After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 168

As the trio left the building, a bit downcast, they found themselves walking around the few stone paths in the territory.

Eventually, they passed by a relatively low-traffic alley. It wasn’t an issue at first but they started hearing some thumps, and scratches, followed by aghast voices.

"S-Stop it!" A female voice yelled, sobbing.

"Yow… we can indeed stop… just serve us, eh?"

"Bastard!"

The three looked at each other with a frown, quickly following the noise to see half a dozen big men beating up two men, with a man holding on lewdly to the girl.

It happened to be the dudes from the Tiger Gang.

"Out already?" Ansel asked with a sneer, "And already making chaos."

Without further ado, the trio immediately darted into the alley, stopping the attack. They didn’t even explain themselves and started beating the men up.

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"OI—!"

Bang!

Smack!

Crack!

Anyway, according to territory rules, as long as they didn’t kill anyone, they’d be fine.

A few minutes later, the men were lying down half-dead, groaning in pain, and the twins went and picked up the woman’s friends on the ground.

Ansel went to the blonde lady, and checked up on her. And then looked at her companions, who were also familiar.

He realized it was the snarky trio from before.

The girl blushed a bit at the handsome sight of her rescuer, "T-Thank you… but…" Her brown eyes passed by the gangsters on the ground.

Their rescuers had made sure the gangster couldn’t get up and wake up for a while, but they would wake up eventually wouldn’t they? What would happen then?

"T-Thank you…" The shorter one said as he was assisted to stand by Leo. "Can… can we trouble you.. to carry us home?" He mumbled, volume lowering in shame. "It’s just in the next block…"

The trio looked at each other and shrugged. Since they began to help, might as well go all the way.

They arrived at the house a few minutes later, and they encountered a lot of neighbors who definitely saw the poor state of the teenagers.

However, many of those people scoffed at them rather than show some concern, while the others just ignored them altogether.

Ansel’s pretty eyebrows rose. The trio’s reputation definitely wasn’t very good.

The shorter man smiled wryly, the pale man remained indifferent, while the girl bit her lips in bitterness.

They entered the house in silence and the three could only drag themselves to give the few bits of fruit they managed to collect.

"You really don’t need to bother," Leo said for the 3rd time since they entered. "We simply had the ability to help, so we did."

"No, you’ve done so much." The pale and somber young man said, motioning to the girl and then to the other lad. "My name is Crow, this is Sunny, and that guy lying over there is Dog."

"We’re sorry we got you involved. Those groups will definitely trouble you next." They all looked guilty but they couldn’t give them anything in return except for their heartfelt thanks.

Leo, however, noticed their wording, "You were targeted?"

After a sigh, they nodded. "They said that they heard us badmouth the Lord." Dog sneered. "How dare us. You saw how those people looked at us."

Sunny scoffed bitterly, "Hmph. Do we look stupid to badmouth that guy in front of his fans?"

"We never did, at least not in public. But everyone I knew that didn’t like the lord was targeted by those gangs, without exception."

Ansel raised an eyebrow. Lords probably had a way to see the, what, loyalties of the people? At least it could show their… affection level?

Hey, then his score must be very low.

Before he could dwell on this thought though, he was addressed by one of the three. "I know you. That Matthew really wanted to win you over. You must be strong." The pale man looked at the three of them, realizing who they were.

They were quite famous, beating up the gangsters and receiving the Lord’s ’favor’ and all…

Fanboy Luke sensed the sarcasm and was a bit puzzled. "You make it sound like a bad thing?"

"Relatively strong people not under the Lord… well they tend to be the vanguard during attacks."

"Some even mysteriously… disappear."

"You know that circulating story where this lord spent money and effort to implement a no-kill zone in the territory?"

"Well, my aunt was a victim, one of many, and he did more than just murder." Crow sneered.