Offer blocks to the end times

“Yes, we just arrived,” Senju explained to Yuri, who had just woken up. “This should be the city those mushroom people were talking about.”

"Really? I feel like the surrounding buildings are a bit strange," Yuri looked around and felt something was off.

"Hmm? Is there?" Qianhu didn't notice anything unusual. Although the place was dilapidated, it was still a very ordinary building.

Yuri stood up, looked around, and then pointed to a building on the side. "That's it. It looks really strange."

"Really?" Senju looked in the direction Yuri pointed. There was nothing strange there, just a building lying horizontally on top of several buildings. A building?! Senju also realized something was wrong. What was lying horizontally there looked like a building, just placed horizontally.

"Chihiro, let's go take a look there," Yuri pleaded with Chihiro after confirming their target. "There must be something there."

"What's that?" Chito remained focused on driving, while Yuri followed in the back.

It started swaying, "Come on, Qian, there might be something there, let's go on an adventure!"

"Alright, I understand," Qianhu agreed after being shaken for a while. "Let's go see what supplies are here."

After dealing with Chito, Yuri looked at Senju beside her, grabbed his hand, and started to plead, "Senju, you have to come too~"

Hearing Yuri's somewhat sweet voice, Senju felt like she was melting and quickly nodded, "Okay, okay, let's go see what's going on there."

“Great, let’s go on an adventure!” Yuri cheered.

After observing the building for a while, Qianhu started driving towards the building at one end. Although there were some small pebbles along the way, there were no large pieces of debris blocking the way, and the three of them quickly arrived at their destination.

Looking at the somewhat dilapidated buildings ahead, the three of them circled around and found a staircase leading upwards. After putting on their backpacks, they prepared to go to the horizontal building at the top to collect supplies (explore).

After walking up the stairs for a while, the three of them arrived at the top floor. There were many strange square pillars on the roof, and similar square and round pipes on the walls of the building next to it. It seemed that this place was originally a whole, but suddenly broke apart one day.

After looking around, the three of them discovered a dilapidated little bridge on one side that connected the rooftop to a square passageway in the collapsed building.

Senju looked at the square passage with some curiosity. He felt that this passage should be very familiar. Just as he was pondering, Yuri had already run across the bridge and entered the square passage. Senju also followed and stepped onto the stairs.

"Hey, do you guys think the afterlife really exists?" Yuri asked suddenly, looking at the long passage ahead.

"What? Why are you suddenly bringing this up?" Qianhu, who was walking carefully on the bridge, was somewhat dissatisfied. This bridge was suspended in mid-air, and it was too sudden to bring this up.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of it for some reason," Yuri said, not knowing why she brought it up. Senju, who was behind her, was also awakened. He was about to catch up when he saw the small bridge swaying, as if it was about to fall.

"Wow!" Chito also realized her situation and shouted. Fortunately, she was almost there and quickly jumped up. Hearing the sound, Yuri reached out and pulled her over.

Perhaps due to excessive force, Chito tackled Yuri to the ground. Senju, who was behind them, was relieved to see that the two were unharmed, but then heard Yuri continue to ask, "Hey, what are your thoughts on the afterlife?"

Having just narrowly escaped death, Chito didn't want to talk about this, so he tapped Yuri, "I really don't want to talk about this right now."

Then a loud noise came from the side, and that section of the bridge collapsed below. Senju looked at the two and called out, "Senju, Yu, are you alright?"

“It’s alright,” the two stood up, looked at each other, and seeing that everything was fine, looked back, only to find that there was no path behind them. “But the bridge is broken. Senju, can you get across?”

"It's alright, this is very simple," Senju said, looking at the gap. He then built a round stone bridge over it, and people walked along the stone bridge into the square passage.

Once inside, Senju looked at the grooves in the passageway and felt a sense of familiarity. If this passageway were erected and lined with rows of doors, he suddenly realized the answer: this was the elevator shaft of the building.

Seeing that Qian Shou was coming, the two people who had already stood up started to walk forward. The elevator shaft was slightly sloping and had some debris in the middle. The three of them slowly walked forward.

Chapter 139 Soul and the Present World

After walking around in the horizontal elevator shaft for a while, Senju remembered what she had just heard. "By the way, what were you guys talking about?"

"It's the world after death, but no one knows what it's like after death," Chito said, walking ahead with his bag on his back, recalling what he had just said. The world after death is still an unsolved mystery.

"That should be the case, but I've also heard many legends about what happens after death. Are they all just made up by humans?" Senju thought for a moment and realized that what he knew were all legends and stories; no one had actually seen it.

“Well, nobody knows for sure, but there are related records in many books,” Qianhu couldn’t be sure either, she had only seen related records from items passed down from her predecessors, “For example, there are records of the afterlife in the temples of the past.”

