Offer blocks to the end times

These machines

"What is this machine?" Yuri hadn't paid any attention to the previous conversation and was curious about the machines here.

"This is a food production facility, a machine used to produce food," Chito explained to Yuri in simple terms.

“Yes, for example, the machine you’re standing on right now, Chito, is used to crush taro,” Ishii reminded Chito, who was standing on a conveyor belt.

"Ah!" Chito jumped down in fright, while Yuri next to her saw two buttons. "Hmm, what are these?"

After she finished speaking, she pressed a button, and the conveyor belt on the machine started spinning instantly. Chito looked at the rapidly spinning conveyor belt and the constantly rotating shredder beside him, sweat pouring down his face. He glared angrily at Yuri, who was still poking at the machine.

"This still works," I pressed the button next to it, and the machine stopped. I pressed it again, and it started up again.

"Don't touch strange things," Chito stepped forward and pinched Yuri's cheek, trying to make her realize her mistake.

I'm sorry.

"How about we try crushing some taro?" Ishii suggested, but Chito shook his head vigorously in rejection.

"Look everyone, there seems to be something down there!" Yuri ran to the railing next to her and looked down, seemingly having discovered something.

"Ah, Yu, you're running around again. Did you find something?"

"That was a warehouse for storing taro flour, but there are very few of them left now."

While everyone was talking, Yuri had already jumped from the railing onto the warehouse wall. "It's some kind of powdery stuff."

"We all know, but what you're doing is very dangerous."

As the three of them went down the stairs next to each other and entered the warehouse marked 'Pink', they saw Yuri already standing inside tasting it. "Hmm, it's a bit sweet. This tastes like taro."

“Ah, that’s right,” Chito also tried it, while Ishii watched the two of them from the side. “This is taro flour, it’s made by processing taro using the machine we just used.”

“Oh, is that so? Chihiro almost became a Chihiro fan,” Yuri started her usual self-destructive behavior again, but now that there was food in front of her, she should think about how to eat it. “So these are edible things, right?”

"Taro can be boiled and eaten, but how do we eat this powder? Ishii, do you have a solution?"

"Boil it?" Ishii hesitated for a moment, then Chito turned to look at Yuri. "Let's grill it instead."

"I wonder if this can be used to make steamed buns?" Senju stared at the powder and started daydreaming. However, it seemed a bit strange to use this to make steamed buns, so Senju gave up on expressing his thoughts.

After deciding on the method, Ishii showed them a machine, "This is an oven. Just press here and it will light up."

As Ishii operated the machine, rows of flames emerged from beneath a huge square machine in the center. Chito looked on in surprise, "Oh, so this is a machine for grilling things? It really should be grilled."

"Hey, Qian, how do you pronounce this? It's so sweet!" Yuri walked over carrying a half-full bag with several symbols on it.

"Hmm, it's sugar, right? Yu, where did you find it?" Chito also took a little and tasted it, then looked happy. "It's so sweet."

"It's right there on the ground over there."

"I feel like I've seen this somewhere before." Chito said with some doubt, turning off the fire next to him. Senju heard this and came over as well. "Do you have any sugar here? There seem to be quite a few ingredients."

"Oh, I remember now, I mentioned before that taro was a raw material for military rations," Yuri said, starting to speculate. "Could this also be a raw material for making military rations?"

“You remember things about food so clearly,” Chito tried to operate the grill next to him and then paused, “Ah, I remember now.”

After saying that, she reached out to Senju, who was tasting sugar next to her, and said, "Senju, bring out a bag of military rations."

"Hmm," Senju, who was in a good mood while eating sweets, gave her a bag of military rations. After looking at the packaging, Senju pointed to a line of text at the bottom, "One of the ingredients is sugar, oh, and salt."

“Ah, report, there are other bags too,” Yuri said excitedly when she heard it was something related to food.

"Really?" The commander held the military rations, deep in thought. "Then, sugar, taro, and salt might be able to make military rations."

"Really? That's amazing," Yuri next to her said with a serious expression, ignoring her drooling.

“Okay, let’s get started,” Chito said, and began searching for things. Chito was a little suspicious of her, “Chito, have you ever made similar food before?”

