Era of Disaster Chapter 6: Student Team

Chapter 6: Student Team

Two days!

Only two days have passed since the Progenitor’s activated cells started proliferating on the 23^rd and more than half of the people in New Zealand were struck with frightening hunger and appetite. People feared this appetite. It was just like a black hole, no matter how much they ate they could not be full. The number of fights that started over food in New Zealand were innumerable.

This was still just the human world, in the natural world the battles between animals were even more cruel and bloody.

Very quickly on the dawn of the 25^th, the government of New Zealand announced the release of emergency war rations. At the same time, they reassured the citizens and asked them not to panic as it was only hunger, an easily solvable issue. We are living in modern society right now, it was not like in ancient times where people starved to death in droves during famines. Moreover, the world already knew of the circumstances in New Zealand and have started offering aid and donating resources.

Once people received this news the situation in New Zealand became better, but only by a bit. This is because the kind of hunger they are experiencing now is completely different the hunger they feel normally, it was really too unbearable. Moreover, there were recently a few cases of animals attacking and eating humans. Humans aren’t the only ones hungry but animals too and these animals aren’t constrained by things like rationality and morals.

Even though it has only been two days, the economy came to a halt as everyone stopped working except chefs. During normal times, nobody expected ‘eating’ to be so powerful. Extreme hunger could make people drop everything they are working on and focus solely on filling their stomach.

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“Damn it, just what is going on? Why am I getting hungry so quickly?” Woolf cursed at the side.

Other than the few people here initially, there was the addition of Santos’ wife and eight-year-old son. As for the other employee Ballant, he was single. These people had consumed all the food

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