"I've heard of at least seven or eight kinds of the afterlife, and there are many more I don't know about," Senju thought to himself. After calculating for a while, he realized that he was familiar with several kinds, but there were probably many more unknown ones.

"Wow, there are so many! There must have been so many people who believed in this kind of thing in the past," Chito exclaimed in amazement. So many worlds were created because people believed in them. Then, noticing Yuri who hadn't said anything, he called out, "Hey, Yuri, did you hear that?"

While the two were talking, Yuri ran to a nearby exit and stared blankly at the scene outside. She only came to her senses after hearing Chito's voice and softly replied, "Oh."

Senju looked out from the exit and a sense of disorientation arose within him. To his left was the floor, and to his right was the ceiling, with remnants of some light fixtures still hanging there. Between the spaces on his left and right were many square pillars connecting them.

With.

Looking up, the space began to extend infinitely, as if this were the elevator shaft. After looking for a while, Senju realized that this was originally a floor, but now it was just standing upright.

"Hey, what are you looking at? Let's go!" Qianhu called out when he saw the two looking outside but there was nothing there.

"Ah, sorry," the two said, and continued forward along the passage.

After walking for a while, Yuri seemed to remember the voice she had just heard and asked, "By the way, where were we talking about?"

"..." Chito looked at Yuri and felt a little unhappy. Yuri had brought up the topic first, but Yuri hadn't listened to her conversation with Chito at all. She picked up a stick and prepared to teach Yuri a lesson.

"I was just kidding, of course I know," Yuri quickly corrected herself when she saw Chito holding the stick. However, Chito still poked Yuri under the armpit, making her laugh out loud, "Pfft, haha!"

"Tch," Chito casually tossed the stick away, and Yuri also remembered the conversation from earlier, "Speaking of which, after death, the body can no longer be used, and things like the soul will come out, right?"

"Well, there are many such records," Qianhu recalled, noting that the book had mentioned quite a few.

"Well, I know a lot about that too, like ghosts, spirits, heroic spirits, and so on," Senju rambled on, though he felt there was something wrong with the last one.

“Yes, this is it,” Yuri said excitedly, then opened her mouth as if spitting something into the air. “So those things really do come out of the mouth like this.”

"Hey, don't actually spit it out," Chito complained. Although there was nothing in Yuri's mouth, she knew Yuri was talking about the soul. "But those things can't be seen by human eyes, right?"

“That’s true, but I’ve heard a legend that you can see them with cow’s tears,” Senju said thoughtfully, since this was a movie concept, just as far-fetched as the concept of Heroic Spirits.

"Cow tears?" Yuri asked with longing, as if she wanted to see if there were any souls around. However, there was nothing that Senju had mentioned, so she thought of a substitute. "Right, how about milk? It sounds similar."

“No,” Senju said, crossing her arms in disapproval, then saw Sento beside her breathe a sigh of relief.

Upon reaching this point, the three of them emerged from the elevator shaft. Several chairs were placed on a platform to the side, and a winding ladder led to the top of the building.

"I see. I was thinking, what if there was no afterlife or anything like that, and all the dead people stayed in this world? In that case..." Yuri seemed to have thought of something and started looking around, as if she was trying to find something.

Chito, who was about to hear Yuri continue, saw her suddenly stop and asked, "Is that so?"

“Perhaps there are unseen souls around us,” Yuri said, standing there looking into the void. Chito, standing beside her, looked at the transparent air and felt a chill of fear.

“That’s possible. That would be much more interesting,” Senju chuckled. The existence of ghosts here would make things even more interesting. He picked up a telephone-like device from the ground and began to examine it.

“Yes, and then all those unseen people are having a party,” Yuri said excitedly, looking around as if she could see the revelry.

Senju, however, felt somewhat powerless against Yuri's imagination and could only softly dismiss her delusions, "Sigh, they probably aren't having a party, right, Senju?"

"Ahem," Senju said, pretending to examine the machine closely, and tried pressing a button on it. "It seems this really is a telephone."

"Is that so?" Chito looked at Senju and didn't know what to say. After wandering around for a while, the three of them decided to climb up the stairs built next to them.

However, after what had just happened, Senju was a little uneasy about the suspended iron ladders outside. He shook them vigorously for a while, and after finding that there was no problem, the three of them walked up with peace of mind.

After walking down the iron ladder for a while, Chito recalled the evidence to refute Yuri's idea, "However, Yuri, quite a lot of people have died so far, won't this world be overrun with ghosts?"

"But wouldn't it be nice to occasionally talk to the souls of the dead?" Yuri was quite happy after hearing this and had a new idea.

