Chapter 1 Desperate Situation

The truck's engine displacement was ultimately too small. Even if Li Tianran floored the accelerator, it was no match for the powerful Mercedes off-road vehicle.

And most importantly, after rounding a bend, Li Tianran's view of the road ahead was blocked by two modified off-road vehicles. The front and rear bumpers and sides were surrounded by solid iron bars, making them look fierce and domineering! They were parked side by side, completely blocking the already narrow path.

Blocked in front and chased from behind, with roadside ditches nearly a meter deep on both sides, forcibly breaking through would likely result in a car crash and death!

The two people in the vehicle had reached a dead end!

Li Tianran gritted his teeth, suddenly turned the steering wheel, and simultaneously slammed on the brakes.

The truck's tail swung violently, and the entire vehicle swerved sideways. The tires rubbed fiercely against the ground, drifting forward for five meters before stopping in a cloud of smoke.

Screech!

The Mercedes off-road vehicle chasing from behind also slammed on the brakes, blocking the way back. At the same time, four burly men jumped out of the vehicles in front and behind, with sharp military daggers strapped to their waists, and strode aggressively towards the truck.

Eight people surrounded the truck, their eyes gleaming with a cruel and cunning light, like a pack of wolves surrounding their prey!

Thud!

Li Tianran, holding Xiao Tian with one hand, jumped out of the driver's seat, using Xiao Tian to shield his body, then looked up.

"Heh... Li Tianran, right?" The cold man wearing a headset sneered when he saw Li Tianran get out of the car, then walked over with his hands in his pockets. "Let me introduce myself, my name is Chen Nan, I belong to Tianrun Pharmaceutical Company. Using this special method to invite you out has no other meaning... I know you have medicine to treat acute poisoning, so we want to cooperate with you."

"You provide the medicine, we provide the manpower, we can make money together! A small investment for huge profits!"

Li Tianran leaned against Xiao Tian, watching the eight menacing men, and asked indifferently, "What if I don't agree?"

"Right now, you only have two paths in front of you. The first is that you voluntarily cooperate with us, and everyone makes money happily; the second..." Chen Nan said, pulling out the military dagger from his waist and starting to pick his nails, "is that we kill you and get the medicine ourselves."

Listening to Chen Nan's undisguised threat, Li Tianran's eyes slowly turned cold.

...

32 hours earlier.

Just as Li Tianran was driving the truck with Han Han in the suburbs of Nancheng, entangled with the man selling black grain, Xiao Tian, who had escaped danger, slowly woke up at Uncle Nan's house.

"Son! You're finally awake! You scared Dad to death!" Uncle Nan, who had been guarding the bedside, burst into tears when he saw his son wake up. The weight on his heart finally lifted.

"Dad... what's wrong with me?" Xiao Tian's eyes were slightly dazed, then he slowly woke up, looked at his hands, and said in disbelief, "I remember I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it anymore, so I ate an apple from the cellar, and then I started vomiting blood and having trouble breathing. I thought I wouldn't survive... but now, my illness is completely cured?"

Uncle Nan's heart ached when he heard this. He opened his palm, and in his palm was half of the carrot that Xiao Tian had bitten: "Do you remember that paper ball that broke the glass about an hour ago? This thing was in the paper ball, and there were words written on it. After I fed it to you, your illness was completely cured... I think it must be the gods protecting you! They couldn't bear to see you suffer like this, so they manifested and saved your life!"

Xiao Tian looked at the carrot in Uncle Nan's palm, grabbed it in surprise and looked at it for a long time, then said in a low voice, "If there really are gods in this world, then such disasters wouldn't happen; this thing must have been given to us by someone, and they didn't want to reveal their identity..."

"Son, are you hungry? Dad will cook you some food! You rest for a while!" Uncle Nan was extremely excited. He didn't hear Xiao Tian's murmur.

His seriously ill son had recovered, and the family had also been sent food by a kind person. Today was the happiest day he had had in a long time.

Soon, a bowl of steaming vegetable noodles was brought up, topped with a fried egg. Although it didn't have soy sauce or salt, Xiao Tian, who had been hungry for a long time, devoured it, even drinking the soup clean.

