Offer blocks to the end times

However, the self-regulating machine wasn't as flexible as we'd seen before, mechanically reminding everyone, "This is the entrance to board. To get off, please go to the exit ahead. There are indicator lights near the doors. Please don't get off at the wrong station. Thank you for your cooperation."

After saying that, it dragged away a piece of machine wreckage and left. After the three people shouted for a while, it ignored the shouts of the three people behind it.

Seeing that it ignored them, the group initially wanted to chase after it to check, but then the three remembered the direction it had pointed earlier. Qianhu understood something and said, "The exit? Let's go check ahead."

“Okay.” Senju and Yuri, who were standing nearby, also wanted to go over there and check on the situation.

Chito started the car and adjusted the direction. The two people next to him also got on, but Yuri stood in the back while Chito sat on top. The car continued to move forward in the tram car.

Along the way, they saw several broken autonomous machines inside the carriage, but Senju didn't want to continue repairing them, since it would consume experience points.

“Oh, I suddenly thought of something incredible,” Yuri said suddenly after the car had been driving for a while, her words attracting the attention of the two people next to her.

"What is it?"

“We’re driving on a moving tram right now!” Yuri excitedly announced her discovery, but Chito still didn’t understand why she was so excited. “So what?”

Chapter Ninety-Three: Infinite Time

"That means we're driving much faster than usual now!"

"That's how it is."

“That means we can travel at twice the speed,” Yuri said, leaning over the carriage and holding up two fingers for Chihiro to see.

“No, it looks like more than twice as fast,” Chito rejected Yuri’s idea and continued, “Ah, but we are on a rotating Earth, so the actual speed should be even faster.”

"rotation?"

"Rotation means that the Earth is rotating, although the direction may be different from our direction."

"Well, how fast is that?" Yuri still didn't understand how fast Chito was talking about after she understood the rotation. Chito knew, but he realized there was nothing wrong with what he said. He hadn't even mentioned orbiting the sun yet.

"I don't know the exact number, I only know that it takes one day for the Earth to orbit the Sun."

"I remember one loop was about tens of thousands of kilometers, but I've forgotten the exact distance."

"Really? That's so fast!" Yuri was stunned. This was too fast! Tens of thousands of kilometers in a single day? Then she was stunned by her own sudden thought and sat back in the car.

"Wait, wait, wait, does that mean we have to circle the Earth every day, tens of thousands of kilometers?" Yuri held her face in disbelief.

“You’re not wrong,” Chito affirmed Yuri’s idea, and Yuri felt extremely shocked. “This is terrible.”

"The problem is your head," Chito teased Yuri, while Senju began explaining the concept of the sun's revolution around the sun. Yuri kept clutching her head and yelling that something was wrong the whole way.

After a while, the car stopped, and the two people in the back noticed that there was a large robot blocking the road in front of them. The three of them stood by and looked at it.

“What a huge machine,” Yuri gestured, then seemed to realize something. “I’ve been seeing machines more and more often lately, but most of them can’t move.”

"The corpse of a machine?" Chito said, and began to observe whether the distance in the middle was enough for a car to pass through. Yuri also began to observe the large robot.

“Looking at this reminds me of the ‘cemetery’ we’ve seen before. This train is also a black box,” Yuri’s words sent a chill down the spines of the two people next to her. What she said made sense, but they just couldn’t accept it.

“A moving grave,” Qianhu said, then asked with some doubt, “Where is this tram going?”

The three of them gathered around the robot and examined it. Senju noticed that it seemed to be an enlarged version of an autonomous machine, but he didn't want to repair it for the time being. He decided to observe it first and then put it away later.

“Hey, look at this,” Yuri poked her head out from the other side, “a strange machine.”

Senju and Sento turned around and saw a disc on the robot with two pointers and twelve punctuation marks around it.

"Is it a clock?" Before Senju could speak, Sento recognized it.

"A clock? Is that what you call a clock? But how do you tell time from this?" Since they couldn't see the sun in this dark underground place, everyone was a bit confused about time.

"If this is accurate, it's 5:30 now, but I don't know if it's morning or evening," Senju said after checking the time. He was now regretting throwing his phone on the bed, otherwise he would know the exact time by now.

"Hmm, I remember that for every revolution of the Earth, the clock makes two revolutions, so I'm not sure if it's morning or afternoon," Senju continued, her words shocking Yuri beside her.

"Isn't this faster than Earth?"

"No, time doesn't have a fast or slow distinction, no, it seems like it does?" Chito finished speaking and started the car, while Yuri kept staring at the clock.

"Anyway, the earth keeps turning and time keeps passing," Qianhu drove the car over and called to the two of them, "Alright, get in the car and let's go."

"Yuri, should we put this away?" Senju asked her, but Yuri hurriedly chased after the car, "Wait for me!"

After Senju finished packing it up, he jumped onto the train. Once Yuri was seated, she complained to Chito in front of her, "You're so impatient! There's no use being anxious on a moving train!"

“Indeed,” Qianhu thought for a moment and found it made a lot of sense.

“On a rotating Earth, there’s no use in rushing,” Yuri added.

“No, something’s not right. What are you thinking?” Chito disagreed with this statement, but added, “Well, maybe there’s no use in rushing.”

"It's probably because the things around us are moving too; if we don't move, we can't catch up with them."

After driving for a while, Qianhu remembered the clock from earlier.

"Speaking of which, people used to carry a clock with them at all times."

"Why?" Yuri asked, somewhat surprised.

"Because it's very convenient, you can check the time anytime," that's all Senju understood about it, but Chito understood it more deeply, "Yes, it's convenient, because you have to finish your work by a certain time, and with a clock you have a benchmark in your mind."

