After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 803

Chapter 803: The Meteorology Article
The next article was written by a man called Jeremiah. The article was about Alterra being attacked and taking over another village.

The headline stated ‘Alterra’s New Satellite’, and it made a rough mention of them winning Guia Village—now Iron Mountains.

It was naturally not too detailed for fear of giving too much information, and it didn’t show exactly how the enemy was defeated.

What they did say was the strength of the enemy had an average level of level 10 or 11, and they had a lot of slaves including goblins.

However, despite this, Alterra won with only injuries and material losses.

Their lord, a level 30+ earth user, was beheaded and his head was displayed in the original village for all to see.

This was extremely impressive and the soldiers longed to have been part of it.

The newspaper also mentioned that all the slaves had been freed in the sense that they wouldn’t be treated as such and they could buy their own freedom.

It was actually quite vague, compared to the first article, and understandably so.

The largest article however was written by Melinda, a professor in meteorology. Victor and Henry had naturally read this beforehand, and they watched as Benny read it out loud for the others, and they all similarly paled at its contents.

It outlined the steady increase in temperature the past few days, and how it was likely an Extreme Heat situation was imminent.

“Is this true?”

“It didn’t guarantee, but it’s best to be prepared. We all know something like that would happen sooner or later anyway.”

He put the newspaper aside, which was taken by Vanessa, while Victor read the letter attached to it. They were too taken in by the contents of the newspaper earlier they hadn’t actually opened the letter yet.

His shoulders slumped in relief as he read the contents. “They’re sending goblins here.”

“Goblins? The one we heard about?” The others looked at him, eyes sparkling a bit despite their worries, and he nodded to confirm.

“Yes, those goblins.”

They were very curious. They had never seen other creatures before! Ah, there was the half-orc, but that was a passing acquaintance.

“They are supposed to help dig tunnels,” he told them, “One was from the limestones to a new gate under the mountain—”

“So that’s what that gate was!” Benny said, clapping his hand.

When a gate that couldn’t be opened (because it was literally opening towards the mountains) appeared out of nowhere, they were very confused!

With this letter, they know why. Apparently, goblins would dig tunnels that would head straight to those embedded gates.

“Then they will also assist in creating cisterns and the like. Also attached is the methodology for creating saltpeter.”

The detail of assistance lifted everyone’s hearts, their momentary fear of the incoming disaster dissipating by a huge lot.

Henry stood up and nodded, prepared to work. “We should have professionals here who could do this. Especially since we took in a lot of Terran refugees.”

Ken and Benny nodded, standing up. “We’ll start hiring right away.”

As such, the group distributed the work load with urgency but with a lot of hope. “To think we would feel prepared for something like this,” Benny said. Although they had yet to implement anything, the fact that it felt they had control over it was already very good.

“True. The aborigines said it was always so sudden, most people couldn’t prepare at all.”

“Alterra… is really something else,” the curly-haired man said. “Of course, the mysterious lord as well.”

“The lord is definitely among the elders.”

Silence.

However, they all just nodded, not really minding anything. As it was, everyone’s a family. The lord’s anonymity was to protect him or her and, by extension, it also protected them.

Their discussion paused when they heard the slight sound of paper crumpled just a bit.

It was Vanessa, who was still intently reading the newspaper. Or rather, glaring at it.

People felt a bit hurt when they saw her hands grip the paper tightly. Not everyone could get acccess to that! That’s still a luxury product! It’s like she’s crumpling an antique painting!

Victor gestured to take it away from her hands, though it was harder than expected, while the others couldn’t help but look over and peek at her expression.

Vanessa bit her lips and her eyes were dark, and they looked curiously at whatever she was reading.

On the other side of the newspaper, there was also cultural news and even comics sections.

The comics were accomplished because Ansel’s lithography research—using the zinc from the mines—still caught up with the publishing of this newspaper edition in the end.

For the comics, there was a hilarious skit of Fufi trying to get charm points for his wolf-love. Unfortunately, his perennial smiley face made the wolf misunderstand he wasn’t serious and always got the butt turn instead.

Fufi then stole some meat from Cooke’s restaurant to take her and ask her to a date. This made the wolf pause. But when the wolf was turning—with the panel zoomed in on cartoon-Fufi’s facial expression of anticipation—the succeeding panel only had a ‘to be continued’.

“Cliffhanger!” Benny gasped, while the others chuckled. Regardless of whether it was funny or not, the fact that comics were available added levity to the atmosphere dampened by the news prior to it.

Anyway, they continued reading the rest of the entertainment article, which wasn’t read even by Victor and Henry. After all, who’d have that energy after seeing the meteorological article? They just called everyone to a meeting as soon as they read the headline!

As for the cultural news, it was a bit surprising even for them. It showed the renewal of vows of Alterra and Garan. There were even simple drawn pictures there, showing the very happy couple and the grand event.

They looked at Vanessa. It was no wonder her hands were clenched and she was gritting her teeth.

Juni’s eyes darkened and she smiled gently, very much like a proper sister-in-law. She stood up and leaned over between the siblings. If it was a man like Victor who did this, Juni was afraid they’d just tear the paper off.

She held the girl’s hand gripping the paper, she frowned when she realized she really held it very tightly. They shouldn’t waste precious paper.

“Let go of it, it’s crumpling,” she said, quite directly, but her tone was gentle like water. To most, it sounded more like she was persuading a child.

“The elders are happy and stable, it’s good for everyone, right?” she said, voice gentle and soothing. “Those two are so good and help so many Terrans, they deserve unconditional happiness together, don’t you think so?”

Vanessa’s lips twitched and forced a smile. “Yeah, sure.”

“Can I have the newspaper? Those are still rare, a pity to waste them.”

“…of course.”

Juni then pried the paper away carefully folding it. She then handed it to her father as if she were the good daughter-in-law she had been playing the past couple of days.

Vanessa’s sharp eyes watched the other woman’s back, and she saw the woman casually touch her brother’s arms. The man then turned and gave a small smile, and the two entered their own world.

Vanessa’s expression darkened immediately.

Bitch!!