After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1085

Chapter 1085: Undead Corpse

“Mother… what is this doing in your space?” She asked. It must’ve been the so-called ‘pregnancy brain’ she kept hearing about.

Her mind was muddled; she couldn’t think why her gentle-natured mother would have the corpse of a monster in her space!

Sienna looked at her in understanding. Even she was surprised when the thought came to mind. “It’s just a thought I got after finding out more about Alterra.

“I just saw the amazing things they brought to us—things that fixed things that had been plaguing us for generations.

“Whether it was our food problem or our water problem—with their products, we can rest assured the next generations would not suffer as we did.”

She sighed, looking at the dead creature in front of them. She remembered that it was her husband who took this particular undead down.

However, it was not an easy fight. He defeated it after a lot of close scrapes—each one almost making her faint.

It was then that she had the inspiration. “I started to wonder… what if—maybe—they could fix this problem, too?”

This made Sahara pause in thought. In the end, she wondered why she didn’t consider it herself. It seemed like she still had a lot to learn.

It was around this time that the door opened, revealing Helios—who had just been excited to be home to his family after an annoying business trip with a potential rival.

However, his feet paused by the threshold and his eyes fixed on the floor of their living area. By instinct, he thought it was something he was not supposed to see, so he closed the door and headed back out again.

Let the mother and daughter bond, he mused. It must be a cultural thing.

—A few minutes later—

The body was put back in Sienna’s space and so was the man-of-the-house. The smell stayed though and Sahara had to open up the window to freshen up the place again.

“So… that was an Undead Corpse,” Helios mumbled, looking at the place where the corpse had been.

As soon as he left, Sahara went out to get him, explaining the situation to him. Apparently, it wasn’t some Dune Town ritual he didn’t know about—which was such a relief.

Not that he’d like Sahara less, of course. Rather, he really disliked the smell of rotting corpses.

Anyway, he already knew a bit about the Undead even while he was investigating her location. And, thinking about it, it really made sense that they’d come to Alterra for this.

“Undead Corpse,” he repeated, thinking about the name. “Isn’t that redundant?” He was no language major, but he was pretty sure that wasn’t grammatically correct.

Sahara and Sienna thought about it for a while before shaking their heads. “They’re not fully humans but they’re—in a twisted sense—still alive,” Sienna said. “I’ve been in close contact with them many times since I was young. It feels like they still had their heartbeats, their own instincts, and so on.

“It was like they were once normal humans, but had become like this at some point.”

Helios nodded. “We had a similar case back home,” he said, making the other two turn to him. “But it’s different. Those are really corpses walking around. Worse: If you get bitten by one, you’d turn to one of them.”

The two women paled, terrified. “What?”

“They’re not here, don’t worry,” he said. “Those were, fortunately, left behind in our planet—which was probably already destroyed.”

The women’s shoulders slumped in relief. They couldn’t imagine it—getting killed by contact was already scary, but becoming one of them and even potentially doing the same to their own loved ones was a different level of terrifying.

In any case, they decided to get rid of the corpse and get the task over with that day. Anyway, Sienna said she wouldn’t rest well until she had submitted it.

They called one of Sienna’s personal maids to take care of the baby and they headed their way.

And so, in Helios’ passenger bike, the trio went straight to the Research Center with unknown expectations.

They arrived some minutes later, with Sienna gaping at the large building and then at the impressive lobby. Sahara, who had been here before while they were finalizing the deals, also felt impressed as if it was her first time there.

The building just emitted a sense of wisdom and grandeur—which was fitting because whatever happened inside its walls could very much affect the entire region, if not the world.

Helios went to the concierge and explained their purpose. They were then led to one of the basement rooms, which were delegated to more… unsavory experiments.

Not human or animal experiments, thankfully, but more on research on bombs and fertilizers, so these rooms had their own ventilation systems.

The study of corpses should definitely be done here.

The scientist leading this team was Medussa, a middle-aged woman with thick glasses and extremely frizzy hair. She was an obsessive woman they “captured” because of the goblins.

She was actually a long-time citizen of Alterra, all the way back to before the protection period ended, which was why she survived despite still having a low level. It was just that she used to gather resources as a way of living.

When the Research Center opened up hiring notices, she didn’t pass because she couldn’t express herself well and couldn’t even tell what she was good at. She was passed over because of this.

This was a pity. She was not a green-tagged professional, but her obsessiveness—which they’d see first hand soon enough—certainly made up for it.

They caught up to her because of a report that someone was harassing the goblins. Apparently, there was a human who was following behind them, poking them, trying to check their flexibility and what-not.

The harassment rule was only applicable when the ‘victim’ reported it or expressed discontent—after all, implementing it automatically was likely to cause a lot of trouble and misunderstandings.

Their prisons were only so big. They couldn’t put every pair of feuding neighbors in there! When the rule was new, they had people getting several yellow cards for the little things.

One time, a house owner even got teleported to prison after repeatedly barraging a neighbor with insults for partying too much!

And so…, reporting was the way to go in the end. However, this was not something that the introverted goblins—who had been servile their whole lives—could do by default.

The goblins were either scared of humans due to past experiences or were respectful of them, particularly if they were Alterran. For this person, they were both.

The goblins were helpless, not knowing what to do, so it was actually others who ended up reporting the ‘crime’. The puzzled middle-aged woman was then captured and was about to get hauled to the manual prison.

By lovely coincidence, Rosalind happened to be nearby when she was being captured. She was having a field trip with some students, explaining the role of prisons and what to do to never become a prisoner.

The moment Rosalind’s eyes landed on her, she saw some signs of a different mental state.

She paused the incarceration (Elders had this power) and called Juliet for an assessment. They found out the woman was a high-functioning autistic, but with great disability with regards to her social skills. It was like the part of her brain that had to do with other people didn’t develop past the infantile level.

However, in terms of IQ, she was extremely smart—a genius, even. However, it seemed that the other disability discounted this fact, so her name was not tagged green.

When she found out about it, Althea got very curious: How many more people did the System miss out on?