The Scavengers

The evening of August 10

Gong Yangling suspected that Feng Lan and Yang Kangwei not only saw Ni Wei standing in front of the dead man, but also saw something else, but they didn't say anything because of some scruples.

But maybe it was because they knew secrets that they shouldn't know, that they died after arriving at the safe base, and they died so aggrieved!

"So you now suspect that both Feng Lan and her boyfriend Yang Kangwei died at the hands of Ni Wei?" Xiao Mo asked.

Gong Yangling nodded, with a sad and indignant expression, "Ni Wei is interested in Feng Lan. He chased me before. I rejected him, so he turned to pursue Feng Lan, but Feng Lan likes Yang Kangwei. Ni Wei may have two After being rejected, after Feng and Yang got together, he blessed them superficially, but in fact he hated them to death. But Yang Kangwei and Ni Wei were young, plus Li Yong, the three of them have been the Three Musketeers since middle school. Yang Kang Wei didn't believe Feng Lan's words, and thought that Ni Wei was his brother, and it was absolutely impossible for him to hate him, let alone harm him. As a girlfriend, Feng Lan couldn't speak too much. If she said too much, others would think that she was instigating the brotherhood of the three of them. .

But after we were rescued to the base, Yang Kangwei suddenly took the initiative to distance himself from Ni Wei.Feng Lan once wanted to say something to me, but she seemed to have some scruples, and she swallowed the words a few times.But during that time, I found that there was a change in myself, I didn't want to get in touch with people, and I didn't pay much attention to her.Feng Lan came to see me that day, but because of my face... I refused.As a result, I heard that Yang Kangwei died of a heart attack that night, and Feng Lan was seriously injured and Li Yong was imprisoned. "

When Gong Yangling said this, he obviously regretted it very much.

Xiao Mo felt touched, and he also had something that he particularly regretted, always thinking that if he could do that that day, then things would have a different result.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, and life will never be perfect.

"Then why did you come down here? You said earlier that you thought someone was coming to kill you, and this person was Ni Wei?"

"Yes. This is the third thing I want to tell you. After I found out that Feng Lan was imprisoned, I found someone to help her out, but someone secretly blocked me. I begged my father and grandma to see Feng Lan. But even if I met her, someone would be watching her. Feng Lan only told me that Yang Kangwei had no heart disease at all before, and he never died of heart disease. When Yang Kangwei had a heart attack, he only Li Yong was by his side, she went to question Li Yong, but Li Yong laughed at her flamboyance, saying that Yang Kangwei knew she was stealing and was furious to death.

Feng Lan was so angry that she went crazy, so she stabbed Li Yong with the self-defense dagger that Yang Kangwei gave her.But Feng Lan told me again, she said that Li Yong seemed to deliberately provoke her at the time, and she didn't dodge much after she took out the dagger, as if he stabbed her deliberately.

I could tell that Feng Lan wanted to tell me something else at the time, but she was being watched by someone nearby, and she seemed to have some scruples. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but later I realized that she was afraid that telling me everything would cause me to be killed as well.But Feng Lan didn't expect that even if she didn't say anything to me, I still wouldn't escape.To make matters worse, the night I met Feng Lan, she, she was..."

Gong Yangling covered his face and calmed down for a while.

"I always felt that the deaths of Feng Lan and Yang Kangwei were suspicious, and I also wanted to find the murderer who killed Feng Lan, so I secretly went to Li Yong, but I heard Li Yong talking to Ni Wei... At that time, my hearing Already fine, I heard Li Yong begging Ni Wei in a flattering and eager tone, begging him to give him another pill. I don’t know what kind of pill it is, and Li Yong didn’t say anything, but Ni Wei should give it to him. He died, because after Ni Wei left, I went to peek at Li Yong, and I felt that he didn't look seriously injured at all."

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong looked at each other, each had their own guesses.

"If it's normal for things to develop here, then what happened later is completely beyond my imagination."

Gong Yangling said so that his throat was thirsty, he took out a mineral water bottle from the corner and drank two sips of water, holding the bottle and said in a trembling voice: "I want to know the secret of that pill, I thought it was drugs or something, I doubt it Ni Wei used drugs to control Li Yong for his use, but I followed him for two days and found him, he..."

Xue Lihong suddenly stretched out her hand and slapped Gong Yangling hard on the forehead.

Gong Yangling shuddered, but after the pain, he showed gratitude to Xue Lihong, "That's terrible, Li Yong has also mutated, and his mouth will stick out a long needle like a giant-winged blood mosquito. As long as the long needle is pierced into someone's body, it can absorb the blood of the other party, but the person who is pierced by him will not notice anything, and some people will show dizzy expressions as if they are very comfortable."

"You were found following him?"

