"Because you can't rely on Yuri's brains at all," Chito complained. "Also, don't even think about slacking off."

After the car had been moving forward for a while, Chito suddenly stopped. The two people in the back looked at him strangely. "What's wrong, Chito?"

“There’s a ditch ahead,” Qianhu turned to look at Qianshou, “Let’s build a bridge over it.”

“Wait, Chihiro,” Yuri suddenly stopped the two of them, “Take a step back.”

"What?" Qianhu was a little confused, but he still stepped back a distance and saw a huge lamppost lying across the ditch. The lamppost was hollow and made of thick steel, and it looked very sturdy.

“We can get through from here,” the car stopped at the base of the lamppost. The three of them looked inside; the lying lamppost looked like a pipe four or five meters high.

"Hmm, looks like it'll work, although it has a bit of a slope," Qianhu said after looking around for a while, before starting to move across the pipe to the other side.

However, when they were halfway there, Yuri seemed to have noticed something and sat up abruptly from the back. "Chii, let's stop for a moment."

"What's wrong?" After hearing this, Chito stopped the car. Senju was also a little curious. The two watched as Yuri walked to a window and looked down from there.

“That sound is coming from down below,” Yuri announced her discovery, but the two people in the car had no idea what she was talking about. “Huh?”

"It's the sound of water!" Yuri exclaimed. Senju and Chito also went over to take a look. They were right above the ditch, which was more than ten meters deep.

"Hmm, but it's very deep," Qianhu said, looking at the ditch below with some worry. "It seems like it's barely deep enough to get down into."

“Go, go fetch water,” Yuri said excitedly, “and then cook.”

“Leave the downward path to me, it will be over soon,” Senju confidently promised from the side.

"I understand," Qianhu said, looking at the two excited people with a headache. "Let's get to the other side first."

After Sento drove the car to the other side, he parked it next to the ditch, and Senju went down to prepare.

“It’s alright, leave it to me,” Thousand Hands patted his chest and built a downward-sloping passage on the wall of the ditch using round stone steps.

"Hey," but Yuri next to her was being a bit mischievous. She took a bundle of rope out of her backpack, tied one end to it, and threw it down.

Then Yuri slid down the rope, and when she reached the bottom, the Senju had only built half the route.

"Hey, Chihiro, slide your backpacks down," Yuri waved from below, "then you can start cooking."

"Yes, yes, I understand," Qianhu pulled back the rope, tied on his backpack, and slowly slid down. Qianshou, watching from mid-air, was somewhat speechless and sped up the project.

"Chihiro, why don't you slide down too?" Yuri said, taking over Chihiro's business.

"Hey, I'm all done here, Chiyo, come down from here," Senju said, glaring angrily at Yuri as she reached the bottom of the ditch.

"Hehe," Yuri stuck out her tongue at Senju, managing to get away with it by being cute.

Below the ditch was a water channel with water flowing continuously in the depression in the middle. On one side was a narrow path about a meter wide, where the two were watching how the commander would make his choice.

"I'll take the path built by the thousand hands," Chito said, glancing at the deep ditch before deciding to descend the steps.

After hearing the choice, Senju smugly gave Yuri a V sign, but unfortunately Yuri didn't recognize it. "Senju, do you want to eat two?"

"..." Senju was sunk, and after a while, Sengo also came down, and Senju finally cheered up.

After putting on their backpacks, the three of them walked forward along the path, their goal being what lay ahead.

Over there is a cylindrical column standing on the ditch, about five or six meters in diameter. The ditch forms a circle here, and there is a space more than two meters high under the column, just enough for people to rest.

However, the light here was a bit dim, so Senju stuck torches on the wall to one side.

“The moment has finally arrived,” Yuri shouted as she stood beside Chitoge, who was drawing water.

They got up.

Senju followed Sengoku to fetch water, but after Sengoku finished, the water level did not change. After Senju finished, it was as if a piece of the canal was missing. The water flow continued to flow, but it could not fill the gap.

After the two finished getting water, they saw that Yuri had taken out a can and was humming a song. Senju noticed a few familiar letters on the can. "Yuri, do you know what these words mean?"

“This should be the same as the one in the picture, it should be a ‘fish’,” Qianhu guessed from the side.

