Chapter 767: Chapter 767: The Team Expands

Over the past two months, many people had secretly left Eldoria. Many others had eaten Famine Clay Soil and died a painful death from intestinal blockage. Still, a large number of survivors remained, and they had three reasons for not leaving.

First, they were afraid that if they left Eldoria, they wouldn’t find a new place to settle with a water source and Famine Clay Soil.

Second, local thugs had occupied the entire downstream area and sent out patrols everywhere. Anyone unlucky enough to be caught would have a hard time escaping.

Third, with empty stomachs, they had no strength. Most importantly, many had been injured in the explosion and simply couldn’t walk very far.

Two hours later, everyone had packed their belongings and lined up. Evelyn Ford ordered all the injured who couldn’t walk to be moved onto the truck. There were too many, and one truck wasn’t enough. Evelyn slipped away to a hidden spot and produced two more large trucks.

Once the injured were settled, she, Ronan Kendrick, and Rhys Chase each drove a truck, taking all the survivors fifty kilometers away.

Evelyn Ford left the task of settling them in to Rhys Chase.

Rhys Chase couldn’t handle it all alone, so Quincy and Miles Vaughn came over to assist him. Just like the last group they took in, the first five days were a probationary period. Only after those five days would Evelyn supply them with grain and water. The injured and children under five were temporarily exempt from work. Micah Manning also went over to help. She was in charge of boiling large pots of herbal medicine. Everyone had to drink two bowls a day to get their systems back to normal and expel the Famine Clay Soil from their stomachs. Only then could they eat foods made with flour; otherwise, they could easily die from impaction.

Back at the main camp, Evelyn Ford and Ronan Kendrick entered her space to cultivate more seedlings. With plenty of manpower now, planting wasn’t the issue. The real bottleneck was the supply of seedlings; if they couldn’t keep up, the entire planting process would be delayed.

As for the survivors’ drinking water, Quincy and Miles Vaughn would haul two truckloads over from the main camp each day. Evelyn Ford and Ronan Kendrick couldn’t possibly handle every single detail, so other tasks had to be delegated.

After five days, Evelyn Ford went to inspect their progress. She first visited Seth Sullivan’s camp. Despite their small numbers, they had managed to plant all two thousand seedlings within the five-day period. Boosted by the black soil, every single seedling had taken root. Evelyn left them pots, pans, bowls, and flour. Each person also received a change of clothes and a pair of straw sandals.

When Seth Sullivan and his group received the food and clothes, they could hardly believe their eyes. The scent of the flour drifted into their nostrils, and they couldn’t stop the tears from falling.

"Seth Sullivan, starting tomorrow, Ryan Rowe and Liam Sterling will no longer be supervising you. However, I’ll be coming by personally to check on things every few days. You need to keep working just as hard as you have these last five days. If I catch anyone slacking off or cutting corners, don’t blame me when I kick you out. From this month on, grain rations will be distributed once a month."

Along with the grain, Evelyn Ford also gave them coal for their fires. There was no charcoal to be found here, so coal had to serve as a substitute for now. Once they had planted trees for hundreds of kilometers, back to where forests once stood, they would be able to find charcoal and unburnt wood again.

With this "carrot and stick" approach, everyone dutifully stayed in line and focused on planting trees. Wendy traveled back and forth between the three camps, providing medical treatment to everyone.

The Four Seasons Green grew quickly; they could reach a meter in height in just two months.

Evelyn Ford’s standing among the survivors grew to surpass even Rhys Chase’s. They no longer called her Dr. Ford. Now, everyone, young and old, man and woman, addressed her as Miss Ford.

Wherever there were people, conflicts were inevitable. As long as no one crossed her bottom line, Evelyn Ford let them be.

「Three months passed in a flash.」

They had now relocated two hundred kilometers away, to the border of Varden. During those three months, they had also taken in a good number of refugees who had previously managed to sneak out of Eldoria.

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