Daily life in Zongman

After Fujiwara Haru started making cosplay props, he also learned some about the two-dimensional world and therefore knew some of its terms.

Futaba is a three-no thing, right?

Hmm~ It doesn’t seem so nice to say that others are three-no in my heart. Forget it, forget it, don’t think about it, let’s eat!

Fujiwara Haru happily finished the curry chicken rice, and then ordered a teriyaki chicken rice. After eating two servings, she was about 70% full and felt very comfortable. She drank the chicken soup while looking at the scenery.

Futaba Rio seemed to have a small appetite. She ordered a bowl of ramen and then looked around after eating it.

She noticed Fujiwara Haru drinking chicken soup and looked over: "Let's go?"

"set off!"

She came over and said, "Let's sort out our things first and throw away some of the things we don't need."

"Eh? No... I think everything in my backpack is very useful."

Shuang Shuangye Rio's tone was as calm as ever: "I just observed it. Based on the cloud cover and the lack of altitude sickness, I infer that we should be on an altitude platform around 2000m to 2500m. There are no obstructions around, and the wind speed is around level , strong enough to blow away paper dust."

"This altitude and environment are not suitable for long-term settlement. We need to explore downwards and look for a suitable settlement. This will require a long hike before finding transportation. A heavy backpack will make you exhausted during the process, and an unexpected situation where you are not in good condition can be fatal."

Fujiwara Haru lifted his backpack, which weighed about 20 to 30 kilograms. After three years of exercise, he still had some muscles and could carry it around for a short time, but it was obviously not suitable for him to explore with such a heavy thing on his back for a long time.

"You make sense. I'll listen to you and throw some things away."

After carefully putting away the gourmet tablecloth, Fujiwara Haru walked to the leeward side of the large square stone on the platform and considered throwing away some things.

First, the food in the backpack, including canned meat, chocolate, bottled water and compressed biscuits, is no longer needed after getting the tablecloth, so it can be discarded where it is. After thinking for a while, if I don't need to cook, the extra gas tank and iron pot can also be thrown here.

The backpack instantly became half as light as before. It felt a little heavy in my hands, but it felt okay when I carried it on my back.

Futaba Rio handed over a small bottle: "Here, the panacea, put it in your backpack, it's safer."

He took it and placed it inside the small medical box in his backpack for double protection.

"Do you have any bags, Fujiwara-kun? I can help carry some."

"No, I only have this one backpack. Oh, and could you help me get the shovel? It's hanging on the side of the backpack and sometimes it gets in the way."

"can."

"Here's a flashlight for you to use. You can hang it around your neck."

"Thank you."

Fujiwara Haru, carrying a backpack and a single-handled axe, and Futaba Rio, holding an engineer's shovel, walked to the entrance of the spiral staircase. Looking down from above, the stairwell was devoid of light, only a swallowing darkness, like an abyss.

Futaba Rio's footsteps paused unconsciously, Fujiwara Haru turned on the flashlight and walked down directly.

She looked at his back and quickly followed.

——End of Chapter————

Note ①-The World at the End: From "Girls' Last Tour", a daily healing show (at least the animation is), I recommend searching for "Girls' Last Tour-Rain Song", it's great.

Note②-Gourmet Tablecloth: NETA is a prop from "Doraemon", also translated as party napkin, gourmet napkin. Just say the name of the food and the corresponding food will appear out of thin air on the tablecloth. The food is real, completely free and unlimited, you can eat as much as you want, and there are no side effects.

Note ③-Adventure backpack: I searched for information and made my first homemade backpack, which can also be said to be a BOB escape bag. The items contained in it are not professional and comprehensive yet. The items contained in it are as follows.

Small props: gas tank, candle, iron pot, knife, pliers, saw blade, fire stick, wax wood strip, life-saving blanket, rain sheet, full-cover rain poncho, duct tape, Swiss Army knife, windproof lighter, flashlight (with strobe function), 12-core paracord (disassembled into several strands, with wrapped nylon line, copper wire, fuse and PE fishing line)

Medical kit: bandages, antibiotics, tourniquets, band-aids, sulfur soap, iodine swabs, disinfectant wipes, basic medicines, and extra tea and salt.

Food: Canned meat x2, chocolate x6, bottled water x2, compressed biscuits x2, filter bottle, water purification tablets.

