After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 876

Chapter 876: Heat and Tensions
It was a long and hard fight throughout the night, and it finally stopped when dawn arrived and the temperature shot up again.

By this time, dozens of the people had already perished—mostly slaves—pulled out by the monsters and divided amongst themselves.

As tragic as it was, it was nothing new to them—a daily occurrence during the heat wave, even—so people moved on, and they focused on the food in front of them.

After a long night, they got 10 beast carcasses, complete with meat and blood.

People surrounded the goods, even those who only hid inside their homes while the walls were attacked.

Of course, those who had fought immediately surrounded the food. How could they allow other people to share?

There were thousands of people in the territory—the ten beasts would not be enough! Perhaps they wouldn’t even have a sip of blood!

The guards looked as more and more people came out of their homes despite the increasing temperature, all to surround them. Things got even more uncomfortable because of the crowding. The atmosphere was already hot enough, and adding so many people made it even more insufferable.

However, the guards didn’t move, surrounding the beasts, regardless of any discomfort. They were tired and hungry, but even if they had been weakened from the night-long fights, they certainly had the energy to defend their food!

At the same time, the people had finally seen the ‘light’ in the form of the beast carcasses. How could they let it go easily?

With people delirious from tiredness and hunger—and now with the temperature going up again—tensions rose until people got physical.

BANG!

Two men were thrown back to the wall as they tried to approach the carcasses. They were kicked by two guards who were covered with blood and grime. They were exhausted and heaving deep breaths, but their willpower remained, determined to guard what they had fought hard for.

Some citizens even had the audacity to look at them as if they were betrayed. The wife of one man cried and kneeled in front of her husband—who was a bit injured but fine—and wailed as if he died.

She glared at the guards, as if they were evil men. “We were just hungry! How could you do this!?”

“YES!”

“You were supposed to guard us!” another said. “We pay entrance fees every day to feed you!”

“Yes! We pay you to get food for us!”

“We also have the right to eat these things!”

The guards naturally could not believe their ears, their hearts burning in annoyance and indignance.

First of all, they paid for the fees as well! Their jobs was just to protect the territory—not to feed anyway!

Hero, the relatively vocal one, stepped forward with a face red in anger and in heat. “We killed it! We worked for it!” he said. “It is ours!”

Rin nodded. He was calmer, but his gaze was sharp. “If you wanted food, you should’ve fought with us.”

The guards as well as the citizens who helped out nodded in agreement. They risked their lives in this, and some really lost their lives, how could they be reconciled to get their wins taken like this?

However, it only made the hot-headed citizens angrier.

People generally wouldn’t go against stronger people, particularly the guards. However, they had already lost hope, their brains fried by the heat and melted by the hunger, they just didn’t care anymore.

Anyway, they only had a couple hundred guards—who had been greatly weakened and were injured during the long night of fighting. In contrast, there were thousands of citizens, most of which had hidden inside their homes while the territory was attacked.

With a bit more confidence, the citizens started piling up and mobbing the guards.

The guards looked at the citizens in disbelief. If they could fight like this, why didn’t they do so last night?

Did they think that they had been completely weakened from the fight that they wouldn’t be able to hurt them anymore?!

The guards yelled and pushed and kicked, no longer caring how much hurt they caused the citizens. They did hurt people, and there were many people who got scared and wanted to back out, but then the momentum had already started and the people were too greedy for the food.

They just pushed those in front of them, intending to drown the guards until they were given their meals.

“STOP IT!!” Shinho yelled, escaping from the mob. “GUARDS! Get out! Let them be!”

Shinho was a respected figure in the territory. Thanks to him, at least half of the guards gave up in fighting, just squeezing and jumping out of the mob.

However, even if they followed, their hearts were fiery with anger.

They watched as the people divided up the loot, not even thinking of looking at the people who actually deserved them.

What was worse? The Lord came out of his days-long hiding. He was even followed by his family, his women, and his children.

He smiled and looked happy at the loot that he already assumed to be his.

He ordered the slaves to make way, and then threatened to blacklist the citizens who did not move.

When they parted, portions of the ten carcasses had already been taken. He frowned, but also knew he could not take back what had been taken. People were becoming crazy with this heat, and he didn’t dare test their limits too much.

In the end, he arrogantly took five out of the ten beasts, and ‘donated’ the remaining ones—the smallest monsters—for everyone else to share.

The Lords’ personal guards and slaves dragged the bodies along the avenues to his abode, and everyone else could only watch in bitterness.

The citizens were not reconciled, but the heat was rising and getting kicked out of the territory was akin to death!

And so, the citizens mobbed around the remaining meat, grabbing what they could and some even fighting those who had already received some.

In contrast, the guards could only watch as everything went on—as the food they worked for the entire night disappeared right before their eyes.

Shinho’s jaw hardened and his fist clenched, his eyes meeting with many of the other guards’.

They all had the same thought in their minds: Why did they work so hard?!