After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1135: Pharmacy Queue (Part 2)

For many, it would start out as integrating slowly into the Alterran everyday life. They would have various circles of friends, whether it was from work or elsewhere.

All aborigines would have at least a few aborigine friends who they would grow up with, and develop with, as new Alterrans.

This way, they would have someone to relate to when difficulties emerged, which was really important for their psyche. Whether the Terrans noticed or not, their pace—whether it was in their growth or in their innovations—was very, very, quick.

This was something that had only been obvious after a couple of months of integrating the races.

The rise of most Terrans was swift and difficult to follow and when a person kept getting left behind—particularly if they had ambitions—they could eventually get depressed.

At some point, some natives needed a ’support group’ (as Terrans called it) to manage the stress and manage their expectations.

They could meet through various places like public parks, arcades, stadiums, and so on. It might also be friends among fellow refugees or people from the same place.

Of course, there were also others from completely different places and strata—which was interesting to see.

For example, Glio and Bayna, who were from a Town, ended up being extremely good friends with Ladron and Landi, who were from a village.

Traditionally speaking, this was extremely rare unless the villagers showed extremely high potential (which they did), but in this case the relationship was not transactional at all.

After Sahara settled in Alterra, her servants also lived together in the same building. They got a two-bedroom unit and arranged it in a dormitory set-up so all of the servants could fit in. One bedroom was for the maids, and the other for the guards, and so on.

Then, Sahara adopted the working schedules of Alterra for them, so they suddenly had free time for themselves. Of course, they had to go on shifts so that there would be people serving Sahara’s family at all times.

The cousins Glio and Bayna had the same shift, which was the day shift so they had dusk as the start of their ’free time’.

They met Ladron’s group while they were getting addicted to playing games in the arcade.

Ladron was actually a guard but, like them, his shift was during the standard work hours.

Glio and Ladron somehow ended up competing on something called ’whack-a-molerat’—which was quite an exciting game—and friendship amidst competition was born.

Although Glio was only in his early 20s and Ladron was twice his age, they had found similarities in their growing love for arcade games. At the same time, a bit of chemistry was exchanged between Bayna and the Landi. They bonded over having to wait for their companions to get tired of the game before getting pulled out.

As a group, they started to train together in their free time, and they would occasionally take ’weaker’ locals with them (to last kill the weaker monsters) for some extra cash.

This was a common ’mercenary’ practice here, but it was required to have a few guards with them so it didn’t get abused and avoid any scammy behaviors. It was also for the safety of the trainees.

After all, if anyone could just get anyone, what if people suddenly left them behind in the slightest sign of danger? Unlike guards who’d actually do their best before leaving with their lives, the ’hired fighters’ might leave at the slightest sign of trouble.

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Fortunately, so far, there had been very few cases of stronger aborigines taking advantage of their weaker brethren like this. They were still serving in prison now and they hadn’t had a case in more than a month.

Anyway, for the proper unofficial mercenaries like them, it was quite a lucrative side job that funded their arcade addiction.

After nearly half-an-hour of lining up, their group finally arrived just outside the Pharmacy door. It was a double door, like usual, but the place was themed, and even the door was carved to emulate Alterra’s aesthetic.

"This came just in time," the pretty boy Landi said, looking at the building in front of them. He was eating some chips, though several hands would always take a handful out of whatever he was carrying.

When he tried getting a bit and felt it was empty, he frowned. "I needed to replenish my stocks," he said. It was no longer clear whether he was referring to his snacks or his potions.

"Do you even need to? A lot of people like protecting you," Ladron said, shaking his head at him. In response, Landi rolled his eyes.

"I reject them now," he said, giving the woman in the group a side-look. "I don’t take gifts from random people now."

Because of his appearance, a lot of people saw him as a soft man who needed to be protected. Back home, it was subject to a lot of mockery, but in Alterra, it was just ’cute’. It got him a lot of discounts, which he appreciated for a time.

One day, while he was on a street food tour, a ’scout’ from Elder Ansel’s Entertainment Company approached and recruited him as an actor. The pay was good so he accepted. He wasn’t particularly strong anyway, and he needed to do a bit more to improve his way of life.

Still, Landi was very unnatural at first and he was a pain to watch, and for a while, he was only given roles that were called ’empty vases’. Still, he was ’eye candy’ and the discounts only increased.

Despite the good pay and amazing benefits, he was not comfortable with the job at first. Which real man would be?

However, the more he watched the true actors and performers take on their roles—becoming different persons, telling different stories—he started to wonder what it’d be like to be like that.

He wondered what it was like to truly affect people straight to their hearts, not just their eyes.