"Hmm?" After holding the camera for a while, Chito realized that he couldn't capture the whole picture, so he took a few steps back, but it was still the same. He took a few more steps back before it was ready. "Are you ready, Yu?"

"Chihiro, you're standing too far away! Come closer!" Yuri called out to Chihiro, who was more than ten meters away.

“You can’t get the whole picture if you get too close,” Chito sighed. Then Yuri ran over, picked up the camera and looked at it. “Really? Chito, why don’t you stand there and try it?”

“Alright,” Senju stood in front of the tree, touching the trunk as he thought about how to cut it down. He wished it were like the ones in real life.

After the two people next to her gestured with their cameras for a while, Yuri wanted to try it out. "Are you ready? Let's start."

"Ready?" Senju replied, and Yuri took a picture of him. However, she was not satisfied with the result, so she took a few steps forward and tested the camera again before nodding in satisfaction.

“Senju, take a picture for us, right here,” Yuri emphasized, pointing to the ground. Senju walked over and picked up the camera, while Yuri pulled Chito to stand in front of the tree.

"Cheese!" With a shout, Senju took a strange photo of the two of them. However, judging from her excited expression, she seemed to want to take a few more. But then Chito remembered something.

"You, the food has been ready for a while now, it'll get cold if you don't eat it soon."

"Oh, why didn't you tell me sooner? Let's go eat first."

After Yuri finished speaking, she ran back into the house. Senju looked at Senju, who was gesturing with an axe against a tree trunk, and said, "Senju, come and eat with us."

"Okay, we'll deal with this tree later."

When they returned to the house, they saw Yuri already eating there, with Chito and Senju joining in.

The meal was quickly finished, and everyone started discussing what to do that day. Chito wanted to find supplies as soon as possible, while Senju wanted to wait until the crops were ripe before setting off. Yuri, on the other hand, was indifferent; she just wanted to have food.

However, everyone agreed that the books should not be separated, so Chito and Senju began to argue. But after Senju took out two books, Chito agreed with his opinion.

Seeing Chito holding the book happily, Senju also wanted to see what was inside. However, after flipping through a few books, he found that he recognized some of the contents while not recognizing others. He asked Chito about them, but Chito only recognized a portion of them as well.

After asking a few questions, Senju forgot what he had said before. Only then did he realize that the reason he could understand everyone's words was all thanks to the system. In the system's settings, even "humming" could be understood.

However, Sento then discovered that Senju knew some characters that he didn't recognize, so he asked him to teach him. Senju thought for a moment and agreed, but told Sento that he only knew a portion of the characters here.

While the two were teaching each other, Yuri, who was sitting next to them, was very bored. She rummaged through Chito's bag, took out a book, looked at it for a while, and then, realizing that she didn't understand it at all, threw it aside.

However, after teaching Chito a few words, Senju let her practice on her own. But learning a language is of little use now, and Chito already had her own language in mind, making it even harder for her to learn.

Chito held his diary, silently reading the words inside, when he stepped on something. Looking down, he felt a little helpless. "Yu, you should take good care of your books."

"Yes, yes, I understand. Didn't Xiaoqian step on the book too?" Yuri reclined on the car, a mouthful of...

The sheet metal part muttered.

"Who do you think is at fault? And you only need to say 'yes' once." After picking up the book from the ground, Chito stepped forward and used the book to pinch Yuri's face.

"Yes, I understand, Qian, please let me go!" Yuri's face was contorted with rage.

"Really? You'd better remember to take good care of the books." After saying that, he released Yuri's face, and Yuri pretended to pat her chest, "Phew, I thought I was going to die."

"Xiao Qian," she said, pinching Qianhu's face again, and the two of them started playing around.

After finishing teaching the characters, Senju went outside to deal with the trees. After standing in front of the tree for a while, he began to build a staircase leading to the top of the tree.

After a while, he finished setting it up, placing blocks and steps in mid-air, leading Thousand Hands to the side of the leaves, and after dealing with the leaves nearby, Thousand Hands stood at the top of the tree trunk.

Then he swung his axe and cleared away all the leaves on the ground, but he wouldn't be able to collect the fallen leaves until later.

After clearing away the leaves, the surroundings suddenly became spacious. Senju felt a bit dizzy, wondering if he was standing too high. He then lay down on the tree trunk and placed a block next to him.

The reason why she didn't cut down the tree trunk directly was because she wasn't sure if she could maintain her balance after falling. So, she slowly climbed down from the top, leaving behind only a spiraling upward block path and a sloping path in the air next to it.

After returning to the ground, Senju picked up the saplings next to him. Although the trees were very big, there were only two saplings. However, there were as many as thirteen pieces of wood, which was equivalent to three birch trees.

When he happily returned to the house, he saw Chito writing something next to him, while Yuri was jumping around in the farmland. Chito was very anxious, "Come out quickly, don't step on them!"

"Ah, Senju, this smells wonderful! What are these?"

"This is wheat, didn't I tell you?"

"Is that so? What's wheat used for?"

"Wheat is the raw material used to make bread."

