After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 740

There were about a dozen goblins assigned to do the task. They chose an area about a few hundred meters away from the walls, hidden from the line of sight of the unfamiliar weapons. After a bit, the goblins began to dig a tunnel towards the wall at an unprecedented pace.

The little ones were small and perenially frowning. Their backs were hunched from working so much, making them appear even smaller, but their arms worked fast as they dug.

They also knew where the weak spots of the soil were as if they could see it clearly, so even if they weren’t so strong, the soil tended to appear softer than it would if a human was doing the same task.

Goblins were fast diggers, let alone dozens of them, and they were able to create meters-long tunnels fit for a few people twice their size within several minutes.

However, when they neared the walls—less than a hundred meters in—they seemed to have hit small threads or something, followed by the sound of distant bells.

The Goblins flinched. They were generally jumpy creatures and anything out of the ordinary would make them sweat a lot. "What do you think that was?" Yut asked the other leading goblin, Iko.

"I don’t know," Iko said, nervously clenching back his digging tools, crumbs of dug dirt dropping to the ground on his feet. "But we’re in a hurry… so we can only do what we’re asked."

He said this, but his body refused to move anyway.

Their pause, unsurprisingly, was not appreciated by the humans behind them. "Hey! Why did you stop?!"

"Hurry up, you rats!"

"We don’t have all day! Do you want us to throw you to the beasts?!"

The little green things shivered, their fear of the humans behind them overcoming the apprehension of what lay ahead. "Y-Yes!" they yelled, their little raspy voices echoing across the makeshift cavern they made.

They continued to dig for a few meters more and were confused when they ended up in an opening underground. They looked and it was a predug tunnel more or less perpendicular to their own. It was much smaller than theirs too.

Looking at the side, there were also some sturdy-looking stilts as if to make sure they were stable.

Regardless of what it was, this wasn’t something they expected to see here. "What is this…?" Iko asked, and the others behind him shook their heads.

"OI! KEEP MOVING!"

The poor green things had no choice but to reluctantly step forward. Most of them entered the other tunnel, gesturing to continue digging across it.

However, before they could start digging, they heard a weird rumbling noise coming in a direction. For a while, they didn’t know what to make of it. "Do you hear that?" one asked and the others nodded their heads, looking very worried.

Anyway, goblins were far more sensitive to sound and vibration than humans. Soon, some of them realized what it was happening.

They gasped and paled, immediately gesturing to run back.

"WATER!" Iko yelled and the group hurried back to the first tunnel. "RUNN!"

However, there was a congestion and the scary humans behind were definitely not backing away. They were wearing those scary faces too and were already gesturing to slap them.