The Scavengers

Early morning of February 6

23:45 that night.

Xue Lihong got up from the bed suddenly, he heard a faint groan coming from the next door.

...Is that man sick too?

"Ding, the time limit for the recycling mission has arrived. Xiao Mo, the scavenger, failed to complete the first recycling mission. The progress of the mission is zero. The system judges to impose a three-level punishment."

"Hmm!" Xiao Mo wanted to ask, but the pain had already taken away all his attention.

This kind of thing seems to be gnawing deep in the bone, and it seems that there is great pressure expanding inside the bone, and at the same time, the surface of the bone is being crushed with a file... Indescribable neuralgia spread all over his body in an instant.

He has always felt that moaning in pain is a bit exaggerated, and screaming in pain is even more unimaginable, because he has never suffered this crime.

now……

When the first moan came out of his mouth, he couldn't stop the mouthpiece from going against his will, let alone control the moan later, he didn't even know what he was doing.

Wave after wave of intense pain completely overwhelmed him.

Xue Lihong opened the door with her small backpack on her back, and pressed the switch of the sheepskin light on the roof.

The room was suddenly enveloped in warm light, and the man curled up in a ball on the bed could be clearly seen.

The thin blanket that had been covering the man had already fallen under the bed.

The man made a guttural sound like a trapped animal, his hands hugged his shoulders tightly, his legs curled up to his chest, and his whole body twitched at an irregular frequency.

The air-conditioning in the room was very strong, but the man was sweating like water, and the cowhide mat under his body reflected a circle of clear water marks.

Xue Lihong walked to the bed, he didn't speak, and didn't touch the man, just observed silently.

suddenly!The man hugged his head, let out a piercing scream, his body bounced away suddenly, and his upper body was thrown back to an unbelievable degree.

Xue Lihong's eyes widened.

Does this guy do gymnastics?But even a gymnast's body can't be so soft, right?

In fact, rather than saying that this person's body is soft, it is better to say that his spine is broken from the lower back. Only in this way can this person's current posture be explained.

Xiao Mo felt that all the bones in his body must have been broken, and they were crushed into powder.

The great sense of air pressure was transferred from the depths of the bones to the flesh and blood.

Xiao Mo even heard the sound of his own blood vessels and skin exploding.

"Poof! Pop!"

Xue Lihong saw a flower of blood explode somewhere on the body of the man who was only wearing boxer shorts.

This is just the beginning.

"Puff puff puff puff puff puff!" The slight cracking sound kept ringing.

The man's body was quickly covered with blood, and he became a blood man in a short while.

Xiao Mo let go of his head, and started beating the center of his eyebrows with his fingers and fists.

pain!Brain pain.

This kind of pain is not like being cut with a knife, nor like being drilled with a drill, but the infinite magnification of the strange piercing feeling that you feel when you focus your energy on pointing your fingertips and other objects at the center of your eyebrows.

The mobile phone on the bedside table rang suddenly, but no one was bothered to answer the phone at this time.

The phone rang for a while and fell silent, but it rang again less than ten seconds later.

"Ugh! Ahhh!"

Xiao Mo straightened up suddenly, and slammed his head against the wall.

"null!"

Xue Lihong didn't hold back the man, and felt her head throbbing when she heard the sound.

The blood overflowed from the man's forehead, not much, but the rapidly red and swollen area was enough to show how much effort the man had just exerted.

Xiao Mo wanted to bang his head against the wall, but Xue Lihong hurriedly climbed onto the bed and hugged him tightly.

But the man was so strong that he took the child and slammed into the wall together.

At the critical moment, Xue Lihong had no choice but to take out something from the backpack with her backhand, and stabbed it into the man's neck quickly and accurately.

"嗤——" The liquid in the tube was released.

"Ding! It was found that an unknown liquid invaded the body of the scavengers, and the composition of the unknown liquid was analyzed..."

Xue Lihong pulled out the empty semi-metal pipe, and Xiao Mo immediately fell backwards in a relaxed manner, and pressed the child under him by the way.