"Yes." Gong Yangling smiled wryly, "but I didn't know that at that time, I slept in the room at night... because of the materials my father donated, I could live in a room by myself, and I heard the door open voice, and then I saw Li Yong coming in. I was not able to master my abilities at that time, and my blood was almost sucked dry by Li Yong. Just when I was about to die, Hei Fang... that's it, Hei Fang suddenly I jumped out of the air hole and scratched Li Yong, so I could take the opportunity to escape."

Hei Fang lay beside Gong Yangling, looked at Xiao Mo with black bean eyes, and then at Xue Lihong, showing a human-like expression of deep fear towards Xue Lihong.

Gong Yangling stroked Hei Ya's back, "I wanted to tell Major General Zhang Hua about this, but Li Yong stopped me on the spot when I went to collect the food the next day and warned me that if I dared to send him If I tell others about it, then my father's friends and everyone I know will be killed. Then Li Yong said, my appearance will make everyone believe that I am the evil one, as long as I am killed The mutated mouse virus is infected, and it will become a rat man in the future, so everyone in the base will arrest me. Then I found that I was surrounded."

"No way, I can only threaten Li Yong in turn, saying that if he dares to do something, I will dare to call the mutant mouse in and let everyone die together. When things have developed to this point, my body has become more and more mutated. He and Mao Ban could not be taken back, so I could only follow Hei Fang into the sewer and live here. But I still wanted to tell Major General Zhang Hua about the strangeness of Ni Wei and Li Yong, but I found out..."

"Someone is hunting you."

"Yes, this is where I want to warn you. There are more than one mutated people like Li Yong. I suspect that the mutations of these people are all related to the pills Ni Wei gave Li Yong."

The three things have finally been clarified here, and the summary is: Ni Wei has a problem, and there is still a big problem!

Xiao Mo asked the system in his mind: "Is that pill related to the breeder?"

The system unexpectedly answered him this time: "If the recycler wants to locate the breeder, they can find it through the guardian beast."

"Are you saying that people like Li Yong who mutate through pills are called guardian beasts?"

The system is silent.

"Wait! Why are they called guardian beasts? Are they not human anymore?"

Xiao Mo was eager to tell Xue Lihong the important information he got from the system, so he accelerated the conversation with Gong Yangling.

"After verifying what you said, we will tell Major General Zhang Hua. There are other things I want to ask you."

"You ask, and I will tell you what I can answer."

"Thank you. Why don't you see other mutant mice here?"

"They live on the other side of the sewer. Blackfang...don't let them come."

"Do you know how many mutant mice come in?"

"I've only seen a dozen or so so far. I don't know what level they are, but they are not small."

"How long have they been in? Are there any more?"

"About four days." Gong Yangling paused, but continued, "Black Fang told me that not many mutated mice survived the explosion outside, some dug tunnels and ran far away, and some ran deep underground. A group that ran deep underground. So far they are the only ones coming, but once they are sure that there is really a lot of food here and it is safe, they will call other mutated rats that survived."

"Four days... After removing Li Yong's concealment, no one else discovered the mutant rat until today. Did you do something?" Xue Lihong asked.

Gong Yangling shook his head and nodded again, "Black Fang is different from other mutant mice. It probably used to be a kind of pet mouse raised by humans. It is very happy to get close to humans. I can communicate with it, but not with other mutant mice. Those mutant mice The mouse is timid and very vigilant. I communicated with Black Fang to let it not eat people, and at the same time let it help me stop other mutant mice. Black Fang said that it had never eaten humans, but it could not stop other mutant mice because it still It’s not the rat king, and it’s not strong enough. But with the help of Black Fang, it can barely hold back those mutant mice, but it’s still at its limit today, and those mutant mice have been hungry for a long time, even eating their own kind.”

"If we go to hunt other mutant rats, will Black Fang attack us?"

Gong Yangling was a little embarrassed and said awkwardly: "If you don't let it see it, you should be fine." Her current position is indeed embarrassing, being chased and killed by humans, but protected by mutant rats.

Xue Lihong stood up, "There may not be one out of tens of millions of people who have changed you. Not everyone will mutate after being bitten by a mutant mouse. You should cherish your current ability and develop it well. If you use it well, maybe You will have tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of summoned beasts, which will be a very terrifying force."

Gong Yangling's eyes lit up.

Xue Lihong said again: "If you can control them and prevent them from eating people, considering that mice are omnivorous, humans and mutant mice can coexist. It all depends on your own efforts."

Gong Yangling clenched her fists and stood up. At this moment, she suddenly felt that her life had brightened.Yes, why was she forced to live in the sewer, why did she cover her head and face like a mouse crossing the street to avoid the crowd, she could stand upright in front of people!

