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"Only two more have arrived since you arrived, and they came from neighboring towns. I'm worried about this town's population. "

Eren watched while the old man finished another beer and threw the bottle back into the mountains of bottles. Even Eren was enjoying the sound of that nowadays.

"You have lived here all your life. How many people were in this place at most? "

Old Nihan was now thoroughly drunk. He smiled, making silly gestures with his fingers as if he was calculating.

" Grraaak (burped). I think we were close to five thousand people. Everyone used to say that once we reached that number, we would never go down. In fact, we would say that life threats or danger were over then. We had countless soldiers, engineers, and carpenters. We even started the process of enlarging the town and making it more durable, but then that ..thing happened. "

The old man did not explain the day he saw the most blood in his life. Those who witnessed that event in the town were already telling horrible stories a lot. Even Eren had heard from dozens of different people in the three months after he came here. He had seen pictures and several survivors' video footage.

Eren and the old man didn't speak anymore. Eren was sullen when he spent three matches to light one more cigarette. Here a pack of match was the same price as a pack of cigarettes and its unnecessary use was seen as a shameful act. After lighting it, Eren didn't neglect to cover old Nihan, who was sleeping in this weird place.

..

It was normal for the old man to ask why he hadn't done anything minutes ago. He knew that Eren was saving money, but that's not what the old man was asking. Probably, he thought that a young person like Eren will go crazy without a social activity. Even if Nihan was an alcoholic, deep down he was a good man.

But Eren was dreaming while smoking his cigarette as looking at the sky. He wasn't going crazy or feel homesick and having suicidal ideas. It was a common thing for people to suicide suddenly here. But Eren was coming from Earth. He really continued to analyze many movies and thousands of books he had previously read or watched. Sometimes he thought of his family and the groups of friends he always envied.

But amongst his fantastic dreams, there was only one thing he had a hard time deciding on.

He was trying to decide whether he wanted to go back or not. He couldn't make a hard decision on this question.

For example, what would his future look like here? He looked at the shaking old man in shabby clothes, with a yellowed beard after that question.

[Will I be like him if I live here or is there a better future?]

[Will I be happy if I go back to Earth? Or will I regret that I missed this different world opportunity until the day I die?]

..

He was considering these two related questions.

He looked at the clock on his arm and found that the radiation level was still below *2.5. There was a radiation wind in the air that he could never have imagined on his old planet. But this situation was handled by wristwatches that automatically inject liquid-ions into the body. It wasn't a normal ion but a synthetic and better thing.

Convenience foods were cheap here - unless you question what they had in them .. drinks, cigarettes, and drugs were much cheaper, and all kinds of entertainment with the opposite sex were the cheapest. You could find people to be with you all night for a pack of cigarettes.

Moreover, as a result of genetic technology, all the people in the town - even on the planet were very beautiful and very handsome. So even if Eren was with the ugliest person here, he would be enviable on his old planet.

The health system was more developed and practical. You could buy some genetic features and immunity against diseases. At least on a basic scale and with expensive fees.

Of course, there were some downsides. He didn't see the sun even once in the three months he lived here. There were gray clouds dropping acid rains in the sky and mutant animals of unknown origin. Swarms of creatures and strange insects hovering in the air were also dangerous.

You have to live knowing that an insect that can poison or kill you in a single bite is perhaps a few kilometers or a hundred meters close to you.

"Well if we look at the potential … " The young man, noticing his backache, leaned sideways and continued to gaze at the view before lighting a new cigarette. While smoking his cigarette, he was resisting the hardest side of the night mission.

Getting a night's-sleep was very difficult in this job. Although the daytime was generally hazy and dark, it didn't take the place of the real night-sleeps. So, even if Eren slept all day, it still puts pressure on Eren to make him sleepy at these hours.

Realizing that the third pack of cigarettes he had opened was also empty, Eren stood up quietly and slid down from the plastic slide. He walked over to the phone set up next to a large swing on the other side. He pressed a small button and leaned the phone's old arm, which looked like an eighties phone part to his ear.

" Tris ."

"Soldier."

" Tris, if you call me soldier again, I won't buy you those desserts you love so much."

"Hey, why are you so stiff? Besides, you never bought me any dessert. "

"Then buy yourself a dessert and two packs of cigarettes for me and come. It is on me. "

".. wait for me!"

Eren was good friends with the middle-aged woman working at the com. the station at the other end of the phone.

Because death was common in this world, it makes sense to treat those who live a lot, more respectfully. But Eren once again faced a reality that science-fiction had misjudged. Here, age isn't seen as a reason for respect in any way, and this situation was okay for Eren. Eren was mature for his age and had already been besties with the oldest generation in town.

Tris was a widow, 39 years old this year. Though according to people, Tris said she was 39 for the last two years, Eren didn't care much. Because when looking at Tris from outside, he saw a disastrous middle-aged woman as a result of genetic engineering. Even if Tris said she was 29, Eren would not speak out and approve it.

Eren normally liked to be alone on his night mission. But when the old man Nihan was asleep, he would stay standing considering Nihan's age. Smoking was required to not sleep. It was also impossible for him to smoke without leaving this guard point. He didn't have any other close friends to call at this hour.

