After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 218

Before heading to this place, they had imagined being mobbed by a crowd—but only because they loved their products so much.

They were looking forward to being ’hot-pancakes’ for a while.

They would never have imagined being mobbed because they washed poop with water…

Fortunately, Rowan and the others were very scary so everyone managed to get out unscatched.

Though not without stepping on a number of shit on the way there.

Ugh.

However, no matter how torturous, they valiantly trudged through, ending up in less populous places that didn’t know who they were.

This time they were careful and went to the forests to wash up.

They settled in another slum with a new start, now very very careful at where they stepped on. Anyway, regardless of the horrible first impression, they still decided to start their movements with the ’poor population’ first.

They had considered selling their goods near the village center as they would definitely buy for a much higher price at first, but decided not to in the end.

After all, the money-making was not the main goal of this trip. The pirating—err, rescue and recruitment—mission was. It also gave the most rewards, if done well.

This was why they were focusing on the slums, at least at the start, because they would be the easiest to convince by promising a better life.

This was in stark contrast with the people near the village center.

Basically, those who lived near the center already invested much of their wealth in the territory. No matter how dreamlike a territory they portrayed Altera to be, they might not be willing to leave. It was a natural thing.

After all, who would want to waste their wealth and just jump a leap of faith?

Besides, they weren’t missionaries. Who was to say they would be able to ’convert’ these people?

Of course, some of them who brought in the ’luxuries’ like cloth and wooden products could sell them to these people with a huge mark-up.

These ’rich’ people would be much more likely to be willing to spend money on comfort, as they had already met their basic needs.

In this way, they could earn a contribution for recruiting ’the unfortunate’ and earn good money from the rich.

It was a great strategy and the team felt very proud of it.

With renewed energy, the group went past the dense crowd and continued walking, settling in the small buffer forest between the slum area and the built area where the horrendous stench was the least.

The trio couldn’t help but look around as they did so, making a mental map of the territory in their minds.

The built area was located where the slums had been the last time they were here. At the very least, the construction of residential buildings had not been lax.

The team took out some sheets to sit comfortably in and set up some of the food items they planned on selling.

There were biscuits, breads, jerkies, dried fruits and others, and each one made the bystanders’ eyes widen like saucers.

In fact the moment they wastefully took out cloth to sit on, people already took notice of them. Then they started displaying food items and people rushed in.

Although they couldn’t really tell what were displayed—or rather, they couldn’t believe it—they couldn’t help but feel excited at the sight of new things.

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