The Scavengers

Before 6:19 pm on June [-]

Municipal First Hospital.

"Dad, I want to participate." Qian Yunkai said to his father calmly.

"No!" Director Qian refused straight away.

"You just woke up this morning, and you haven't fully recovered yet, so be honest with me..."

"I've recovered."

"you have not!"

"I am a doctor, and I know best whether my body is healthy or not."

"You are a forensic doctor, you only know the dead best." Director Qian shouted.

Qian Yunkai was silent, and after a while he whispered: "Maybe you are right, I have already died once."

Director Qian pressed his eyebrows. His son has always had his own opinions. Even if he disagrees, if this kid really wants to do something, he will definitely do it.

"Dad, don't you think this is a very challenging subject? The disease comes suddenly, and the speed of infection is amazing. If you don't survive it, you will die. If you survive it, you can fully recover without any treatment. Those who recover People will feel extremely hungry, and many of them have grown alloy particles shortly after waking up."

There was a strange light in Qian Yunkai's eyes, both excitement and fear of the unknown, "Dad, this is a kind of miracle and a kind of human mutation! I can't miss this subject!"

Director Qian still didn't nod. If the first person who recovers without medicine wakes up automatically is a miracle, and the first person who grows alloy particles on his body is a legend, then when the second, third... most of the people who wake up After the recovered people grew alloy particles, the nature of this infectious disease incident has changed, and now it has even become a state secret.

Now the Zhongshan City Disease Center has transferred the matter to the headquarters, and Guoan has also begun to intervene in it.

Things are getting more complicated.

People involved in this infectious disease research may be successful, perhaps...

As a father, he hopes his son can avoid this bottomless whirlpool.

"Dad, in fact, I just don't want other doctors to treat me like a guinea pig. Instead of letting others torment me, I might as well do it myself." Qian Yunkai picked up the glasses on the bedside table and wiped them lightly with a glasses cloth.

He used to have a slight myopia of [-] degrees, but after waking up...

When Director Qian heard this, he sat down on the opposite hospital bed.

The son was right. As one of the recoverers, he was one of the very few recoverers who did not have alloy particles on his body. Coupled with his identity, his son would definitely not be able to escape being studied.

Instead of this, it's really better to take the initiative first.

"I'll talk to Director Cai." Director Qian said weakly. He felt a little headache and his body was not feeling well.

Those people who were in contact with patients at the beginning are now confined to the No. [-] Hospital and cannot go anywhere. Fortunately, no infected person has appeared yet, but it may be that the virus is latent deeply and the incubation period is long. In short Before effective treatments appear, no one can guarantee that they are out of danger.

"Thank you dad, by the way, how are Wang Cheng and the others doing now?" Qian Yunkai raised his head.

"Wang Cheng's physical fitness is good, and he survived. The four criminal policemen who fell ill with him also recovered. Now they are cooperating with various tests."

Qian Yun opened his heart, "When did he wake up? Can I see him?"

"He woke up earlier than you, and he woke up last night. You can meet, but you have to wait for 24 hours. The above requires that the recovery period be at least 24 hours for isolation and observation, and you cannot leave the hospital or the ward before that."

"Is the recovery time different for all recovered patients?" Qian Yunkai asked sensitively.

"Yes, they are different. The first one to wake up was a little girl. She woke up safely after being in a coma for only eight hours. She was also the first person to grow alloy particles from the palm of her hand."

"How many people have been infected so far? How many people have died? How many people have recovered? How many people have alloy particles? Do recovered people have other symptoms?"

Director Qian shook his head, "The detailed data is still being collected. The special investigation team just arrived in Zhongshan City this morning, and is currently conducting a general survey of the quarantined area."

Qian Yunkai pinched the glasses cloth with his fingers and stroked the lenses back and forth. He was wondering if he should tell his father about the abnormalities in his body.

After thinking about it, he felt that this was not a good time, maybe he should wait a little longer and see the details of other recovered patients before speaking.

"Did alloy particles grow in Wang Cheng's body?"

"No, he is the same as you, his body hasn't changed at all."

Hasn't there been any change... Qian Yun opened his glasses and smiled thoughtfully.

Director Qian heard a knock on the door and knew that the visiting hours had passed, so he got up and said to his son: "These patient information will be accessible after you participate, and I will try to get you into the investigation team and try to let you get first-hand information. material."

"Dad, do your best."

"I understand. Your mother and I will come to see you in the evening." Director Qian patted his son on the shoulder, turned and walked out of the ward.

He had a hunch that [-]% of him was also infected by this virus. He didn't know if he would recover after a few days of coma like his son, so he had to pave the way for his son before the onset of the disease, At least he couldn't let his son become a mere experimental guinea pig.

