"You don't have to worry so much. Since I told you to put all the sources of information on the Internet, then I will naturally have a way to cover it up. Believe me, with the current technology, they will never be able to find us on the Internet."
After taking the reassurance given by the young man, Xiao Mo felt more at ease.
The two's next target is the city's TV station.
The gold-eating bugs at the TV station are easier to catch, lying on their stomachs on the signal tower.
The two took advantage of the chaos and went upstairs, climbed directly to the signal tower and caught the bug.
There was no one on the rooftop. Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong discussed how to kill the bugs. The first gold-eating bug stayed in the glass bottle for a long time and was still full of energy.
Xiao Mo also told Xue Lihong what the system told him about the recovery conditions of the mission target.
"Burning with fire may not leave the whole body." Xue Lihong reminded him.
"What about flooding?"
"Okay, if the water doesn't stop, try using electric shock."
The two put the second insect into the glass bottle, filled it with water, and sealed it tightly.
The third target was in a kindergarten. Due to the coma and chaos last night, the kindergarten was forced to have a holiday and there was no one inside.
The kindergarten door was open, and the concierge and security guards probably ran home.
Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong walked into the kindergarten so openly.
To be cautious, Xiao Mo went over first and destroyed the monitoring equipment in the security room.
The bugs got into the sports equipment. With Xue Lihong, a powerful person, catching the bugs was not a problem at all.
The fifth target is more difficult to achieve. It is actually located in the traffic bureau's parking lot for illegal and accident-causing vehicles.
There are still people guarding the parking lot, but due to insufficient manpower, they cannot all be guarded.
Xue Lihong asked Xiao Mo to wait outside. After confirming the location of the target, he directly found a deserted place and jumped in. About ten minutes later, he jumped out again with the gold-eating insect in his pocket.
"Have you been photographed by surveillance?" Xiao Mo took the bugs and put them in a glass bottle and shook it. Not a single bug inside died. They were absolutely tenacious.
"No." Xue Lihong said with certainty.
Xiao Mo felt relieved, "This bottle won't fit anymore."
"Kill them together later."
The sixth target is on the railroad, and the seventh target is in a newly built building.
By 7pm, the pair had caught seven gold-eating insects.
During this period, Xiao Mo missed dinner as expected. After calling Deng Anjie to explain that he couldn't make it back, the two of them grabbed something to eat on the way.
The eighth target is the city’s first hospital.
It was already after seven o'clock in the evening, and the city's No. 1 Hospital was still crowded with people.
Xiao Mo found the hospital's medical guidance desk, where there was a floor plan introduction to the entire hospital.
After finally squeezing into the crowd, Xiao Mo showed Xue Lihong the location of the gold-eating insect according to the instructions on the map in his mind.
"It's on the 19th floor of the inpatient department. I don't know what this room is used for. It's not specified on the floor plan." Xiao Mo lowered his voice and whispered in the young man's ear.
"This is a radiological sign. X-ray, CT, and magnetic resonance are all possible. Maybe it's the radiology department."
"Then why don't we sign up and pretend to be a patient?" Xiao Mo looked at the young man and felt that he looked very similar without having to pretend.
Xue Lihong looked back at the crowded registration hall. Xiao Mo also turned his head and looked at it, twitching the corner of his mouth, "Forget it, pretend I didn't say anything, let's just go there."
The inpatient department was previously blocked due to the epidemic, but now the blockade is of little significance. In addition, a large number of new patients need to be accommodated. The originally blocked doors have also been opened, only wrapped in plastic sheets. There was no time to be evacuated.
The inpatient building is in a concave shape, with two elevators and stairways on the left and right sides of the opening.
The map in Xiao Mo's mind showed that the target was the first room on the right side of the concave entrance on the 19th floor.
Xiao Mo wanted to use the elevator on the right, but Xue Lihong stopped him and signaled him to take the stairs.
"The target is on the nineteenth floor!" Xiao Mo also thought of last night's earthquake. Maybe for safety, it would be best to climb the stairs, but the problem is that they have to climb the nineteenth floor.
Xue Lihong looked at the elevator and said nothing.
"Is there any danger inside? We don't have much time. If we put a lot of energy into climbing the stairs... "
Xiao Mo also had his own reasons. He was afraid that he would run out of energy. He would have to collect twenty-four bugs by 12 o'clock tomorrow. He had to save his energy. He was already very tired.
Xue Lihong looked at him, ignored her instinct, and pressed the upward arrow.
The elevator arrived, and the two stepped into the elevator with other waiting patients.
Xue Lihong's height is estimated to be over 190 centimeters. His height is particularly conspicuous in the elevator, and he definitely stands out from the crowd.
Logically speaking, this person should be a special luminous person who attracts attention wherever he goes, regardless of appearance. But the strange thing is that with so many people in the elevator, no one paid much attention to Xue Lihong.
Xiao Mo was very curious about Xue Lihong's special skill that could hide her presence.
The elevator goes up level by level.
When they reached the sixth floor, Xiao Mo couldn't help but ask Xue Lihong in a low voice, "Is there anything going on with this elevator?"
"Do you also think something will happen to it?" Xue Lihong looked at him.
Xiao Mo was stunned, "What do you mean I 'also' think something will happen to it?"
This sentence was said a little louder, causing the passengers in the elevator to look at him.
When the ninth floor arrived, the elevator door opened. Xiao Mo hesitated for a moment whether to get off.
Before his body moved, the passenger standing at the elevator door pressed the door close button.
The elevator continued to rise, and Xiao Mo's heartbeat gradually accelerated. Not sure if it was an illusion, but he felt that the elevator was getting faster and faster.
"Ding!"
