After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1085

"Mother… what is this doing in your space?" She asked. It must’ve been the so-called ’pregnancy brain’ she kept hearing about.

Her mind was muddled; she couldn’t think why her gentle-natured mother would have the corpse of a monster in her space!

Sienna looked at her in understanding. Even she was surprised when the thought came to mind. "It’s just a thought I got after finding out more about Alterra.

"I just saw the amazing things they brought to us—things that fixed things that had been plaguing us for generations.

"Whether it was our food problem or our water problem—with their products, we can rest assured the next generations would not suffer as we did."

She sighed, looking at the dead creature in front of them. She remembered that it was her husband who took this particular undead down.

However, it was not an easy fight. He defeated it after a lot of close scrapes—each one almost making her faint.

It was then that she had the inspiration. "I started to wonder… what if—maybe—they could fix this problem, too?"

This made Sahara pause in thought. In the end, she wondered why she didn’t consider it herself. It seemed like she still had a lot to learn.

It was around this time that the door opened, revealing Helios—who had just been excited to be home to his family after an annoying business trip with a potential rival.

However, his feet paused by the threshold and his eyes fixed on the floor of their living area. By instinct, he thought it was something he was not supposed to see, so he closed the door and headed back out again.

Let the mother and daughter bond, he mused. It must be a cultural thing.

—A few minutes later—

The body was put back in Sienna’s space and so was the man-of-the-house. The smell stayed though and Sahara had to open up the window to freshen up the place again.

"So… that was an Undead Corpse," Helios mumbled, looking at the place where the corpse had been.

As soon as he left, Sahara went out to get him, explaining the situation to him. Apparently, it wasn’t some Dune Town ritual he didn’t know about—which was such a relief.

Not that he’d like Sahara less, of course. Rather, he really disliked the smell of rotting corpses.

Anyway, he already knew a bit about the Undead even while he was investigating her location. And, thinking about it, it really made sense that they’d come to Alterra for this.

"Undead Corpse," he repeated, thinking about the name. "Isn’t that redundant?" He was no language major, but he was pretty sure that wasn’t grammatically correct.

Sahara and Sienna thought about it for a while before shaking their heads. "They’re not fully humans but they’re—in a twisted sense—still alive," Sienna said. "I’ve been in close contact with them many times since I was young. It feels like they still had their heartbeats, their own instincts, and so on.

"It was like they were once normal humans, but had become like this at some point."

Helios nodded. "We had a similar case back home," he said, making the other two turn to him. "But it’s different. Those are really corpses walking around. Worse: If you get bitten by one, you’d turn to one of them."

The two women paled, terrified. "What?"

"They’re not here, don’t worry," he said. "Those were, fortunately, left behind in our planet—which was probably already destroyed."

This was a pity. She was not a green-tagged professional, but her obsessiveness—which they’d see first hand soon enough—certainly made up for it. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}