Offer blocks to the end times

"Is this the password?" Senju looked at the numbers above her head and pressed the corresponding buttons one by one. "And then, can the elevator be activated?"

“Not yet, any of the three will do. Please look at this camera.” Number Six shrank to the side of the cylinder, and Yuri curiously peered over it. “What will happen if we do this?”

“I will disappear,” Number Six answered with a sense of relief. After hearing this, Chito quickly pulled Yuri away from the camera. “Yuri, wait a minute.”

However, the word 'authentication' appeared on the terminal, and Number Six bowed to the three of them, saying, "Thank you very much for helping me with the authentication."

"Disappeared, what does that mean?" Qianhu seemed to have thought of something, but he wasn't sure.

"disappear,

"For living beings, it means death," as Number Six said, the symbol above her head turned into a circle again, but cracks began to appear on it, and urgent alarms began to sound all around.

"Death? Why?" The three looked at Number Six standing to the side in shock and asked anxiously, not understanding why she would choose death.

“I’ve already wanted it all to end,” Number Six stood there, the cracks in the fixation plate on his head gradually widening, while the three of them stood to the side, helpless.

Chapter 159 Perhaps a New Beginning

“I’ve spent decades writing code that can break itself, but the final authentication must be done by humans,” the projection of Number Six said, still standing there watching the three, explaining why he had them do it.

She looked at the three people's somewhat sad and worried expressions, "Please rest assured, the elevator will operate after I disappear; it's already set up."

"No, not this," Qianhu looked at Number Six, feeling a sorrow so deep it was almost unbearable to cry. "We were just chatting, telling each other to do it ourselves..."

"..." Number Six seemed to understand Chitoge's feelings, and she immediately lay down on the ground. "Can you understand what 'unforgotten eternity' is?"

“It’s probably something humans can’t understand,” Senju replied involuntarily. He couldn’t ask about the elevator right now, but he had some hope for that eternity. “But eternity is something that humans pursue, even though no one has ever obtained it.”

"Hmm, humans are so convenient. They can forget things anytime, and even death doesn't require verification," Number Six sighed as he lay there. However, Senju wouldn't agree. This is probably the difference between humans and machines.

"Hey, what does 'forget' mean?" Yuri asked, puzzled. Chito explained, "It means forgetting things. Yuri is very good at it."

The three walked to Number Six's side and gently touched her illusory body. Yuri looked at her empty body with some sadness, "Memories are such a nuisance."

“It should be different from what Yu said,” Chito complained from the side. Machine and human memories should be different. Senju nodded in agreement. “It should be about data or something.”

“No, it’s roughly the same idea,” Number Six rejected their ideas. She slowly floated up from the ground, and her body began to gradually change shape. “The accumulation of infinite memories and the accumulation of infinite losses will lead all thinking into an unsolvable problem. This is eternal insomnia.”

Her body slowly rose to the top of the house. Inside was just a long body, but her voice still came from all around, "I will exist until the city's reserve power is completely exhausted, so let everything end here."

"I don't quite understand," Qianhu said, still confused by Number Six's explanation. Everyone and every machine he saw was desperately trying to survive, but Number Six seemed intent on dying.

“But it’s time,” Number Six descended from above, and the three of them could see her head again, but the fixation plate on it had suddenly become much larger. “I am truly grateful that you were able to grant my request.”

“We often get asked to do things by whoever we meet,” Yuri said, her expression somewhat somber, as if she were recalling something, probably something like Ishii or the machine.

“Appearing in places where interests are irrelevant, the traveler himself is similar to a god,” Number Six looked at the three from above, the fixed plate above him constantly magnifying, and the surrounding sounds began to resonate. “That’s why he made a request, wanting to pray.”

"I am a failure as a god," Number Six's voice rang out as the fixed plate on her head filled the entire room, emitting numerous symbols, and her body began to disintegrate. "Farewell!"

As she spoke, her figure vanished without a sound, the surrounding sounds ceased, followed by an explosion, and a plume of smoke rose from the nearby terminal.

Then Senju felt the room begin to shake, as if it were rising. Only then did Senju realize that this huge room was the so-called elevator. Senju next to him, whether from the shaking or excitement, sat down on the floor. "It's starting to move."

"Hmm," Senju looked at the empty space beside her with a touch of sadness. There were already not many lives left, but now another life had been lost. If only she could have stopped it. But perhaps Number Six just wanted to escape loneliness.

As he thought, strings of numbers seemed to appear around him, emitting points of light that filled the room. Then, these chains of numbers seemed to grab onto something, capturing the symbols that had just disappeared and returning them to Thousand Hands.

However, none of the three present noticed these changes. Everyone was still saddened by the disappearance of Number Six. Just then, in a place that no one noticed, a tiny humanoid phantom appeared on Senju's body, which looked like a miniature version of Number Six.

She looked around curiously, trying to move, but the three people next to her didn't notice. Then, when she saw the two people next to her, she shrank into Senju's body and disappeared without a trace.

After reminiscing for a while, the three sat down to wait for the elevator to arrive. However, the journey seemed quite long, and the three of them leaned together and slowly fell asleep.

After an unknown amount of time, the room stopped shaking, and the entrance next to it opened, revealing the outside...

It is a passageway.

Chito slowly woke up. In her dream, she recalled everything before she left her hometown, a city buried in snow, with pipes and snow everywhere.

She and Yuri played in the snow together, ate together, and played together, living a carefree life until one day Yuri disappeared. Her grandfather told her to go find Yuri, and she found Yuri next to a group of soldiers. She pulled her and ran back to her grandfather.

Grandpa took out two sets of military jackets and a gun and handed them to the two men. He also gave them the car he had hidden and showed them the way up the mountain. Before leaving, they watched Grandpa standing there with the gun.

"Humans are forgetful creatures, and it is precisely because of this that knowledge has been accumulated. Even so, will they eventually repeat the same mistakes?" Chito recalled what her grandfather had said when they left. Although she didn't quite understand it at the time, she now understood some of it.

She also remembered seeing an explosion in her hometown before she left, followed by gunfire, and then she had no idea what happened to it afterward.

"Are we there yet?" Chito shook his head to clear his mind, looked at the entrance and passageway beside him, and shook the two people leaning against him. "Yu, Senju, wake up, get up."

The two then woke up and prepared to leave, but Yuri noticed a projection on the wall. "Ah, isn't this the map that the AI ​​person mentioned?"

"It really appeared!" No one had asked about the map before, and Chito breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it. He then took out his diary and began to write it down.

Volume 3: Final Girls' Trip Arc - The World's Highest Peak

Chapter 160 Remembrance

While Chito was taking notes on the maps, Yuri took out her camera and started taking pictures. After taking the pictures, she looked at them carefully.

Thousand Hands was also looking at it. There were several pictures on it, one was a structural diagram of the entire city, and another was a flat map that should be of this floor.

“We really went very far,” Yuri said, looking at the city’s layout and counting the floors. Then she remembered something. “Ah, I remember now, Grandpa said we should go up.”

"Hmm," Chito, who was still drawing, responded. Senju, who was listening, was a little curious. She had heard the two of them talk about her grandfather countless times along the way. "Yu, what kind of person is Grandpa?"

“Grandpa is always thinking about the past,” Yuri said after a moment’s thought, while Chito added, “No, only occasionally.”

"Is that so? I've almost forgotten about it," Yuri said, somewhat bewildered. In her memory, her grandfather was always sitting at his desk, pondering various questions.

“Although I don’t want to think about unpleasant things,” Chito’s expression was also somewhat melancholy, perhaps because of Number Six’s death and Yuri’s words, but she couldn’t accept forgetting. “But, it would be very lonely to forget everything.”

After listening to their conversation, Senju still couldn't form an image of her grandfather; she only knew him as a knowledgeable old man who was always thinking about problems.