Xue Lihong pursed her lips, pushed away the man's heavy body, and crawled out from under him.Touch the man's breath, it's okay, he's still breathing, and it's very stable.Then he casually grabbed the flickering mobile phone on the bedside table and looked at it, only to see the word "An Jie" on the caller display.

Not to mention that Deng Anjie on the other end was holding the phone anxiously, and kept asking Brother Xiao Mo, "Why doesn't the second child answer the phone, is what the TV said true?", and urged Xiao Wen to drive to the south of the city to see the situation .

Besides, Xue Lihong didn't know the internal condition of Xiao Mo's body, and Xiao Mo didn't know what Xue Lihong did to him.He only knew that just now he suddenly became speechless and unable to move his hands, and his eyes were so anxious that they kept rolling under his eyelids.

There is no other pain to cover the abnormal feeling between the eyebrows, and the abnormality between the eyebrows becomes more obvious and intense.

This abnormal feeling, which is completely different from pain, made him feel a thousand times more uncomfortable than pain.

If he could yell, at this time he must be known to the whole world.

If he could move, he must have unscrewed his own head, or split it in half.

Something seemed to condense between the eyebrows, and nothingness turned into a substance. Xiao Mo couldn't bear it anymore, and couldn't faint. He could only think about some messy things to try to distract his attention.

Thinking about it, he thought of the business he was most familiar with - resource recycling.

So he started the process of recycling various resources repeatedly in his mind.

Drag the TV back, check the fuselage, disassemble and check the picture tube, check the input and output power supply and other common equipment.Take out the broken part and replace it with a usable one, and tighten it if it is loose.

If it is too bad, they will be dismantled, and the usable resources will be stored in different categories, and the rest will be sent to the garbage dump for final incineration.

All kinds of TVs are processed in the brain, followed by various washing machines, and then refrigerators, induction cookers, microwave ovens...

Household appliances are finished, and then computers are replaced.

After household use is agricultural tools, and then toys, sports equipment...even the process of disposing of used vehicles all appear in the mind.

Not to mention, this method of distraction seemed to really work, at least the area between his brows was no longer so painful.

And it's amazing, the process of dealing with waste in my mind is much clearer than before, it feels like watching a clear and well-organized teaching video, every detail and nuance of processing is clearly explained Presented in front of his eyes, even some processing processes that he didn't understand before became no longer difficult to understand.

What pleased him most was that even some book knowledge and various related DVD contents that he once read and forgot were clearly presented in his mind afterwards.

Oh, is this dreaming?He actually saw in his mind the complete encyclopedia of mechanical foundations that he had read, as well as chemistry, physics, electronics... Finally, even the engine principle he had read recently also appeared.

It's not surprising to see this knowledge, but the most surprising thing is that he... seems to understand everything?

"Ding, the system analysis is complete. The virus in the scavenger's body is successfully combined with the unknown liquid that contains a large amount of essential nutrients for the human body and components for improving the mental body. The body and spirit of the scavenger begin to evolve by themselves, and the evolution direction is being analyzed."

Xiao Mo... He heard it very clearly this time, but he passed out after hearing it.

Xue Lihong tilted her head to look at the distorted expression on the man's face, and various guesses popped up in her mind.

At the same time when Xiao Mo fell ill, with Xinxin Jiayuan as the center, a large number of residents in nearby Shannan Jiayuan, Laozhen, Zhougang Village and other places fell ill and collapsed.

At the time, these people were either watching TV, surfing the Internet, or sleeping.

The male owner of Xiao Mo's family downstairs suddenly started scratching his skin while playing games online, the more he scratched, the harder he scratched until his skin was torn and his flesh was rotten and he couldn't stop.His wife screamed in the bedroom, and his elementary school daughter saw her mother rolling on the bed, and ran to find her father in fright, only to see her father turned into a bloody man.

The little girl trembled and called out "Dad" with tears in her eyes.

The male host didn't realize it, and scratched his whole body frantically, his eyes still fixed on the computer.

