After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 16

Chapter 16: Harold and Maya

The old man raised his hand to call the little girl. Slowly, the little girl emerged from her hiding place, her curious eyes not leaving the beautiful stranger that entered their house.

"This is Maya," the old man said with a small smile. "My daughter."

"My name is Harold, by the way."

Althea was a bit surprised at the fact that Maya was his daughter. She thought she would be his granddaughter.

The man, seemingly aware of her stare, was apparently used to this reaction. He gave her a kind smile, in response. "My wife gave birth very late. Maya is a miracle."

They had been trying to have a child for twenty or so years after their marriage. He was already in his fifties and his wife in her late forties when they found out that they had finally gotten pregnant.

His wife also died of dystocia because of this.

No matter how advanced science was, it could not always cheat death.

"My condolences..."

"Thank you," the old man said, "But, to be honest, I'm just happy we both survived."

She nodded. What were the chances, right? She hadn't found survivors after so long, but suddenly there were two.

Althea smiled, "Well, we are blessed," she said before pausing, looking at the two of them in observance. "What do you know about what's happening?"

Harold did not speak immediately, composing his words for fear of sounding too ridiculous.

"Well, we know those monsters appeared a few hours ago outside the gate. They wanted to reach out to me but I just hid here."

Althea was a bit surprised. "Only you two are in the house?" Otherwise, they wouldn't have so little experience with zombies.

The man nodded. "I am the housekeeper here, and my master allowed my daughter to stay with me as a work benefit. My master generally lives abroad with his family, this is just an inheritance from his parents so he didn't want to sell it."

Althea thought for a while before speaking. "Well, I suggest you kill a few. Take a long tool and poke their heads through the gates." She paused and looked at the little girl. "She should do it too."

"What?" The man looked at her in disbelief, suddenly regretting letting her in.

Did he bring in a psycho?

Althea knew no amount of words could make them understand the weirdness that had been happening in the world.

Instead, she took out two of the three remaining golf clubs from the backpack space.

Two things appearing out of thin air was definitely a shocking sight.

Harold gasped and Maya even yelled. The little girl suddenly stood up to look at the clubs closely, losing her shyness. "Magic! So cool!"

Althea smiled, handing the putter to the girl and the wood to Harold. "It's a system backpack, you can have it too if you kill those monsters."

Harold looked at her warily, but also with curiosity. After some internal monologue, he decided to listen to her more in the end.

"Can you tell us why?" He asked, "Why all these things...."

As for how she knew... she didn't. Not for certain. But it was the only hypothesis she had that made sense. _{fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm}