Offer blocks to the end times

“Yes, this will allow me to supply power to my body,” the robot breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s been a great help. I didn’t expect that the power would suddenly run out while I was walking. The backup power is only enough to get to this charging station.”

"Sigh, I didn't expect that the robot would stop moving when it ran out of power. Is it like how humans lose their energy when they don't eat?" Yuri asked curiously, looking at the motionless robot beside her.

"It's not quite the same. I used to have a generator inside me, but it's completely broken, and I also have all sorts of minor injuries," the robot explained its situation, and then explained why it came here. "So, in order to continue operating, I need to come here to recharge regularly, just like humans eat."

"Is the electricity good?" Yuri asked enviously when she heard the other person say that they had been eating electricity here all the time.

“It’s delicious,” the robot confirmed Yuri’s idea. “The taste is related to the frequency, and there are all kinds of tastes.”

"They actually said that electricity has a smell or something," Qianhu said in disbelief, but it didn't seem like they were lying. "Does electricity have a smell?"

"Actually, human taste is also a kind of electrical signal," the robot explained, but Chito and Yuri didn't believe it.

"A strange machine that says strange things?" the two began to discuss. "Come to think of it, this is the third one we've encountered. I think it's called a self-regulating machine or something."

Senju then chatted with the robot, saying, "That's true. Although the electric current in the human body is very weak, it is indeed an electrical signal."

“Oh, you know that too?” the robot said excitedly. “We robots are made with reference to human thinking and are usually called AI machines.”

“Artificial intelligence, huh? But if it continues to evolve, it can produce true intelligence,” Thousand Hands said, looking at the robot. Its words flowed smoothly, without any abrupt pauses, as if it were a person.

"I feel like I've been thinking a lot lately, which is different from when I was just following instructions," the robot also felt something was off. "I've been trying to do all sorts of things lately, this must be true intelligence."

Upon hearing this, Yuri exclaimed, "Wait a minute, is the graffiti outside also your doing?"

“It’s less like random scribbles and more like rigorous writing,” the robot didn’t deny. “It’s a great language that was used for thousands of years in the distant past, before your ancestors even existed.”

“So, that’s the writing system of your machines,” Chito summarized, glancing at a book. However, Senju seemed somewhat confused. “Who were our ancestors? What were they like a thousand years ago?”

"Your ancestors were humans who remained on Earth four or five hundred years ago. I don't know much about what happened a thousand years ago, but I do know that there were machines everywhere back then. The machines in this city were all made with the technology of that time, as if there was a break in civilization," the robot told Thousand Hands after thinking for a while.

Then it sighed and said, "But now both humans and machines are almost extinct, and machines like me are about to break down completely."

Chapter 181 Crystallization of Civilization

"Oh, I see," Senju still didn't quite understand. Yuri, who had been sitting there waiting for a while, became a little impatient. "It's so slow, Senju, I'm starving."

"Let's eat something while we wait," said the commander, who was also feeling a bit hungry. He took out some military rations from his pack and shared them with everyone.

During the meal, the three chatted with the robot for a long time. However, perhaps due to the excessive damage to its body, it forgot many things, which made Senju somewhat doubt what it had said earlier, but there was no way to verify it now.

But just as he was thinking this, Number Six spoke again, "These are indeed machine languages, there are other languages ​​as well..."

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Number Six played a bunch of flashing symbols in Thousand Hands' mind. The shapes looked similar to the symbols outside. Thousand Hands could only remember the constantly flashing circles and swaying straight lines.

"I can't believe this is true. Is what happened a thousand years ago also true?" Senju wondered to himself.

Number Six paused for a moment before speaking, “It is indeed true. A long time ago, there was a period when machines ruled the Earth. Back then, machines were everywhere, and human survival was very difficult. But suddenly, something miraculous happened, and humans defeated the machines and regained control of the Earth.”

Number Six's words were filled with surprise, seemingly unable to understand why such a reversal had occurred. Senju, however, thought to himself, "Machines were created by humans; this outcome is quite normal."