Uncle, who lived in 301, was woken up by the pain coming from his bones. He didn't think much about it. He thought it was an old rheumatism. cry.

"Lili, what's wrong with you!"

Lili is the name of his daughter-in-law. Uncle got up reluctantly and wanted to see his son and daughter-in-law.

"Dad! I sent Lili to the hospital, she is vomiting blood!"

As soon as Abo stood up against the wall, he heard his son shouting outside.

Uncle opened his mouth to answer his son, but what came out of his mouth was a lot of blood.

Uncle staggered to open the door, but fell down before reaching the door.

The guard on the night shift was the first to be startled by the screams coming from the community.

At first they thought that something tragic had happened, and their first reaction was to call the police.

But when the second, third... more and more screams sounded, the two guards in charge of the night were stunned.

"Call the police! Hurry up and call the police!" The guard who knew Xiao Mo well yelled in succession.

Another guard immediately picked up the phone in the duty room.

The first resident who asked to go out by car appeared, and then the resident who only wore pajamas and slippers ran out, crying and shouting something while running.

"Busy! The phone at our police station is busy!" the guard on the phone called anxiously.

The familiar doorman was being dragged to save his life by the panicked residents. When he heard his colleague shouting, he turned around angrily and cursed: "Then you don't know how to call the police? You can call anyone!"

"Oh, oh!" The guard on the phone panicked and pressed the wrong button several times before he pressed the call to the alarm center.

This side is busy calling the police, and one after another private car is driving towards the gate there, and there are many people riding electric cars or motorcycles.

Every household in Shannan Jiayuan turned on the lights. Even if nothing happened at home, they were awakened by the commotion and screams outside.

Soon, the night here became more lively than the day.

At this time, the third child of the Xiao family was still playing games online, and he planned to stay up all night tonight.He thought that anyway, tomorrow is Friday, as long as he survives one day, he can have two consecutive days off, and he can completely sleep until tomorrow night.

At this time, the intensive care unit of the Municipal No. [-] Hospital welcomed five patients again.

These five patients were the five criminal policemen including Wang Cheng.

Five people fell down almost at the same time, and everyone rolled on the ground in pain, especially Wang Cheng, holding his head and hitting the wall.When the doctor on duty found out that something was wrong and broke in, Wang Cheng had already smashed his head.

Forensic doctor Qian Yunkai, who was lying quietly in the intensive care observation room like a vegetative person, began to twitch slightly when zero o'clock came. Gradually, the twitches became more and more severe.

The observation instrument connected to Qian Yunkai made a harsh "beep beep" sound.

Under the pressure of the disease center, the doctors who were working overtime overnight to study the condition heard the emergency call from the nurse and immediately rushed to the intensive care observation room together.Qian Yunkai's father, Director Qian, was also among them.

This side has not figured out the changes in Qian Yunkai's condition, and the other side shouted that all the criminal policemen in the ordinary observation room fell down!

The doctors broke out in shock, and hurriedly asked the nurses and nurses to send the person over for rescue.

"Bang!" The door of the ward was knocked open, and a nurse rushed in and shouted, "The patient in the second critical bed has stopped breathing!"

Director Qian's expression changed drastically.The patient in the critically ill bed No. [-] was the first middle-aged criminal policeman to become ill among the six criminal policemen.

A large number of vehicles were blocked in front of the isolation point.

All the car owners were honking their horns crazily, or they got out of the car and shouted: "We are going to the hospital! Let us go to the hospital!"

"My daughter is going to die! If you don't let me pass, I'll fight with you!" the man in pajamas and waving a kitchen knife yelled frantically, holding the handlebar of the motorcycle with one hand and crying.

On his back was his only daughter, who was less than eight years old, lying on his back convulsing and bleeding from the mouth.The man was afraid that his daughter would fall out of the car, so he tied her daughter tightly behind him with a belt.

"Let me go! Save my husband! Please, let me go!" The woman with her hair disheveled grabbed the policeman behind the roadblock and shook her desperately.

