After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 654

Before the meeting ended, Vanessa arrived with the report of how many professionals were willing to go with them. She claimed that she had convinced the doctors to come, leaving a few people specializing in emergency treatments in the valley.

Many of the doctor’s specializations were useless anyway without equipment, and Alterra had shown they had the capability to provide them with better tools.

However, Vanessa implied that the doctors would only come if she led them. Althea looked deeply at the woman.

Her husband owed Henry and Victor a lot, with the former being his mentor, while the latter saving his life.

But Althea didn’t have such gripes.

"Vanessa, to manage your expectations, Alterra is not like Fargo. Unlike here, you’ll be an employee like everyone else," Althea said, "You’ll be one of the two healers already there, and will not be treated more specially than they do."

Vanessa looked at her, "I know more about the medicine in this world—

"You think you know more than I do?" Althea asked, and the certainty of the answer made Vanessa blush in shame.

Althea had heard from Drake before that Vanessa had been monopolizing knowledge here, keeping the doctors under her. This was not a practice she’d encourage in her territory.

While people had the right to gatekeep knowledge, she didn’t want them too stingy. For one, she would be giving contribution, commissions, or the like to those who contributed to the ’pool of knowledge’ Alterra had. She certainly wasn’t going to entertain gatekeeping for the sake of keeping power and at the expense of the territory.

"What I mean to say is, what you know… will be something everyone knows there," she told her. "So don’t use it as a leverage—not against me."

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The people heading back to Alterra were: the couple, Team B, Vanessa, Benny, and Henry. The next batch of migration would happen when the health of the people had been improved.

For one, a lot of the professionals and migrants had been injured during the war, and another was that the doctors were still very busy with handling them. The doctors were given a few days to properly finish handling their current patients and do turnovers.

Anyway, the people traveling back were set to use some of the bikes that arrived. They only took what was needed, and Mao and the others used to draw lots to determine whose bikes would be given back.

Mao and the others were understandably very reluctant to part with them.

In the end, Mao’s, Angelo’s, and a few other’s bikes were taken, making their moods drop a lot.

They hilariously already named the bikes, saying their sweet goodbyes as they handed them over to the others.

Poor guys.

Unfortunately for them, Althea and the others didn’t want to get back home too late, hoping to get back home at least before midnight, so Mao and the others didn’t have a long time to say goodbye to their ’babes’.

Before leaving, Althea sprayed every one of them with Beast Repellant potions so their trip was relatively uneventful.