After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 146

They were a group of a hundred-plus people, some familiar, and some unfamiliar.

The past few days were incredibly dangerous, and they encountered many small mobs along the way.

Fortunately, most who had survived for so long had already killed one or two monsters, and their survival rate was higher than when they just arrived here.

It was that time that they met this group of so-called guards and no one died anymore.

They traversed the forest with relative peace, as the guards dealt with the mobs they attracted with relative ease.

As they walked, he couldn’t help but notice a little boy—a somber and quiet child—wordlessly following at the back of group. After a while of observation, he realized the boy was alone.

And… Jun was quite certain he wasn’t with the original group. Did he join them halfway?

He patted his wife’s shoulder to tell her he was going somewhere, pointing in a direction. She looked at the boy curiously but didn’t follow, simply holding their daughter’s hand as they continued to trek.

Jun walked slower than others, soon ending up near the little boy not older than his own daughter.

"Hello there," He said with a smile. But the boy’s frown seemed frozen on his face.

He blinked and walked in front of the boy, and the boy stopped just before hitting him.

He smiled, slightly bending to the little boy’s level. He gently asked, "Are you with anyone?"

The boy shook his head.

"Want to come with us?"

He shook his head again.

The guards of their potential third territory saw the exchange and approached them. Jun watched them as they walked closer. Despite the clumsiness of a few guards, the others seemed quite well-trained and very confident.

However, while their bearing somewhat impressed him, he still did not have much of an expectation for this new territory.

"The territory is building an orphanage," the guard said, "We can handle him if there’s no one to take him in."

An orphanage? Really?

He was a little surprised and apprehensive. People bothered with orphanages? In this situation?

The guard saw his cynicism but didn’t call it out.

"You’ll see," was all he said, and the topic was killed as such.

Another hour passed by and he saw the guards looking around. Jun followed their sights and saw markings.

"We’re almost there." One of the guards told them with a reassuring smile, as if noticing their tension.

He felt a little dazed, as most of the guards from the previous territories were haughty and didn’t take moneyless people like them in their eyes, especially now that they didn’t have one clean spot in their bodies.

Their group of one hundred people huddled together as they walked closer and closer to the new territory.

"What do you think this one will be like?" Billy asked him. Jun looked at the middle-aged man with a sigh.

Billy, along with a few others, had traveled with him all the way from the first territory. While they had lost a lot of people along the way, they also followed him for an early escape.

Strictly speaking, they’ve been through three territories together and naturally had the same reservations.

There was no way. They suffered too much. Not to mention, they really weren’t strong enough to be able to live well with just their strengths.

While some of them reached level 2s after escaping, most of the others were still level 1.

It wasn’t that there were no brave adventurous souls that aimed to strengthen themselves by training. But the monsters here were really… abnormal, to say the least. Dealing with them without proper guidance and expertise would pretty much mean certain death.

Maybe not immediately, but eventually.

They couldn’t help but wonder if they’d still be occupying the bottom of the pyramid in this place?

However, they soon forgot about their worries when the guards stopped in their tracks.