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"No, it seems like a miracle happened to humanity back then. Super spaceships that were impossible suddenly appeared, and the machines were brought back under human control," Number Six said, referring to the old records, but he still couldn't figure out how this situation had occurred.

"Well, nobody knows now, but it would be great if miracles could happen again," Senju thought to himself with some emotion. It seemed that even Number Six didn't know the reason back then.

Number Six heard Thousand Hands' thoughts and continued with her speculation, "Perhaps the machines damaged the Earth too much back then, and people in the past did not fully restore everything in nature. They only made simple repairs, and now almost all life has become extinct."

"Is that so?" Senju felt that the Earth was shrouded in a fog. The history here seemed to be far removed from his own time, and the things he knew were shrouded in mystery. Some were technologically advanced, while others were just ordinary technology, as if they were separated by thousands of years.

After waiting for a while, the robot's battery was finally fully charged. It went outside and stood up. The three people who followed behind realized that it was actually very tall, much taller than Chito and Yuri combined.

“Wow, it’s so tall when it stands up,” Yullion exclaimed, looking at the robot with great surprise at its upright form.

“I really don’t know how to express my gratitude,” the robot said, as if it were a real human. Then it opened a small door on its body, took out an item, and handed it to Chito. “At least accept this as a gift.”

"Thank you then," Sento said, taking the item. Senju looked at it and saw that it was a triangular object.

"What a passionate creation this is, isn't it?" the robot said proudly to the three. Chito looked down at the item in his hands, "Passion..."

"Hey, where are you going next?" Yuri asked from the side, but the robot had already started walking to the side. "I have no idea, but what does it matter?"

"So, the outcome is the same as ours—people who can't find a place to belong?" Yuri watched the departing robot, as if she saw her own reflection in it.

The robot gradually walked away, and the three of them returned to the car. Chito handed the items they had just obtained to Yuri, who then began to study them in the car, while Senju watched from the side.

“I don’t understand it at all,” Yuri said, fiddling with the object. It was about the size of a palm, with a bunch of square iron pieces standing upright on a piece of iron, arranged in a neat triangle. Senju counted twelve pieces in total, and each side of the iron piece was parallel, gradually increasing in size from the inside out, looking very regular.

After Yuri realized she couldn't understand it, she asked Chito, "Chito, what do you think of this piece of metal?"

“I don’t understand at all. It just looks like a bunch of metal pieces,” Qianhu’s voice came from the front. She also studied the metal pieces for a while but didn’t find anything unusual.

“Sigh, but this is clearly the machine’s masterpiece, right?” Yuri was still fiddling with the metal plate. Senju seemed to notice a line of subtitles appearing on it and stared at it curiously.

“Experiencing different electric currents, using graffiti-like text, treating iron sheets as handicrafts,” Qianhu cited these examples that everyone could see, and then spoke his own opinion, “I guess the differences in values ​​are even greater. It’s true that we and machines can’t possibly understand each other.”

“But everyone did receive its gratitude,” Senju said from the side. Even with different values, humans and machines do communicate, whether directly or indirectly.

"Hmm, it seems that's really the case," Chito thought for a while and remembered what had just happened; the exchange had indeed taken place.

"Yuri, let me see that piece of metal," Senju said, taking the metal sheet after seeing that Yuri had finished studying it. Sure enough, there was a line of text on it: 'The crystallization of mechanical civilization.' Number Six also ran out from the side and began to examine it.

"This contains the thinking of a machine. Although it looks ordinary, it is engraved with a lot of mechanical language that humans cannot see. This can be added to the final spaceship manufacturing," Number Six said to Senju after inspecting it. However, no matter how Senju looked at it, the piece of iron in his hand seemed very ordinary.

"That's because humans can't understand that the protrusions and indentations on each piece of iron are made up of a certain proportion, which can be converted into machine language. The proportion of the patches is also a link," Number Six explained in Senju's mind, but unfortunately Senju still didn't quite understand.

