The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 6 Let's Go on an Adventure
When Yu Qing opened his eyes, his head was resting on Fu Rong's stomach. Yan'er and Daji were quietly moving around the bedside, while Fu Rong kept her eyes down, not daring to look at them.

Seeing that he had woken up, Daji stepped forward and asked, "Are we still leaving today?"

"Of course I'm leaving, why didn't you wake me up sooner?"

Yan'er said, "Who would dare? You're sleeping so soundly!"

Yu Qing said, "Actually, no, it only takes one or two hours to get to Wengshan."

"Daji, get me some sticky powder to fill my stomach first. We'll leave once I'm full."

Daji brought over two large bowls of sticky rice noodles and said meaningfully:
"You used up a lot of energy yesterday, so you need to replenish your nutrition."

While eating, Yu Qing said, "You guys are so lucky, all you need to do is recharge."

This person is such a low-class product. All he does is eat and eat, his poop stinks, his pee is foul, and he's inferior to you in everything he does.

Daji, tell me, aren't you very indignant?

Daji laughed and said, "How could that be, my dear? If humans were better than us at everything, what would be the point of having us?"

Yan'er handed over the water and said, "Hurry up and drink it so you can release all your sweet farts and get on your way."

By this time, Furong had already dressed and ran over to gently pat Yuqing on the back to help him quickly put the food and water in place.

"How about we do as Daji suggested and I sleep in the box? But I'm afraid of the dark, so I'll have Yan'er stay with me inside."

Daji said, "The box isn't that big!"

Yan'er opened the box, gestured, and said, "I think squeezing in might not be a bad idea."

Daji retorted angrily, "Squeeze your head my foot! That would make you too heavy, how could you possibly slide fast?"

Furong said, "I can push it while walking outside."

Daji said, "Can you skate fast? Fine, fine, whatever you want!"

Yu Qing thought it was quite fun, so he lay down in the box and let Yan'er go in too.

He held Yan'er tightly, but he couldn't close the lid no matter what he did.

Yu Qing whispered in Yan'er's ear:
"Let's hug a little longer and tease Daji; she's about to explode with jealousy."

Yan'er answered softly:

“Honey, this won’t do. Her anger level seems to be 3, which means she might ignore you for 3 days, and then we won’t be able to leave.”

Yu Qing quickly released Yan'er, stepped out of the box, and said:
"Are you all packed? Let's go."

Furong secretly winked at Yu Qing and pointed at Daji. "When did Daji go to the window and go into a deep slumber?"

Yan'er said, "Look! We can't leave now."

Yu Qing said, "Go and wake her up!"

Furong said, "We can't wake her up. Deep hibernation only unlocks automatically when there is external danger."

Yu Qing didn't believe it, so he grabbed her ear and said, "The sky has fallen, the earth has collapsed, and there's a flood!"

Daji did not react.

Yu Qing said, "Then let's go, let her stay here by herself!"

Yan'er said, "That won't do either. She bought us; we can't abandon her."

Yu Qing said, "I was just saying that, so I'll have to leave later."

Oh, right, I forgot to ask you guys something yesterday. I don't know anything about Class C roads or anything like that.

Yan'er said, "Class C roads are upgraded from trails. New humans actually walk very little anymore, so we upgraded the roads to Class C roads. The roads have a near-field charging system. As long as you wear automatic gliding boots, you can glide at about 40 kilometers per hour, and the road will automatically recharge the boots."

Class B roads are high-speed metal conveyors traveling at approximately 1500 kilometers per hour. They are typically used for long-distance traffic.

There are several entrances and exits along the route. At each entrance, several boxes are placed along the roadside. When someone enters and presses the start button, the box immediately runs several kilometers along the road and is placed onto a metal belt.

Class A roads use capsule transportation. You simply enter the capsule at the starting point, and the road system essentially acts like a rapid-fire cannon, launching you like a projectile from the barrel to your destination. Its speed is 8000-15000 kilometers per hour.

"The technology is amazing, but is it necessary to be this fast? It's not like we're in a rush to be reborn!"

"Huh? Back then, there were actually people who shared your views, opposing the construction of Class A roads, saying that the value of life lies in the moderate waste of time, rather than endlessly rushing around."

"So, does that mean we wasted some time today?"

"However, Class A roads are indeed convenient for us humanoid girls."

"Huh? You've traveled on Class A roads too? Wasn't it delivered by truck?"

"No, we came here on our own, packed in boxes."

