After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 916

Gaea Team Villa.

"The Heat Wave lasted longer than we thought," Ansel said as he chewed, looking at the lush gardens that regained their vitality overnight. "A lot longer."

According to the aborigines, the usual duration was no more than 2 weeks. This one lasted more than a month.

"Well, there are too many unknowns," Althea said, feeding her babies, who happily made little ’o’s in their mouths. "Our intelligence teams are looking into it, and all we can do is prepare the territory for whatever happens."

Everyone nodded, eating away while getting deep into their own thoughts, wondering how to best do their parts to achieve these tasks.

They were now having brunch together, relieved that they didn’t have to open all the fans and eat ice cream.

Thinking of all the ice cream they ate the past month, Ansel couldn’t help but touch his stomach. It got bigger due to all that sugar…

Anyway, it was such a relief that it was over, though now—after the initial relief—they inevitably had to think of the aftermath.

"A lot of territories must have fallen."

"Oh definitely, so much already happened just in our area. I can’t imagine what happened in other parts of the world."

"The number of people here must be a lot, considering the number of deaths daily. Although Terrans are in the millions, the natives are probably in billions."

Eugene nodded, thinking of his own calculations. "I agree, it is probably in billions. At the very least, there should be several hundred million of humans alone—not to mention the other races."

This was an assumption, as no one had an actual census of the continent. However, considering the area they knew thus far from the aborigines and the average population an area approximately had, they had a rough minimum.

"The other races probably fared better, on average," Ansel said. The other races were equipped with skills (goblins) or physiques (orcs) to handle it better without the human tools and technology.

"Everyone has to if something like that happens once a year or two."

Althea looked at her gardens. To others, she seemed to just be staring, but Althea was actually using the Eye, seeing how… radiant everything was.

"On the bright side…, the extreme weather change seems to function like a refresh button," she said, making everyone turn to her.

"It cleanses and reinvigorates the land," she added, her eyes staring at the denser aura of the wood element in her garden. She’d also check how it was outside, but she reckoned it had also improved.

Winona leaned over, very curious. "Does it affect the slower regeneration rate?"

They had been worried about this. But if the extreme weather changes could actually help with the issue, then wouldn’t that be a good thing long term?

Althea shook her head. "It is too early to tell," she said. "But I’ll assign a team to study and monitor these phenomena."

Also… wouldn’t the fact that it was longer mean there was really something to ’fix’?

Perhaps… the Extreme Weather changes could get even more frequent.

However, they needed a bit more data to come up with conclusions.

For now, they put the depressing topics aside and opted to go back to the lighthearted discussions.

For example, the babies and their new diets.

Another change during the past few days was that the babies could now eat more soft food, not just flavored gruel.

They watched the babies fondly as they ate the baby food made of various fruits and vegetables.

Harold had taken good note of the babies’ nutrition and palette and so far they had been enjoying what they were feeding them.

Althea smiled and fondly fed both babies with the crushed food, and they both looked excited at the new taste.

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They ’chewed’ on the paste-like sweetness, their chubby cheeks appearing plumper as they did so.