After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 491

Before leaving, the spies stood in front of Althea, who was watching in silence at the side with her husband as well as the other elders.

It was very low-key, of course, in case they were being watched. They were outside the territory early in the morning, saying their goodbyes and making sure everything was as ready with them as it could be.

The four people were honored by the send-off by the elders. At the same time, they also felt pressured to do their jobs perfectly.

Other than the elders, the four were also sent off by friends and family.

In Amos’ case, it was his guard friends Jesse and Angelo, with no sign of his mother and brother. Of course, he didn’t tell them what the mission was, but he did tell them that he was going to go somewhere on behalf of the territory.

They frowned when he said this, but—unsurprisingly—there were words of concern, no ’be careful’ or no ’eat well while you’re away’ like everyone else probably received.

Instead, they just asked him for a lot of money because he was going to be leaving for a long time.

With a clenched jaw, he did give them a lot of silver—much of what he had—because he was truly unsure when he’d return anyway.

Jesse and Angelo saw that no one else had seen him off and just gave him a one-arm hug each. "Well, friend, be sure to come back in one piece eh?" Jesse said with a smile, and Angelo nodded.

"Preferably alive."

The three young men laughed and Amos’ heart immediately lightened.

Obviously—although it was not his blood relatives—there were people who would still be welcoming him back with a sincere heart!

And that was good enough for him.

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For Drake and Jona’s, interestingly, it was Yen who saw them off.

She expressed her want to just come and she even came with a pretty good excuse, targeted to Althea.

"Boss, limestone deposit means there’s a sedimentary rock formation with loads of calcium carbonate. This meanssss that there could be some important metals nearby."

Althea paused in thought, looking at the woman with eyes wide as she begged.

It made sense, although limestone itself couldn’t produce metal, the geological formation that formed it could. For example, there could be either lead and zinc, copper,or—in some rare cases—iron nearby this place.

Regardless of which ones, they would all prove useful to them.

She looked at Yen, who brightened under her stare, obviously thinking she would change her mind.

How funny a woman older than she was was acting like a baby.

"No, the people there are strong. You’re too important to the territory."

The compliment naturally made the woman shy, "Aww shucks."

Althea looked at her. "Besides, can’t we use copper as the currency?"

This was what a team had been studying for a while now, and—while there was no way they could produce electricity now—this was where Yen was assigned.

Althea thought she had too much copper. While this was the main currency in circulation, she felt she had an excess. Maybe they could use it for something else?

"We have been trying, indeed, but it has mixtures of various metals, some of which have properties we don’t know about yet.

"We still couldn’t segregate them, or it could also be our temperature isn’t hot enough."

Althea nodded, "So you have a lot to study in the territory, then."

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A lot of push and pull happened before Yen finally gave up, tearfully saying goodbye to her love and her rival.

They teared up a bit but only said their heartfelt thanks. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}