After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 765

The hospital, which could hold more than a thousand patients at a time, was now fully working. All the rooms, wards, and even the mass wards were filled with people.

This was not just their own people, but also Guians they judged as a non-threat, especially now that their lord was dead. For instance, there were certain wards that were even filled with Guia slaves.

For safety, they were in a separate ward from the seriously injured Guia citizens, so that no one could order them there.

One of the patients here was the Goblin Hoku. He was the only goblin sent as a vanguard due to his disability. A goblin that couldn’t dig was useless in the mines, and the fact that he was useless even as a goblin slave truly felt like a large weight pulling him down the ground.

He wasn’t surprised to be assigned amongst the meat shields. These were the first sacrifices, and it was almost impossible to survive there, at least with all limbs intact.

And when a limb was gone, then they’d be even more useless. They’d likely be thrown as bait instead, which was an even more tragic death than dying in a war. At least then, they’d have the illusion of having a higher purpose.

He went in this war not expecting to ever get out, but somehow when he lost consciousness from weird smoke that enveloped him and everyone else.

He lost consciousness, finding himself in a rare nice dream.

In his dream, he was back home, surrounded by fellow goblins with smiles on their faces. They were not covered with wounds and had a good amount of meat in them. They were clean and their clothes did not have a single hole.

His parents, who had perished in the goblin war a few months back, were also there. They pulled him for a nice meal—the bread from the restaurant, but with added plants and fruits on top—and they ate until they couldn’t anymore.

In his dream, there was no human to tell them what to do. There was no human to hurt them, and there would be no human making them hurt each other so they could watch and laugh at the side.

It must’ve been Goblin Eden, he thought.

After this dream, he woke up feeling wonderfully comfortable. He belatedly realized he had really been asleep, and the fact that it was just a dream made him want to cry.

But he gathered himself somehow, absorbing that he was sleeping somewhere comfortable.

He had never been in such a soft bed before.

He opened his eyes and saw lines and lines of such bed with a lot of acquaintances. Some were with him, and others he didn’t think he’d see again!

They were both watching him as he eased awake and chuckled when his eyes widened like saucers as he saw them.

He flinched and gasped at his sudden movement, but he quickly forgot about it at the sight of old friends.

"Iko? Yut?!" he yelled, also looking around to see a handful of other goblins on their beds! "You… where…. I thought you were… wuuuu—"

They wanted to chuckle at his silly face, but they found tears in their eyes instead. They looked weird crying as they laughed.

To be honest, when they woke up, they looked even sillier than Hoku.

When they drowned, swept away by the strong flood, they really didn’t think they’d open their eyes again. The others were placed in another room, but the kind nurse said they were fine.

Goblins had special senses and they knew the nurse was being sincere. His eyes were full of kindness and pity, and to be honest they still didn’t understand it until now.