Chapter 15 A Carrot

Uncle Nan walked to the bed, reached out, and picked up the crumpled piece of paper. He unfolded it.

The paper had a very simple line written on it.

"If you don't want him to die, feed him this."

There were only two things inside the crumpled paper. The iron lighter was naturally ignored, and all that remained was the carrot.

"What… is someone trying to make fun of us?" Uncle Nan was stunned, holding the paper and the carrot, at a loss.

In an instant, he thought of many things.

According to the instructions on the note... could this thing cure his son's serious illness?

He looked down and found that the carrot was indeed completely different in appearance from the irradiated vegetables. Not only were there no gray spots, but it was also crystal clear and exuded a faint medicinal fragrance.

"Dad… cough… what is it?" Xiao Tian asked, coughing urgently, his voice tearful.

"It's medicine! It's medicine!" Uncle Nan also doubted the authenticity of the note. Could a carrot cure a serious illness that even the hospital couldn't treat?

But at this moment, he had no other choice!

Xiao Tian's poisoning reaction was getting more and more intense, and he would die within two hours due to the failure of all his organs.

Uncle Nan now was like a drowning man. As long as someone on the shore gave him a straw, whether it was really useful or not, he would grab it tightly!

To use an inappropriate analogy... it was like using a dead horse as if it were still alive.

"Son, open your mouth, eat it..." Uncle Nan gritted his teeth, walked to the bedside, pried open Xiao Tian's mouth, and stuffed the carrot into his mouth.

"Chew quickly! Swallow it!" Uncle Nan burst into tears, urging him while suppressing his grief.

Xiao Tian didn't know what his father was doing, but at this time his consciousness was already close to blurring, and he had no power to think. He could only mechanically do what Uncle Nan told him to do.

Li Tianran stood outside the wall, silently watching everything that was happening in the room.

Finally, Xiao Tian swallowed the first bite.

"Ah!"

He suddenly shouted, and then his whole body began to tremble violently.

"Xiao Tian! Xiao Tian!" Uncle Nan was stunned, and the half of the carrot in his hand fell to the ground.

At this moment, Xiao Tian suddenly sat up and leaned over the bed, vomiting wildly.

His breathing became steady, and the gray color on his skin gradually began to recede!

Li Tianran watched with his own eyes as his face began to turn rosy.

He took a deep breath, took out his notebook from his pocket, and wrote with a carbon pen: Ancient medicine grade can cure radiation poisoning, it is not yet known whether there will be any sequelae...

The sound of Uncle Nan crying with joy came from the room.

Li Tianran silently picked up Han Han and turned to walk towards his truck in the distance.

He had seen the result he wanted.

Xiao Tian's healing proved the terrifying medicinal effects of the ancient medicine grade. Xiao Tian, as a test subject, exchanged it for his life. Li Tianran also got the data he wanted. It was a win-win situation.

And the next step, the experiment Li Tianran was going to do would be even more difficult.

He wanted to see if the ancient medicine grade could turn the mutated creatures that appeared because they had mistakenly eaten irradiated vegetables back to their original state.

But this kind of opportunity was hard to come by.

Even for him, he needed to rely on luck.

…

Driving the truck away from the town, thirty minutes later, Li Tianran drove into the city center of Nancheng.

The time was now ten o'clock in the evening.

If it were before the Era of Destruction, the entertainment street in the center of Nancheng would have been when nightlife was just beginning.

But now the streets were empty, with scattered glass and signs everywhere. The doors of shopping malls and shops on both sides of the street were closed. The glass display cases of some shops were smashed, and the items inside disappeared, obviously after experiencing a riot.

The neon lights in the bars and KTVs that had always been prosperous had also dimmed, and the exciting music no longer resounded through the streets and alleys.

The bodies of stray cats and dogs lay dead on the street, rotting rapidly.

Ambulances occasionally roared past with piercing whistles.

The air was filled with a desperate atmosphere.

Occasionally, military police riding electric motorcycles passed by the roadside, looking nervous. The words coming from the intercoms at their waists were mostly:

"A robbery has occurred on xx street..."

"A theft has occurred in xx residential area..."

"A female corpse was found in the xx pond, the time of death was..."

Seeing this scene, Li Tianran realized that the situation was more out of control than he had predicted. In the apocalypse, too many ill-intentioned thugs took the opportunity to create chaos. The number of people who died in the chaos might not be less than the number of people who died from radiation poisoning.

Li Tianran drove the vehicle out of the entertainment street, and after making a turn, he suddenly heard a burst of noise.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a sea of people in front of a department store. There were actually hundreds of meters of queues!

Several luminous banners were hung in front of the department store's gate.