After a while, Qianhu finished drawing a simple map, and the three of them got into the car and left the elevator. Outside was a straight passage, from which the cold wind blew.

Yuri lay back, her eyes closed as if sensing something. "Hey, every time I think about the past, I have this feeling. What is it? It's a little sad, and my chest feels a little tight, but it's not an unpleasant feeling."

"Do you miss it?" Chito said softly. Senju, who was writing on the side, recalled the past. It was a little bitter, but very warm in her heart. This was a longing that belonged only to her.

"Nostalgia," Yuri repeated, feeling a strange sensation welling up inside her. The three of them emerged from the passage, immersed in an atmosphere of reminiscence.

Once outside, the three of them immediately put aside their nostalgia, because the weather outside was actually snowy and windy, which made the three of them, who had been indoors, shiver.

The three looked at the ground; outside was thick snow, and the wind was icy cold. However, Qianhu did not stop and drove into the snowstorm.

In the wind and snow, a faint light began to emanate from around the car, seemingly blocking the cold wind. However, snowflakes still fell and landed on the three of them. After a while, everyone and the car were covered with a layer of snow.

The chill in the surrounding air also permeated the area, and with each breath, clear white mist could be seen. The three of them left the area of ​​the tower in this weather.

Following the map, Qianhu headed in one direction. Along the way, there were strange buildings everywhere: haphazardly scattered huts, T-shaped buildings of unknown purpose, and many long steel pillars scattered on the ground.

On one side was an unfinished building with many cranes on it and many pillars supporting it in the middle. However, it was never completed and remained there forever.

The car moved forward among these steel supports. Qianhu looked up worriedly, afraid that something might fall down, but nothing fell down along the way. Instead, the three of them saw that the machines on one side were covered with snow and looked like they were completely frozen.

After moving forward for a while, strange machines began to appear around us, and the surrounding buildings were reduced to mere pillars, with neat steel supports erected on both sides.

"This area feels a lot like that place."

Yuri looked around and suddenly felt a pang of emotion. Senju, gazing at the surrounding snow and buildings, recalled, "Hmm, where was that again? Was it the place where we took a bath that time, the one at the power plant?"

"Yes, I remember the snow was very heavy back then," Chito said, feeling the chill around him and recalling the time he traveled through the snowy night and finally found hot water.

“No, it’s the place where Chihiro crashed into the bridge,” Yuri corrected their guesses, then looked around with some hesitation. “What was that feeling like again? Right, an industrial feel!”

“Industrial feel? Yes, yes,” Qianhu looked around and indeed it was very similar in style to the crevice in the ice field. However, after feeling the chill around her, she began to shiver. “But it’s even colder here than during that snowfall. How high up are we now?”

"It's so cold," Yuri huddled up behind her, trying to get as far away from Senju as possible. "Hey, Senju, hurry up and take off your metal armor, otherwise it'll be even colder if we're all huddled together."

Senju looked at the armor on his body, which seemed to emanate a cold aura, so he took off the armor to reveal the cloth clothes underneath.

Yuri also came closer, but she still felt cold. Suddenly, she thought of something, clapped her hands and shouted, "That's right, you won't be cold if you cover yourself with a blanket!"

"Ah, how cunning! Alone!" Chito looked back after hearing Yuri's words. Yuri also took out a blanket, wrapped herself up, and lay down to the side.

“How about we take turns driving? Let’s switch to Senju first,” Yuri responded from inside. Chito sighed, “Let’s not go for that. Only I know the route.”

“It’s okay, we’ll return the warmth we’ve borrowed in a bit,” Yuri said inexplicably from under the covers.

Senju looked at Yuri, who was wrapped up and seemed a little dazed, and felt that the weather was not suitable for continuing. "Senju, let's find a place to stop. It's too cold here."

“Okay, but there’s snow everywhere here, and it feels like we’re starting to drift off course,” Chito nodded, looking around at the buildings, looking for a suitable place to put the hut, preferably one that could provide some shelter from the cold wind.