“But there are six characters,” Yuri turned around and began to study them.

"So how exactly do you pronounce it?" Chito stared at Yuri, wondering what she could say.

“That’s about it,” Yuri said with a serious expression. “This is canned fish.”

“Absolutely not,” Chito glanced at Yuri, completely disagreeing with her statement.

“Xiaoqian is right,” Senju said, pronouncing it in pinyin, “Sakana.”

“It really is a fish,” Chito said, somewhat surprised. Although the pronunciation was a bit off, it was indeed 'fish'. “Is this also a kind of language?”

“Yes,” Qian Shou scratched his head, realizing that he hadn’t taught her how to pronounce pinyin. Only with that knowledge could he properly teach her to learn the language.

Chapter 119 Eating Canned Fish

"Alright, I'm going to open it now," Yuri said, seeing that the two were still chatting. She pulled up the metal tab on the can, and the can was opened, but no one could smell anything.

“It doesn’t taste like much,” Yuri said, also puzzled. Senju looked inside and saw that it contained solid food. He thought it was fish jelly. “These taste better when heated up.”

“Really?” Yuri took out a fuel stove from the side, put the can on it, and after a while she could smell it. “It really smells good, just like when we were grilling fish before.”

"I already told you, this is a fish," Qian Shou complained. Although he had caught many fish, the taste was still different from real fish.

“Oh, it’s starting to get hot,” Yuri said, watching the food inside closely. However, Senju noticed that the solid inside hadn’t melted. Just as he was wondering about this, Yuri used her dagger to cut the food into several pieces.

“Let’s begin,” Yuri solemnly picked up a piece with her dagger, put it in her mouth, tasted it, and exclaimed happily, “Delicious!”

“Really? I’ll try it too,” Qianhu said, picking up a piece with his dagger and eating it. “Oh~ it really is fish, so delicious (>▽<).”

"Is it really that delicious?" Senju looked at the strange solid with some curiosity, took out a fork and tasted it. "It does taste like fish, but it's very ordinary."

“Hoo hoo hoo,” Yuri suddenly laughed, “People back then were so lucky, they could always eat such delicious food.”

"Who knows? Maybe this was something precious in the past," Qianhu guessed from the side. "Maybe it was just taro or something like that normally."

"Taro is delicious too," Yuri thought to herself, drooling.

Senju looked at the two with some sadness. Humanity's past civilization has gradually disappeared. Not only various technologies, but even the most basic food culture has been wiped out.

As Senju pondered this, she ate the fish from the can. After a moment of daydreaming, Yuri next to her quickly started grabbing at the fish, and Chito, not to be outdone, joined the fray.

The three of them played around while eating. After eating three cans of food, they were all full and sat down to rest. Yuri lay down for a while and then noticed the empty cans next to her.

She picked one up and placed it on the water; the empty can floated on the surface. "Hey, Qian, look!"

"What are you doing?" Chito asked, sitting next to Yuri.

“Put the can on the water like this,” Yuri said, pointing to the empty cans floating on the water, “it looks like a fish.”

“Hmm,” Senju said, watching the jar drift with the current. The fish-shaped pattern on it really looked like a fish as it moved up and down with the water.

“Ah, a boat,” Chito suddenly sat up. “Is this a boat, Senju? I remember it’s a kind of water transportation.”

"..." Senju stared at Sento with dead fish eyes. "I remember telling you this before. Was I bad at explaining it? This is the principle of a ship. But real ships are much bigger than this. If you magnify this a few hundred or a few thousand times, it will be about the size of a small boat."

"So, is that black 'submarine' also a ship?" Yuri asked, somewhat puzzled. "Is it also a means of water transportation?"

"I guess so," Senju said, a headache coming on. He pulled out a can of fish. "A ship with good sealing like this, which doesn't get water in while underwater, is a submarine."

Senju placed the cans underwater for the two to see, then pointed to the empty cans, saying, "Those that float on the surface and can't sink are boats."

“I still don’t quite understand,” Yuri said, looking at the two cans. “They look almost the same, they’re both boats, but how do these floating vehicles get to where they want to go?”

“There must be some way,” Chito looked at Senju expectantly, “a way to get to the place you want to go.”

