The Scavengers

Chapter 3: Gossip

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What? Xiao Mo turned around and heard the sound of police sirens.

Rubbing his forehead, maybe the shock of facing the dead again just now was too great, which caused him to have some auditory hallucinations.

He thought he would tell the police everything the boy did and said in his store. Fortunately, he had a video, so he didn't have to worry about the police interrogating him endlessly.

Suddenly, Xiao Mo seemed to feel something and looked up at the crowd watching the excitement.

He saw a small figure in the crowd looking at him expressionlessly. Seeing Xiao Mo turning his attention to him, the child turned to look at the young man's body lying on the ground.

Xiao Mo was surprisingly angry. Where are his adults? Who let such a small child squeeze in? Is this scene for children? !

Xiao Mo wanted to catch the child, but the child turned around and disappeared.

Xiao Mo also squeezed out of the crowd and looked left and right but couldn't find the child. In desperation, he didn't want to go back to the store and sat down by the flower bed at the intersection.

There is already a long queue of vehicles coming and going. Three lanes on the left and right were blocked. No matter how much the driver in front honked, the crowd blocking the intersection refused to get out of the way. Occasionally, if someone gets out of the way, someone new will immediately arrive and block the gap.

Xiao Mo couldn't say he was sad about the young man's death, he just felt it was a pity and a little regretful.

If he had kept the boy or sold the watermelon knife to the boy, would the boy still be alive at this time

No wonder so many people like to travel through time and long for rebirth.

Who doesn’t want to correct the mistakes of the past

Who wouldn’t want to know the life and death of their loved ones so they can avoid it

Who doesn’t want to turn stain into glory, turn sin into good deeds, and regain what was missed

"Ah! Isn't this the child of Liu Wang's family? Oh my god! How could this happen?" Someone recognized the child.

Someone immediately contacted the child's parents, but strangely, no one contacted them for a long time. Someone who was enthusiastic and knew him had already taken the initiative to go to Liu Wang's house to find someone.

Traffic police and ambulances arrived together, and the crowd finally began to disperse.

Xiao Mo saw the boy's body being taken away and took the initiative to go to the traffic police to explain how the boy came to his store.

A traffic policeman who looked about the same age as him and had a given name followed him back to the store to get his copy of the video, and asked some more questions while waiting.

The child glanced here and saw that Xiao Mo was busy, then turned back upstairs.

When did this dead kid sneak back

Xiao Mo was still a little angry and wanted to take the child over and teach him a lesson. At the same time, he was worried that the child would have nightmares every night after seeing the scene just now.

After the police officer left, Xiao Mo was about to close the door and go up to the second floor. A group of neighbors who had been peeking at the door immediately crowded in and asked Xiao Mo if he knew anything. Some of them also saw the young man entering before he was hit by a car. Xiao Mo's shop.

Xiao Mo glanced at the surveillance screen and found the child sitting on the ground on the second floor, seemingly assembling something in his hands.

"Wait a minute." Xiao Mo quickly went upstairs. He is not afraid of children playing with his things, but he is afraid of children getting hurt. There are many dangerous things on the second floor, and there are no adults around to watch the children. If something happens in his store, he will definitely not be able to escape responsibility.

The neighbors who squeezed in asked Xiao Mo to do his work, and six or seven people casually pulled over the folding chairs leaning against the corner, stood or sat, and chatted among themselves.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Mo approached the child.

The child didn't even raise his head and said, "Work."

"Huh?" Why couldn't he understand what the child was saying

The child ignored him. His little hands took out various normal or abnormal tools from the backpack he carried with him, and dexterously and skillfully assembled what was about to be formed in his hands... a Transformers alarm clock.

"Okay, done! I don't have the right tools, so I can only install some simple ones for you, but they are definitely worth fifty yuan. Now can you give me that charger?" The child transformed the assembled one. He handed the alarm clock to Xiao Mo, put away the tools and some extra parts, and climbed up from the ground. As for the plastic case of the alarm clock, he threw it on the ground.

Xiao Mo didn't say anything. He took a closer look at the deformation alarm clock in his hand. If he saw it correctly, this deformation alarm clock was a combination of a Transformer that looked 70% new but could no longer deform, and a most ordinary small alarm clock. Become.

"This alarm clock can transform. I don't have time to help you make it more complicated. When you transform it into a human form, the alarm clock can only be displayed on the chest. When it transforms into a car, it can be displayed on the top."

Xiao Mo played with it a few times, and it was just as the child said.

drink! In just a short period of time, the child transformed the Transformers, which were originally unable to transform, into not only transforming smoothly, but also having an additional clock function.

A child prodigy

Xiao Mo looked at the child.

The child's expression was still the same, and he even winked at Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo felt that his worries were in vain. This kid didn't look like he was affected. Maybe he was too young to understand what death meant, right

Since the child was not affected, Xiao Mo didn't want to bother him with anything to remind him of. He scratched his head, thought for three seconds, and put the deformed alarm clock on the shelf. Without saying a word, he just picked up the child and said to him. Go downstairs.

No matter what the kid's background is or what his plans are for coming to his store, he can only take one step at a time. I hope it's not some despicable adults taking advantage of children to do something. If that's the case, he will never spare those people!

The bratty kid was very strange. He didn't even struggle when he was picked up. Not only did he let Xiao Mo hug him down, he also hugged Xiao Mo's neck.

"Boss Xiao, whose child is this?" A curious neighbor asked casually when he saw Xiao Mo carrying the child to the counter.

"It's from a friend." Xiao Mo said vaguely. Turn on the computer game and pour the child a glass of water.

The child closed the game page with disdain, first checked the computer configuration and various additional hardware and software devices, then opened the command box and entered a lot of commands that Xiao Mo could not understand.

