Joel has a craft. He soon discovered that making a few traps to catch rats in a nearby sewer was much more rewarding than going to a government farm to farm. A string of live rats can be sold for a good price at the dealer's price, at least worth ten days of hard work on the farm. And the rats are easy to come by. Make a few traps, hang up the bait, and get up to sleep and collect it.

Relying on this craft, Joel has made everyone live a well-off life. People never worry about ration cards. Bread is plentiful, and occasionally you can exchange two bottles of wine on the black market.

A few days later, Nan Xiao found herself in a big problem.

Joel is not willing to take risks.

Nan Xiao vaguely mentions the Kabbalah Tree of Life and the Philosopher's Stone formed by the sap several times, but Joel only listens to the legend and is not even as interested as Sarah. This old man is now full of thoughts about how to get more ration cards, so that Sarah Baby can eat well, grow up healthy, study at home, and don't bother with those idle street gangsters.

The gold of the jungles of South America, the treasures of Shangri-La, the utopia of the legendary pirates, Lybotaria, none of which made Joel particularly interested.

These legendary treasures are not even as attractive to Joel as the rats in the sewers.

Tommy may be a little interested, but as everyone knows, this younger brother doesn't have much ideas, and is usually just an enhancement pendant for his older brother.

Besides, Tommy recently met a blonde beauty named Maria, and gradually his attention began to shift his attention to how to get his sister, and he was not so obsessed with treasure hunting adventures or immortality.

Sarah Lori ...... Well, she's interested, but only to the extent of bedtime stories.

It's so embarrassing that the plan can't keep up with the change.

How can I get Joel interested in treasure hunting? Nan Xiao thought about it, but there was no good way.

If the cow does not drink water, it will not be possible to press the head strongly. No interest is no interest, and no tricks are useless.

Unless、Treasure hunting can be linked to Sarah.。 But how is this possible? Bragging that Shangri-La's sap of longevity can keep Sarah young forever?

The problem is that Joel doesn't even feel comfortable with the bread sold outside right now. I specially managed to get the special flour for the army back. I nibbled on the bread sold in the market and baked hot flour for Sarah every day.

Water too. The purified water I bought had to go through the water purifier before Sarah could drink. Water purifier filters are also rations for the military. This uncle doesn't know where to get the door, but he can always get these things anyway.

Under Joel's careful upbringing, Sarah is now healthy, lively, sick and painless. The need for immortal sap is not urgent.

Virginia occasionally calls to mention the progress of vaccine development. Most of the time she wasn't in a good mood, babbling about this and that. The Firefly Empress seems to have released her pigeons, and has no intention of cooperating, and has not brought her the active plants.

Without a brain with natural immunity, without an immune plant that lives in symbiosis with the brain, even if Virginia were a skilled biological scientist, it didn't seem like he could come up with any exciting solutions.

Until one day, Virginia suddenly called and excitedly announced a big event.

"There is hope for a vaccine!"

"What?"

When he heard the phone call just now, Nan Xiao was puzzled.

And that succeeded? It's that simple?

"Are you sure it worked?" He asked.

"Of course, Marlene chose to cooperate with me and the government in the end. She took the active plants and kept them in the cold storage of Firefly for countless experiments. I have communicated with her again and again during this time, and she has always failed because although she has mastered the active plants, she has not mastered the key preparation process. ”

"So she handed over the plants?"

"Pretty much. She asked to negotiate with us. On the condition that the last remaining viable plants be handed over in exchange for a pardon from the government. She wants to cooperate. ”

"So what?"

"I thought you could do a favor too? Make sure Marlene hands over the active plants and don't let her play any tricks. That woman has no credibility, and I don't really believe in her. The Firefly Organization has attacked us many times, and it has no credibility to speak of. ”

"What about the pay?" Joel asked.

"Sarah's right to vaccination."

"This is what you promised us a long time ago, and you can't exchange it twice."

"Well, what about the army's standard supply of flour and purified water? I know you've been buying up military flour and water purifier filters from the black market at high prices. As long as a few of you are willing to help, I will put you on the list of regular employees of the Rheinland Biochemistry Laboratory, and enjoy the same treatment as government civil servants. ”

Joel stopped talking, lost in thought. It seems that this condition is attractive to him.

Catching rats and selling them is, after all, a dirty, smelly job, and dangerous. It seems that there are already people on the black market who have their eyes on this business. Joel noticed that someone was following him, and even the rat traps in the sewers had been broken.

out of a mission, and then you can enjoy the life of receiving a salary every month and waiting for death, it seems that he is quite yearning.

At the same time, Nan Xiao was also pondering his own thoughts.

Would you like to give Joel a hand?

There are two possibilities. 1. Joel became a government employee, and since then he has been eating and waiting for death, concentrating on raising his daughter, and has no motivation to take risks at all.

Second, according to the hierarchy of needs, after eating and drinking, Joel's need for self-actualization will rise. The adventurous nature in his bones will be activated, and he will be driven to respond to Nan Xiao's proposal to travel to Shangri-La to explore the legendary elixir of life.

Which is more likely?

Both are possible, and the human heart is constantly changing and elusive.

Come to think of it, he tends to help Joel on this trip. After all, Joel is quite unambitious right now, and some changes could be a good thing for him. Perhaps after becoming a government employee and relieving Sarah's worries about contracting the spore virus, he will have the ambition to explore.

In any case, things can't get worse than they are now. Now Joel spends his days thinking about how to catch rats more efficiently, and how to fight the evil people who spy on his business. A macho man, calculating these trivial things all day long, but he is still very stubborn.

Since Joel is all about how to make Sarah live a happier life, then when they really have no worries about food and clothing, they may have a higher level of desire. Well, that's all I can expect for now.

"The government employees are pretty good," Nan Xiao suggested, "and they don't have to fight, just make sure that Marlene fulfills the agreement, and I think I can take this commission." ”