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

At this time, the territory was still echoing with announcements.

The Crow trio was with the engineering team, finalizing the next possible aether buildings to do. Of course, they could only start when they got more materials from Otto.

They also drew the manual construction versions of the buildings, which should be the ideal practice so they weren’t too dependent on rare materials. Even if they didn’t have the special effects of Aether buildings, they should still be able to create highly-functional buildings.

However, while they were chattering and planning, they were also listening to the frequent dinging in their heads, as well as the subsequent announcements that came after.

They weren’t expecting to actually know any of the people making an announcement—the chances were too low—but they listened closely every time, just in case.

[Orz and Ouli Lopez from Nacha City is looking for friends and family who know him. Please come to the Terran Mercenary Team Base and ask for him.]

[Sean Connor from Owlish Town is looking for friends and family who know him. Please come to the Terran Mercenary Team Base and ask for him.]

[Tiara and Ton Su from Nacha City are looking for friends and family who knows them. Please come to the Village Center to ask for them.]

[Tiara and Ton Su from Nacha City are looking for friends and family who knows them. Please come to the Village Center to ask for them.]

A few more passed by, until finally—

[Ryan and Ricky Calma are looking for Sunny Calma, wherever you are right now. Please come to the Terran Mercenary Team Base as soon as you can and ask for them.]

The aforementioned young lady dropped her pen, and everyone turned to look at her with wide eyes. Silence reigned in the room even after it dropped and rolled on the floor.

Sunny didn’t even say anything anymore and she darted outside to finally meet her family!

…

After the announcements were sent out, the soldiers rented out houses for their families. They planned to settle them down first before heading to the Mercenary Team. Anyway, they already made announcements which doubled as their notification of their arrivals.

As for the other refugees who came with them all the way to Alterra—like the former lord Cassas and a few others—they would settle in the dormitories for now. They were no longer the soldier’s responsibilty, though they might still be helping them out for old times’ sake.

Each soldier with a family member rented a duplex unit for their own families, so they could have their own space. For example, Ben, Sean, and Orz each leased a duplex unit. They rented it for 3 months, which should be enough time for them to gather enough contribution points to buy the units.

The gold was especially possible because of the banking system which was vaguely introduced to them. The lady concierge said that as long as they were strong and hard-working, they had a high chance of borrowing enough money to pay down payment for a small house.

It was always the contribution point and residency status requirements that were the biggest obstacles to owning a house here.

To be honest, even now, it was hard to comprehend how a few-month-old territory in a place like Xeno could have such a thing as a banking system, but here they were, already thinking of loans...

In any case, each family marveled at the design and conveniences of their new home.

”A bathroom! Like in Bright!” Ouli yelled with a wide grin. His students had similar faces to him.

They looked like three idiots who hadn’t seen a toilet in their lives.

Tiara opened a knob. ”It’s a running shower!”

Ton nodded. ”Whoa!”

”I heard that you have to fill up the tank though.”

”Nah, there’s a pipe there,” Orz said, already asked the pertinent questions to others before. ”You just gotta pay some money per cubic meter of water going up.”

”...”

”...”

To think they were so happy getting water from wells not long ago… now they got pipes!

Ricky was focused on the windows, the translucent Youli panels. He and Ryan hadn’t rented a house yet, wanting to see what would be needed first when they met Sunny. However, it did not stop them from checking out the units so they could choose wisely.

Anyway, Ricky entered his own zone and everybody was busy admiring their own part of the house to notice. He would open and close it, touch it, and study its texture.

The plebians had no idea how much information was currently working in his mind. They just continued to explore the place, eyes bright with hope and happiness. ”This is similar to Bright, but even better.”

”They said the basic module was from Alterra,” Orz said. Alterra just customized the appearances a bit more, making it a unique look despite it selling the modules to other territories.

Of course, the utility lines were purely Alterra. They couldn’t comprehend how they could do all these things with so many beasts and wars going on, but they felt it was beyond their minds—so just enjoy it!

”The biogas is here too!” Sean said with a smile, opening it. ”With more ingredients, we would be able to do more.”

Ben nodded, then blinked when a thought came to mind. ”Since we’re not using the barracks or the mercenary team dorm, I wonder if we could get a little extra as an allowance in exchange…”

”Wow, didn’t consider that.”

”Ah, so nice.”

”It would be great if we can buy our own home.”

”True.”

If they pooled funds together, they could actually afford a downpayment. Sadly, they couldn’t be residents easily.

Anyway, seeing their families settled down, the soldiers finally gestured to head to the mercenary team, with Ricky coming because that was where they told Sunny to go. They had heard she was busy, possibly out of the territory, which was why they calmed themselves and planned to peacefully wait for her in one spot.

Before they could get far though—still some distance away from the barracks— a feminine yell sounded, making two people turn simultaneously.

”Brother! Uncle!!”

”Sunny!” They yelled, and they watched as the girl ran to them with outstretched arms.

Finally!