After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 839

Chapter 839: Cooling the Territory (Part 2)
Even though the territory had temporarily halted the free access to a certain amount of water to the residents, people of course still bought buckets and buckets, some for daily use, but mostly to stockpile.

No one knew how long the Heat Wave would last, but no one would feel completely safe if there weren’t ample amounts of it on hand.

For Baron’s Woodworking company, their best seller at the moment were buckets for stocking of water. It was mostly for storage, but there were also some who bought small pool-sized buckets.

As for how much they had to pay for that amount of water to swim on, that was up to them.

“Rich people problems,” some of the poorer citizens would say, but they would still stare in envy, imagining themselves swimming in cool pools.

Of course, some rich people did this, while some would just splurge in the bathhouse. Even the more common folk continued working harder for the territory, though their use of contribution points had been leaning more towards using the Bathhouse instead of other things.

Either way, those industries were definitely booming.

Other than that, mother-and-son pair Chucky and Honey Guevarra’s newly-opened Lake Business was also doing very well.

It had just been completed about a week prior because it was mostly manual construction, and the construction team had been too busy with the rest of the territory to put much effort into it for a while.

However, with the arrival of the cute cute goblins, some manpower had finally been freed to do other projects. (Thanks to this, the construction team and the goblins would receive 20% discounts in the establishment for the duration of the heat wave and the time prior to it).

As for how it was possible for ‘normal’ people like them to own such a big business, the two had actually managed to secure some funding from the bank after submitting a very attractive business proposal.

The bank had a friendly interest rate and profit-sharing deals (with Alterra permanently keeping 20% of the profit, not including the taxes) so even if they were not rich, there was no problem for their project to see reality.

And—unsurprisingly—shortly after it opened, it was already raking in quite a bit of money!

The Lake business comprised of the artificial lake dug and coated with the waterproofing membrane Honey accidentally discovered back then.

Most of the lake was covered with gardens and forests for people to walk and do picnics on. There were benches placed in certain areas and in clusters, and there were also camping grounds dedicated for those who wanted to do campfires and things like that.

The winds by the lake were also cooler than other places, making it very comfortable to just be in. Swimming was also allowed here after paying an entrance fee, though they had to mind that there were fishes in there, too.

At the very least, it was much more affordable and open than the bathhouse.

As for cleanliness, they just planted natural filtration using plants similar to cattails and water lilies. They would be able to filter pollutants naturally and also provide habitats for small critters. They also added a variation in depth to allow aeration, among many other considerations.

Further, the zones for fishing and swimming were different, so they wouldn’t interfere with each other. For instance, no one would get caught in fishing hooks by accident. That’d be very embarrassing.

If they didn’t do this, it was estimated someone fishing would get someone’s underwear by accident.

Would be a great topic for gossip though.

Anyway, other than these, several themed establishments like restaurants, boating houses, and the like had been made available. There were also plenty of establishments under development, but the construction of those was delayed until after the Heat Wave.

The restaurant by the lake—the first of many—had a long pier heading deeper into the waters. They were there to serve as fishing spots as well as piers for the smaller boats, which’d only access the fishing zones, of course.

The boats were commissioned from Baron’s Woodworking shop. The plain ones were for fishers, while there were more comfy and aesthetic ones designed for more romantic boat trips (though everyone was too busy to do this for now).

This was all managed by Honey with a couple of hired help. Her son would assist her sometimes, but he was also busy with his own business.

Chucky rented a system farm near the river veins and redirected a stream (with territory approval of course), turning it into one of the crop-fish farms, though he focused more on the fishes rather than the crops.

As someone with a farm, he naturally knew that the quality of meat from the system farms were superior in quantity, quality, and taste than those from outside!

The fish he farmed from this could sell for several times the market price. With the Heat Wave coming, his produce started leaning more toward the salted and dried fish, and his sales had not decreased at all!

In both cases, the aborigines from Ferrol—who hadn’t left yet, by the way—were loving every bit of it.

One of these aborigines was Pieto, who came with Jonathan as soon as they noticed movements towards the sources of the goods that he fell in love with.

He had fallen in love with the noodles and sauces when it was first introduced during the Ferrol Fair and had been stalking movements from the mercenary team and the Town lord since then.

He visited Ferrol Town as someone from Twinwave Town. However, unlike most of his companions who left as soon as the festival was over—they weren’t able to taste Alterran goods, sad for them—he stayed with his few guards along with a few others.

Now, he was relaxing with the cool breeze in the open air restaurant by the Alterra lake—aptly nick-named Lake Chill by some —eating his strawberry-flavored shaved ice… with salted fish on top.

Ah, so lovely.

He didn’t know how Alterra seemed to be so certain the Extreme Heat was coming—something he would have to investigate—but he definitely wouldn’t risk traveling at this time.

Anyway, this place seemed to be a good place to get stranded in.