The Scavengers

Chapter 66: July 26th, 7 00-8 00

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In the conference room, after Qiu Feng confirmed that the communication was safe, he knocked on the table and asked, "Can you tell me what the mission is?"

Xiao Mo hesitated. Qiu Feng was considered a good person, but he was also a calculating person. He could help Xiao Mo and the two of them cover up, but he wanted him to use his power and personal friendship to help them get into the underground body of Yucaiyan. To gain entry, they must also come up with something that can impress the other party.

Xue Lihong pressed his shoulder and said, "Let's talk." The original virus can be kept as a sample. They didn't expect so much when doing the mission for the first time, but since then he has participated in Xiao Mo's missions, as long as the sample can be kept He collected them all.

Xiao Mo made up his mind and pressed the call button: "It's about the original angel virus."

Qiu Feng sat up straight and said, "Are you sure? That thing is in the underground body you mentioned?"

"Probably."

Qiu Feng's expression turned serious, "How likely is it?"

Xiao Mo said the lowest value, "30%."

Qiu Feng clenched his fists and said directly without asking Xiao Mo's source of information: "Thirty percent, that's enough! I'll help you, but you have to bring me the original Angel Virus."

Xue Lihong pressed the call button first, "Reward."

Qiu Feng was stunned for a moment and cursed: "Is it Xue Lihong? How many times have you ripped me off? You even bullied Lei Bing!"

Xue Lihong still had two words: "Reward."

"You...! Ten thousand points for the base, plus two thousand alloy particles."

"Thirty thousand points, five thousand alloy particles."

Qiu Feng couldn't help but curse, "If what you bring back is indeed the Angel Virus, and it is enough to develop a vaccine, the reward will be as you said."

Xiao Mo coughed and said, "Now I'll ask General Qiu to help us get the pass."

"I'll first check who is in charge there and wait for my news." Qiu Feng couldn't help but ask again: "It's just the two of you, is it okay? Do you want me to send Lei Bing and the others?"

Xiao Mo shook his head, "This place has become a closed body after the bomb was dropped. The tunnel leading to the outside world is being dug. Lei Bing and the others can't get in even if they come over. If our mission fails, you can think of a way."

"Okay, take care of yourselves." Qiu Feng simply ended the call with Xiao Mo, and then rubbed his eyebrows with a headache. It was no longer as usual now. Even on weekdays, he did not have the right to let Yucaiyan open his permission to others. Anyone can enter at will, and at most they can get a place to visit.

But it was related to the Angel Virus. Normally, he could report the matter and send someone directly there in the name of official business, but now... he thought he might bleed a little.

It's not that he is selfish and doesn't want to share this matter with the people in the underground base of H City, but the situation in various places is complicated now. If something as important as the Angel Virus falls into the hands of some greedy or perverted people, let alone develop a vaccine and provide it to people. Everyone, even if it can be developed, it will probably become a weapon used by some ambitious people to control the people.

If Xiao Mo and the two are unable to come out in the end, he will make the matter public and treat it as a public mission to summon all parties to find a way to enter the underground base.

Before Bao Yuezhi reached the front building, he heard someone passing on the news that Ma Xiang had requested a meeting to discuss giving Xiao Mo and his wife permission to enter the main building.

Bao Yuezhi snorted coldly, and immediately changed the direction of travel with Wang Jinian.

Wang Jinian said bitterly: "Master Bao, Qiu Feng is the person in charge of the Zhongshan City Security Base. Why does he ask us to give his people access? Who does he think he is?"

"Qiu Feng is not an idiot. If he dares to mention it, he will definitely come up with a reward that satisfies us. Let's see what price he offers first." Bao Yuezhi suppressed his anger.

Zhongshan City was once the first city where mutations occurred and also the first city where people with superpowers appeared. He could have grasped the first-hand information before everyone else, but Qiu Feng was obedient to them, and later even became ill. Commander Yang seized command of the entire Zhongshan City Security Base, threw back all his reasonable demands, and later forced them to leave Zhongshan City...

It was rare that Qiu Feng took the initiative to ask him this time. He was very much looking forward to Qiu Feng's face when he knew that he was the main manager of this base. It would look great!

Bao Yuezhi became excited and walked faster and faster.

Xiao Mo and the other two were unaware of the negotiation process and could only wait in the reception room.

Taking advantage of his free time, Xiao Mo asked the system in his mind: "Has another consciousness been found?"

The system responded: "I have scanned your whole body no less than five times, and I have not found the existence of another conscious body. However, a conscious body with independent thinking can hide anywhere. I am not 100% sure what is in your body." There really is no other consciousness. Next time if you encounter that consciousness again, please tell me. Only in this way can I catch it."

