After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 46

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Through the alarm on Althea’s phone, the group woke up several hours later.

But when they opened their eyes and only saw darkness, with the light of the two moons the only illumination they had, they thought they must’ve imagined the alarm.

But it ran, and Althea lifted it to check the time. She felt a little headache, disoriented.

What was this? Jetlag??

Well, thinking about it, it wasn’t surprising.

After all, they were used to sleeping 5 to 6 hours a day at most back in Terran, and suddenly the nights were a lot longer.

Of course, the team had a peaceful sleep because the last leg of the night was Althea’s watch.

She was strong enough to silently and efficiently deal with the monsters that not even Fufi woke up from snoring.

Speaking of the dog snoring,

"What are you, a pug? Snoring so loudly when you’re a dog…" Althea mumbled, booping the dog’s nose with her finger.

While she teased the dogs, the others began packing away their sleeping bags (Harold and Maya’s were the thin duvet that Sheila took from the hotel). Within a couple of minutes, the group set out for the next part of their journey.

Although it was a bit disorienting to have complete sleep and still see nothing, the group prepared for another long journey nevertheless.

Because of the fight last night and the subsequent quest for a resting place, they were displaced a bit from their desired direction.

With Harold’s approximate guidance, they also avoided the location where the other group would go.

After all, they were likely to go in the opposite direction from the mountains, while Althea and her group were headed towards it.

Eventually, the sky brightened and although they were still a distance away from the mountain, the area did feel more peaceful.

The monsters they encountered were a lot less, and if they did encounter them most of the beasts were level 1, level 2s were already the leader-monsters of their group.

Because the level difference was a bit far, most of the monsters avoided them. For those that wanted to attack regardless, they eventually became training items for the weaker ones in the party. They were also sources of good meat.

Speaking of which, Harold was really not bad. His cooking could be on par with her husband’s, which was saying something.

Anyway, he was leagues better than both her and Sheila combined.

Althea was very glad she took him in.

They walked for several more hours and the mountain finally appeared near enough to appear like it could be touched.

They continued to walk in its direction for some time until they went past a dense patch of bushes and trees, suddenly seeing a different scenery.

They seemed to see… a fence?

It was a meter-high wooden fence.

They looked at each other in bafflement, and for a moment they thought they were imagining things.

They looked around again and confirmed they were still in the middle of dense forest, and then back to the fence in front of them extending kilometers to either direction. .

Harold touched it and confirmed it wasn’t an illusion, and soon Maya and Sheila followed suit.

Althea, on the other hand, did not, as she had an idea on what it was. "Let’s follow it. Maybe we will be able to find a gate." She said and the others gladly followed her lead.

It took them about half an hour of leisure walking until they reached the gate.

It was guarded by two guards with a wooden sword and a spear, respectively. They both had lazy postures and haughty expressions.

Except for ogling at the two girls, they didn’t do much and let them enter the territory.