Chapter 474: Disaster Descends Upon Wano Country
One month after the Roger Pirates left Wano Country.
Large amounts of supplies were secretly sent to the Wano Country Sea Area.
Including many items like the Withering Agent, Kurozumi Semimaru also made a huge profit from the World Government by seizing this opportunity.
The World Government also wanted to deal with the Kozuki Clan, making them friends.
Naturally, they still needed to rely on the Kurozumi Clan.
The transportation channel was secretly controlled by the Kurozumi Clan and was not within the control of the Tyrant Dragon Pirates.
When it came to understanding the Wano Country Sea Area, the Kurozumi Clan undoubtedly knew more compared to Wano Country, which had maintained an Isolation Policy for many years.
This cooperation with the World Government also couldn't be known by the Tyrant Dragon Pirates.
No one wanted the strength of other Faction appearing on their Territory, easily allowing infiltration, especially by the World Government.
Agent entered, one by one, Wano Country under the cover of the Kurozumi Clan, taking this short time to learn about the relevant culture, customs, and ways of speaking.
They did their best to disguise themselves as a qualified Wano Country Resident.
Both sides wanted to deal with Wano Country, so it could be said they hit it off immediately.
However, both sides had their own action plans and did not interfere with each other.
Since the location of Black Snake Island had been discovered, and the North Area of the main Island was Territory controlled by Wano Country, there were Samurai monitoring the local Coast Area.
For this operation, the Kurozumi Clan was already prepared to expose some of their hidden pieces.
"Hehehehe! It's about to begin. Let this Kingdom completely sink."
Kurozumi Semimaru wore a Hannya mask and excitedly danced the ritual dance.
As the Kurozumi Clan established their foundation outside the Wano Country Sea Area and became stable,
Kurozumi Semimaru no longer had such a strong obsession with seizing rule over Wano Country.
Moreover, Wano Country was, strictly speaking, the Territory of the Tyrant Dragon Pirates.
What she wanted now was to destroy this country she hated.
People wouldn't think about what they had done wrong; they would only think about what they had experienced.
Kurozumi Semimaru never thought the riot the Kurozumi Clan incited back then was wrong; she only hated the constant humiliation the Kurozumi Clan suffered in Wano Country.
For an old fellow like her, who didn't know how much longer she would live, it was time to be willful.
Having endured for so long, the Kurozumi Clan now had successors.
With the younger generation they had cultivated starting to grow up, she wasn't too worried about the future anymore.
That night, while the vast majority of Wano Country Resident were resting, the Kurozumi Clan members began their operation, sprinkling Withering Agent mixed with water onto the crops.
Before the operation, the Kurozumi Clan had already calculated everything.
They dispatched thousands of people, two or three per village, seven or eight per town.
This covered 90% of the Farmland in the Area of Wano Country not directly controlled by the Tyrant Dragon Pirates, which was the North Area.
In just three days' time, the crops on these Farmland would wither and rot.
Even the Farmland would be unusable for planting for the next one or two years.
It would essentially become a wasteland.
As for the well water, which was crucial to some villages, the Kurozumi Clan also poisoned it.
This poison would cause corruption to the internal Organ of the Body, and bodily functions would decline.
It was especially fatal for Elder and children.
And now, Wano Country's population was only a little over a hundred thousand.
Many had died over the years, and the birth rate was completely lower than the death rate.
What's more, the Kurozumi Clan was secretly causing trouble.
Many young and strong people had become Slave and were sold off to The Great Sea.
Currently, Wano Country still had a majority of Elder.
Many years ago, the Kurozumi Clan had taken away so much of the population.
Countless Wano Country Resident had their families destroyed and died.
Coupled with the Kurozumi Clan's hidden corruption and the wars incited by Pirate,
the pain brought about couldn't be recovered from in just a few years' time, let alone the restoration of the population.
The entire country, on the surface, seemed to be thriving, but only the Core Area under control looked somewhat better.
In reality?
Overall, it remained stagnant and lifeless.
What could be done was to lead the remaining Wano Country subjects in farming and production, getting the country's development back on track.
There were results, but Kurozumi Semimaru wanted to destroy all of it.
Wano Country, despite having a unique culture and powerful force, still couldn't change the fact that it was an agriculture country.
How much Land was laid to waste by the riot the Kurozumi Clan incited in Wano Country back then?
Over a hundred thousand people starved to death alone.
And this time, the attack launched by the Kurozumi Clan would be even more ferocious, directly striking a blow at Wano Country's economy pillar.
Killing people with poison without consequence was undoubtedly what Kurozumi Semimaru was doing now.
It also represented the will of the long-calm Kurozumi Clan, who desperately craved revenge.
Kurozumi Semimaru was afraid, afraid that if she missed this chance, there would never be another opportunity.
So she made this crazy decision, and no one opposed it.
Over the years, Kurozumi Semimaru's prestige within the Kurozumi Clan had long reached an unshakable degree.
And no one dared to question the final decision of this old fellow who had dedicated half her life to the Kurozumi Clan.
This was the will of the Kurozumi Clan.
If one were to look solely at Kurozumi Semimaru's life, it would be enough to call it a legend.
Because she destroyed Wano Country, this powerful Kingdom.
This was something even the World Government was unable to do.
In just three days' time, waves of bad news spread throughout Wano Country.
The Farmland yielded nothing.
No, they were strangely and gradually withering away.
Many people watched helplessly during this time as all their painstaking effort was destroyed.
Having such a thing happen to them made people feel like they would collapse.
After experiencing the riot many years ago and finally managing to pull themselves together, such a thing happened again not long after.
This kind of upheaval would completely crush the spirits of some Wano Country Resident.
Whether they could recover again was a question mark.
The current situation was cruel, and the blow to their spirits was also cruel.
Resident who drank the poisoned well water suddenly collapsed not long after.
Those with stronger Body could hold on, but the weakening of their Body was unavoidable.
Those with weaker Body died even sooner.
Without anyone knowing, tens of thousands of people died in just a few days' time.
The stench of corpses permeated the air.
Large numbers of Wano Country Resident flocked towards Wano Country's Core Area.
Without enough food, to survive, they had to go to Wano Country's most prosperous Territory.
And to save people, they needed to find doctors.
How could there be doctors in these more remote places?
Before the operation began, the Kurozumi Clan had already taken away many doctors from Wano Country.
Along the way, people kept dying.
Soon, a plague formed.
And for Wano Country, an irresistible disaster had arrived.
It came so suddenly that Wano Country couldn't react at all.
With Wano Country's current grain reserves, they couldn't even last one or two months.
Famine and plague followed one after another.
And how long could Wano Country last?
(end of chapter)