After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 740

Chapter 740: Goblin Slaves’ Entrance
There were about a dozen goblins assigned to do the task. They chose an area about a few hundred meters away from the walls, hidden from the line of sight of the unfamiliar weapons. After a bit, the goblins began to dig a tunnel towards the wall at an unprecedented pace.

The little ones were small and perenially frowning. Their backs were hunched from working so much, making them appear even smaller, but their arms worked fast as they dug.

They also knew where the weak spots of the soil were as if they could see it clearly, so even if they weren’t so strong, the soil tended to appear softer than it would if a human was doing the same task.

Goblins were fast diggers, let alone dozens of them, and they were able to create meters-long tunnels fit for a few people twice their size within several minutes.

However, when they neared the walls—less than a hundred meters in—they seemed to have hit small threads or something, followed by the sound of distant bells.

The Goblins flinched. They were generally jumpy creatures and anything out of the ordinary would make them sweat a lot. “What do you think that was?” Yut asked the other leading goblin, Iko.

“I don’t know,” Iko said, nervously clenching back his digging tools, crumbs of dug dirt dropping to the ground on his feet. “But we’re in a hurry… so we can only do what we’re asked.”

He said this, but his body refused to move anyway.

Their pause, unsurprisingly, was not appreciated by the humans behind them. “Hey! Why did you stop?!”

“Hurry up, you rats!”

“We don’t have all day! Do you want us to throw you to the beasts?!”

The little green things shivered, their fear of the humans behind them overcoming the apprehension of what lay ahead. “Y-Yes!” they yelled, their little raspy voices echoing across the makeshift cavern they made.

They continued to dig for a few meters more and were confused when they ended up in an opening underground. They looked and it was a predug tunnel more or less perpendicular to their own. It was much smaller than theirs too.

Looking at the side, there were also some sturdy-looking stilts as if to make sure they were stable.

Regardless of what it was, this wasn’t something they expected to see here. “What is this…?” Iko asked, and the others behind him shook their heads.

“OI! KEEP MOVING!”

The poor green things had no choice but to reluctantly step forward. Most of them entered the other tunnel, gesturing to continue digging across it.

However, before they could start digging, they heard a weird rumbling noise coming in a direction. For a while, they didn’t know what to make of it. “Do you hear that?” one asked and the others nodded their heads, looking very worried.

Anyway, goblins were far more sensitive to sound and vibration than humans. Soon, some of them realized what it was happening.

They gasped and paled, immediately gesturing to run back.

“WATER!” Iko yelled and the group hurried back to the first tunnel. “RUNN!”

However, there was a congestion and the scary humans behind were definitely not backing away. They were wearing those scary faces too and were already gesturing to slap them.

They tried to avoid it. Before they could explain, the water got too close.

It was too late to run, and the strong wave of water enveloped their little bodies as if intent on drowning them.

The humans were far enough and big enough that they weren’t directly hit, but the water did enter and they immediately pushed each other back. “RUN! DAMNIT!” Some slow-witted ones could not react in time and fell down, unable to get up because they were stepped on continuously.

These people were also taken by the water, though most of them got stuck midway, particularly due to the smaller sizes of the other tunnels.

The same could not be said for the goblins, however.

Amidst the current, some muffled cries abound, though they were soon swallowed by the churn of water.

Yut tried to reach out to his brethren, but except for one he couldn’t hold on to them. Most of them tried to hold someone, but no one could fight the current and they could only be blown away helplessly, losing consciousness one by one.

“No…” Iko mumbled, gurgling water and feeling the intense headache that came with accidentally breathing a bit of water. His small hands grasped at the water as if he could grab anything else but each swipe only sent him deeper into the current.

At some point, he believed it was finally his time.

Iko cried as he felt his consciousness slip by. Yet, oddly, he didn’t feel a thing anymore—not fear or terror, nor sadness.

At least the suffering was over.

…

“Are they captured?” Garan asked, looking down from the battlement. Chris and the others opened the manhole and pulled the unconscious goblins one by one.

Garan and the others had seen wars with goblins, so of course they made some preparations to handle them.

Just beyond the secondary Level 3 wall, they dug a deep moat.

Well, not as deep as they wanted. After all, the elementalists could only do so much in a few days, and they didn’t have any mechanical help to help them dig. For now.

However, for this purpose, it was enough.

It was a small tunnel dug 1 meter below the ground. The tunnel itself was just over a meter deep, which was really to deal with digging goblins. They didn’t care if they got humans anyway.

These tunnels were connected to the river on one end, blocked by dams, with the other ending on a concrete prison of sorts. Of course, this was limited for now so the prisons could only be so big.

The north side of the river was downstream, with the south going upstream and they took advantage of gravity and the direction of water flow to determine the location of the ‘prisons’.

As soon as the trigger was activated, the dam would be opened, flushing those underground toward the desired location.

With this, they could not only flush enemies, but also trap people—and goblins—in.