The Scavengers

10 月 22 日 -26 日

Xiao Mo, who was walking towards the large classroom, heard a beeping sound from the communicator, and just as he turned it on, he heard Cheng Zai's excited voice from inside: "Brother Xiao, good news!"

"What good news?"

"The tunnel is about to be opened. General Qiu Feng has dispatched three earth-type supernatural beings to help. Maybe we will be able to go out in a few days!" Cheng Zai's voice seemed to fly happily.

When Xiao Mo heard the good news, he couldn't help but curl his lips, "That's great!"

General Qiu really has nothing to say to them. Earth-type supernatural beings are very popular in the base at present, and because they are rare in number, they usually stay in the base to do various infrastructure constructions. Everyone is very busy.At present, there are only five earth-type supernatural beings in the Zhongshan base, but Qiu Feng sent three at once.

This favor is too great.

"Major General Zhang will announce the good news to the whole base later!" Cheng Zai lowered his voice suddenly, "Brother Xiao, tell Brother Xue to act faster, I heard that the Capital Yucai Research Institute is also here this time, It seems that they want to pack up the important materials and materials that they didn't have time to take away before."

"I see." Xiao Mo just came out of the warehouse on the third floor, the base vehicle has been mostly repaired, and now the control center is missing, it seems that he and Xiaohong are going to speed up.

Xiao Mo suddenly sneered and patted himself on the forehead.Is he greedy for Mexican state property?Always feel a little uneasy.

But now Xiao Hong is about to treat that base car as his son, if he dares to tell the other party to let him stop using that car...God knows what that guy will do.

Turning the corner, you can already see the parents who came to pick up their children from get out of class, of course they are all old, and now the young and strong are digging tunnels.

"Goodbye, teacher! Goodbye, big brother and big sister!" Following the clear and soft child's voice from the big classroom ahead, a group of little ones rushed out of the classroom.

Xiao Mo saw the familiar little figure and raised his hand, "Xiao Fei, this way!"

Lin Xiaofei saw Xiao Mo with bright eyes, and ran over with a small schoolbag on his back, "Uncle Xiao...captain! Why are you here to pick me up? Are you all ready?"

Xiao Mo held the little paw of the child, "Well, it's all right now."

This is already the second day after he received the system reward. In fact, he was fine yesterday afternoon, and it was a blessing in disguise. He is now more comfortable in his repair ability than before. This can be seen from the speed and efficiency of his repair of the base car in the morning. come out.Not to mention the comfort of being full of strength after genetic optimization.

In the morning when he was chatting with Xiaohong, he learned that Lin Xiaofei was temporarily under their care, but the child would not live with them, and would live with other orphans in the base at night.

Thinking of Lin Xiaofei asking him for parents before, but after he woke up, the child didn't mention his parents at all, and Xiaohong said that the child is now living with other orphans, so he already knows that the parents are gone?

But the child looked lively, and it didn't look like he just knew his parents passed away.

And Lin Xiaofei didn't feel like that kind of heartless to him, so why?

Xiao Mo was thinking about how to tell Lin Xiaofei about his parents, but he was afraid of hurting the child's heart.

As a result, the child grabbed his hand, walked, and suddenly looked up at him, "Captain,"

"You can call me uncle." Xiao Mo looked down at him.

The child shook his head, "I want to call you captain."

"Okay, as long as you like. What do you want to say to me?" Xiao Mo asked gently.

The child raised his hand and scratched his forehead, "I want to see my parents. Grandpa Zhang said they were lying in the ice room, but the soldier guarding the door wouldn't let me in."

Xiao Mo paused, "Xiao Fei, do you know what happened to your parents...?"

Xiao Fei lowered his head and didn't speak.

Xiao Mo felt that the child's behavior was a bit strange.

"Isn't it?" the child asked curiously.

Xiao Mo thought for a while, "I'll find someone to ask."

Because of Xiao Mo's successive outstanding contributions, basically as long as his request is not excessive, the base management will not refuse, let alone such a trivial matter as seeing a frozen corpse.

Even because it was Xiao Mo who asked to see the corpses, the manager in charge of this area was frightened and came to ask him if those corpses had virus, and asked him if it would be better to burn them.

Xiao Mo said ambiguously: "I'll take a look first." He also rejected the manager's suggestion to accompany him.

