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Jiao Ming nodded with a sigh, "I heard about it. I patrolled those farms, and after being attacked by mutant animals, the soil was all churned up, not a single hair left. The farmers sat in the fields and cried, and seeing that, we felt terrible."
"Pan'er's superpower is the Star Tree. God looks out for the simple-hearted; the Star Tree has a Space Barrier, which really saved everyone. Otherwise, we would have lost everything too. Even so, we still lost a third of our grain and vegetables. The fields were gnawed at as if by persistent scabies."
"It's hard for everyone. We're also struggling at the base. If the farms are hit by disaster, we suffer too. If we can't bring in the harvest, everyone has to go hungry, including the orphanage and the slum. The Base Commander is scrimping and saving every which way. We even had a period of eating only one meal a day, with everyone's stomachs rumbling, just filling up on water, and getting dizzy on hunting trips."