After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1621

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Chapter 1621: Fights and Losses (Part 2)

TL;DR: Final Galleon flashback Chapter! Sorry T_T

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"Shit—" Galleon cursed and pulled a few corpses to block their way before he blinked inside the room.

ROOAAAR!

He kicked the zombie that attacked him as soon as he entered, instinctively kicking it straight to the other zombie. He did not have the time to handle them, and he opened the door immediately, pulling his family in before the zombies could get them.

They closed the door, and he finally took down the remaining zombies, though the dog was quick and handled one of them.

From here, he could surmise that these two staff members had locked everyone out early on due to selfishness. They both still died in the end.

Anyway, things went quiet after this, and there were no more monsters that appeared, hungry for their flesh. His wife fell to the floor in relief, shivering, and his son embraced her in comfort.

Galleon sighed, wanting to join in, but his senses were still high from the previous fight, and he couldn’t find himself relaxing yet.

Instead, he walked around the small storage area and looked at the stocks there. Fortunately, there were plenty. "Fill up your spaces with supplies," he instructed, gathering some food with long shelf-lives into his space, including some fabrics and other things.

Like this, the family filled up their spaces with necessities, maximizing each cubic millimeter in there. Soon, the family settled down, with his wife leaning on him and their son resting on their lap. Their puppy was also there, right at their feet, occasionally asking for pats.

They ignored the distant screams and crashes outside. Galleon’s jaw clenched, and he just embraced his family, ignoring the pleas for help outside.

As a soldier, he was ashamed, but as a father, he could only be selfish and block his eyes and ears.

Later, he would look back at this exact moment and wonder if fate decided to punish him for it.

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Things changed when they were only 3 hours away from the Migration.

It was a large group of survivors who had managed to congregate little by little in an area. Wherever they had been hiding for the past day, it was apparently compromised, and they were forced to head elsewhere.

A portion of that group ran in their direction. There were a bit less zombies in the area, so it did make sense. They managed to block the broken glass wall with some furniture and eventually, they found the pantry.

At this point, they could not lock out others, so they opened the door. The family already got their supplies in the space (as well as some in ecobags) before leaving the rest of the pantry for others.

The restaurant was filled now, but there was a line of people pushing the zombies trying to cross their makeshift barricades.

However, with their number, more and more zombies were bound to be attracted. At this, Gideon studied the place’s floor plan and its area.

It was actually a restaurant with a great view. The other side of the building was facing the sea and the cliffs, though the rooms there were VIP rooms.

This meant that there were fewer people in those areas. Further, even if the windows and doors were opened, there would be fewer or no zombies coming in from that side. He just had to focus on the zombies within the building, which was undoubtedly easier than handling them out in the open.

He couldn’t do it before because there were zombies everywhere. Now, with other people holding the monsters back, he could clear the way and wouldn’t have to worry about zombies from the back, at least for a while.

Eventually, the others found out about their plan and agreed to do the same, though there were conflicts. After all, they still had to hold back the hordes coming in from the back. Who’d be willing to do that?

Further, they also had to determine who’d serve as the scouts on the front side, which would be no less dangerous.

Galleon didn’t care who they chose to vanguard along with him. He just pulled his family along with him, clearing zombie after zombie at the rate that put people in awe. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