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Of course, the most important thing now was to find a way out.

Shi Qingyang thought through everything, and then, he felt a chill in his heart.
The problems with the Yin Family was caused by him.
If it weren’t for him, Cheng Ran would have had nothing to do with the Yin Family.

Even the excuse that those people made when they wanted to kill Cheng Ran, to exchange Cheng Ran for the Almighty Elixir, was caused by him.
If he hadn’t gone looking for Cheng Ran after his rebirth, Cheng Ran would have been safe right now…

Shi Qingyang punched the stone next to him until his hand was in severe pain, and finally calmed down a little.
No one would have been able to predict something like this.
The only thing he could do now was to do his best to protect Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin.

“Qingyang, are you awake?” Hearing the sounds from Shi Qingyang, Cheng Ran asked.

“I’m awake.
What’s the matter?” Shi Qingyang asked, opening the contact terminal at the same time, which made the cave a little brighter.

“Grandpa Gu has a fever,” Cheng Ran spoke anxiously.
He was carrying a lot of small things, including a detector to detect a person’s physical condition.
He didn’t sleep well, and he was afraid to disturb Shi Qingyang’s sleep, so he didn’t come to Shi Qingyang’s side.
But from time to time, he would test Gu Changjin’s body.

After each test, the detector would light a red light and ask him to send the patient to the hospital as soon as possible.
Just now, he detected a very high temperature.
He wanted to try to wake up Shi Qingyang, but he didn’t expect Shi Qingyang to wake up himself.

“Let me see,” Shi Qingyang said, and when he saw the temperature, the expression on his face became as ugly as Cheng Ran’s.

Gu Changjin’s temperature was too high now.
If it went on like this, he would burn to death!

“Qingyang, is there still water?” Cheng Ran asked.

“Yes.” Shi Qingyang took out all the water and food on his body.
Even if he liked to bring food, he didn’t bring much.
Now there were four bottles of specially packaged water, five bottles of liquid nutrients, and some packaged dried meat.
He originally intended to leave all this for Cheng Ran, since as long as Cheng Ran didn’t move much, this could barely last him for a period of time.
“Give Grandpa Gu a bottle of water first.”

Gu Changjin had taught him many things, and had been taking care of him.
His parents were now very far away from him, and Gu Changjin had taken the place of an elder in his family.

Neither he nor Cheng Ran could watch Gu Changjin die.

Cheng Ran knew how much food Shi Qingyang brought, and what’s more, he knew Shi Qingyang’s appetite.
He hadn’t eaten anything for so long before that even if Shi Qingyang ate up all of the food they had here now, it probably wouldn’t be enough to fill him up.
But now, Shi Qingyang hadn’t eaten anything since they left the mobile town yesterday.

Without them, Shi Qingyang might not be involved in this matter at all, and he would certainly be better off.
Without them, Shi Qingyang would not have to drag two deadweights with him now.

Cheng Ran opened the package, put the water against Gu Changjin’s mouth, and fed him water little by little.
Shi Qingyang opened the contact terminal to cast some light illumination, and massaged Gu Changjin’s body over and over to help Gu Changjin swallow easier.

The two worked together and finally fed Gu Changjin all the water.
Shi Qingyang was relieved and worried–Gu Changjin obviously couldn’t eat ant eggs directly like he thought at the beginning.

After a moment of silence, Shi Qingyang opened another bottle of nutrient solution.

Cheng Ran fed half a bottle to Gu Changjin until Gu Changjin couldn’t swallow anymore.
Seeing this, Shi Qingyang took the bottle and screwed on the lid: “Ranran, this bottle of nutrient solution has been in contact with radiant energy.
It doesn’t matter if Grandpa Gu eats a little.
I’m afraid it’s harmful to your body.
You can open another bottle and eat it directly with the eating tube.”

“I’m not hungry, you’d better eat it,” Cheng Ran immediately said.
They had only so little food left.