Although it is unacceptable that her future summoned beast is a mouse, but thinking about it better, besides cockroaches, mosquitoes and flies, what kind of life is as abundant as mice in this world?And as tenacious as a mouse?

If her abilities were honed well, she might be able to use the mutant rats to form a single force, and she would no longer have to be afraid of anyone.Of course, it's still a bit far away to think about it now. At present, her main purpose is to protect herself.

Gong Yangling chose to stay in the sewer, Xue Lihong asked her if she knew where the mutated rat came in, Gong Yangling said yes, she had visited with Hei Fang, and thought about escaping from there.

Under the leadership of Gong Yangling, the two found the route that was bitten by the mutant rat without much detour.

They also looked at the hole where the mutated rat came in. Rats can pass through it, but it is very difficult for humans to crawl through it, and according to what Hei Fang told Gong Yangling, this cave probably only leads to City H, and even if humans crawl out, it is very difficult. useless.

"Oops! Not only mutated rats can enter this hole, poisonous gas can also enter along it, right?" Xiao Mo changed color when he thought of this.

Xue Lihong has already started to test the air quality, and said: "Mutated mice are not stupid, they are also afraid of those poisonous gases, I think they should backfill their holes when they come in, to avoid poisonous gases coming in."

The test results also show that Xuelihong's speculation is correct. Although the air quality is not very good, the harmful substances in it are not at the level of threatening human life.

Xue Lihong said that the two of them would stay here for a while, and Gong Yangling guessed that the two of them might have something else to do, and didn't say that they had to stay and help, so he left with Hei Fang tactfully.

The black teeth were also interesting, before leaving, they circled around Xiao Mo twice, and sniffed with their pointed nose, as if they were remembering Xiao Mo's smell.

For some unknown reason, Xiao Mo touched Hei Ya's head.

Hei Fang finally grinned at Xue Lihong again, and then followed Gong Yangling away.

Xiao Mo was worried that Xue Lihong would go crazy, and when he turned around, he found that his little friend was playing with bugs?

"Try to see if you can repair this hole?" Xue Lihong squatted on the ground without raising her head.

Xiao Mo also had this intention, kicked Xue Lihong to make him move aside, grabbed a piece of energy crystal and stood in front of the hole.

With his palm stuck to the concrete above the hole, Xiao Mo wanted to block the entire passage, so he sent out his mental wave.

As his mental wave surged forward, the three-dimensional map of the passage dug out by the mutant rat was also showing backwards from the concrete wall as the starting point.

Extended about 20 meters, Xiao Mo began to feel a headache, he knew that the range he could repair was only here.

The fundamental principle of repairing is to move the missing same molecules from other places. The channel dug out for repairing this time is not as fine as repairing the human body. It only needs to be backfilled with a large amount of soil, and the soil composition does not need to be the same as before. .

It took a little more time and effort to restore the concrete area, but because the raw materials were still there—the concrete blocks dug through by the mutant rats were all piled up on the ground and in the caves, and they were not eaten or decomposed. Xiao Mo only needed to put these The raw materials are glued back together.

It sounds simple, but if you look at it in slow motion, it will be exaggerated. You can see that the concrete blocks on the ground and in the cave seem to be pulled by some invisible thing, automatically covering the hole, and automatically assembling. The pieces together were still like a spider web, but in less than 2 minutes, those cracks were smoothed out by a pair of invisible hands, and all disappeared.

Xiao Mo let go, and Xue Lihong stood up. The concrete wall with a hole in it had no signs of damage at all, and it was as brand new as if it had just been poured.

After absorbing an energy crystal on the spot, Xiao Mo went to repair the communication line that was bitten and scratched by the mutant rat.

When everything was done, it was already an hour later.Cheng Zai was notified on the walkie-talkie, Cheng Zai was so excited that he was so excited, Xue Lihong thought he was making too much noise, and cut off the communication.

Xiao Mo was almost paralyzed from exhaustion. Even with energy crystals to replenish his energy, he still felt tired from the bottom of his bones.

The passage was too narrow, Xue Lihong could neither hug nor carry him, so he could only drag him out of the pipe with a dragger, and carried him on his back when he got out of the pipe.

"You need the correct cultivation method, the system probably only gives you the general type."

"I think, Your Majesty, it may not know. Didn't you say that my ability is very rare?" Xiao Mo lay on the young man's back, and could clearly feel the bones of the other person. He thought this person was still too thin , No wonder I love meat so much.

"You sort out all the training methods it gave you, and then tell me how you feel about using your abilities, any feelings, and I'll see if I can help you come up with a better training method."

"Thank you." Xiao Mo couldn't help but said, "Xiaohong, why are you so capable?"

"I can't do it, how can I do it to you?"

"...Can we not have such colorful conversations?"

"Others can't hear it if they want to hear it."

