Chapter 688 Eat Raw
In the narrow hall, the lights were dim and the atmosphere was suffocating.
Tan Junjie spoke first, "Let's not talk about the past. You should rest early while I go on patrol."
Mother Tan grabbed the protective clothing her son had picked up and asked in a trembling voice, "Ajie, just because of a few words from the child, you are separated from your biological brother?"
In the back room with the door closed, Tan Qi was lying on the bed, biting the corner of the quilt.
Unexpectedly, his mother thought it was Tan Qi's fault that he and Tan Junchao were "different". Tan Junjie raised his wrist to look at the time, put down his protective clothing, and decided to talk the matter out once and for all.
"I heard that someone in another base inspired the ability to evolve after injecting the blood of the evolver's relatives."
Mother Tan raised her head and said, "That's it! With just a little blood, you can have multiple evolvers in your family. What a great thing!"
A little blood? Tan Junjie's heart sank, "Jun Chao is 31 years old this year and is still in the age range where he can evolve. Do you want me to draw 400 ml of blood and transfuse it to him to help him stimulate his ability to evolve?"
Tan's mother immediately shook her head, "You work so hard here, how can you endure so much blood at once?"
His mother's words made Tan Junjie feel even colder, "You already knew before they took action?"
Mother Tan immediately shook her head, "Neither Achao nor I know..."
"You don't know, but Tan Junchao does. The couple wants not only Qiqi's blood, but also her meat. Because it is rumored that eating meat is more effective than drinking blood, they plan to chop off a piece of Qiqi's flesh first. Try the effect.”
Tan Junjie stared at his mother, who didn't show much shock, and knew that she had already guessed, "You must have heard how to eat the meat of blood relatives to get the best effect."
Eat it raw!
Although four months have passed since this incident, Tan Junjie still cannot control his emotions and becomes murderous when he mentions it.
"No, this is impossible, how is this possible..." The bloody truth was torn apart by her son in front of her, but Tan's mother still didn't want to, or she couldn't believe it.
Tan Junjie's voice was spitting fire, "Did you use a kitchen knife to draw blood for blood transfusion? If Qiqi hadn't avoided it carefully, Tan Jiachao and his son had eaten Qiqi's flesh. If they really stimulated their evolutionary ability, do you think they would have stopped? No! They would eat Qiqi alive in order to gain higher levels of ability!"
Tan Junjie's breathing became heavy when he thought of the dozens of missing cases of evolved children reported in the safe zone.
Tan's mother covered her face and cried bitterly, "Impossible, this is impossible... Jia Chao doesn't know how to eat. No matter what delicious food there is in the house in the past three years, A Chao himself can't bear to use his chopsticks, and he won't let Xiao He Eat more, but stay close to Qiqi first..."
Tan Junjie, with red eyes, stated the facts, "I sent Qiqi's food back to her, and she didn't need anyone to give it to her."
Tan Qi, who was biting the quilt in the back room, shed more tears.
Mother Tan put down her withered hands covering her face and looked at her eldest son with tears in her eyes.
Before she could speak, Tan Junjie knew what she was going to say, "Not only Qiqi's, but also your share. I have told you and Tan Junchao that you can control your food, but who owns Qiqi's food?" Can’t move either.”
As if the last trace of energy in her body had been eroded by evolutionary bacteria, Mother Tan slowly lowered her head and murmured, "This time there is something wrong between them..."
"Seven years before the natural disaster, if Jun Chao and his wife hadn't given me a bite of food out of family affection, I would have starved to death..."
Seeing that her eldest son didn't speak, Mother Tan thought he had listened and continued, "You and Qiqi are lucky. You are both evolved, so you don't know the suffering of ordinary people. The lives of ordinary people these days are worse than dogs." …”
Tan Junjie raised his hand to look at his watch, picked up the protective clothing again, and made his attitude clear, "If you want to stay here, just live with Qiqi, and then move to the territory after the house is built. If you want Return to the safe area and I will give you 100 points for your pension every month and half of the rent for that house.”
Mother Tan was in a daze, "Achao has listened to you since he was a child and chased you like a little follower. Natural disasters are all caused by natural disasters..."
Tan Junjie's voice was cold, "It's because he is my biological brother that I brought their family of three here when I went to pick you up. I rented the house they live in in the safe zone, and I found the job through favors. Now they are here Isn’t it enough to have no worries about food and drink in the safe zone?”
Seeing that her eldest son was determined, Mother Tan stopped mentioning her younger son, "Even if they are really what you said, what's wrong with Xiao He? He's only six years old... He's your nephew. Let him come with me." Live with Qiqi and eat more fresh natural food. If he can stimulate his evolutionary ability, he and Qiqi will be able to help each other in the year of natural disaster. How can I survive?”
"After the country promulgated the territorial policy, I mentioned the territory to you and Tan Junchao, but he missed the opportunity. Qiqi is the lord of Territory No. 15. Anyone from the Tan Jiachao family can enter Territory No. 15 without her permission. They will all be punished according to the Lords Law." Tan Junjie opened the door and walked out, then closed the door gently and left quickly.
There is no opportunity for trial and error during the natural disaster. For the safety of his daughter, Tan Junjie will never allow the family of three to get close to their daughter again.
Mother Tan stood in the small hall in a daze for more than ten minutes, then suddenly turned around and opened the door to her granddaughter's room.
Before she could reach the bed, Tan Qi jumped up and knelt on the bed with one knee, holding the dagger in both hands in a defensive posture.
Tan Qi's hut had no windows. The dim light in the small hall shone in, illuminating the dagger in her hand, and also illuminating her red and swollen eyes and her whole body's defense.
Frightened, Tan's mother frowned, "What's the matter with you?"
Tan Qi used to be afraid when she saw her grandmother frowning and glaring, but she was no longer afraid after she knew that her father would not abandon her.
Dad was out on patrol, she had to protect herself and must not put away the dagger. Because Tan Qi remembered deeply that when she told her grandmother that Second Aunt wanted to chop her, the look in her grandmother's eyes was more terrifying than the knife in Second Aunt's hand, so Tan Qi ran out of the house and ran to the territory to find her father.
The granddaughter looked very scary, and Tan's mother did not dare to move forward. She turned on the light and softened her tone, "Qiqi, tell me with your conscience, did your grandmother treat you badly in the three years in the safe zone? Did you eat the good things at home first?"
Tan Qi said, "That was given to me by my father."
Tan's mother knew that she had heard their conversation as soon as she heard it. It was useless to say anything at this time, and she still had to take it slowly.
Two days later, when Zhu Li came to give Xia Qing a bamboo shoot sales points card, she told her about the Tan family, "The old lady was coaxed by her youngest son and followed the transport truck back to Anquan this morning. This old lady is really brave. She dared to go back and live with the couple who wanted to eat her niece's flesh."
Xia Qing had heard her talk about it when Tan Qi came to practice swimming yesterday. Tan Junchao's reason for persuading Tan's mother to go back was very clear: he needed Tan Junjie to pay half of the rent, and he also wanted Tan Junjie to give his mother 100 points every month for retirement.
As for what the old lady thought, Xia Qing was not interested. She wanted to know where Zhu Li got the news. (End of this chapter)