After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 387

Chapter 387: Sports and Leisure (Part 3)
As for the details of the rules, they’d finalize that later on. Those would also be very expensive on her part, as it was extremely specific.

For instance, in the sparring area of the barracks, because people were allowed to fight there, she had to pay extra to make specific regulations. However, it was not too much because she simply had to say fighting was allowed in that space.

Arenas would definitely be more specific. For instance, she needed to stop fighting before they killed each other before they caused too much damage, etc.

When considering the elements, then the costs of special regulations would spike as well. After all, she needed to limit how much of the arena Earth users could use, how much Elementalists could destroy, et cetera.

“I will charge more than maintenance cost for this…” She mumbled, making Ansel laugh.

“Don’t worry about profitability. I’ll handle that.”

“Hmmn,” she said, completely trusting him. “I don’t want people getting too deep into gambling though.”

Ansel flinched and a couple of imaginary gold in his mind lost a few ingots.

“Ah, yesyes, just for fun,” he said with an awkward laugh. “I’ll control it well, don’t worry.”

Althea smiled and shook her head, refocusing her eyes on the map only she could see.

In the new parks, she developed space provision for courts to be built by the construction team even before it was completed, now she thought it was finally time to build on them.

At first, she thought that people would be too tired running for their lives to think of exercise, but she realized that she had still underestimated her people’s needs…

“Non-life-threatening exercise is still a need,” Ansel reiterated, and Althea just shrugged.

“What sports do you think we should pioneer?”

“Soccer’s my favorite.”

She shook her head, “No, that takes up too much space.”

“Tennis? Basketball? Badminton?”

“Hmn. Okay. Add volleyball and… ” She paused, marking at least three of the larger parks to have their own courts. “Two of each should be enough.”

If a particular sport was more popular than others, it was easy to use the other courts for its purpose, as long as the players weren’t too over-compulsive and were just playing for leisure.

“We’ll charge for the maintenance cost though,” Ansel said, and Althea agreed. They would also add rules to ensure the areas would be maintained at minimal costs.

As for the balls and other equipment, they would sell those in the supermarket, and the players would provide their own items.

Looking at the layout of the sports facilities again, they confirmed that they should be more than enough for the current population.

She stared at the bird’s eye view of the territory again, thinking activities could also be done under the shades.

“We’ll also add some chess and game boards to the park,” she said, They’d also add canopy and root controllers to manage the growth of the plants to make these spaces better suitable for human activities.

“Also table tennis.”

“Oh, yes.”

“Squash is also intense but only requires small space.”

“But that’s better for interiors…”

“Interior…”

The two looked at each other and immediately came up with an answer: A Building dedicated to indoor games. This building would have indoor sports like table tennis, bowling, billiards, and squash.

Although they had only experienced trickles so far, there had apparently been cases of continuous rains. Indoor hang-outs (should they not be fighting outside) should still be provided.

Of course, the research needed for the gaming materials still had to start first. They didn’t want billiard balls that didn’t bounce so unpredictably, right?

There wasn’t that much pressure, however, as they still needed to build the actual building first than anything else.

“How’s the development of rubber?” Ansel asked.

He knew that the trees would soon mature and combined with the resin they got from outside, they already had enough raw materials to make a commercial batch of rubber.

Other than some reserved for bikes, carts, and rickshaws (so they could finally be used in rougher terrains), they could use the wastage to make balls and other toys.

They were very green, okay? Minimal wastage allowed!

“Winona is leading the team,” Althea said, “The rubber team’s progress steadied and even increased when she started leading it. As expected of her.”

Ansel nodded, although Winona was grumpy and had a weird temper, even he had to admit she had real talent in this field.

Especially, Winona was an avid sports fan too, so he knew she would definitely expedite the process for these things.

One of the very, very, few positive aspects of the rabid woman.

Summarizing the plan, the two siblings smiled in satisfaction.

A lot of people might think they were putting too much effort into leisure. However, she not only ensured that the other aspects were also being developed and perfected, but she didn’t disagree with Ansel’s point.

In fact, she saw more than he did.

Aborigines.

It was a fact that weaker territories—especially villages—attracted weak people because it was surrounded by monsters that couldn’t give strong individuals a bit of experience and copper. There were also fewer resources available and the convenient building types were limited.

One of the ways to attract and keep strong aborigines despite being a small village was to offer unique features that they’d love.

Leisure facilities were definitely one of them.

This way, they’d have more and more stronger people, upgrade faster, and attract more resources to themselves in turn. It was a good cycle. In Xeno, anyway.

As for the other features—most of them would be a variety of unique building types.

At this, Althea looked in the direction of the village center, where Oslo’s department had been drawing the past week or so.

After giving them the reservoir of knowledge (care of her tablet) she had, she had given them the mission to determine various ways of creating sturdy tall buildings.

They were also tasked to design buildings that would be useful to the territory in their current context.

The Engineering department…, she wondered if they’d surprise her with their progress.

She hoped they would succeed soon…