The Scavengers

Chapter 65: 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. on March 26th

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September 26, 05:52 in the morning, there are still 41 hours left before the mission time limit countdown.

Xiao Mo woke up from a deep sleep and felt that he was very energetic, but he still couldn't bear to open his eyes and planned to close his eyes for a while until he touched a...

Xiao Mo was so frightened that he opened his eyes and saw a naked little guy lying on top of him, sleeping soundly, drooling on his chest.

I wiped off the saliva and touched my chest. It was strange, why did it hurt

"Xiaohong? Xuelihong?" Xiao Mo patted the child calmly.

The child only moved his head and slept soundly.

Xiao Mo sat up with the child in his arms, and his eyes naturally fell on the clothes, pants, shoes and socks that were thrown casually on the ground.

The snoring stopped, Xiao Mo lowered his head, and faced the child's open eyes.

"Uh, morning." Xiao Mo raised his hand to look at the time and found that it was just under six o'clock.

The child smacked his lips, slid off Xiao Mo's body, and sat on the bed for a while, then leaned forward to grab the backpack he threw on the ground.

"You..." Is that all you plan to do

The child took out a set of children's clothing from his backpack and began to put it on slowly.

Seeing him like this, Xiao Mo felt inexplicably guilty. He snatched his little socks and said awkwardly: "I'll help you recover. It's too unsafe for you to do this."

The child grabbed the socks and turned around, raising his little feet and trying to put them on.

Xiao Mo grabbed it again and saw the child staring at him with a pair of big lifeless eyes. He burst into laughter and said, "I'm not angry yet, and you're angry now? Well, it was my fault yesterday. I reacted too much, but you won't be angry in the future either." Don't make that kind of joke with me again, I'm a serious person." He laughed again.

After folding all the children's clothes and putting them into the bag, Xiao Mo took out a set of adult clothes from his bag and threw the underwear to the child first, "Put them on."

The child picked up the underwear and smelled it. Xiao Mo's face turned red and he quickly grabbed the underwear, "What's so good about this? I washed it thoroughly! If you don't want to wear mine, just take out your own!" "

The child couldn't figure out why this person could freely give him his underwear to wear, but was unwilling to mate with him? Doesn't he feel that the act of wearing each other's underwear is more intimate than having sex

Xiao Mo urged the child to take out his adult underwear and put it on, and then helped him recover.

The recovery process was very painful. Xue Lihong lay on the bed for a while before sitting up.

Seeing him in such pain, Xiao Mo regretted everything. He was reminded by Xiao Hong to supply him with energy in advance, which prevented him from turning into a juvenile body again during this period, and he knew that he would become an adult from a juvenile body. Feel how painful it is.

"I'm sorry. If you feel like you can't stand it any longer, tell me immediately. I will never threaten you with this matter again. Are you hungry? I'll go to the hall to get food. Can you sleep a little longer?"

"No need." Xue Lihong stood up, took out clothes from her backpack and put them on.

Xiao Mo stood in front of the bed, scratching his head and turning around. When he saw the clothes thrown on the ground, he quickly picked them up. Seeing that there was still water in the faucet, he quickly took out soap and washed them.

Xue Lihong sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Xiao Mo's busy back, curling her lips proudly. The effect was good, and it was not in vain. He deliberately overdrafted some abilities that were not suitable for use last night, and successfully transformed into a juvenile body in his sleep.

Forced to look at that system all night: Should I remind the host that he is being taken advantage of by his employees? But what if the host is so stupid and suddenly doesn’t want to tell him

The hall in the morning was chaotic and noisy.

Most people were queuing up to get the food, and some people squatted in the hall to eat after receiving the food.

Everyone was talking about the alarm last night. Xiao Mo listened to a few words and asked Xue Lihong curiously: "Did you hear it? I seemed to hear it last night, but I thought it was a dream."

When Xiao Mo thought of the him in the dream, he clenched his fist slightly. That was not him! Absolutely not!

Xue Lihong did not hide the fact that she slipped out, and whispered what she saw and heard last night.

Xiao Mo was shocked and lowered his voice: "Did that thing come in from outside?"

"We're not sure yet, but if it really comes from outside, there should be more than just this one."

