Xiao Mo still chose to take the elevator. He really didn't have the strength to climb from the second floor to the nineteenth floor.
He didn't believe that two of the four elevators could break down at the same time.
There was not a single passenger in the elevator this time. I don’t know if it was because people were too scared to take the elevator again, or for some other reason.
"That team of soldiers didn't know why they came to the hospital. Their equipment looked like they were going to fight." Xiao Mo muttered.
Xue Lihong didn't respond to him.
Xiao Mo put down this question and thought of another question.
"Strange, how could a good cable break? And two of them broke at one time." Xiao Mo couldn't figure it out.
"Did you see the broken cable?" Xue Lihong asked in a low voice.
"Yeah." Xiao Mo did not deny it.
"Then you haven't seen what the fracture incision looks like?"
"It doesn't look like natural damage, nor does it seem like it was deliberately damaged. The fracture..." Xiao Mo remembered, and he "saw" that the fractures of the two ropes were uneven, "It's like..."
"It seems like it was bitten off by something?" Xue Lihong continued.
Xiao Mo snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, that's what it feels like."
Xue Lihong was silent.
Xiao Mo poked him, "What do you think it was that bit it off?"
"While we were here, did you notice that the rats and cockroaches were chewing on metal-related things?" Xue Lihong said.
Xiao Mo was startled, "You mean?"
"I also hope I'm wrong."
Arrive safely on the 19th floor.
Xiao Mo walked out of the elevator and let out a long breath.
Xue Lihong chuckled.
Xiao Mo slapped him hard and said, "Don't laugh at your boss." Isn't the employer the boss
Xue Lihong said leisurely: "I suddenly feel a bit disadvantaged. In addition to those necessary conditions, you should also pay me a salary."
"Salary? I don't know how long I can live. Maybe if I fail to complete two tasks in a row, I will be wiped out by the system."
"I am here."
"so?"
"It's a good deal to hire me, and you should pay me."
"Two hundred a month?"
"Two hundred taels of gold? Not bad, you can consider it."
"Go to hell!"
The two of them survived the catastrophe and felt relaxed, talking and laughing all the way until they reached the medical guidance table.
The concave opening on the 19th floor has a medical guidance desk that also serves as a reception. If you want to enter, you must pass through the nurse there.
Xiao Mo was in a good mood and walked up to talk to him with a smile: "Hello, nurse, we are here to visit the patient. I heard that he lives on the 19th floor here."
The young nurse looked up at the two of them and replied dully: "I'm sorry, the floors above the 16th floor are not open to the public now. If you need to visit the patient, you must make an appointment with the attending doctor."
"We have already made an appointment." Xiao Mo opened his eyes and lied.
"What's the patient's last name?" The nurse opened the reception book. On the front page was a record sheet recording the patient's name and ward.
Xiao Mo wanted to peek at the record sheet, but the young man next to him had already seen all the names on the record sheet and casually reported his name, "We are here to visit Wang Cheng."
The nurse found the name Wang Cheng in Roman alphabetical order and looked at the appointment status behind the name. "Sorry, this patient does not have any appointments during this time. According to regulations, you cannot visit this patient."
Xiao Mo said in surprise: "No, we have already made an appointment and we just called yesterday afternoon. Miss nurse, could you please check it for us? Maybe he forgot to tell you. You know what happened so suddenly last night?" His family was very worried about him due to the coma incident, and they asked us to come and take a look no matter what, just for fear of something happening to him."
"Sorry, you can call his attending physician and reschedule the time." The nurse made it clear that they have strict management here and not everyone can come in and out at will.
Xiao Mo turned to look at Xue Lihong, what should I do? Do you want to find a way to distract this nurse
However, Xue Lihong pulled him to her side and asked him to get out of the way.
Xiao Mo was confused and was about to ask the young man when he heard a series of footsteps behind him, and the leader had already walked to him.
"I heard that Director Cai and Director Qian from the Center for Disease Research are here, right? We are special commissioners from the National Institute of Bioengineering Science and Technology. We have important matters to discuss with the two directors." The visitor sounded businesslike. Said to the little nurse.
Xiao Mo took two more steps back toward Xue Lihong, and looked at the visitor with the young man.
The visitor was in his late twenties. He was still young, but he had a strong sense of officialdom. He was wearing an ultra-thin and cool suit. He had a decent appearance. He didn't have any acne scars on his face. He just had a nose-piercing look. The way he looks at people is very uncomfortable.
The special commissioner was accompanied by a foreigner and two entourage members wearing uniforms of the institute.
Xiao Mo looked behind these people again, and as expected saw a dozen soldiers with guns and live ammunition.
Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong looked at each other.
The little nurse also saw the group of soldiers with live ammunition, and her expression immediately became nervous, "Hello, what's your surname? What do you want from the two directors? Do you have your ID?"
The special commissioner frowned and motioned to the person behind him to show his ID to the nurse, "You just need to tell Director Cai that my surname is Bao. She knows who I am and what I am doing. I called her yesterday morning."
The young nurse took the ID and looked at it carefully several times before reaching for the phone on the table and starting to dial the internal number.
"Huh?" The little nurse hung up the phone and picked it up again.
"What's wrong?" Commissioner Bao asked impatiently.