"Yes, boats and cars are similar; both have engines for power and steering mechanisms. However, cars move forward on the ground via wheels, while boats move forward via screws..."

"The propeller is propelled by the water," Senju said, taking out a piece of paper and drawing on it to explain to the two how the ship moved.

"Oh, I see," Yuri said dismissively after watching for a while, feeling a bit bored. "It would be great if we could just drift to our destination."

“Don’t go with the flow,” Qianhu called out to her. “Our destination is the highest level, but the current is flowing east to west, so let’s follow its direction for now.”

“Yeah, it’s reassuring to be near water,” Yuri said, sounding quite pleased. “Should we chase after that jar? It would be so much easier if we got swept away too.”

“Yu is just sitting in his seat,” Chito complained. Senju watched their conversation and suddenly remembered something; he felt like he had forgotten something.

Senju, who couldn't think of anything for the moment, decided to go fishing. He wanted to see what he could catch there. While Senju was fishing, Chito and Yuri whispered to each other for a while.

"Senju, let's go upstairs and get some things," the two said to Senju with a grin.

"Be careful," Senju said, turning around to warn them. The two nodded repeatedly. "Yes, we know."

After they finished speaking, the two went up through the passage built by a thousand hands. When they arrived at the top, they found that it was already dark outside, but the surrounding lights illuminated a nearby area.

The two were somewhat surprised, perhaps because they had been in the submarine for a while and their sense of time had become distorted. However, they still took down the rope hanging on the wall and went to do other things.

After tidying up, the two went down through the passage and saw Senju still fishing. They quickly told Senju what they had found, "Senju, do you know, it's already night outside."

"Really?" Senju was also somewhat surprised, then seeing the expectant looks on their faces, she seemed to understand something, patted her chest, and said, "I'll go and set up the cabin right away, then we can rest..."

Senju patted his chest and felt something was wrong, as if something was missing. So he started touching himself all over. The two people next to him looked at him strangely and said, "Senju, is it itchy somewhere? Let us help you."

The Thousand Hands, tickled by the two people's four hands, jumped up and crashed into the concrete slab above. A sharp pain shot through them, and the Thousand Hands realized, "Oh, I was missing my armor!"

Seeing Senju crash into it and fall, the two people next to her quickly caught her. Yuri, after being caught, was still shaking him, crying, "Wake up! I want a hot bath!!!"

Chapter 120 Nighttime Activities

Senju, who had been shaken around for a while, finally woke up. Of course, he hadn't actually fainted; he was just a little dazed from the impact and then was shaken around by Yuri, leaving him somewhat confused.

However, after Yuri shook him vigorously, Senju finally regained full consciousness. Looking at Yuri who was still shaking him, he said, "Hey, Yuri, put me down quickly."

"Thank goodness, Senju, you're finally awake!" The two people beside him looked at Senju with concern, afraid that he had hit his head and broken it. Chito even lectured him with a lingering fear, "Everyone must wear their helmets properly, or you'll end up like Senju!"

Senju, standing to the side, was filled with utter disbelief. Whose fault was it? Whose fault was it? But looking at the two worried people beside her, Senju couldn't bring herself to say anything.

He stood up from Yuri's arms and smiled. "It's nothing, just a few bumps. It'll be fine soon. I'll make another set of armor in a bit."

"Really? But Senju should rest for a while," Chito said with some concern, and Yuri next to her nodded repeatedly.

Senju stretched and showed the two that she was fine. "I'm alright, but it's nighttime now, so we can build a bathhouse to take a bath."

"But your body..."

"It's okay, drinking some milk will make everything alright, Xiaoqian, you've tried it before, right?"

"Was it really milk that cured my knee?"

"Yes, so there's absolutely no problem!"

"Hey, what are you talking about? What's the use of milk?" Yuri next to her was a little confused and couldn't understand their conversation at all.

"That's all, we're going upstairs to build the bathhouse now. Yuri, do you want to take a hot bath?" Senju changed the subject, and Yuri's attention was indeed diverted. "Yes, a hot bath is the best!"

“Let’s go up first, it’s a bit narrow here,” Senju looked around. Although he could dig a hole in the wall next to him, there must be a lot of power lines under this ice field, and Senju didn’t want to experience the feeling of being electrocuted.

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