"Is Lao Wu and his family okay? Have you seen them?" Xiao Mo turned around and looked around, worried. He was afraid that those poison bombs did not kill the mutant rats and angels on the spot, especially the mutant rats. If they dug their holes deep enough, they might be able to continue digging deeper after realizing something was wrong.

Besides, maybe some mutant rats dug and dug their way here.

"They're fine. I don't think even a third-level mutant rat can dig through this place so easily." Xue Lihong has made calculations. If she wants to dig through the walls of this air-raid shelter, even a third-level mutant rat will need at least one It will take months to find the weak point.

Xiao Mo felt relieved, "What if they avoid the concrete wall, dig all the way down from the soft soil next to it, and then dig in through the sewer?"

"It's indeed possible if they smell a lot of food here." But Xue Lihong still felt that this was more like internal strife than external strife. The evidence was the attitude of the soldiers.

So calming!

Abnormality is a monster. If it was really a mutant rat from outside that dug in from the sewer, the soldiers would never be so calm. Otherwise, they would have been in a row just to check if anyone was scratched, but there was none of that.

It felt as if this was not the first time the soldiers had encountered this kind of thing, and they already had a relatively safe solution.

"We'll contact Cheng Zai after breakfast later." Xiao Mo didn't want to delay it any longer. Perhaps because this base was deep underground, he always felt a little unreasonably irritable.

Xue Lihong felt that she had taken advantage of her last night and was in a good mood. Xiao Mo would do whatever she said without any disagreement.

But they couldn't contact Cheng Zai.

"We can't wait any longer. The situation in this base may be more complicated than we imagined. It's best not to get involved. I suggest that we directly state our identities and complete the mission as quickly as possible and leave here."

In the end, Xiao Mo had no choice but to tell the soldiers in the hall that he needed to contact the higher-ups here about something important.

Captain Liu came and said that he could tell him anything.

"The stakes are high..."

Captain Liu had no expression on his face, "If you were your boss, would you allow anyone to meet you after hearing these four words? Then you wouldn't have to do anything else for a day. Just being a visitor would make you Submerge you."

Xiao Mo hesitated for three seconds and said: "Actually, we are mercenaries, hired by General Qiu to come here to find something at the aerospace material center. This thing is very important and must be found as soon as possible. If you don't believe it, you can contact Qiu at Zhongshan Base. General, he can prove our identity."

Captain Liu's eyes darkened, "Really?"

Xiao Mo nodded heavily, "True."

"name?"

"Scavenging team, Xiao Mo."

Captain Liu paused for a second when he heard the name of the mercenary team and said, "Wait for me for five minutes."

Afterwards, Team Liu asked two soldiers to keep an eye on the two men, turned around, walked to the corner, and turned on the wireless communicator.

After a while.

"Follow me." Captain Liu, who didn't know who he had contacted, led the two of them to the passage on the left. Many people on the road were secretly watching them.

After walking about a hundred meters inside, Captain Liu opened a door and said, "Please come in."

Xiao Mo stood outside the door and looked inside. It looked like an interrogation room.

"What does this mean?" Xiao Mo stood outside the door and did not move.

"As requested above, you can use it as a temporary reception room."

"Captain Liu!" A familiar voice sounded, and Cheng Zai came over in an electric wheelchair.

Seeing this super lucky guy, Team Liu smiled a little. Although Cheng Zai was "misdiagnosed" as a person infected with the Angel virus, he would still be under observation for a few days. However, because of the special nature of his work, Cheng Zai was relatively free to move, and he was followed by two soldiers.

When Xiao Mo saw Cheng Zai, he immediately let out a breath. He thought something had happened to Cheng Zai. It seemed that someone was behind this, preventing him from passing the news directly to Cheng Zai.

Cheng Zai came over and said, "Captain Liu, they are my friends. I promise they are not bad people."

"I know." Team Liu's expression softened a little, "Otherwise I wouldn't have informed you again, but the higher-ups asked to bring them here."

"Captain Liu, wait a moment." Cheng Zai came over and pulled Xiao Mo aside and whispered: "Brother Xiao, what are you doing?"

A smile appeared on the corner of Xiao Mo's mouth, "I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm just looking for something."

