After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 859

Chapter 859: Tetanus
Limestone Valley, a few days ago

On a quiet night, the erotic sounds of lovemaking were heard inside a room.

The handsome Victor hovered over the beautiful woman, moving his hips impassionedly. Juni wrapped her soft arms around him to stabilize herself, mouth parted a bit as sensual moans escaped her lips.

He moved faster and faster as he reached his peak, both gasping as they climaxed, feeling each other in the most intimate way possible.

After their lovemaking, Victor pulled Juni to rest on him, wrapping his strong arms around her supple waist.

She closed her eyes and breathed deeply, feeling the comfort of her man.

They were leaving for Alterra tomorrow, and she felt a mix of heaviness and excitement.

However, there were also a few things she was worried about. At this, she turned her head to look at Victor, who was looking at her warmly. “Is Vanessa really coming with us to Alterra?”

Victor paused and sighed. He nodded. “She… although she can be selfish, she’s quite talented and had a good potential—”

“Victor… I know it’s not my place to speak, but she might cause some conflicts just with her obsession with the captain.”

Victor sighed, patting her back. “She’s just a bit spoiled, but she doesn’t have a bad heart. She still knows to look at the bigger picture.”

Juni pursed her lips.

“Well, if you say so…,” she mumbled, before they both fell into uneasy sleep.

…

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Alterra, Present

Victor reached Alterra a few hours later, bloodied, eyes red. Juni was immediately taken to the emergency room for surgery and Victor ran to find Oslo and Garan for advice.

“I… it wouldn’t completely heal as expected,” he said. When she arrived, they also gave her Althea’s pharmacist-grade medicine that—at their level—should’ve been able to bring even worse back to life.

However, there was still part of the wound that seemed infected and refused to close so the doctors had no choice but to bring her to the operating room.

They looked at the remainder of the blade that Eagle—who had arrived shortly after with Horus—managed to recover.

They frowned.

It was rust. To Oslo, it was simply something that weakened their metals. If one went against a rare metal user that had this attribute, depending on capability, their own metals would be affected.

“So he has a mutated metal ability,” Garan said, while Victor looked at him.

“We should tell them it’s rust, so they could formulate a suitable Tetanus shot.”

Victor went back to the hospital first to tell their findings to the doctor, hopefully to provide the proper care for Juni. When he got there, Vanessa was outside, nervous and waiting eagerly for his arrival.

While she did seem pale, she also seemed disappointed to see him alone.

“Garan isn’t here,” he said, looking at his sister, lacking the warmth it usually had.

Vanessa flushed a bit. “No, it’s not that—I’m here for Juni,” she said, catching her brother’s look. “I called her to warn her!”

Victor rubbed his forehead, sighing. He didn’t know what happened and no one saw Cain’s ability being so special. In retrospect, the ability could’ve reduced the effect of the paralysis potion on himself, as well.

It would be unfair to blame this on Vanessa, whether or not she called Juni to warn or to distract her. It didn’t mean his heart was happy to see her right now though.

“I… I’m here to support you, brother,” she said, her voice gentle and she tried to hold his arms.

He shook his head, avoiding her hold. “I’d like to be alone now.”

…

Meanwhile, Eagle and Garan went to the Research Center, to the pharmacy section where Althea was, hoping to create a good medicine for it.

Althea, who was more fascinated with arrays at this time, was called and she was shocked to know about the development of the attack.

She immediately headed to the Pharmacy lab, where Gus, Donlee (who would join them when it wasn’t his shift in the Pharmacy), as well as Dr. Abdul—an immunologist who arrived with Dr. Volohov—were taking office.

“How’s the antibiotic?” she asked, as soon as she entered.

It was Dr. Abdul who answered her. “We’re still in the synthesis stage, Miss Althea,” he said, “But we should be able to move on to the next step within a few weeks.”

The Pharmacy team’s project before this was creating an antibiotic. While they knew the formula in Terran, the needed materials, doses, and types were naturally different in Xeno. In the first place, the risk of infection was lower here. However, it wasn’t that there weren’t any cases.

They were doing surgeries, and there had been a few reported cases of infections during the previous wars.

Fortunately, Althea’s medicines were there to fix them but how much of that could they have? Althea’s medicine wasn’t a cure-all either—no medicine was.

Back in Terran, antibiotics also fixed problems like pneumonia, skin infections, STDs, and the like. Although they were markedly rarer here in Xeno, it wasn’t that they no longer existed. Rather, because they were rare, they came in hard when they appeared.

Regardless, the antibiotic was still an important medicine to develop for them.

As for how they discovered it, it was quite an interesting story. They found the substances with antimicrobial properties in the Srira Mushroom, one of the fungi brought over by people who went to the Ferrol Market Festival and successfully planted by her after several trial-and-errors.

She asked the team to determine where the source was and they said it was from a village South. It was very cheap as mushrooms weren’t particularly popular to eat here. Generally speaking, most of the illiterate population considered all mushrooms were poisonous.

“Not fast enough,” Althea said after receiving the doctor’s answer. “Someone got tetanus. Other than the tetanus medicine, we may also need antibiotics.”

The scientists flinched as they looked at her, though some with bright eyes. Don’t think of them as extremely sociopathic, but such subjects were rare to come by.

“We’ll do our best, Miss Althea.”