After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1168

Chapter 1168: Still Chilling at the House
A/N: OK GUYS THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR TOMORROW. xDD I clicked publish by accident I’m so sorry.

So anyway let’s just assume today is Sunday and today is the extra chapter xDDD Forgive me forgive me

Ahem. So… extra chap to thank you guys for all of your support! Although we didn’t make T1, I saw the lovelies’ efforts T_T

Still! If you have excess tickets do send them my way! It would be great if we could get Golden T1 before the month of February ends!

If we get this milestone, I’ll do my best to post an extra 3 chaps on the Sunday after that (March 2 2025)! xDD

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Another family was Rasso’s. He stayed at home together with his son Rian and his new wife, Juliet, whom he married a few months back in a simple wedding.

Juliet was also pregnant with their first child together. According to Sheila’s ‘ultrasound’, it was a baby girl!

Anyway, because Juliet was in her first Trimester, Rasso couldn’t bear let her out too late. Juliet also felt tired easily, so the two of them opted to go home after the program instead of joining in the festivities.

They had the fortune of owning their home—a two-bedroom condo unit, which they had paid the down payment for before their wedding day.

The teenage lad Rian joined them after a bit of time outside with his friends. This was really sweet. Which teenager would choose to hang out with boring adults when they had friends they could spend the holiday with?

Their dinner was delivered from one of the nearby Eastern food restaurants.

With the commercialization of bikes, delivery services had also revived. However, because of fast communication was still limited (very few people had aether letters and the surviving Terran phones had no signal) the deliveries were done on a set schedule for now.

For example, they would go to the restaurant to order and pay a day or so earlier, and they could expect it to arrive at their doorstep at the approximate time they requested.

They ate delicious noodles and dim sum, and the family of three spent the rest of the night playing a board game.

A few board and card games had been made available for purchase in the Bookstore, which were naturally big hits. There were even board game cafes in the works! Apparently, one of the new stores in Post Street would be doing this model.

Anyway, the family’s favorite was the Xeno version of Scrabble. The difference was that its tiles only had Xeno alphabet and therefore only Xeno words were allowed.

It was a nerd game, which was Juliet’s style, but she influenced the other two in time, so now they all enjoyed it.

About an hour into the game, Juliet smiled as she placed a tile. She clapped as she did so, looking quite proud. “I win.”

To win in Scrabble, one player either had to use all their tiles or everyone had to pass. Juliet just used up all her tiles.

Rasso’s eyes looked at his 5 tiles and then looked at the board, tilting his head. “Is that even a word?”

“It is!” Julieta said, handing over the Xeno-Terran dictionary. “Look.”

“This word means both weak and single,” she said. “That says a lot about their culture.”

“Wait! I still have a word…” The young Rian said, catching his parents’ attention.

Juliet looked at it and was confused. “I don’t think this word is in the dictionary…”

“It’s random words my friends say,” he said. “It’s a generational thing.”

“What does it mean?”

Rian coughed. “I have no idea.”

It was much like how kids made up random words and it just stuck, used by more and more people. Xenoans were no exception to this.

Juliet—a psychologist—found this so amusing. Combined with her unpredictable pregnancy hormones, she ended up giggling so much that she fell down.

Fortunately, they were sitting on the floor and playing on the coffee table so it wasn’t really much of a fall, but the two men looked pale as they went to her regardless.

“You okay?” Rasso gasped, while Rian looked as if it was his fault.

Juliet rolled her eyes and waved the boys away. “Oh, hush. I’m not fragile,” she said.

She then reached out and patted her stepson’s head. “I’m just happy you’re integrating well,” she said. Rian had experienced a lot of horrendous things, and there was a risk of him being depressed.

Rian blinked, sniffling before giving a small nod. Watching them, Rasso smiled, the crow’s feet at the corner of his eyes deepening as he grinned.

How happy.

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There were also those who had finished roaming and were ready to call it a night, like Althea’s family.

Althea and her family headed home with the dogs, taking the babies into their arms. She patted Snow’s head as she took over Pepper. She couldn’t help but look at her in worry, though.

“What is it?” Garan asked.

“I just feel that Snow is being lethargic and all,” she said, rubbing the wolf’s chin. Althea smiled when the canine leaned into her touch.

On the other hand, Garan was one never to dismiss his wife’s worries. So he looked at the dog. “How are you feeling?” he asked.

The wolf just made a sound without changing her face and Garan looked at his wife with a similar expression. “Said she is just a bit tired.”

For now, the couple shrugged it off and just entered their gates to finally call it a night.

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While the humans went up to their room, the dogs headed to their lovely dog house. However, instead of heading there with Fufi, Snow went elsewhere deeper into the gardens.

She found a place between the shrubs and one of the decorative rocks and started digging. If one looked closer, it had actually been dug before and was only growing bigger as time went on.

It was a relatively hidden spot so it hadn’t been noticed after a while, but it was there. In this hole were a lot of grass and leaves, some dryer than others, and it created a soft bed on the ground.

Fufi watched over this, confused as he always was. After all, their dog house was insulated and very comfortable, what was his wife doing?

However, instead of questioning, he decided to just join in—as usual—using his big body to block the opening of the small cave.

Snow made a soft sound before settling in, feeling his warmth. Fufi licked her fur for a bit before resting his head next to hers, and soon they both fell deep into slumber.