Offer blocks to the end times

The road looked to be in good condition; the railings were still there, and there should be something supporting it from below. However, Senju and Sento didn't dare to walk on it; they just peered out from the entrance.

Yuri, quite boldly, stood on it, stomped her feet on the steel plate, and looked at the road leading to the other side. "A roundabout road?"

"Who did this?" The two people at the door were also a little puzzled, but Yuri had already started walking on it, wanting to see where it led.

Just as Yuri was walking forward, Chito moved a little to the side and saw that she was standing with one foot on a steel plate with a gap in the middle. She was so frightened that her legs went weak and she sat down. Then she complained about the road, "Why is it built on the outside?"

"Who knows what they were thinking? It would be much better to build it inside," Senju complained. Wouldn't it be safer to build it inside?

“Leaving is no problem,” Yuri said after trying it out and finding that the quality was quite good. Then she looked at Senju, who was lying at the door, and said, “Senju, load the car up and let’s go over there.”

“Hmm, that’s a good idea,” Chito also stood up, but she was still a little scared. “Do we really have to go outside?”

"No, no, no," Senju quickly shook his head, "I don't want to go outside, I need to go and fix the road right now."

After saying that, Senju retreated and began repairing the broken road.

"Sigh, this is clearly the simplest way, Chihiro. Why don't we drive over here?" Yuri looked at the car and wanted to give it a try.

"No, absolutely not, the car is too heavy," Chito quickly stopped Yuri's wild idea.

"Ugh, so boring," Yuri leaned on the railing, gazing blankly at the city below. From here, she could clearly see the scenery below, so she took out her camera and started taking pictures.

After filming for a while, seeing Qianhu standing by the door, he pulled her up there, even though Qianhu kept shouting, "No, absolutely not!"

However, in the end, Yuri still managed to pull her up to the top. Once she was up there, Chito leaned on the railing, looked at the scene outside, and was so frightened that she almost cried, "Wow, Yuri, let me go back quickly!"

"Chihiro, if you're afraid of dying, then..." Yuri was about to say something superstitious again, but Chihiro softened and hugged her leg from the side, "I know, hurry back."

"Sigh, well, Chito really is afraid of heights," Yuri said, before pulling Chito back into the tower. Chito then regained his mobility and pounded on Yuri for a while before the two looked at the construction progress of the Senju Tower.

In a short time, Senju had built a road to the other side. However, the road on the other side was somewhat damaged, so Senju knocked those down and replaced them with a new road. After the road was paved, the group sat in the car and continued on their way.

The three, still shaken by what had just happened, didn't dare to relax and focused intently on driving.

Seemingly recalling the scene he had just seen outside, Qianhu couldn't help but sigh, "The roads inside are so much better!"

Chapter 84 A Crisis Suddenly Arrives

"Sigh, what would happen if we took the road outside?" Yuri still couldn't shake off her dangerous thoughts.

"Yuri's idea is too dangerous," Senju thought. He realized that even if he went up, he could easily fall, let alone three people.

“Exactly, Yuri should also consider safety,” Chito said, somewhat discontented. However, Yuri then thought of something else, “Luckily, Senju was there this time. If it were just the two of us…”

Then the two people next to them started to fantasize. They drove their car onto the outside passageway, and after walking halfway, the passageway collapsed, and they all fell down.

After thinking about it for a while, he broke out in a cold sweat and sighed, panting, "The road inside is much better."

“Mmm-hmm,” Yuri nodded repeatedly, which made Senju, who was standing next to her, look at her strangely.

A moment later, Yuri spotted an arrow under a streetlamp pointing to an exit and exclaimed excitedly, "We've found the entrance to the upper level!"

"We're here," the two people next to him said with some emotion, then sped up and drove inside.

After everyone entered through the entrance, they found inside...

The area was also dark, and although there were some streetlights around, the light was very dim.

"Is this the upper level?" Qianhu looked at the road ahead with some joy. "Finally, we're back on the usual flat road."

"It's a flat road, but the light is a bit dim," Yuri said with some dissatisfaction. Qianhu then turned on the headlights, and everyone could see the road winding its way into the distance.

Looking at the road, Qianhu sighed, "I'm back to the life I used to lead: sleep, eat, walk, and sleep when I'm tired."

