Offer blocks to the end times

"Ding-dong," that's a piece of music being played.

There are many other things around: funerals, ball games, the ocean, work, concerts, arguments, play, war.

Chito and Yuri were staring blankly at the videos, completely absorbed in them. Senju was also watching, and the videos explained why the city had become like this.

"Today, we declare war on our neighboring country!" Countless warplanes launched their attack, and countless robots shot down the enemy.

"A massive air raid," and the city was reduced to ruins.

"Our army has achieved a complete victory, and more than 500 million people have died in neighboring countries," and the entire government has become a soldier.

Countless towering robots relentlessly bombarded the city, turning the area below into a sea of ​​fire.

"Announcement: Electromagnetic wave bombs used; all electronic equipment will be disabled," a dark spot appeared on the bright map.

“Cities and social classes have lost contact,” the light representing human civilization on the map gradually went out.

Senju learned about the course of the war from these videos, but he was more interested in another video.

“Come on, Pochi,” a little girl said, running with her dog through a field of flowers. In the background was a huge building that looked like the structure of the city.

Although Senju already knew about the events in these videos, she was only slightly surprised before the impact subsided. However, Chito and Yuri, who had never witnessed such scenes before, were quite fascinated.

The two sat together on the chairs next to each other, watching the various human activities in the videos with rapt attention. "Seeing these makes me feel less lonely."

"Yes."

After a while, the surrounding videos gradually finished playing, and the images and videos floating in the air slowly disappeared.

“Thank you, cat,” Yuri thanked the cat beside her, and the cat returned the gesture, “You’re welcome.”

"Go to sleep," although the two of them hadn't done anything but watch videos, their emotions had been greatly affected. After watching them, they felt extremely tired, so they crawled under the table and slowly fell asleep.

Seeing that the two were asleep, Senju walked to the side, picked up the camera, looked around, and found that the cat had run away and disappeared. He then tried to control it on the computer screen next to him.

He randomly tapped the keyboard-like screen, and a small light screen appeared above it. Qianshou tried it out, and it turned out that these could indeed be operated by hand.

After clicking around for a while, Qian Shou discovered that there were many folders inside. He tried them one by one, and after a while, he finally found the folder containing the camera. He then slowly searched for pictures and videos of the city inside.

After an unknown amount of time, Senju found some pictures with blurry, layered cities on them. Although she wasn't sure if it was the place she was in, Senju took pictures of them again with her camera, intending to have Chito organize them.

Senju, feeling similarly relaxed, also slumped onto the table and slowly fell asleep.

"Climb up, the two of you can survive for a long time on a small amount of food, hurry up," Yuri dreamed again of the words her grandfather said when she left home. She and Chito said goodbye to her grandfather and home amidst the gunfire and have been together ever since.

Upon arriving here, Yuri woke up from her dream. She sat up from the ground, looked around, and saw that Chito was sleeping on one side, but the cat was nowhere to be seen. "The cat is gone again."

"What kind of creature is that?" Even the usually oblivious Yuri was puzzled by the cat. "It can open doors, operate machines, and even talk through a radio."

"Hey, Senju, wake up!" Yuri called softly to Senju, who was slumped over the table, and reached for the camera he was holding, but Senju pulled her away.

Then Senju woke up and saw Yuri lying on top of him. "Yuri, what are you doing?"

"Hmm, ah~" Yuri, who was lying on him, almost fell asleep again and yawned. "Nothing, let me see the camera."

“Okay,” Senju was about to hand her the camera when she heard heavy footsteps beside her. Yuri turned around to look. “Oh, I found it, I found it! Hey, where did you go…”

Yuri suddenly stopped talking. Senju looked around and was also a little surprised. What was going on with this cat that was magnified hundreds of times? Yuri was a little stunned. "It seems a bit big."

"Wait a minute, what is this?" Senju couldn't help but complain as he looked at the completely unfamiliar posture.

"Wow, it's huge," came a cat's voice from the side, meaning this big guy wasn't a cat after all.

"Huh, a cat." Yuri looked at the cat that had appeared next to her, somewhat confused.

"What's all the noise about?" Chito, who had been sleeping nearby, crawled out and saw a giant white beast open its massive maw and swallow Chito and Yuri, who were embracing each other. "Yuri, Chito..."

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Senju and Yuri felt everything go black as they were swallowed. Then they felt a jolt. It took Senju a while to realize that she had been eaten. Unforgivable! Senju suddenly felt a surge of intense anger.

