Many people in the park noticed the strange behavior of Xiao Mo and the two, but everyone was busy with other things, and no one came over to see what was going on. Anyway, these metal shapes were not worth much money.
"What are you two doing?" A young man in his early twenties wandered over and looked at the two of them curiously.
"Catch bugs." Xiao Mo said perfunctorily.
The young man was stunned for a moment, "Aren't you stealing this statue?"
Stealing the statue... Xiao Mo swallowed a mouthful of old blood and corrected him casually, "This is not a statue."
The young man thought to himself and said: "Actually, you should go to department stores or gold shops to steal gold, silver and diamonds. They are much lighter and easier to carry. It is said that many people ran to get them and the police couldn't catch them."
"You didn't go?"
"I want to go, but my dad won't let me."
Xue Lihong pulled out the saw blade.
Xiao Mo hurriedly asked: "What?"
"You can't cut it all, there is space in the middle." Xue Lihong changed sides and continued sawing.
The distance on the outside near the location of the gold-eating insect was even shorter. Xue Lihong only sawed twice before pulling out the saw blade.
"Step aside."
Xiao Mo retreated.
"What are you going to do? Do you really want to steal this statue? Are you stupid? Did you see that the two policemen on the outer circle have been staring at you? It depends on whether you two idiots really intend to steal the statue. .”
Xiao Mo ignored these idiots and took out a gauze net of unknown quality and put it in his pocket where his left foot connected with the base. As soon as Xue Lihong broke the statue, he put the net over it.
"Hey!" the young man shouted.
The two patrol policemen who had been paying attention to the two of them looked at each other, took out their guns and walked over.
Xue Lihong nodded to Xiao Mo, exerted a little force on her wrist, and with a "click" sound, only the metal shape connected by a layer of metal skin was disconnected from the base.
The young man's mouth is wide enough to hold an egg.
As soon as Xiao Mo saw the fracture, he immediately covered it with a net.
The young man stared at Xue Lihong excitedly, took out his mobile phone and pressed the shortcut key. After pressing it, he put it to his ear and shouted: "Oh, Dad, please answer the phone quickly. I saw a very thin and sick man. He actually broke the metal statue in pieces with his bare hands!”
The two patrolmen also paused, but immediately sped up and ran over.
Xiao Mo suppressed the gauze tightly, not daring to move.
A bag bulged in the middle of the gauze, and the bag was still struggling.
"You... what is that?" The young man pointed his finger at the bag in surprise.
Xue Lihong picked up the sculpture with one hand and leaned it into the young man's arms, "Hold on."
"What? Ah! It's so heavy!" The young man almost fell down while holding the sculpture. "Hero, don't bully others like this!"
"What are you doing?" Two patrol policemen came over.
"Catch the bugs." Xue Lihong punched the bulge.
"Wait!" Xiao Mo heard the system prompt in his mind and quickly stopped him, "I want to catch him personally, and the deaths of others will not count."
"What is that?" The patrolman also saw the bulging bulge.
Xiao Mo pressed the bulging part, pinched it with two fingers, and grabbed it.
The gauze opened, revealing the true face of the bug inside.
This is a translucent beetle with a pair of dark blue large pincers on its head, and its upper body looks like a beetle at first glance.
The insect has a sharp head, sharp spines on its chest, and its abdomen, which is about the size of an egg, is extremely bloated compared to its upper body, which is as big as a thumb.
"This insect looks so strange." The two patrol officers relaxed their expressions and came over to take a look.
The young man was also extremely curious. He lowered the shape and came closer, "What? What on earth is it?"
Xiao Mo ignored the reactions of others and only asked Xue Lihong nervously: "Do you think this thing is dangerous?"
"It's not afraid of light and doesn't react when it sees people." Xue Lihong took out an electric pen and poked at the insect gently.
"Hey!" Xiao Mo couldn't stop him in time, this kid was too courageous.
The big pincers on the insect's head suddenly stood up, and he stretched out the pincers to grab the electric pen.