"It's alright, there won't be an overabundance of ghosts, since we can't see them anyway," Senju said nonchalantly, looking around. Even if the world were overrun with ghosts, it wouldn't matter, since this was the apocalypse.

Chapter 140 New Building on the Dead Building

"That's great, I don't want to talk to dead people," Chito breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Senju's words. The unknown is always frightening.

The three climbed up the iron ladder and saw a door on the platform. They pushed the door open and went inside.

"Where is this place?" Qianhu stared blankly at the spectacle before him. Behind the door was a slope with rows of large boxes arranged like terraced fields. There were also sloping pipes around the boxes. The area was illuminated by the lighthouse opposite.

Yuri ran to the box

They looked around for a bit, then noticed something. "Ah, everyone come and see this!"

“It’s a plant,” Chito said, picking up the withered grass from the box with some surprise. “But it’s completely withered and inedible.”

"Oh, it's soil," Senju said excitedly, grabbing the soil from the box. He didn't care about the plants on top; the soil at the bottom was what mattered.

As the two discovered the treasure, Yuri picked up a piece of withered grass and chewed on it, saying, "Ugh, this tastes awful."

After spitting out the dry grass from her mouth, she took out her water bottle and mixed it. "Phew, water tastes so good."

Qianhu walked around for a while and found that all the boxes here were filled with the same withered plants. "Could this facility have been built specifically for these plants? They even climbed up here on purpose."

The three of them walked down the slope, and at the end of the slope was a steel road leading to a building that looked like a warehouse.

The three looked around again and discovered that there were several two- or three-story buildings on the sloping building. They were all built on a flat surface erected on the sloping building using scaffolding. Qianhu thought there might be some supplies inside.

Below the slope was half of an unmodified building, clearly not yet ready for renovation. After identifying their target, the three followed the road, preparing to take a look inside those buildings.

Although they didn't know why people at the time would go to such great lengths to build houses here, the three still hoped that there might be some usable supplies there.

However, after searching the surrounding buildings, the three found only some tables and chairs inside. Senju put them away, but Chito was very unhappy because there were no supplies they needed.

"If this is all we have, we've lost out big time," Chito said indignantly, looking around. He then prepared to search the shortest storeroom, when he saw Senju pull out a pickaxe. "Senju, what are you doing?"

"Of course, we're collecting soil! It's a valuable resource," Senju said, pulling out his pickaxe to dig the soil out of the box. There wasn't anything good around anyway, so he figured he might as well collect the soil as soon as possible.

"Never mind that for now, let's see if there's anything usable in that room," the commander said as he approached the storeroom.

However, Yuri didn't seem to mind. "That's just how exploration is. It's common not to find what you need."

Seeing the two people walk into the next room, Senju followed them in. "Let's leave the soil here for now and collect it later."

After entering the room, Senju looked at the layout. In the middle of the room was a long table with only a few pieces of paper on it. There were some stools around it, and piles of boxes against the wall, their contents unknown.

Just as Senju was observing the house, Chito seemed to have noticed something and picked up a small box from the box next to him.

"What is that?" Yuri asked curiously when she saw what Chito had found.

“It’s tobacco,” Chito recognized it after a glance. “Speaking of which, Kanazawa used to smoke this too.”

"Oh, it's the camera one," Yuri thought for a moment before remembering, then took out a cigarette. "Want to have one?"

“Hey, that won’t do,” Senju said, sensing something was off. Tobacco was something you couldn’t just smoke. Having been exposed to the smell of smoke as a child, Senju still hated tobacco intensely. “This is confiscated.”

After saying that, Senju took the cigarettes from Chito and Yuri's hands. Yuri pulled Senju with some disappointment, "Oh, why is this? Kanazawa smoked them too. Let me try some."

“That won’t do,” Senju wouldn’t agree to Yuri’s request. “These tobaccos are very harmful to the human body and make people unhealthy.”

“Health doesn’t really matter,” Yuri said, sensing that Senju’s reaction was a bit strange. “You didn’t say that back in Kanazawa.”

"..." Senju didn't know how to answer. After all, this was his old obsession. He didn't care if other people smoked, but he absolutely couldn't tolerate his close friends and family smoking.

"Alright, stop arguing. Let's see if there's anything else," Qianhu said, not really caring about the matter and not wanting to cause a fight.

"Alright, since Chihiro says so, let's find something else then," Yuri said, no longer dwelling on the previous issue after hearing Chihiro's words, which relieved Chihiro, who didn't know what to say.

After searching through the boxes nearby without finding anything useful, the three of them sat down on the stools next to them.

After sitting for a while, Yuri saw that the piece of paper on the table was a photograph. "Chihiro, look at this, it's a photograph."