After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1029

"Ah, Helios! You’re back!"

They were set aside and inspected before entering (no other village would dare do this to a person who could afford a beast car) and the guards were surprised to see one familiar person in the group of aborigines.

The guards became a lot less guarded with them from that point forward. "You can just deposit the beast cars in the Inn," the guard said, pointing in a direction inside the walls and to their left. "A lot of aborigines had gone home (with a lot of reluctance, mind you) so we have a lot of openings now."

"I see, thanks!" Helios said and he guided the driver to enter the gates, which opened to a lively plaza with small stores, parked bikes, stores, and so on.

There was a clear path for them there so the beast cars were unhindered as they entered, though they did make everyone there stare curiously at them, the new arrivals.

The group went down the carts as it was deposited there and everyone looked around in interest. Other than the mercenary team, there was also Sahara’s guards.

Sahara’s guards—except for the level 20 Glio—was actually composed of upper level 20 guards and even a level 30, though because of the exclusivity of Bleuelle’s inner city most of her guards had to stay at the periphery inns.

According to their rules, ’outsiders without positions’ could not be bringing threats with them. The average level of normal citizens in a City was around Level 20-25, and outsiders beyond that (from non-affiliated territories) were considered threats and could not enter the inner circle without a stringent process.

When they heard that the princess had encountered such trouble, they felt extremely bad, but at the same time, they knew going against the rules was a guaranteed way to get even worse fates.

Anyway, they were greeted by Balzy’s Staff who kindly led the beasts to the beast hotel. While they arranged themselves, gathering a lot of curious stares, the occupants of the first cart went down.

It was none other than Helios, Sahara, her servants, and Maomao.

Hugo, who was with the caravan, saw this and immediately went over them. "Helios!"

"Uncle!" the younger one yelled, hugging his uncle. Hugo’s eyes twitched, unused to the sappiness, but he allowed the young man to do what he wanted anyway.

Near them, there was also a small crowd forming. Rather than around Helios or Sahara though, the crowd took particular interest to the tallest one of them all—the bunny!

It couldn’t be helped: She was… so CUTE!

"A bunny!"

"So cute!"

"Ow! Her ears twitched! Did you see? DID YOU SEE?!"

Like how Gochi and Baku were, Maomao was understandably very shocked by the reception.

Should she be scared? She didn’t feel hostility… but she should feel scared regardless, right?

While the adults were chattering with her or about her, Maomao felt some tugging on her skirt. She looked down and saw cute little human cubs staring up at her with rounded eyes filled with curiosity.

"What’s your name?" a little girl asked, and the kids around her nodded as if asking the same thing.

Her lips twitched. "M-Maomao..."

"Are you friends with Gochi too?"

Gochi…

Unconsciously, her pawed hands held her necklace. She looked around to check if Gochi was there, but was a little disappointed not to see him.

She looked so pitiful, her rounded eyes teary and her long ears dropping down a bit.