"What are you looking for?"

"Sorry, I can't tell."

Cheng Zai frowned, "Brother Xiao, I didn't think it was necessary at first. There are some things I didn't tell you. The situation here is much more complicated than you think, especially..."

"Who is the person sent by General Qiu Feng?" An unkind voice interrupted what Cheng Zai was about to say.

Two middle-aged men were sitting on a battery car, driving around the corner of the passage with several soldiers.

Cheng Zai sped up his speech and condensed his unfinished words into one sentence: "Don't expose your ability." Then he turned the wheelchair and faced the visitor.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong also turned to look at each other.

Xiao Mo also tripled his alertness. Why did Cheng Zai say not to expose his abilities? Obviously, the country has issued express regulations requiring that no one in the country is allowed to conduct illegal human experiments on people with superpowers or ordinary people. Even if it is necessary, it must be voluntary, and the content of the experiments must not cause death or disability. Could it be that here...

Looking back now, I will indeed find some unreasonable things. For example, before the bomb was dropped, the managers here must have received the news. Why didn't they lead the troops to evacuate farther away

Is it for the last group of survivors? Then as long as the air raid shelters are opened, why bother leaving so many people

But if this is not just an air defense center for evacuation, but there is Usaiken or some other important organization...

But if it was for Yucaiyan, they could have transferred all the people and important property in advance. Why should they stay

If it wasn't for Ucaiyan's scientific researchers and important research materials, then what exactly is in the main body of this underground building

Thinking of the monster that came out of the toilet to kill people and look for food, Xiao Mo suddenly felt that this underground air defense base had become extremely mysterious.

"Cheng Zai, I thought you were in the medical monitoring room."

After a middle-aged man with high cheekbones said this, he asked another gentle man next to him who was wearing a military uniform and a colonel with epaulettes, "Why do you let infected people roam around outside? If the infection spreads, are you responsible?" "

Before Colonel Sven spoke, Cheng Zai took the first step and said: "What's spreading? I don't bite people. Besides, I entered the control room, who can complete the work at hand, your people?"

The middle-aged man stopped talking and said angrily: "Then why don't you do your work in the communications room and come here instead?"

"I don't seem to be under your control, right?" Cheng Zai blocked it again.

"Xiao Cheng!" Colonel Sven jumped off the battery car, shook his head at Cheng Zai, and said to the aggressive man: "Cheng Zai has been confirmed not to be infected with the Angel virus. Of course he can leave the monitoring room and go back to work."

The man with high cheekbones lost his voice and said: "What? He was not infected? But yesterday... "

"His good luck is exactly the lucky 3%."

The man with high cheekbones was so jealous that his eyes were red. How could this boy be so lucky? Feeling unhappy, he got off the battery car with an unkind expression and looked at Xiao Mo and the other two, "Are you from Qiu Feng?"

Xiao Mo did not admit it directly, only said: "We need to contact General Qiu immediately. Can you communicate with the outside world?"

Cheng Zai quickly replied: "Yes."

"Cheng Zai!" The man with high cheekbones was angry.

"Xiao Cheng, you have nothing to do here. There is still a lot of work to be done in the communications room, right? You go back first." Colonel Sven was obviously protecting Cheng Zai.

The man with high cheekbones seemed to know that he couldn't move Cheng Zai, so he immediately pointed the muzzle at Xiao Mo and the two of them, "You said you were looking for something? What are you looking for?"

Xiao Mo, "Sorry, this is confidential, we can't tell."

"Secret? Huh! You said you are Qiu Feng's people? Where is the evidence?"

"No, but if we contact General Qiu, he will prove our identity. Who are you?"

"I am Wang Jinian, one of the people in charge of this underground security base." The cheekbones man didn't like Xiao Mo's attitude, "You didn't say what you were looking for, and you couldn't prove your identity, but you want to use the communication facilities? By the way, this Xiao Mo is the one who threatened to open the third door lock, right? It is said that they also left a false identity? How can you let people with such ulterior motives just walk around the base like this? Captain Liu, Catch them!"

"Wait!" Cheng Zai and Colonel Sven shouted at the same time.

"Ma Xiang, don't forget, I am responsible for the security of the base!" Wang Jinian glared at Colonel Sven.