Xiao Mo didn't feel at ease because of this, but the system couldn't find it, so he could only put the matter aside for the time being.

"By the way, Lao Wu quietly stuffed me a box of snacks before. You can try it." Xiao Mo slapped his head and almost forgot, hoping it hadn't gone bad.

He took out the lunch box from his backpack and handed it to Xue Lihong. Xiao Mo said with a smile: "Our chef's skills are still very good. Many people come from far away to eat at my brother's restaurant."

Xue Lihong opened the lunch box, her eyes narrowed a little, "Dumplings!"

"Check to see if it's broken first. Lao Wu said not to eat too much..."

Xue Lihong, who had eaten half the box of dumplings, picked up a dumpling with her fingers and brought it to Xiao Mo, "Ah."

Xiao Mo opened his mouth subconsciously.

A dumpling was stuffed into his mouth.

tasty! Xiao Mo was quickly captured by the deliciousness of dumplings. He had not eaten such normal food for a long time.

Xue Lihong picked up a dumpling again, and Xiao Mo opened his mouth again, but the dumpling circled in front of his mouth and entered Xue Lihong's own mouth.

"Hey!" Xiao Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You brat, he also said that he had lived for a long time, so he hadn't grown up at all, right

Xue Lihong suddenly tilted her head, "This dumpling..."

"What? Is there a problem? Old Wu said not to eat too much." Xiao Mo quickly stretched out his hand to help him recover.

"It can replenish energy."

"Um?"

Xue Lihong was still savoring the taste, "I just ate ten dumplings, and it felt like I had replenished the energy of a first-class standard energy crystal."

Xiao Mo opened his mouth wide, "So powerful?"

Xue Lihong stuffed the last dumpling into Xiao Mo's open mouth, "Next time we ask Lao Wu to make more. I still have a large piece of frozen beef here."

Xiao Mo cherished the last dumpling and said regretfully: "This box is wasted."

"What's a waste? We may need a lot of physical strength and energy later."

While talking and laughing, they couldn't feel the passage of time at all. When they received Cheng Zai's reminder, the two realized that nearly an hour had passed.

Xiao Mo put on his headphones again to connect with Qiu Feng, while Xue Lihong listened.

Qiu Feng's voice was the same as before. He opened his mouth to explain the background of the base's managers: "This is indeed Yucaiyan's underground research center, and it is also one of the prepared air defense bases. There are usually garrison defenses. You see It should be the original garrison and the local garrison that later retreated here to protect the people. The person in charge of the army is Major General Zhang Hua, but Major General Zhang is now injured and unconscious, so the management can only be taken over by Colonel Ma Xiang, who is a technical officer."

After a pause, Qiu Feng continued: "In addition to the military, there are also Ucaiyan security personnel and people from the disease center staying at this base."

Xiao Mo was surprised, "Disease center?" Why did a disease center also pop up

"Because it is deep underground and can isolate the source of infection. The disease center also occupies one floor there for offices." Qiu Feng told him about his investigation, mainly because Ma Xiang secretly told him, "Because Major General Zhang was there before he fell ill." Most of the soldiers were transferred to protect the retreating people, and there are currently less than a hundred troops stationed in the base."

"What! Only such a few people?" No wonder Cheng Zai refused to say the number of soldiers.

"There are more than ten people with technical positions among them. Because it is necessary to maintain communication between the underground and the ground, Colonel Ma Xiang took the initiative to bring a group of volunteer technical soldiers to stay."

Xue Lihong pressed the call button: "Are there no municipal staff from City H here?"

Qiu Feng praised: "You are still so sharp. I asked Ma Xiang and he said that there was a little turmoil before because those municipal staff wanted to get closer to the people in the disease center and stole the survivors from the base. Experimental subjects, Major General Zhang will control those people first."

Qiu Feng's voice changed, "What I'm going to say next is very important, you should listen carefully."

Xiao Mo asked Xue Lihong to come and listen together. Xue Lihong shook his head to show that he could hear it.

Qiu Feng said there: "Because there are few troops stationed there, Wang Jinian, the left-behind head of Ucaiyan, colluded with Bao Yuezhihang, the head of the disease center."

"Bao Yuezhi?" Xiao Mo quickly recalled the young man who captured Qian Yunkai and Wang Cheng and called himself Commissioner Bao. "He didn't leave before dropping the bomb? Is there anything important here that makes him reluctant to leave?"

Qiu Feng sneered, "It's not that he was reluctant to leave, but he was delayed before escaping, and then he couldn't leave if he wanted to."

