The Scavengers

Continue on October 10th

Xiao Mo couldn't hear the original voice when he was awake. If he could hear it, maybe he would really fight with the original.

In principle, he does not owe the original goods.This is the same as parents giving physical bodies to their children so that they can be born.But you can't just because you "created" your child, and your child's physical body also comes from you, so the life and death of the child can be up to you, right?

Get me out when you need me, and let me go when you don't, why?

Xiao Mo kept these words in his heart for a long time.

After knowing that he was a latecomer, Xiao Mo couldn't help feeling deeply guilty about the original goods, and he even felt that he was the dove that occupied the magpie's nest.

but!On the one hand, he feels indebted, but on the other hand, he can’t help but think: It’s not that I want to occupy this body, it’s obvious that you got me out, but now it’s like if I don’t return the body to you, it’s a heinous crime.

Even the destructive ability is the same, suddenly give it to him to use, and then suddenly take it back after using it.

Xiao Mo really didn't know what the original guy was thinking, he couldn't understand this person's behavior pattern at all.

"Do things!" Xiao Mo wiped his face, temporarily forgetting about the original goods.He doesn't believe that he can't do it without the ability to destroy. His Xiaohong can say that the ability to repair is the best!

Xue Lihong saw that he cheered up quickly, so she saved unnecessary nonsense, he was not good at comforting people.

After careful inspection, under the threat of Xue Lihong next to him, it was confirmed that the researcher is also a supernatural power user, but his supernatural power is very strange, which is to make his hair grow longer and thicker, without any attack power, only about ten thousand Can it play a certain role in insulation when it is cold?

"So can we now prove that when the living dead virus is initially infected, ordinary people will fall into a high fever coma state, but the supernatural beings still have a certain resistance and will only feel a certain degree of physical discomfort. Can't you see it?" Xiao Mo analyzed.

"Go and find the third person." Xue Lihong's eyes were suddenly attracted by something, and then he saw the black ants crawling over the wall.

The little ant paused strangely when it was stared at by the young man, and circled around in a reductive manner, as if losing its sense of direction.

Xiao Mo followed the young man's eyes and saw that the little ant had already disappeared into the gap in the wall.

"What are you looking at?"

"It's nothing." Xue Lihong replied quickly, perhaps feeling that her tone was wrong, and then purposely said in a flat tone: "There are insects here, maybe they were there before, but we seem to have overlooked one point."

"Which point?" Xiao Mo became nervous when he said it.

"Air vents. I heard that all the nearby air vents have been closed, but do you think those thin steel sheets can withstand the gnawing of level-three mutant rats?"

Xiao Mo didn't know.

Xue Lihong said again: "The air outside is more terrifying to those rats than rat exterminator. In order to survive, they either flee far away or burrow into the ground. With the ability of those mutant rats to dig holes, they just need to find a way to ventilate." Pipeline... Boss, I'm afraid we don't have as much time as we thought."

Xiao Mo's expression changed.

Well, no matter how much trouble there is, no matter how difficult the situation is, things have to be done one by one.

After receiving the notification from Xiao Mo, Major General Zhang Hua sent people to take away all the six newly discovered virus carriers. These six people will be locked up together with the two previously discovered people in the fifth floor of the basement of the back building, which was specially separated. In the isolation room.

Today, there is still one person who is the target of Xiao Mo's mission, and the breeder seems to have reached the mission standard after producing nine virus carriers, and has not continued to expand the number of people.Of course, it is also possible that because of the strict investigation, everyone is monitoring each other, and it is not as easy for that person to do it as before.

Following the directions on the map, the two found the base office not far from the lobby of the front building.

Because of the rape and murder of Feng Lan in the confinement room last time, Major General Zhang dealt with a group of speculative managers.But he didn't deal with all of them. Some of them had good working ability and were able to work with all their heart.

Although there are only more than 2000 survivors in the base, it is not easy to manage this group of people when there are insufficient troops.At this time, instead of finding some new hands to make a mess, it is better to use the original hands for the time being.

right here?Xue Lihong asked with her eyes.

Xiao Mo nodded lightly, turned to the four armed soldiers behind him and said, "Let's start with the management personnel."

Of course the soldiers had no objection, they followed to protect Xiao Mo and serve as a deterrent.

But the soldier has no objection, which doesn't mean that the people under inspection have no objection.

As soon as Xue Lihong went in, she saw Ni Wei, who had already joined the management, even though he was only a small steward among the lowest-level staff.

