After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 613

At this time, a few hours after the war ended, Jake finally arrived at had been Fargo Village. He was drenched in sweat and heaving deep breaths.

The Alterans outside the walls did not receive the announcement, though knowing the war ended wouldn’t have changed his speed at all.

The straight distance between Fargo and Altera was only about 100 kilometers, and even longer if one avoided the more dangerous trecks.

Normal people would take more than a day, even if the pace wasn’t leisurely, and high-leveled individuals could sprint this for a fraction of that. However, this was in exchange for a lot of health which Jake had no problem spending.

He looked around, mind a bit muddled, and a little confused about where to start his search. In the end, while looking for a familiar guard, he couldn’t stop himself from asking random citizens as he traversed the village.

"Has anyone seen a girl named Yiyi?" he would ask and they would shake their heads. It wasn’t surprising, because Yiyi always kept low-key.

Jake naturally didn’t waste time doing so and just asked where Alteran guards were. They looked at him up and down with smiles and admiration, before pointing him in a direction.

It so happened that Sammy was there with a few others, helping with the cleanup along with everyone else. Specifically, handling the guards and a few other ’criminals’ for joint punishment.

"Sammy!" he yelled, and the dark-skinned man looked surprised to see him there.

"Back from Ferrol? How was it—" but his words stopped when he saw Jake’s sweaty face and hair akin to a bird’s nest.

You know, Jake had taken care of his hair a lot. He also bought lots of gel from the supermarket to maintain it. Sammy had the suspicion that a small portion of the guy’s space was filled with gel.

But look at him now, completely haggard. "What’s wrong?" he asked, worried, but instead the man just asked if he had an idea where Yiyi was.

"Yiyi?" Sammy uttered, immediately brightening up, "Ohmy, finally admitting?"

"I’m just worried she got injured or something!"

"Suresuresure."

Jake looked a few more times with his friends also helping him out. At this time, no one had the time to list down thousands of names, especially when there was so many things to handle, so even they had to look manually.

At first, they had teasing grins, but as they asked more people who seemed to have no idea where Yiyi was, the mood became more and more dire.

"Yiyi did say she kept to herself, very much," he mumbled. She survived so long because she kept to herself, and they truly shouldn’t be surprised that no one knew her.

However, Jake’s heart couldn’t shake off a bad feeling of foreboding. Did something really happen to her?

It was around this time that a familiar woman approached Jake. They looked at her and was a little startled.

"Juni?"

"I know where Yiyi is," she said, her face impassive, not explaining any more. Jake saw Sammy and the other pale and it made his heart drop.

"Where was she assigned?" Jake asked Sammy before he went to follow her. Sammy looked at him with a complex expression, before finally opening his mouth to speak.

"Rongos."

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Jake’s face was practically bloodless as he followed Juni to one of the villas they expropriated for the women. It was a relatively new one, in hopes of not triggering any bad memories in any of them.

Juni’s feet halted when they reached the living room filled with simple wood furniture, before pointing at a couch.

"Stay there," she said, "The girls… they don’t really like a lot of testosterone in their midst."

"Thank you," Jake said, waiting patiently in the living room. He hadn’t known Yiyi enough to be in love with her, but he definitely cared for her. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}