Trucks are almost never used anymore; goods are mostly loaded into smart containers and arrive on their own. For long distances, they follow the same A and B-level roads as people, eventually taking C-level roads to reach their destination or the owner.

"Isn't that very expensive?"

"No, very low. Smart boxes of all sizes are reusable and available all over the world."

"No wonder Daji thought of putting me in a box and transporting me to Wengshan."

At this moment, Yu Qing thought of charging his time capsule, which belonged to his father and had been carried with him ever since he left the First Paradise.

He took the time capsule from the pocket of his protective suit and asked Hibiscus to get it. Hibiscus took it, glanced at it, and said:
"Honey, I can't charge it right now. It's too old and can only accept 220V charging voltage."

The voltage for wireless or near-field charging here has been upgraded to 20V.

Yu Qing was taken aback and said, "Isn't that too dangerous for people? If someone happens to pass through the middle of the remote charging, wouldn't they be doomed?"

"No, baby. First, it's a transient charge, and second, it can detect whether any living organisms are approaching."

Besides, where would your baby have the chance to come into contact with electricity? We'll handle anything that might be dangerous for you.

We can withstand a 100 million volt electric shock.

Yu Qing thought that since he had Daji and the other two, he didn't need the Time Capsule anymore. He was going to throw it away, but then he remembered that it was left by his father, so he asked Furong to put it back in its original place.

He was captivated as he gazed at Daji's retreating figure.

My initial intention in running away from the first theme park was indeed to find like-minded people to join in other theme parks, but now it seems that things are pretty good this way...

He suddenly realized that the images of Ya Ya and Yi Yi were becoming increasingly blurry in his memory.

He had spent over twenty years with them, but none of them had made him feel as comfortable and attached as Daji and the others, with whom he had only spent a few days or even a dozen hours.

Humans are indeed heartless creatures…

He felt he was poisoned, that he had been afflicted by the Gu poison of these three humanoid beauties.

However, this should not shake the plan to reunite with other humans.

The humanoid girls actually have a higher level of thinking ability than humans, and one day they will deduce that I am just a burden to them.

It's more reassuring to be with someone you need from each other.

He thought he needed to make them all have a "love brain," to be a little silly, and preferably to stay within their circle and not come out to deduce that, in their eyes, he was a complete waste.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh. They shouldn't be seen merely as products created by humans.

After all, even the new humans are no longer products of nature.

They have developed thinking abilities similar to humans, so we should treat them as people just like ourselves.

He did something that surprised Yan'er and the others: he went over and gently picked up Daji, put her in the quilt, and then sat down beside her and watched her.

In their view, this is an "inhuman" act because it is always humanoids who serve people, not the other way around.

Their brains analyzed the situation and concluded that he preferred this kind of "self-torture." So, Furong and Yan'er went to the window for a deep nap without prior arrangement.

He hadn't expected this, so he carried them all to the bed and laid them side by side, covering them with a blanket.

He was unaware at the time that this would affect their future behavior, often leading them to act in a master-servant inverted manner.

Now he sat down next to the three of them, looking at their adorable faces, and felt a warm glow in his heart.

However, it seems that we can't leave today.

There is no stable food source here, and the area is under threat to safety. You should leave as soon as possible.

As night fell, he sat on the edge of the bed, feeling bored and dozing off, holding Daji's hand tightly, hoping she would wake up from her slumber soon.

In his dazed state, he felt as if the house was shaking.

When he opened his eyes, Daji and the others were already standing around him. He had been shaken awake by Daji.

“Honey, we have to leave immediately. The hotel’s self-destruction seems to have been brought forward.”

"You guys are really making a scene in the middle of the night! During the day you're all..."

Yan'er said anxiously, "We've sensed the foundation settling rapidly, there's no time..."

Without saying a word, Daji picked up Yuqing and put him in the box, while telling Yan'er to pack the other two boxes and telling Furong to open the door.

When Furong reached for the door from the inside, she found it was badly warped and wouldn't open. She cried out, "It won't open!"

Daji and Yan'er quickly put down their boxes and went to help push the door open. The door didn't budge.

The three humanoid beauties looked at each other for a moment, then Daji called out, "Go through the window."

Yan'er picked up the box, intending to throw it out the window, but the window was smaller than the box.

The house started to tilt.

Daji, holding Yuqing, pushed aside Yan'er who was blocking the window and jumped down.

Yu Qing turned around and said, "My things..."

At this moment, large pieces of material came crashing down from all directions. Daji dodged them while running quickly towards the open space outside the hotel.