“I don’t need it.
I can eat something else, but you must eat something, or you won’t be able to stand it,” Shi Qingyang said.

“Something else?” Cheng Ran subconsciously looked at the ant eggs.
There were ant beasts and ant beasts’ eggs in the nest room.
It was said that people ate them in ancient times, but now, because the ant nests were too troublesome to be destroyed without bombs, the price of ant eggs was still very expensive.

Although he had never seen anyone eat them, it was edible.

“I can eat the meat directly.” Shi Qingyang swallowed.
He was really hungry and thirsty.
He should find something to eat for himself.
Now the only food he could find was the ant beasts outside.

Shi Qingyang slightly removed the stone that blocked the hole, and immediately a crawling ant beast wanted to drill in.
Shi Qingyang attracted the radiation energy around him, lifted the knife and fell, and directly cut it in half from the joint.
He then killed two more  in the same way.
After simple processing, he took out only the edible meat, and the rest of the leftover materials were thrown down the hole.

“Won’t they come for revenge?” Cheng Ran was a little surprised.

“As long as the queen ant doesn’t care, they won’t care about us.
What I just threw down should still enter their stomachs.
Moreover, even if they want to kill us, they can only get in from this entrance,” Shi Qingyang said.
In fact, the queen generally didn’t care about things like this, and was only responsible for giving birth to more ants.

Actually, he had good luck in his last life to hide in a place like this.
In the end, he grinded by killing ants one by one and inexplicably hit level-3.

Ant beasts didn’t have much to eat, but three ant beasts were enough for Shi Qingyang to eat, though the raw meat tastee bad.
He had gotten used to being fed delicious food by Cheng Ran and being raised by Gu Changjin, and he almost couldn’t swallow this.

He’d obviously thought it was delicious in his last life.

Although Shi Qingyang couldn’t be seen clearly in the dark, Cheng Ran didn’t need to think about it to know how bad meat without any treatment would be.
Gu Changjin had never bought ant beast meat before, for nothing else than because it was not delicious.

“Ranran, you drink the nutrient solution,” Shi Qingyang said again.

“I can try something else,” Cheng Ran said, “We only have so little nutrient solution.
If I eat it, what about Grandpa Gu?”

“The ant eggs…” Shi Qingyang hesitated.
Gu Changjin was in a very poor state now.
If they cooked the ant eggs, it may not matter to give them to him, but if they were raw, Gu Changjin was likely to be unable to digest them.
In contrast, the specially prepared nutrient solution was indeed more suitable for Gu Changjin now.

Cheng Ran thought carefully and guessed Shi Qingyang’s plan: “I can eat ant eggs.
Ant eggs are food with relatively less radiation.
I can drink some with a straw.”

“Take nutrients first,” Shi Qingyang insisted, “If you get sick, I’ll have tol take care of two people.”

Cheng Ran was sure that he was no different from being sick now: “I’ve been exposed to radiation before and just felt ill.
As long as the rescuer finds us, I’ll be all right.
Why not try?”

“No.” Shi Qingyang insisted, “If something happens to you, I…” He clenched his fist, the fingernails pinching into his the palm causing it to bleed.
Now, Cheng Ran had been put into such a dangerous situation because of him.

“I’ll be fine.
I think ant eggs are also good,” Cheng Ran said again.

“Next time we have Grandpa Gu drink water and nutrient solution, you can drink some first.
If it doesn’t work, I’ll go out and find help,” Shi Qingyang said.
If he took advantage of these days to kill more ant beasts, he might have a chance to escape.

“Qingyang, I want to eat ant eggs,” Cheng Ran insisted for the first time.
“I ate ant eggs in the city before.
I can just eat them raw now.
As long as I’m careful not to eat those contaminated by radiation, I’ll be fine, otherwise you can let me eat ant meat.” He shifted a little, already touching those ant eggs.
These football-like ant eggs hardly showed signs of hatching, and they seemed to be full of liquid.

For some reason, Cheng Ran had a strange feeling when he brushed against these ant eggs.