After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 806

Chapter 806: Longing
The group continued to mention things to note, as well as what he was sending the elders for improvement in the future. “I would hope to get a few more Alterran captains in here,” he said, “And, perhaps, a mass migration is possible.”

Silvia nodded. “Policies could be made to encourage this,” she said. “This will be especially attractive to those who couldn’t afford a residency in Alterra yet.”

There were a lot of policies to be done, actually, and some might be added in consideration to the majority aborigine population.

Thinking of the challenges, Silvia couldn’t help but think about the two women from before. “Would those two women be able to cope?” she asked.

While she could support them, she had too much to do to be able to monitor their progress.

She was afraid their progress would be stifled by being in this place. Sure, it would change, and it could even be inspirational, but that would take a long time. Further, too many things could happen in between that would ruin everything.

She was afraid that if mobs or wars happened, they’d get thrown towards the mobs. They could even be taken advantage of outside while they were hunting as a group.

After all, even without wars, the rules were null outside the territory lines and anything could happen.

It was harsh, but she wouldn’t put it past the men here. Although most of the ‘bad apples’ had been kicked out or left, it didn’t mean there wasn’t rotten fruit left here. Perhaps they simply weren’t strong enough before and were therefore more humble. But place them in a position of power—for example, next to weaker women—they might just show off their true colors.

She expressed her fears to the others, and immediately came with a proposal.

“What do you guys think… of sending them to Alterra, instead?”

…

When it was all over, the group separated to do their own jobs. Silvia was about to go to the Village center when she saw Rowan standing still, looking out the street in a daze. “Guia Village, eh?” he said, mouthing it quietly.

“Rowan?” She called as she walked next to him. The redhead’s eyes softened a bit when he turned to her.

“Silvia.”

“You seem to have entered a daze. Is there anything wrong?” She asked, wondering if there was anything about this palace that worried him.

Rowan shook his head. “I just know that this is near my hometown,” he said. “At least, I have heard that Guia village was only a few days’ travel from there.”

From what he could estimate, his old home, Voumi Town, was nearer here than Ferrol Town was to Alterra.

“Oh?”

“Hmn. It’s nothing much.” He paused. “At least not compared to Alterra. I don’t have family there either.” Rowan said as he looked at her. “But… I’ll take you there someday.”

Silvia smiled, a small blush creeping up her face. “Hmn, I’d love that.”

…

Other than these two potential love birds, there was also part of the team who was walking around and exploring their new assignment. This was none other than the uncle-nephew duo, Hugo and Helios.

“So this is Iron Mountains…” Helios said, casually resting the back of his neck on his palms as they perused the place.

The streets were relatively narrow but the population wasn’t as high as other peak villages, so while there were a few people roaming around, it wasn’t as lively as the other territories.

This was because its focus was on mining. A good portion was the few thousand slaves in the mines, most of whom were goblins, and then the rest of the village was mostly those assigned to process or guard the place.

Also, they took out quite a bit of their forces during the war, so…

They had also heard from Luis and the others that the entry and hotel fee here was extremely expensive. So the environment was less populated than they feared.

Not to mention, the Alterran Rules had applied here so there was a lot less littering and stuff. As of now, no change has been done in the infrastructure, but it was relatively cleaner than they expected.

However, it didn’t mean there wasn’t any trash around.

For one, sometime during their walk, they encountered a familiar scene of a man trying to pull a woman. He was dragging her to his house, and he was doing it so harshly that the woman lost her footing and her knee rubbed against the rough ground.

The injury was minor, and there was no intent to kill, so it didn’t trigger the rules.

Hugo, although angry, was much cooler, ready to intervene with a level head.

However, the sight had a parallel and triggered a memory in Helios’ mind, causing him to act a bit more strongly.

“Hey, stop it!” Helios yelled, about to lunge towards the man. He was stopped by his uncle in time.

Helios frowned at his uncle’s strong grip on his shoulder, but could not ask much because he already placed himself between him and the aborigine.

Hugo kept his hot-headed nephew behind him and coolly looked at the man. “Don’t you know you’ll get a yellow card?”

“A what?”

“You must be new here,” he said. “Or is it that you didn’t read the rules?”

“Heh, rules. What would puny guys like you talk to me about rules!”

This confirmed that this man had just arrived. He was probably a citizen who travelled elsewhere and had just returned, completely unaware about how much had changed.

“I’m sorry but we cannot let you have the woman. She obviously disagrees to come with you.” Hugo paused and looked at the woman in confirmation. “Am I right? You can be honest.”

The girl was teary and nodded repeatedly.

The man sneered, believing the woman’s opinion didn’t matter.

He got livid when Hugo pulled his hand off the girl’s hair and asked her to step away, telling her they’d be able to handle it.

The man gritted his teeth. What made them think he could be ‘handled’ by them?! Their levels were lower than his!

He raised his fist, intent on attacking, and showing them just how different their strengths were. However, before the punch could connect, he disappeared.

And so, Iron Mountain’s prison added another tenant.

Hugo’s expression didn’t change at all and he turned to the shaking woman who was gaping at them.

“You can go now,” he said, and the blushing woman looked at him like he was the messiah. She looked him with eyes filled with admiration. “T-Thank you!”

“We’re guards, we’re just doing our jobs,” Hugo said blandly, and he thought she would scurry away and leave them alone.

However, the woman’s sights didn’t leave him. He looked awkward at this and pulled his nephew away so they could continue looking around.

Normally, the younger man would be teasing him by now. Instead, he was just silent. Hugo couldn’t help but take another look at the younger man.

“What’s wrong with you? That was an unnecessarily passionate response,” he said. Guards couldn’t be so emotional in handling scuffles, especially when no one was dying.

At his question, Helios blushed a bit.

“I… I just remembered some stuff,” he said, but without any plan on explaining further. Seeing as he didn’t want to talk about it, Hugo didn’t push him.

While they walked, inexplicably, Helios fell into a daze as he thought of that woman. He remembered that heated night, and the feeling of her against him.

He could still remember her pretty blue eyes and sand-colored hair, and his heart clenched in longing.

Ah, damnit.

He missed her.