"Dad, I remember we didn't have any food at home before? Where did this stuff come from?" Xiao Tian asked, putting down his chopsticks.

"Ah... these instant noodles were given by Boss Li from the farm where Dad used to work. As for these vegetables, I really don't know. They just mysteriously appeared in our yard just now," Uncle Nan said, rubbing his hands.

Xiao Tian pondered for a moment, "So, the person who sent us food is likely the same person who saved me."

"Who knows? Maybe!" Uncle Nan sighed, "There are still many good people in this world."

Uncle Nan had a simple mind. At this moment, his heart was only filled with the excitement of his son's recovery and gratitude to the life-saving benefactor.

But Xiao Tian's psychological activity was extremely complex at this time.

His eyes flickered, and he seemed to have many things on his mind. Soon, he got out of bed and said, "Dad, I'm going out."

"It's so late, you just recovered from your illness, what are you going out for?" Uncle Nan was stunned.

"Dad, don't worry about it, I'll be back in a while!" Xiao Tian hurriedly wrapped himself in his coat, stepped forward and pushed open the door, his steps hurried, as if he was going to do something very important.

"This child..." Uncle Nan looked at Xiao Tian's back and sighed helplessly.

After Xiao Tian walked out of the courtyard gate, he used a flashlight to shine around his courtyard, and soon, he found messy footprints distributed on the wall facing the window, which further confirmed his guess.

There were no so-called gods, it was a person who saved him.

Xiao Tian glanced at the street outside the courtyard wall, it was dark and empty. He was silent for a moment, walked to the corner and suddenly saw a courtyard in the distance with lights still on.

It was a black internet cafe, with an inconspicuous 360-degree camera hanging at the door, one of which was facing the alley where Xiao Tian's house was located.

Xiao Tian's eyes lit up, and he ran over.

Knock knock knock!

He raised his hand and started knocking on the door. Soon, a yellow-haired youth wearing a military coat walked out, squinting at Xiao Tian and said, "Oh... Xiao Tian, I'm closed, not open for business!"

"Brother Miao, I'm not here to play. My house was robbed a few days ago, and I want to see your surveillance video," Xiao Tian replied.

The yellow-haired youth raised his eyebrows and said unhappily, "Then hurry up! I'm about to go to sleep!"

Xiao Tian nodded repeatedly.

Soon, Xiao Tian sat in front of the surveillance computer, and he skillfully pulled up tonight's surveillance video.

In the surveillance, Xiao Tian didn't see anyone coming and going, but he saw a truck passing by the entrance of his alley, but after ten minutes, the truck returned again.

And besides that, no one came and went in his alley tonight!

Xiao Tian's breathing quickened, and he felt that he was getting closer to the truth.

He froze the surveillance screen, and his eyes locked on the truck's license plate!

Nan A668s2!

Xiao Tian's pupils suddenly contracted.

He recognized this license plate number.

Five minutes later, he returned home.

Pushing open the door, Uncle Nan looked up and asked, "What did you go for?"

"Dad, I know who saved me," Xiao Tian said in a deep voice.

"Who?" Uncle Nan immediately asked.

"It's... Boss Li!" Xiao Tian took a deep breath and said, "I just checked the surveillance, and the time of his truck's arrival and departure matches exactly with the time I was rescued!"

"This... Boss Li is really a good person! He not only sent us food, but also saved your life! We must repay him!" Uncle Nan was excited.

"Dad!" Xiao Tian suddenly interrupted Uncle Nan's words. Under the dim light, Xiao Tian's face was actually a little ferocious. He gritted his teeth and said, "Since Boss Li can save me, then it means he must still have a large amount of medicine that can treat acute poisoning in his hands... I want to rob those medicines!"

"That way, we will no longer have to worry about being frozen and starved to death in this dark and bleak environment! We can become people above people!"

Uncle Nan was stunned when he heard this, his eyes widened, his face was full of disbelief, and his fingers trembled as he pointed at Xiao Tian: "You... you little bastard, you want to repay kindness with evil!"

"No!" Xiao Tian said coldly, "I am... everyone for themselves, or the heavens will punish them!"