"What delayed him?" Xiao Mo felt that this was important for some reason.

But Qiu Feng didn't know this either. "Ma Xiang said he didn't know either. He only knew that Bao Yuezhi was doing biological research in the main building, and sometimes he would accidentally let things inside escape."

"Sure enough!" Xiao Mo was worried, wouldn't his mission target be one of Bao Yuezhi's research bodies? Hope it's not such a coincidence.

Qiu Feng reminded the two of them, "You have to be careful. The Bao family and his son are determined to eliminate the supernormal people. They do things cruelly and unscrupulously. However, because their slogans echo the interests of most ordinary people, they still have a certain reputation among the people, and even There are also people above who are secretly supporting them.”

Qiu Feng's implication was that if something happened to them in H City, even if he knew it was Bao Yuezhi's hand, he wouldn't be able to touch the other party.

"Eliminate the superpowers? I think they are going crazy because they want to become superpowers." Xiao Mo didn't believe that Bao Yuezhi would serve the people at all. Although he had never met his father Bao Yiyong, he also rejected superpowers. Would Bao Yiyong not know what his son was doing

Qiu Feng, "Originally, I thought that the authenticity of the original Angel Virus you mentioned was only 30% possible, but with Bao Yuezhi here, this possibility can be raised to 50%."

"If we have a conflict with Bao Yuezhi, will the military deal with us?" Xiao Mo had to confirm this first.

"I have reached an agreement with Ma Xiang. You just have to complete your mission. They only protect the survivors in the front and are not responsible for the safety of the main building in the rear. But they will not provide you with much help. Once you can get out of the Come out of the main building, they will find a way to hide you, and when the tunnel is dug, they will send you out. I will also send people over to help them dig a tunnel from the other end, and try to get you out as soon as possible."

"Thank you."

"But there is one thing. The reason why Bao Yuezhi is evenly matched with Ma Xiang and the others, or even has a slight advantage, is because he has an irregular army in his hands. There are about a hundred people, and they are all equipped with weapons. Are there any people with super powers? I don’t know, but if there is, they must have controlled their minds, so you must be careful.”

Xiao Mo frowned. One hundred people would be few if they were a garrison, but if they were enemies, there would be many. "If we are not careful when we conflict with Bao Yuezhi..."

Qiu Feng laughed and said in a fierce voice: "Then do it cleanly. There are so many biological experimental subjects there, do you understand?"

Xiao Mo understood instantly.

"If you can't kill me, you have to teach that guy a lesson for me. Who does he think he is? How dare he talk to me like that? I don't even have the guts!"

Xiao Mo felt that General Qiu was really offended, and he didn't know what Bao Yuezhi said.

Qiu Feng calmed down and said, "According to the result of the negotiation between me and that retarded man, you cannot move freely. After entering the main building, they will send people to follow you all the way to prevent you from going to the wrong place, so everything depends on you after entering there." By myself."

"Well, we will complete the mission as soon as possible. If you haven't received my message at midnight on the 28th, then our mission 9 has failed."

"What's the point of this time?"

Xiao Mo thought of a reason, "We have received news that if we cannot find the original virus before 23:00 tomorrow night, someone will move it away."

Qiu Feng pounded the table, "You should have told me earlier!" This way he could send more people to look for the original virus with Xiao Mo.

"Isn't this for sure? The base is so short of manpower now. You see, we don't even have the forensic doctor and Wang Cheng from our mercenary team." Finally, Xiao Mo added out of nowhere: "There is a communications soldier here named Cheng Zai, has good skills and reliable people."

Qiu Feng wrote down the matter and told him something about what Ma Xiang told him before hanging up the call.

The contact here had just been broken, and before Xiao Mo had time to negotiate with Xue Lihong, there was a knock on the conference room door.

A group of mercenary soldiers wearing black uniforms appeared outside the door of the conference room.

Bao Yuezhi did not show up, and only sent a team of six people to lead the way for Xiao Mo and the others and monitor them at the same time.

Xiao Mo saw an acquaintance, and the soldier captain who led them was the cool man who pulled him out of the elevator at Zhongshan No. 1 Hospital.

However, he remembered clearly that this man was still wearing a formal military uniform at that time. Has he changed his skin now, or has he retired from the army

"Follow me." The cool man didn't say much, turned around and led the way.

Seeing Ma Xiang on the road, Ma Xiang followed them to the passage connecting the front building and the rear main building. Going forward, he would not be able to pass without the invitation from Bao Yuezhi's side.

Xue Lihong approached Ma Xiang and quietly handed him a note. Ma Xiang also quickly stuffed something into his hand.

