After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 661

Chapter 661: Calming Village (Part 1)
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While the majority of Terran villages failed in the war against aborigines, it wasn’t all hopeless for everyone.

For instance, there was the Level 2 Calming Village. Here, the Terran Mercenary Team members who had separated stayed as they looked for their loved ones.

After looking for a long time, after passing by a few territories, they finally did.

It wasn’t easy to find anyone’s surviving relatives at all. After leaving Fargo, this was the third territory they had been to and this was the first territory most of them found anyone they knew.

Well, at least the first territory to bear them some good news.

In the previous village, Minko and Sean had actually caught leads regarding their own families, but they weren’t updates they’d have wanted.

Minko’s wife, Klara, was in Diana Village… but she’s become the woman of the lord there. She naturally tried begging for reconciliation but Minko felt sick when he looked at her. Anyway, she was with the lord, so she’d be fine.

Sean’s was a bit more tragic. He found his parent’s neighbor in Diana Village, who happily greeted him.

He looked at him as if he was a savior, shocked that he was still alive. But when he asked where his parents were, the man just looked at him pitifully.

When he went missing and was eventually presumed dead, the old couple wasn’t able to handle the heartbreak and passed soon after, a few weeks apart.

Sean pursed his lips and held back his tears, but every night since then he would let out heaving but silent sobs, and the heartbreak would lull him to sleep.

The only comfort was the fact that his parents didn’t have to suffer through this hell anymore.

In any case, the group temporarily settled in this village the past few days. They took this time to catch up with the loved ones found, the unfortunate ones not daring to rush the others.

For one, this world was so dangerous, it wasn’t easy to take their relatives with them to the unknown, nor was it comfortable to just leave them in a weak territory while they traveled.

They decided to take a breather and plan ahead, hoping to keep their loved ones safe, even if they resumed their search for others.

In Calming Village, they found Orz’s younger brother, a 28-year-old young man named Ouli. Inspired by his brother, he had grown fond of martial arts but didn’t want to serve so he owned a dojo instead.

He transferred with the surviving members of his dojo, now down to two remaining students after so long. They were a brother-and-sister pair named Tiara and Ton, respectively.

They also found Ryan’s uncle, Ricky, and they were currently catching up after a long (but manly) sobbing session.

Ricky was a forty-year-old man who had been together with his family when the disaster happened, so Ryan was also aware of what happened to the rest of their family.

He unfortunately got news that his parents had passed, with his mother turning into a zombie and taking the woman Ricky was dating with her. His father was transferred here with him and they survived for a while after that.

Ryan’s father was also a veteran and was the reason why both brothers had survived all the way past the protection period.

However, he was unfortunately killed in one of the mobs that came right after it was over. This was the first mob with strong monsters and they were completely unprepared for it.

The only comfort was that he died in a bang.

During that mob, there were dozens of level 6 monsters—which was above the average level of guards—that managed to get past the walls.

Ryan’s father was a leading guard, and he also consolidated the small group of soldiers who were also there.

With strategy and skill—even if they couldn’t afford any more than a few sentries—they managed to guard the weakest areas of the territory, especially the gate.

The other areas were also guarded by civilians who were inspired to fight along with him. Unfortunately, the defense wasn’t impenetrable and a few beasts got past and destroyed a good portion of the village.

It was Ryan’s father who was the first responder there.

It was a famous story in Calming Village, how the old man took down a few monsters not much lower in level—meaning, much stronger in overall strength—before finally succumbing to his wounds.

To honor him, the lord renamed the village—which was previously named after him—to Calming Village, after their surname ‘Calma’.

Ryan took comfort in the fact that his father died protecting others. It had been what he wanted ever since then.

The old man was honorably dismissed back in Terran due to an injury. Ryan remembered it had broken the man’s heart when he thought he’d just die of old age without contributing any more to the world.

When they told him his facial expression as he met death was nothing that resembled sadness, he fully believed it.

Ryan pushed down the heartbreak and he looked at his uncle. “What about my sister, then?” He asked.

“Sunny? Have you forgotten? Your sister went for an exchange program in Eden.”

“…”

That’s right. Before he left, it seemed that his sister had just bought tickets?

“Eden, eh? So, East or Southeast.” Minko mumbled beside them, looking at Ryan. “Where the captain was going, right?”

This made everyone silent.

“What should we do, then?”

“The captain and the others had likely settled down and found their relatives, if we could take the ones we found there, then maybe we could settle them there as well,” Sean said, his delicate fingers tapping the table surface. This overly-pale guy, despite all the heat, barely got a tan.

Speaking of which, do they still get skin cancer here?

Anyway, the fact that they were deciding to head East already made them feel closer to the rest of the mercenary team.

Ben sighed, a little longingly. “Getting back together with the captain and the others… seems like a dream…”

“Well, it won’t be for long,” Ryan said, blue eyes fixed on his companions. “Get ready, guys! We’re reuniting with the rest of the team!”

The rest of them smiled, feeling a bit of weight lifted from their shoulders. “YES!”