At the door of the freezer, Xiao Mo bent down, looked into Lin Xiaofei's eyes seriously, and confirmed with him again: "Are you really going in?"

The kid nodded vigorously.

Xiao Mo thought about it again, and said: "You know that your parents...have gone to another world, right?"

The child didn't nod or shake his head this time, his eyes were red, "I want to see them."

Xiao Mo didn't want a child under ten years old to see his parents' corpses, that would be too cruel.But the child insisted, his eyes full of longing and pleading.

"Well, if you are afraid, I will take you away immediately." After Xiao Mo finished speaking, he handed over the corpse number he got from the administrator to the soldier guarding him.

The soldier opened the door of the icehouse.

Standing outside, Xiao Mo saw the half-filled frozen meat such as pork and beef inside.

Yes, the corpses that need to be preserved are here, and all the meat that everyone usually eats is placed in a freezer.No way, it's all about saving energy.

The corpse was at the innermost, separated by a curtain.It is said that when they usually come to pick up frozen meat outside, three soldiers go in together, just to strengthen their courage.

It was naturally impossible for Xiao Mo and the children to go in directly to look at the corpse. They went into the next room, and the guards pushed the corpse to this room.

Two emergency vehicles were pushed in, and the body was packed in a black body bag.

Xiao Mo glanced at the child, and asked the two soldiers not to go out for the time being.

The soldier understood and didn't leave, and the gate was also open.

The child's hands were shaking a little, but he still walked slowly to the side of the Taiping car.

Xiao Mo stepped forward and unzipped some of the body bags, and saw a male face that was blue from the cold.

Any dead person will not look good, but Lin Xiaofei's father died relatively peacefully, his face and facial features were very calm, without any distortion.

Lin Xiaofei firmly grasped the hem of Xiao Mo's clothes with one hand, he wanted to see but didn't dare to.

"Captain, open your mouth."

"Huh?" The child's request was too weird, "Are you scared? Or, let's go out first?"

"Captain, open your mouth." The child tried to say this sentence again.

Xiao Mo didn't understand what the child meant, but he was curious why the child asked him to do this, so he asked Da Bing for gloves, put them on, and bent down to open Lin Xiaofei's father's mouth.

Xiao Mo was startled, subconsciously took a step back.

The soldier immediately became alert, raised his gun in a flash, "Brother Xiao, what did you find?"

"In his mouth..." This was the first time Xiao Mo saw a human corpse transformed into a guardian beast.

The soldier came to his senses, and the nervousness disappeared immediately, "Oh, you saw the mouthparts, it's this thing, it's so scary! It's the same as the alien in the legend. But it has been confirmed that there are no living objects in their bodies."

Lin Xiaofei had already been pulled away by Xiao Mo, but at this moment he actually took a step forward and stood on tiptoe to look at the person in the body bag.

Xiao Mo hurriedly picked up the child, afraid of scaring him.

As a result, the child turned his face away, hugged his neck, and said very definitely: "He is not my father!"

Xiao Mo was stunned, but he confirmed with the administrator again and again that the corpses of the child's parents were indeed here, and looking at the facial features of this man, it could be seen that they were the immediate relatives of the child.

"you sure?"

"Ok!"

Xiao Mo took off his gloves, held the child with one hand, and asked the soldiers to help open another body bag, revealing a pretty female face inside, and the facial features of this female also had the shadow of Lin Xiaofei.

Lin Xiaofei also asked Xiao Mo to open the mouth of the female corpse.

Da Bing took the glove and put it on, and helped to break it off.

Xiao Mo leaned over to look, the female corpse had abnormal mouthparts like the male corpse, and the mouthparts looked like the head of some kind of little monster.

Lin Xiaofei hugged Xiao Mo's neck and turned his head to look at the female corpse. After only one glance, he turned his head and said with certainty, "She's not my mother either."

Xiao Mo couldn't understand, so he asked the soldiers to push the body back to the freezer, and went to the administrator to confirm with the child in his arms.

"They are definitely Lin Xiaofei's parents, there is no mistake. You see, these are their photos, and we all have photos to keep." The administrator was afraid that Xiao Mo would misunderstand that they were not serious about their work, so he hurriedly brought a photo album and flipped to Lin Xiaofei. Parents page, point them to it.

Pictures of dead people are weird.

