After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1799

Chapter 1799: The Cold Continues

The Extreme Cold continued on, marking the first week since the temperature dropped.

Characterized by seemingly endless snow, winds, and freezing air draped around the entire world. It was a legitimate ice age that had already killed a few thousand people, particularly in villages with inferior infrastructure and low average levels.

For many low-level villages, they could only afford the lowest-level system buildings. These buildings could not handle the heavy snow that piled up after a week, and many had imploded into themselves.

By this time, many places had also lost their food and had started eating things like snow, tree bark, and soil. For water, they had the snow, at least, but otherwise, many people who did not have a decent roof over their heads or a decent blanket to cover themselves were left at the mercy of nature.

It was difficult for low-level adults to survive, let alone their children and the elderly.

Villages may have much, much, higher fertility rates, but the world seemed to want to balance things out by killing their young and their old with disasters like this one.

However, people had been used to this tragedy. They would feel pain and agony for the losses, but it was just the way things were in this world, and they had learned to accept it.

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As always, some places were better than others.

For example, it was naturally those closely connected to Alterra, especially those who bought the higher-level houses from the system.

This was especially true for those who bought Alterra’s customised houses, which were their first allies, like Bright, Vismont, and Belluga.

At the time, it felt so expensive to buy the blueprints, but after the design helped them through disaster after disaster, they had long known it was worth it.

The feeling of the floor’s warmth alone made them want to hug their past selves who made the investment!

"Allying with Alterra is truly the best," Micheal said as he lay down on the floor, drinking tea.

His right-hand man and sister were there as well. They were drinking delicious flower tea she planted herself. Bright also had a few greenhouses and vertical farms, improved with the technology Alterrans developed.

They were planning on letting the cold pass by and just staying at home. Unlike towns with a lot of powerhouses, they did not have many who could casually go out, and few people could actually clear the snow around them without causing harm to themselves. The number who could was miniscule so few people bothered clearing snow in Bright Village.

Anyway, their stockpile was more than enough, and Micheal could make announcements and orders remotely.

Their population wasn’t too big since most who reached level 15 (or even above level 10) would move to Alterra, so when they started stockpiling after they received news from Alterra, everyone could safely say they would survive without going out for a few weeks.

Unexpectedly, someone knocked on the door.

They flinched and blinked. Let alone the extremely low temperature, the outside must have several feet of snow by now. Although Juno and the guards (as well as the mercenaries, for a fee) cleared out the snow around the house, the center, and the clinic, everywhere else was difficult to traverse.

The satellites and villages like Belluga, which purchased the customized houses, were basically the same, in sharp contrast with others, who could actually die even while inside their own homes. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

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