Chapter 1 Loud Slap

Smack!

A sharp slap echoed across Xiao Tian's face.

Uncle Nan trembled with rage, pointing at Xiao Tian and saying, "How could I have spawned such a useless beast like you?"

Xiao Tian lowered his head, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. "Dad! Can't you see the situation? If we want to survive, we can only rely on ourselves!"

"You! You..." Uncle Nan clutched his chest, collapsing onto the bed.

"Dad, I'm doing this for both our lives. Don't blame me." Xiao Tian didn't dare look into Uncle Nan's eyes. He gritted his teeth, pushed open the door, and left again.

Ten hours later.

Morning.

In front of the Tianrun Pharmaceutical Company's main gate.

Xiao Tian, his head covered in frost, wrapped in a military coat, addressed the security guards standing outside the gate, "I want to see your boss. I have a big deal to discuss with him!"

The security guard sized Xiao Tian up. As the gatekeeper of Tianrun Company, he had seen countless people trying various methods to enter Tianrun Company and seek help since the disaster broke out.

He'd seen too many like Xiao Tian, so he didn't even bother to raise his eyelids. "Who do you think you are? To dare to talk business with our boss? Get lost before I lose my temper!"

"Fifteen hours ago, I accidentally ate poisonous fruit. Thirteen hours ago, the hospital issued a critical condition notice and sent me home to die. Central Hospital has my medical report, which you can check at any time." Xiao Tian sneered, and said, "But now I'm standing in front of you, alive and well. Do you know what that means?"

The security guard was stunned.

"I am the first person to survive after suffering from acute poisoning," Xiao Tian grabbed the security guard's tie, narrowed his eyes, and said, word by word, "Now, am I qualified to see your boss?"

The security guard's pupils contracted. If this was true, he couldn't bear the responsibility.

"If you dare to lie to me, I'll let you know the consequences of lying at the gate of Tianrun Company!" The security guard gave Xiao Tian a fierce warning, then said to his companion, "You stay here, I'll take him in to see General Manager Liang!"

The two walked into the company.

Another security guard continued to stand at the door with trepidation.

Five minutes later, four burly, cold-looking men hurried out of the company lobby. The companion recognized them as General Manager Liang Tianyu's bodyguards. Unlike them, these were Liang Tianyu's absolute confidants, and the leader was Chen Nan!

"Did anyone else see that person come in just now?" Chen Nan asked coldly.

"N-no…" the security guard stammered.

"From now on, you need to hand over all communication devices. The company will arrange a single room for you, and you must not have any contact with the outside world!" Chen Nan looked at the security guard expressionlessly. "If I find out that you are trying to contact the outside world, the consequences will be very serious."

The security guard shuddered, listening to Chen Nan's murderous words.

He felt like he had accidentally heard some earth-shattering news...

…

The scene returned to Li Tianran.

Li Tianran looked at Chen Nan and the others, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

He had heard of this Tianrun Pharmaceutical Company. In fact, everyone in Nancheng was aware of Tianrun Company, but the impression wasn't a good one.

Tianrun Pharmaceutical had been in Nancheng for nearly three years, and its history was not glorious. It was a foreign enterprise that had partnered with a respected old entrepreneur in the local medical equipment industry when it first entered Nancheng. With the old entrepreneur's connections and prestige, Tianrun Pharmaceutical Company developed rapidly in three years and soon completely controlled the medical lifeline of Nancheng.

But just as the enterprise was thriving, Liang Tianyu, the general manager of Tianrun Company, suddenly colluded with outsiders, creating a series of storms to forcibly take over the old entrepreneur's shares, and then kicked him out of the company!

This kind of betrayal undoubtedly made many people feel ashamed, especially the old entrepreneur who had given Liang Tianyu so much help and support, was so angered that he suffered a heart attack and passed away shortly after being sent to the emergency room.

However, such business matters did not attract the attention of most ordinary people. What made Tianrun Pharmaceutical famous was another incident.

It was in the winter a year ago. Due to the dry weather, influenza was frequent. At that time, many people in Nancheng contracted the disease. Both hospitals and small clinics were crowded. Almost two out of every ten people in the city were infected.

At this time, Tianrun Pharmaceutical announced in a high-profile manner that one of the raw materials for the targeted drug used to treat influenza could not be obtained, and the drug would be temporarily discontinued. The remaining stock was insufficient and would be sold at ten times the price!

The announcement caused an uproar!

People were outraged!

But unfortunately, at this time, almost all of Nancheng's medical equipment and medicine were monopolized by Tianrun Pharmaceutical, and it would take a long time to transfer drugs from other places. The disease could not be delayed, so the patients in Nancheng had no choice but to grit their teeth and suffer this loss, spending ten times or even dozens of times the price to buy Tianrun Company's stock.

