After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 180

Chapter 180: Construction (Part 2)
As for how so much construction was done in such a short time, a lot of it had to do with manpower.

If Baron and her team hired about a combined fifth of the total population, then the construction team hired by the territory took another. Over half of the abled men and women in the territory worked in the construction team.

Basically, except for the guards who was always hunting outside for at least half a day, everyone had a ‘day job’ and were otherwise training in their free time (which was required for hired hands anyway). This was fortunate because she really didn’t think too deeply about this aspect.

There was no way, other than the required hunting time and the overall levels, she really didn’t think much about the strength of the people and left it all to Drake and Rowan. As long as the walls were ready to defend whatever happened, she put this issue to the back of her mind.

It wasn’t her specialty and to be frank she didn’t have much interest in it. She was extremely lucky to have sincere people in the field working for her.

Of course, her ideal was still her husband taking the helm. In that case, then she’d really have nothing to worry about.

Anyway, a lot of these people chose construction because it also trained their physiques.

It was also because of this that the territory changed so much in just a few days. Of course, this was not without the help of magic, and a lot of funds from her own pocket.

“Brother Oslo that’s soo cool!!!”

Speak of the devil—she turned her head to see Oslo using his earth magic to lift the stones on the ground, serving as a crane to take materials up.

Oslo was a rare dual elementalist.

Back then, when she saw the NPCs so shocked, she was a bit startled because she didn’t know it was that rare.

“You are a dual elementalist?!” The usually-cool Rowan exclaimed. He happened to be there because he was making rounds.

“Is it so rare?” Althea asked, walking next to him.

“Mil–” Rowan stopped himself, “Yes, Ms. Althea! Not even 1 out of 100 elementalists have dual elements.”

Althea looked awkwardly at her three elements in her Stats. She decided not to tell what her stats were until she knew more about it.

In any case, the Elementalists had definitely assisted in the fast development of the territory, and they proved themselves to be quite the value-for-money. She hoped there would be more elementalist popping up in her options, but she somehow doubted it.

If they were really as rare as Rowan said, they were unlikely to show up in her little village. It could be said she struck gold to have encountered Oslo and Rowan. And so early, too.

She watched the construction of the supermarket in a daze because of this, only to be pulled to the present some time later by a familiar voice.

She turned her head to meet the chubby face with the name of Baron.

“You got the building before me again…” He said.

“You came in a close second.” She said with a smile. “You are really updated.”

Indeed, she was really surprised by this guy’s news channel. She was the lord so, obviously, she got first pick.

But this guy was already waiting in the village center just as she posted the opening.

Baron was a bit smug, “A businessman’s intuition,” was all he said.

“Well, fortunately, my building will be finished tomorrow. The lease for that is no joke.”

Althea smiled. He was referring to the building on the other end of Market Street, directly opposite to her supermarket. He took the entire corner.

“I’m sure it’d be a good investment.”

“Yep, that’s for sure~”

The two chatted for a while—mostly business-related—before Althea excused herself, aiming to take a look at the other projects.

She walked to the other side where the streets were still under construction.

The utility systems had been embedded underground, and soon small lakes and Wells (dug so quickly thanks to Oslo) would be easily accessible to every block.

The utilities were almost completely developed along the roads, under the green islands. She had built some aqueducts as well, for areas near the mountains to gather water from the springs easily.

The NPCs had never stopped marveling about the concept of bringing water straight to the houses.

Although technically, it hadn’t been done yet, it was such common sense to all the Terrans that they couldn’t help but believe its doability as well.

Of course, they added some controlling mechanisms that maintained the previous pricing for utilities. They didn’t increase the rates though, which was something celebrated by the people.

Similarly, waste management was also settled. Except for system food-based buildings, other buildings didn’t have self-cleaning functions.

Because she didn’t purchase any food buildings, this meant every building had to have its own waste management.

Fortunately, the materials here were mostly natural, so the waste management wasn’t a particularly big headache to deal with.

This was also a new thing to the NPCs. The world here, apparently, was very much like the medieval period in their world, where there was no such thing as waste management. In slums, people even directly defacated on the streets.

She cringed.

For the next phase, she was pondering whether to build police stations, fire stations, and other necessary public buildings.

As the population grew, these would be essential. At least in their minds, as they grew up with these benefits.

As the wise men said, it was easy to shift from poverty to luxury, but not the other way around.

The school and library would be deferred not only because of the paper issue but also because there were less than a dozen minors in the territory, most of whom were over ten and were already helping out their families.

She also built a few more fields and factories. One was a permanent kiln, which would be necessary with the increasing population and needs.

They had already figured out a way to handle the temperature needed by ceramic and porcelain. When these were done more efficiently, she expected most houses to regain their porcelain water closets and tubs.

Of course, she didn’t forget about the cloth factory. Although linen was a long shot, they really found cotton seeds.

Interestingly, it wasn’t in the hotel duvet that they found it. After all, five-star hotel duvets had undergone a lot of quality checks.

Instead, they found the seeds inside the cotton down jackets from the supermarket back in Terran, which happened to be stored in Fufi’s space.

Hey, a little hero indeed.

Unfortunately, they weren’t much, so she had to do a lot of treatment to speed up its growth and development.

Fortunately, she had Gru, who was familiar with the growing conditions of the plant, helping her out this time.

It had been a few days, but sprouts had already formed and they would eventually be looking forward at the shrubs.

The other factory of hers would be dealing with the long-awaited Waul tree products like rosin and (hopefully) rubber.

Of course, she’d need to transplant several of said trees back into the territory.

Oh, and she also needed to bring home those Haozen berry shrubs and Juli trees and plants, which were essential for her Sprite solution!

She smiled at the list of ‘assignments’. Why?

Because she finally had the excuse to go out again!