After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1850

Chapter 1850: War with Disease

Not everywhere was the same as the Alterra region or their allies, of course.

Most territories were still contacting Holt or Warrior City to buy medicine from them, though the cities were naturally busy with servicing their own territory first.

There were plenty of territories who knew that it all came from Alterra, and might either be too far from Holt or Warrior City, or simply thought their offers were too expensive (though in reality, the two cities’ prices were quite fair. Profitable, but not too limiting to the commoners), though many people just felt entitled to the formula.

Alterra didn’t have much of an exclusivity agreement with the two cities. Their agreement was just that they wouldn’t sell the formula to other territories within a thousand-kilometer distance from them. Everyone else could buy the formula.

A thousand-kilometer radius might be a massive area, especially by Terran standards, but this continent was much more massive than Terran, and there was no loss in selling to more territories.

It was just that while some were willing to pay for Alterra’s requirements, others found it too expensive and seriously started to scheme to take over Alterra instead, thinking that after defeating it, then all of Alterra’s formulas—and their various goods—would just go to them instead!

The value of Alterra could no longer be compared to even higher-level territories, and some even said it was invaluable. Winning a war against it could be the most profitable war of the century.

But...it needed some planning, especially since it was partnering with powerful territories.

Of course, in many of the greedy men’s minds, they didn’t think there’d be much loyalty. After all, the Cities had already bought the formulas, so would they have to protect Alterra? They could also easily offer better deals to them after taking over, right?

Not long after the spread that Alterra had formulated the cure, this plan started to bear fruit. However, unexpectedly, they could not attack at all!

This was because the Iron Mountains were attacked by one of the territories.

Shannon, Gio, and the rest looked at the people rushing to their walls and attacking. They were prepared to fight and attack, and everyone was just guarding the battlements as well as specific areas of the territory.

There were still quarantine areas in Iron Mountains at this time, but there were no new cases anymore. A few hundred people incapable of defending themselves had to be protected, and they also made deductions to their manpower.

Compared to the enemy, however, this was nothing. Using the scope, they easily determined where the array was, and they soon caught a glimpse of their states.

The Village that attacked them was somewhere in the far South. There had been no indication of hostility before, so this war was relatively out of nowhere. However, when they saw their states, it became obvious why they did so.

They attacked out of desperation. They probably heard that they had vaccines and cures. Instead of going to them for trade, they attacked because of the time.

The disease itself acted and spread relatively quickly, even if there was an incubation period. When the incubation period ended, it would be like people started exploding one by one, falling down in intense fever, and soon reaching the deadliest stage—the internal burning and smoking.

People would feel powerless under such a disease, and this was actually the normal reaction. After all, how many had a collection of medicinal experts like Alterra?

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Anyway, they probably thought that just going to war was the fastest way to get the cure—which was not exactly inaccurate, but this was assuming they would win.

While the enemy was, in fact, not confident in winning, they believed they didn’t have anything to lose, so they attacked anyway.

"BACK AWAY RIGHT NOW! For the next half an hour, anyone still within the scope of the sentry will be considered our enemy from this point forward! All of them will be killed. Otherwise, we will take it as your surrender and prepare accordingly."

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