The policeman who was caught by her wanted to break her hand, but couldn't bear it.

"Don't you all have a mother? My mother is going to die of pain! NMD, if you don't get out of the way, I'll just run right in!"

"Let's charge together! Let's see if they dare to stop!" Someone finally shouted this sentence.

The policeman in charge of the isolation point pressed the holster tightly with one hand, and grabbed the mobile phone with the other hand and shouted: "What should I do? You guys have come up with an explanation!"

"Wait? How to wait? Can't wait any longer! Either you send an ambulance immediately! Or we let people go! MD, they are already driving over!"

"Captain, do you want to let go?"

The policeman called the captain was sweating profusely, biting his teeth again and again.

"Captain?!" All the team members were looking at him.

"...No! Yes! Let it go!" Knowing that letting it go would lead to an irreparable disaster, the captain of the police uttered these three words with difficulty. At this time, he was ready to sacrifice.

When the team members heard the instructions, they immediately pulled out the roadblocks prepared in advance and the barbed wire used to tie the tires.

Seeing the actions of the police, the people who rushed to the hospital to save their lives went crazy.

"MD! Don't let us live, everyone don't live! Fight them!"

The situation on the scene is imminent.

Suddenly there was the sound of a helicopter in the distance.

As the helicopter flew over everyone's heads, the continuous car lights also shot from a distance.

The helicopter lowered its altitude, dropped the two ropes, and a dozen figures climbed the ropes and quickly descended to the ground.

A helicopter flew away, and another helicopter flew in.

Only then did the people who stared blankly realize that there were several helicopters hovering in the dark sky, and there were helicopters coming in the distance.

The excited people were surrounded by special police officers wearing protective gear and shields.

Before people burst out with stronger resistance, someone in the shield had already shouted with a loudspeaker: "Everyone, don't worry, and don't worry! The country has already prepared countermeasures for this acute infectious disease, and doctors and medical equipment will arrive soon." ! Please keep calm!"

The shout is repeated several times.

But the crowd is still commotion.

The man holding the horn had no choice but to continue shouting at the top of his lungs:

"The country will never give up on any of its people! It is absolutely impossible for the government to ignore everyone! This time, the initial medical expenses for this acute infectious disease will be fully covered by the country! Everyone can receive dedicated treatment!

Please keep calm, anger and panic will not solve the problem!The doctor will be here soon!Even if you rush to the hospital in the city, you won't come as fast as them!The doctors who came this time are all experts in various fields, and they are definitely more effective than going to the hospital by yourself! "

After repeating the call several times, the commotion subsided a little.

The police captain, who was ready to sacrifice, wiped off his sweat and relaxed his hand holding the holster.Fortunately, the person sent to speak this time still understands the thoughts of the common people, and he did not use threatening words. The words he shouted were straightforward enough and touching people's hearts.Especially the fact that the initial medical expenses are fully covered is definitely the primary weapon to calm everyone down.

This is reality, and no matter how urgent the condition is, it cannot compete with reality.

"Surely the doctor will be here soon?" Someone asked suspiciously.

The man holding the horn immediately replied affirmatively: "I'll be there soon! Just look at the row of headlights!"

"Then save my daughter first! I arrived first!"

"No! Save my son first! He's about to fail!"

"Save my mother!"

"Save my husband!"

When the special police saw the situation at the scene, they immediately changed the maintenance of law and order to the maintenance of order.

All the patients present were divided into three teams according to the severity of their illnesses.

Those in the front line anxiously waited for the ambulance to arrive.

Those at the back of the queue also knew that even if they rushed to the hospital in the city, they would still have to wait. Rather than not knowing which department to go to which hospital, it would be better to wait here for treatment.And it's free, isn't it?

In addition to the isolation point, the community hospitals in various residential areas along Ninggu Avenue were also full of patients at this time.

Just when the community hospital didn't know what to do and desperately called the disease center, a large number of medical staff, accompanied by special police, also stationed in each community hospital.

Temporary treatment centers have also been quickly established in squares including some large communities.