Offer blocks to the end times

"Are you alright? Do you feel unwell anywhere?" Senju checked herself and found nothing wrong, but she was still a little worried about the two people next to her.

"I'm fine, I don't feel any discomfort anywhere, I'm the same as usual," Chito said, somewhat puzzled, but after carefully examining himself for a while, he couldn't find anything wrong. "Yu, do you feel anything?"

"Nothing at all," Yuri hummed a song beside her. Although she hadn't found anything, it didn't affect her mood at all.

"That's good. Let's get going. Who knows how far away the next city is?"

Of course, Senju and the others didn't know that those barrels contained waste processed by strange creatures. It was because of the strange abilities of these creatures that iron locks were installed on the secure electronic doors. Unfortunately, before they could study them, war broke out, and everyone fled in panic, unwilling to take these useless things with them.

After tidying up, the group got into the car and headed in another direction. In the calm weather, they could vaguely see a group of buildings in the distance.

After a long time, the group finally arrived near the complex. It was still an abandoned city with no one around, but some places had two-story platforms supported by pillars, though the areas were small and the height was not very high, like a miniature version of the entire multi-story steel city.

When they arrived at the edge of the city, it was almost dusk, and a cold wind was blowing. Senju and his companions decided to find a building to spend the night in first.

After randomly choosing a building, Senju sealed off all the windows around them. However, perhaps because of the cold weather, the three of them still felt very cold at night, and the surrounding walls were useless.

Of course, Senju knew that simply sealing off the windows wouldn't be enough, but it was also impossible to seal off the entire area, as there was still a fire inside.

After hearing Senju's explanation, Sento and the others felt that in the future, when they encountered blizzards, it would be necessary to find a larger building, otherwise they would eventually freeze to death in such a small room.

Perhaps their prediction was accurate. After searching the building for a day, the surrounding wind and snow gradually intensified. The group then remembered a building from earlier that day, which happened to be nearby.

It was a warehouse that was discovered during the day when they were searching for supplies. At the time, the commander thought there were some supplies inside, but after searching for a while, he only found a huge oil tank inside, which was already empty.

When they arrived at the warehouse, it was completely dark, and the blizzard was lashing them. Even as Qianhu drove the car through the abandoned entrance, he could still feel the biting wind blowing from behind.

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After the car entered the warehouse, Senju blocked the abandoned entrance, leaving only a small opening, and placed a wooden door inside.

After the opening was blocked, the wind around the area quieted down immediately, but creaking sounds could be heard from all around, as if the entire warehouse was trembling in the blizzard.

Chito and the others got out of the car and tidied up. They lit the fuel lamps that hadn't been used in a long time and cleared the snow off the car. After Senju finished blocking the hole, she came over to help. After tidying up all the things, everyone sat down to rest for a while.

However, looking at the fire pit that Senju had built, Yuri suddenly had a whimsical idea, "Senju, can we add another layer on top of the fire? It would be so warm to sleep on it like that."

“That definitely won’t work. It would turn you into a grilled fish up there,” Chito was more understanding. However, Yuri’s suggestion reminded him of a heated kang bed, though he had forgotten exactly what it was like. But it certainly wasn’t on a fire.

"Tch, Chihiro, you're such a spoilsport. It must be so warm." Yuri still hadn't given up, but Chihiro was more easygoing. "It's good enough to have a place to shelter from the wind and snow. Yuri's idea is too strange."

"That's not necessarily true. I'll try to figure out what Yuri mentioned later. That would make it much warmer at night," Senju said after thinking for a while, remembering the structure of the heated floor and deciding to give it a try.

"Really? That's great!"

However, everyone should eat first. After cooking some fish soup, they took out their dry rations and started eating. After finishing, Senju started researching how to make a suitable heated kang (traditional heated bed), while Chito and Yuri sat by the fire pit, one writing in her diary and the other maintaining her gun.

Thousand Hands then tried it out on the open ground next to him. This time he used concrete block stairs and concrete steps. The two sounded similar, but the steps were just a thin slab, while the stairs were the part left after a quarter of the block was removed, and the shape was a staircase.

After thinking for a while, he placed rows of steps on the ground to create several grooves in the middle. Then he placed steps at both ends to connect the parallel grooves into a whole. Finally, he covered the entire structure with steps on top.

At both ends of the grooved channel, one side was the combustion point and the other side was the chimney. Qian Shou piled the chimney outside the warehouse through a gap at the top.

