After the mysterious Gift Game took a new turn, and even its victory conditions were officially announced, this normally chaotic region fell into an unusual lull for a little while. People stopped dashing around and searching everywhere for the "Godslayer," who might not even exist in the first place.
But...
The quiet didn't last long. Maybe two or three days?
At any rate, perhaps after the East District's floor master, Bai Yasha, and the "Bear-Head" No Name Community held a meeting and talked things over, everyone quickly reached a few agreements. Then, on the third day, the city's residents and the various communities threw themselves into a massive food-gathering campaign.
In short!
Nobody knew which big brain had issued the order, but from that day on, countless people in the region were organized and set to work on a grand scale: hunting in the mountains, fishing in the rivers, burning and clearing land, plowing fields, planting vegetables, and all manner of other productive activities.
As a result, the vast forests in this once-wild backwater on the edge of the East District's seven-digit outer gate were felled in great swaths by all sorts of people wielding axes, saws, and Gift abilities. Animals of every size were hunted and turned into dried meat. They even went after the birds. It was a devastating tragedy for Little Garden's wildlife!
At almost the same time, columns of smoke rose as wood was burned, and huge stretches of farmland sprang up practically overnight, replacing forests and grasslands. Tens of thousands of people began frantically planting crops that could be harvested within a month.
Vegetables like bok choy, spinach, rapeseed, and little radishes, for example.
Berries, rice, grain, potatoes, and other crops that couldn't be harvested within a month were planted too. Then, Gift users with