Jing Shu suddenly thought, Isn't Zijin's specialty handcrafts?
If the first year after the apocalypse was characterized by scorching heat, dryness, water scarcity, and drought that killed 90% of the plants, triggering a subsequent famine, then the second year brought torrential rains and flooding that destroyed 70% of homes and household goods. Although the government salvaged some supplies, compared to the vast amount of unrecoverable and mold-ruined materials, people's lives plummeted to a primitive era.
Therefore, in the third year, cotton, linen clothing, and various other resources became scarce. Coupled with a drop in temperature, everyone needed more clothing and bedding. Thus, when earthquakes began in the third year, people would strip clothes from the dead.
People wore as many layers as possible, often in a mismatched and haphazard fashion, just to stay warm.
