After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1009

[Welcome to Bleulle City! Please pay 5 silvers as the entrance fee.]

Helios’ eyes twitched, paying for it with a heavy heart. Goodness, 5 silvers a day was 160 silvers a month. A good portion of the average salary was spent just by staying within the walls? Poor people must have it hard.

Anyway, he was met with a barrage of activities as soon as he entered. The buildings were relatively tall and imposing, and there were people going around everywhere.

Some of them had weapons on their backs and hips and were ready to go out. Most of them were quite strong, the lowest-level was around level 20.

Some seemed to have just returned from a big hunt. They had large handcarts behind them, carrying carcasses of beasts to sell within the territory.

There were also those who were just going around the perimeter, gathering resources and the like.

He was also greeted with a strong stench of body odor and waste. This place definitely had a big cleaning crew, but because the City was much denser than towns or villages, it still stinked so much that Helios wanted to run out to breathe some air.

There were avenues but, otherwise, the streets seemed organic and narrow for its use. There was quite a bit of traffic, especially when two larger-than-usual beasts ended up using a street at the same time.

The beast carts had the speed of cars, and they traversed the avenues with relative disregard to the pedestrians. However, the people were used to this and just consciously avoided the streets whenever a Beast Cart approached.

Many would also be hit and pushed away by the carriages, but they would just stand back up again and walk away as if nothing happened, regardless of their injuries.

Helios was overwhelmed with the clamors of people and rackets of activity everywhere. He was reminded of dense marketplaces back in Terran, except there were the added dangers of beast carts and people who could lift them.

Speaking of this, he heard the prices yelled by the hawkers. As expected, prices for cities were really up there. He worried all that gold he had saved up would get drained.

He finally understood the territory’s worries when they tried to balance the salaries and costs with that of outside. It was a really big move and affected everyone, especially the businesses that had to shoulder a lot of the initial costs.

He understood it in theory, but experiencing it himself was really different.

If they kept it as it was, it was estimated a month’s salary wouldn’t last him a few days in here.

Anyway, he shook his head, forcing himself to adjust to his new reality. He had to find Sahara!

"Where are you going?"

"I want to go to the City Center to make an announcement."

The Mercenaries were puzzled as they looked at him. He blinked, and explained exactly what he was planning to do for efficiency.

"Cities normally don’t allow it casually," Enok explained. "There are millions of people in a City. Imagine hearing announcements from them?"

His heart sank.

That made sense… but still…

"Also, even if it was allowed, are you planning on announcing a woman’s name randomly?" Raz asked, looking at him oddly. "You do know that she could get in trouble for that, right?"

"What?"

"Do you even know anything about this woman?" Raz-the-woman-expert asked, tone becoming more and more reprimanding. "If you—an unrelated man—carelessly looked for her with such fanfare, her reputation would suffer."

Raz, despite having a few lovers, actually cared for his women and took a bit more effort to get to know them to some degree. It was part of his charm. It was also why Helios’ earlier words did strike a chord, which would’ve had no effect to other men with multiple lovers.

Regardless of Raz’s lovelife, his words put a major damper in Helios’ plan.

Obviously… he’s going to need a lot more help. _{ƒгeewёbnovel.com}