Driving all the way to the nearby town.

This was the first time he'd left the shelter since the advent of the Doom Era, so he felt unconsciously nervous.

The small town was quiet at night, with every household's doors tightly shut.

Not even the barking of dogs could be heard.

The entire town was in an extremely oppressive, even deathly, environment.

After the Doom Era, due to frequent mutation events, most of the domestic cats and dogs were clubbed to death. Even if they were allowed to live, in the current situation of food shortage, people themselves couldn't get enough to eat. Who would be willing to spare food for dogs and cats?

Parking the truck in a remote corner, Li Tianran carried the grain from the truck down.

Because of the mutations, some people in the town had mistakenly eaten the radiated vegetables, resulting in deaths.

So now, yellow paper money flew with the wind on the streets, adding an eerie feeling to the darkness of the night.

Hanhan and Xiao Hei followed closely behind Li Tianran, also behaving very sensibly and quietly.

Hanhan carried a small basket containing some candy and cookies.

She remembered that Uncle Nan's son liked to eat these things, so she reluctantly took out half of her stash to contribute.

Her memory came from a year ago.

At that time, Uncle Nan's eighteen-year-old son, Xiao Tian, ​​went to the farm to help. Perhaps out of some impulse, he snatched a lollipop from Hanhan.

The simple-minded Hanhan didn't think there was any malice in Xiao Tian's slightly barbaric behavior. Instead, she felt that he was doing it because he loved candy as much as she did, so she generously took out a new candy to offer him.

However, Xiao Hei was not happy. It keenly sensed that the boy's behavior seemed to carry a hint of "bullying," so it bared its fangs and chased Xiao Tian for hundreds of meters, finally biting him on the butt, leaving him bedridden for half a month.

At that time, in front of Uncle Nan, Li Tianran acted very angry, reprimanded Xiao Hei, and claimed that he would starve it for three days to teach this ignorant animal a lesson!

In the end, he also took out five hundred yuan to get Xiao Tian a rabies vaccine, which finally smoothed things over.

But that night, Xiao Hei was not only not deprived of food, but also got a few fragrant chicken legs in its bowl.

Since then, Xiao Tian had never been to the farm again.

However, Hanhan had never forgotten that Uncle Nan's family had an older brother who really liked to eat candy...

Li Tianran walked quickly, stopping in front of an old house.

Uncle Nan's house was the old-fashioned type of house from the countryside, with very low walls. Over the wall, Li Tianran could see the lights on in the room.

He silently tied the rice and vegetables on his shoulder, including the candy Hanhan brought, to a rope and lowered them over the wall, placing them close to the base of the wall in the yard.

This way, Uncle Nan would see these things as soon as he came into the yard.

Moreover, due to the viewing angle, people outside wouldn't be able to see the grain under the wall, even if they passed by.

Very safe.

After doing all this, Li Tianran was about to leave when he suddenly heard a sorrowful cry from Uncle Nan's room, heartbreaking!

"Xiao Tian, ​​what's wrong with you? Don't scare Dad!" Uncle Nan's wailing voice with a cry penetrated Li Tianran's ears, causing him to stop in his tracks as he was about to turn around and leave.

"Cough cough cough!"

Then, a violent coughing sound rang out.

Li Tianran picked up Hanhan and looked over the wall.

Under the bright lights in the room, the tall Xiao Tian leaned halfway on the bed, coughing up blood, his face full of deathly gray!

Li Tianran's heart sank when he saw this, and then he quickly took out his mobile phone, found the conditions of those critically ill patients who had been poisoned by radiated vegetables published on the news, and compared them with Xiao Tian.

Coughing up blood non-stop, difficulty breathing, skin losing its luster, appearing deathly gray...

Exactly the same!

Xiao Tian also mistakenly ate the radiated vegetables?

"Son, it's not that Dad doesn't want to save you! It's just that these damned quack doctors in the hospital said there were no beds, and even if there were, they couldn't cure you..." Uncle Nan squatted by the bed, a man in his forties or fifties, crying like a child at this time: "Dad can only drag you home and watch you die!"

Xiao Tian didn't answer, just kept coughing, the veins on his face almost bursting.

Li Tianran quickly covered Hanhan's eyes.

Although many people had died because of this since the beginning of the Doom Era, what was the impact of looking at those cold numbers compared to the shock of a living life about to pass away in front of you?

Li Tianran listened to Uncle Nan's wails and Xiao Tian's coughing, took a deep breath, and calmed his somewhat chaotic heartbeat.

"Big brother, Uncle Nan's son vomited a lot of blood..." Hanhan said falteringly: "Is he, going to die?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Li Tianran squatted down and hugged Hanhan tightly to comfort her.

Suddenly, an idea appeared in his mind.

"Do you want to take out a Gu Yao-grade (ancient medicine grade) carrot?"

A pleasant prompt sounded.

"Yes."

Li Tianran chose decisively.

The next second, a carrot with a faint medicinal fragrance appeared in Li Tianran's palm.

Because he often had to put paper and pens in his coat pocket when he delivered goods to write receipts, he took them out smoothly. After writing a line on the paper, Li Tianran wrapped the Gu Yao-grade carrot and an iron lighter together with the paper, and kneaded them into a ball.

Yes.

He was going to give this Gu Yao-grade carrot to Uncle Nan so that Uncle Nan could save Xiao Tian!

Of course, in all fairness, although Li Tianran had old ties with Uncle Nan, their relationship was definitely not that good.

The reason why he was sending out a Gu Yao-grade carrot now was just to verify his guess!

Li Tianran had wanted to do an experiment before to see if Gu Yao-grade could relieve the radiation vegetable poisoning. He originally planned to buy a pig to experiment on, but now it seemed that the best experimental subject was right in front of him!

If Gu Yao-grade could turn Xiao Tian's condition around, he would get the result he wanted to know, and Xiao Tian would survive, then that would be the best result.

If it didn't work, then he would have no loss. Xiao Tian was already a dying person, and he didn't need to feel guilty.

"Whether you can survive depends on your luck!" Li Tianran was silent for a moment, raised the paper ball in his hand and slammed it hard at Uncle Nan's window.

Just heard a "crash"!

The glass in Uncle Nan's bedroom shattered instantly, and the paper ball landed on Xiao Tian's bed, bounced three times, and stopped.

"Who is it!" Uncle Nan was instantly furious, and he hysterically rushed to the window, holding a kitchen knife in his hand: "I'll chop you to death!"

However, there was no one in the yard at this time. In his anger, Uncle Nan suddenly saw a pile of things by the corner of the wall. He was stunned when he looked at it in the faint light of the room.

"Grain... food?"

At this moment, Xiao Tian's weak shout came from the room.

Uncle Nan couldn't bother to take a closer look, turned around and ran back to the room.

He saw Xiao Tian leaning halfway on the bed, pointing weakly at the paper ball on the bed, which had been half scattered due to the huge impact of breaking the glass, and said falteringly, "Dad... there's something inside, and... words!"