After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1091

Chapter 1091: Nightlife Street

A/N: Last of the bonus chapters today! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR KEEPING THE STORY IN T1 Golden!

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That night, an announcement suddenly resounded across the territory.

There, the territory announced that the celebration for their upcoming anniversary would be held in advance!

Better: All work was suspended for 2 days!

A 2-day holiday!!

However—for some odd reason—the celebrations would be held past midnight, which was about five hours since the announcement was made.

They just assumed it was because of the 2-day holiday, so they didn’t mind it at all.

Anyway, everyone was asked to rest early and just wake up after a few hours because there would be a lot of ‘surprises’ later.

They assumed it referred to sales and promos, which excited them so much! Still, they did rest as requested. They had no choice anyway because every stall was ordered to close for a few hours.

The streets being dead for all those hours was an odd sight and they were not used to it at all, but Alterra never did anything without reason so everyone played along.

Rather, it added a sense of excitement.

Now, the long-awaited midnight finally arrived, and the streets suddenly exploded with activity.

This was especially true for Ansel’s Nightlife Street—a street created a few months back, located Southeast of the Territory.

Nightlife street was a pedestrian-only street, with a bit more lighting and a lot more pizzazz.

It was also a bit wider than the market streets because the building modules were much larger than usual—at least twice the typical—and therefore were all manually constructed. That was why it took several months before the zone was completed.

The architectural design was also slightly different from the rest of the territory, but it followed the themes so it still fit Alterra’s overall aesthetic but, at the same time, people knew they were in a different place from the others.

Ansel made sure to capitalize on this immersion.

After all, people tended to have a sense of ‘awe’ in a place that differed from what they were usually exposed to—and would therefore want to spend more money there for the experience.

And shops to spend money on, they definitely had!

The Street was abutted by strictly entertainment-only establishments like bars, small casinos, restaurants with stages, and so on.

At the end of the street would be where their largest establishments were and would be located. They kept a place for a cinema, a theatre, and so on. The cinema still couldn’t be made for now, but the theatre had begun operation as soon as the street opened.

The first performance was the highly popular puppet show showing Elder Garan and Elder Althea’s reunion. It was very popular not only because the people were popular, but also because their reunion symbolized so many things for the territory.

It symbolized the reunion of loved ones, of hope, of the creation of the new generation, as well as the leveling up of the territory that gained a massive force.

The theater put out various performances every night since then, with the script changing every month. The script also shifted from the puppet shows (which would get its own little theaters) to actual actors performing live.

There was another script that was action-packed showing Alterra’s first upgrade war, which also included the birth of the twins and ended in their birth.

Other scripts were also reunion stories, like Turbo’s and Eve’s, Sheila’s and her family’s, Miss Mathilda’s and hers.

And then, there were some dramatic stories about the war between Alterra and Fargo, and it included how the evil men were punished. The boos and cheers during those scenes resounded far beyond the street.

Of course, top-performing scripts would often find themselves repeated after several months.

Interestingly, the first performance was being redone this week and the presale tickets were already sold out.

As the theater’s popularity grew, so did the prestige of the actors. Because they were mostly modern Terrans, the treatment for the ‘idols’ was starting to get similar to how it was, though with less of the toxicity and more of the pure admiration.

After all, people were busy surviving, living their lives, and improving their status in this dangerous world. There was a lot less energy given to stalking celebrities and meddling in their personal lives.

Still, with increasing prestige meant increasing earnings too, so the entertainer profession was starting to gain traction again. There were even some merchandise sold in bookstores and other places, and the performers would have royalty shares from that.

The best-known one was, unsurprisingly, Fable, who played half of the male lead roles in the plays. Basically, he entered the upper class in a short amount of time thanks to his performances and the passive income generated by his merch.

The other smaller actors were also earning livable wages too, with some more than others. While there were no other famous celebrities other than Fable and Juni there, the open and transparent auditions gave way to a lot of aspiring talents.

One of them was Penny, one of the women who had been captured in Fargo as a slave in the limestone mines. She finished art studies by profession but she showed talent in this field as well.

It helped that she had attractive red hair and a curvaceous body, making her very aesthetic—though her roles were often the villain or the Green Tea Bitch sort of characters.

While the pay for acting jobs wasn’t as exaggerated as it was for top talents, it definitely allowed them to live very comfortably.

Acting wasn’t the only field that exploded.

During the past few months, various musical instruments had been developed and commercialized.

Other than the fact that a lot of citizens could play, the school also added nighttime classes and weekend instrument lessons as an optional class.

The talents were enough so there would always be some performances happening here and there every night. A lot of the players did it as a part-time job, too, treating them as gigs while they also had ‘more stable’ income elsewhere.

Speaking of musicians, the debut of various instruments was timed with the opening of Nightlife Street.

At the time, the beautiful cacophony of sound echoed across the streets and beyond it, fascinating the Terran locals—let alone the aborigines who had never heard such arrangements before.

At the time, and even now, certain types of comments were prevalent.

“That sounds so good!”

“How do they make those sounds?!”

“It’s amazing… my soul is touched!”

“Did bards arrive?”

“No, this is better.”

“I thought the Elves descended from the sky or something.”

Then everyone would be immersed and not leave the street for hours on end, experiencing the night of their lives.

In any case—no matter who one was asked—they’d say Ansel’s Nightlife Street was a resounding success!