Xiao Mo, who had read the content of the blog here, subconsciously raised his palm, turned his left and right hands over and over to look at it for a long time.

Nothing has changed.

Good luck!

I don't know if the things said in this blog are true or not, if it is false, forget it, if it is true... maybe it is just a special case?After all, the world is full of wonders. Since there are women with wires growing from their bellies, there are naturally men with metal particles growing from their palms.

Apart from this blog, Xiao Mo never found any relevant information about bloggers' eyeballs.

While flipping through other web pages, he habitually reached out to the bag of chocolates, but he didn't find a single piece of chocolate after touching it for a long time.

No way, this is packed in a big bag, and he will finish eating it in such a short time?

Do the current manufacturers need to be so unethical? The packaging bags are so big and three-dimensional, but the actual content inside is pitifully small.

Xiao Mo was furious, grabbed the packaging bag and rubbed it, but was stunned when he found a pile of packaging garbage in front of the keyboard.

There are at least 30 pieces in such a pile, right?He ate it all in just a short while?

How can it be? !

He usually doesn't eat sweets very much, and he rarely touches chocolate, that is, he likes to eat a little dark chocolate, but he only eats one or two every time he eats it.

Eating more than 30 chocolates at a time is simply unbelievable for him.

"Grumble!"

hell!Why is he still so hungry?

Where did all that chocolate go?

Xiao Mo clutched his stomach, feeling that things were getting worse.

want to eat!

Want to eat meat!

He wants to eat chocolate, he wants to eat fried chicken legs, in short, as long as there is food, he wants to eat it!

When all kinds of food appeared in his mind, Xiao Mo found that he could no longer restrain his appetite.

I want to eat, I can't imagine it!

Is this what it really feels like to be hungry for three days?

But... He obviously ate so much chocolate just now, why is he not only still hungry, but even more hungry?

Xiao Mo pushed away the chair and stood up staggeringly. He wanted to eat anything, and now there was only one concept left in his mind, and that was "eat"!

What about food?

Where is the food?

Xiao Mo frantically searched for all the edible things nearby, as soon as he saw food, no matter what it was, he immediately tore open the package and stuffed it into his mouth.

The more you eat, the hungrier you get!

"Shua!" The packaging bag containing the biscuits was forcibly torn open.

"Crackling." The biscuits fell on the table.

Xiao Mo didn't care whether it was clean or not, he grabbed the biscuit on the table and stuffed it into his mouth.

The food on the table was finished quickly, and he lay down on the ground to pick up the food that fell on the ground, stuffing it into his mouth while picking it up.

Xiao Mo's strange behavior caught Xue Lihong's attention.

"Old Xiao, what's the matter with you?" Xue Lihong jumped off the sofa, ran to him and asked.

He ate too many biscuits, all of which were stuck in his throat, Xiao Mo eagerly wanted to drink water, grabbed the cup and rushed to the water dispenser.

"Gudong gudong", poured three cups in a row, and went to find something to eat after filling the water.Seeing the child standing in his way, he pushed him away and rushed into the kitchen.

Xue Lihong was pushed back several steps before she could stabilize her body.

What happened to the old man?Xue Lihong stopped asking, and instead followed Xiao Mo to observe him carefully.

Xiao Mo ran into the kitchen to search for the preserved grains he bought a few days ago.

First, I found high-calorie chocolate and ate five or six pieces of it, then found the malted milk extract I had bought for more than half a year, dug two tablespoons into the largest cup, and then took the sugar bowl and poured a lot of sugar inside.

Rinse the malted milk with boiling water, and before the temperature of the water drops to the point where it can be eaten, Xiao Mo grabs the fruit and eats it.

The fruit in the fruit basket is disappearing at an extremely fast speed.The fruit was finished, followed by biscuits.

His stomach growled for a while and stopped, but the emptiness that seemed to be extremely hungry made him want to take a bite of everything he saw.

"Are there any restaurants open outside? As long as they sell food." Xiao Mo asked the child anxiously.

Xue Lihong shook her head: "They are all closed, only the supermarket is barely open, but there are police guards there."

Xiao Mo had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​going out to buy food. He was afraid that if he rushed into the supermarket, he would grab something and eat it regardless, and it would be bad to attract the attention of the police.

So he decided to do it himself.By the way, take out the frozen meat you bought earlier and thaw it first.Do it as soon as you think of it, and immediately turn around and open the refrigerator.

But even though his hands were busy with work, the man didn't forget to stuff his mouth with food.

