After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 678

Chapter 678: First Edition Newspaper
“Oh, and there’s another thing we hope to bring with you,” Eagle said, releasing biles of paper filled with texts from his space. “These aren’t much, but please place them in your village center for public reading.”

Some of the youngins weren’t particularly familiar with it, but Henry was shaking a bit when he took a set, opening it with wide eyes. “It’s a newspaper!”

As the only one in the group to have actually used this outside a museum, this meant more to him than others.

“This is amazing…” he said, unconsciously starting to read one. The others also took a copy, curious about what it contained. The texts seemed to be printed, too.

“You already have the printing press?” Henry asked, very surprised. While everyone else was struggling to survive, Alterra was advancing too fast!

His reaction made the locals grin proudly. “Alterra is really heading towards modernization at the speed of light,” Sammy said, but looked around the large number of greeneries. “Well, with some lessons learned.”

They couldn’t help but read the articles and the Alterrans didn’t rush them to go, understanding the need to read. When they saw it, they also put everything aside to read every single article.

A few of the articles were written by Beany, some by the famous newscaster Vivian, and some was by Rosalind.

Beany’s focus was on the territory itself. It included the rescue and assistance of Bright (with its subsequent entry as a subsidiary), the upgrade of the Training Hall, and the opening of the Contribution Store.

There were also mentions of some special cases who managed to take high advantage of the Training Hall, like those who reached level 10 with it. This was posted to entice other people to maximize the Halls as well.

Beany also gave a few peeks of what was available in the Contribution Store—as well as some hints of what was to come.

Of course, he also included some information about Limestone Valley nee Fargo Village, including the upcoming upgrades, though most of his information was fed by Althea since he wasn’t there when the planning was happening.

Vivian’s article was the Grand battle of Fargo. While a lot of information was kept hidden for security’s sake (they didn’t want to feed too much info of their skills to potential enemies) the way it was written was still extremely attractive, as if the reader was taken to the battle.

Several heroic figures and their deeds were listed without mentioning their techniques. Of course, they asked these people if it was okay to publish their name or if they’d like to use codes. Some were fine with their names being published, while some were not. This caused an already-interesting article to be made even more fun.

Names like ‘Sly Rat’ and ‘Master of Doom’ were sprinkled in, and it made many readers chuckle.

The list of the deaths—mostly from the slaves—was also listed. If they made contributions, they were also mentioned. There was also a heart-wrenching Collective Obituary for the Alterrans who perished during the war.

There would be several copies per edition kept by the village, to be added to a future library and be immortalized in history. This way, the future generation would see how many deaths the peace they had was built upon.

Rosalind’s article was about the importance of continued education, followed by the news of the school opening.

“Education and Strength is key to molding a younger generation,” the article stated. “They must grow to be able to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their homes. They are malleable minds and must be guided towards the right path from an early age—that is what a school is for.”

It also indicated the classes available and what parents could expect their children to learn. For instance, there was nursery class, though Theo seemed to be the only student for now.

Next was the elementary school, where Maya, Horus, Mimi, and most surviving kids would go. Other than literacy, history, values classes, and the like, Foundational fighting and exercise would also be taught here.

The High School (for tweens and teens) would include real training against low-level monsters.

There was already a plot of land near the barracks where monsters level 5 or below were held for training.

A couple of animal advocates naturally tried to free them, but they were quickly shown that these weren’t sentient animals (by throwing them into the cages, rescued at the last second).

They were mindless beasts and this taught these people that they ought to adjust if they wanted children to be able to do well in this world.

Anyway, these were all public knowledge among Alterrans but seeing them in print naturally helped with people’s sense of pride.

They would also help recruit more people who would see this, having a better understanding of what Alterra could offer as a territory.

Anyway, now that everything was handed over, the group finally gestured to set off. However, a certain woman didn’t move.

Vanessa felt her feet were too heavy. She had been trying to imply she wanted to stay for the past few days, but it was never discussed. She had to say something!

Henry looked at his daughter, puzzled. “Vanessa?”

She pursed her lips and looked back at her crush. “I want to stay,” she said, making her father frown.

“Why?”

“I… Alterra is getting bigger, it needs more forces—”

Before Henry could reprimand her, Garan’s low voice resounded in their area. “Limestone Valley has twice the population, and much less defensive abilities.”

“But—”

“Are you disobeying orders?”

“No, I—”

“You swore to follow orders,” Garan said, “And I assigned you to Limestone Valley.”

“But—”

Garan frowned, asking bluntly. “Do you want to stay in the group? This type of insubordination with an obvious agenda is not welcome in our mercenary team.”

Vanessa’s eyes widened and she looked at him in disbelief. Seeing he was serious, she looked at her father who wasn’t saying anything!

“If you continue making foolish decisions, I cannot make any more excuses for you,” was all he said and it made Vanessa want to cry.

Benny saw the tense atmosphere and tried to diffuse it by laughing at Sammy. “See you again, old friend!” he said with a forced smile, before nodding at the boss. “We’ll go now, captain.”

Henry nodded and followed Benny and Luis after saying his goodbyes. Vanessa had no choice but to follow, her head bent down a bit in embarrassment.

She couldn’t open her mouth to say anything anymore. She knew for sure she’d get kicked out if she said another word!

She simply wanted to stay in Alterra! It wasn’t like she wasn’t going to do her job! Was it too much to ask?