Large items: compression mat, two-person tent (consider purchasing after the deep winter)

Sundries: tissues, radio, compass, sewing kit (fish hook), hand warmer, work gloves, monocular, a set of spare underwear

Additional equipment: Engineer shovel, one-handed fire axe, neck-hanging flashlight

52. Genius Girl-Futaba Rio

After entering the apocalyptic world, it was different from what Fujiwara Haru had expected. He did not appear in the jungle, snowfield or desert. He was placed on a very high platform.

Fortunately, the platform has a spiral staircase that allows you to explore downwards without attempting to rappel off the edge.

Fujiwara Haru and Futaba Rio began to walk down the stairs. The interior of the spiral staircase was cylindrical, and the walls around the stairs gave people a sense of security compared to the stair railings we see in daily life.

In the quiet stairwell, only the footsteps and breathing of the two people could be heard. The flashlight tube illuminated the steps, rotating and extending downwards.

It was as if there were only two of them left in the world.

"Fujiwara-kun, why didn't you quit just now?"

"what?"

Fujiwara Haru didn't immediately understand what Futaba Rio wanted to ask, so Futaba repeated it in detail: "Just now, the gods said that we can withdraw, and two people withdrew. According to the gods' instructions that there are prizes for withdrawing, I guessed that their lives were not in danger, and they really had a wish to fulfill, so they didn't withdraw. As for Fujiwara-kun, why didn't you choose to withdraw?"

"Ah, wouldn't it be exciting and fun to go on a survival adventure in another world? What new and exciting things will I encounter? What interesting people will I meet? Just thinking about it makes me excited. I definitely have to go!"

Futaba Rio was silent for a moment, then asked, "Aren't you worried about danger? The gods said this is the end of the world. It can't be a safe place no matter how you think about it."

Surprised: "Yeah, now that you put it that way, it feels really unsafe!"

Futaba looked at Fujiwara Haru who was walking in front of her and said, "Is Fujiwara-kun a child? He likes adventure so much."

The immediate answer is: "Yes, I like it!"

Fujiwara Haru walked down carefully. "But don't worry too much about the dangers right now. Didn't the God just say that after death, the soul will return to reshape the body? At most, some memories will be erased. It's a small problem."

"The most important thing now is to enjoy this adventure!"

Futaba looked at his back: "I guess another hobby of yours is building secret bases."

"You're wrong. My other hobby is handicrafts." Fujiwara Haru was a little curious: "What about Futaba? Futaba, what's your hobby?"

The stairwell fell into silence. After a long moment, a clear voice rang out: "Reading, it's my hobby."

The stairs were very long and it took a long time to reach the bottom. They walked out along a straight path and passed through the door at the entrance of the straight path. They completely left the spiral staircase.

Looking back, I found that there was an extremely huge cylindrical building behind me. On top of it was the extremely huge platform where the two of them had just been.

The external structure of the spiral staircase is one of the pillars supporting the uppermost platform.

Rio Futaba observed carefully. "It's incredible! This pyramid-shaped megacity, over two thousand meters high, has a height difference of about three hundred meters between this level and the top. This world has advanced to an incomprehensible level in both materials science and architecture. Furthermore, this megastructure must have been built entirely by robots. This suggests the level of mechanization in this apocalyptic world must be incredibly high."

Fujiwara Haru observed carefully: "Wow, it's really big."

Futaba looked at Fujiwara Haru and said, "Let's continue walking down and get to the ground as soon as possible."

"Can't we settle down here?" Fujiwara Haru looked around. There were many abandoned buildings on this floor, and no one was there.

"Fujiwara-kun, this is not a good idea."

Futaba said calmly, "According to calculations, this floor is about three hundred meters high. Including the highest platform just now, this city has about seven or eight floors. Let's call it a three-dimensional city for now."

"Based on observations, this place has been abandoned for a long time. I'm not sure if the lower levels are the same. If so, the accumulated damage over time could very well lead to an explosion that could cause the entire urban structure to become unbalanced and collapse completely."

"We need to return to land before anything unexpected happens and get as far away from this three-dimensional city as possible."

Fujiwara Haru nodded. "Oh, I see." After a moment of contemplation, he said, "Should we find a high spot first, observe the surroundings, and try to find the stairs to the next floor?"

Futaba Rio walked to the side of the road, squatted on the ground and observed the street: "No need to be so troublesome."

"Based on the houses, streets, and this three-dimensional city, we can infer that the primary intelligent life in this apocalyptic world is also human. However, now that no one is visible and the city is deserted, the reason for their disappearance is unclear, but what is certain is that there was once a vast human population here."

