Offer blocks to the end times

"You two get ready, we're about to take off," Ishii said after getting on the plane and sitting in the pilot's seat. After looking at the interface for a while with some unfamiliarity, he became full of confidence.

"Take off? Let me down right now! Help!" Qianhu panicked and tried to rush down.

"Too slow. Today you are my passengers, hahaha," Ishii, somewhat agitated, somehow managed to close the cabin door by manipulating a mechanism.

As the system started, a small electronic instrument appeared on the dashboard, prompting, "Please select automatic driving or manual driving."

"What is this?" Ishii asked, somewhat puzzled, but the machine quickly replied, "I am the auxiliary pilot robot for this aircraft, capable of assisting and replacing the pilot in driving."

"Really? Then let's choose autopilot," Ishii said, somewhat curious about the information he had seen before. He thought the robot should be able to drive better than he could.

"Yes, autonomous driving has been selected. Please enter your destination." As the robot spoke, a map appeared in front of them, but it was blank except for a single dot flashing in the center. "Map display error. Initiating surrounding terrain detection."

Chapter Sixty-One: Why Are You Afraid of Heights?

As the robot's voice rang out, a halo appeared on the screen and expanded outwards, revealing a simple map with a few marked place names; the rest of the map was blank.

"What are these?" Senju asked Ishii, who didn't recognize any of the characters. After looking at them for a while, Ishii explained them to Senju.

“This should be where we are now in the middle, this is the grain production facility on the left, this is the power plant, and this is…” She described the locations marked on the map one by one. “This is a topographical map of the area, but isn’t the area a bit small?”

"I'm sorry, because we can't connect to the satellite, we can only detect a range of 20 kilometers around us. There are nine locations where there is still a signal. Please confirm your destination," the robot began to explain again.

Chito and Yuri ran over to look at the map. Hearing the robot's question, Yuri exclaimed, "Target: food production facility!"

The robot turned its head toward Ishii, who nodded. A dot on the map lit up, and a straight line connected to it.

"Yes, the target has been decided. Shall we take off?"

"Take off, take off!" Yuri shouted again, and Chito next to her nervously pulled her back, "Idiot, don't talk nonsense."

Unaffected by what followed, Ishii nodded and calmly said, "Take off."

"Attention all passengers and crew, takeoff in ten seconds, 198..."

Following the audio prompt, everyone inside gripped their seats tightly. A few seconds later, with a slight sway, the helicopter slowly took off, and the light screen in front shrank to the bottom, allowing the people inside to see the outside scenery through the windows.

"Wow, that's amazing! It really flies in the sky! Chito, come and see!" Yuri exclaimed, leaning against the window, while Chito clung tightly to her seat inside. "Aren't we there yet? Aren't we there yet?"

Senju sat comfortably in his seat, not afraid of heights as long as he couldn't see. Ishii, on the other hand, looked both gratified and forlorn. After all, his dream of flying had been realized in a rather bizarre way. What had he been persisting for all this time?

Amid Yuri's shouts, the helicopter slowly came to a stop on a flat area a few minutes later. "Destination reached. Flight time: nine minutes."

"It's so close, is this it?" As the hatch opened, Yuri began to look outside, but all she saw was flat ground with some buildings and pipes in the distance. "Could we be underground? Chihiro, we've arrived."

"Really?" Qianhu looked at Yuri with teary eyes, then noticed the flat ground outside and walked down shakily.

Senju followed him down, while Ishii sat there, laughed for a while, then sighed and came down from above. He looked at everyone with a faint smile and said, "The grain production facilities are just ahead. There are still some grains stored inside. Let me take you to see them."

“Great, taro, taro,” Yuri exclaimed happily, while Chito next to her shook hands and swore, “How horrible! I’ll never ride this thing again.”

"Let's go," Ishii said, leading everyone away.

After a while, they discovered a large area of ​​winding iron pipes ahead, extending deep underground.

“This is the grain production facility. Follow me.” She opened a mechanism, and several people slowly entered through the elevator at the entrance. There was a path against the wall, and on the other side were the pipes.

After walking for a while, the group stopped near a pipe, with an arrow marked on the wall next to it.

“This is the entrance,” Ishii pointed to a huge pipe connecting to the side of the road. Chito looked at it and became a little scared. “Won’t it be too dangerous to walk this way?”