Hearing that Xiao Mo was here to check if there were any infected people, Ni Wei immediately looked up at them, but he didn't say anything, but the middle-aged man sitting opposite him turned his chair and said unhappily: "Isn't there a doctor already here?" Have you checked it again? Why do you want to check it again?"

Boss Xiao has been in business for several years at any rate, and he faces all kinds of customers. He is not too overwhelmed by such a small question. Hearing this, he immediately put on a smile and followed the other party's words: "Yes, I also don’t think it’s necessary, but it says that new patients have been checked just now, and those people have already been checked. Just in case, no, let us come over and check again.”

The middle-aged man was still very unhappy, frowning and muttering.

Xiao Mo repeatedly promised, "I won't bother you too much, I promise to speed up, just a simple test, it's all for everyone's benefit, just bear with it a little bit and it will pass."

"Are you going to draw blood again?" A woman asked with a bitter face.

"No, you don't need to draw blood for a blood test this time, just use a small instrument to measure your body temperature, and you don't need to touch your skin, it's very fast."

"Ah, really? That's pretty good." The staff in the office were relieved when they heard that they didn't have to repeat the tedious inspection procedures before, especially when they heard that they didn't need to draw blood.

Xue Lihong took out the external body temperature measuring instrument prepared in advance and handed it to Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo took the measuring instrument and pretended to measure it one by one.

Xue Lihong stood in the corner, such a conspicuous person, but standing there seemed to have become a part of the wall, no one in the whole office paid special attention to him.

When it was Ni Wei's turn, Ni Wei looked Xiao Mo up and down, and suddenly said with a smile: "So you are a doctor, I thought you were a technician in a factory specializing in door locks or anti-theft doors. At first, I thought you were also lighting servants. People from the army, after asking them, I found out that you were invited to help on the way."

"It's just a drop in, and the rewards they give are pretty good." Xiao Mo, the fake doctor and the real maintenance worker, also recognized Ni Wei, and remembered Xue Lihong's evaluation of this man.He didn't want to have more contact with this person, and he didn't care for the other party's gratitude, so he simply followed the other party's wishes and described the last incident as a temporary transaction with money and goods, which was originally just a temporary task.

Ni Wei naturally heard Xiao Mo's implication, but he didn't want to admit that the other party's life-saving feelings were fine. The other party clearly expressed in front of him that he didn't care about his gratitude at all, and also acted like he didn't want to get along with him. Seeing the estranged appearance of the relationship, he immediately felt unpleasant to be slapped on the spot.

"Where does Dr. Xiao live now? I am now in charge of helping everyone adjust their residences. If Dr. Xiao needs it, you can come to me."

"Thank you, no need, I am very satisfied with where I live now."

Xiao Mo signaled that Ni Wei had no problem, turned around and walked to the next test subject.

Ni Wei's face turned gloomy on the spot, but soon he smiled self-deprecatingly, and said in a moderate voice: "I was also stupid today, but he was the one who cured Major General Zhang Hua. The place where other people live It may not be good, how could he?"

When the middle-aged man on the opposite side heard it, he immediately leaned over his head, "Oh? He is the one who cured Major General Zhang? See how young he is, so powerful?"

"Medical skills don't depend on age. But they should live better. Doctors always work at the forefront of danger. Now that new viruses have emerged in the base, these doctors must stay with those infected and wait until When the tunnel was dug through, how many of these doctors would survive.” Ni Wei sighed.

The middle-aged man subconsciously wants to respond, but he always feels that something is not suitable. Ni Wei's words sound like he is praising and worrying about those doctors, but why does the last sentence sound like a curse?

The middle-aged man felt that he might be overwhelmed. Although the young man Ni Wei was a bit arrogant and came in through the back door, he usually worked hard, and how many people here had a relationship to come in?

Because Xiao Mo is the doctor of the base, when he told Kang Lu, the highest-ranking manager in the office, that she was likely to be infected by the new virus, no matter how much Kang Lu refused to believe it, she looked at Xiao Mo. The four armed soldiers following behind stood up obediently.

"I want to see Major General Zhang. I only have one request." Kang Lu raised her head and asked as calmly as possible.

Kang Lu, one of the persons in charge of the base's personnel arrangements, former director of the office of the Chengdong Grain Bureau of H City, is in her early 30s, capable and beautiful, and quite good at dressing up.

"I will tell Major General Zhang about your request. As for whether he will see you, I can't guarantee it. There are so many things going on in the base right now, Major General Zhang is so busy that he can only sleep for four hours a day." Xiao Mo told the truth.

