After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1878

Chapter 1878: After the Movie

Meanwhile, the Ross family—Mathilda, her children, and their spouses—headed to the food court area near the Cinema after the movie.

"That was so emotional..." Cassandra said, wiping her tears, and then not forgetting to kiss her well-behaved baby. There was a separate area with a soundproof glass partition for the people who brought babies. They would pay for their own seats and, if the child makes noise, the adult would take them there. There was a separate speaker there anyway, so people can still watch the movie without bothering others.

Not once did Cassandra have to take her baby there! So well-behaved!

Thanks to this, Cassandra was able to watch the entirety of the movie. First, she was amazed at the technology. "Was that really hand-drawn?!" she remembered asking, though her thousand questions faded as she immersed into the story itself.

Now, she could not help but sniffle. The others smiled, also red-eyed.

This was not a surprise; what was surprising was that even Gwen was crying, too.

It was not that Gwen wasn’t emotional, of course, but it was particularly prominent today. The family smiled fondly, while Ryan gently wiped her tears.

They entered the food court with at least a dozen shops to choose from. This was a new food court inside the mall, and there was a bigger array of products here. Of course, the rent was also quite beautiful.

Right now, this place was filled with people, mostly coming from the cinema. One could hear the discussions about it too, from Terran to aborigine alike.

One table was a group of friends. They were mostly young adults, but today’s circles tended to be more diverse (due to people developing teammates according to availability), so there were also some middle-aged people here and there.

They didn’t have many relatives left, so they ended up watching together as friends.

One downed a cucumber juice before fawning over the movie. "It was so amazing!" he said, eyes evidently red from crying.

The middle-aged woman next to him nodded. "I have watched a lot of movies in my younger years, but it has been a while since I’ve seen hand-drawn cartoons."

"It is really well-made!" another said. "The transitions are so smooth. It was like watching those old-school cartoons, but with smoother, more contemporary styling."

"I’m more amazed we have progressed this far to entertain ourselves to this degree within two years, haha!" another said.

He was one of the refugees who came before Alterra became a town. The progress...well, saying it was as fast as a rocket felt like an understatement.

"When did they start making this? Less than a year? Didn’t those movie houses back in Terran take longer than this?"

The movie was short, less than an hour, but that should still have taken a lot of resources to make, right?

"Oh, I heard they hired a lot of people. Also, with people’s improved physiques, it seemed like artists could draw way faster and more accurately than they could! Some top-tier ones can draw as if they’re printers!"

"HAHA! I heard about this. My cousin is an artist, too, but she’s such a coward that she can only shoot arrows from the battlement even if there’s a beast mob or a war, and then she’d hide under the balustrade afterwards, not even checking her kills.

"After finding out the perks of leveling up, she’s become like an amazona."

Laughter erupted at that table, exchanging stories, and just having a good time.

Others were more focused on the story itself. Someone was still crying, in fact.

"I’m so touched by the movie!" the lady said, gently dabbing her eyes with her embroidered handkerchief (gifted by a suitor from Belluga Village).

She was currently with her lady friends and, if they had children, them as well.

"I think the message is more amazing!" her friend said, and her companions nodded at this.

One woman looked at her child, eating sweets in a high chair, munching away. The kid was totally unaware he was the one being gossiped about.

"You know, after the movie, this kid hugged me and thanked me for being a nice mum!" she chuckled. "Said that he was much less well-behaved than Toto, but I didn’t leave him—"

"Wow."

"Aw, cute!"

"Lolololol"

To be fair, this kid really was very hyperactive. In times when he could not be dragged away from parks, this mother had indeed jokingly said that she would leave him.

Bianca was part of this group. Eloi was currently in Twinwave with a caravan, and she didn’t want to miss the first screening day of the movie, so she went with some girlfriends.

She only managed to snag a ticket, and her adopted sons, well, they usually play well on their own now.

"My children will also be watching movies with their friends tomorrow—who told them to be so slow to get tickets. Should I quiz them about what they learned?"

The women giggled amongst themselves, finding the image quite funny.

They found a table and placed an item to mark their temporary ownership (theft generally didn’t happen in Alterra outside of wars, so even placing valuables was no problem), and people headed to the shop(s) of their liking to buy their food. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

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