"What? Bread is made from these things? Everyone must cherish them!" Yuri jumped out of the bag.

Senju checked it over and found no problems, then she was relieved. "Yes, once this wheat matures, we can make bread. Look forward to it, Yuri."

“Yes, I’ll be waiting,” Yuri said, her eyes glued to the wheat, though the drool dripping from her mouth showed that her mind wasn’t on the unformed 'bread'.

Seeing her expression, Senju decided to ignore her and took out his fishing rod to replenish his catch, hoping to catch something else as well.

Chapter Twenty-Six: Setting Off Amidst the Snowstorm

While Senju was fishing and leveling up, Yuri got bored and ran over to play next to Chito. However, Chito had already put down his books and was carefully inspecting the car.

She disassembled the car, revealing the engine inside, and began to inspect the tangled pipes one by one. When she saw Yuri coming over, she said, "Yuri, come and help me!"

"Okay, Chihiro, is there anything I can help you with?" Yuri leaned over Chihiro's side and looked at the wiring inside the car, quite interested in the dense network of wires.

After looking at it for a while, Qianhu finally gave the order, "You, give me the wrench, size 15."

"Wrench, wrench, is this it?" Yuri rummaged through the toolbox next to her for a while and found that there were many tools inside, so she just grabbed one and gave it to Qianhu.

"Thank you, Yu," Qianhu said casually, then realized something was wrong. "Hey, this isn't a wrench, Yu. What are you doing? I needed a wrench."

"Hey, what does a wrench look like?" Yuri tapped her helmet and winked cutely, leaving Chito speechless.

"You, it's been so long, you should at least remember the names of these tools, right? You use them all the time, don't you?"

"Is that so? I don't have those memories. Let Chihiro help me next time," Yuri thought for a while but still couldn't remember the name. At this moment, Chihiro pulled the toolbox to her side to find the right tool.

"Ah, it's all messed up again. It took me so long to tidy it up. You should come over and learn the names of these tools."

“Okay, Chito,” Yuri started learning the names of the tools from the side. However, after teaching her for a while, Chito felt helpless. When he picked up a tool to teach her its name, she was paying attention to other things. In the end, Chito decided to test her.

"What's this?" Chito asked Yuri, holding up a pair of pliers. Yuri thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "A wrench?"

"No, this is a pair of pliers! I just taught you how to use them!" Chito was so angry that he wanted to hit Yuri on the head with the pliers, but looking at Yuri's innocent expression, he felt a little helpless. "Fine, Yuri, you can rest there for a while. I'll check the car myself."

"Oh," Yuri replied, then lay down on a nearby table and started humming a song. But a moment later, she suddenly sat up, startling the mechanic next to her. He then saw her pick up her gun and approach. "Yuri, what are you doing!"

"Ah, I want to check the gun," Yuri said, taking out some tools from the toolbox and disassembling her gun to carefully maintain it. After a while, Chihiro next to her blushed and started hitting Yuri with the tools in his hand, "Idiot, idiot, Yuri, you idiot."

"It hurts! Stop it!" Yuri resisted Chito's gentle tapping. It was unclear what was wrong with her, but Chito soon hugged Yuri and cried softly, "Yuri is such an idiot."

Just as Senju was venting his fear, Senju also discovered that some of the wheat had ripened. He collected the ripe wheat and then planted new wheat.

However, after planting, he remembered something he had done in the game before: leaving boxes in many places and then leaving some items inside. With that in mind, he decided to leave a small base here.

Of course, just like the chests prepared in the game are generally useless, Thousand Hands only left some broken junk here, such as broken equipment obtained from fishing and a few pieces of rotten flesh. However, there are also some useful things, such as a few wooden blocks, some iron ingots and a few raw fish, as well as a pile of junk that I don't know what it is.

Seeing that there was some space left in her pack, Senju nodded in satisfaction. The little base was now complete.

The day passed quickly, and everyone was finally relieved of the fatigue of the past few days. Senju also harvested some wheat and trees, but he immediately planted them, hoping to harvest a second season the next morning.

At dinner, Senju treated everyone to freshly made bread. While they were eating, Yuri suddenly shouted, and everyone realized that it had started to snow lightly outside.

"What should we do?" Yuri looked at Chito, who was standing at the door watching the snow, but Chito said confidently, "It's okay, it will stop tomorrow, and we'll set off as usual tomorrow."

"Oh, that's good." The three of them went back into the house and continued eating dinner. Nothing happened overnight. After getting up in the morning, Qianhu harvested his crops, but he still left a small plot of land here, where he planted some wheat, thinking about the next harvest when he came back. He also planted a few birch trees next to it.

After tidying up, Qianhu and the others woke up and started cooking. After boiling some water, they ate some dry rations and prepared to go out.

But once outside, she realized that the snow hadn't stopped. Yuri looked up blankly again, "The snow is still falling."

"Enough with the chatter, this light snow is no problem at all. Everyone sit tight, let's go now," Qianhu said, then started the vehicle and sped out into the snow.