Xiao Mo was startled. It turned out that it was just the floor. The thirteenth floor, well, what a wonderful number.
"What's going on? Why doesn't the door open when we get there?" a passenger standing at the door asked in surprise.
Xiao Mo's heart beat violently.
Xue Lihong looked up at the top of the elevator.
The elevator door still didn't open or move.
The nurse who was going to be on this floor walked to the door and pressed the door button several times.
Still no response from the elevator.
Except for Xiao and Xue, the passengers who were still in the elevator suddenly rushed to the door. An old lady was the most nervous and kept chanting: "I want to get out, let me out!"
The nurse who was standing by the door pressing the open button let out a "tsk" sound and then pressed the emergency call bell.
After a while, a conversation came from the other side: "Security Department, is something okay?"
"There is something wrong with the No. 2 elevator on the east side of the hospital building. Can you send someone to take a look? We are stuck at thirteen now... ah!"
The communication was cut off, the lights in the elevator flickered, the passengers screamed, and the elevator began to descend rapidly!
Xiao Mo grabbed the armrest beside him.
Xue Lihong leaned close to his ear and said quickly: "Go and see what the problem is, quickly!"
"I've never repaired an elevator!" Xiao Mo shouted wildly.
"You have to practice even if you haven't practiced before! Speed!"
Xiao Mo rushed to the circuit board and pressed his palm tightly on the floor button.
Quick, quick! What went wrong, fix it!
A three-dimensional diagram of the elevator appeared in Xiao Mo's mind. It was neither here nor here. Look outside and see the elevator cables!
"Ah!"
The elevator suddenly stopped, and all the passengers, including Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong, were thrown to the ground by inertia.
"It's a cable!" Xiao Mo shouted, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, "Two cables are broken!"
"Impossible!" the nurse stood up and shouted in disbelief, "This is a new elevator, and it's a brand-name product. How come two cables were broken at once? And how do you know that the cables are broken?"
"I'm from the elevator company." Xiao Mo said nonsense.
Other passengers also groaned and climbed up. When they heard that Xiao Mo worked in an elevator company, they all asked him, "Can it be repaired?"
A big boy who looked like a high school student took out his cell phone and called the police.
Xue Lihong looked at Xiao Mo. Xiao Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead and shook his head. The cable was outside and the break was too far away from him. He spent a lot of effort just to see it, let alone repair it.
"What's going on now? Will it fall down again?" The old lady shouted with sobs while desperately pressing the door button.
There was also a child in his early ten years who simply started crying without his parents around.
Xiao Mo took a breath and replied: "The safety gear of the elevator should be working now. If this is really a new elevator..."
"Of course!" The nurse didn't know if she was afraid of being blamed by others, but she kept insisting that the elevator was of excellent quality and reliable.
Xiao Mo knew that she was reacting to stress when she was too nervous, so he didn't care. "If it's a new elevator and there aren't many of us, its safety gear should be able to hold on until we can be rescued together."
"Then can we open the door and climb out by ourselves?" the last male passenger, who was in good health, asked hurriedly.
"I suggest that we'd better wait for rescue." Xiao Mo, who has never repaired an elevator but knows a few principles, said tactfully.
"Why? In the movies I saw, people who were trapped in the elevator all opened the elevator door by themselves or escaped from the safety window at the top of the elevator." said the high school student who called the police.
"Then you should have seen some people stuck at the elevator exit and were cut in half by the sudden movement of the elevator, right? So unless it is absolutely necessary, we should not force open the elevator door ourselves." Xiao Mo said seriously.
The nurse, holding the crying child, echoed.
Seeing that the door could not be opened, the old lady began to beat the elevator door desperately, crying loudly: "Help! Can anyone hear me?"
Xiao Mo glanced at Xue Lihong, who was no longer in a hurry. She pointed to the top of the elevator and said, "There is no safety window, it is fully enclosed."
Xiao Mo smiled bitterly, "Elevators in China are almost like this. Most of them don't have safety windows."
The high school student asked: "Then we just sit back and wait for death? I just called the police and the fire department, but no one answered, and all the lines were busy."
"With all the chaos outside, who can remember us?" said the fit male passenger anxiously.
Xiao Mo had to remind them, "The nurse just now has contacted the hospital security department. They must have heard our screams and knew something was wrong here. I believe they will be here soon."
The rescuers arrived soon.
Xiao Mo climbed out of the elevator, stood up and saw a group of soldiers with guns and live ammunition.
Xiao Mo thanked the soldier who pulled him out, and the soldier replied calmly, "You're welcome."
The security guards from the hospital security department also kept thanking the soldiers.
There was also a doctor who looked like a manager and kept smiling and saying nice things to a man whose face was unclear as he stood behind the soldier.
Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong took advantage of the chaos to leave.
Suddenly, Xiao Mo staggered.
Xue Lihong supported him and said, "Hold on, we'll go back to your house once we catch the gold bugs here."
Xiao Mo touched his stomach and wanted to say that he was very hungry, but he was not as hungry as he was yesterday, so he held back. It seems that he needs to replenish a lot of food every time he uses his ability, and today he has already used his ability once and a half. It would be great if we could find that kind of energy crystal again. Thinking of the deliciousness of that energy crystal, Xiao Mo swallowed his saliva.
Behind the two people, the team of soldiers saw that the passengers had been rescued and immediately turned around and walked towards the elevator at the other end. In front of them, a man wearing a summer ultra-thin casual suit complained impatiently.
"It's just a matter of convenience." The soldier leading the team replied in a low voice.
"Don't take the elevator, climb the stairs." The man in suit hesitated and said.
The soldier glanced at them and said, "We have no problem, you..."
The man in the suit frowned.