In the end, those drugs even rose to more than a hundred times the original price!

After the flu ended, during a chance encounter, a senior executive of Tianrun Company revealed the truth after drinking.

There was no so-called raw material shortage at all! Tianrun Company simply wanted to create a false image of drug shortages in order to raise drug prices!

After this incident, Tianrun Company made a fortune, and its market value doubled directly, but in the hearts of the people of Nancheng, Tianrun's reputation plummeted and became completely infamous.

Betrayal! Profit-driven!

This was the impression that the people of Nancheng had of Tianrun Pharmaceutical Company!

And now, Li Tianran was facing such a company.

Li Tianran's eyes gradually turned cold. He could not hand over the ancient-level crops, let alone to a black-hearted company like Tianrun Pharmaceutical!

If he believed the other party's words and started to cooperate with them, it wouldn't be long before he would be controlled like a donkey in a production team, and they would tirelessly squeeze his value!

"I only got that kind of medicine for treating acute illnesses by chance... There's only one, and I've already used it on him. There's no stock left." Li Tianran patted Xiao Tian on the shoulder expressionlessly, and said, "I'm sorry to have made you come all this way!"

"Oh? Only one?" Chen Nan smiled when he heard this. "It seems you won't shed tears until you see the coffin. Good, I'll make you tell the truth."

With that, Chen Nan took out his mobile phone from his pocket, dialed a number in front of Li Tianran, and said into the microphone, "You are at the entrance of that farm now, right? Attack it, grab the little girl, and feed her those poisonous fruits!"

Chen Nan raised his head, and looked at Li Tianran with a grim smile: "I want to see if what you said is true or false!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an indescribable baleful aura emerged from Li Tianran. His pupils shrank to the extreme, his face looked extremely terrifying, and his eyes were like a lion about to devour someone.

Chen Nan met Li Tianran's eyes. He, who had always been decisive in killing, couldn't help but take half a step back.

How could a person have such terrifying eyes?

"Why do you have to force me?" Li Tianran gritted his teeth so hard that they rattled. "I just wanted to live a quiet life with my sister in the apocalypse. Why do you people keep disturbing it?"

"Weakness is a sin." Chen Nan was silent for a moment before saying.

"You're right, weakness is a sin." Li Tianran nodded, took a deep breath, leaned close to Xiao Tian's ear, looked at Chen Nan's face, and said, "Then from today onwards, I will become a brutal demon!... And please remember, you created me like this!"

Chen Nan looked at Li Tianran like this, and suddenly felt uneasy.

…

At the same time, at the entrance of the farm.

Eight strong men stood in front of two excavators, jumped into the driver's seat after receiving the call, started the engines, and made a rumbling sound!

Han Han rested her cheeks in her hands, sat on a small stool, looked at the farm gate, and let out a mournful sigh.

Li Han, seven years old, loves to eat and watch TV.

But at this time, she didn't touch the strawberry platter in front of her.

The cartoon playing on TV couldn't make her happy at all.

Da Ge (big brother) wasn't home, the strawberries had become tasteless, the Paw Patrol didn't seem so appealing anymore, and the strange robots that had suddenly appeared in the house couldn't arouse her interest...

Just a bunch of iron dullards, how could they compare to Da Ge?

Li Han, seven years old, her real hobby is... hiding in Li Tianran's arms to eat, and being held by Li Tianran to watch TV.

She never liked external things.

What's important is being with Li Tianran.

Since Li Tianran left, she had looked at her watch seventeen times, but Li Tianran still hadn't returned. She felt very upset, and she heard the rumbling sound of the people with red lights on their bodies starting the engines at the farm gate.

She finally couldn't bear it anymore, clenched her small fists, covered her ears, and shouted, "It's so annoying!"

Xiao Hei squatted beside her and licked her calf.

"Receiving intrusion information, counterattack imminent!" Two adult-level combat mechs standing behind Han Han suddenly spoke in a mechanical voice.

"Are they bad guys?" Han Han pointed at the gate, and said irritably, "Can you make them stop? I really want to blow their heads off!"

"Accepting little master's instructions! Adjusting the method of killing intruders! About to destroy the skulls and brain tissue of the intruders!" The combat mechs' eyes flashed green, and a gun barrel instantly extended from their palms!

Bang!

A gunshot rang out, and one person at the farm gate fell to the ground!

"According to the little master's instructions, the head of one intruder has been blown off!" The combat mech mechanically reported the results.

Han Han covered her mouth when she saw this, then hugged Xiao Hei nervously, and stammered, "Xiao Hei, it seems like Han Han did something wrong! D-don't tell Da Ge about this! Otherwise, Da Ge will think Han Han is a violent child... Waaah, I'm obviously a little cutie!"