After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

The memory of how it all started was extremely clear in Yiyi’s head.

It started out as a day like any other—people foraging everywhere, people going out to hunt, and the Lord’s cronies walking around like they owned the place.

The only difference was that she was excitedly lining up at the well to get some bathing water—though very early, lest someone mean took interest in her precious bucket.

She was smiling widely as she took her bucket to her shed. She cleaned herself up the best she could, though she used some leaf that smelled like mint and tasted like toothpaste as soap to clean herself up.

It wasn’t the best treatment by Terran standards, but she felt like she had experienced the world’s best spa.

Not that she’d know what it was really like, of course, as she only knew spas through television.

She had wanted to work part-time there, but she wasn’t attractive enough for the front desk and she was too young for other jobs.

In any case, she wore her relatively clean PE uniform and she suddenly felt like the cleanest she had ever been—by virtue of the stark comparisons.

She happily went to walk to the village center to get to the restaurant, like a normal citizen, which happened to be the first time she did so as she always stayed in the peripheries.

However, even this simple happiness was destined to be cut short.

In the middle of her walk, a group of people filled with blood, gravely injured, entered the territory in panic.

”MONSTERS!!!!” They yelled and as if waiting for the signal, the territory was shaken by strong earthquakes and banging sounds.

The people quickly realized strong monsters were attacking their walls.

The monsters banged and banged against the walls, and they could see dust and some loose stones falling down. The citizens inside could only panic and hide, wondering when the guards would arrive to deal with the beasts.

There were also some people who already ran towards the inner walls, hoping to call on the Lord. But, to their aghast, it only took an hour for a good portion of the wall to fall, revealing monsters much larger and more menacing than they were used to.

”KYAAA!!!”

”Oh my goodness!”

”HELP!!”

A monster entered the gap and easily killed several people with a wave of its paws, beheading another with its bite. It went deeper and soon, more and more beasts entered through the gap, feasting on whoever they found in their paths.

Yiyi naturally ran to where the people were to get the protection of the guards.

Unexpectedly, some desperadoes felt they were going to die and instead of preparing for a fight, they decided to enjoy their last leg of life.

She was pulled into an alley and the next thing she knew she was thrown on the ground, different pairs of grimy hands touching her everywhere.

”What!!”

A sense of dread worse than what the monster triggered roused up her throat. ”Stop—what—”

But her struggles only excited the men and hopelessness soon dawned on her.

She sobbed and yelled, but no one came for her. After all, everyone was busy trying to save their own lives, who would care for her?

She understood this, definitely, but just this one time in all her years of living that asked for help—would there be no one who could hear her?!

Was it too much to ask?

The creepy laughs and cackles of the men crawled down her spine, and she could only sob and yell to the top of her lungs, not caring how painful her throat was.

But then the movements stopped, followed by a loud yell and she opened her shut eyes to see what happened.

Splat!

She watched as a snake-like critter appeared out of nowhere, eating the heads of the men, and splattering blood all over her.

She was covered with their blood and could only shake as the monster finally noticed her and opened its mouth to eat her as well.

She truly thought she was finally going to die when an iron shield suddenly flew in front of her and embedded itself on the rock, and an earth shield appeared, as if enhancing it.

A handsome man with quiffed hair appeared above this shield, jumping down and dealing with the monster in a couple of strokes.

”Good job, Jake!” Someone from the side yelled, though she didn’t look at him as her eyes fixed on her own savior.

Jake, wonderful name.

When she was saved by Jake from the monster, she saw an angel.

Her brain automatically created a couple name for them. Yike.

Ah, beautiful.

This was the first time she had been moved after living for so long. She didn’t know how to handle the feeling very well.

The little bump in this newfound love life was that she didn’t have friends due to her busy schedule, nor did she have true elders to guide her. Consequently, her EQ was relatively undeveloped, causing her to be a little tactless in her pursuit.

But Jake didn’t know about any of this. He simply wanted to run away from this overly forward woman.

The two continued with this dynamic, the man doing his job carrying patients and supplies, with a girl following behind and even carrying what she could.

Jake couldn’t even kick her out like this!

Fortunately, the team wasn’t tactless enough to hoot at them, but they didn’t hide their smug smirks at all!

Jerks!

…

Basically, the rescue continued for a while after that. This was all led by the Terran Mercenary Team, but none of the local guards seemed to bother helping them at all.

While this was bothersome, none of the soldiers complained. They simply did their best to help as many brethren as they could.

Eagle was in charge of the supplies, aiming to provide goods and water to the victims.

Of course, they didn’t use their own money. Rather, they pooled money from those who wished to eat and they would buy the restaurant food for them.

Anyway, the prices were about the same as the prices in aboriginal territories, and although they’d be stretched at their current strength, no one should die of hunger, not in Xeno.

The main problem was the medicine, as there was no shop selling it in the village yet and Turbo and Vanessa could only do so much.

However, most people were still thankful, even the Aborigines, who had been gaping at them in admiration.

In any case, they did what they could, exploring their first Terran territory by the way.

Garan looked at the just-repaired gates with a frown. He turned his head to a middle-aged man beside him who had volunteered to help along with his team.

”Where is your Lord?”

The man was silent and unconsciously put down his head, evidently uncomfortable. The people around were silent, shivering.

Garan observed the people’s body language and almost sneered. The group didn’t even bother hiding their brutal ways, it seemed.

Being in this place where power was everything must’ve seemed like heaven.

Still, did the people here know who their lord was?

Probably not. That guy was very hidden, he only had a glimpse of his profile after hunting for so long.

Even if they did know, what could they do? They needed him to survive.

Anyway, as the mercenary team helped those they could, the two people they sent for a more in-depth study of the territory came back with intel.

It was Chris, as always, who had scouted the territory to gather information with Loki, who specialized in spying.

”How was it?”

”The location was good and they had wells early on, so it’s actually a little better than the poor villages we’ve been to.”

”It’s just that… the people here… are really terrified of the Lord’s party. They couldn’t even elaborate on it.”

”Do you know the Lord’s name?”

Loki nodded, looking at the Captain’s expression. ”The Lord’s name…Amon Fargo.”

Garan’s eyes shone a murderous light.

It really was him.