In the City Hall, Sephyrin was compiling the losses from this natural disaster, and the results were quite grim.
Although the mobile city was largely preserved due to timely activation, and not many people died directly from the disaster, it was, in theory, a rather successful evacuation from the natural disaster. The only severely damaged area was the eastern region.
But at this moment, the trouble Wolumonde faced was the eastern region.
Because there were only two roads out of Wolumonde: a shortcut to the east and a longer road to the north.
However, under the natural disaster, a huge canyon formed in the east, filled with exposed and highly active oripathy veins.
Due to this canyon, only a small number of people could enter and exit at great risk. A mobile city of its size could never squeeze through here.
So, the only option left for Wolumonde was to head north.
But if they went north, they would move away from other cities, making the time to receive aid very difficult to estimate.
Sephyrin's biggest worry was that the natural disaster in the east had almost completely destroyed Wolumonde's agricultural and transit zones. Before receiving aid, Wolumonde would completely lose its ability to be self-sufficient.
Through calculations, Sephyrin found that Wolumonde's current food supply could not support the city's consumption at all; the entire city would run out of food in at most one month.
Sephyrin dared not imagine how terrifying the danger of such a large city running out of food would be.
However, this natural disaster had destroyed the city's communication base stations, so he couldn't contact other cities. Moreover, even if he could, as a captain of the guard, he couldn't possibly obtain enough support from those cities.
He was truly at a loss about this.
At this moment, Tatyana opened the door and walked in.
"Uncle Sephyrin, these are the applications and material reports from Rhodes Island. I've placed them on your desk." Seeing Sephyrin's furrowed brow, Tatyana carefully placed the reports on the table and retreated.
Sephyrin shook his head, as if trying to shake off all the troubles he was currently facing. "Tatyana, what do you think of Rhodes Island? Can they be trusted?"
Hearing Sephyrin's words, Tatyana stopped her departure. "Hmm, from my observation, Miss Anto and Miss Folinic are undoubtedly very professional doctors, but the others... We in Wolumonde also have many doctors skilled in treating the Infected. Uncle, why did you choose to let the people from Rhodes Island take the lead?"
Sephyrin was noncommittal about this. He knew Tatyana was right; as a commercial city, and one where ordinary people and the Infected lived together, how could Wolumonde not have doctors who could treat the Infected? But he couldn't use them lightly.
The reason is simple: at a time like this, the two main ways to gather prestige are the City Hall, which manages general affairs, and medical personnel who treat illnesses and save lives.
When it was confirmed that Wolumonde would face a food crisis, everyone who was hungry would lower their evaluation of the administrators, which meant him.
But in terms of medical care, many people in Wolumonde were Infected with oripathy during this natural disaster. They are a group in urgent need of treatment. Coupled with the already large number of Infected, as long as medical personnel are willing to take the lead, then in the end, the person who leads will inevitably gain immense popularity.
Once everything is over, if his side hasn't done well, but others have, then whether he can keep his job will be very precarious.
So he gave this popularity and reputation to Rhodes Island, because Rhodes Island is not local to Wolumonde and will eventually leave. That way, no matter how much popularity they gain here, it ultimately won't threaten his position.
These were his inner thoughts, which of course he wouldn't tell Tatyana.
"Because in this disaster, Rhodes Island was the first organization to proactively step forward and express willingness to help the Infected. You also know how bad Wolumonde is right now. In such a situation, since someone is willing to help share the burden, why shouldn't we agree?
However, this batch of supplies will probably not be gathered all at once. Go and inform them that the City Hall will gather one-tenth today, and then provide one-tenth every two days. As for doctors, we will try our best to contact them. In this great disaster, I believe everyone in Wolumonde will unite and work together to overcome the difficulties."
Sephyrin looked at the list in his hand. He found that the list didn't require many things. It was clear that Rhodes Island also knew that official support was limited in such a disaster, so they only requested necessities. However, even so, Sephyrin couldn't gather everything in a short time.
"Okay, then I'll head out..."
"Alright. Oh, wasn't Thorwald with you? Where is he?"
"Before I came in, I saw him carrying someone towards the prison, the person Rhodes Island caught last night."
Sephyrin nodded in understanding and then continued to bury himself in his work.
Half an hour later, Thorwald walked into Sephyrin's office.
"How was it?"
"Just a bunch of brainless fools who are jealous of others. By the looks of you, our situation isn't looking good, is it?" Thorwald walked up to Sephyrin and picked up the report in front of him, reading it to himself.
"It's quite grim. The biggest problem right now is that the entire Eastern District was almost completely destroyed in this natural disaster. Wolumonde has lost its granary, and the remaining food in the other three districts combined probably won't last a month..." Sephyrin had no intention of hiding anything from his son, after all, his boy was very clever, and perhaps he could offer ideas to solve the problem at hand.
"Hiss," hearing Sephyrin's words, Thorwald couldn't help but provide a small assist to the early arrival of winter.
"What about support?"
"Unclear, but even if the roads are clear and other cities are unaffected, it would still take half a month for them to send aid the moment they discover our problem. After all, the eastern road is impassable, so all support would have to detour from the north. Our city's mobile modules were severely damaged during the escape from the natural disaster, so we can only wait here."
"But we can't just wait. How about I take the shortcut from the east and go outside to look for support?" Thorwald suggested to his father, willing to risk crossing the great canyon to seek help outside.
"Cough, cough, cough, no need. I've already arranged for people to go. But the situation in the east is unclear, and what if there are delays... We still have to try our best to find a solution ourselves." Sephyrin took a deep puff from his pipe, and after a fit of coughing, he continued to speak.
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