After finishing, Qian Shou looked at the whole thing. It was more than four meters wide and five or six meters long, with a huge pillar standing next to it. It looked strange.

After looking at it for a while, Qian Shou was very satisfied. Then he built a fire pit with a closed top at the burning point, with grooved channels and entrances for throwing waste at both ends.

Yuri came over to watch as the thousand hands were setting up. After cleaning her gun, she felt bored and came over to watch him build it. However, after a while, she ran back to the campfire to bother the thousand-man commander.

By the time Qian Shou finished building the kang (heated brick bed), a considerable amount of time had passed. Qian Shou decided to test it out. After lighting a fire in the newly built hearth, he felt the heat for a while and found that there was still no heat, which made him somewhat disappointed.

What went wrong? Is the fire not big enough? That can't be. Senju wanted to pull the two people next to him over for a look, but when he looked up, he found that Chito had fallen asleep by the car, and Yuri was still guarding the fire pit, seemingly lost in thought.

After Senju walked over, he noticed that Yuri seemed to have some tears in her eyes, and there was a book smoking next to her. However, Yuri did not notice Senju's approach. In the firelight, she rummaged through Chito's bag for a while and took out a diary, not knowing what she was going to do with it.

Chapter Thirty-Five: Just Saying Sorry Is Enough

When Senju saw this scene, she felt as if she had missed something. Although she had heard them arguing here, they were always like this, so she hadn't paid any attention.

"Yuri, what's wrong?" Senju sat down by the fire. Yuri was still staring blankly at her diary. After a while, she finally spoke, "I guess I upset Senju."

"Isn't that something that happens all the time? Why are you so upset?" Senju threw a piece of scrap into the fire, the firelight casting flickering shadows on the two of them.

“This time it’s different, Chihiro is really angry.” Yuri hugged the diary tightly, seemingly feeling very cold.

"Is she really angry? What happened?" Senju asked curiously. Yuri had teased Chito so many times before and nothing happened, even when she was pointed at with a gun. What was going on this time?

“I guess I was wrong this time,” Yuri began to recount what had just happened.

While Senju was figuring out how to build a suitable heated kang (traditional heated platform bed), Chito and Yuri were doing their own things by the fire, while a blizzard was making the warehouse rattle.

“What a fierce blizzard! It’s so good to have a place to stay,” Yuri chatted with Chihiro while maintaining her rifle, and Chihiro replied while writing in his diary, “Yeah, that’s right.”

In her diary, she wrote, "After passing the power plant, the three of us arrived at a new city, but we encountered a blizzard. Fortunately, we found a building for warmth, and Senju blocked the entrance. He brought some..."

Combustible organic waste..."

At this moment, the firelight dimmed a bit, and Qianhu looked up and said, "Ah, let's add some more fuel."

"well."

"'Okay' only needs to be said once."

“Okay—” Yuri picked up the scraps next to her and threw them into the fire. “Chi is so easy. She always leaves the troublesome things to me.”

“You brainless idiot, you should exercise more,” Chito said, bickering with Yuri as she wrote in her diary. “You can’t even write or read properly.”

“Ah,” Yuri sighed, then looked on with curiosity about what Chito had been writing, “So what exactly are you writing?”

"These are the notes I wrote after I set off. Should I call them a diary or a logbook? I've mentioned them to you before."

Yuri lay down next to Chitoge, looking bewildered. "Really?"

Chito was somewhat helpless at Yuri's reaction. He put down his pen and carefully examined Yuri for a while. "Especially for someone like you, taking notes is essential."

He then added, "My memory is getting weaker, which is why I need to write it down."

However, Yuri did not agree. After adjusting the gun in her hand, she stood up and struck a cool pose. "Memory is just an obstacle to survival."

Chito looked at Yuri, who was showing off, with a hint of helplessness. "Seriously, at least remember whether you've eaten or not."

"Huh? Have I eaten today?" Yuri asked, fiddling with her gun, a puzzled look on her face.

"Have you eaten yet...?" Chito asked with a hint of helplessness. He put the diary he had finished writing back into his backpack and then sighed, "Books are really amazing. Ever since humans invented books thousands of years ago, they have been using them to record everything. We are able to know about the past thanks to these books."

"Sigh, Xiaoqian has always loved books. She's read quite a few at Grandpa's house."

