After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 87

"The people from your home—if they survived, that is— are most likely already here."

If this was true…

Garan and the rest couldn’t help but recall what they experienced when they first arrived.

Being surrounded strong monsters they couldn’t do anything about—monsters they could only run from—affected their psyche quite early on.

The dangers and horrors they had to go through broke a lot of tough soldiers. How many people had died and how many people lost a part of themselves, they could no longer quantify.

And these were all soldiers who had undergone strict trainings and had seen a lot of blood.

None of them could imagine what their families had to suffer if they really were transferred here.

Garan’s blood turned cold just thinking of those damned monsters chasing his wife.

Strong fire blazed inside of him and he wanted to jump outside and kill all those damned monsters that could threaten her safety.

"That is all I could tell you." The old man said, pulling them all out of their daze, and he just stayed seated in place.

Garan heaved a sigh, forcing himself to calm, and looked at him with deep eyes. "You know more." He said, a statement. "What do you need?"

"Buy me."

"What?"

"Let me join your group." The old man repeated, his eyes unlike the lifeless ones he adorned while mopping the floor.

His eyes were absolutely determined.

…

An hour later, they brought the old man back to their dwelling with a sigh.

They lost 50 gold, just like that. _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}

Garan massaged his temple as they walked back to their cramped living room.

The man did not sit down, as always, by habit, as a normal slave did.

Garan did not ask him to be casual either. He simply raised his hand and gestured for the older man to speak. "Continue."

The man nodded and unconsciously patted his empty sleeve. "My name is Gaudi. My planet is—was—called Nova. It was water planet consisting of 90% water, back when it still existed."

This made Garan and his team pause, and they realized the previous transfer apparently had involved him on a deeper level than they expected.

It also explained, to some degree, his odd body structure. Garan mused he must have very strong lungs to be around water his whole life.

"Before everything, our planet was already facing extinction-level catastrophes for a decade until only a fraction of the population was left."

He could still remember the events like it was yesterday.

He was still a young lad at the time, but the terror and hopelessness he experienced was ingrained in his bones.

There were various natural disasters that happened every single day, not one day was missed.

Sometimes, it was tremors that destroyed mountains. Sometimes, it was volcano eruptions that spewed poisonous ashes everywhere. It could also be tsunamis that destroyed everything in its path.

Every day, humans kept being reminded of how small they were in the grand scheme of things.