After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 160

Althea was very excited to go to her lab (children dutifully deposited in the neighbor auntie’s house) to finally develop the products she had in her head.

However, before she even settled in her lab, Sheila burst in, with wide red eyes, looking quite panicked. "Boss!"

Althea was a bit startled, "What is it?"

"Please help us! Someone has been poisoned, we are not sure how to handle it…" she mumbled, looking very worried. Without another word, Althea gently placed down her experimental tools and followed the other woman to the clinic.

After rushing, the two women got to their destination within a couple of minutes, with Sheila bringing her into one of the ward beds. When they arrived, they saw Betty was already there, and she was using her Healer ability to keep the patient’s vitality.

Walking closer, Althea realized it was a child. It was only a little boy, probably five or six years old, with chestnut hair and freckled skin.

It was just that this unique skin was now covered with bluish spots as if he had bruises all over his body.

"Oh my, what did you eat?" She mumbled but quickly saw the symptoms, realizing it was the same poison she fell victim to.

In fact, Sheila had also found it a little familiar, but she didn’t remember the formula so she had to call Althea. Not to mention, she wasn’t entirely sure it was the same poison either, as the symptoms were much more pronounced than Althea’s.

Some foragers gathering resources outside the territory found him in the forests. Because all intrinsically poisonous plants were displaced, there were really a lot of poisonous plants just outside the territory.

However, Althea had made a point for Sheila and Lily to teach people about these poisonous plants, at least to some degree, which significantly lowered the damage the plants brought to her citizens. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}

The child must be a newcomer.

Anyway, the boy was found very very late, so Betty’s ability could only maintain so much vitality in the poor child.

"I couldn’t keep it for long," Betty said with furrowed eyebrows, her pretty blonde hair wet with sweat. Betty was a healer, but she couldn’t handle serious poisons, not when it already reached the bones.

Althea immediately took out Tori and handled the solution, using the same materials as she had before, but with differing concentration.

Before administering, she made sure to check for its approximate effects twice, in consideration of the boy’s light weight and degree of poisoning. Althea eventually judged the solution to be as safe and effective as it could be, considering the time.

They immediately got the little boy to drink it. However, it was not easy as the boy was unconscious and looked in so much pain.

He didn’t cry out though, his little eyebrows were just furrowed, and he was shaking in evident pain.

It broke the hearts of those who saw it, especially Sheila who had a brother not much older than this one, and Althea who had a young son.

Soon, the medicine started working a bit and he could utter words in his dazed state.

"Sister… sister…" The boy mumbled, voice stuttering and longing.

Sheila couldn’t help but hold the boy’s hand, acting like the sister he was looking for, and the boy immediately called, grabbing her hand for dear life.

After a while, the boy’s bluish complexion turned pinkish and he began to recover some of the complexion a little boy should have.

Seeing this, the women finally breathed out a sigh of relief.

"Who’s he?" Althea asked, looking around, belatedly realizing there was no one around who resembled a guardian.

"He came with the latest batch of refugees," Sheila said, wiping her sweat.

"Doesn’t he have an adult?"

"No, no one knows him," Sheila said, and Betty couldn’t help but add.

"I believe he was staying in the orphanage. The first orphan, so to speak."