Kang Lu looked around, there were other people in the office, those people were usually flattering to her, but after hearing this doctor Xiao said that she was likely to be infected by the new virus, everyone wanted to escape the temporary office immediately .

"You tell him that it's about a batch of food reserves that can support millions of people for a year, I think he will definitely meet me." Kang Lu's voice was low, making sure that only Xiao Mo in front of her could hear it.

Xiao Mo stared at Kang Lu for three seconds, nodded, "Okay, I will definitely take your words with me."

When Kang Lu followed Xiao Mo out of the office gate, Ni Wei chased him out.

"cousin!"

Kang Lu turned her head and showed a reluctant smile to Ni Wei, "It's okay, don't worry, tell your cousin-in-law for me not to worry. It's not confirmed yet, look, I don't have a high fever, just It's just a period of isolation."

Everyone present, including Ni Wei, knew that Kang Lu's words were just self-consolation.

Ni Wei rubbed his eyes, and suddenly shouted at Xiao Mo: "What kind of virus is it? Where did it come from? Can this virus be contagious? How long is the incubation period? Will it kill people? Tell me!"

Can Xiao Mo say it?Originally, everyone staying in the closed underground space was depressing enough and panicking enough. Once they knew that the legendary zombie virus had appeared, would the entire base have to be blown up?

Don't underestimate the madness of human beings. How many historical events have proved that once human beings are in a desperate situation, they can really do anything.

A soldier gently pushed Xiao Mo, signaling to ignore him, and just leave.

Xiao Mo felt that he still had to say something, how many people were eavesdropping, if he really left without answering anything, the base would not know what would happen later.

"Ms. Kang is right. This new type of virus has not yet been identified, and its contagiousness is temporarily unknown. Don't be too afraid. Quarantine is just a means. Maybe everyone will be fine in two days."

Xiao Mo's words did not dispel the worries of the eavesdroppers, but they somewhat comforted them.

"Don't hide it! From you people, we will never hear the truth! Until the day when things really can't be covered up, you will just say it's okay! Liar!" Ni Wei covered his face, as if in pain Unbearable.

Xiao Mo didn't mind hearing such doubts, but the four soldiers were very angry.They also don't like being concealed from the top. They also want to know what kind of virus the virus that suddenly appeared, whether it is fatal, etc., but sometimes it really depends on the situation?In this kind of place where there is no place to escape, tell everyone that a deadly virus has appeared here, and it is still super contagious. How the situation will develop, I can imagine with my knees!

Even soldiers like them, who are considered to have stronger muscles than brains, can think of this. As a grassroots manager of the base, Ni Wei, wouldn't he understand?

After watching Kang Lu leave, Ni Wei returned to the office and looked at the people who came up to ask about the situation. , two of them are base managers, and one is also a relative of the manager."

"Ah, how did this happen? Is it related to what we eat?" As managers, before Major General Zhang Hua controlled all the food, they could eat some good things that other survivors could not eat.

Ni Wei shook his head uncertainly, "I have a terrible idea. Last time...Major General Zhang Hua arrested several high-level officials and shot two of them directly. However, most of the grassroots who manage this base are still the same people. If the major general wants to take back the power in our hands, but there is no good excuse to revoke our position..."

"Impossible!" Someone yelled directly, "How much power do we have? Now that food, clean water, medicine, and weapons are in their hands, what can we do? And how many people are there on Major General Zhang's side? Let them To manage these survivors? Then who will guard the supplies and manage security?"

"Aren't there still those survivors? If Major General Zhang wants to select some people from those people, this kind of grassroots work is not difficult. Who would do it differently?"

"Yes, if Zhang Hua and the others want to win over the survivors and manage them better, they must give them some sweetness. Where does the sweetness come from? It's a little less comfortable to give them than more food and clean water. Isn't power work a good thing for both of them?"

More than a dozen people became more and more excited as they talked.

"Then... aren't we in danger?" The middle-aged man sitting opposite Ni Wei concluded.

The faces of everyone in the office became extremely ugly.

"What should we do? Are we going to just sit and wait for death?" I don't know who suddenly said this.

At this time, these people didn't care to find out who said this sentence, they were all thinking in their hearts: Yes, are we going to let Zhang Hua force us all to death with conspiracy?

"Everything was fine, if Zhang Hua didn't wake up and make trouble..."