Xiao Mo endured the strangeness and discomfort, and looked again and again. The photos were the male and female corpses just now, and now the similarities with Lin Xiaofei's facial features can be seen from the plane.

Xiao Mo thanked the administrator, and said that the monster in the other party's body was dead, and there was no virus remaining, but it was suggested that it is best not to have direct contact with the corpse.

The administrator nodded desperately. Those corpses were so terrifying. If Major General Zhang hadn't said that he would keep them for the research institute, he would have pushed them to be cremated immediately.

On the way back, Xiao Mo kept holding the child.

Lin Xiaofei also kept hugging his neck.

Xiao Mo slowed down, turned to look at the child, "Xiao Fei, why do you say they are not your parents?"

The child signaled Xiao Mo to put him down, walked a few steps forward by himself, then turned around and stretched out his hand.

Xiao Mo held his little hand.

The child stepped on his own shadow and took two steps, and suddenly said: "They just look like my parents, but I know they are not. My parents, like my grandparents, were captured by monsters. Captain, wait When I grow up, I will go to the base camp of monsters and rescue them!"

Xiao Mo: "... When did you know they were not your parents?"

"On the morning of my illness."

"So you asked me to take you to see their..., just to be sure?"

"Ah."

Xiao Mo suddenly thought of something, "You said you found out that your parents were not your parents on the morning of your illness, did you tell anyone about this?"

The child nodded, "I'm very scared. I'm afraid that monsters will eat me too. If I turn into a monster child again, I will go to Uncle Ni. My parents said that if they are not by my side, I will go to find them if anything happens to me." Uncle Ni. After hearing this, Uncle Ni said that he would solve the two monsters, and told me not to tell the story, because no one would believe what the child said, and the monster would run away after hearing the news."

At this point, Xiao Mo finally understood the cause and effect of the child being planted with the living dead virus.

It was similar to what he had guessed before, except that Lin Xiaofei was more vigilant, and he discovered something wrong with his parents.It's just that his parents never expected that Ni Wei, whom they relied on most, not only failed to protect their child, but instead used the child as a hospital bed for the virus of the living dead in order to silence them.

On the way, Xiao Mo told the child about Ni Wei and his parents little by little, but he didn't say that his parents were dead, but followed the child's saying that they were captured by monsters, and those two were like his parents. It's nothing more than a monster in disguise.

Back to the temporary nest, Xue Lihong has already returned.

"Where did you go? Why did you come back?" He had all the meals ready.

Xiao Mo put down the child and patted his buttocks.

The child ran into the bathroom to wash his hands.

Only then did Xiao Mo say to the young man: "Take Xiaofei to see his parents, but..."

"how?"

Xiao Mo walked up to the young man and whispered about the child.

Xue Lihong didn't respond after hearing this, she just thought it's no wonder that threatening the child to kill his parents would be useless, the child probably knew in his heart that his parents were gone, as for the child's claim that he would go to the monster base camp to rescue his whole family , but a childlike self-evasion.

Xiao Mo also went into the bathroom to wash his hands, the feeling of breaking the dead man's mouth was still there.

The child was wiping tears in the bathroom, when he saw Xiao Mo coming in, he sniffled embarrassedly, went to the sink and unscrewed the bridle to wash his hands.

Xiao Mo was full of discomfort, wrapped the child from behind, held the child's hand, and put it under the faucet to scrub together.

One big and one small washed their hands, and a sumptuous lunch was already set on the tea table.

Food is always the most healing.

Xiao Mo and Lin Xiaofei made a mouth-sucking expression at the same time, Xiao Mo let out a strange scream on purpose, grabbed his chopsticks and thrust them into his favorite food.

"Eat quickly! Only when you are full will you have the strength to grow up, and you will have the strength to fight monsters when you grow up! If you don't eat, you will die!"

right!I want to grow up and fight monsters!It's best to become as powerful as the vice-captain said.Lin Xiaofei held hope in his heart, and his gloomy mood quickly dissipated.His parents, grandparents and grandparents are still waiting for him to rescue them!

Two days later, [-]% of the base car had been repaired, and Xue Lihong began to test the car control program.

Xiao Mo took the time to discuss with his friends, saying that he would take Lin Xiaofei to live with him.

Xue Lihong refused, "You want him to watch actual combat at such a young age?"

Xiao Mo reacted for three seconds, his neck turned red.