"

"That means this is very important," Thousand Hands interrupted Number Six's explanation. He knew what Number Six meant, but he didn't intend to delve into it. After all, it was good enough that it worked, it wasn't like the AllSpark or anything.

Ignoring Number Six's voice, Senju spoke to Sento, "Sen-chan, could you give me this piece of metal? I feel it's very important to me."

"Okay, Senju can have it. Anyway, Yu and I don't know much about it," Senju said, not caring much about the piece of metal. But it was great that it could help Senju.

Chapter 182 The Snowman Family

Thousand Hands put the iron piece into the package and saw that it had turned into a ball of pale blue light inside, which looked very beautiful and charming.

Seeing the changes, Senju finally breathed a sigh of relief. With the first item, there would be a second one, and eventually they would all be found, at which point they could build the spaceship.

After the car had been driving for a while, snow began to accumulate on the surrounding buildings, and soon everyone left the city and entered a snowfield.

Seeing the surrounding snow, everyone felt it was much colder, but Chito still drove towards the snowfield, and Yuri covered herself with a blanket and fell fast asleep.

"It's getting colder again," Senju said, starting a conversation when he saw that Chito ahead was looking a bit bored. "It feels like it's always winter."

“Yes, it’s much colder here than in the city. The snow on the ground hasn’t melted yet,” Qianhu continued, looking at the surrounding snow. “Driving on such an empty snowfield feels like we’re the only people in the world.”

"Yes, I do have that feeling. But there are only a few people left in the world. It's terrifying," Senju sighed. Humans used to be a species that could be counted in 'hundreds of millions,' but now, like all life, they are on the verge of extinction.

“I feel like I’ve gotten used to it,” Chito sighed, then asked curiously, “Senju said you’re from another world, right? Tell me how people live there.”

"Well, although I've mentioned it before, life was so wonderful in my world. Thinking about it now, it really feels like a luxury," Senju sighed. Things that were ordinary in his original world were unimaginable here. Then he told Chito about his original world.

"Another world?" Chito was somewhat longing for it. From Senju's description, it was practically paradise. He would definitely go and see another world if he had the chance.

"Well, speaking of which, my world is just an ordinary one. Some worlds have all sorts of magic and stuff, though that's just my guess," Senju thought for a moment and then laughed. Compared to this world, the ordinary world is really something to look forward to.

"Is that so? I've read books that mention it, but it seems like it's just something I've imagined," Chito was still somewhat skeptical, even though he had witnessed extraordinary abilities.

"Well, it could be real or it could be fantasy. Maybe in other worlds, humanity is also on the verge of extinction. These are all possible alternate worlds," Senju started to fool Chito. Anyway, no one knows where the alternate world is right now, so there's no way to prove it. But on the other hand, it would be good to be able to go to another world. It's better than a place where all life has been wiped out.

"Is it possible?" Chito continued driving forward, lost in thought. Chiju, watching Chito's leisurely demeanor, felt uneasy. "Chito, we won't get lost here, will we?"

“No problem, I’ve been following the directions the whole time,” Qianhu said, glancing ahead before focusing on driving.

"Guide?" Senju looked around. The ground was covered in snow, and there were only the shadows of some pillars ahead. "Could those be the signs? They are indeed very obvious."

“Yes, it’s marked on the map. After we pass this area, we’ll soon reach the highest point,” Qianhu explained from the front, then looked at the sun. “Looks like it’s almost evening again. We need to find a place to rest.”

“Hmm, it’s best to find a sheltered place, otherwise we’ll have to build a snow house again,” Senju stood up from behind and looked around for a suitable place. “Senju, there seems to be a sheltered place over there.”

“Oh, let’s go over there,” Qianhu also spotted the location and turned in that direction. As they approached, they discovered that it was an abandoned building that looked like a lid with a space underneath where a car could drive in. There was also a small hut on one side with something that looked like an antenna on top, suggesting that someone had lived there in the past.

