Chapter 123 Pure Water

　　After seeing Yuan Wen off, Li Tianran did not return to the farm.

　　Love might occupy a very important part of life, but it would never be everything. Yuan Wen's departure might make Li Tianran feel a little lost, but that was all.

　　He wasn't depressed or bitter.

　　Compared to those things, there were more important things for Li Tianran to do now.

　　There were less than 35 hours left until the second Calamity Era, and Li Tianran needed to prepare some very important resources to cope with it.

　　He glanced at the introduction of the second Calamity Era again.

　　"The arrival of the second Calamity Era will take away the active, flowing ocean and water source life on the earth."

　　Li Tianran didn't know what form this Calamity Era would take. Would the oceans on Blue Star instantly become dry?

　　He asked the system, but received no answer.

　　Li Tianran gave up on thinking about it. He drove his truck towards the city. At this time, he rarely saw anyone else on the road leading to the city. The first Calamity Era had killed many people in Nancheng. Now, most of the survivors were hiding at home like quails, afraid to take half a step outside their doors.

　　Li Tianran liked this kind of driving environment very much. Soon, his truck arrived in front of an old warehouse in the city.

　　This was a wholesale market. When Li Tianran's farm was still running a restaurant, he often got his supplies from here and was familiar with the boss.

　　But at this time, the wholesale market was closed, with some garbage scattered at the entrance, looking extremely dilapidated.

　　In fact, if you stood on the street in the city center and looked around, you would find that almost every store was in this state.

　　With the rampage of thugs and mutated beasts, almost all the shops had closed down. Only some official designated sales points were guarded by the military and police, and they were still operating and distributing supplies!

　　Li Tianran didn't want to go to such strictly controlled places. He stood outside the iron gate of the warehouse and made a phone call.

　　A full twenty seconds later, the call was answered.

　　Li Tianran breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the other party was still alive.

　　"Lao Jin, are you home?" Li Tianran asked in a low voice.

　　…

　　"Boss Li, I wouldn't be able to come if you hadn't called me!"

　　Twenty minutes later, a middle-aged man wearing a green military coat and a dog fur hat stopped his van next to Li Tianran's truck. He breathed into his hands, rubbed his frozen red cheeks, and said to Li Tianran excitedly, "Boss Li, you did a great job with the cult case! I saw it on the news, you're a real hero of Nancheng!"

　　Li Tianran smiled and waved his hand, "That's all in the past, don't mention it."

　　"I have something to ask you today."

　　As soon as Lao Jin heard this, he patted his chest decisively and said, "Just say it, if I can do it, I will definitely do it!"

　　"It's like this... I want to buy something." Li Tianran took out a stack of hundred-yuan bills from his pocket and handed it to Lao Jin. "Take it!"

　　When Lao Jin heard this, a difficult expression appeared on his face. He rubbed his hands and said with a wry smile, "Boss Li, if you want me to do something else now, I'll follow you without saying a word! But if you want to buy something, I... really don't have any!"

　　"Twenty days ago, the packaged cooked food, seasonings, and refrigerated meat in my small market were all robbed. I secretly hoarded some before, wanting to raise the price later and make a profit, but later it was seized by the Market Supervision Bureau, and I was fined. Now, apart from what my family eats, I really can't squeeze any out!"

　　Lao Jin was also very helpless. Now almost all the resources of food merchants in Nancheng have been acquired by the government. He is empty-handed now, not a local tyrant at all!

　　Li Tianran laughed and said, "I don't want food. Do you still have any bottled water in your warehouse?"

　　Lao Jin was stunned: "Yes! I really have that!"

　　Lao Jin took out the key and opened the warehouse door, while chattering, "Since the world changed, my warehouse has been pried open twice. A bunch of bastards even stole the shelves, but they left the packaged bottled water in the cold storage..."

　　Li Tianran led Hanhan into the warehouse.

　　He came this time to buy drinking water. Although there were bottled water that could be exchanged with points in the mall, he calculated that after the farm was upgraded, it would probably take at least a week before he could use points in the mall to buy daily necessities without pressure again.

　　So in order to relieve some of the points pressure, he decided to buy it with cash first.

　　The depreciation rate of cash is very fast now. The money Li Tianran has accumulated over the years may now be difficult to even buy a hundred catties of rice.

　　Clang!

　　Inside the warehouse, the iron gate of another small warehouse was opened, and inside were neatly stacked hundreds of boxes of pure bottled mineral water.

　　"After the world changed, many people grabbed food... No one wants these things at all." Lao Jin smiled wryly.

　　Li Tianran could understand.

　　The world had changed, food was scarce, but water had not been cut off. People would definitely consider their primary needs first.

　　They put all their money into buying food. As for bottled water... With city tap water, who would spend extra money to buy these things?

　　Li Tianran calculated and took out four thousand yuan and stuffed it into Lao Jin's hands, saying, "I only need a hundred boxes."

　　Although prices are soaring now, the prices of non-essential resources such as bottled water have actually fallen, because everyone is staring at food, and no one wants these things at all.

　　Four thousand yuan is enough to buy three hundred boxes!

　　"How can I accept your money..." Lao Jin said politely, declining.

　　"Take it." Li Tianran stuffed the money into Lao Jin's arms without question, and then said, "Help me load it into the truck!"

　　"If Boss Li wants it, don't just take a hundred boxes... Take it all away! Anyway, it's useless for me to keep these things! I'll give it all to you!" Lao Jin patted his chest and said extremely generously.

　　Li Tianran smiled when he heard this, and while pulling the trolley, he said, "Lao Jin, when I was renovating my farm before, I took down an old iron plate... I thought it was in the way and useless, so I sold it to the scrap station for a few yuan! Later, my warehouse had a hole that needed to be repaired and I needed an iron plate, so I had no choice but to spend a hundred times the price to buy another iron plate."

　　"From that lesson, I came to the conclusion that some things that seem useless for the time being may be useful at some point."

　　After Li Tianran finished speaking, he patted Lao Jin on the shoulder and said, "I only want a hundred boxes of these goods, keep the rest for yourself."

　　Lao Jin thought for a while, then grinned and nodded: "Okay! I'll listen to you!"