"Buildings covered in slime mold, fruiting bodies packed together like a tidal wave, and active hatcheries... Everything you saw is the current state of Clear Spring City's eastern district."
"The tide is over, but no one knows how it ended. It was only after our reporters ventured deep into Clear Spring City's eastern district that the hidden truth was finally uncovered!"
The entire newspaper was only three pages long. Chu Guang skimmed through it and found that all three pages were about the eastern outskirts of Clear Spring City.
The first section revealed where the slime mold fruiting bodies had gone. The vast majority had not been destroyed, but transferred to the eastern outskirts of Clear Spring City.
There was nothing wrong with that part.
After resolving this year's tide, The Alliance had indeed moved all the fruiting bodies to Clear Spring City's eastern district instead of packaging them up and selling them to nearby merchants as they had in previous years.
Chu Guang remembered clearly that he had personally given that order.
However, by the second section, the content gradually began to go off the rails.
This section cleverly aimed its accusations at The Alliance authorities, using vague evidence and so-called insider sources to fabricate claims that The Alliance had reached an agreement with the Broodmother in downtown Clear Spring City through some unknown means, allowing it to command the fruiting bodies for its own use.
By the third section, the report shifted its focus to the "survivors" of Clear Spring City's eastern district.
Several survivors claimed in interviews that The Alliance's army had driven them from their homes and threatened to feed them to the slime mold fruiting bodies if they refused.
In truth, aside from a handful of reclusive survivors, most of Clear Spring City's survivors had