On top of that, if the water here wasn't very clean, diarrhea alone could kill a person.
Kelly didn't understand.
This country clearly had so much food and had already adopted modern farming methods. How could people still be unable to get enough to eat?
"Evil energy!" the deputy clan leader spat out.
"You can look at the report on page seven. In cities where passages for evil spirits have appeared, even more evil spirits have entered reality, and the connection between the passages and reality has become more stable.
As a result, vast amounts of evil energy from the world where the evil spirits reside have flooded into the real world.
Any food contaminated by this evil energy spoils instantly.
It can no longer be eaten.
Not only does spoiled food cause poisoning and disease, but consuming it may also fill one's body with evil energy, leading to complete death and turning them into walking corpses.
This evil energy seeps into everything. It can even penetrate soil and steel.
All the food that had been stored away was contaminated by evil energy.
Much of the land was also corroded by evil energy and lost its fertile nutrients. Even the corn planted in the fields mutated and could no longer be used.
Only a little food has been preserved in cities without passages for evil spirits, or in areas capable of driving out evil energy.
So it isn't that we refuse to feed them.
There are simply too many people. The food stored in the Marrow Eater territory is limited. Food stored elsewhere may have survived in considerable amounts because it was protected by witches' methods of dispelling evil.
But transporting those supplies here takes time.
And people would already be starved to the point of collapse after going without