Xue Lihong touched his neck in a rascally way, "Didn't you say that the tunnel will be opened soon? It doesn't make sense to move here now, and besides, that kid might want to be with other kids even more."

Xiao Mo thinks about it too, Lin Xiaofei is a little afraid of Xiaohong, if he really moves here, maybe he will be even more uncomfortable.Anyway, the child eats three meals with them, so he is not afraid of being hungry or being bullied.

Besides, the base car is a national asset, so is it not good for them to just take it away?

Xue Lihong sneered, "It turned out to be a dilapidated one, and no one wanted it when I retreated. Now that I finally repaired it, they say it belongs to the country?"

Xiao Mo wanted to say that he was the main force in repairing the car, but he thought that Xiaohong had messed with a lot of things on the car, including programming and remodeling, which took no less effort than him, so he didn't say anything.

"Cheng Zai said how long will it take to get through the tunnel?" Xue Lihong asked.

"If you hurry up, you can get through tomorrow."

Xue Lihong leaned against the car body, "Boss, you have to know that this thing is a piece of garbage. They can't fix this car for anyone except you and me. Bet, they didn't even study the internal structure of this car." Clear, do you believe it or not?"

I believe.Xiao Mo raised his hand and smiled wryly, "Hey, don't look at me like that, okay? I can't get over my ideas for a while, right?"

"It's not a matter of concept." Xueli said with a serious face, "You mean you can't take this car for nothing, right? Even if it was originally a pile of garbage."

Xiao Mo nodded no, and shook his head no.

Xue Lihong patted the car, "Have you ever thought about what would happen to this base if you failed to recover the living dead virus?"

Without waiting for Xiao Mo to answer, Xue Lihong said directly: "It will be blown up to ashes, and there will be no scum left! Not to mention the base vehicle, no one will dare to pick up a single brick here."

"I know what you mean, I..."

"You are the hero who recovered the living dead virus and saved the whole country from being wiped out by zombies!"

"Hey."

"For such a great thing, the country should give you a lot of rewards, right? But no. But heroes also have to eat. Isn't there a saying that you can't make heroes bleed and cry? Let's pick up some garbage that the country doesn't want, I believe. If the country knows what you have done, they will definitely not mind, and maybe they will send you more good things. Then look, should we make an application?"

Xiao Mo begged for mercy, "Ancestor, the problem now is that such a big car has been made so flamboyant by you, how can we take it away?"

The original pure black body, after Xuelihong applied a layer of self-made paint, turned into a luxurious and dazzling black and silver.That's not all, this morning, Xue Lihong also spray-painted a large flower on the car body that was so gorgeous that it looked like a burning hell flower.

Seeing Xiao Mo's compromise, Xue Lihong showed a triumphant smile, "I've thought of this a long time ago. You haven't tried this car yet, so you don't know what functions it has? Wait, see my little wife I'll show you a trick."

Isn't it the son and the concubine?Xiao Mo, who didn't want to ask who the eldest wife was at all, watched the young man get into the carriage.

Two minutes later, Xiao Mo saw with his own eyes that the huge base car was reduced by half like a Transformer. It was like an obese Western Dragon losing weight and turning into a slender Eastern Dragon. Shrunk to one meter, the length remains the same.

In the blink of an eye, the car disappeared directly.

Xiao Mo took a step forward in disbelief, reaching out to touch the car.

"Huh!" The car body is still there, but the vision is deceived.

The vehicle reappeared, and to Xiao Mo's surprise, the horizontal direction of this vehicle became narrower again. Now it is not even one meter wide, and even the length has become much shorter. It looks smaller than a children's toy car.

Xue Lihong opened the car window and stuck her head out, "Come in."

Xiao Mo went to pull the rear door. Although he repaired the car, he basically did it according to the three-dimensional picture. He really didn't know what function this car had.

"Come to the front." Xue Lihong stopped him.

"Front? It's so narrow, can there be another person?" Xiao Mo walked around to the assistant's seat and opened the car door.

"You'll know when you come in."

Xiao Mo opened the car door and froze.

He took a step back, closed the door, and looked at the shape of the car first.That's right, the width is still that narrow.

He went to open the car door and saw inside. The young man sitting in the driver's seat pointed at him, "Come up quickly."

Xiao Mo got into the car, sat down, closed the car door, looked left and right, looked at the distance between him and the young man, there was actually an aisle between them!

