After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 870

Chapter 870: Another Lovesick Fool
Hugo immediately sat up and his feet slammed on the floor. He looked at his nephew, wondering if he was hearing things. “What?”

Helios unconsciously leaned back, but he forced himself to keep stern. “I know this might sound sudden, but—”

“It is.”

“I want to find her…”

Hugo rubbed his forehead, realizing what this was about. He gave his nephew an exasperated look. “You don’t even know her name.”

Gill looked at him, “I have a place to go to,” he said. “I can’t join you in your… search.”

Helios knew this and considered this answer. “You don’t have to worry about me. I will follow you until I get news from her.”

Gill shrugged. As long as it didn’t interfere with his own plans, he’d just have to report this to the Elders so they could send an additional replacement for them.

Gill didn’t care, but the uncle naturally did. Hugo frowned and looked at him deeply. “You don’t know anything about her. How do you plan to find her?”

“She has such a unique look to her, and I could just ask around in Ferrol—”

“You don’t go look for a woman—in a place like this—for her looks,” Hugo said, bluntly cutting him off.

This world was not a playground. Every corner was dangerous. Did he think that it was as safe as Alterra everywhere? For one thing, monsters farther away were stronger than they were!

Did he protect him too much?

Did his success so far get into his head?

Helios didn’t want to give up. He respected his uncle and his opinions, but doing nothing would be a lifelong regret. He’d rather risk everything than live with that!

“I know that!” he said. “I… I already purchased a lot of Beast Repelling potions and other consumables… I also bought spare weapons—”

“You’re underestimating the dangers of this world,” Hugo said. “You’re literally putting your life on the line for a woman you had met once! Are you a fool?”

“Uncle. Tell me, I have found the woman! Are you seriously going to tell me to just give it up?!” he said, dark eyes filled with determination. “I need to at least know why she ran! I need to know how she thought of me. I can’t rest otherwise!”

“If she doesn’t like you?”

“If… if I find out she didn’t like me at all… then I will try to convince her, I will court her,” he said. “If that doesn’t work, then I can leave her alone.

“The point is: I have to try,” he said. “Please understand me, uncle.”

Hugo looked at him, their eyes meeting. He could see the stubbornness in his nephew’s eyes and perhaps he wouldn’t stop unless he cut off his legs.

Hugo’s eyes glazed, and he couldn’t help but recall that beautiful woman who saved thousands with her mind and charm.

But he also knew he didn’t have a chance, and so he did not try. What right did he have to stop his nephew from pursuing his?

…

Just before Dusk.

Limestone Valley was even better as a place much closer and more connected to Alterra. It was also filled with innovative Terrans, rather than the stubborn aborigines, so they could get past the differences and started working on how to make their lives a bit better.

Kyle was one of the guards here and, at this time, he was bravely doing his rounds. They weren’t required to do rounds at the height of the day, but they were asked to do so starting from dusk to dawn.

Of course, it was still very hot during the transitions so he not only had a very durable umbrella, he also bought tons of sunscreen from the Alterra Shop.

He was rewarded very generously during the last war, and he happened to have had some extra money.

Of course, a lot of acquaintances borrowed money from him. It was just that after the first few borrowings, he decided to adopt the pay-first system. He didn’t want to be an ATM!

“I wonder how long this heat will happen,” his teammate mumbled, wiping his sweat. “I really hate it. I feel so… slimy and stuffy, even when the sun’s already going down.”

Like in Alterra, Guards generally came in pairs or groups of 3, densely going around the territory to ensure peace and order.

One of Kyle’s teammates happened to be an aborigine. His name was Repo, a swordsman he had been teamed up with for a while. So far, he did his job well as the close-ranged combater partnered with him, the archer.

Their other teammate was another aborigine, Lumot, who was actually a cleaner when he was hired in the Village Center. However, his level was 7 so they decided to hire him as a guard instead.

It was like a dream come true for Lumot and he naturally worked very hard to keep his position. Despite not having a fighter profession, he wanted to prove himself so he was among the first to get ready for rounds, as if ready to fight.

It was also him who, after about an hour of relatively peaceful rounds (except for a few hotheaded spats due to the heat), noticed something was wrong somewhere in the forest.

He saw smoke from a distance and ran in that direction. His heart beat loudly, calling on his teammate to hurry up.

“It’s a fire!” he yelled, and he and Repo went pale as they got closer to the smoke. They felt like crying a bit.

They had seen how much damage a fire in the Heat Wave could cause. Both of them had the experience of watching interior forests burn down, making people’s hearts and hopes die out with it.

In Repo’s hometown during the previous heat wave, a fire caused widespread starvation among the poorer folks. Because the inner forest didn’t recover fast enough, and people were too weak to venture outside, so many people died in the end.

Lumot’s previous territory had it even worse. The entire forests inside the walls got destroyed by the fire and, because of the winds that passed, the embers flew to the slums, causing massive fires there as well.

The slums were mostly made of wood, which had lost moisture because of the weather, and the fire spread quickly in a blink of an eye.

Before they knew it, an entire slum area was razed to the ground, taking dozens of lives in the process.

They had found such a good territory! It’d be a great pity to see it suffer the same fate.

They had to kill this fire as soon as possible, but could they do it fast enough? They had no excess water—

Poof!

The two aborigines watched as Kyle threw a ball to the fire—Alterra’s patented FireKiller Ball—releasing an explosion of powder upon impact, killing the fire in a few seconds.

“…”

Eh… what just happened?

Kyle saw them on the verge of tears and looked a bit confused. Did the heat melt their brains? “What is it?”

“…where’s the fire?”

“Dead.”

“The fire is dead? Just like that?”

Kyle finally understood their shock, and he broke to a smile. “Hmn, just like that.”

The two aborigines gaped at him and then at the fire that didn’t even become a threat for long.

What was this operation?