Xue Lihong quickly retracted the pen so as not to be caught by the bugs. "It shouldn't be dangerous. You can see that it didn't release any liquid or gas when it was stimulated, and it didn't undergo a violent metamorphosis. Just be careful with those pair of pliers and don't get caught by them. That’s good.”
Saying that, Xue Lihong used an electric pen to pick at the insect's lower limbs again, "Besides, it has no wings and its legs are not well developed. Even if you let it go, you don't have to worry about it running away. Try throwing it on the ground and looking at it. See? Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, it can’t escape even if it has wings.”
Even so, Xiao Mo was still extremely cautious.
He didn't just throw the bug on the ground, but carefully put it down. The moment he removed the gauze, he raised his foot and stepped on it vigorously.
Stomping on them with your feet is the first reaction of most people when dealing with bugs.
When he lifted his feet, he found that the beetle was still alive and trying hard to use its large pliers to drill a hole in the sole of Xiao Mo's shoe.
"Oh, this insect is so tenacious! It's more powerful than a cockroach." The cheap young man shouted.
The two patrol officers also sensed something was wrong, "What kind of insect is this?"
Xiao Mo didn't believe in evil, so he stepped on it hard and crushed it with the sole of his foot for a long time.
"Hiss!" Xiao Mo felt the pain and raised his foot... The beetle was still alive. A pair of pliers were inserted into the soles of his shoes, and his head was almost buried in the soles of his shoes.
The corners of Xue Lihong's mouth twitched, it looked like a smile but not like a smile, "Well, those are gold-eating bugs, bugs that can eat metal. Although the soles of your shoes are made of glue, it doesn't like to eat them, but when its life is threatened , I guess it doesn’t mind poking and chewing a hole.”
"..." After his head short-circuited for a second, Xiao Mo couldn't help but cursed and asked in his mind: "System, how do you recycle this thing? Do you have to kill it?"
System, "When recycling all mission targets, the health status must be zero and more than 80% of the remaining parts must be maintained. Otherwise, the system will not recycle and the mission will not be completed."
"Does this mean that I have to kill all the mission targets and leave their corpses intact?"
System, "You can also understand it this way."
Xiao Mo took off his shoes, took out a pair of thickened labor protection gloves from his backpack and put them on, then took out a pair of clips to pinch out the bugs, and then motioned to Xue Lihong to lend him the saw blade just now.
Xiao Mo squatted down, pressed the back of the insect with one hand, took the saw blade and sawed its head.
The cheap young man whispered: "You are so cruel! This insect looks strange, maybe it is a new species, and you kill it like this? Please, let me take a picture of it, and I will post it online. Fans, too.”
The patrolman also asked: "What do you two do? What kind of insect is this? Why is it inside the metal statue? It's called a gold-eating insect? Does it specialize in eating metal?"
The patrol officer who asked the question saw a hole as big as a fist at the bottom of the shape where the left foot was.
As if feeling pain or threat, the beetle swung its pair of large pincers very fiercely.
Xiao Mo held the beetle's back tightly and sawed the beetle's head vigorously. However, after sawing for at least a minute, the beetle's head was still well connected to the body, and only a white mark was left on the sawed part. There were no other injuries.
Neither the cheap young man nor the patrolman could believe their eyes. The young cheap man even shouted eagerly: "Let me try, let me try!"
Xiao Mo saw helplessly for a while, and looked up at Xue Lihong, "Do you have a lighter?" He didn't smoke, and he forgot such an important thing when he was packing his tools.
"I have a lighter. But you have to make it clear what this bug is? What do you do? Why do you have to kill it?" The patrol officer who asked the question took out the lighter and asked repeatedly.
Xiao Mo didn't want to attract attention, but there were so many people here, it was basically impossible for them to recover the bugs without human eyes. Now there were only three people watching, which was pretty good.
"We can't go into details, but this kind of bug really can't be left here. As you can see, it likes to eat metal. If this kind of bug is allowed to spread in the city..." Xiao Mo stopped talking.
"How do you know there are such insects here?" A strange voice added.