Fortunately, there was no wind outside, and Senju and the others felt quite warm in the snow. The group carefully looked around for any unusual buildings, but all they saw were empty buildings with nothing inside. Not wanting to waste time, they simply walked past them.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Qianhu suddenly spotted a peculiar device ahead. "Yu, is that a refueling station up ahead?"

“Oh, let me see,” Yuri held up a pair of binoculars and looked in the direction Chito had pointed. There was a strange tank tower standing there. “It really is! There’s a gas station there. Chito is so amazing.”

"Phew, great, we can refuel now." Senju then drove the car over, and only when he got closer did he realize that this device was not like the oil depot with many oil storage tanks, but a single tank standing here.

Then Qianhu parked the car next to her and ran over to carefully look for the oil outlet. She quickly found the outlet, which was very close to the ground. Then she followed the outlet and saw the valve.

"Senju, bring the oil drums over. Yuri, you come and help too," Senju said, climbing over to the valve before letting the two of them come over. Senju then took out several oil drums and placed them aside. She then put one of the oil drums under the oil outlet, and Yuri also took out a funnel and placed it on top of the oil drum to catch the fuel.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Battlefield and Gunfire

"Alright, Chito," Yuri said, gesturing to Chito as she aligned the funnel with the pipe opening. Chito slowly turned on the valve, and fuel began to flow from the pipe. Yuri moved the oil drum slightly to allow the fuel to enter the drum more effectively.

Chito slowly turned the valve up wider, and after a while Yuri greeted her, "Chito, it's almost full."

“Really? Senju, let’s fill another bucket.” Then she closed the valve, and Senju and Yuri moved the fuel bucket to the side and replaced it with an empty one. In this way, the three of them collected five buckets of fuel here. However, apart from some that were added to the fuel tank, the rest were put into Senju’s pack.

After refueling, Qianhu was in a good mood and pulled everyone to continue searching for something. They soon found another target. "Yu, there seems to be a strange building up ahead?"

“Oh, there really is one. I wonder what’s inside.” After Yuri finished looking, Senju also picked up the binoculars and looked over. There was a very low building. Although it was dilapidated, it still had some doors and windows, unlike the tall buildings on the roadside that had no doors or windows at all.

Upon getting closer, Senju noticed a sign nearby. After wiping away the snow, he could see some words. Although the handwriting was different from what Senju usually used, he could still make out the general meaning. It read, "The Nineteenth Ground."

Food distribution point.

However, the two people next to them had already gone in to look for things, and Senju also went in to help. After going in, they saw rows of shelves. Although some of them were empty, there were still a lot of random things on them.

Although they didn't know how long these things had been there, there wasn't much dust around, but rather some snowflakes, which seemed to have blown in from outside. The group started searching through them.

After rummaging through the boxes for a while, they found some well-preserved dry food and salt. The contents of the other boxes were unrecognizable, and some cans were broken and inedible. Senju smashed them all and obtained a pile of rotten flesh.

Although they didn't find much, Chito was still very happy, since they couldn't find food every day. After everyone sorted out what they could eat, Chito packed it all into a bundle.

"What a lucky day!" Chito said happily from the front, while Yuri nodded repeatedly from behind. "Yes, Chito, you found so many things today."

"Hmm, Sento's luck is pretty good today," Senju agreed. He hadn't expected to find such useful things so quickly after coming out of there; it was truly a blessing from heaven.

The group of people slowly drove forward in the car. The snow around them gradually got heavier, and the light around them dimmed. It seemed that night was approaching, so they found a building and prepared to spend the night there.

After setting up the facilities, everyone cooked some food. Then, Senju built a small pool, put some combustible waste in it, and lit a fire to keep warm.

Under the firelight, Chito began to record the day's events, while Yuri maintained her rifle. Senju took out the odds and ends she had collected over the past few days and sorted through them to see if there was anything useful left.

However, the items obtained in the past few days were very mixed up. After Senju sorted them out, he put the combustible scraps together, threw the useless parts aside, and packed up the remaining usable ones again.

After Yuri finished maintaining the rifle, she was responsible for throwing the combustible scrap into the fire. She added the scrap while watching the fire, and every now and then she would throw in a few discarded parts.

After a while, everyone felt sleepy and started to rest by the fire. While the three of them were resting, snowflakes were still falling softly outside.

In the morning, Senju was woken up by the cold. The fire next to her had long since died down. Looking around, she saw Chito and Yuri sleeping soundly together. Perhaps because of her armor, Senju was still in the same spot where she had been sleeping, and neither of them seemed inclined to come closer.

Shaking her head to dispel her wandering thoughts, Senju went outside and saw that the heavy snow had stopped, but the snow outside was even deeper. After looking around for a while, Senju went back inside and began to prepare breakfast.

As the aroma of food rose, Yuri was the first to wake up. Then she shook Chito, who was still sleeping, awake. The two stretched and got up to tidy themselves up before coming over to eat.

After finishing their meal, Senju packed up everything usable, and the group set off again to continue searching for supplies. Although the snow outside was deep, the tracked vehicle still moved through it with ease.

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