After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 714

Chapter 714: Dealing with Betrayers
At this time, a certain mother and son were happily shopping around and showing off their newfound wealth.

They were even planning to buy a house! The market prices of the houses had skyrocketed and they could only afford downpayment, but that was good enough for them!

They only saw the money they got as well as the combined money Amos gave. They totally forgot about the contribution point requirements. It could be used to buy residencies for family members, but said family members could not use other people’s to buy properties named to them.

But these two don’t even read the rules, let alone truly follow them, so they were just basking in their newfound wealth.

“Who’d have thought all those gossip so useful!” Alon said.

Alon and his mother, depending fully on Amos for livelihood, spent their days gossiping and lurking around the territory. Baltimore’s team was very lucky to have found them. Most of the other citizens who could be bribed wouldn’t have had half the information that they gave.

They grinned as they stared at the lovely marble platform where they were choosing their next abode!

Good bye dormitories! They can finally be among the people who had a house!

Anyway, the two had chosen a house—just one of the duplexes, but they could find more information to sell—and happily went to purchase it.

[Transaction Failed.]

“WHAT?!”

“NO!” Balon gritted her teeth, while Alon glared at the innocent platform.

“This damned thing!” Alon yelled, tapping the platform with a lot of his strength. Fortunately, Alon was very weak and his wild tapping didn’t damage it at all.

Before Alon could ‘damage’ it a bit more, new voices arrived near them and they realized there were guards nearby.

It was no other than Reno, who had two other guards next to him. They were staring at the two, making them intimidated.

“W-What is it?” Balon said, though she flinched when she remembered what her son had been doing. “D-Don’t mind him. He doesn’t have much strength. He can’t damage anything.”

Sad for them, it wasn’t why the guards were there. “We received report of suspicious activity, specifically, you two.”

This naturally made the two guilty people sweat a lot and panic. “W-What are you talking about?”

“We’re doing nothing suspicious!” The old woman yelled, but her feet were moving weirdly, as if preparing to run at a moment’s notice.

Alon was much more aggressive. “Leave us alone!” he yelled. “Don’t accuse us innocent people willy-nilly!”

They were being so obvious that if a child was there, they’d point at them and sing: ‘liar, liar, pants on fire~!’

The guards naturally did no such thing. Instead, they only crossed their arms, with Reno looking at them with an unchanging expression on his face. “We’d like to ask you a couple of questions.”

The two guards stood firmly next to them, and they knew they had no escape. Fortunately, they calmed down enough so they didn’t run in the end, realizing it would’ve made them even more suspicious.

They forced themselves to keep cool. “L-Let us finish this first!” Balon said, eyes desperate to spend the money. Her instincts was telling her she could lose it if they didn’t hold tightly to it!

Reno saw this, his expression not changing. “You can’t buy a house.”

“What do you mean we can’t!? We have the money!”

“It requires a high amount of contribution points, something you don’t have yet. Go outside and kill some monsters.”

“No! I have money!”

“Yes, yes, we have money!”

“Where’d you get the money?” Reno asked. They were here specifically because they received a lot of reports about this pair.

The citizens of Alterra had a sharp eye and proactiveness when it came to guarding their home. After all, they were living so well, and they naturally couldn’t risk anyone from endangering it!

So, even that time where they were seen heading with the aborigines somewhere, this already sent alarms to many others. Even if they were low-key, the housing here was relatively dense, and people cared enough to report them!

Of course, at the time, the report was relatively objective with just ‘two people are talking with the suspicious visitors!’ and they entered the radar since then.

Also, the pair had really been gritting on people’s nerves even before, let alone now that they were being excessively smug about something!

The fact that they suddenly went on a shopping spree when they were practically destitute a few days prior was the final straw that confirmed the suspicions.

Reno looked at them and then looked around. It so happened they were already in the Village center. “Then take the oath and admit where you get the money. If it’s legitimate—even if it was loan or overpricing services—we will let you go.”

This heckled the leeches’ feathers. “Pay us 100 Gold if you wrongfully take us!” They yelled, hoping it’d scare them off.

Unexpectedly, Reno nodded. They lost all blood and stupidly bolted away.

Reno looked at the guards next to him and they both stepped forward, easily stopping the two by capturing them.

They started screaming like pigs as they struggled. “This is a violation of human rights!”

“Let us go! Let us go!”

“Alterran guards are scammers! AHHHH!”

No one believed them of course, and all they got was shaking heads and gossipy stares as they were once again dragged back to prison.

Here, the guards would be interrogating them. If they didn’t spill, then they might have to do torture.

Not that it was ever needed, of course.

The soldiers practically just pinched them a bit and they spilled.

The more they heard, the more livid they became.

Alon was punched in the face by a guard. “SHAME!” he yelled, before throwing the two back to their cells.

Immediately, the guards reported to the Elders, who held a meeting to decide on what to do with the first ever major betrayal the territory experienced.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was grim. Mathilda tapped the table, showing a rare expression of annoyance.

“We have to make an example!” Mathilda said. “They must be punished harshly!”

As a public servant her whole life, she had always found it incomprehensible that citizens who lived good lives would endanger others like this!

Gru looked a bit worried. “They’re a guard’s family member.” He knew Amos well enough. He was a good kid.

“That’s exactly why they should’ve known better than others.” In Terran, something like this could mean expulsion or even imprisonment of not only the family member, but also the soldier regardless of whether they had anything to do with it.

In Xeno, the guard only needed to swear an oath, should he still want to serve.

But the punishment for betrayal… cannot be light!!

And so, some minutes later, a loud announcement resounded inside every Alterran’s mind.

[Balon and Alon Tim has betrayed the territory. Their citizenship has been revoked and are now designated as prisoners of war to work for the territory until their sins have been paid for.]

Some would argue that the term ‘prisoners of war’ was technically another term for slave. Maybe it was.

But, at the very least, they could earn their lives back through this. Who knows? Perhaps they’d learn their lesson.

And if they didn’t? At least they had cheap labor.