"I hadn't heard of any virus before, and the troublemakers said they caught it last time. How could a new type of virus suddenly appear? And they knew it too fast, right?"

Doubts, resentments, dissatisfaction... and other negative emotions have been buried in the hearts of these people. What is certain is that after these dozen or so people go back, they will definitely infect these negative emotions to other close people of the same class and spread them to the end. , each of these people may become an unstable bomb, and then maybe as long as someone with a heart provokes them a little... Boom!These people might explode in full force.

But at present, except for a very few people, no one knows this.

Here, as soon as Kang Lu was sent to the isolation room in the back building, before Xiao Mo could tell Major General Zhang what Kang Lu said, the system in his brain reminded him again: "A living dead virus carrier appeared again, Please recover all virus carriers as soon as possible."

Why come again!Xiao Mo felt dizzy and hurriedly checked the map.

It's a pity that blessings and misfortunes never come singly, as if disasters attract each other, they always come one after another.

The communicator on Xiao Mo's waist also beeped.

"Cheng Zai, what's the matter?" Xiao Mo picked up the walkie-talkie and pressed the button to ask.

"Brother Xiao, where are you now? Someone reported just now that rat droppings were found in the base. Major General Zhang has sent half of his troops to check for food and other supplies. In addition, the external lines of the communication room are all cut off!"

Even though Xiao Mo was already mentally prepared, he was still agitated, "The satellite signal is also broken?"

Xue Lihong heard it and approached.He just said that they might not have enough time, and it was fulfilled in less than an hour.

"If you want to receive satellite signals, you must have a receiver, but I don't know if the outside receiver is broken, or the line connecting the base to the receiver was bitten by a mouse. In short, the base has completely disconnected from the outside world now. Brother Xiao," Cheng Zai's voice was a little trembling, "Major General Zhang and my boss are not in the right mood, they had a quarrel just now."

"Why are you noisy?"

"Major General Zhang wants to go all out to exterminate the rats first, and my boss wants all the people in the base to devote themselves to digging tunnels. They would never be so noisy, and they are in front of so many subordinates. But after knowing that the communication with the outside was cut off. , they... seem to be in a hurry." Cheng Zai lowered his voice, as if he was afraid that someone would hear him, "Brother Xiao, do you think that if everyone knows that we can no longer communicate with the outside world, will everyone... go crazy?"

"Yes." Xiao Mo heard dry crying from the opposite side, pressed the walkie-talkie to his lips, and whispered: "How many people know about the disconnection of communication?"

"I know everything I need to know." Cheng Zai's voice was frustrated.It is probably because he is in charge of it, and now that the external communication is cut off, he is under so much pressure.

Xiao Mo habitually looked at his little friend, gritted his teeth, "Wait, I'll go right over."

"Brother Xiao, you don't need to come here on purpose. I contacted you just to tell you that there may be mutant rats in the base, and I want you and Brother Xue to be careful."

"No, I'll come right over. As for the reason... I'll go over and explain to you later." Seeing Xue Lihong nodding to him, Xiao Mo instantly felt relieved.

As for the newly emerged virus carriers, Xiao Mo planned to let it go.First, there is still time.Second, because the matter of communication is more urgent - the deeper the underground and other isolated spaces, the more it is necessary to keep in touch with the outside world, especially the senior management of the base, who are the lives and hopes of all survivors in the base, they cannot despair.

Xiao Mo hoped that the communication line could be repaired before the news spread, the base really couldn't have any more riots!

If the base is ruined because of this, or Major General Zhang and Lieutenant Colonel Ma made a wrong judgment because of despair, what's the point of him hiding his ability to repair?In the end, with Xiaohong's help, only him survived?

Sorry, just thinking about the psychological guilt at that time, he will definitely not be able to live.

"Maybe the outside receiver is broken." Xue Lihong has experienced similar incidents and knows the seriousness of this situation, so naturally she will not object to Xiao Mo's decision at this time, but he is used to throwing cold water on him first.

"It's more likely to be the line. The explosion range in City H is within five kilometers. Cheng Zai and the others have already switched the receiver to the farthest one before the explosion. It is far away from City H and in the military area. Security is more important." It is higher than other places, the receiver is less likely to be damaged, and of course I don’t deny that this will happen, but the possibility of the circuit being bitten by a mutant mouse is higher.” Xiao Mo tried to analyze calmly.

"If the broken line is far away, your repair ability will be useless." Xue Lihong asked him to prepare for the worst.

"I know, it's best to look at it first, and it's best if it's something I can solve."