“Of course, I used to bake bread for Grandpa,” Chito said proudly from the side. Yuri, who was helping out, also reminisced, “Those breads were delicious too.”

"You remember food so clearly."

"That was the last time I ate bread before I met Senju."

"So you guys make bread? I thought you were always eating military rations."

"Don't underestimate Senju. I didn't grow up eating military rations. Besides, Senju's bread is just a coincidence in name, it's not actually baked," Chito said, holding a huge iron basin and starting to complain about Senju. "Just do it again like that."

Senju then realized that he had been underestimating her all along. Looking at her iron basin, he asked, "Senju, do you want some water?"

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"Okay, let's get ready first."

Senju built a slightly higher platform next to them, with three sides blocked off, a water source placed in the middle, and a pool below, so that the water would flow down continuously without overflowing.

After cleaning his tools, Qianhu put the powder from the warehouse into a basin, added sugar and salt, stirred it, and then started adding water.

"That should be it. Add all the ingredients in and then knead," Chito and Yuri started kneading the dough by the basin, shouting "knead" as they kneaded.

Chapter Sixty-Four: The Sweetness of Happiness

"I'll give it a try too," Ishii said, finding it interesting and joining in. Senju, who was next to him, also wanted to help, but was directed by Chito to add water on the side.

The three of them kept chanting "rub," and their intonations changed several times over.

“Oh, it feels different now,” Chito said, as the powdered ingredients were kneaded into a dough. “It really is sticky.”

"This is really interesting," the three of them said, kneading the dough and humming a song. Finally, they pulled the dough into the air, and the powdery ingredients had turned into a huge lump of dough.

"Haha, it's so sticky!" Yuri said excitedly as she pulled the dough, and Chito also felt that this level was already very satisfactory.

“Hmm, not bad,” Chito placed a piece of dough on a griddle he found in the oven. “Then just flatten it and cut it.”

Chito then began to flatten the dough on top, and Yuri used a dagger to cut it into pieces. Yuri took some and shaped them into several different shapes, including fish, bread, apples, and a small mushroom.

Senju stood beside her, watching her mutter to herself, "I hope to become delicious, I hope to become delicious."

After seeing these shapes, Ishii went over and sculpted a few airplanes, and Senju went over and sculpted a few small animals. However, if Senju didn't tell them what they were, no one could recognize them. Those round, long strips were probably snakes or dragons, and the ones with four legs pointing upwards were probably piglets. After sculpting a few, Senju stopped.

Everyone laughed as they looked at the creations. Chito saw that there was still some sugar left, so he sprinkled it on the creations, and then everyone put them into the oven.

"You have to watch the heat," Chito said, reciting a tip she'd learned before while watching the oven, while Yuri kept asking if it was done yet.

After a while, Chito turned off the oven, and Yuri stood beside her and asked cautiously, "Is it done?"

After Chito and Yuri changed into the gloves next to them, they carefully pulled out the scalding hot iron plate, and a fragrant aroma wafted out.

"It smells so good, and it looks sparkly," Yuri said, holding up a piece of sugar sprinkled on it.

Qianhu, however, was somewhat doubtful. "Is it a little burnt?"

Senju and Ishii also came over. Senju looked at the creations and said, "Senju's skills are really amazing. These should be called sweets."

"Snacks?" Yuri asked, puzzled, before turning her attention to the snacks in her hand. "Well then, next, awooo."

Yuri took a bite of a pastry and savored it, a happy expression spreading across her face. The people around her also began to enjoy it.

Feeling the sweet and delicious taste in their mouths, the four of them exclaimed happily at the same time, "So delicious!"

After finishing one piece, Yuri saw some dough left in the bowl and started daydreaming, "There are still some ingredients here. We need to bake them all together. If we bake these, it will be enough to last us a year."

"No, no, no, Yuri, you're being too naive," Chito retorted, and Yuri herself felt a bit conflicted. "Too naive, really?"

“There are still plenty of ingredients, enough to make a year’s supply,” Senju chimed in from the side. “There are still lots of taro on top.”