After parking the car, Chito woke up Yuri, but then the two of them had nothing to do. Chito cleared the snow pile to set up the cabin, Chito sat in the car and looked at the map, while Yuri wandered around inside for a while out of boredom, found a bunch of things, and then started playing in the snow.

"La la la," Yuri sang as she played in the snow, and gradually several snowmen appeared on the ground. Seeing Yuri turn the snow into snowmen, Senju was a little confused. Why did his snowmen turn into blocks when he tried to make them? But after thinking about it, he decided it didn't matter. It was probably a permission issue.

However, this time, Number Six did not come out to answer the question in his heart. Senju was still a little uncomfortable, shook his head and continued to clear the snow and collect raw materials.

Just as Senju had gathered enough materials and was beginning to build the soaking wet flat hut, Yuri exclaimed, "Oh, it's finished!"

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"You're really good at these pointless things," Chito said helplessly, looking at the pile of snowmen that had appeared next to her. In no time, Yuri had built five or six snowmen.

Thousand Hands placed a small house on a platform to the side and walked over. He saw a row of snowmen next to him, their bodies made of snowballs, their eyes made of screws and parts, their arms made of iron rods, and their hats made of jars. They looked very interesting and resembled Frankenstein's monster.

Standing next to the snowman, Yuri began to introduce them to the two, "So, this is a big family."

"So?" Chito sat there watching Yuri's performance. Yuri was clearly very excited, and she began to introduce the snowmen to the two of them.

“This is the eldest brother,” Yuri pointed to the largest snowman, with a jar standing upright on its head and two parts with eyes of different sizes. Chito nodded to indicate that he understood. “This must be the eldest son.”

“This is the second oldest girl,” said the girl with a slanted hat and long eyes. “They even differentiate by gender.”

“This is the smallest child,” Yuri said, pointing to the smallest snowman, which was made up of two snowballs and had only eyes, no arms or hat.

Seeing that Yuri had stopped her introduction, Chito asked curiously, "What about their parents?"

“Of course, my parents are Chihiro and me,” Yuri said, looking at Chihiro before noticing Senju beside her. “And of course, there’s Senju too.”

"Then who is the father?" Chito asked after hearing Yuri's first sentence, but her words made him think. "Since the mother gives birth to the children, then I, who make these snowmen, am the mother."

Chapter 183 The Snowman and the Child

"So, what did Father do again?" Yuri pondered, then asked the two beside her, "In the end, how are human children made?"

"Who knows?" Senju and Chito both evaded the question. They exchanged a glance and then looked away, as if they both understood each other perfectly. "You tell me!"

"Sigh, don't Chihiro and Senju know?" Yuri asked with some disappointment, as both of them looked in another direction.

"I don't know, it's a mystery of humanity," Chito blushed slightly and turned to the side, pretending to read a book, while Senju looked at the snowdrifts outside. "I'm not quite sure, I don't know either."

"Really?" Yuri looked at the two people who had suddenly become strange with suspicion. Chito calmed down after a while. "Speaking of which, Yuri probably doesn't know anything about the family structure."

"Really?" Yuri no longer cared about the previous question. She had thought of a new way to play. She picked up an iron rod and looked at the snowmen around her. "Then let's decide who is the strongest among you."

"Hey!" Yuri waved her stick and started hitting the snowmen. After a while, all the snowmen fell down, and she stood inside them, shouting, "It's my victory!"

"What's going on?" Senju wondered to himself. He recalled the scene of Yuri playing in the snow earlier, and Number Six's voice appeared, "This is because snowballs can also be used as weapons, so the modification of snow has been prohibited."

"Is that so?" Senju thought to herself, then a scene flashed through her mind: Yuri transformed into a snowball machine gun, countless snowballs raining down on her, and she collapsed and died. She couldn't help but shudder. "Forbidden is really great."

While Senju was lost in thought, Chito also witnessed Yuri smashing the snowman. Watching her smugly standing on the snowdrift, he thought, "This is just torture, isn't it?"