After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 793

Back in Alterra, the very festive atmosphere didn’t last particularly long because the team sent to Vismont had returned.

Fortunately, everyone came back with their lives and complete limbs, but none of them were undamaged. Along with them were quite a number of refugees, who were at an even worse state.

Because the territory was a subsidiary, Hubert and the others were not hurt directly by the guards there. Rather, because the enemies knew this, they targeted the refugees a lot instead.

Because a lot of the refugees had to be protected and there were only so few of them, it was inevitable they’d be injured by the mobs they encountered afterward.

In fact, had they not arrived when they did, had there not been an aether hospital, and had there not been surgeons—a lot of the refugees would’ve died within an hour of their arrival.

The guards sent on the mission were those not particularly close to the couple like Reno, Joe, and Lee among others, so they didn’t have to be in the wedding. They brought a few dozen refugees with them, all being treated in the hospital.

"What do you think happened?" Althea mumbled, sighing. She was just thankful that no one died.

Garan patted her head. "Don’t think too much. We’ll find out more when one of them is ready to speak."

The couple was called to the hospital as soon as someone regained consciousness. The first person to wake up was one of the guards, Hubert.

The guards and citizens were placed in a nice ward, allowing for comfortable recuperation time. When the couple arrived with Ansel (they encountered him on the way there), not only Hubert, but a few of the guards and the refugees were already awake.

Among the civilians, Ansel saw that there were a few familiar faces. For one, old man Yao was there, and then there were a few normal citizens that he remembered because of their disposition.

For example, there was the young girl named Okuri and her boyfriend Ronny. He remembered them because they were a young couple joined at the hip. They were always smiling even if the times were rough, and they were the few rays of sunshine in that territory.

This made the contrast of their current states a bit heartbreaking. At this time, Okuri had wounds all over her body, while Ronny… didn’t have both ears anymore.

Ansel knew that Ronny was a mute and while losing his ears may not affect him much, it was still a very cruel joke to do.

"What happened? Just talk if you’re fine. If it’s too painful, we can wait."

"We—Ugh," Hubert mumbled but then he saw it was Althea, he flinched.

If the situation wasn’t so serious, he’d have entered a fanboy daze, but the pain he felt all over his body was quick to remind him of what happened.

"Hello, Miss Althea. Our mission started out fine. We reached the place without trouble and we entered the territory smoothly because there were a lot of people coming in—aborigines, to be more specific."

"Because we know Vismont, we were able to go around relatively undetected as well."

"You mean there were a lot of aborigines moving in and settling?"