Richest Man: Divine-Grade Reconstruct System-Chapter 832 - 792: What a Forlorn Beginning

"Everyone, take out the bowls you eat from and each of you get a bowl of porridge. Right now, immediately feed them.

But remember, absolutely do not give too much, each person takes a few sips, just enough to keep them alive."

With Lin Yi's stern words, everyone immediately paused, glancing at the crowd before them and then back at Lin Yi.

Finally, they quickly turned around, took out their stainless steel bowls, and ran to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi quickly scooped a ladle of porridge water into each of their bowls using two scoops.

After getting the porridge, they didn't care if it was too thin or if there were any grains in it. They quickly returned to the crowd and began feeding the weak individuals, mouth by mouth, with their bowls.

During this process, when they brought the porridge bowls to the elder people, they were refused.

The elders only uttered a few words: "Save the children first."

However, at this moment, upon hearing these words and seeing the elders refusing to eat, Lin Yi couldn't help but stand among the crowd and shouted:

"Everyone listen to me, when the porridge is brought to your mouth, just swallow it into your stomach. Don't make a fuss over who gets saved first!

With the effort you're putting into discussing, you could have saved more people. Don't waste my time; everyone drinks one sip and then shuts up. No one is going to give you a second sip!

If you want them to save more people quickly, stop dawdling."

Originally, these people seemed numerous, but there were only about 1,000 of them.

Now, with the soldiers feeding them, including Leng Yu, there were already 70 people helping.

Therefore, if each person feeds about ten people, they can feed them all.

It doesn't take long for each one to take two sips and be rescued.

Instead, the elders are so eager to save the children and the younger ones that they end up wasting time.

Despite Lin Yi's loud shout, some of the people were already somewhat disoriented, so only a portion understood.

The rest continued to insist.

Although the ones lying on the ground couldn't understand, the soldiers clearly heard Lin Yi's words.

They understood Lin Yi's intentions.

Thinking it through, they decided to act decisively. When they encountered elders, they directly pinched their mouths and forced a sip of porridge down their throats, then moved on to the next person without waiting for them to swallow or not.

Lin Yi had already instructed them that these people couldn't eat too much in one go; a few sips of porridge could keep them alive.

They had to gradually nurse their bodies back to health.

If they were fed too much food at once, it wouldn't help them; rather, it might cause greater harm, potentially leading to their death.

Hence, they perfectly executed Lin Yi's orders.

It only took a quarter of an hour to feed everyone a sip of porridge.

With the infusion of porridge, these people gradually regained some awareness.

At least having something in their stomachs cleared their minds somewhat.

Those who had fallen into a coma began to wake up one by one.

Upon seeing that those feeding them were their juniors, everyone couldn't help but shed tears of emotional relief.

These youths are still alive; they've come back; they've really returned.

Initially, everyone thought they were dreaming or had died, and only in this dying moment would such hallucinations occur.

But when they felt the real porridge enter their mouths, they came to their senses.

After feeding everyone, Lin Yi called out to everyone and started setting up several large pots, while taking out two bags of rice from the System Space and pouring them in.

Now, there was no need to worry about water.

Unlike before, this place was next to a clear water source.

Hence, water was abundant in this town, so cooking porridge didn't require any of the mineral water from Lin Yi's System Space.

As the two pots continued boiling, the rich aroma of rice quickly spread throughout the town.

Those who had regained some spirit from a few sips of porridge couldn't help but swallow their saliva repeatedly, although they still had no strength.

However, those few sips of porridge managed to sustain their lives temporarily, preventing them from starving to death.

Some children with inherently good physical condition began to barely crawl up with the porridge's effect.

But after barely taking two or three steps, they fell again; after all, they had been starving for so long, their legs had lost strength long ago.

While porridge was cooking here, the others were not idle; they settled everyone from the stables into comfortable places, allowing them to lie down.

After nearly two hours of busy work, these people were finally resettled; each one drank a bowl of thin porridge.

Of course, despite the timely rescue, among the 1,000-plus people, inevitably many couldn't survive.

According to the final count, nearly 100 elders couldn't persevere.

Indeed, this wasn't entirely because the rescue came too late.

Among these hundred, seventy or eighty were already on the brink, and more than a dozen had already passed.

They kept busy until dusk, then moved everyone into the nearby houses.

In the middle avenue of this town, Lin Yi was strolling there.

Walking on the bumpy ground below, looking at the dilapidated houses around, Lin Yi couldn't help but shake his head and smile wryly, while muttering under his breath:

"Oh, System, everyone else starts off either as Crown Princes or Emperors, even a Prince wouldn't be too bad. But you, you gave me the most downtrodden start."

[To be continued...]

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