"Think about it carefully, every day is just going around in circles."

"That's life, always repeating itself," Senju said with a touch of emotion.

However, what everyone said gave Yuri an insight, and she concluded, "In other words, life is actually a spiral!"

“Oh, Yuri’s words are very good,” Senju said, clapping after hearing Yuri’s words. Yuri, like an actress who had just finished a performance, began to thank him, “Haha, thank you, thank you.”

"Mr. Yu is saying some strange things," Qianhu complained, then looked somewhat bewildered. "A spiral, huh? Just spinning like this, where will we eventually end up?"

"It's okay, it's okay, just follow the road," Yuri said reassuringly, letting Chito drive. However, Chito was a little confused. "Where are we? We're lost again."

"But we've been lost the whole time, though it's a bit dark here."

Yuri's words made Senju look around. When they were in the spiral road, they could see the light outside through the window, but now that they were inside, it was gone, and the surroundings had been replaced by streetlights.

However, time won't pass so quickly, so everyone should be in this underground building right now. The path we're walking on is a winding iron plate path supported in mid-air, leading to who knows where.

After walking along this road for a while, some machine noises began to come from the surroundings. Under the illumination of the surrounding streetlights, Senju could vaguely see some huge tanks and pipes around him.

Although there were streetlights around, Yuri was still dissatisfied with the dim environment, lying there and shouting, "It's so dark, so dark~"

"It's so noisy," Chito said from the front. Yuri seemed to suddenly realize something and perked up. "Ah! I feel like we've had a similar conversation before."

"Hmm, this seems familiar," Senju thought, feeling like she'd seen this scene somewhere before, but also not quite the same.

After thinking for a while, Qianhu suddenly remembered, "Now that you mention it, this place is very similar to the situation in the cave back then."

“But it’s much brighter here than before, and there are lights all around,” Qianhu said, glancing at the roadside. As the car moved forward, there were more streetlights around, and the noise from the machines nearby was much louder. “There are also sounds of machines moving around, so the facilities here might still be alive.”

"Alive?" Yuri seemed a little puzzled by this seemingly magical word, lying there with a hint of confusion.

“Yes, it’s still running here, the whole place is still alive,” Senju naturally understood what Chito meant; it was just a rhetorical device, not that it was actually alive.

After walking for a while, several huge fans appeared by the roadside, spinning continuously and blowing a whooshing wind, making the surrounding sounds rhythmic.

"Hey, what does it mean to be alive?" It seems Yuri doesn't understand what Chito is saying. Aren't only people alive?

After thinking for a while, Chito finally spoke and clearly told Yuri what he was thinking.

"No, what I mean is that the machines here are still running, not whether they are alive as living beings."

"Then what is a life form?" Yuri asked immediately upon hearing a word she didn't understand.

“A living organism is something that is alive.”

Following Senju's words, the car arrived in the middle of a group of cans. Senju carefully examined the words on them: "Fire is strictly prohibited?!"

That should mean it. Does it contain flammable materials? I need to remind everyone not to use fire later.

After passing these dangerous tanks, the car drove between two block-shaped buildings with a row of indicator lights along their edges, making them clearly visible even in the dark.

After walking for a while, Senju discovered that there were many of these blocky buildings. After passing through them one by one, Yuri next to him fell asleep.

“What about life?” Qianhu stopped talking and began to recall things he had seen before: the wind was moving, the water was moving, the rain was moving, the machines were moving, and even a part on the roadside was moving.

Thousand Hands lay down to one side, listening to the loud machine noises around him, and began to recall that animals were active, plants were growing, the sun was moving, and people were constantly moving.

Just as the group fell silent, the car was about to emerge from the blocky building. However, as it drew nearer, the surrounding machinery suddenly became louder, clanging and rattling, as if it were getting closer.

Sento, noticing the anomaly, quickly stopped the car and turned off the lights. The two people in the back were also awakened by the noise. Somewhat confused as to why there was a sound around them, Yuri called out anxiously, "Sento?"

"Shh, be quiet," Qianhu whispered, stopping the two from saying what they were about to say. Just as the three of them were nervously looking around, a clanging sound drew closer.

The atmosphere became tense.

