After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2144

Chapter 2144: Feeding Sol

Inside the house at night, the figure of a loving couple wrestled in a loving embrace. What started as a shared bath (to save water, of course) moved to a soft cushion on the floor, and the couple stayed there for hours.

The sunflower leisurely hung around outside, living as it always had before it met Althea. It had no idea what was happening inside. Monster Plants didn’t have much ambition but to eat when they were hungry, drink when they’re thirsty.

Of course, if the two inside decided to take too long inside and forget to feed Sol, then that would be another matter altogether.

When the couple finished, Althea rested her head on her husband’s chest, while his calloused hands caressed her shapely hips, a satisfied expression on his face.

The two of them fell asleep for a few hours and woke up in the morning. They were under the thick canopies of Hollow Forest, so it wasn’t very bright, but there was still sun.

Garan looked at the soft wife in his arms. She was breathing softly, unconsciously rubbing against him like a sated cat. The sight made his heart and body heat up.

Their little house had solar-charged dim lighting, so even when it was a bit dark due to the small fenestrations, he could still see her.

He patiently watched her sleep, her softness comforting. He did not even notice the passing of time as she woke up naturally. "Good morning, Husband," she said, wiggling up to give him a kiss on the cheek.

The next thing she knew, she was under the man, signalling the beginning of morning exercises.

...

When it was done, Althea sat up and stood up to get cleaned up, lest the man make up for the lost time today. They had a mission to do, and this certainly wasn’t the place to surrender to lust for too long.

Garan had a soft smile on his face as he watched his wife’s movements, his peripheral view catching sight of the house’s fenestration. It so happened that part of the sunflower’s rays were visible from there. "What is that one?"

"It’s called a Monster Root," she said, explaining what she knew about this species. Garan, like her, was also very curious, and she had no doubt that he was thinking of its military potential. It was a force of habit.

"It looks useful," he said. "It will also have very good intimidating effects."

It was then that they saw a vine try to get inside the fenestration. It was too thick, though, so a leaf curled over and then slapped the interior of the walls, looking very silly.

"..."

"..."

Althea blinked and cleaned up the house as she went out, realizing the sunflower looked a bit wilted. "It’s hungry," she said. As for how she knew, it was more instinct.

She was relieved it didn’t become violent when famished, but it made her feel even more guilty.

"How did it eat before?" Garan asked.

"A variety of things."

She saw that it liked certain nutritious fruits and monsters. A proper omnivore, this one.

Interestingly, the fruits it preferred were not the fresh ones, though it could eat any fruit. Rather, it liked the overripe ones, even those that had fallen down the ground.

Althea would automatically think of theories whenever she encountered something odd like this. What did overripe fruit have over the others other than the fact that they could be turned into fruit shakes more easily?

It had more sugar, for one. Acids were less, which was why they were less sour. Aroma compounds were much more developed.

Fermentation also begins at this stage. At the time, she thought, did this thing want to be an alcoholic or something?

Other than that, it also liked beasts, but not sapient creatures like humans, which was extremely convenient.

It was a bit of a mystery, but as a rule of thumb, it seemed to like ’trash’ —i.e. Monsters instead of intelligent beings, and overripe fruits instead of fresh ones—which was just as well.

She’d understand the reasoning in the future, probably, but as long as it didn’t harm her and her loved ones’ interests, she wouldn’t mind it.

Of course, unripe fruits didn’t really fill it up much. It still preferred live beasts.

"Then we will go look for prey to hunt," he said. "Will we be able to find a lot of them here? Those wild roots are formidable." He wouldn’t be surprised if there was a small number of monsters in the Hollow Forest.

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