After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 654

Chapter 654: Travel Back
Before the meeting ended, Vanessa arrived with the report of how many professionals were willing to go with them. She claimed that she had convinced the doctors to come, leaving a few people specializing in emergency treatments in the valley.

Many of the doctor’s specializations were useless anyway without equipment, and Alterra had shown they had the capability to provide them with better tools.

However, Vanessa implied that the doctors would only come if she led them. Althea looked deeply at the woman.

Her husband owed Henry and Victor a lot, with the former being his mentor, while the latter saving his life.

But Althea didn’t have such gripes.

“Vanessa, to manage your expectations, Alterra is not like Fargo. Unlike here, you’ll be an employee like everyone else,” Althea said, “You’ll be one of the two healers already there, and will not be treated more specially than they do.”

Vanessa looked at her, “I know more about the medicine in this world—

“You think you know more than I do?” Althea asked, and the certainty of the answer made Vanessa blush in shame.

Althea had heard from Drake before that Vanessa had been monopolizing knowledge here, keeping the doctors under her. This was not a practice she’d encourage in her territory.

While people had the right to gatekeep knowledge, she didn’t want them too stingy. For one, she would be giving contribution, commissions, or the like to those who contributed to the ‘pool of knowledge’ Alterra had. She certainly wasn’t going to entertain gatekeeping for the sake of keeping power and at the expense of the territory.

“What I mean to say is, what you know… will be something everyone knows there,” she told her. “So don’t use it as a leverage—not against me.”

…

The people heading back to Alterra were: the couple, Team B, Vanessa, Benny, and Henry. The next batch of migration would happen when the health of the people had been improved.

For one, a lot of the professionals and migrants had been injured during the war, and another was that the doctors were still very busy with handling them. The doctors were given a few days to properly finish handling their current patients and do turnovers.

Anyway, the people traveling back were set to use some of the bikes that arrived. They only took what was needed, and Mao and the others used to draw lots to determine whose bikes would be given back.

Mao and the others were understandably very reluctant to part with them.

In the end, Mao’s, Angelo’s, and a few other’s bikes were taken, making their moods drop a lot.

They hilariously already named the bikes, saying their sweet goodbyes as they handed them over to the others.

Poor guys.

Unfortunately for them, Althea and the others didn’t want to get back home too late, hoping to get back home at least before midnight, so Mao and the others didn’t have a long time to say goodbye to their ‘babes’.

Before leaving, Althea sprayed every one of them with Beast Repellant potions so their trip was relatively uneventful.

The group rode on their respective bikes. Well, except for Vanessa, who apparently didn’t know how to do so. For a moment there, Althea thought Vanessa would ask if she could ride with Garan, saying it was bigger than others.

Unfortunately for Vanessa, the bike designs were standard and that excuse wouldn’t have flown. Vanessa backtracked before she humiliated herself and got Turbo to give her a ride instead.

Garan wanted to ask Althea if she wanted to ride with him, but the latter rejected. It had been a while since she took a long bike ride, anyway.

Anyway, the group finally went on their way, enjoying the breeze and the quickness of the travel. By estimate, with these heavy-duty bikes, they could travel almost as fast as Sprinting, except without the accompanying cost of health.

Speaking of Sprinting, Garan had taught her how to use it. It was something that every level 10 and above could do, regardless of whether they were elementalists. It was basically using aether to trigger a special aether rush—much like a magic adrenaline rush to push one’s body to the limit and traverse distances quickly.

The downside was that the health would suffer every few seconds it was used and it would take longer to replenish as well, even with potions.

Any skills could also not be used, and anything that would consume mana could not be activated. This was why it could not be used in fights and could only be used when traveling swiftly in emergencies.

Now, they didn’t need to do so!

“This is so fun! I really missed this!” Benny yelled as he pedaled. The others followed with similar faces. They rushed forward, hoping to get to their destination as quickly as they could.

The only time they rested was when they reached the camping site. Henry and Benny openly admired the arrangement, thinking how thoughtful it was.

At the same time, they also admired the effectivness of Althea’s Beast Repellent. Although they had to spray every few hours, it wasn’t as disgusting as the Beast Attracting potion was, so they fortunately didn’t suffer too much.

They reached the vicinity of Alterra deep into the night, their path lit up by the powerful solar-charged flashlight Althea had. When she turned off the light seemingly out-of-nowhere, Henry and the others were a bit puzzled.

“We’re here,” she said, and they turned to look at where she was pointing.

From afar, they could see the bright lights of the lighthouse (something Fargo bought recently, though in retrospect that could’ve been a response to the mobs and the war). However, they also noticed that it was brighter and more… dynamic somehow.

“What’s the difference?” Benny asked, and the Alterrans just smiled.

“You’ll see soon enough.”

The newcomers could only follow and soon saw the tall five-meter wall that surrounded the entire village.

They had heard how it was from Turbo and the others, but seeing it in person was surreal.

They didn’t even notice they had walked through the gate until the familiar ding sound of the system sounded in their minds. Because they already read the announcement in Limestone Valley, they weren’t surprised by the fees as well as the extremely specific rules and regulations.

What shocked them was the amount of activity there was still on the street. There were still stalls, friends, families, and lovers walking around leisurely. This was a proper nightlife!

The brightness of their surroundings reflected in their eyes, reaching straight to their hearts.

So this is Alterra!!