Yu Qing clung tightly to Daji's neck, his eyes fixed on whether Furong and Yan'er were following behind.

But the power was out, and it was pitch black behind us, so we couldn't see anything.

A loud bang was heard, followed by sudden silence. Yu Qing thought to himself, "Fu Rong and Yan'er are doomed."

Daji carried him and ran for a while, until they arrived at the C-level road leading outside the hotel.

The road was covered in dust and dead leaves, indicating that the trees here had grown naturally rather than being power-generating trees. This also thwarted Daji's plan to glide along the C-level road, forcing her to walk instead.

Fortunately, Furong and Yan'er managed to escape. They caught up with them.

Furong carried his protective suit, while Yan'er held his helmet, her face covered in dirt.

Daji sighed, "We've lost all our spare parts. If anyone gets injured, there's no hope of recovery."

Yu Qing kissed Daji deeply and said, "Thanks to you today."

After saying that, he got out of Daji's arms and found that he was only wearing a nightgown and was barefoot.

He stepped on something on the ground and hit it, making him yell in pain.

As if by magic, Furong pulled from behind his neck, moving a pair of shoes that were hanging there to his chest and taking them off. She and Yan'er, one on each side, picked up his feet and put the shoes on.

He put his arms around Furong and Yan'er, kissed them both, and said, "Anyway, thank you both."

He then turned to Daji and asked, "My dear, is this the road to Wengshan?"

When Daji heard him call her "darling," her eyes lit up, and she happily replied, "Yes, darling."

He took Daji's hand and said, "Then, my dear, come with me."

At the same time, he turned to Furong and Yan'er and said, "My darlings, you two follow me!"

Walking at night is not an easy task; he found himself unable to take even one step.

In the end, Daji carried him on her back, holding him so that she could see where she was going.

Furong and Yan'er followed on either side of Daji.

In fact, Yan'er moved forward one body length to the right, while Furong retreated one body length to the left, and their defensive coordination was quite good.

They can walk at speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour without getting tired.

But Daji and the others suddenly stopped at the same time.

Unable to connect to satellites, they couldn't determine their location, let alone their destination.

Since humans started using location systems hundreds of years ago, they have gradually lost the ability to remember roads and directions.

The dependence of humanoid girls is even greater.

Daji and the others could have roughly calculated their location through trajectory analysis, but since they had just escaped, that section of their trajectory was chaotic, and the error was too great.

They didn't know if they had taken a wrong turn or gone in the wrong direction.

To his astonishment, Daji could actually cry. She cried and said:
"Honey, we're lost."

Because the mountains and rivers here have changed so much over the past hundred years, and because of the limited light at night, even identifying location and orientation by geographical and architectural features has become ineffective.

Yu Qing laughed and said, "It's no big deal. I'm here for you. Let's stop for now, gather the fallen leaves along the road, make a fire, chat around the fire from a distance, and talk again when it gets light!"

Yan'er said, "We don't have anything to start a fire."

Yu Qing asked Fu Rong to hand him the protective suit. He then took out a harpoon lighter from the large pocket, tapped it, and said, "Do you see the sparks?"

Furong exclaimed, "There really is Mars!"

Daji and her companions set to work, collecting flammable materials from all around and piling them in the middle of the road.

Suddenly Yan'er cried out, "This little thing is trying to bite me!"

Just as she was about to throw it away, Yu Qing quickly said, "Don't throw it away! We'll bake it and eat it later! Finally, we won't have to eat sticky rice flour anymore!"

After the fire was lit, Yu Qing was sweating profusely from the heat.

Lighting a fire on such a hot day is a terrible idea, but he really doesn't like the dark.

Yu Qing stood a few dozen meters away from the fire, while Daji and Furong flanked him on either side.

Yan'er roasted a wild rabbit she had caught for him in front of the fire.

After the rabbit was roasted, Yan'er handed it to Yu Qing and said:

"Honey, why don't people recharge? Eating these things is too inefficient."

Yu Qing laughed and said, "How can I poop if I don't eat these things!"

Daji asked in confusion, "Is it for defecating? There's no record in the documents of any important uses for human excrement."

Yu Qing bluffed, "It can generate electricity."

Daji thought for a moment and said, "There are indeed records that animal excrement can be fermented into biogas for power generation, but the efficiency and cost are not high, and it has been phased out a long time ago."

Yu Qing said in a serious tone, "No matter how much electricity it generates, it's a small token of my appreciation to you all."

(End of this chapter)