After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 706

Chapter 706: Unfriendly Visitors (Part 2)
Among the guards, an announcement was made, and it really surprised them all.

[Potential enemies will arrive soon! Try not to show your prowess too much. We prefer being underestimated.]

This startled the guards a lot, but they quickly adjusted and followed as ordered.

Althea didn’t really bother doing the same with the citizens as it might give a few people the idea of selling the information to the enemy instead. There were thousands of them now, they obviously had a couple of bad apples already.

Speaking of bad apples, a certain leech family was waiting around the gates when they heard people from Limestone Valley were entering the territory. They had been stalking the guard stations a lot and they happened to have overheard it.

When the Limestone Valley party soon arrived—with the ‘guests’ in tow—the aforementioned family ran to greet them.

“It’s them!” they yelled, and went to Luis and the others.

Sammy and Luis looked at the mother-and-son pair and were just confused. It was only when they started looking for a fellow guard that they remembered who this unsightly pair was.

Amos hadn’t been away for long, but these two already looked like beggars.

“Where’s my son?”

“Where’s my brother?”

Luis couldn’t handle pests very well so he cleared his throat and said he needed to bring the guests and the newcomers in.

Sammy had no choice but to deal with the two, though he silently swore to spar with Luis later.

They then saw Angelo in the group. Jesse stayed in Limestone Valley, but when Luis sent an urgent letter to them he and a few others immediately came to follow them back, catching up after half a day since the party was going slow with civilians in the team.

Although war might not happen, they naturally wanted to be back home when it happened. Jesse would’ve gone back as well but he was already assigned a team. Angelo was an archer and was assigned to station the walls and was a bit more flexible.

Anyway, because he was close with Amos, he knew these two very well. They were eyesores and he didn’t bother to hide his expression of disgust. “He stayed there.”

“WHAT?!”

“What about us?”

“What about you?” he asked, feigning ignorance even when he knew exactly what they were talking about.

Even after all this time, this mother-son pair remained to be leeches, sucking Amos’ blood.

No wonder he didn’t want to return here.

The woman and her son glared at him, but they were weak—barely even level 5, and this was all because of Amos’ carrying them.

Without Amos, if they somehow managed to survive, they would definitely not pass level 2.

Sammy would be enlightened by the shamelessness of some people that day though. Seeing as he was the boss, the mother-and-son pair ignored Angelo and went to him instead.

Amos’ mother—Balon—patted herself, bossily ordering him. “Send us his paycheque instead!”

Sammy had to stop his eyes from rolling. “That’s not how it works.”

“Then don’t we get support as his family?”

“That’s completely at the guard’s prerogative. Besides, your other son look perfectly healthy,” Sammy said, pointing at Alon. “He can go hunt outside. In Alterra, anyone willing to work wouldn’t go hungry.”

“NO!”

“Well, then go hungry.”

“NOOO!” The woman yelled like a shrew. “He’s my son! He’s supposed to feed us! Unfilial bastard!!”

Sammy patted his own shoulder as if massaging himself. It was a poor attempt to prevent him from getting down their level. His patience was running thin though. As one of the few extroverts in the team, this was already saying something.

He looked at the guards stationed by the gates. “Send them to prison. Let them stay there for 1 day for disturbing public peace.”

This made the two flinch and glare at him. The guards surrounded them and they naturally tried to struggle. “This is unfair!”

“Tyranny!”

“HELP! HELLLPP!!!” Balon yelled which got her a tape—something new by the research center, the cheapest one was made from thin elastic recycled paper with animal glue—effectively shutting her up.

“What?! Jerks!!” Alon tried to fight back and attacked. Unfortunately for him, he was a weak chicken and was easily taken down.

His mother screamed like a pig—she practically ate that tape—when she saw her precious son hurt.

“My son! How dare you!!” she yelled. She also tried to attack, though this also got her on the ground. They were then dragged to Prison to serve their short sentence.

They screamed like shrews the whole way to prison, cursing everyone they encountered.

…

Baltimore and the others watched the interaction outside the gate in interest until Luis walked over. “Lord Baltimore,” he said, “We’ll leave you here.”

This made the aborigines look at them.

Luis pretended to be unaware of their looks. “Our territory is small and straightforward, you’ll be able to find more about it on your own.”

He didn’t look at them again as he smiled at the doctors and their other new citizens. “Let’s go get you registered first.”

And they left without looking back.

When he said he was guiding the newcomers, it apparently did not include them.

Some of Baltimore’s cronies sneered, “Disrespectful as always.” They also swore to beat them back to their place someday. Sadly, the rules showed to them when they entered were abnormally detailed so for now they had no choice but to hold back.

Baltimore didn’t say anything, he simply moved forward along the avenue.

The Guide companies were ordered not to guide the Guia villagers. Although they would be able to find out a lot on their own, at least it wouldn’t be spoonfed to them. It was also a way for them to check if anyone would be willing to sell strangers sensitive information.

The group moved together at first, looking around the wide streets, the buildings, the amenities….

They also saw the resources, the food, and the products.

They tried a couple of things and they felt like they were brought to another world, each store asking them to eat more and more.

These things could easily mark this place as a culinary capital!

There were also some novel methods of transportation that went fast along the wide avenues. Some only had one person, and others had another small cart on the side.

The more they saw, the more they felt like ‘country bumpkins’, and slowly they forgot the disrespect they suffered.

To be honest, they were a little in awe.

And Greedy. Very greedy.

“Boss… this place…” Treck uttered, gulping, with his eyes sparkling as he looked at the place.

Baltimore nodded, understanding. “Investigate,” he said, and all the men around him separated, to study this territory as thoroughly as possible. Each one of them would later report to him and then they could plan on the best course of action in taking over.

He had a feeling that this territory… might be the most surprising one yet.

They had to be more careful with this one, however. Not only was the force value much stronger than others—those sentries alone weren’t something found in villages—but they would also needed to preserve the interior, unlike destroying and plundering wantonly like they usually did.

Most importantly, those other villages they had gone to war with didn’t interest him at all. He only liked the added resources and gold.

For this place, it was very different.

He wanted the Lord Token!