear it, because I will implicate you and my family..."

Looking at the gloomy mess on the bed, Xue Lihong suddenly felt uncomfortable.He had a hunch that if he didn't say something at this time, this person might be stuck in a dead end and couldn't get out.

Based on his understanding of this person, if this person is allowed to carry so many negative emotions, this person is likely to undergo two extreme changes: one is that this person simply smashes the pot and completely dedicates himself.The other is to completely close one's heart and turn oneself into the most indifferent and selfish person.

And these two changes, no matter which one, Xue Lihong didn't want to see.

It is really troublesome to be an employee, and you have to adjust the psychological state of the boss at any time.

Xue Lihong was very helpless, she sat down on the side of the bed, covered the man's hair with her big hands, and rubbed it casually as if venting her anger, "I know what kind of person you are, no one can be perfect, it's good that you are like this, If I think I can't let you do it, I will stop you. And if you have any ideas, you can tell me, we can discuss it. So, be yourself, don't think too much, because I will be your brake."

After Xiao Mo heard this simple passage, it is no exaggeration to say that he really felt a crazy sense of relief as the shackles on his neck shattered and fell to the ground. At this moment, he had never been so grateful to God for sending Xuelihong to beside him.

"Thank you! I'm sorry!" Thank you for pampering me so much, I'm sorry for dragging you down and asking you to help me make the most difficult decision.I won't go on like this, please give me a little more time.

Xiao Mo no longer knew how to express his feelings and gratitude to Xue Lihong, he even smiled, "The brakes sometimes fail, what if you can't stop me?"

Xue Lihong snorted coldly: "I will knock you unconscious!"

"Little Red,"

"Ok?"

"It's good to have you by my side."

"You can make a promise with your body, and I will satisfy you from heart to body."

Xiao Mo thought that this person was deliberately joking to enlighten himself, and also joked: "We will discuss this matter later."

Then, at night, Cheng Zai asked someone to bring them a big package.

The bag contained food, two bottles of body oil, several large boxes of fruit-flavored condoms, and two pistols with twelve rounds each.

Xiao Mo: "..."

"Cheng Zai said that he will arrange a good job for you, so don't rush to find it yet." The soldier who came to deliver the things explained sternly.

"Thank you." Xiao Mo stuffed two small packets of beef jerky for Da Bing.

The soldier didn't want it. Although his eyes struggled a little, he still resolutely left empty-handed.

Xue Lihong closed the door, checked the things one by one, and threw a box of condoms to Xiao Mo, "All sizes can only be used by you, I use them, they are too small."

He put away the lubricating oil himself, and Lao Xiaogang promised him to let him use it in the future. This thing is a must have as an important prop.

"Brother, please don't hit your boss's masculinity casually, be careful of being put on small shoes." Xiao Mo's face was full of black lines, and he threw the condom back with a serious face: "I don't need this thing now, put it away and take it back to the base Other materials can be exchanged. Now let’s study the route of the mission target and see how to get there.”

Xue Lihong asked Xiao Mo to draw the route for him to see.

Xiao Mo simply drew the overall floor plan of the underground air-raid shelter that appeared in his mind in his notebook, but it was relatively simple and many places were omitted.

Xue Lihong stared, "This is not an ordinary air-raid shelter, this is an underground air-raid center. I wonder why the defenses here are so strict, and the underground buildings are built so firmly and so deep. It turns out...we have seen so far The site should belong to the front position of the air defense center, and the lower part is the main body of the entire building."

"Tsk, we won't come to some military important place, right?" Xiao Mo was also surprised when he saw the picture he had drawn.The entire underground building, not counting the passages and halls they came in, is like a curved concave shape, and they are now located in the front half of that notch.

"Do you remember what I said? There is an aerospace material research base here."

"You mean?"

"I suspect that the main underground building at the rear is the real key point of the aerospace material research base." There was a slight excitement and plunder in Xue Lihong's eyes, he had been coveting some materials for a long time.

Xiao Mo marked the route map given by the system with a red pen, "It suggested that we go to the right, but we can also go to the left. There is an elevator on the left and right to directly connect to the main building behind."

Xue Lihong quickly calculated in her mind, "There are soldiers guarding on the right, and the barracks on the left. We have to pass through them if we want to get in. Change the road and walk through our passage. You see, the opposite of the wall of this room in the depths ahead is The passage on the right, just going out is the elevator we are going to."

"The elevator must be guarded."

"Go and have a look first. The system only provides the fastest path, not the safest one. We have to step on the spot first. Then you mark the power supply rooms everywhere, especially the underground main building."

Xiao Mo is engaged in recycling and repairing, so the electric boxes and energy pipelines marked on the floor plan are obvious at a glance, and they are all marked on the simple map.

"The power supply of the underground main building seems to be an independent system. Is this the basement?"

"Not counting the basement, just for plumbing, this room is half as deep as other rooms on the same floor."

Xue Lihong carefully wrote down these points, and seeing Xiao Mo's face seemed a little tired, she immediately asked him: "Can you hold on? How about tomorrow...?"

"No need." Xiao Mo raised his arm, expressing that he still has the strength to spare.In fact, he was very tired, and he wanted to lie down on the bed and close his eyes to rest. Energy crystals can supplement energy, but they cannot replace sleep.But the task time limit was like a sharp sword hanging over his head, he couldn't even find a feasible route to the target location, and he couldn't sleep well even if he lay down.

"Don't force yourself."

"Not reluctantly."

Xue Lihong, who was walking outside, did not see the momentary hesitation on Xiao Mo's face—the system has not given him any reply about checking whether there are other conscious bodies.