Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Sudden Crisis
"Well, what if we go outside?" Yuuri still didn't put away her dangerous thoughts.
"Yuuri's idea is too dangerous," Senju thought to himself.
It's very likely they would fall if they went up by themselves, let alone all three of them.
"That's right, you also have to think about safety," Chito added, sounding a little dissatisfied.
But Yuuri remembered something else and said, "It's good to have Senju this time, if it were just the two of us..."
(T/L: Yeah, let's just say the two of you almost fell into the abyss.)
Then Chito and Yuuri began to have delusions, that the two drove to the outside passage, and after driving halfway, the passage collapsed, and then everyone fell underneath.
After thinking about it for a while, the cold sweat came down, and Chito gasped and sighed, "It's better to have a good road inside."
"Uh-huh," Yuuri nodded repeatedly, looking at Senju next to her with a strange look.
After a while, Yuuri noticed an arrow under the street lamp in front of her, pointing to the exit on the side, and shouted happily.
"Look! It's the entrance to the next floor!"
"We made it," the two people next to her also sighed a little, and then sped up and entered inside.
After everyone entered through the entrance, they found inside
The surface is also dim, although there are some street lights around, but the light is very dim.
"Is this the upper floor?" Chito looked at the road in front of her with some joy, "We're back to our everyday flat floors."
"It's a smooth road, but the light is a little dim," Yuuri was a little dissatisfied, and Chito turned on the headlights, and everyone saw that the road ahead was winding into the distance.
Looking at this road, Chito sighed with some emotion, "Sleeping, waking up, eating moving on..."
"When you think about it, our daily life goes round and round too."
"This is life, it's always repeated," Senju also sighed a little.
However, everyone's words gave Yuuri a revelation, and she finally concluded.
"In other words, life is actually a spiral!"
"Oh, Yuuri figured it out," Senju began to applaud after hearing Yuuri's words, and Yuuri began to thank him like an actor who had finished her performance, "Haha, thank you, thank you."
"You always say something strange," Chito complained, and was a little dazed.
"... Round and round we go. Where will we end up? Nobody knows..." Yuuri continued.
"It's okay, it's okay, just follow the road," Yuuri relieved Chito to drive, but Chito was a little confused, "Where the hell is this, we are lost again."
"But we've always been lost, but it's a little dark here."
Yuuri's words made Senju glance around.
Back on the spiral road, they could still see the outside light filtering through the windows.
Now, however, that light was gone, replaced by the faint glow of streetlights.
"It hasn't been that long, has it?" Senju muttered, frowning.
"This means we're probably in the underground section of this floor."
The time shouldn't have passed so quickly, so now everyone should be in the underground building on this floor.
The road they were walking on now was an iron road, supported in mid-air, zigzagging and twisting, with no clear indication of where it led.
After walking on such a road for a while, the sound of some machines began to be heard around, and under the illumination of the surrounding street lamps.
Senju vaguely noticed that some huge canisters and pipes appeared around.
Although there were streetlights around, Yuuri was still dissatisfied with the dim environment and lay there singing, "It's so dark, it's so dark~."
"It's noisy," Chito said from the front.
Suddenly, Yuuri seemed to notice something and became excited.
"Ah! It feels like we've had similar conversations before."
"Well, it seems familiar," Senju thought he had seen this scene somewhere, but it seemed to be a little different.
After thinking for a while, Chito remembered, "If you say that, this place is very similar to the situation in the cave at that time."
"But it's much brighter here than it was then, and there are lights around," Chito said, glancing at the side of the road.
As the vehicle moved forward, more streetlights appeared, and the sound of machinery nearby grew louder.
"There are still sounds of machines moving around... the facilities here might still be alive and kicking."
"Alive..." Yuri seemed a little strange about this magical word, and lay there a little confused.
"Well, it's still running here, and the whole place is still alive," Senju naturally understood Chito's words, which was just a rhetorical method, not that it was really alive.
After walking for a while, several huge fans appeared on the side of the road, which kept spinning there, blowing a whirring wind, and the surrounding sounds became rhythmic.
"Hey, what does it mean to 'be alive'?" Yuuri asked, tilting her head in confusion.
It seemed she didn't quite understand what Senju meant, wasn't being alive something only people could do?
Chito thought for a moment before replying, carefully explaining her thoughts to Yuuri.
"... I meant that the machines are still functioning."
"Not that they're actually life-forms, or something."
"And what is a lifeform?" Hearing the words she didn't understand, Yuuri immediately asked.
"A life form is a living thing..."
With Chito's words, the vehicle came to the middle of a group of cans, and Senju carefully looked at the words on it, "Fire is strictly forbidden?!"
'Is it supposed to mean that it contains flammable things? I'll remind the two not to use fire.'
After passing through these dangerous canisters, the car drove between two square buildings, and there was a row of sign lights on the edge of the buildings, so that people could see clearly even in the dark.
After laying for a while, Senju noticed that there were many buildings in these squares, and after walking one by one, Yuuri next to him also fell asleep.
"What about life..." Chito, who was driving at the front, trailed off, her thoughts drifting.
She began reflecting on everything she had seen, the wind moving, the water flowing, the rain falling, machines whirring, and even a small part on the roadside gently spinning in motion.
Senju, leaning on the side, listened to the loud hum of the surrounding machinery.
His own thoughts wandered as well: animals roaming, plants growing, the sun shifting across the sky, and people constantly in motion.
Just when the three were silent, the vehicle was about to come out of the block building, but when it was about to come out, the surrounding machines suddenly became loud and clang, and it seemed to be constantly approaching.
Chito, who found the abnormality, quickly stopped the car and turned off the lights, and the two people behind were also woken up, a little confused as to why there was a noise around, Yuuri shouted uneasily, "Chii-chan...?
"Shhh! Quiet..."
The atmosphere became tense.