“So that’s the situation. We only came by tonight to notify you to get ready. If you have any other opinions, just go to the corresponding chamber of commerce in the city to voice them.”

“Also, the Inspectorate supervises the responsible managers at the same time. If you run into a bad attitude or any other unexpected situation while raising your opinions, you can also come to us to report it, and we will handle it immediately.”

“You understand, right?”

After passing on everything on the slip of paper, the uniformed leader quickly gave a summary, his attitude extremely friendly.

When it came down to it, they had plenty of views of their own about this Summer Harvest that was starting early and also ending early. They just weren’t things to be told to outsiders.

“We understand, we understand!”

Zhang Bowen stood up, his face blank, and kept exchanging pleasantries as he saw the three of them all the way out of the Liang Lane gate.

Only after he came back and sat down beside Su Mo did he slam a fist down on the table with a loud bang, furious.

Misfortunes never come singly.

When the Inspectorate came in the morning, everyone in the Zhang Clan had thought that Qiankun Grain Store was pushing from behind, trying to kill with a borrowed knife and send Zizai Liang Lane into utter ruin.

But the Inspectorate’s conduct tonight was not something the little Qiankun Grain Store could have arranged. It was clearly... “Teacher, it looks like the next disaster will break out during the Summer Harvest, and on quite a scale!”

Having grown up soaked in it, people in the wasteland treated disasters as basically no different from eating and drinking, from the old to the young, from scavengers to city mayors.

Nine years was long enough for everyone to become familiar with disasters, and used to them!

Moreover, as the territories grew stronger and gathered more and more people, the rules of disasters had also changed completely.

In the past, every human being would receive a message from the disaster at a fixed time.

But once the concept of the territory came into being, only the lord and those the lord designated could see it on the game panel across the whole territory.

If ordinary people wanted to know about a disaster, they either had to wait for the territory’s announcement or wait until three days before the disaster arrived.

At any other time, there was absolutely no other channel!

“Let’s hurry up and develop the tool. Since a disaster is coming, all we can do is do our best and leave the rest to fate.” He was not sure whether this disaster had suddenly descended because of his own arrival.

Seeing Zhang Bowen completely thrown into disarray, Su Mo could only comfort him for a good while. After some time, when Zhang Bowen’s mood had steadied a little, Su Mo had no mind to go back to work either. He only tidied up the workroom for a short while and announced that it was time to leave.

“Brother Su, what did the Inspectorate call you over to say?”

“Those turtle bastards, they only ever bully ordinary people like us all day. So only the rich people’s interests count as interests, and the interests of us poor people don’t matter at all?”

After leaving the Liang Lane gate, on the road home, Sun Quan looked left and right for a good while and in the end could not hold back his curiosity.

As they spent more time together, his true nature had gradually come out.

He had an extremely low sense of security. Apart from people he trusted at first sight, others had to be familiar to him for half a year or a year before he slowly opened his heart.

He did not trust the territory’s management level one bit. Catching a single loophole in management, he could pull out a long speech as endless as an old woman’s foot bandages.

Add to that his habit of often complaining about the unfairness of the territory’s system and holding a pessimistic attitude toward its future development.

Things that could not be seen in ordinary people, Su Mo had basically seen through.

By now, Sun Quan simply no longer intended to pretend.

“It should be that a disaster of considerable scale is coming. I’d guess it falls somewhere after June twenty-fifth and before July first.”

“The Inspectorate came to demand that the Summer Harvest be moved up to the fifteenth and shortened to ten days.”

“What? Only ten days for the Summer Harvest?”

Sun Quan was visibly startled. His steps faltered, and he stepped hard into a puddle beside the road.

Splash!

The standing water surged, and the ripples spreading out on top looked just like Sun Quan’s state of mind right now. Blown apart!

Spreading!

Impossible to recover!

It should be known that the two seemingly flimsy words “Summer Harvest” went far beyond little Mulberry Field Town, and were not limited even to the seemingly enormous Tian Yuan Territory.

Looking across the whole wasteland continent, the Summer Harvest was almost a feast for everyone.

The only differences were the size of the area and the variety of plants.

If a disaster broke out during the Summer Harvest period and happened to hit these thriving grain crops,

then...

“A food disaster, a food disaster is going to break out again!”

Sun Quan glanced at the darkness behind him. He seemed to have thought of something difficult to get through, and his whole face turned several shades paler.

The wasteland had lasted eight years, and it looked as if no major event had happened in that time.

But up to now, the human population had fallen by another billion or more, and the total was less than five hundred million.

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