Xue Lihong opened her eyes wide to see that the man finished eating a large pack of ham sausages extremely quickly, then ate two packs of cream sandwich biscuits, drank a large glass of malted milk, and then ate a pack of family-sized wafers biscuit.

Immediately, beef jerky, dried pork, chocolate, toffee, dry-cut bread...everything that the man could find and eat immediately, he quickly ate them all.

Xue Lihong stared at the pile of packaging garbage that quickly appeared on the kitchen countertop and the ground, recalled the previous memories in her brain, looked for similar cases, and began to quickly analyze and compare after finding them.

According to his analysis, this person's current situation is actually reasonable.

In the early morning of the 17th, if the lesions appeared on this person's body were normal people, even if he did not die at this time, he would lie in the hospital and become a vegetative state with all the bones broken and all the skin cracked.

But the man woke up after lying down for two and a half days. After waking up, everything was as usual, and his body appeared to be very healthy.

Such a speed of healing can only show that the cells of this person's body have undergone an almost inconceivable rapid division and growth process in the past two and a half days.

Excessive cell division will inevitably lead to a large amount of energy consumption in the body, so a man who starts to eat and drink more than two hours after waking up is also replenishing himself with excessive energy consumption, which seems reasonable in theory.

But actually...

In fact, human beings can neither heal immediately after such an injury, nor can they make up for it afterwards only by eating and drinking.

So... So even if the injection he gave the man was the only special nutritional injection in the world with excellent effects, it would not be able to cause this miracle of healing.

Speaking of which, that thing cannot be called a nutritional injection, because its job is to torture prisoners, and it is to torture prisoners with strong mental strength and excellent willpower.

As long as a person is injected with this injection, his body will remain paralyzed within fifteen days, but his mind will be abnormally awake, and it will leave you in a state where you can't fall asleep even if you want to sleep.

And during these fifteen days, you don't have to worry about any malnutrition in your body, because some ingredients in this injection can completely provide the energy consumption of an adult strong man for half a month, making you want to die Can't die.

Just imagine, if you are injected with this kind of injection, and then put into an extremely narrow and closed space, where you cannot move your hands, feet, or any muscle in your body, but your consciousness is abnormal, and you will spend half a month like this.And in this half month, no matter how scared and tired you are, you will not be able to sink into the arms of the God of Sleep...

Of course, in addition to mental torture, this thing can also be used for first aid in emergencies, especially suitable for maintaining physical strength and vitality in certain desperate situations.

He got such an injection on his body at the beginning, just in case, never thought that it would be used on someone completely irrelevant, and he was still in that state.

At that time, he had no choice but to inject Xiao Mo with this injection, he couldn't watch the other party hurt himself in a crazy state.

It was necessary for him not to injure himself, but also to give him enough energy to resist the virus. In the absence of time, this injection was the best choice he could think of at the time.

From the current point of view, his choice should not be wrong.

Although the injection was not very effective after entering the man's body, it neither kept the man immobilized for fifteen days, nor kept him awake for fifteen days.However, its nutritional content still plays a certain role.

Xue Lihong shrugged, and thought a little irresponsibly: Anyway, he is a technician and not a doctor, and it is normal for a little deviation in the medication, as long as the result is good, then there is no problem.

After taking into account the possible effects of this special nutritional injection and conducting a detailed analysis, the little Xuelihong finally came to the conclusion that Xiao Mo's body had already produced some kind of abnormality under the infection of this new type and unknown virus. Change.

Otherwise, this person is now exhausted, and the best outcome is stomach perforation.But seeing that he is still jumping up and down looking for food after eating, it is obvious that this person's physical condition is no longer within the scope of normal people.

Xiao Mo's change, coupled with what he observed outside these two days, it seems that this big trouble is really much more troublesome than some big troubles that happened in the past.

Well, that's actually quite interesting.Little Xuelihong felt that she had a little urge to continue living.

"Xiao Hong, where is the braised meat that I bought earlier?" Xiao Mo opened the refrigerator and took out a glass bowl covered with plastic wrap, peeled off the plastic wrap, directly dug out the solidified meat oil inside with his fingers, and wiped it into his mouth.

Xue Lihong had a thick nerve, and she didn't have the slightest aversion to this nickname, so she answered him very calmly: "Eat."

Xiao Mo's expression was extremely bitter. He never knew that hunger could be so uncomfortable. No wonder there were people who were so hungry that they could change food. Now he has a deep understanding that people can do anything if they can't eat enough. .

Now he is drooling just looking at the little hairs on his legs!

"System! What's going on with me? Is it your fault?" Xiao Mo shouted in his head.

The system is still not responding at all.

Do you have to ask with your mouth?Can't communicate directly with brain waves?

