After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 766

At this time, Ansel and Winona were looking at each other, glaring. They stood at an alley somewhere after ensuring that the designated people fixing and arranging the aftermath were already at work.

"I thought you told me to leave you alone? What are you doing stalking me?" Winona asked, giving Ansel a bad look. "And stop looking at my hair!"

Ansel’s jaw tensed as he looked at her face, trying to pull his green eyes away from her hair as ordered (though to no avail, which irked her even more).

Instead of saying something that made sense though, he let his guilt cloud his brain. "Look, just accept my apology and gratitude already so we can get this over with!"

He said this like a spoiled brat who made Winona roll her eyes.

"FINE! I forgive you! Now, go!"

"What?" Ansel furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at her. "Not enough!"

Winona now looked confused. "What the heck are you on about this time?"

Ansel was also a bit confused as to why he was acting this way. If he felt bad about her hair, he should just apologize and compensate her somehow! Then he could leave her alone and do his job! What was he doing acting like such a brat for?!

Then his sister’s words rang in his ears.

’You two are bound to end up together.’

Ansel cringed. Nononono! NO!

Winona had no idea what was going on in his head. She just looked at him like he was a crazy person and gestured to walk away.

Ansel snapped out of it and held her arm. She frowned and turned to him, ready to nag, but when she met his green eyes, it showed uncharacteristic seriousness and the words died in her throat before they could be uttered.

Her heart skipped a bit and her mouth dried for some reason.

Probably from annoyance, she thought.

But before the atmosphere between them could form into something concrete, a loud sound caught them both by surprise.

BANG!

They turned to look at the source of the sound, which was followed by a vertical trail of colored smoke, catching people’s attention.

"A rescue flare?" Ansel said, immediately distracted. It was even a blue one.

Each member of the guard team had a rescue flare. It was a product of Winona’s team. This one had no need for gunpowder and could be created with the materials they already had available.

The flare could be made with potassium nitrate (which they had a lot of, considering their fertilizers and saltpeter), sugar, and cardboard tubes. The only one they needed to find alternatives to was Aluminum, but they found Zinc in Limestone Valley so it was good enough.

The challenge was that it required higher temperature, but the advantage was that it had longer visibility.