After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 869

At this time, Gill was sitting in the cellar of a villa.

He naturally felt uncomfortable delaying the search for Cassandra by another week or two, but his sense of responsibility remained. Not to mention, going out when he clearly knew a disaster was coming was idiotic, no matter how much he wanted to do it.

The leading team and a couple of ’richer’ citizens bought the insulation materials for their homes (well, the Terrans did), ensuring that they had their own private space even at this time.

If they could afford it, why would they endure feeling other people’s body heat and sniffing their body odor, right?

Anyway, not long ago, Althea built a large villa for the inner circle and whoever would be assigned to lead the territory at the time.

It was composed of a few modules already existing in Guia (albeit heavily modified). It was also fenced with gardens, so they would have their own private parks.

While they encouraged integration with aborigines, there were times when they’d just wanted to socialize peacefully in an open space, only among themselves.

Gill had long abandoned Baltimore’s old house, which was converted to a massive dormitory and orphanage—the lower floors also lined with insulation—and had moved to this area.

That place was uselessly big and frankly, he couldn’t stomach staying there. In contrast, the wars had left a lot of children and teens making do in the slums. It was quite pitiful and when Silvia saw it she immediately went ahead and made the suggestion.

Further, while it was a known fact that conceiving was more difficult in this world, at least among the higher levels, it was much more difficult to support another life when one was poor and struggling.

This was why in villages—with lower-level people who did not have much difficulty in conceiving yet—it wasn’t uncommon to see abandoned children at all.

Those children now had a new lease of life. Sadly, they didn’t get to enjoy it fully because the heat wave arrived.

Basically, it was like everything turned barren overnight.

Even the system farms were mostly dried up except for a few drought-resistant crops improved in Alterra, and this was already a cause of wander to the locals who had never seen plants growing so well in this heat.

This fact definitely increased the Alterrans’ prestige in Iron Valley.

The improved seeds were sent via the Warehouse as soon as the Heat Wave was foreseen. These were sent along with other things like fertilizers and some portable insulation. Eventually, the excess was sent and sold in the Alterra Shop.

Everyone was also asked to stock up for at least a month, just in case, so no one really panicked when it really happened. The stocks though were either in a manually-created warehouse (with guards stationed at all times) or with individual teams/households.

The issue of stockpiling was a challenge when it came to the satellites because the warehouse was only accessible to the Lord, who wasn’t even there. The satellites could rarely use the System Warehouse unless they were sending goods to the main territory.

They had to store their items in a different place, which was risky, especially during wars, but what could they do?

At this heat, everyone was just focused on surviving.

Anyway, at this time, Gill was spending the day in the basement which contained their stocks for the month as well as some makeshift but comfortable beds.

The underground ’room’ of the villa was outfitted with three bunk beds. Because Rowan was doing rounds, only three beds were occupied for now.

During the heat wave, the ’working hours’ were swapped, with the hot mornings as the rest times and most of the activities being done at night.