“Oh, then let’s roast all these taro,” Yuri said, her mouth watering. Chito complained, “We don’t have enough sugar and salt.”

"Great! Let's use all of these and see how many we can bake!" Yuri exclaimed for a while before continuing to eat the desserts with a bright and happy smile on her face. "They're so delicious, and this is so sweet!"

"Because a lot of sugar was sprinkled on it."

"Hey, sweetness really makes you feel happy," Senju said after hearing Yuri's words. She realized that Yuri had a kind of unassuming wisdom, always inadvertently revealing the truths she knew.

Qianhu looked at the happy expressions on the faces of the people around him, took a bite of his pastry, and then smiled happily as well. "Yes."

The group sat down next to the machines and slowly savored the snacks, a sweet feeling welling up inside them.

After a while, everyone prepared to grill the rest. This time, Yuri displayed her extraordinary artistic talent, not only sculpting fish but also the faces of people she had seen before. "This is Grandpa, this is Kanazawa, this is Ishii, this is Senju, this is me, and this is Chihiro."

Everyone laughed when they saw the very lifelike desserts. After eating a few, Senju put away the rest of the desserts, and Yuri was also full of energy and prepared to turn all the taro on top into desserts.

"Okay, let's turn those taro into snacks too, oh—"

"Oh—" Chito and Ishii also shouted.

However, in the end, everyone obediently picked the taro and gave it to Senju. Looking at the taro in the package, Senju smiled wryly. It seemed that taro would be the staple food for a while.

After Senju finished harvesting the taro, she had Ishii use bone meal again, and immediately the surface was covered with taro again. Senju was relieved and gave her ten pieces of bone meal. "With these, you'll have enough food. I'll install some levers and water sources when we get back to base."

"That's right. With these, I'll definitely be fine here."

When the four people came outside, it was already dark. They returned to the helicopter and lay down in their seats. As everyone settled in, the robot began its work.

"Please confirm the target and decide whether to return."

"Will flying at night be okay?" Ishii asked with some concern, but the robot calmly replied, "Absolutely no problem. The radar can clearly detect the flight path and can detect the surrounding situation even at night."

"Activate night vision mode," the four of them said, and they found that the outside world had become brighter, and they could clearly see things outside from the window.

"Alright then, let's return to base." With the order given, the helicopter flew back to the base. Qianhu, holding some snacks, looked happy and completely forgot about his fear of heights.

After getting off the plane, Chito and the others returned to the base first, while Senju took care of her farmland outside. The crops there were ripe, and Senju harvested them and replanted them.

Back at the base, Senju found everyone waiting for her. Seeing their expressions, she took out some snacks, and they cheered.

Watching Chito and Yuri leave with cheers, Senju decided to take the opportunity to help Ishii renovate the base, replacing the technological energy with magical energy.

Chapter Sixty-Five: Base Reconstruction

Before modifying the place, the first thing the two of them did was to manufacture a batch of levers and pressure plates as spares. Then they began to plan how to modify the entire base so that this base, which was about to cease operation, could continue to function.

The first thing the two thought of was the generator, since the main way this base uses energy is electricity. With the lever, there would be no need to worry about running out of power, and heating and lighting would not be a problem.

Senju followed Ishii to a room in the base, which was originally the base's backup generator set. However, it had long since stopped operating after running out of fuel, and the current power supply was only connected from outside, which had also become unstable.

After inspecting the generators, Senju found that they seemed to be working properly. He put the levers on them, turned them on, and the generators started running, brightening the dim light in the room.

Ishii was pleased to see that the power supply could continue, so she could continue studying the aircraft here. The two were about to go and set up a water source, but on the way, Senju noticed some containers nearby, which sparked an idea in her mind.

"Ishii, what's inside these containers?"

"There are probably some discarded parts in here. I haven't paid attention to them before."

“I see,” Senju opened the container from the back. Inside, various twisted parts were scattered haphazardly. Senju packed them up, then placed chairs, food, some blocks, and miscellaneous items inside. He then closed the door and finally packed the entire container up.

Thousand Hands looked at his package and found a container inside. However, the contents did not come out as they had before. After Thousand Hands took the container out, he went inside to check, and the positions of the contents had not changed.