After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 877

Of course, there were thousands of them there and the little bit of food wasn’t enough to sustain them for a day. For most, they had to pass the Extreme Heat in hunger and in injuries, as they had been, but the discomfort and pain had piled up for days at this point.

Eventually, it’d be too hard to move even among the higher-leveled ones.

However, after what happened, fewer and fewer citizens joined in the fight, and the momentum amongst the guards lowered on top of their increasingly weakened bodies.

Shinho’s family, who had been among those who were helping, had been injured in the last one and he didn’t dare ask them to come out anymore.

No one dared to get monsters inside the walls as well; it wasn’t like they’d be able to eat them anyway.

This received complaints of course, but what could they do if they weren’t fighting out themselves?

Shinho even threatened a few citizens he’d throw them out for bait if they distracted the guards mid-fight again.

Even the lord.

"I will kick you and your family out of the territory if you refused to feed me!" he had said, and Shinho looked at him straight in the eye.

"Then do it."

Anyway, being inside was only a little better than outside at this rate. At the very least, he only had to worry about his own family rather than these bastards.

Seeing him determined like this, of course the lord did not dare to do so and he could only grumble as he headed inside.

When more and more guards started to perish during the standard beast mobs, they knew they had to get sustenance before the night arrived.

They planned to go out when it was slightly cooler, an hour or so before dusk. However, there was still sun at this point but they could only cover themselves with whatever clothing they had.

The stronger men could do it somehow at the expense of burning skin, but it was better than starving to death. Many weaker citizens also couldn’t handle the hunger and followed.

Even their lord, who had been hiding inside his house for the entire time, had no choice but to order his people and the slaves to forage (he had been holding back because the thinning slaves were more useful against mobs), so the people had no choice but to forage for him as well.

Going outside, even when the sun was going down, was still horrible. Even at dusk or dawn, the surrounding atmosphere still felt like they were getting cooked. If going out at noon would barbeque them, then going out at dusk or dawn was akin to boiling them.

It was like their bodies were melting as they scavenged but what choice did they have?

However, when they got outside—after dragging their feet and enduring the heat and pain—they came to realize that gathering food outside would be even more difficult than they thought.

The drought outside… was much worse than inside.

To compare, if a person could get a handful of leaves inside—back when they still had internal forests—outside they could get a few pieces!

Some sharper people would soon realize: That not only was the regeneration rate in this drought slower, it was even worse outside the territory lines!

Shinho heaved a deep breath as he combed his sticky orange hair with his hand. However, he dared not say so out loud lest people would panic again, and that’d serve no one but the beasts that’d be coming soon.

They just continued to gather what they could, even if the plants they could forage were hay that could turn to powder with a bit of rubbing.

They could only get the tree barks, which added

something

in their stomachs albeit did not assist with their healths or spirits at all.

At this point… even a monster several levels weaker could kill them with a slap!

They foraged and foraged, going a bit farther than intended. Soon, they found a small field of the plant.

It was dry, but they knew it was edible, so they grabbed what they could, also eating them as soon as they could lest it get stolen by others.

However, when the walls were still not in sight, his sharp ears caught some rumblings at a distance, and his heart dropped. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}

Shinho felt particularly heavy. His heart pained as he heard more and more people perish behind him.

He should’ve watched more carefully! This was his fault!

However, he still had a family and he could not risk his life for others. Such was the horrid way of this world, even if he did his best not to succumb to it completely.

It was just that, when one didn’t have the strength to even protect himself, how could they expect any sort of change outside of him?

More and more people fell and they could only run, ignoring the screams for help and the sound of crushed innards that followed.

However, so many of them had weak legs. They couldn’t run too far at all.

"AHHH!"

Crunch!

"HELP ME!!"

They tried to defend themselves the best they could, but not to mention the civilians, many fighters were still taken easily due to tiredness and illness.

They soon reached their walls and entered, shutting them down, stabbing the monsters through the gap of the gates and above the battlements.

Shinho continuously stabbed his spear at the beasts that were trying to climb up their walls. Their sentries were sparse and had limited effectivity but they had done a decent job of keeping them alive so far.

Sadly the people now were extremely weak, and only now were the citizens coming out to see what was happening, when their walls were already on the verge of breaking.

Shinho’s eyes widened and he was immediately met with another dilemma.

Should he abandon the wall and run to his family instead?