However, Senju immediately sensed Yuri behind him, turned around and hugged her. The camera in his hand had flown away somewhere, but Senju didn't care. After hugging Yuri, he wanted to take out the enchanted iron sword, which was both bait and sharp. He didn't expect it to be sharpened inside the monster's belly.

Yuri, nestled in his arms, seemed to sense Senju's presence and hugged him tightly. "Senju, what's wrong? Why is everything around us turning dark? And what's that soft thing next to us?"

Senju was speechless at Yuri's airheadedness. Her mind calmed down. The surroundings were really too crowded. If she took out her sword, would it hurt Yuri? Was there any other good idea?

Senju glanced at the package in front of him; it was still floating there. He began to search for a way to break the deadlock, but found that there was no good solution in this narrow space. He could only place his hopes on the sword.

Chapter 115 The End of Life

Unfortunately, when Senju took out his sword, he embarrassingly discovered that he couldn't swing it or cut through anything around him. After rolling around for a while, he lost his sword and had to hold Yuri and think of another way.

However, after a while, Senju felt that the armor on his body was slowly dissolving, but he did not feel any harm. Yuri in his arms did not cry out in pain, as if the things around him were harmless.

After a while, Senju and Yuri felt the tremors stop and then struggled to climb upwards.

On the other side, Chito, who watched as Yuri and Senju were swallowed whole by the monster, felt completely lost. His body went limp and he sat down on the ground, his mind blank.

Then she watched as the monster that had swallowed the two of them shrank back into the passageway through which they had come in, showing no intention of eating her at all.

“What should I do?” Chito felt extremely confused and desperate, but she quickly came to her senses. “Ah, I have to catch up with them.”

She put on her helmet, took out her dagger, and said, "It's alright, it's just being swallowed, as long as..."

Picking up Yuri's rifle, Chihiro prepared to charge out, but then she saw the cat beside her and immediately pointed the gun at it, saying, "Are you going to eat me too?"

"..." The cat kept shaking its head but made no sound.

"Can't you speak without the machine?" Qianhu understood after looking at it for a while. "That's still in You's hands."

After Chito took a few steps, the cat behind him was still swaying and unable to speak. Chito stopped there, turned around, picked up the cat, and put it on his helmet. The cat then stood on it.

"Can you talk to that big guy?" Chito asked the cat as he ran, gun in hand. "Can you ask it to spit out Yu and Senju?"

"Do you understand what I'm saying?" she said as she ran. "Even though you're still young, you could still be an enemy of humanity, an enemy... an enemy or something!"

Chito ran out from around the corner, then tripped over something, sending his gun flying quite a distance. He felt pain all over his body. "Yu, Chito..."

In an instant, Chito recalled memories of his past with Yuri Senju, and tears welled up in his eyes. He wiped them away forcefully, picked up the gun beside him, and said, "Wait for me, I'm coming!"

"If everyone is gone, I..." Qianhu finally reached the ladder leading outside. Looking at the tall iron ladder above, Qianhu slung his gun over his shoulder and climbed upwards with all his might.

After the two climbed upwards inside the monster's belly for a while, they suddenly felt a wriggling around them, and then they were separated. Senju struggled inside for a moment and then found that he could see outside. Then, with a bang, he was vomited out, leaving only Yuri inside.

Senju, who had fallen to the ground, realized that he was actually on a snowy area aboard a submarine. His armor had completely disappeared, leaving him only in his ordinary clothes.

Seeing that the white monster was still there, Senju took out his enchanted bow and aimed it at it, saying, "Quickly release Yuri."

Just then, the monster raised its head and ignored Senju. After a while, Yuri's head slowly emerged from the monster's mouth, and then Yuri slowly tried to crawl out.

At that moment, Senju heard the noise behind her and realized that Chito had also rushed out. She looked at Yuri, who was half-swallowed, and shouted, "Yuri!"

"Ah, Chito," Yuri stood in the monster's mouth, still looking dazed. She only reacted after seeing Chito, and pulled her hand out, wanting to continue speaking.

However, just as Chito walked past Senju and was about to speak, the monster spat out Yuri, who flew towards the two of them, knocking all three of them down.

"Yuri, are you alright? You've been eaten!" Chito cried out as he looked at Yuri in his arms, and then Chito's voice came from below her, "She was fine a moment ago, but now she is!"

