After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1357

Chapter 1357: Slave Auction Continues!

The next one made Eian pause, and he looked at the next in line: A brunette with a delicate face.

She looked a little unsightly and dirty, but somehow her beauty shone through.

He recognized her.

Even when living a slightly better life, Eian was still a slave. However, because he was favored and had relatively important and ’public-facing’ jobs, he was given a decent room in the ’higher slaves’ dormitories. This was where the stronger slaves, including many of those sent to help in the Inko war, lived.

Further, he had better food and clothes, so he was never unsightly and embarrassed the territory in events like these. He also got paid some bonuses whenever he did a good job, and he often used that to treat himself and his friends with some food.

He had met her when she was hauled in with a batch of new slaves, and he was shopping for the treats.

They were quite new, just sold to this territory for about two or three weeks. She had soil all over her face and her body, but somehow his eyes followed her the moment he saw her.

And because he was doing this, he realized what she had been doing. She, in her uncomfortable cover of smelly mud, always seemed to stand between the slave drivers and some of the smaller girls right behind her.

She was protecting them with her body, and her eyes were so determined that he could not look away.

"Hey!" someone hissed from the side, finally pulling him back to the present. It was a big man trying to get his attention.

He paled. It was the guard in charge, making sure everything was in line in this part of the stage.

His eyes flickered and he resumed his announcements. "Next one is this old man!" he said, redirecting to the bearded man next to the girl.

"A Level 7 Fire User..." he said, adding more force in his voice. "He’s very strong, too, and could be said to be as passionate as his fire!"

"51 Gold!" a voice sounded and Eian focused on his job for a while.

The bidding continued on. "51 Gold, 50 Silver!"

"52 Gold!"

In the end, the man was sold for a nice 59 Gold, despite his low level and advanced age.

Then the next in line came and he skipped the girl again. She looked at him in confusion, while the guard’s eyebrows furrowed.

"What are you doing?" he asked, looking at him suspiciously, no doubt prepared to teach him a lesson if he didn’t answer well.

"I know her," he said, whispering with a solemn tone. "Old man Thet slept with her the day before, you know," he said.

"What?" the guard paled and he immediately stepped farther from the girl.