But having a night worker friend he could call with a little bribe saved him.

..

While Eren was waiting for Tris to arrive, he took a plastic bottle out of his little bag. He used a spray that replaces 100% of the bad breath and take the place of brushing teeth. Basic technology on this planet made life very easy. [Apocalypse world earned +1 more points... Is it here or my old world worth living?]

Eren walked to the other side of the park castle, with the approach of a beautiful black-haired woman. She walked as if she wasn't cold despite the night cold. Eren went to the right end rather than the left end where Nihan was sleeping and sat in a nice spot behind the barriers.

Tris, who came to Eren and threw her bag to the side, had an image that could only be called a super-milf in the world.

She wore a pair of sports-looking shoes with short socks visible. She had mini jeans and a borderline T-shirt that showed her waist as a thin line. The way she gathered her hair from the back and her low-cut, which highlighted her breasts, created a very charming look.

She was the only reason why Eren couldn't decide whether to return to his old world or not. Eren smiled and grabbed the woman who was trying to sit next to him in the air and placed her on his lap. As Eren wrapped his arms around her waist and turned Tris towards himself, he also inhaled the scent of this sexy woman. His lips were too confident to expect from someone who had never kissed three months ago.

Even a little hello kiss lasted for minutes. Hands and hot breaths went in and out of intimate places.

If Eren's post weren't in such an insignificant place - an old park in the middle of town - they certainly wouldn't do such a thing. Those who were keeping watch at the walls or real guard stations didn't have time to close their eyes for a second.

But this place was inside of the town where all the people who aren't on duty were having fun with sexual activities until the morning.

Like everyone in this world over the age of fifteen, Eren also adopted the only thing that everyone can do to deal with death. There were no taboos if you weren't married. Sexual intercourse was somewhat common and not shameful. Even 15 years old kids would do this every day and nobody was having any bad ideas about this. Social and cultural views were different from Earth with a different history line.

[Long live physical pleasures. Long live the utopian world full of mutants and zombies .. ]

The dispute with Tris deepened as Eren was thinking all this. Some of the clothes came out. Eren was cold at first, but then it got even warmer.

[I should buy genetic boost needles as soon as possible]

"Ah .. uh ...ah hah ah uh...(sounds of intimacy)"

Eren spent time with Tris for the next hour while there were sounds of bodies touching and hitting each other. They shared the dessert Tris bought and Eren was able to get his cigarette. But she couldn't wait until morning. If one of them able to leave his/her place of duty for too long, they would have continued to have fun with each other all night. Yet, even here life wasn't so comfortable and free.

Eren woke Nihan with the first lights of the morning, collected his belongings, and walked towards his house. When a woman who took over the guard post on the way and saw a man who behaved closely to her, Eren was sullen.

[Lucky bastards. Now they'll be spending all day with sex and considered to have worked at the same time. I also want this chance... ]

All of his partners were men, and the worse thing was all of them were old enough to be exhibited in museums. When Eren sometimes saw the extremely handsome men around, he even wondered if he was bisexual. But he didn't even get a chance to find out what a sexual experience with a man would be like. It would be nice to partner with someone a little younger, even if he was half-kidding and hard thinking it.

Eren could feel how much he got used to this lifestyle and this different world.

On the way, he picked up a small pack of food and put it in his mouth without thinking. It was smelly and weird but Eren didn't even try to look at the color of the food. This was cheap and it was enough reason to not mess with this topic.

"It is important to start the day with a healthy breakfast." He laughed to himself, imitating his mother's voice.

He entered his house and went into his bed without taking off his clothes. He heard the door of the next house opening but he didn't care. It must be his neighbor who went to work. But minutes later, just as he was going to sleep, his door knocked.

Ha?

Eren opened the door with narrowed eyes. He was playing with his hair with one hand.

"Good morning, Miss Twonsen ."

Eren had seen this beautiful and young next-door neighbor several times and had a brief chat. Her husband was an ordinary person who worked at the power plant.

"Ah, Eren. There is a small problem with my kitchen sink. My husband will be at work all day. I need some help. Are you available?"

Eren now knew something he didn't know before coming to this world. If the opposite sex asked you for help when there were people closer to them whom they could get help...then there was definitely an ulterior motive.

"I'm coming right now. I'll take my cigarette and come. You can go first, Mrs. Twon. "

After watching from behind of the blond woman who looked like she was in her late twenties, Eren shook his head when he thought of his still-shy old self. On Earth, he was probably losing so much opportunity in high school or college.

He spent a short time grabbing his cigarette and brushing his teeth with the same spray.

The door was open when he passed a garden of bushes and came next door. He couldn't see anyone in the hall. The air smelled of a women's perfume.

It was a clean and ordinary house. Eren looked indifferently at these household items and moved towards the place where the scent attracted him. He remembers the woman saying "there is a problem in the kitchen" but the empty kitchen confirmed his guesses.

He looked inside the bedroom and saw a naked blonde staring at her in see-through transparent underwear.

Eren closed the door behind and rushed forward without speaking. Before kissing the sexy woman who was looking at him with desire, a simple thought crossed his mind.

[GOD, I LOVE THIS WORLD!]

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