Cool Man obviously saw it, but because of Ma Xiang's identity, he couldn't snatch the note from the opponent's hand.

Ma Xiang opened the note and glanced at it, nodded to Xue Lihong, then balled up the note and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it hard before swallowing it.

The cool man watched helplessly as the two men acted in front of him, but he couldn't stop them. He frowned and said to the two men: "You are not allowed to carry weapons in the front, and you will also be inspected."

Ma Xiang snorted, "Are you kidding? They have a mission and go to your place to find things. They don't bring weapons. What if they can't come back?"

The cool man's face remained the same, "Even if they are armed, if they endanger the safety of Ucaiyan and the disease center, they will not be able to come back."

"In that case, what's the difference between them with weapons and without weapons?" Ma Xiang made it clear that he was on Xiao Mo's side.

The cool man sneered, "You can discuss it slowly, we can afford to wait."

Xiao Mo was helpless. The other party could afford to wait, but they had no time to waste.

Xue Lihong took off the backpack, turned it upside down, shook it out, took out a few clothes and two bottles of mineral water, and threw the backpack to the cool man.

The cool man checked it carefully.

Xiao Mo broke into a cold sweat. He knew that Xue Lihong's backpack was special, but out of respect, he had never touched the other party's backpack and didn't know what mechanism was inside.

But it seemed that the cool man didn't check anything and just thought it was an ordinary backpack.

Xiao Mo also handed his backpack to one of the mercenaries. The mercenary dug out a utility knife and confiscated it, leaving other clothes and food untouched.

A mercenary stepped forward and scanned the two people's bodies with a handheld security scanner. The fine model of this thing could scan out the wires in the bugs.

Cool Man threw the backpack back to Xue Lihong. The two of them passed the inspection.

Ma Xiang snorted coldly, his expression very unhappy.

"Open the door." Cool Man said, standing in front of the connecting door.

Ma Xiang used his fingerprint and smart card to open the connecting door, nodded to Xiao Mo and the other two, and said two words silently: "Be careful."

Xiao Mo also knew that Bao Yuezhi's territory was ahead, so he naturally had to be extremely careful.

The cool man led the two of them forward in silence, and finally stopped in front of the elevator door at the end of the passage. "Where is the thing you are looking for? Is there a clear location? Tell me and I will take you there."

"I am Xiao Mo, what is your name? Do you still remember me? In Zhongshan City, you led people to rescue a person in the elevator, and I was among them. I have always wanted to say thank you again, but I didn't expect We will meet again." Xiao Mo thanked him sincerely.

Xue Lihong looked at Xiao Mo, then at Cool Man, but said nothing.

Cool Man has met so many people that he no longer remembers Xiao Mo, but he still remembers that incident, but this did not change his expression and attitude. He still said without any emotion: "You can call me Linghu."

"Hero Linghu!" Xiao Mo joked to ease the atmosphere.

The expressions of Linghu and the team members he led did not change. "Where is the thing? Don't waste time."

Xiao Mo slightly touched his nose in embarrassment, "My friend at Yucaiyan sent me a simple floor plan. I can't tell where it is, but I probably know which direction to go."

"Where is the picture?"

Xiao Mo raised his finger and pointed at his head, "In my head."

Linghu took a step back and said, "Let's go."

Xiao Mo looked at the steel door in front of him and said, "This is the elevator. Please go to the fifth underground floor."

Fifth floor? That was the territory of the disease center, and what the two men wanted to find was obviously not aerospace materials or related research materials.

Many people think that the underground main body of Ucaiyan has only four floors, but only a few people know that the fourth floor belongs to the disease center. Even fewer people knew about the existence of the fifth floor, but these two people knew about it and wanted to go to the fifth floor without even asking.

Linghu pressed his ears and accepted the latest instructions.

Xiao Mo glanced sideways and saw a wired headset plugged into his ear. It seems that although Bao Yuezhi did not appear, he has been controlling the situation behind the scenes, and their every move was probably transmitted to Bao Yuezhi through monitoring equipment everywhere.

Bao Yuezhi was probably also curious about what the two of them were looking for, and relying on the fact that this was his territory, he agreed with Linghu to take them to the fifth floor after only a moment's hesitation. He didn't believe that these two people could cause any trouble.

The elevator descended and reached the fifth underground floor. The door opened and a bright passage appeared.

The illumination here is countless times better than that in the front building. Just like normal times, there is sufficient electricity.

They saw connected rooms one after another, but the windows facing the passage in each room had curtains or the glass was directly obscured, making it impossible to see what was inside.