Chapter 85 Yuri Who Can Prophesy

When the sound reached its loudest point, the three saw something over ten meters tall walk past a row of four or five-meter-long jars. It had four long legs and a huge cube carrying something on its back, making it look like a giant monster. The clanging sounds were actually the monster's footsteps.

"Ah!" The three stared nervously and fearfully at the approaching giant monster, their bodies trembling with dread, afraid that it would suddenly charge at them. However, the monster seemed not to have noticed them and passed directly through a group of 'fire-proof' jars in front of it.

"Phew," the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed. After stopping there for a while, the sound gradually faded away before they hurriedly drove forward. However, they were still a little scared. This must be what it feels like to have survived a disaster.

"What do you guys think that was?" Yuri asked, holding up her rifle. "That... it felt like a big thing."

"Your vocabulary is too limited," Chito complained to Yuri. Senju, standing to the side, also took out a gun and looked around. However, after a while, he switched to an iron sword, since the surrounding jars were marked with 'Fire is strictly prohibited'.

"Was that a living thing?" Yuri became interested in the monster from before, but Chito recognized its identity. "No, that shouldn't be a living thing. It looks like a machine no matter how you look at it."

"Click," Yuri cocked the gun, stood up, and aimed ahead. Fortunately, the car left the tanks and entered a steel tunnel with lights on it, which put Senju at ease.

"Moreover, the machine doesn't breathe or have consciousness, just like the one we're sitting in. I don't believe that the machine can move or think on its own."

"But that guy seemed to be walking by himself?"

"Perhaps someone is operating it," Chito speculated.

"It's also possible that the old instructions still exist and are still in effect." Senju didn't believe that the machine could act on its own. Although he had seen robots before, those were just the effects of instructions.

"Is that so? What if the machine comes to us on its own and says 'hello' to us like the robots we've seen before?" Yuri thought of the robots she had seen before; those must have been living beings.

“That was pre-programmed, it’s just an exception. There’s no machine like the one Yu was talking about here,” Chito still didn’t agree with Yuri’s idea, and then she found an entrance next to her.

"What's wrong?" Senju asked, puzzled when he saw Sento stop the car.

"There's an entrance over there, let's go take a look," Qianhu pointed to the side, and the two people in the car also saw that there was an entrance there, and there seemed to be some light inside.

After the three got off the car, Qianhu recalled the conversation they had just had. "Besides," he said, "let alone machines, people have long said that there are no other living things on Earth besides humans."

After looking around the entrance, I noticed a downward staircase leading down to the source of the light.

"Sigh, didn't Senju bring out fish and the like?"

“Those are exceptions; there are no other forms of life now.”

"Yes, those are really exceptions, they don't count as real lives."

The three of them discussed as they walked down the stairs, and soon arrived at a spacious and bright room.

"Does true life not exist?" Yuri muttered to herself, but then the three of them sensed something strange around them and turned around to look.

"Yes, there is," In front of the three was a huge glass tank, in which a fish swam freely in the clear water, and the three of them followed the fish with their eyes.

"Chi, it's a fish," Yuri seemed a little surprised, while Senju felt like she had been slapped in the face at lightning speed. Why is there a fish here?

"It's still alive." After a moment of surprise, Chito raised his camera to take a picture of the fish.

“It exists,” Yuri chimed in, but just as Chito was taking pictures, a metallic clanging sound came from the side. Yuri, still holding her gun, looked in the direction of the sound.

Then she spotted something very familiar coming from the opposite direction, and nervously raised her gun and shouted, "Chihiro, Senju!"

"Hmm," the two people next to them realized what was happening and turned to look at the side. They then saw a robot standing there. It had a cube-shaped body, a cube-shaped head with flashing lights on it, and limbs made of long, thin rectangles and iron bars. Overall, it looked very similar to a robot they had seen before, but this one was a bit bigger.

Yuri nervously pointed her gun at the robot, and Senju also raised his sword. He suddenly wondered if he would have any experience killing robots, and wondered if he could try it now.

But just as the humans were on guard, the robot spoke up, "Hello."

"Huh?" The three of them were stunned at the same time. They didn't expect Yuri to actually make a prediction. No, this kind of robot really exists.

However, seeing the robot's good attitude, everyone relaxed, and Yuri's attention shifted to the fish.

“Let’s grill the fish,” Yuri said, her mouth watering, but the robot firmly rejected her suggestion.