Xiao Mo sighed and let him go. Turning and walking out of the counter to deal with his curious neighbors.

The child's sense of existence seemed to be extremely weak. He was sitting there, but it did not arouse the interest of the neighbors. As for the question the proprietress of the clothing store just asked, everyone no longer cared about the child and only asked the traffic police to Xiao Mo. What happened in the store? Do you know something

In a few words, Xiao Mo explained clearly how the child came to his store to buy a watermelon knife but was rejected by him.

The neighbors were not satisfied and asked him some random questions, such as the child's expression at that time, the tone of his voice, his reaction when he refused to sell the knife, etc. He looked more like a criminal policeman than a criminal policeman.

Just when Xiao Mo couldn't bear these questions anymore and wanted to chase people away, the cell phone of a neighbor's barber shop girl rang. She ran out to answer the phone, and after a while she ran in and shouted excitedly:

"It's terrible! Something big happened!"

"What's wrong?" Everyone asked curiously.

The kid continued playing on his computer without looking up.

Xiao Mo looked at this group of people with a grimace. It seemed that he had no intention of doing business this afternoon.

"The parents of the child who was killed are also dead!"

"Huh?!" everyone screamed.

"Xiao Zhang, please tell me what's going on?"

Xiao Mo was also shocked by the news.

"Don't any of the people who were watching the excitement know the kid? I heard that the kid lives in Xinxin Garden behind the park across the street from us. His name is Liu Yu, and his father's name is Liu Wang. He's in the industrial park in front of us. I work in a machinery factory in the park. My mother, whose surname is also Liu, works in the Haomeiduo Supermarket in Xinxinjiayuan." The barber shop girl probably rarely received so much attention. Her face was red with excitement and she spoke at an alarmingly fast rate.

"Xiao Zhang, please speak slowly."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Xiao Zhang slowed down, "By the way, my friend said that the child's grandparents are still alive, but they don't live with them. Also, I heard that their house was demolished and divided. There are four apartments, one of which was sold some time ago, and the living conditions at home are quite good.”

Listen! This information is completely collected. To be honest, Xiao Mo admires these three aunts, six women, seven men, and eight men. As long as you chat with them for a while, you will find that even the special investigators of the National Security Agency are not as powerful as them.

"Ding, the recycling training program has been started. New scavenger Xiao Mo is invited to accept the first recycling task of the first level. Task content: Recycle Liu Wang and Liu Yan before 23:45 midnight, China Standard Time today. If the task fails, you will be accepted Punishment, success will be rewarded.”

Xiao Mo suddenly turned his head and saw that there was no one else at the counter.

So who is talking to him

The rigid and cold voice continued: "Guidelines for new scavengers. If necessary, you can call up the mission target map guidance and the detailed introduction of the mission. Over."

Xiao Mo pressed his ears with his palms. Could it be that his otitis media had recurred again? This time it was so serious that I heard hallucinations twice

Otherwise, how could there be any recycling training system that would allow him to recycle Liu Wang and his wife? Recycle the body

Xiao Mo laughed. Although he was confused, he didn't take it seriously. The main reason is that there are too many people now, and it is difficult for him to do or say anything in particular.

Xiao Zhang continued: "Someone knew the child's home just now, but couldn't contact his parents, so they took the traffic police and went directly to his home, but no one opened the door, and they looked for the child's grandparents, so they didn't dare to tell his grandparents first. What happened? They were only asked to contact the child's parents, but they were said to be unable to contact them. Later, the child's grandparents took the keys to their house and opened the door. The door opened... "

Xiao Zhang began to whet everyone's appetite.

"Found out that his parents are dead?" The person who answered the call was a hardware store owner, a somewhat bald middle-aged man named Yin. He was cheerful and enthusiastic about doing business and was quite popular in the neighborhood.

Xiao Zhang was a little angry at first when someone answered the call, so he thought it was Boss Yin, but he still gave him a white eye.

“I heard from my friend that I didn’t feel it through the door at that time, but as soon as I opened the door, I smelled a strong stench. The police and traffic police who came at that time refused to let everyone in, and drove away those who followed. .”

"Just a stench? No dead people seen? How can we be sure that someone is dead? Or are both the husband and wife dead?" Xiao Mo interjected and asked.

Seeing that it was Xiao Mo who was asking the question, Xiao Zhang's voice immediately softened by three points, "My friend said that someone was guarding the door all the time. Later, he heard the child's grandparents crying loudly inside the house, calling for his son, daughter-in-law, etc. I just guessed that both the child’s parents should be dead.”

The barber Xiao Zhou who came with Xiao Zhang glared at Xiao Mo unhappily. Huh, you're an old man, don't think that if you have a house and a car, you can eat young grass!

"Do you know how he died?" Xiao Mo asked without paying attention to Xiao Zhou's gaze.

Everyone is also very curious about this.

It's a pity, Xiao Zhang shook his head, "My friend hasn't inquired yet. I heard that the body has not been transported out yet. When he called me just now, the forensic doctor had just arrived."

"Oh, what a sin, we are such a good family." A young couple who ran a clothing store both sighed.

"That's right. How can you be fine when your whole family is dead?"

"Let me tell you," the female owner of the milk tea shop lowered her voice mysteriously, "I heard that several people saw the child when he was hit by a car, and one of them said that the child was hit intentionally."

"Really? How could you be so young..." Boss Yin didn't believe it.

"Do you think it could be..." Everyone said several guesses at once.

"No way? These speculations are too bloody!" Xiao Zhang refused to accept these statements.

"What's impossible? Is there anything impossible in today's society?"

Everyone was talking, each guessing the real cause of the death of the three members of the family.

Xiao Mo has been silent since he asked the question just now. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the child's abnormally red eyes.