After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 398

Chapter 398: First Aborigine Visitors (Part 2)
While most of the Aborigine guests were left to explore the territory, the Terran Mercenary group went to their base villa with everyone.

It was technically smaller than the property in Ferrol, but the details were much richer, the training area denser, and a lot more considerations were made.

However, this was not immediately appreciated by the newly-arrived Aborigine members, primarily because they were still reeling at the sights they had seen before heading here.

The minds of Pipa, Roana, and the others were still focused on the markets they saw on the way—which was so attractive it felt like they were being called. It took them a lot of discipline not to separate from Eagle and the others.

Their stomachs were churning the whole time and their own feet were gesturing to go to these shops without their knowledge!

What the bosses said was true: What they had seen in Ferrol was not enough!

Eagle was naturally aware of the ‘tension’ these aborigines were feeling. But he thought it was better to tell them the plan before letting them go wild on their own.

He met the antsy aborigines in the living room while everyone else went their own way—some to report to Garan, some to handle their sales, some to meet friends and family, while some to goof around in general.

Whichever case it was, they were subject of envy by the aborigines withheld by Eagle.

Eagle’s lips twitched upwards and began speaking. “I’ve arranged for you to learn from certain experts for a month, after signing a confidentiality contract, of course.”

He turned to the thin and pale seamstress Pipa, and then to Sasa, a curly-haired woman who specialized in making clothes. “You two will be assigned to help with Letty,” he told them. “She is a system-stamped seamstress, and we hope you awaken an occupation under her.”

The word ‘awakening’ naturally caught the two women’s minds and their eyes brightened. “Sir?!”

Eagle just smiled as he turned to Koli, a large male tanner with only a handful of hair on his head. “You will be going to Sassy,” he said, “Her occupation is not system-stamped, but she is definitely an expert. Who knows, right?”

Although tanning was a more common practice here, Sassy knew a lot of intricacies that this guy could learn. Of course, they had to pay Baron’s team a set amount of gold for this.

For the cooks, he turned to the dark-skinned chubby Roana and the ultra-tall cook with a strong metabolic rate, Yoyo. “You will be joining sister-in-law’s restaurant, under her person named Harold.”

The two nodded, eyes bright. Not only for the opportunity to learn, but the fact that they’d be doing it under Ms. Althea!

They had heard of the ‘sister-in-law’ the bosses admired so much.

The Captain’s wife!

How curious they were to see the only woman who could get close to their ice-cold captain. And also not be scared!

Eagle paused and let them remember the instructions. They were naturally chosen because they were the best employees with the greatest potential.

Further, they had enough social skills to teach the others back in Ferrol about the craft they had learned. (Of course, this was all after signing NDAs as well to protect Altera’s interests).

“We are investing in you, in hopes that our Ferrol base would be sustainable enough not to fully depend on the main branch.

“Am I clear?”

“Yes!”

Eagle’s stance softened then, and what he said next made the aborigines nearly jump in joy.

“You may explore Altera on your own. I will endorse you to your trainers tomorrow. Meet me here tomorrow morning at sunrise.”

“YES!!!”

Finally!

…

Inside the Gaea Team’s villa, a certain auburn-haired woman looked at the space in front of her with curious eyes.

“Our first aboriginal guests…”Althea said as she looked at the population screen. They were now in their lounge area in her room.

She had just woken up from a nap, and Garan—after arranging the day’s training regimen and tasks—was there to keep her company.

She needed some sleep as she had been very focused on her experiments the past few days. They had already completed the first batch of rubber, and now she wanted to mass-produce wheels and shock absorbers to apply to more bikes, rickshaws, and possibly carriages.

Things like gaskets, ball bearings, and rubber seals were essential for many machines. Although there would still be a lot of research, these would be used in various machinery like improved waterwheels, windmills, clocks, the printing press, crank mechanisms, improved looms, and even catapults and trebuchets.

Especially crank mechanisms used for hand-crank generators, crank-in machines, windows, (eventually) music boxes, manual pumps, and sewing machines.

There were also more ‘everyday’ items like rubber boots and cloaks.

One could see the importance of this, and she (along with Winona and the others) had been lacking a lot of sleep every night because of it.

Garan wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on top of her head, before tilting her head a little to give her a sound smooch on the face.

She laughed, wiping the saliva off her face.

She turned and wrapped her arms around his neck, reciprocating, only Garan didn’t wipe it off—he licked it.

“Delicious,” he said and dipped down to take her lips. He lifted her up and threw her to the bed. He couldn’t bear to take her the previous night when she was so tired from studying, but now that she was better rested, however—

Garan climbed on top of her and dipped his head again, putting some of his weight on her so they could feel each other more intimately.

Before they could go further, however, their sharp ears detected knocks on the main door.

Garan cursed and Althea laughed, kissing him on the cheeks.

Althea scooted away and went outside the door.

At this time, only the two of them were in the house. The children were taken to ‘work’ by their respective parents except for the twins, who were next door. The women from next door adored them and insisted on voluntary babysitting duty.

Speaking of the babies, they were increasingly expressive now, much more than what should be expected for children a few months old.

Little Pepper pouted a lot when attention wasn’t on her, her chubby cheeks appearing even chubbier.

Little Meatball was showing more of his troublemaking ways. He often tried to get off his high chair. If everyone didn’t have heightened alertness, he’d have fallen down a handful of times already.

“I’ll get it,” she said and gestured to get up. Garan sighed, standing up to take the door with her. When he opened the door with a dark face, the other man outside naturally flinched.

It was Eagle, shocked by his stare—understanding he had just interrupted the captain’s ‘very good thing’.

But… how was he supposed to know they would go at it while the sun was so high up the sky!? This totally wasn’t his fault, right?!

He also took a moment to shake away the fear, and when he did he immediately went to report their gain.

“You found milking animals?” Althea asked, eyes bright.

“Yes, although I heard that the locals find it unhealthy,” he said and explained what he had heard so far. Althea, like him, didn’t falter. She gave him an order instead.

“Get Winona and the others to its contents. Determine the substance’s reaction to various items and temperatures.”

“Yes, Ms. Althea.” He said, “May we request a grazing area for them as well?”

Among the soldiers, both Gill and Eagle were privy to her being the lord. They therefore had the honor of directly requesting for resources.

When they found out, the two almost worshipped Althea, but that was a story for some other time.

Now, Althea nodded at their request. “I built a few level 1 farms to be used as grazing area, keeping a lot of the trees and berries where we can.

She turned to Garan. “Rent it under your name.” This was not just to ‘disperse’ the wealth in the territory, but also so that the farms could be maximized and managed best.

The Grazing farms of Altera were very kind to animals. The animals were allowed to grow free-range in the farms. Not only were they huge, there was also natural vegetation the animals could eat. They will definitely live happy lives before dying.

This should make them more delicious when it was their time to be eaten..

Other than this, Althea also assigned one of the factories being constructed to a dairy factory.

A dairy factory would soon be up, set to create all dairy products possible in their current situation. Eventually they would have cheese, butter, and others in their daily meals again.

Of course, these would all take a bit longer, due to the massive amount of study and experimentation that had to be done.

Not to mention, the machines needed to mass produce these end products had yet to be designed.

Fortunately, Soy has also been harvested many times, and the first soy milk would be made available in the supermarket to make up for this need.

Speaking of, there are plenty of new items lined up to be introduced in various shops like the grocery store and her beauty shop.

She looked at the names of the aborigines with a smile.

“You came just in time.”