After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1836

Chapter 1836: News of Fire Spreads

The moment it touched Flaret Town, the news spread all over the Terran region. Flaret made another, more solemn report as soon as one patient showed the next stage of the illness, which was about a day or two since they isolated the area.

It was their nearest associated territory, after all. By this time, though, the incubation period of the disease had already exploded, and various cases all over were revealed as well.

Generally speaking, most Lords wouldn’t bother sending news to other Lords that weren’t directly linked with them so. This was why, beyond the North and the Northeastern territories, this news was still not widespread.

The difference was that Alterra was linked with territories even tens of thousands of kilometers away. In contrast to the previous instance of the Fire Plague, the news spread extremely fast.

It could be said that the moment it landed in Flaret, through Alterra’s networks, the entire region and its other allies were informed within the day. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

They warned everyone, including Silva and Zinnia in Hassen City, through one of his old ’penpals’.

Because no one expected it to happen so soon, Alterra’s research center had not started any research about the disease at all. There were countless other things to study and, though curious, it simply wasn’t the priority.

They were not so lucky with that decision.

Anyway, priority was the prevention of its spread, so no one dwelled on this. The administration quickly isolated those who showed symptoms and those who were in direct contact with them separately.

They were to create a temporary wall at least 3 meters high, which was manually made. With their factories and their expertise, it was fairly easy to do this. It certainly wasn’t practical to create system walls, as that would require the demolition of what was in its path.

Three meters was about the density that the heavy smoke of the disease could reach. The surface was made of watertight and airtight fabric and monster skin. They used everything like bitumen coating and so on.

It was designed to be as airtight as possible within this height using, whatever method they could use.

The zones shall enclose at least a few trees to freshen up the air and make sure everyone, even those who weren’t living near the isolation halls wore masks. For the most part, the smoke had to be inhaled to affect them.

However, for those level 10 and below, they had to wear full-on hazmat suits (which would be made of leather or modified linen) if they wanted to leave their house, because even touching the smoke had a chance to affect them, too.

As mentioned, the zones for those who made contact with those with symptoms were separate, but still not combined with the general population. They could be carriers or even afflicted, just asymptomatic. This was called the medium-risk zone.

Those in this zone, because they could still move and do daily tasks, could remain working for better food. They could be sent raw materials, and they’d also be the ones sending some food and water to the afflicted, and so on. Fortunately, there were wells in various locations, including parks, so they were relatively sustainable.

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