Chapter 198: Food problem (1/2)
The day passed without any major events shaking the camp out of its peace. The projects progressed all with a surprising rate of growth. What used to take weeks of time for a few people was something that a huge group could achieve between meals.
Yet, at the very end of the day, when all the workers and cultivators either went to rest or to have their evening watch, Layn and his direct friends only started the most important part of the day.
”The first meeting of the council starts now,” Yelna muttered under her nose, sitting with her knees curled all the way up to her chin.
Even though the work progressed quickly, there were many important matters and businesses that had to be dealt with as an absolute priority, stopping the workers from creating a place suitable for the council. As such, they ended up in the same place as before, being the camp's kitchen.
And with both Yelna and Irea joining the group, it was now really crammed.
”Let's start with the essentials, then,” Irea said, standing up from Layn's knees. ”In terms of food reserves... We don't have any food reserves,” she said before releasing a deep sigh. ”Combining up everything that you guys brought and what we managed to save up, we can last for three days,” she added before lowering her head. ”And that's already with strict rations,” she muttered.
”Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?” Markus asked before moving his eyes to his own wife. ”Yelna? Can the fields yield anything so quickly?” he asked.
”Three days...” Yelna muttered, rubbing her chin. ”If we last three days, some of the older crops should be ready,” she said in a low voice. Yelna squinted her eyes as she thought about everything she learned during the day, calculating the chances and probabilities. ”But that won't change much. The crops can only help us last one more week,” she said before shaking her voice.
'I knew this would be a problem, but since I didn't expect them to arrive so suddenly, I failed to prepare for it,' Layn thought, blaming himself for the situation. ”How about delegating a huge group to fishing and fishing alone?” Layn asked, trying to find out a solution to the situation.
”In a sense, that could buy us a few more days...” Irea replied before hesitating for a moment. ”But I don't think it will be easy to force all those hardened sons of bitches to just go and fish for the entire day,” she added, revealing the reason behind her stress.
”Leave it to me,” Al said, proving that while he wasn't all that active during the meeting, he didn't ignore what was said at all. ”We are not in a situation where we can bother with what we want and what we don't want to do. I will put those mercenaries in line,” he said before lowering his head back under cover of a cap someone gave him during the day.