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#829 - Chapter 829 Famine
“Reeves.”
“We're out of food.”
Hearing his wife's call, the hungry farmer Reeves couldn't help but frown.
Looking at the warehouse full of grain before him, Reeves rubbed his belly and closed the door.
But soon, he couldn't help but sigh.
“It's not just our family, everyone is out of edible food.”
Reeves sighed, thinking about his full warehouse of grain.
Indeed, although the farmer Reeves had an entire warehouse of grain, not a single bite here could be eaten.
Because, starting a few days ago, these farmers had discovered that their harvested grains were contaminated by a plague of unknown origin.
These plagues would not directly infect Reeves and his fellow commoners, nor would they die from contact with these crops.
They only contaminated the farmers' food.
This sounded like good news.
But in reality, it was the worst possible news.
Because all the plague-contaminated grains had one thing in common.
That was, no matter whether they were cooked or baked, no matter how they processed the grains, the plague factors inside would be completely preserved due to their own divinity.
Although these plague factors would not directly harm the farmers, any ordinary person who ate the plague-contaminated grain would die from a sudden illness within a short period, without exception!
Although Reeves didn't understand what divinity was, nor did he understand what plague factors were.
But he still understood one thing.
That was, these mountains of grain could no longer be eaten.
Eating it would mean death!
“What did the lord say?”
“Will he provide us with edible food?”
After closing the warehouse door, the hungry Reeves sat in his house and said to his wife.
Although he had suffered such a terrible plague, Reeves still had some expectations in his heart.
After all, he had never been to school, but he had heard that his lord possessed supreme power.
It was said that these powerhouses from another world possessed something called 【The Heavenly Dao】.
As long as this thing called the Heavenly Dao existed, then these lords could use some means he didn't understand to obtain food from the Heavenly Dao and then distribute it to everyone.
This seemed to be a miracle.
But unfortunately, Reeves did not get the answer he wanted.
“The lord said nothing.”
“Although he sent some priests to try to purify the contaminated grain in our warehouse.”
“But for some reason, these priests' methods have failed.”
“Moreover, those guys in black robes (mages, alchemists), the potions they concocted, also failed to purify our grain.”
Reeves' wife said faintly.
“Reeves, are we going to starve to death?”
Hearing his wife say this, Reeves was first shocked, and then quickly shook his head.
“How is that possible!”
“We are the lord's subjects!”
“Every year, we provide him with such high taxes, how could he let us starve to death?”
Reeves said decisively.
“We are his most valuable property!”
“Believe me, wife, the lord will come to our rescue in a day or two at most.”
Sure enough.
As Reeves expected, in less than a day, their lord sent reinforcements.
Thousands of guards, with countless trucks loaded with edible grain, came to this little-known plane, and began to provide food to these plague-stricken farmers.
These grains were indeed as Reeves had expected, food that their lord had purchased from the Heavenly Dao store using resource points.
They were not contaminated and could be eaten.
And these guards began to provide these starving farmers with regular meals.
These meals were neither delicious nor plentiful, but they could just barely ensure that these hungry farmers would not starve to death.
Everyone, including Reeves, believed that although life was a little hard now, with the planting of new seeds and the harvesting of new crops, all these hardships would pass.
However, one day, Reeves and a group of farmers simultaneously heard two terrifying things.
The first thing was that the trucks that provided food every day did not arrive today.
And the second thing was....
Their land was also contaminated by the strange plague.
This land could no longer grow new grain!
Hunger began to linger in everyone's heart.
And this was not the end.
This was just the end of the beginning of a great famine!
A great famine that was about to sweep through the entire Sunset Dynasty had just begun!