"It's more of a hassle than a convenience. I can't rush it," Yuri said with a look of disgust, having completely lost interest.

"But..." Qianhu was about to speak when the tram suddenly stopped. The two people behind him also felt a force, and then the tram stopped as well. The side flipped up and opened a door.

"Have we arrived yet?" Yuri asked, somewhat puzzled.

Then she stood up and said, "Okay, let's go out."

"No, wait," Senju and Chito shouted at the same time, both looking at the light next to the car door, which showed the A6. "This doesn't seem to be the final stop."

“Oh, something that looks like dry rations,” Yuri said, looking over as well.

“This should be an indicator light for where the tram stops,” Senju explained. “We’ve only passed one stop.”

"Yes, these lit lights must be where we are now."

"But there's still a lot more to go, aren't we going to get off?" Yuri wondered, when the doors closed again and the tram started moving again.

"Continuing from what we were saying earlier, regarding time, we also had a time limit for 'food' before."

“Hmm,” Yuri said dismissively to Chito’s words, and Chito also seemed a little helpless, “So bland.”

As the car sped up, Yuri glanced at Senju beside her and then shouted.

"But we have plenty of food now, so let's keep moving forward while we still have enough."

"That's right, let's go to the farthest place we can go!" Chito shouted as well. However, Senju thought that the food in his bag should be enough, so he also shouted.

Chapter Ninety-Four: The Song Brings

After shouting for a while, everyone felt tired. After all, they had been waiting for the bus for too long, and now, after being excited for a while, they felt sleepy.

On the speeding train, everyone dozed off in their seats. After an unknown amount of time, they suddenly felt a violent shaking and woke up to find that the train had stopped and the doors next to them had opened.

Qianhu saw that the indicator light above indicated that they had reached the end of the line, so he drove the train off. After the train pulled off, the three of them felt that it was very dark. The rear doors slowly closed, and after a while, the train began its return journey.

Once outside, everyone was still not fully awake. After yawning, Senju looked around. The layout here was very similar to that of A5, with streetlights and stairs, but the railway tracks that led forward were gone.

After looking around, Qianhu turned on the headlights and drove towards the stairs next to him. The tracked vehicle moved smoothly up the stairs, illuminating the way ahead.

"We've been sitting here for so long, that train really traveled a long way," Senju said with some emotion, while Yoru yawned in the back, "Yeah, I feel like I slept so well."

As Yuri was speaking, a song suddenly came from the bag next to her, and then stopped, but the two people in the back of the car heard it.

Yuri took out the radio, and Senju guessed that this was the source of the sound. The two of them put their ears close and listened intently, but after a while, the sound did not appear.

While the two people behind were listening intently, Qianhu in front continued to speak, "How far have we traveled on this train? I feel like we've come to a very far place."

The car climbed the stairs and came to a flat area. After waiting for a while and not hearing any voices from behind, Chito called out anxiously, "Yu? Senju? Are you asleep?"

"No," Senju replied. Chito asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

“I think I can hear something,” Yuri replied, continuing to listen to the radio.

What was that sound?

“I feel like there’s a sound coming from this thing,” Yuri said, extending the radio forward. Chito turned his head and saw it, but he couldn’t make out its exact shape.

"It's that strange machine we found over at the cemetery, what's it called again? What's the name of the Thousand Hands one?" Yuri thought for a moment but forgot the name.

"This is a radio."

"Oh, that's it," Chito also remembered, but then suddenly realized, "Hey, didn't I tell you to put this back properly?"

“But this, Senju said it’s still useful, and it can still be used,” Yuri patted the radio hard, but there was still no response.

“This is a dead man’s stuff, it’ll get its comeuppance,” Qianhu complained, but the two behind him didn’t care.

“But, as the saying goes, ‘The dead have no weapons,’ and unarmed people aren’t scary,” was Yuri’s reaction.

"If only they had just come out, there would be so much more to do," said Thousand Hands, who was looking forward to fighting monsters. He wondered whether to steam or braise the monsters.

"You two, and Yu got the proverb wrong. It means that the dead can't talk, and that being empty-handed is also scary. Thousand Hands, don't look so eager to try it out."

After making a few comments about the two of them, Qianhu asked about what had just happened, "And then, what sound did you hear?"

“An incredible sound, somewhat like a human voice, yet different, like raindrops, ah ah,” Yuri thought for a moment and then sang a few notes.

Senju, who was standing next to her, was also trying to recall the voice she had just heard, but the memory in her mind had become blurry. "Hmm, that seems to be it, ah, no, that's not it."

Ignoring Senju's off-key singing, Chito reminded Yuri, "It's the rhythm, isn't it?"

"Yes, that's the rhythm, ah ah," Yuri sang again. Senju, sitting next to her, had a slightly hoarse voice. She took out her water bottle and started drinking some water, but when she looked up, she seemed to see something surprising and *poof*...

The water sprayed out, and then he started coughing.

"What's wrong with Senju?" the two people next to him asked. Senju looked up and waved his hand, saying somewhat excitedly, "Nothing, I just saw something that surprised me."

"what is this?"

“Those are the robots,” Senju said excitedly, pointing to the huge robots standing around him. Then he stood up. “Wait a minute, I’ll go collect a few.”

After saying that, Senju ran off. The two people in the car were a little confused, but there was a glowing spot ahead, so they stopped there.

After seeing Senju run away, Yuri continued humming, "Ahhhhh, hum hum hum, this feeling."

“That must be something like a song.” Chito slowed down and continued chatting with Yuri.

"Song?"

"Music played by human voices, you sometimes sing it too, right?"

“Hmm,” Yuri thought for a moment, then began to hum, “Hmm, so dark, so dark, so dark.”