"Designated Purchasing Point for Emergency Supplies"

Boxes of rice and flour, as well as some vegetables, were placed in refrigerated cabinets. At this time, they were like the most attractive gold and jade, attracting the attention of thousands of people in front of the department store.

They were not afraid of the cold at this time, and were crowded here like ants, chattering and arguing, and even cursing could be heard endlessly.

"Don't fucking cut in line! I've been waiting for five hours. Let me buy it first!"

"Bullshit, this spot was originally mine, but I just went to the toilet..."

"Fuck you, you uneducated farmers, I am the general manager of Xindong Company... if you offend me, you won't have a good time! Ouch, who kicked me?"

Several police cars parked beside with flashing lights. Some military police held loudspeakers and shouted at the top of their voices:

"Everyone consciously abide by the order! Don't be impatient, everyone has a purchase quota! You can buy five kilograms of rice, five kilograms of flour, and one kilogram of vegetables with valid documents!"

Li Tianran didn't know what to say when he saw this.

Chinese people like to hoard food whenever they encounter disasters, hoarding until they feel safe, hoarding until everyone's home is like a small warehouse. Under this national condition, even if the price of food skyrockets at this time, it still cannot offset their enthusiasm for buying.

He was about to leave when a military policeman walked over, gently knocked on Li Tianran's car window, and said with a serious face: "Stop the car and turn off the engine!"

Li Tianran was stunned. He took out an opened pack of cigarettes from the passenger seat, took out one with a smiling face and handed it over: "Comrade police, is there anything wrong?"

In fact, he didn't have the habit of smoking. For him, cigarettes were just a social tool.

The military policeman waved his hand when he saw this. Although he didn't take it, his attitude eased a lot. He said, "Brother, open the cargo box in the back. I want to check it."

There were no contraband items in Li Tianran's cargo box, so he didn't need to be nervous at this time. He pushed the car door open and opened the cargo box according to the other party's instructions.

The military policeman shined a flashlight inside and nodded after finding that there were only some agricultural tools in the cargo box: "It's okay, you can go!"

"These days, some lawbreakers are using trucks to pull toxic vegetables and sell them as ordinary vegetables in the towns to make huge profits, which is very harmful!" The military policeman turned off the flashlight and kindly reminded Li Tianran: "Brother, if you want to buy food, you must go to the designated purchasing point. The things outside are very unsafe."

"Thank you!" Li Tianran nodded.

His prediction was correct. The state had begun to control the sale of food, but after listening to the military policeman's words, he understood why there had been so many poisoning incidents these days.

It turned out that some black-hearted thieves were selling irradiated vegetables...

Picking some vegetables with a lighter degree of radiation, and trading them in the dark when the light is not good... really, there is no treachery without a business!

Before driving away, he glanced at the people in front of the department store again. If he hadn't been lucky enough to be selected as a player, he would probably be one of these people now.

Or, become one of those poisoned dead who were reported in the newspaper.

"Brother, I feel a little scared..." Han Han sat in the passenger seat. She didn't know what happened, but she always felt that the atmosphere was very depressing and terrible.

Li Tianran touched her head and said, "I'm here."

Li Tianran didn't say too many comforting words.

Just these simplest three words were enough to make Han Han feel very safe.

"Yeah." Han Han nodded desperately: "With big brother here, Han Han is not afraid of anything!"

Li Tianran turned the steering wheel and prepared to return to the farm. It was too late today, and he was already very sleepy.

However, just as he had just driven onto the outer ring road outside the city, a modified small van suddenly accelerated past him, and with a burst of braking sounds, the other party directly placed the car in the middle of the road, forcibly blocking Li Tianran's path!

"..." Li Tianran frowned suddenly, and silently took out a sharp military刺 (cì, bayonet) from under the seat.

Pa!

The other party's car door popped open, and a short, fat man with acne on his face jumped down with a large satchel on his back and ran quickly to the front of Li Tianran's car, knocking on the car window and saying, "Brother, I've been following you all the way!"

"Something wrong?" Li Tianran held the bayonet in one hand, still with a gentle smile on his face.

"I saw you wandering around the department store just now, didn't I? You wanted to buy food, but you didn't get it, right?" The man grinned, and suddenly pulled open the zipper of the satchel, revealing the things inside: "Watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, tomatoes, and rice! Whatever you want to buy, I have it all!"

The expression on Li Tianran's face froze.

It turns out this big brother is selling black market grain?

Li Tianran looked up and down at the other party, and then his eyes stayed on the vegetables in the other party's satchel for a long time. He suddenly smiled and asked, "Big brother, is your melon... guaranteed to be ripe?"