"I can't get through. There's no sound on the phone. It seems like the line is broken." The little nurse didn't know why.
"If you can't get through on the phone, wouldn't you go to them directly? Or don't you know where they are?"
The little nurse was frightened by Commissioner Bao's harsh tone, "They are in the office, on the 19th floor. I will go find them now, please wait here."
After the nurse finished speaking, she turned around and ran towards the office. Several offices were located in the area above the concave characters.
Commissioner Bao had no intention of continuing to wait where he was, so he raised his legs and followed the little nurse. From beginning to end, he didn't take a second glance at Xiao Mo and the other two people waiting aside.
On the other hand, the foreigner behind Commissioner Bao tilted his head and looked at Xiao Mo and the two of them. Xiao Mo was nothing special, so he just ignored him. Xue Lihong was stared at twice because he was so frighteningly thin.
Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong didn't say anything and pretended to be part of the background. Xiao Mo only nodded to him when he saw the soldier who stretched out his hand to pull him out of the elevator.
The soldier glanced at him.
The foreigners, the entourage and the group of soldiers all followed.
Xiao Mo waited for a while and saw a group of people walking away, so he winked at Xue Lihong. The two pretended to visit the patient and walked openly to the first room on the right side of the entrance.
The room door was locked.
Xiao Mo didn't worry about this. Seeing that there was no one around, and the group of people near the office above didn't notice it, he immediately opened his backpack and started looking for tools. He could make this simple pinball door lock with just a few tools. Pry open.
"There are cameras." Xue Lihong whispered in Xiao Mo's ear, crossed Xiao Mo, took out the master key and inserted it into the door lock, turning it, and the door opened.
Xiao Mo glanced at the camera diagonally across from the corner of his eye... silently zipped up his backpack, carried it behind him again, opened the door, and entered the house.
He didn't ask Xue Lihong where he got the master key. He felt that even if he asked, the other party wouldn't answer him.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the young man seemed very similar to the system that could not communicate? Maybe young people are more humane, but when it comes to something he doesn't want to say, you don't want to get a single word of correct answer from his mouth.
Xue Lihong didn't know Xiao Mo's psychological activities. When he saw Xiao Mo walking in the door, he quickly glanced around and focused on the group of soldiers guarding outside the office. Seeing nothing strange, he ducked into the room and said Close the door casually.
This is like a warehouse used to store spare instruments. There are several machines placed against the wall in the room.
As soon as Xiao Mo walked into the room, a system prompt sounded in his mind: "The mission target is approaching, please prepare scavengers for recovery."
Xue Lihong didn't need Xiao Mo's guidance this time and walked directly to a large instrument leaning against the wall on the left, "Are the gold-eating insects in here?"
Xiao Mo was surprised, "How did you know?"
"I heard."
Xiao Mo quickly listened carefully, but after listening for a long time, he heard nothing.
"How did you hear it? Is there any special sound?"
The young man did not answer. He squatted down and began to look at the instrument, which was almost entirely made of metal except for a small display screen.
Xiao Mo also knew that this was not nonsense, so he hurried forward to check together.
"According to the three-dimensional image shown to me by the system, the thing should be at this location." Xiao Mo clicked somewhere under the instrument with his finger - this is when the system is most convenient.
"Approximately how deep is it?" The young man took off his backpack, took out tools from inside and began to disassemble the instrument casing.
Xiao Mo quickly judged the depth of the gold-eating insect based on the three-dimensional image in his mind and reported it casually. When he reported the number, he felt strange. How could he know all the dimensions of the instrument just by looking at the three-dimensional diagram? It's almost like a gut feeling... Could this also have something to do with his repair abilities
"Be careful!" Xiao Mo shouted in a low voice when he saw the instrument cover being removed.
The young man paused his hand slightly, took out a strong flashlight from his backpack, pointed it at the instrument and shined it into it.
Xiao Mo also knelt down on the ground, looking in along the bright light.
Right in the center of the instrument, there was a fist-sized hole in a piece of metal that looked like a controller. Inside the hole, a weird-looking gold-eating insect was squirming, seemingly eating.
Xiao Mo put on his labor protection gloves, took out the clip, and carefully took out the clawed beetle.
The beetle with a big belly was pinched painfully, and its two large dark blue pincers opened and closed desperately.
Xiao Mo held the beetle in a clip and looked at it carefully. Of course, he didn't dare to get close to it.
"This one seems to be bigger than the previous seven. Where did this thing come from?"
Xue Lihong continued to shine a strong flashlight on other parts of the instrument, "Look there and there, this bug probably ate its way in."
Xue Lihong moved the instrument, followed the path taken by the insect, and explored it bit by bit. Finally, she found a small hole as big as a grain of rice on the back of the instrument.
"You know that's not what I'm asking. Someone specifically placed this bug on the outer shell of this instrument? Is this the breeder the system mentioned?" Xiao Mo guessed as he looked at the small hole.
"*Not leaving ten. I think the breeder should have placed insect eggs first, or when the insect was still young. You can see the path it eats. It is thin at the front and thicker at the back. This shows that it Its food intake is gradually increasing, including its body." Xue Lihong looked at the insect's figure, then at the original small hole, and frowned slightly.
He wondered, how long did it take for the bug to grow so big? How big will it get if it continues to eat