"Ah, it's not dangerous at all, it's actually very safe," Ishii said, slightly puzzled. What's wrong with walking through these pipes?

Qianhu felt a pang of panic. "But there's nothing here. What if I fall?"

Just as Ishii was about to climb down the ladder next to him, he looked in the direction Chito pointed and said, "This is the entrance, not some other path."

"Oh, then I'm relieved," Qianhu breathed a sigh of relief, and then the group followed Shijing into the pipe. It was very spacious inside, with two rows of lit lights on the ceiling and arrows pointing the way.

"So that's what it was when we just kept walking forward," Chito sighed with relief. "Great, we're not walking on top of it."

"Chito, you're really afraid of heights, huh? Why is that?" Yuri was puzzled by Chito's persistent fear of heights.

"Why what?" Chito was also a little confused, but she was still afraid of high places. "I don't really know either, I just feel scared."

“But we already live in a very high place,” Yuri said, which made sense, but the three people next to her felt something was off.

"This is probably not quite the same," Qianhu thought for a while, unsure how to answer, but it certainly wasn't the same.

After thinking for a while, Senju chimed in, "It's probably the difference between seeing and not seeing. You can't see how high it is outside from here."

“Yes, yes, that’s it,” Chito nodded repeatedly, while Yuri was a little puzzled. “What’s the difference? We already knew we were high in the air.”

"Everyone, go down the ladder in front, we'll be there soon," Ishii climbed down the ladder at the head of the pipe, and Senju followed. This pipe was many times thicker than the one they had just seen, and it was more than ten meters high inside. At the bottom, there was a pile of huge parts, some of which were much bigger than a person.

"Chihiro, don't look down there, just walk slowly step by step," Yuri said, anxiously directing Chihiro's movements from below.

"Hmm," Chito trembled slightly with fear again. Listening to Yuri's words, she slowly climbed down. After a while, the two of them slowly climbed down as well. Finally, Chito softly lay down on the ground and let out a long breath.

"Let's take a short break," Yuri suggested, looking at Chito. The four of them sat down and rested for a while.

"Wow, there's such a big pipe," Chito sighed as he looked at the wide pipe. Yuri was also curious. "You can't tell at all from the outside."

"Because this was originally the city's drainage system, connecting many places. It's very deep underground and can't be found from the outside," Ishii explained.

“No wonder there’s so much strange trash; it must have been washed here by the water,” Chito nodded in understanding.

Chapter Sixty-Two: Bone-Strengthening Growth

“I see,” Yuri said, indicating that she had learned something. Chito then took out her camera to take a picture of the arrow next to her. “It would be so much easier if we had arrows like these all the time.”

“Ugh, that’s so boring,” Yuri complained, leaning closer to the camera.

"You're still complaining about being bored? There were so many exciting things just now, I'm completely exhausted now," Qianhu said as he lay down.

Yuri clapped her hands and said, "Walking like this is boring, let's try other routes, let's explore, like going into that cave."

Senju and Ishii, standing nearby, also glanced in the direction Yuri was pointing. There was a dark cave entrance there. Senju felt a headache coming on. "Rejected. The destination is right in front of us. Who would ignore a road sign?"

“I am,” Yuri refuted Chito’s words with her actions.

"Really, don't do that," Chito complained, and Yuri immediately withdrew her raised hand. "I'm sorry."

"We're almost at the taro production area," Ishii said casually. "Other pipelines can't reach there."

"I see. Then let's just follow the signs," Yuri said, having to abandon her idea of ​​exploration after hearing about the food.

After resting for a while, the four continued on their way. After changing through several pipes, they emerged from a narrower pipe. In front of them was a platform with a gap, inside which was a ladder leading down.

Ishii led everyone to a room below, where there were many shelves with rows of plant vines and electric lights. "This is where the food was produced. There's probably some left."

"Really?" Yuri looked around at the empty space with only vines and plants, and then she started to walk around inside. "I found it, taro."

After circling around, Yuri finally spotted the only taro, hanging below the plant vine. "Amazing! It can even be like this? This is..."

Plants.

“Well, but we finally made it here, and there’s only one left,” Chito sighed, while Ishii explained from the side, “That’s why I said there’s only one left.”