“It seems like I can get out if I push,” Yuri said, then looked at Senju underneath her. “Senju, you’re out too.”

"Try your best..." Chito finished speaking before noticing Senju below. "Senju, what are you doing? Weren't you eaten too?!"

"Hey, hey," just as Senju was about to say something, the white monster...

The beast stirred and walked towards the three of them. Senju and Sengoku immediately pointed their weapons at it.

“We don’t eat living people,” a woman’s voice suddenly came from the surroundings.

"That voice... could it be this guy speaking?" The three of them wondered, looking at the monster that resembled their pet cat.

“We don’t have vocal organs, but we can interpret language through sound waves,” the white monster lowered its head and looked at the three people below, “so we borrowed the equipment from this ship.”

The cat on the side also came out, looked at the somewhat familiar voice on the other side, and meowed softly, but could not say anything.

“This larva is a stray from our group. The larvae have a very small communication range, so,” the insect-like monster suddenly transformed, turning from a round body into a mushroom-shaped person standing there.

As the cap-like tissue at the top swayed, a familiar melody began to play. "What's this music?"

"This is generated after the machine receives part of our communication signals," the white mushroom man explained.

"What exactly are you? Why did you swallow everyone?" Qianhu asked from there.

“What we swallowed were the small machines they possessed,” the mushroom-man explained, swaying slightly. Only then did the two people beside him realize that the machines they were holding were gone. Yuri looked at the radio hanging around her neck and found that it was no longer there. “Really!”

“Even small ancient machines contain high levels of energy,” it said, as many covers on the submarine behind it opened. “We absorb thermally unstable substances, break them down in our bodies, and make them more stable.”

As it spoke, many similar creatures appeared from the opened lid behind it, swallowing familiar cylinders one by one. Only then did Senju realize that these cylinders were the ones he had seen before, which he had thought were sources of nuclear power, but in fact, they were nuclear bombs.

After hearing its words, Yuri looked at the cat next to her and recalled the cat's past food. Only then did she realize that this was indeed the larva of the creature opposite.

"Once the process is complete, life on Earth will come to an end, and then we will enter hibernation again," it said. As it spoke, the creatures behind it swallowed the nuclear bomb completely and turned into mushroom-like beings. "At that time, we will also enter slumber."

Chapter 116 Farewell

“The city has essentially come to a standstill,” the mushroom man continued. “The city will gradually come to a standstill.”

"Is there no one else in this city?" Chito suddenly asked, and Senju and Yuri looked at it nervously.

“Apart from the very top, in most of the areas we observe,” the mushroom man continued playing music, “the only surviving humans we know are the three of you and a woman with a strange energy source.”

"..." The three of them suddenly felt a sense of emptiness around them. Were there only a few people left in the world? Qianhu asked again, "Then how do we get to the upper level?"

"Go west from here. There's an elevator at the northwest end of the city. You can reach the top floor from there," the mushroom man pointed to Qianhu and then bowed slightly.

“Thank you so much for bringing the larvae back,” the mushroom man said, looking at the cat. “We must act as a group.”

The cat, somewhat frightened, snuggled up to Yuri's neck. Yuri looked at the cat wrapped around her neck, puzzled. "Why is the cat scared?"

The mushroom-man looked at the cat, seemingly trying to communicate, but the cat kept shaking its head. Finally, it got off Yuri, took a few steps, and then looked back at Yuri.

"I envy you so much, having so many friends," Yuri chuckled softly to the cat.

"Goodbye," the cat finally managed to speak. Chito and Yuri stood up to see the cat off, and Senju sat up from below, watching the cat climb onto the mushroom man's neck.

"As a token of our gratitude, all the doors inside the ship are now open. Rest assured, there are no dangerous items inside," the mushroom man said. Then, to the accompaniment of the surrounding music, it slowly floated up, and the three of them sat in the snow watching it leave.

Watching them leave, Yuri suddenly spoke up, "Hey, Chihiro, they said the Earth is going to end."

“Hmm,” Chito replied calmly, grabbing the two people beside him, “Even if the world ends, it doesn’t matter, as long as I and everyone else are here, that’s enough.”

"Hoo hoo," Yuri chuckled softly. Chito looked at her and asked, "What?"

"It's nothing, so this song belongs to them."

"Yes."

"The reason it's so sad is that it's a song of endings."