After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 311

The memory of how it all started was extremely clear in Yiyi’s head.

It started out as a day like any other—people foraging everywhere, people going out to hunt, and the Lord’s cronies walking around like they owned the place.

The only difference was that she was excitedly lining up at the well to get some bathing water—though very early, lest someone mean took interest in her precious bucket.

She was smiling widely as she took her bucket to her shed. She cleaned herself up the best she could, though she used some leaf that smelled like mint and tasted like toothpaste as soap to clean herself up.

It wasn’t the best treatment by Terran standards, but she felt like she had experienced the world’s best spa.

Not that she’d know what it was really like, of course, as she only knew spas through television.

She had wanted to work part-time there, but she wasn’t attractive enough for the front desk and she was too young for other jobs.

In any case, she wore her relatively clean PE uniform and she suddenly felt like the cleanest she had ever been—by virtue of the stark comparisons.

She happily went to walk to the village center to get to the restaurant, like a normal citizen, which happened to be the first time she did so as she always stayed in the peripheries.

However, even this simple happiness was destined to be cut short.

In the middle of her walk, a group of people filled with blood, gravely injured, entered the territory in panic.

"MONSTERS!!!!" They yelled and as if waiting for the signal, the territory was shaken by strong earthquakes and banging sounds.

The people quickly realized strong monsters were attacking their walls.

The monsters banged and banged against the walls, and they could see dust and some loose stones falling down. The citizens inside could only panic and hide, wondering when the guards would arrive to deal with the beasts.

There were also some people who already ran towards the inner walls, hoping to call on the Lord. But, to their aghast, it only took an hour for a good portion of the wall to fall, revealing monsters much larger and more menacing than they were used to.

"KYAAA!!!"

"Oh my goodness!"

"HELP!!"

A monster entered the gap and easily killed several people with a wave of its paws, beheading another with its bite. It went deeper and soon, more and more beasts entered through the gap, feasting on whoever they found in their paths.

Yiyi naturally ran to where the people were to get the protection of the guards.

Unexpectedly, some desperadoes felt they were going to die and instead of preparing for a fight, they decided to enjoy their last leg of life.

She was pulled into an alley and the next thing she knew she was thrown on the ground, different pairs of grimy hands touching her everywhere.

"What!!"

A sense of dread worse than what the monster triggered roused up her throat. "Stop—what—"

But her struggles only excited the men and hopelessness soon dawned on her.

She sobbed and yelled, but no one came for her. After all, everyone was busy trying to save their own lives, who would care for her?

She understood this, definitely, but just this one time in all her years of living that asked for help—would there be no one who could hear her?!

Was it too much to ask?

The creepy laughs and cackles of the men crawled down her spine, and she could only sob and yell to the top of her lungs, not caring how painful her throat was.

But then the movements stopped, followed by a loud yell and she opened her shut eyes to see what happened.

Splat!

She watched as a snake-like critter appeared out of nowhere, eating the heads of the men, and splattering blood all over her.

She was covered with their blood and could only shake as the monster finally noticed her and opened its mouth to eat her as well.

She truly thought she was finally going to die when an iron shield suddenly flew in front of her and embedded itself on the rock, and an earth shield appeared, as if enhancing it.

A handsome man with quiffed hair appeared above this shield, jumping down and dealing with the monster in a couple of strokes.

"Good job, Jake!" Someone from the side yelled, though she didn’t look at him as her eyes fixed on her own savior.