After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 70

Aberdeen City, several months prior

"I have a surprise for you." Her husband’s low velvety voice graced her ears as his warm hand wrapped around her waist, bringing her to the study table.

"Happy birthday." He said and she opened her eyes to see a large piece of paper splayed out the table.

She blinked and quickly approached it, seeing it for what it was.

Drawings. Of a villa.

Her beautiful green eyes widened and met his blue ones. She looked at its size, its address, and overall magnitude. She knew that this must’ve cost a fortune.

She wrapped her arms around his neck to give him a smooch on the cheek and he wrapped his arms around her in response.

But before he could dip his head for a more intimate kiss, Althea couldn’t help but want to tease him.

Her lips twitched and she pinched his cheek before he could kiss her, faking a pout. "And there I thought you handed all your paycheck to me…"

Ha blinked and paused, before bursting to a laugh. "I do give you all of my paychecks" He said, "But I keep my bonuses."

Then he escaped her claws on his face by grabbing them and he dipped down his head to meet her lips, soon changing the angle of his head for more access.

He tasted his wife for a while before (very reluctantly) parting with her. As he did so, he placed their foreheads together to maintain contact. "Otherwise, how could I buy gifts for my beautiful wife?"

She giggled and gently pushed him away so she could take a look at the initial plans.

Garan smiled as he wrapped his arms around her stomach, resting his chiseled chin on her soft hair. Together, they looked and studied the drawings..

"We’ll put your laboratory here." Garan said, pointing at the plan where the best rooms at the ground floor should be.

He also allocated quite a big chunk of area here. "I will find the best experts in laboratory constructions, so every safety measures would be taken."

She smiled, touched, and gave him another peck before resuming on studying the plans.

They then planned and improved on his kitchen and gym, as well as her greenhouse and home gardens.

There was also an old school library with hardbound books.

And, of course, there was also the rooms of their future children, their play areas, their study rooms.

It took them hours to finalize and perfect it.

The couple stared at the construction plans, excited about building their own home, which would signify the next phase of their lives.

However, they wouldn’t be moving to this house at all, nor would it even complete its construction.

Because Garan would go missing soon after, not to be heard of again.

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[28 Days of Protection Period]

Althea heaved a sigh as unasked for memories came to mind. She shook her head of the thoughts and resumed staring at the lord panel and the map of the territory it showed to her.

First she built the Village Center (Lv1) so she could have a pivot point of activity.

This was basically the center of a territory, so she planned to give it enough prestige, in time.

Not to mention, unlike the wall, every building could only be built as Lv1.

This meant that eventually, she would be upgrading these buildings and she also had to leave enough provision for expansion. As such, she allowed a huge easement of 50 meters at front and back, and 100 meters at the sides.

Even if the upgrade wouldn’t require so much space, she could just add parks and other facilities in these areas.

She placed this setup roughly in the center of the territory. She also built about half a hectare of semi-paved space in front of the Village center to serve as the public square.

She then turned to the infrastructure tab and directly built a road—no, an avenue—from the village center to the Southwest gate.

She planned for future development. Considering the number of Terrans that transferred and the few number of lord tokens based on the requirements, each territory would definitely have thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people in the future.

Construction, even system buildings, could no longer be moved once placed. Would they have to endure the traffic should the population grow by the thousands? She didn’t want to destroy buildings just so she could give way to road widening.

The main road had a 6-lane or 18 meters wide carriageway, each lane about three meters wide with three lanes per direction.

These avenues would be separated by middle islands, and two meters of sidewalk on each of the two sides.

Except for the larger walkways (were there even cars here? She didn’t know, but there should be carriages at least), she also followed modern design and left space every meter for some bonzai.

It was worth noting that for every place she built, the trees and rocks superseded by built buildings automatically turned into resources.

These were full-grown trees and boulders, which had somewhat lightened up her resource problem.