"It's just that the rear is your responsibility, but the front is still ours. Also, Captain Liu is not yours, so please don't give any orders at will." Sven Colonel Ma Xiang replied unceremoniously.

"They are going to the Aerospace Materials Center to look for things, so I will be responsible for them." Wang Jinian's voice was gloomy.

"We haven't gone yet?" Ma Xiang turned to face Xiao Mo with a smile on his face, "We will contact General Qiu Feng, but you need to wait here for a while."

"Okay, thank you." But Xiao Mo still didn't want to enter the interrogation room.

Cheng Zai stretched out his hand, "Do you have any direct contact information for General Qiu? We only have the satellite and wireless communication frequency band of Zhongshan Security Base."

"Yes." Xiao Mo took out a ballpoint pen and wrote a series of numbers on Cheng Zai's palm, "This phone number can go directly to General Qiu."

Cheng Zai blinked knowingly, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else. I will eliminate all traces when I contact you."

Xiao Mo somewhat understood why Cheng Zai had a special status. It was probably not only his background, but also his own abilities.

Wang Jinian's chest rose and fell, as if he was full of anger. Seeing that Cheng Zai was going to use the contact resources without his consent, his face became even more ugly, "Captain Liu, you'd better keep an eye on these two people and don't let them break in!"

Team Liu replied calmly: "I will do my duty well."

Wang Jinian saw Cheng Zai leaving and immediately climbed onto the battery car. He wanted to go to the communications room and watch to see if these two people were really Qiu Feng's people. If so, haha!

And that kid Cheng Zai was so lucky. Not only did he not die outside, but he also suffered so many injuries and was not infected with the Angel Virus. What kind of luck is this

And if he wants to control the entire communications room, he must not keep this kid Cheng Zai, even if he is very useful. Now he just waits for the day when all the equipment in the communication room is repaired. When that time comes, he will let Cheng Zai accompany the monster.

Wang Jinian looked at Cheng Zai's back, thinking about how miserable this kid would be in the future, and immediately felt that his blocked heart felt much relieved. But even with such a plan, he didn't want to make Ma Xiang's force feel better before doing so.

Thinking of this, he didn't care that the identities of Xiao Mo and the two had not yet been verified. He immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and tuned it to a frequency band: "Mr. Bao, it's me, Wang Jinian, I have something to tell you..."

On this end, Ma Xiang was not angry at being left behind. The communication room was still under their control, and he was not afraid of Wang Jinian causing any trouble inside.

"You don't look like soldiers." Ma Xiang smiled gently. Seeing that Xiao Mo was disgusted with the interrogation room, he didn't force the two of them to go in. He stayed at the door and talked to the two of them.

However, Xiao Mo was the only one who spoke, and Xue Lihong minimized her presence.

"We are considered mercenaries." Ma Xiang's attitude was gentle, and Xiao Mo smiled back.

Ma Xiang was not curious about the identity of the two mercenaries. Since the chaos emerged, mercenaries have also emerged in response to the situation. Nowadays, mercenaries have become widespread. As long as people with some abilities and ordinary people will form gangs, A mercenary team was formed.

"In such a dangerous situation, you went all the way to City H to look for something. Is that something important to General Qiu?"

Xiao Mo asked back: "This place is very secretive and strong. Is it because of the aerospace materials research center?"

"You two are the only ones doing this task? Are you superpowers?"

"Why don't you evacuate before dropping the bomb? What's in here?"

Ma Xiang laughed, "Well, it seems I can't ask anything else. What's your name?"

"Xiao Mo, this is my brother Xue Lihong."

Only then did Ma Xiang notice Xue Lihong, and a flash of surprise suddenly flashed in his eyes. He had never noticed this person before, but this person was clearly standing next to Xiao Mo.

"Hello, little brother, I see you don't look very good, is it..."

"Bu—bu—" the harsh electronic warning sound resounded throughout the entire passage again.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong immediately entered combat mode.

Captain Liu picked up the walkie-talkie and asked about the situation.

Several soldiers all took out their guns and pointed them at both sides of the passage.

