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

”Miss Shiela!”

Sheila realized she entered a little daze, and it lasted longer than usual, to the point that Gochi’s tears really fell, and he was completely pale, already terrified by her findings.

”Is it serious? You’ve been in a daze for fifteen minutes...” he said this with a shaky voice, which made the other patients want to pat his head.

”Hmn, it is quite big news,” Shiela uttered after a while. She looked at the nervous couple and decided not to tease them, directly telling them what it was.

She smiled, her shoulder slumping. ”Congratulations,” she said. ”It seems like we’re welcoming our first Half-Orc babies in Alterra.”

Silence passed by the entire emergency room. Many people had been watching them closely and eavesdropping. Naturally, they also heard of this news.

A second later, boisterous cheers exploded.

It was a literal explosion that the doctors from the adjacent department ran over and told them to shut up.

That was until someone told them the news that the doctors calmed down and even joined in the celebrations.

The half-orcs were shocked by the reaction. When they absorbed what was happening, they burst to tears, but also held back their giggles and smiles at the same time. Their hearts were full.

These were just the audience’s reactions. The future parents were already overflowing with love for their unborn child or children.

Maomao had been using Cheman’s improved Fertility Potion for weeks now, so it was not like it was impossible.

However, historically speaking, even half-orcs would still take months to years even after consuming these pills. Cheman disclosed the success rates to his buyers to manage their expectations. They were certainly willing to consume all their contribution points and work harder every day so they could receive constant supplies of the pills.

They did not expect such a surprise after only a month!

So happy!

While the two immersed themselves in the unexpected happy surprise, gossip exploded in the emergency room, with people already imagining half-orc toddlers running around.

The image alone made people’s hearts soften. SO CUTE!

”WHOA! Are we gonna see more half-orcs now!?”

”If half orc and half orc gave birth to a baby, are they still considered half-orc?”

”Did you not study genetics?”

”I’m just asking!”

Anyway, they were getting more and more boisterous. Shiela, while also giddy, quickly changed back to her more professional state. To her, the Alterran hospital was a sacred thing, so people better behave!

One of the people eating nuts while gossiping at the neighboring bed suddenly flinched when he felt the shadow of a certain pregnant nurse.

”If you’re already feeling better, why don’t we discharge you?”

”...”

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The news of Maomao’s pregnancy spread out through town faster than Pang rolling to food.

Alterra was now a sizeable town. The land wasn’t small, but gossip like this somehow still spread from end to end as if it were still a Level 1 village.

Even the goblins were already chittering away excitedly, even promising to carry the babies on their shoulders like how Baku carried them.

Circle of life, they said.

It also helped that Baku was laughing out loud every time people saw him. He was already telling people how he’s planning to spend time with his future nieces and nephews.

”I’m going to train them myself! Those bunnies and foxes would be the strongest baby half-orcs ever!”

”Hmn, I wonder how we should name them...”

”Is the villa big enough? Should we build a new one?”

”I wonder how big Maomao’s litter gonna be?!”

He muttered all of this out-loud. How could people not know of the news?

Due to his circumstances, Baku himself did not expect to have his own children, ever, so he was happy to see his friends have the family they longed for.

In his mind, those children were already relatives he would spoil to the heavens!

Pure orcs would take years, if not decades, to conceive, and the gestation period was a little over a year. It was also why it was so amazing that they succeeded after a year of marriage, even with Cheman’s pills.

This definitely spiked up the value of Cheman’s pills even more.

That said, even this miracle didn’t plant hopeful ideas in Baku’s head. He really, genuinely, did not expect to have children ever. If it was unlikely for half-orcs to have children within a decade, it was much harsher for big half-orcs like him.

Perhaps it was also a bit of karma. His own birth took a lot out of others

So far, there has been no human who bore an orc blood without consuming their own life energy.

There were also certain varieties of orcblood that needed a lot more energy than others. In those cases, the life of the mother was guaranteed to end as soon as she gave birth.

No human woman survived after giving birth to large, carnivorous half-orcs like himself.

He knew this, so he never really considered having his own progeny, knowing what it could cause.

The best case would be procreating with a similar large carnivore, but half-orcs were already rare, and aggressive-type half-orcs were also mostly male. He had long accepted that he wouldn’t find ’the one’, as the stories said it, and he just didn’t think about that area at all.

Anyway, Maomao’s pregnancy preparation quickly entered a momentum, and one of the rooms in the Beast Villa was refurbished to a nursery for several children. They were expecting more than one, as rabbit orcs generally would, but this was also to handle even more babies than that.

Looking back at how Nana’s pregnancy was, it seemed that there were indeed similarities.

Gochi felt a bit of dread about how the process would look. He remembered how horrible it was for Nana. She almost died several times in the course of the pregnancy.

”Everything will be alright,” Maomao said. She had always been sensitive to others’ emotions, and she knew her husband was having another panic attack.

”I believe Nana is okay and thriving, and I will be as well.”