After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 706

Among the guards, an announcement was made, and it really surprised them all.

[Potential enemies will arrive soon! Try not to show your prowess too much. We prefer being underestimated.]

This startled the guards a lot, but they quickly adjusted and followed as ordered.

Althea didn’t really bother doing the same with the citizens as it might give a few people the idea of selling the information to the enemy instead. There were thousands of them now, they obviously had a couple of bad apples already. _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

Speaking of bad apples, a certain leech family was waiting around the gates when they heard people from Limestone Valley were entering the territory. They had been stalking the guard stations a lot and they happened to have overheard it.

When the Limestone Valley party soon arrived—with the ’guests’ in tow—the aforementioned family ran to greet them.

"It’s them!" they yelled, and went to Luis and the others.

Sammy and Luis looked at the mother-and-son pair and were just confused. It was only when they started looking for a fellow guard that they remembered who this unsightly pair was.

Amos hadn’t been away for long, but these two already looked like beggars.

"Where’s my son?"

"Where’s my brother?"

Luis couldn’t handle pests very well so he cleared his throat and said he needed to bring the guests and the newcomers in.

Sammy had no choice but to deal with the two, though he silently swore to spar with Luis later.

They then saw Angelo in the group. Jesse stayed in Limestone Valley, but when Luis sent an urgent letter to them he and a few others immediately came to follow them back, catching up after half a day since the party was going slow with civilians in the team.

Although war might not happen, they naturally wanted to be back home when it happened. Jesse would’ve gone back as well but he was already assigned a team. Angelo was an archer and was assigned to station the walls and was a bit more flexible.

Anyway, because he was close with Amos, he knew these two very well. They were eyesores and he didn’t bother to hide his expression of disgust. "He stayed there."

"WHAT?!"

"What about us?"

"What about you?" he asked, feigning ignorance even when he knew exactly what they were talking about.

Even after all this time, this mother-son pair remained to be leeches, sucking Amos’ blood.

No wonder he didn’t want to return here.

The woman and her son glared at him, but they were weak—barely even level 5, and this was all because of Amos’ carrying them.

Without Amos, if they somehow managed to survive, they would definitely not pass level 2.

Sammy would be enlightened by the shamelessness of some people that day though. Seeing as he was the boss, the mother-and-son pair ignored Angelo and went to him instead.

Amos’ mother—Balon—patted herself, bossily ordering him. "Send us his paycheque instead!"

Sammy had to stop his eyes from rolling. "That’s not how it works."

"Then don’t we get support as his family?"

"That’s completely at the guard’s prerogative. Besides, your other son look perfectly healthy," Sammy said, pointing at Alon. "He can go hunt outside. In Alterra, anyone willing to work wouldn’t go hungry."

"NO!"

"Well, then go hungry."

"NOOO!" The woman yelled like a shrew. "He’s my son! He’s supposed to feed us! Unfilial bastard!!"

Sammy patted his own shoulder as if massaging himself. It was a poor attempt to prevent him from getting down their level. His patience was running thin though. As one of the few extroverts in the team, this was already saying something.