Ma Xiang looked calm. After about three minutes, the warning sound disappeared. He smiled at Xiao Mo and the others and explained: "It may be the impact of bombing. There are cracks somewhere, but they should have been repaired by now."

Xiao Mohehe. Make it up, I don’t believe it anyway.

Xue Lihong was listening carefully when the alarm sounded. She didn't know what he heard, and a little mocking smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. But his smile was too weak and his presence was too low, so no one noticed his smile.

The walkie-talkie rustled, and Ma Xiang picked up the walkie-talkie, "I'm Ma Xiang, please speak."

Cheng Zai's unclear voice came from the intercom: "The identities of Xiao Mo and the two have been verified. General Qiu Feng from the Zhongshan City Security Base requested to speak with the two to determine the progress of the mission."

07:00 sharp.

There were still 40 hours left before the time limit, and it took an hour just to negotiate and contact General Qiu.

The two followed Ma Xiang in the battery car and continued down the left passage. At the end was a freight elevator. They took the freight elevator down and opened the door into a passage that looked like an office building.

"This building belongs to us." Ma Xiang said something of unknown meaning, swiped his card all the way and took the elevator in the building down to the second floor.

Xiao Mo and the other two looked at the floor plan and knew that this three-story underground building was not the main underground building. There was another building behind this building that was about five stories underground. That was the main underground building of the Aerospace Materials Center.

Ma Xiang said that this building belongs to them. Combined with what he said before, does it mean that the military forces only go to this building, and the main body behind it is not their responsibility

The two of them didn't ask or say anything along the way. Ma Xiang didn't lead the two of them to talk and took them directly to a normal conference room.

After a simple adjustment, Cheng Zai's voice first sounded from the loudspeaker, "Brother Xiao, say whatever you want later, I guarantee no one can overhear."

Ma Xiang chuckled and cursed something in a low voice, pointed to the microphone on the table, and indicated that they could just talk directly.

Xiao Mo smiled, sat down at the table, pressed the answer button on the microphone and said, "Thanks!"

"It's a small thing. Get ready, I'll get through it soon."

Xiao Mo grabbed the matching headphones and put them on, and soon a familiar voice came from inside: "It's connected? Xiao Xiao, are you there?"

In order to save communication resources, there are only calls but no video.

Xiao Mo said, "General Qiu, we are here."

"It's good that you're all fine!" Qiu Feng was determined, with obvious joy in his voice, "How did you complete your mission?"

"Now we are in some trouble." Xiao Mo was very grateful to Qiu Feng. He helped them get rid of this matter, and also helped them cover up. In the end, they had to use his power to help him complete this task.

Qiu Feng said directly: "Tell me, what's the trouble?"

"Wait a moment." Xiao Mo turned to look at Ma Xiang and others, "Can you give us some private space?"

Ma Xiang pondered for a moment, nodded, and exited with everyone in the room.

Xue Lihong looked up at the monitor in the corner of the conference room, took out a few things from her backpack and began to arrange them.

Seeing Xue Lihong nodding, Xiao Mo continued to speak into the microphone: "General Qiu, the target of my mission this time is probably in the main underground building of the Aerospace Materials Research Center, but we don't have permission to enter. I would like to ask you to take a look. Is it possible…”

At the same time, several people in the room next to the communication room were eavesdropping on the call between Xiao Mo and Qiu Feng. They first discovered that the monitor suddenly broke and they could not see anything in that room.

Fortunately, the call was still audible, but as soon as I heard "The target of the mission is probably there now," there was a sharp and harsh sound of nails scratching the blackboard.

Everyone in the room couldn't bear it and covered their ears.

Wang Jinian yelled: "It must be Cheng Zai! This little beast!"

Bao Yuezhi quickly turned off the loudspeaker, and the tormenting sound finally disappeared from the room.

"Master Bao?"

Bao Yuezhi's face was so dark that he could drip black water. "Let's go! Go directly to find someone. I'll see who dares to stop me!"

Cheng Zai next door smiled evilly. He knew that someone would not be able to help eavesdropping. Brother Xiao, I can only help you so much. I hope your mission goes well.

Xue Lihong raised her eyebrows. The boy was actually one step ahead of him. Although the other party controlled the equipment terminal, he still felt uncomfortable losing to a kid.