"This is too little," Yuri complained, then used her dagger to cut the taro off. "Ishii is really dense; no wonder the plane had problems."

“Hey, Yuri, you have no right to talk to her like that,” Chito scolded Yuri before apologizing to Ishii. “I’m sorry, Yuri is just too dense.”

"It's alright, there really aren't many left," Ishii waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care.

Senju stared blankly at the plants. He realized that all the vines were actually plants. He wondered if the bone powder would work. With that thought, he took out the bone powder and sprinkled it on the plants. As a green light flashed, white cubes appeared below the surrounding vines, and then slowly grew into taro roots just like before.

"Oh, there are so many!" Yuri was very happy to see the taro growing and wanted to cut down all the ones around her to take with her. However, after picking a few, Yuri realized that she couldn't take too many. "Chii, come and help me carry them too."

"What incredible people! This is enough for us to eat for a year," Ishii said, somewhat numb to the amazing sight, only feeling a little emotional.

"Haha, I didn't expect it to work so well, but at least we won't be short of food for now," Senju said, somewhat surprised that bone meal was also effective on these plants.

"Senju, pack these up!" Yuri ran to Senju's side carrying a bunch of taro. "There are still a lot more here. Take them all with you."

“Yes, that’s true. It’s rare to come here, and Ishii will be joining the team later,” Senju agreed with Yuri’s idea, but Ishii next to her didn’t think so.

"No, I won't leave with you. I want to continue researching aircraft at the base."

"But your research has already failed. Are you still going to go outside the city?"

"That's irrelevant now. After flying once, I became even more interested in airplanes and wanted to study more about them. I don't want to leave here for the time being."

"Is that so? Then let's leave half of the taro for Ishii," Yuri said, feeling a little heartbroken. Ishii retorted, "Yuri is really shameless, but I agree."

"I'm sorry to have troubled you," Qianhu said, coming over from the side. "This is a grain production base, right? Is there anything else?"

"Yes, there are also washing, crushing and baking equipment here. These facilities are used to process taro into military rations, but I have never used them."

"I see, there are these too. Is this where you go down?" Qianhu pointed to a square pipe next to him.

"No, this is the passageway where the taro is sent down. Below is a conveyor belt that transports the taro to the machines for processing. Although the machines have all stopped operating now, they are still usable."

"I see, so these taro are to be processed into military rations?"

“No, taro is tastier,” Yuri objected.

"There should be some taro flour in the warehouse downstairs. We can try to make some military rations. These taro can be harvested at any time if we leave them here."

"I see. But there's so much taro here. We won't be short of food for a long time."

“Why don’t you stay here too?” Ishii looked at the three of them. “This place has been restored to a state of having electricity, water, food, and shelter, enough for the four of you to live on indefinitely.”

“Yes, it’s really nice here. There’s hot water and a bed, but I still want to go to the top floor to take a look,” Chito said, sounding a bit conflicted. “That’s what I think, but I don’t know what Yuri and Senju think.”

"I'll always be by Chito's side," Yuri said with a grin, hugging Chito. After a few muttered complaints, Chito let her hug him, and then the three of them looked at Senju.

"I'll stay with Qianhu and the others. I'm a little worried about those two who are so lazy and still running around outside."

"Is that so? But I hope you'll come back after you've been to the top floor."

"Of course, whether we find another human settlement or not, we will come back to see you in the end," Senju assured Ishii, ignoring the two idiots next to him who were insisting they weren't fools.

"That's good. I'll study the plane I just got in the meantime," Ishii said with a sigh of relief, then looked at the two people beside him. "Should you harvest these taro first, or go downstairs and try to make some military rations?"

Chapter Sixty-Three: Bread is not a new thing.

After considering for a while, the commander said, "Well, let's make some military rations first, but how do we get down there?"

“Chihiro, this is the entrance,” Yuri said earnestly, trying to persuade Chihiro to go down the square pipe next to her.

"You, this isn't the right passage."

"Tch, this almost got interesting."

"Everyone, follow me," Ishii led the way, and Senju followed after gathering up a pile of taro from the ground.

After going up several steps, the group arrived at a huge underground space. There were many machines here, and conveyor belts connected them all around, but they had all stopped now. Only the lights above were still providing illumination.