Hello!What is there to be proud of?brother!

"You are not allowed to refuse me again tonight." For a thousand-year-old virgin who just started eating meat, it is too inhumane to let him hold it for half a month after he tastes it.

If it wasn't for his much stronger restraint than ordinary people, Xiao Mo would have been unable to get out of bed by him long ago. Well, this is still on the premise that Xiao Mo has the ability to repair.

Xiao Mo is so worried!He really doesn't want to come a second time.

"By the way, those mutant mice haven't been solved yet, we should..."

"That's not urgent, tell Major General Zhang Hua the location, and he will send someone to solve it."

"But we didn't do it..."

Xue Lihong interrupted him again, "Sheng Mi's kindness fights Mi's hatred, this principle applies everywhere. Our current ability is useful to Major General Zhang Hua, and they will beg us. But once we take the initiative to take over everything, we must After a few times, they will take everything we do for granted. If one day you don’t want to work for nothing because of something, they will not feel guilty about doing too much, but will think how can you be proud of your talents, how can you If you have abilities but let them go, they will think that your abilities and talents are given to you by God to help all mankind. In short, if you cannot contribute to all mankind, then you have a bad character No problem, everyone can crusade against you."

"...Have you ever encountered such a thing before?"

"I have seen it."

Xue Lihong stopped talking, and Xiao Mo no longer asked to kill the mutant rats.He thought that Xue Lihong had reminded Major General Zhang Hua that he should use the method of issuing missions to give rewards to get everyone to provide news about the mutant rats. Maybe he was wary of this at that time?

When Xiao Mo returned to the communication room, he was greeted with cheers, and everyone stood up and applauded him.No one thought that the communication line could really be repaired. Maybe the damage to the line is not very serious?

But regardless of whether it was serious or not, the two dared to enter the pipeline to repair the line at the risk of being dragged away by the mutated rat. Only this point, all the technical staff present thought they could not do it.

Lieutenant Colonel Ma Xiang was even more eager to award ten or twenty medals to Xiao Mo and the other two on the spot. Seeing Xiao Mo lying on Xue Lihong's back, he kept saying, "What's wrong? Did you encounter a mutation?" Rat? Are you still tired? Hurry up, lie down here first, who is that, Cheng Zai! Hurry up and get some sugar water!"

Xiao Mo patted Xue Lihong lightly, wanting to come down.

Xue Lihong grabbed his legs and didn't let go.

Xiao Mo's face was flushed, in fact, he was already better, at least his legs would no longer be weak when walking on the ground, but Xue Lihong insisted on carrying him all the way, and didn't even let him go here.

Many people looked at them on the road, so Xiao Mo felt embarrassed to look up.

Cheng Zai, who came back early, also jumped over and asked worriedly.

Xiao Mo had no choice but to say according to what he and Xue Lihong had discussed on the way: "We met mutant mice and fought for a long time, and I was a little exhausted."

As soon as Xiao Mo and the others really encountered the mutant rats, Lieutenant Colonel Ma Xiang immediately asked them where they met them, how many mutant rats they encountered, and what level the mutant rats were.

Xiao Mo answered one by one.

Hearing that only a dozen mutant mice were seen, Lieutenant Colonel Ma Xiang seemed to be a little relieved, and immediately sent someone to invite Major General Zhang Hua.The threat of mutant rats must be eradicated as soon as possible!

"There is one more thing, let's talk about it together with Young Master Zhang Hua." Xiao Mo finally got off Xue Lihong's back, but Xue Lihong quickly pushed him into the most comfortable leather chair in the communication room.

Major General Zhang Hua hurried over when he got the news, and this sassy man sent all the rewards he promised before without saying a word.

"There are a total of 2000 alloy particles here, not many, and it can only be regarded as a token of appreciation. Compared with your contributions, this is really nothing. We have a small number of people here, and more than [-] people produce an average of one every seven days. , Not everyone can secrete this kind of alloy particles, plus the ones collected before, these are almost half of our inventory. In addition, we only have this kind of bulk here. I heard that some large bases can already release the energy in the alloy particles Pull out and compress, one hundred pieces is a unit, that kind is easier to carry and absorb, but unfortunately we don’t have that kind of device here.”

"Thank you. If possible, I hope you can add some iron nails to us. Can you send them to our room together with the alloy particles?" Xue Lihong didn't take it immediately. Five thousand alloy particles together make a big bag.

"Of course! How many iron nails do you need? I'll look for them. We don't need these kinds of supplies for the time being. If you need them, you can take as many as you can."

After the matter of the reward was settled, Xiao Mo raised his hand to signal that he had other important things to say.

Major General Zhang Hua saw that Xiao Mo was unwilling to speak here, understood, and immediately led several people into the small meeting room.