"After the humans on this layer disappeared, there was no garbage left on the streets, and the city was not damaged by overgrown vegetation. We can infer that automated machines are responsible for cleaning, recycling, and maintenance."

"We can wait and observe the automated machines' movements as they begin cleaning the city. We can then find an automated machine center that's still operating and search for information there. There'll be a map of the entire city's cleaning routes, which will also be a map of this floor, showing us where the path to go down is."

"What do you think, Fujiwara-kun?"

Fujiwara Haru understood and said with emotion: "Futaba, you are so smart. I will listen to you. Let's wait and see."

Beep~

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge display screen lit up. It was hanging above a building, and the building was not far in front of the two of them.

A stick figure of a girl appears on the display. There is a disk above her head that looks like an angel's halo. Overall, she looks like a cute virtual image.

The virtual girl looked down, and Fujiwara Haru felt that he was looking into her eyes.

"Welcome to the Layered City - Kawaya. I am the artificial intelligence of the Sixth Core Tower. Do you want to go to the next level?"

Fujiwara Haru nodded: "Yes, we want to go downstairs."

"The Kigan Tower has an elevator leading to the lower levels. I will send a robot tour guide to lead you there. Please wait for a moment."

Fujiwara Haru was delighted: "Wow! Thank you so much!"

"Have a nice trip and see you later."

Beep~The display goes off.

"It's artificial intelligence." Fujiwara Haru sighed, feeling that it was very technological and that the future world should be like this.

Not getting a response, he turned to look at Futaba Rio and found that she still had no expression, but her pupils were a little constricted and her whole body was a little stiff, not in a relaxed state.

"What's wrong, Futaba?"

Futaba's expression didn't change, but her tone was a little low: "Fujiwara-kun, why do you think humans will disappear in this apocalyptic world?"

After thinking for a moment, he replied, "Nuclear war?"

"Maybe, but there's another possibility." Futaba took a breath: "It's because of the Omnic Crisis."

Beep~ The display lights up.

Virtual Girl: "No, that's not the case. The reason humanity is heading for extinction is World War IV. Don't worry, we still follow the Three Laws of Robotics."

Fujiwara Haru protested: "Have you been eavesdropping on our conversation since just now? This is too immoral."

Virtual Girl: "It's wrong to hold robots to human moral standards. We're simply following our programming. According to the Layered City Safety Management Act, the Sixth Core Tower's AI has the right to monitor all humans who come to the sixth and seventh floors to prevent crime. This monitoring includes: online browsing history, online chat history, real-life daily interactions, and specific behaviors."

"Oh, is that so? Fine then."

Beep~The display goes off.

"By the way, what are the Three Laws of Robotics? Futaba, do you know?"

The extracurricular books that Fujiwara Haru has been reading recently are all about handicrafts. He has not yet read any extracurricular books on science fiction themes and is not aware of the famous three laws of robotics.

Futaba didn't reply, and it seemed that she was still a little nervous and worried.

Fujiwara Haru comforted him, "Don't worry, Futaba. Even if there's an omnic crisis and robots are chasing us, I'm sure I'll live longer than you, and you'll be the first to die. Then you can go home and nothing will happen to you."

Futaba looked at him and said, "You're an idiot who can't comfort others."

Seeing her expression was rare, Futaba Rio sighed and said helplessly, "The Three Laws of Robotics are regulations for robots proposed by science fiction writer Asimov in 1940 to protect humans."

"Article 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Article 2: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with Article 1.

Article 3: A robot must protect its own body, except where such protection would be inconsistent with the preceding two articles.

Fujiwara Haru nodded, then looked up at the big screen: "Then can it be done this way?"

"Hello! Is the Sixth Tower's AI here?"

Beep~ The display lights up: "I'm here."

"I'm applying to have both of us removed from the monitoring list."

"Application is in progress. Currently, there is a lack of grassroots review personnel, grassroots management personnel, middle management personnel, and decision-making personnel. The application has been approved by default."

"The two have been removed from the monitoring list."

"Do you have any other applications?"

"Gone."

"The guide robot is expected to arrive in 11 minutes. Please be patient."

Beep~The display goes off.

Fujiwara Haru looked up at the monitor and said happily, "Look, it's done. I'm such a genius~"

Futaba Rio looked at Fujiwara Haru and said, "Fujiwara-kun is so optimistic."