After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 53

"What if we add other fruits?" Another diner wondered out loud, and his companion shook his head.

"Then the cost is even more expensive. Gouji fruit is still the most practical."

The Gouji Fruit (Lv1) was the most common fruit in the area. Basically, at least 50% of all fruit trees were Gouji Fruit.

It tasted quite decent, like a small less-sweetened pear without the core.

Eating a few would be fine for a few days and a person wouldn’t starve to death.

Of course, just this was not enough to meet half of the lifestyle requirements they used to have.

In the end, she shook her head, placing the problem for another day.

Today she was determined to find a place to set up her territory, so she had made ample preparations. For one, Fufis’ space was filled with cooked food.

It wasn’t that she asked for it. It was just that when Harold and the others found out Fufi had his own space, they were determined to give her all the comfort she could get from such travel.

However, before they could reach the gate, someone with a megaphone announced some news, requiring everyone to go to the Square (which was basically an open space of rocky path located in front of the Lord’s Castle).

Everyone must attend, it claimed, or they would be blacklisted.

Because the others still had to stay in the village for a while longer, Althea and her party had no choice but to follow the crowd.

They took an inconspicuous position almost hidden by the buildings next to the square, just watching the commotion in the square with detached interest.

"I have received a mission from the system!" Bobby King said with a tone mimicking a certain politician. Althea could tell that what he was going to say next was utter bull.

"One is to collect a thousand units of wood and stone. And the other is to increase residents!

"That is, everyone must register as a resident! Temporary or not, or else they will be kicked out."

Murmurs exploded all around, even Althea found herself frowning. The cost of temporary residency was 1 gold, with a month of validity. It was nothing to her, but it was at least half of the savings of many others.

What was this guy up to this time?

Naturally, complaints from the crowd exploded, some were furtive while some were blunt, and each decibel heard irked Bobby to no end.

"Don’t think you’ll find another territory before monsters maul you to death!"

This quieted down the cowardly crowd. Bobby smirked, satisfied with the effect and went to throw in the carrot.

"If we do as the system instructed, we will have stronger walls!"

"From then on, the territory will be better and better. And what does this mean? Each and everyone resident will also be better!"

He stared down every resident for impact, as if he was looking at each of them as a person, daring them to disagree.

This was a ’power move’ taught by his favorite TV personality. He thought he was quite dashing when he applied it.

However, his stare soon ended up on Sheila, making his eyes brighten. And then he saw Althea, and his eyes shined.

He excitedly went down the podium and passed the wave of people who cleared the way for his fat self. "Ladies!" He said in a tone he believed was suave and charming.

He stared leeringly at Althea, pointedly ignoring her very big belly "You can be permanent residents immediately. You just have to follow me home, how about it?"

And without waiting for her response, he turned to look at Harold with an unfriendly expression. "You’re so old. Surely you’re not the husband of any one of these ladies?"