“The open space in front will suffice. In this kind of weather, we must build a protective layer outside the hut,” Senju said, looking around at the surrounding environment. A mere layer of iron sheets would not be enough to block the chill.

"Okay, let's stop up ahead," Chito continued driving for a while and stopped in an open area. The surroundings were all snow, and Chito was shivering from the cold.

After getting out of the car, Senju placed a layer of Hell Rock on the snow and then put a hut on top of it. "Senju, you guys go into the hut and boil some water and food first. I'm going to build a protective snow hut outside."

Chapter 161 Snow House

"Hmm, but do you need any help? I'll wake Yuri up. Yuri, get up and get to work!" When Qianhu heard that they were going to build a snow house, he took out a shovel and patted Yuri awake. Yuri, whose helmet was clanging, immediately woke up, "Ouch, ouch, ouch."

"Well, you guys..." Senju originally wanted the two of them to help build the snow, but then thought it better to have them prepare the food first. "Never mind, I'll finish building it soon. You guys tidy up the car and then prepare some food."

The two watched as Senju turned the snow on the ground into chunks of snow, realizing they couldn't help. They packed up their things from the car, brushed the snow off themselves, and went into the cabin.

While collecting snow blocks and snowballs, Senju began to build a house made of snow blocks around it. He also drove his car next to the house and started building snow walls around it.

While Senju was still building the snow hut, Chito and Yuri were boiling water and cooking food inside the hut. After they finished cooking, they stood at the door and watched Senju's activities outside.

“Actually, I really like building snow,” Yuri said with a hint of envy as she watched Senju turn the snow into blocks. “Senju’s skills are really good.”

"Yeah, that's true. If I were to build it, it would definitely turn into a dumpling. But building snow is really cold," Chito said, looking at the snowy scene outside with some fear. "Yu, why do you like it?"

“Because it’s so much fun! You can build it really high up, and if you dig, it gets deeper,” Yuri stared blankly at the snow walls that were gradually rising around her, then pointed at the wall and asked Chito, “Chito, is this how we used to build snow? It feels a little different!”

“Hmm, this is definitely different. I remember the snow houses we used to build were all round,” Chito rubbed his eyes, then walked to the snow wall in surprise and poked it. The snow on it had become a solid block and was very hard. “It seems that this is the ability that Senju mentioned. It works on snow too.”

“This isn’t snow anymore. I turned it into snow blocks, which makes building the snow house much easier,” said Senju, who was installing the roof. The snow house was almost finished.

"By the way, Senju, you need to leave some openings. Don't completely close off the surroundings, or we'll suffocate," Sento said, looking at the enclosed snow walls around them. Remembering something, he quickly reminded Senju.

"Okay, I understand. I'll just open a door on one side later. But it's a bit dark in here," Senju said, looking at the dim light in the snow house. He then stuck a torch on the wall, and the surroundings became bright again.

"That's good," Qianhu said, looking around at the snow walls that surrounded them, illuminated by the bright firelight.

The surroundings weren't too cold anymore, so she ran to the car to clear the snow off it, while Yuri stayed inside the house watching the food being cooked.

After Senju finished building the snow house, he opened a doorway on one side and installed a wooden door. Sengo saw that it was still a bit cold inside the snow house, so he took out lava and water to produce stones. Sengo also ran to the side to watch and warm himself up. It wasn't until Yuri called the two of them that Senju put everything away.

Inside the house, Yuri had already cooked the food. Seeing the two of them come in, she poured the food into a cup next to her. The two of them took off their coats and hung them aside, then closed the door. The little house warmed up in no time.

The three sat at the table, holding their warm cups, ready to eat. Senju took a sniff and smelled the aroma of grilled fish wafting from them. "Yu, is this fish?"

“Mmm, it’s canned fish and military rations inside,” Yuri said happily, holding the cup full of food. “It tastes so good.”