After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 793

Chapter 793: New Shrao Village
Back in Alterra, the very festive atmosphere didn’t last particularly long because the team sent to Vismont had returned.

Fortunately, everyone came back with their lives and complete limbs, but none of them were undamaged. Along with them were quite a number of refugees, who were at an even worse state.

Because the territory was a subsidiary, Hubert and the others were not hurt directly by the guards there. Rather, because the enemies knew this, they targeted the refugees a lot instead.

Because a lot of the refugees had to be protected and there were only so few of them, it was inevitable they’d be injured by the mobs they encountered afterward.

In fact, had they not arrived when they did, had there not been an aether hospital, and had there not been surgeons—a lot of the refugees would’ve died within an hour of their arrival.

The guards sent on the mission were those not particularly close to the couple like Reno, Joe, and Lee among others, so they didn’t have to be in the wedding. They brought a few dozen refugees with them, all being treated in the hospital.

“What do you think happened?” Althea mumbled, sighing. She was just thankful that no one died.

Garan patted her head. “Don’t think too much. We’ll find out more when one of them is ready to speak.”

The couple was called to the hospital as soon as someone regained consciousness. The first person to wake up was one of the guards, Hubert.

The guards and citizens were placed in a nice ward, allowing for comfortable recuperation time. When the couple arrived with Ansel (they encountered him on the way there), not only Hubert, but a few of the guards and the refugees were already awake.

Among the civilians, Ansel saw that there were a few familiar faces. For one, old man Yao was there, and then there were a few normal citizens that he remembered because of their disposition.

For example, there was the young girl named Okuri and her boyfriend Ronny. He remembered them because they were a young couple joined at the hip. They were always smiling even if the times were rough, and they were the few rays of sunshine in that territory.

This made the contrast of their current states a bit heartbreaking. At this time, Okuri had wounds all over her body, while Ronny… didn’t have both ears anymore.

Ansel knew that Ronny was a mute and while losing his ears may not affect him much, it was still a very cruel joke to do.

“What happened? Just talk if you’re fine. If it’s too painful, we can wait.”

“We—Ugh,” Hubert mumbled but then he saw it was Althea, he flinched.

If the situation wasn’t so serious, he’d have entered a fanboy daze, but the pain he felt all over his body was quick to remind him of what happened.

“Hello, Miss Althea. Our mission started out fine. We reached the place without trouble and we entered the territory smoothly because there were a lot of people coming in—aborigines, to be more specific.”

“Because we know Vismont, we were able to go around relatively undetected as well.”

“You mean there were a lot of aborigines moving in and settling?”

Hubert nodded. “They called Vismont the New Shrao,” he paused, recalling what they had determined before making a move. “I think their old territory fell or was destroyed, and they went to find a place to move.”

Hubert paused, looking complicated. “I’m not sure I should tell this… but from what we’ve noticed, a lot of the people were innocent. They were just happy to find a new home, and such a nice one too…”

Althea and the other Elders looked at each other. This made things much more in the grey area than anticipated.

If the territory was just belligerent, they might’ve used strong force in retaliation. But a situation like this was much more complex than they’d like.

“We left in groups, and when we were together, arrows rained. I used my elements to guard everyone, but the attacks—especially towards the refugees—were harsh and we had to work hard to keep everyone alive.”

It was likely they wanted to scare off other people from escaping as well. It was harsh, but it was common practice, and those refugees were lucky they were with Alterran guards. If it was anyone else, quite a few of them would’ve fallen very early.

“Do you know why they chose Vismont in the end?” Garan asked, and Hubert shook his head.

The former Vismont citizens, however, did. Yao coughed and a nurse went to him to help him out. They waited patiently until he stabilized.

“Higson used to have an advisor named Cain,” he said, “He seemed to have purposely led Shrao to our doorsteps. I’m not sure what he planned because I assume he didn’t know Higson fell out of power when he came.”

“CAIN!?” They turned to see it was Crow, along with his friends. They just arrived and went to check on the refugees. After all, they used to live there and wondered if old friends had made it here.

They did not expect to hear such news as soon as they arrived.

Crow was both anxious and relieved—anxious because why was that bastard not dead and relieved because maybe he could kill him with his own hands!

“You mean Cain is there?” He turned to Hubert as if to confirm. “Early thirties with brown hair and sharp eyes?”

“I suppose…”

Althea and the others turned to look at the very-passionate Crow—which was very out of character for him. “Do you know him?”

“Yes! He’s infamous in Vismont. He is handsome and he led many women to their deaths. He murders them brutally, but he usually gets away with it until Matthew kicked him out.

“I still think he got off too easily—”

Althea frowned, seeming to have heard something similar from Horus.

Either way, it wasn’t good to keep him alive. Not including the heinous crimes he had done, he was also privy to a knowledge exclusive to Terrans—and now he was even hostile to them.

He was no different from terrorists, and he couldn’t be kept alive.