Xiao Mo looked back in disbelief.He has seen the [-]D diagram of the structure inside the car and repaired it himself, so of course he knows what it looks like, but!

The interior of the car is wider than ordinary buses, and the overall layout is a bit like a caravan, but it looks much more comfortable than a caravan.

Xue Lihong pressed a button, and the chairs of the two easily turned around and turned to face inward.

Behind the two chairs is a living-cum-meeting room with a sofa and a workbench.

Immediately behind the living room is a decent kitchen with a bar between the kitchen and the living room.

There is also a long alloy dining table that can seat six people in the middle of the kitchen aisle, and there is a small dining table for two that can sit face to face by the window.

Behind the small dining table is the toilet, and opposite the toilet is a storage box from top to bottom.

Behind them is a door facing the two of them, which indicates that there is still room behind, and it is not small.

Xiao Mo opened his mouth wide and couldn't stop muttering: "How is this possible?"

Xue Lihong's usually calm eyes also showed a hint of jumping and showing off, "Go over and have a look, although you put it back together, you must not know what the effect will be, and there will be more things for you later on." Surprising."

Xiao Mo got up from the chair and walked towards the living room.

There is nothing to say about the living room, at least so far, the length and width of the sofa can be used as a sofa bed, sleeping three or four adults is not a problem.

The cooking countertops in the kitchen are all made of alloy materials. According to Xue Lihong, it can be used with electricity or directly with an open flame. It has all the functions that a kitchen should have.

Xiao Mo turned the faucet on the sink, but no water came out.

"Water hasn't started saving yet. This car has its own water quality filtration system. I modified it so that it can directly absorb water from the outside until the filtration system can't bear it. In addition to adding water, this car can also automatically collect dew, Natural water sources such as rainwater.”

"Electricity is solar energy?"

"Are you stupid? This car is a semi-permanent nuclear kinetic energy. As long as the power source is not destroyed, it can always supply power."

Xiao Mo was indeed stupid. Even before the car was shrunk down, the inside of the car was definitely not that big from the outside. He repaired it part by part, and didn't notice this at all.

"why……"

Xue Lihong smiled, "Shh, there's no rush, you read it first, and I'll tell you the answer later."

Xiao Mo had no choice but to continue to visit with curiosity.

The bathroom door is pushed open, and the inside is not cramped at all. There are toilets, sinks, and showers, and two big men can stand in it at the same time without being too crowded.He didn't feel it when he was repairing it before, but now he realizes how luxurious it is to have such a large toilet and shower in a car.

Opposite the bathroom, the left half is the refrigerator, and the right half is the storage.

"The storage cabinets here are just for small things, like towels and toilet paper. The real storage space is at the back."

At this time, Xiao Mo still didn't understand the true meaning of this sentence, until Xue Lihong turned the doorknob and pushed open the last door.

...this is not the last door.

"What the hell did you do?" Is this really the base car he restored?

Xiao Mo stood at the door and couldn't help but yelled out. He didn't believe that this car was so awesome in the first place. If this car was like this from the beginning, even if it turned into scrap iron, those scientists would have towed it away. .

Xue Lihong hugged Xiao Mo into her arms domineeringly from behind, licked his ears and said: "I just turned on some functions that this car originally had, oh, I forgot to mention, these functions They couldn’t be used at first, but you repaired them, my master restorer.”

Xiao Mo stared into the door, forgetting how to speak.

The system also popped up at this time, and said a very, very rare positive word: "You are lucky. The original shape of this vehicle is the original Wilderness Star multi-functional investigation vehicle of the Helushe galaxy. It was damaged and abandoned. It The expandability and folding of the space, as well as the fixed-point connection function with the space warehouse are not the best, but they are enough for your use at present.”

"The Helushe Galaxy?" Xiao Mo's mind suddenly came to life, "Are you from the Helushe Galaxy? Are those intelligent creatures who treat life on Earth as playthings from the Helushe Galaxy?"

The system is naturally silent.

After initially understanding the extraordinary nature of this base vehicle, Xiao Mo did two things.

The first one is to resolutely reject Xiaohong calling the car a little wife.

The second thing is to restore the car as 100% as possible and understand its function before the tunnel is opened.

The next day, huge cheers came, and the tunnel was finally opened.