After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Wake-up Call
Returning back to the present, Althea turned her head to the other girl. “What’s your overall assessment?”

“B.” Sheila said, “Yours?”

“Mine is above B.” Althea answered vaguely, then looked at Fufi who was forever wagging his tail happily. “What’s yours?”

The stupid dog just smiled at her with his tongue out.

Sigh

In the end, she was just happy this fluffy canine managed to come with her. She couldn’t help but smother his head with pets.

After visually checking her two companions for any injuries, Althea then turned to look at a strange woman shivering crazily a few meters away from them.

Sheila followed her line of sight and flinched, very surprised there was somebody else there. “You–”

“I… H-Hello.” The woman mumbled, shivering. She was a young woman wearing revealing clothes made of silk, and she looked like a beautiful but sad puppy.

The scratches and blood exposed more of her skin, making her look both dirty and pitiful. From the dress, she was probably at a party when the disaster started.

The woman seemed both happy and scared that she ended up with two women. Happy because at least she didn’t have to deal with lechers, and scared because these women probably wouldn’t be able to protect her at all.

And why were they so… clean? They even had helmets on?

However, they did not even have any time to chat when she heard rustling of leaves quickly approaching, followed by spine-tingling low growls.

Suddenly, two monsters of similar appearance popped out of the bushes with a roar. They were over a meter tall and extremely menacing, their eyes filled with aggression and greed.

Greed for their meat.

Just looking at those sharp saber teeth, one could see that it could impale anyone with a snap.

Althea’s heart stopped and she looked at her companions. “Run!” She yelled, and was already a few meters farther.

She decisively took out one of the guns she stocked up from the drug lord’s house and rained the monsters with bullets.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Some of the bullets did connect and made it bleed, but otherwise it didn’t hinder its movement at all. On the contrary, it only made the monsters angry.

Althea’s heart dropped. Beyond all expectations, the gun wasn’t helpful at all!!!

In the meantime, the other monster had menacingly approached the other two women.

Sheila was distracted with Althea’s fight, wondering how she could help, and the other woman quickly ran behind her.

She saw the monster coming at them and, in fear, unconsciously pushed Sheila forward.

Sheila screamed, unable to control her fall. Her head was protected by her helmet, which allowed her to escape a concussion, but her hands was not the same.

She didn’t even feel her hands bleeding after hitting the rocky ground, because she hear a terrifying snarl next to her ears, and she could see the sharp teeth of the monster a few inches away from her head.

Her heart stopped, the events of her young uneventful life passing through her mind.

Was she really going to die now? Was she really going to die like this?

So unknowingly?

Fortunately, the bullet entered the monster’s eyes and through its brain, splattering Sheila’s face with the monster’s blood instead of her own.

[Successfully killed a Level 3 Saber Tiger]

[+70 copper, +70 experience]

Althea had no time to even ready this as she heard a mewl behind her and saw Fufi thrown against the tree, not knowing if he was dead or alive.

She glared at the tiger-like giant which then changed its target to the other woman, who had happened to run near its direction in a vain attempt to avoid another.

Without ceremony, it opened its mouth—crunch!— and ate the woman’s head.

It was like biting a cookie instead of a human head.

While it was distracted from chewing, Althea immediately aimed at its eyes and made a shot.

[Successfully killed a Level 3 Saber Tiger]

[+70 copper, + 70 experience]

With heavy breaths, she aimed the gun at the forest, at different directions, ready to shoot should more monsters pop out.

Only when she was certain that there was nothing else popping out of the bushes, her legs finally gave way in weakness.

She could hear her own heart and she could no longer hold on to the gun due to her shaking hands.

These monsters were far, far, stronger than upgraded zombies. Upgraded zombies had killed countless survivors, and these things were even more deadly.

Another thing was that, even if they were of the same level, the bodies of these monsters were very different from humans.

The guns did not do much on their skins, and only caused damage at very specific and tiny weak spots. On the contrary, she, a human being of the same level, could still be killed.

She ran to Fufi as soon as she had enough strength and was relieved to find that the injuries were relatively minor.

Similarly, Sheila only had a scratch due to being pushed down. Althea quickly took out the first aid kit in her space and let Sheila help herself as well as Fufi.

As she watched the nurse apply disinfectant to the dog, her mind couldn’t help racing.

What about the so-called ‘protection period’?

Or… were these monsters already really, relatively, weak?

A sense of dread washed over her, and she realized she seemed to have been complacent again.

If she didn’t have guns, she had no doubt she’d be dead now.

This attitude would get her killed someday if she didn’t change it.

It was fine if it was just her, but…

Her palm unconsciously touched her stomach.

She was not alone.

Her hands stopped and she looked at her stomach, her large eyes shined with renewed determination.

Growing up, her husband had taught her a lot of things, a lot of which were to defend herself.

It was just that life had been peaceful the past few years, and she had lost the alertness she once had.

She wondered if her husband, wherever he was, would be disappointed.

Her husband’s handsome face flashed through her mind, a hint of longing occupied her heart.

She shook her head in the end.

She’d just have to remind herself of the things she should know, so that when she met her husband again, he would be relieved and proud.