Chronic illness patients worsened because they could not obtain regular medication. Pregnant women gave birth alone without obstetricians; some mothers and children survived safely, while others were left with lifelong regrets.
Food and water became even more urgent crises.
Holy Light contamination was not conventional chemical or biological pollution, and humanity had yet to fully understand its mechanisms.
Sometimes, all it took was for a field to be splashed by a falling Famine Angel, and that season's crops would develop an eerie blue color at their roots. After humans or livestock consumed them, they developed symptoms resembling radiation sickness but not entirely the same: nausea, hair loss, internal bleeding, and then organ failure.
More water sources were contaminated by corpses.
Not only human corpses, but also the bodies of large numbers of fallen angels. Under the physical laws of the human world, angelic bodies did not rot quickly, but they continuously released trace amounts of energy residue extremely harmful to the human body.
These residues dissolved into water sources. Colorless and odorless, they would not cause death in the short term, but prolonged consumption led to chronic energy poisoning, for which there was currently no antidote.
Thus, survivors had no choice but to abandon rivers and lakes and rely instead on bottled water, but the bottled water supply chain had long since been cut off.
Supermarket shelves had been emptied on the first day. By the third day, warehouses had been requisitioned—legally or illegally—by all manner of groups. By the fifth day, clean drinking water was more precious than gold in most disaster-stricken areas.
Food was in slightly better condition, but only slightly.
Canned food had a long shelf life, but someone still had to dig it out of collapsed warehouses and distribute it to survivors. That required organization, transportation,