After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1087

Chapter 1087: Interesting Findings

A/N: First of 5 chapters today! Thank you for your support, Alterrans!! *dances*

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The four of them went up to the cafe on the upper podium floor to discuss the details of the agreement. The podium floor had an alfresco dining area on its deck, which gave a nice view of the village.

They sat there with their orders (tea and snacks) and enjoyed the nice breeze at that height, listening to the rustles of leaves of the potted plants and the distant sound of activities on the ground level.

“Medussa’s already checking the blood and skin samples now,” she said, sipping her nice lavender and chamomile tea mix. “I told the testing team to prioritize it so we should get a preliminary analysis within an hour or two.”

“So quick?”

“Yes,” she said. “Of course, we can’t say how useful the findings would be.”

Their massive computers and equipment had advanced in the past couple of months. It was nothing compared to Terran technology a hundred years ago, but it was still miles ahead from what they had here—at least in terms of scientific achievements.

There were already two Tori copies in their lab, though their size was as big as a small room. One of the next projects was to create handheld versions like her Tori, but they still lacked the metals and minerals needed to do so.

In any case, even if they did find the composition of the body, it was no guarantee they’d be able to do anything about it. According to the information, the Undead were Foreigners like they were, and they could very much have completely different makeup from what they knew.

However, Medussa’s arrival an hour later proved otherwise.

“Want to go,” Medussa said as soon as she returned from her tests.

The others were confused but Althea, who had been working with her for the past few months, had an idea what she was talking about. “You mean where those Undead are?”

The woman nodded.

“What did you find out?”

“Radiation,” she said, with a very smooth tone. Obviously, the subject was quite close to her heart.

“What?”

“A lot of radiation,” Medussa repeated. “Like… alpha radiation, but denser.”

This confused the aborigines very much. “What is radiation?”

Althea thought for a moment to explain it in layman’s terms. “Think of it as poisonous air—just being near it could get you poisoned.”

“What?!” Sienna gasped, feeling cold at what was in her space. While they knew long-term exposure wasn’t good, they didn’t know it was that bad!

They were all pale. Did that mean they exposed the baby, too?

“I don’t think it travels so far,” Althea said. As someone who felt the surrounding elements by habit, she didn’t feel anomalies in the room, only on the corpse.

Besides, Medussa said it was similar to Alpha radiation which was the heavier type, and it wasn’t a surprise it didn’t spread out too much. On the contrary, it seemed like it didn’t spread at all.

It was like the radiation was stuck on the Undead’s bodies as if it had integrated into them. To compare, it was as if their specific body type had a special gravity to the phenomenon.

In which case… the deaths by biting, could be an intense and concentrated case of radiation poisoning.

So… Sienna’s son should have it. Fortunately, it seemed to be a minor case considering he was still alive after 10 years. It could also be that his body as an elementalist was fighting the disease, and it could also be that his own improved physique (Sinnan was apparently a powerhouse at Level 39) was holding back its development.

There were too many variables and there was no way to know unless they got him personally in the Hospital.

In any case, by this time, his body should’ve been weakened considerably due to something like cancer or whatever equivalent they had here. If he hadn’t shown any signs of improvement at all after so many years—then it was likely getting worse, and delaying any more wouldn’t serve anyone good.

“Please bring your son here as soon as possible.”

“What?”

“We may have a lead on how to treat him, but he has to be here.”

This caused the two women to stand up in shock, looking at her with wide eyes. “Truly?”

“No guarantees, but—thanks to the findings—we do have a lead,” she said.

Sienna nodded. “I will immediately send someone back by array,” she said. Though there was a limitation of traveling via mercenary array once a day, if someone left Alterra now and reached Ferrol, they’d still need to contact the other towns via the Post Office to set up missions.

By the time the mission was set up, the limitation should’ve been reset and ready to be used. They should have her son here within the week— hopefully in the next few days.

With this, the family excused themselves to go to work. Their movements were light and swift, excited to finally have hope in what had been such a hopeless case.

Althea watched as everyone mobilized, with Medussa patiently standing next to her though her eyes were eagerly as she waited for her decision.

At this time, Althea was summarizing what she knew about the creature in her head. They seemed to have arrived as a ‘civilization’ of sorts hundreds of years ago. They came in the millions or more, and had once caused chaos in a massive region in the desert and beyond it.

Unlike their zombies—who were completely dead—this undead still counted as living creatures somehow. It was sad when one thought about it. If there was still some sentience in their heads, then how much suffering were they going through at this time? They must’ve been alive for a long time, too.

She could surmise that their old world (and their bodies) must’ve been destroyed by extreme radiation. Whether it was a nuclear war or something related to space, they’d never know.

They also had to be wary of diseases that could come with it, so she’d have to set up another isolated lab for that body. The scientists had to be equipped well before handling the corpse again.

For now, there should be no dangers—otherwise, Dune Town and the rest of them should’ve been plagued by various diseases by this time. However, it wouldn’t hurt to be safe.

Maybe they’d even get some interesting findings they could use elsewhere. It wasn’t the first time it had happened.

Anyway, she looked at Medussa, who had been waiting for her verdict.

“For now, focus on studying the corpse and its potential dangers,” she said. “I’ll allow you to travel once we know more about it.”

Medussa looked disappointed but nodded obediently in the end.

Althea smiled. Although this woman was more than a decade older than she was, she was emotionally still a child.

Althea patted the woman’s shoulder. “We need you here more,” she said. “You can go adventuring later when we’re sure you’ll be safe.”

“Besides, don’t you want to meet that guy with radiation poisoning?” she asked. “This could be the first—if not the only—case of cancer you’d see here.”

At this, Medussa’s disappointment disappeared and she nodded energetically.

“Very interesting, indeed!”