"Yes, but most of them were burned. Now, besides the diaries, all that's left are..." Chito took out his bag and counted how many books were left inside. "One, two, three, are there four more? But I recently found two more books, but they're still with Senju. I must come over when I have the chance."

“Let me see,” Yuri said, curious about the books. She wanted to know why Chito cherished them so much. Chito handed her one. “Here you go.”

Seeing Yuri's interest in the book, Chito said somewhat helplessly, "Even if we searched the whole world, we wouldn't know how many are left."

"I see," Yuri said after flipping through the book for a while, but realizing she didn't recognize any of the contents, she put it aside.

The surrounding firelight suddenly dimmed. "Ah, the fire's gone down again, Yu. Let's add some more fuel."

“Okay,” Yuri fumbled around for a moment, picked up something and threw it in. “There’s not much combustible waste left, huh?”

Yuri realized she had thrown in the book she'd just thrown in, and Chito turned around. "Really? All the scrap is gone? In a bit..."

Then she saw the books in the fire, immediately rushed in and grabbed them, but they were already partially burned. "Ahhhhh, the books are burning!"

"Put it out quickly!" He grabbed the burning book and started hitting Yuri repeatedly, trying to extinguish the fire on the book as soon as possible.

"It's hot, so hot!" But Yuri didn't dare to move. She felt that she had really made a big mistake this time. After a while, the fire on the book went out, but it was still smoking.

"Ahhh, 'Kappa'!" Chito cried, kneeling beside the burnt, tattered book. Yuri, however, asked with some confusion, "Kappa?"

"I just told you that books are very important," Chito once again used the face-pinching technique on Yuri, and Yuri's speech became strange as she sat between the two books.

"Sorry, I wasn't listening much just now."

“Listen to me,” Qianhu said, still glaring angrily at her after letting go of her.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong this time."

"Idiot, scum, trash."

"Yes."

"You're kidding me."

Yuri thought that, like some of the previous jokes, Chito would soon stop being angry. However, Chito lay down next to the car, covered himself with a blanket, and said, "That's enough, I'm going to sleep."

Only Yuri and the charred 'kappa' remained there.

Yuri sat there somewhat bewildered for a while before Senju came over.

"What do you want to do?" Senju asked, wanting to know what Yuri would do after hearing her story.

"I don't know either, but Chizu is my friend, and I want to get along with her as before. Chizu, what should I do?"

"Well, if you want to make amends, it's best to say sorry. Friends can understand each other. It would be even better if you prepared a gift as well."

"Gift?"

"It's something that can express my feelings, and here I am..."

"I understand, thank you, Senju," Yuri said, then ran over to Chito with the diary and started drawing.

Seeing how focused she was, Senju stopped bothering her and slowly added fuel to the fire. After a while, he also fell asleep beside her, leaving only Yuri next to Senju.

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Greenhouse in Winter

When everyone woke up the next day, they found that the warehouse was no longer making creaking noises, which clearly indicated that the blizzard outside had stopped.

Three people

After eating some dry rations, they prepared to go out and take a look. Senju also tidied up the things on the ground.

However, when Senju tried to go out through the door, she found that the outside was blocked by snow. Senju knocked open all the blocks blocking the gap and saw that there was a thin snow wall outside. Chito and Yuri came over with a shovel. After seeing the snow at the door, the two of them went up and kicked it open.

Once outside, I saw the sun hanging there, and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. Only the thick layer of snow on the ground proved that there had been a blizzard the night before.

"Oh, it's finally sunny," Yuri stretched in front of the sun, while Chito looked at the ground and said, "There's so much snow."

Senju also came out to test it and found that the snow was very thick, already several tens of centimeters deep. "It is indeed a good day, but with such thick snow, will the car be okay?"

"It's probably okay, but we need to try it out," Chito said before going back to get the car. Throughout the process, Chito and Yuri didn't have their usual playful banter. Chito felt a bit uncomfortable and looked at Yuri, only to find her still standing there in a daze.

After a while, Chito drove the car out, but it struggled to move forward on the snow. Yuri helped push the car from the side. "How is it? Can you drive it?"

"It's alright," Chito said with some concern, but the cart still started moving slowly, with Senju helping to push it from behind.

"Hey, are you still angry?" Yuri leaned over and looked at Chito, but Chito's reaction was indifferent. "No, you two can get in the car too."

After the two got into the car, Yuri still looked worried, "Really? You're not angry anymore?"