Xiao Mo began to be unsure again whether this system was his hallucination or reality—isn't hallucinations called hallucinations because they look and sound real?

Maybe those sick people outside now think they have an extra system in their brains.

Shaking his head, and quickly got rid of the thought of cannibalism from his mind, Xiao Mo took out the crisper from the refrigerator and dumped all the vegetables inside on the kitchen countertop.

"Do me a favor and wash these dishes for me, I'm going to burn them all tonight."

"Okay." Xue Lihong didn't have the squeamishness of children of the same age at all, she did what she was asked to do, and readily agreed, moved the small bench by the wall to the front of the sink, climbed on the small bench and began to wash and choose vegetables.He not only washed the vegetables, but also peeled the potatoes diligently.

Xiao Mo patted the child's head to express his praise, and decided in his heart that he must save some braised beef from his mouth for the child, but the poor child had read it several times.

Wash rice, cook rice, cut vegetables, cook vegetables.

The speed of Xiao Mo's hands was astonishingly fast, and he turned on the two burners together, cooking vegetables and stewing meat in a pressure cooker at the same time.

He also knew that there must be something wrong with his current situation, but he couldn't suppress the feeling of hunger no matter what.If it wasn't for him being a little rational, he would have buried his head in a rice bucket and eaten it raw.Even the frozen raw meat, he wanted to pounce on it and take a bite.

Part of the frozen beef that had been thawed in the pool just now melted, and the red blood was rippling in the plastic bag, and a faint smell of iron rust entered Xiao Mo's nostrils.

Xiao Mo took a deep breath, it smells so good, I really want to eat it.

The seductive rust smell became more and more intense, "pound, thump, thump" Xiao Mo felt that he heard a strong pulse beating sound, and following the strong pulse beating sound, Xiao Mo looked at the man standing on the small bench. child on.

So small, so tender, so fresh, it's sure to be delicious...  

Wipe away the saliva, it's over, he now sees that the child is getting more and more delicious.

"Slap!" Xiao Mo slapped himself on the head. His illness seemed to be getting worse and worse. Hearing that patients with certain diseases thought they were vampires, they wanted to suck blood every day when they saw people.

Xue Lihong glanced at him strangely.

Xiao Mo returned to the stove with a big stride, he wanted to stay away from the source of temptation.

While cooking and eating, Xiao Mo almost didn't care about the taste of the cooking, he only picked the fast ones and cooked two dishes first.

In just half an hour after the food was cooked, he had already eliminated all the high-calorie stored food he had bought before.

Xue Lihong stood on the small bench and reminded him, "Remember to get the relief food, and we have to buy more food to stock up."

Xiao Mo let out a "huh" to express that he knew that he really wanted to eat steak now, and it would be best if it was only medium rare.

After eating a big pot full of rice, a full three catties of braised pork, and a big pot of mixed soup with various fish meat balls and vegetables, Xiao Mo breathed a sigh of relief, feeling his stomach finally had a sense of reality that he was still alive .

"Full?" Xue Lihong didn't eat anything, she was full just looking at it.

Xiao Mo shook his head, "It's almost there. You said that the supermarket is still open? Then let's go shopping in the supermarket later."

He still wants to eat, but the beef is still stewing in the pot.

"Business is business, but there are very few people in the past. Everyone is afraid of infectious diseases, especially those who are still healthy. Even the salespersons there have been replaced by volunteers. Now all the people in the blockade area who are still serving outside are healthy. Volunteers, I heard that the government offers very high benefits to volunteers.”

"No matter what, we have to go there, and bring back our relief food by the way." Xiao Mo decided to store up more food this time, but he couldn't guarantee that his appetite would not be so strong in the future.

Thinking of eating as much as today... Xiao Mo shuddered. If this was the case, he would probably have to undergo surgery to remove his stomach or suppress his appetite, otherwise he would definitely not be able to support himself.

"By the way, I went shopping in your store and found this thing." Xue Lihong took out a thumb-sized USB flash drive from his pocket.

Xiao Mo took a glance, "Isn't it a commodity?"

"No."

"Where did it come from?" Seeing that it didn't look like his own, and knowing that the child would not suddenly bring up such a USB flash drive for no reason, Xiao Mo asked.

"It sticks to the bottom of the shelf where you put the knife block holder."

"Huh?" Xiao Mo was surprised and wanted to ask the child: Are you okay, what are you doing at the bottom of the shelf?

"Ding, pay attention to Xiao Mo, the scavenger. The second chance for the first-level recovery task: to recover Li Xiaoshuang, the mother of gluttonous beasts. Time limit: before 18:15 China Standard Time today. Special note: This task cannot be completed, Xiao Mo, the scavenger will be completely wiped out."