After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 511

7 hours before D-Hour.

Speaking of hungry-beast-Mao…

A few hours before the declaration, the teams outside Fargo had entered the next step of the plan: Weakening the enemy.

Sure, Fargo had thousands of forces—but the aborigine members as well as the main fighters didn’t account for a small fraction of that. Taking down even just a few dozen of these men would discount Fargo’s ’main’ forces by a lot.

Mao and the others luckily encountered a few of them early on—which they later found to be the team sent to ’weaken’ Altera!

Bastards!

Naturally, they suffered a lot for their answers.

"JERK! JERKJERKJERK!"

Mao mumbled as he kicked the stomachs of a random enemy, and then proceeding on kicking the balls of another one.

"!!!"

They coughed wildly, swallowing some of the dirt that was on their face, making them cough even more.

For the past few hours, their kidnapped victims also had dust on their faces making it hard for them to breathe without pain.

However, other than the fact that they had use for a few of them alive, Mao and the others couldn’t kill everyone yet as it would be too alarming.

They had kept a few people, slowly killing them off bit by bit so it wouldn’t alarm Fargo—who was just likely to think they encountered mobs.

They killed most of the weaker ones first, and greatly weakened the stronger ones beyond the level limit. All members of the Rongo mercenary team though, had to be kept alive for now.

It would be too odd to lose so many high-level fighters when the monsters around were just village-level.

Not to mention: Not only would Fargo be able to see if his citizens died (and who died), but a perk of being in a mercenary team was that when a member died—every other member would be alerted of it.

Included in this alert was the location of death. They didn’t want that type of attention right now.

It didn’t mean they weren’t tortured though. And they were tortured very badly.

Mao looked at the men tied up and bloodied, with their bodies tied and barely able to move at all. They had set up camp here, and they had made these men suffer very badly.

They were dripping with their own blood, saliva, and piss. It was absolutely disgusting. They used a lot of the torture lessons they learned back in the military academy.

Mao admitted he was a bit vindictive. When they got into the fight with the ten people, a few of them were in the level 20s. In his team, only he and Chris were at that level so they did sustain a few injuries.

They had to use a paralysis bomb in advance! Ptoeey! What a waste!

It was their fault he lost 10 gold!

(Mao had a bet with Sammy from the other team: Whoever used fewer bombs before they reunited during the war would receive 10 gold from the other).