After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 800

Chapter 800: The New Hires
Emer always did feel like he was doing something wrong.

In his previous territory, he was fired because he apparently didn’t guard the Lord’s son well. He was tasked to guard the Lord’s 20-year-old son on his trip to a Town (escorted by hired mercenaries of course), but the lad only had play and fun in his mind and didn’t consider anything else.

The man was focused on ‘tasting Town women’ and Emer was asked to wait outside the inn while the master fulfilled his needs.

Emer was forced to just stand outside the door for hours on end—how could he help him out when the other man fell down the stairs and broke his leg?

In the territory before that, he was also fired. There, he was assigned to Gate duty. There were refugees who were extremely pitiful. They were hoping to get inside, but they didn’t have enough copper on them. His heart softened and he gave them a few from his own wallet and for a while it felt nice to help people out.

However, those refugees caused a lot of trouble, and some were even spies from a rival village.

Had he not been hired from the Chancery, he’d have been buried with the spies.

Anyway, Emer hoped that he’d do well this time! He looked intensely at the lord and her man, afraid to miss any instructions.

There wouldn’t be much instructions from Althea, however. Since she found out that the other hires were welcoming newcomers their own way (usually at either the tavern or the restaurant), she forgoed the orientation and let the others do it for her. It was best to come from people of the same culture, anyway.

“You can just go straight to the barracks,” she said in the end, nudging her husband.

“It’s located on the Eastern side of the territory and you can ask around,” Garan said as he looked at him with that impassive expression on his face. “Tell them you are a newly hired aborigine that the elders sent. They will assign you to a task or a team from there.”

At the same time, Althea sent a message to the other hired aborigines, alerting them of the newcomer to welcome.

Emer nodded and gave the standard salute before leaving the couple behind. He doubted there would be people around at this time, he didn’t dare to ask more questions. He just thought he’d figure something out along the way.

…

Because she actually got her hire today, Althea just emptied out the rest of the three slots without much expectation.

Unexpectedly, in the fifth and final summoning, she actually did find someone interesting.

[Name: Buggy Pooh

Occupation: Insect Finder

Remuneration: 10 Gold/month]

Insect Finder.

Don’t look at it weirdly and think it was useless. While it really had no application for the imminent extreme heat, it could be useful right after.

First of all, such rich forests and plants couldn’t have been what they were now without insects like bees. But how come they hadn’t found similar insects?

She found out more about this from the bird trainer Reddit, who had developed a skill that could detect where birds were. He mentioned that he also detected small dots that were even faster than the birds.

They asked the former city dwellers about this and they did confirm that they had vaguely heard about it somewhere, though it wasn’t something given much thought by most.

Apparently, like birds, human-useful insects like those with similar functions to bees had evolved to be… nearly undetectable.

It was beyond the sights of low-level humans like them, birds and bugs had their own domain, their own world, where their speed was normal.

She had heard of the profession from Oslo and it wasn’t that common because there wasn’t much of a need for them. From what she knew, insect finders’ use was just to find the insects who had entered the territory.

Although territory walls had some sort of barrier against harmful bugs and critters, it didn’t block from others. Otherwise, their messenger bird model wouldn’t have worked at all.

At the same time, this also meant that the bugs that entered the territory walls were not intrinsically harmful.

It was just that, in some territories, there were times they came in droves and it irked the locals very much.

Humans here generally did not care whether the bugs were harmful or not. Even if they knew they were harmless or maybe even useful, the associations with the critters were too harmful and it was natural that they didn’t want to have anything to do with it.

Insect Finders were generally hired to take care and clean up these critters, regardless of whether it was necessary or not.

Anyway, it was an unfamiliar occupation and Althea saw no loss in hiring him. As such, the array lit up once again as the new aborigine appeared in the middle.

Buggy had a bald head, large rounded eyes, and flat nose, looking like that middle-aged cleaner commercial popular in Terran.

Unaware of the associations placed on him, the aborigine immediately greeted the two of them. Like the other guy, he also confused Garan as the lord.

Suffice to say, he was very shocked to encounter a female lord in his lifetime. He was even more confused when he was assigned not to the cleaning team, but to an unfamiliar place.

“R-Research Center, Miss Althea?”

“Yes, a research center,” she said. “It’s a place where we study and experiment with various things. This is where we’d need your expertise.

“You will go to the research center and say the territory asked you to find bees,” she said.

“Bees?”

Althea’s eyes twitched, unsure how to explain this to him. The critters here were very different after all.

“It’s hard to explain. You’ll know more when you go there,” she told him. “But wait until tomorrow. For now, go to Community B and you’ll find an abode there for you.”

He left and he was more confused than ever. However, at the same time, he was also very curious.

He was already in his fifties and had been through at least a dozen territories that asked the exact same thing from him. How different would this territory be?