Due to being under surveillance, Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong were unable to communicate over the phone and could only convey simple meanings through their eyes.

Xue Lihong told Xiao Mo to just move forward and not worry about anything else.

Xiao Mo guessed that if Bao Yuezhi found out that the target of their mission was his experimental subject or something that could arouse his interest, they would not be able to leave safely with the original virus.

And he also guessed that Xue Lihong would definitely do something to give him a chance to complete the task, but with someone closely monitoring him all the way, how could Xiaohong do it without being discovered

Front floor communications room.

Cheng Zai looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he quickly connected the laptop computer to the host computer.

No one knew that when he was repairing some communication lines affected by the earthquake last night, he took the opportunity to secretly receive the surveillance signal from the main building behind. This kind of thing is difficult for those who don't know it, but it's not difficult for those who can. Everyone thought he had a broken leg, and they didn't pay attention to him. Who knew he could walk and run and be extremely healthy, hehe!

He thought it was for everyone's good to prevent Wang Jinian and Bao Yuezhi from playing dirty tricks.

Wang Jinian and Bao Yuezhi's gang had no interest in helping the survivors at all. He even felt that they were raising the survivors as experimental materials.

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong went over to the two people's territory to look for things and didn't know how dangerous it was. He didn't feel relieved if he didn't take a look. How could he say that Brother Xiao was also his savior

The fifth floor below the main building.

Xue Lihong put her hand into her backpack, took out the mineral water, took a sip, and handed it to Xiao Mo.

Linghu stared at the two of them closely.

Xiao Mo took it, took a big gulp, and handed it back to Xue Lihong.

Xue Lihong put the mineral water bottle into her backpack, and when she took it out, she already had something in her hand.

His finger touched the switch on the micro instrument and pressed it lightly.

"Hiss—" A faint sound of electricity flashed past.

The lights in the passage suddenly dimmed.

At the moment when the lights flickered, Xue Lihong's hand quickly took out a dozen transparent balls from the backpack and scattered them on the ground.

Linghu reacted very quickly. The moment the lights dimmed, he reached out and grabbed Xiao Mo's arm.

Xiao Mo didn't dodge and was caught by the opponent.

The channel becomes bright again.

Xue Lihong cut Linghu's arm with her palm.

Linghu's arms sank, his expression changed, and he took Xiao Mo back two steps.

"Click! Click!" The five mercenary soldiers except Linghu all raised their guns and pointed them at Xue Lihong.

"Let him go." Xue Lihong didn't seem to see the guns and just shouted to Linghu.

Linghu made sure that the two of them didn't do anything and there were no more lighting problems, then he let Xiao Mo go.

Xiao Mo rubbed his arms, holding back what Linghu wanted to say, and then continued to move forward following the direction shown on the floor plan in his mind, with Xue Lihong following closely behind.

Linghu looked at the backs of the two of them, his eyes even more wary. The young man who looked as thin as if he had just recovered from a serious illness moved so fast that he didn't even see him clearly, and his shots were also heavy.

Linghu also rubbed his arm. The moment he was cut, he thought his arm had been severed.

08:45 minutes.

Seeing Xiao Mo walking closer and closer to the restricted area, Linghu had no choice but to step forward and stop him, "Where is the thing you are looking for?"

"Right ahead." Xiao Mo was reminded by the system that he was less than a hundred meters away from the target in a straight line.

At this point, Bao Yuezhi could no longer allow the two of them to move forward. The laboratory at the end in front contained his biggest secret and the basis for his future summit. In any case, he would not let irrelevant people get closer.

For this reason, he immediately sent a message to Linghu and asked him to block the two of them.

The two sides were in a stalemate.

Bao Yuezhi was afraid that something would happen to the two of them, so he rushed over as quickly as possible, "What are you looking for? If you can't explain, I can only send you out."

This was the first time that Xiao Mo faced Commissioner Bao head-on. He took a good look at him first, and saw that he still looked like a gentleman who thought he was humble but was actually looking at people with their noses. He smiled in his heart, slowly and slowly. Said: "This is not in the agreement between you and our General Qiu, right?"

Bao Yuezhi stood among the mercenaries and said sarcastically: "Qiu Feng's power is not here. This is my territory, and I have the final say! In front of it is the important laboratory of the disease center. No one can approach it without permission."

Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong looked at each other. They had expected this scene.

"Are you ready?" Xue Lihong asked, suddenly pinching his ear.

Xiao Mo felt a pain in his ear, as if he had been pricked by something. Also, what’s ready

Just as he was about to react, Xue Lihong suddenly knocked him down.