After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 56

TRIGGER WARNING: Gore

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The group arrived in the vicinity of Royal Territory a few hours later.

Their hearts were heavy on the way as they passed through a forest that was basically flattened by the waves of monsters.

As they approached, the scene slowly unfolded in front of them, and immediately they were surrounded by an atmosphere of despair and depression.

Amongst a chilling silence, their senses were engulfed in the smell of rust and their eyes soon meet with the desolate landscape inside what used to be the fence.

What met them was the gruesome scene of dismembered bodies lying around, their corpses laid haphazardly on the ground.

Some bodies were torn apart and dismembered, while some were twisted and contorted as if more than one monster took turns to consume them.

The putrid odor that oozed out of the ground hit their very souls.

Grotesque remnants of life surrounded them. Bodies and limbs were torn apart, and insides haphazardly thrown on the ground.

Inside these torn bodies, one could see the bones and sinew, and the blood-soaked the soil red.

The faces on the corpses were frozen in a terrified expression, telling them of the horror and hopelessness the people felt when all this was happening.

Sheila and Maya sobbed, Fufi howled a painful tune, and even Harold covered his eyes as he cried.

Their hearts were heavy with sorrow, the image of the carnage stamped in their minds.

Althea stood still and did not sob like the others. She could not.

Whether she liked it or not, she was their pillar.

Even if she wanted to break down, for the sake of the group she had to hold herself back.

In the end, Althea sighed and looked around, trying to compartmentalize and study the scene as much as she could.

Half the buildings have been completely demolished, and none were undamaged.

Only the main structures of the larger buildings like the castle were unscathed, but the walls were still taken down by the mob. Hiding inside the buildings would have been useless.

At this time, while the mob had mostly cleared up, there were still dozens of monsters eating up the remaining bodies.

The group quickly pulled out their weapons and killed all the monsters in the vicinity.

"What happened? Wasn’t this area a low-level safe area?" Harold looked around in aghast.

Counting the corpses… there should be very few, if any, who managed to escape.

"Don’t assume anything, it could kill you." Althea said.

She actually had an idea what happened, it was just that its confirmation required her to build her territory first.

The team walked around to look for survivors, and gathered the corpses together to be buried.

"Someone’s here!" Harold yelled near the former Lord castle.

The group ran to them and they saw a familiar man with chocolate-colored skin on the ground.

It was Eugene, covering his blood-covered ex, obviously in an attempt to protect her.

Sheila sighed in melancholy. "This is true love."

Unfortunately, only Eugene had a pulse left and Sheila was quick to perform the necessary first aid.

A veteran was a veteran, even with his legs like this, the vitality was still strong.

The man’s huge hand covered Sheila’s, grasping a lifeline. "S-Save h-her… my .. child…" he gasped out.

"Don’t talk," Sheila assured but she dared not tell him the girl, who was apparently pregnant, was already gone.

He would lose the will to live and then he would be 100% hopeless. "We’ll do our best."

Eugene stared at her for a moment before finally losing consciousness.

Althea handed her some medicines which stopped the bleeding and added life and spirit.

On the other hand, they moved the girl’s body amongst the corpses.

Sheila couldn’t help but shed a few more tears. "So… she was pregnant." The nurse whispered. "It must be why she attached herself to Bobby."

Althea nodded. "She had to choose between her man and her child."

A moment of silence passed by their group, before they started to wordlessly do their own tasks.

They put the issue aside for now, as they continued rummaging the ruins and looking for any signs of life.

Althea somehow ended up in the house they rented. One of the walls had given way, but it was not load-bearing so the rest of the house was fine.

She felt something inside and her senses sharpened. She was level 5 now and her senses have improved several folds since her time in Terran.