241-Chapter 20 The Third Residential District
Chapter 20 - Residential Area 3
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At first the walls were as rough as stone walls, but when we opened the next door, a rather awful sense of disobedience dined on our minds.
This wasn't a ruin anymore... but some kind of base, right?
Under the illumination of my several glitter balls, the surrounding walls reflect that metallic shine and coldness that is characteristic of metal to the touch.
And this seamlessly designed walkway gives the feeling of a cosmic battleship from a sci-fi movie.
........
Could it be that this relic is a cosmic fortress that fell from somewhere?
It's so scary, we'd better walk around him as a relic, it's always scary.
That means we're going from one entrance to the other from this base? God, how long is this going to take?
Suddenly remembering a place that looked like a hospital when I entered the underground ruins a long time ago... Could it be that it was the hospital of the [Black Golden Age]?
A chill ran up my spine as I remembered the words I had seen inside that hospital.
Exactly the same words from our old world....
I wiped my cold sweat, okay, calm down, let's just get out of this place now.
If this place is really some kind of base, then we should be able to find a map or something here, and once we find that, we'll be able to get out of here faster.
"This metal structure, it does seem to be a product of the [Black Golden Age], let's just follow the passageway, one way to go through the maze is to keep going along one side of the wall, that way we'll always reach the exit."
"Then the passageway here... what if it changes its original appearance?"
I looked at the white moonlight that had asked the question and frowned, what kind of game do you usually play? Or are you watching some horror movie? How could the plot be so terrible?
"Don't worry about that kind of stuff, I have a full set of equipment."
I said, I took out a can of spray paint and sprayed it at the wall, the original grey wall slowly glowing where it had been sprayed.
"Oooooh, is this...is it fluorescent spray?"
White Moonlight came closer to stare at the wall.
"Not really, there are also light and plant-based magic crystal powders that are mixed in a certain ratio and then circulate with each other and glow like this."
"So if we keep spraying with this spray paint we can mark a route, even if the passage changes we'll be able to spot it first?"
"Exactly."
"Then why don't we get going?"
"But one thing I would like to state in advance is that according to the test, a bottle of spray paint can only be sprayed for one kilometer, and this spray paint is not eternal, but only has five hours of display time."
"Which means we can only go one kilometer?"
"No, we can go pretty far, because we just need to mark the fork in the road we've traveled, but..."
"But we can only leave in five hours or we won't see it, right?"
"Right."
I nodded.
"Our options now are, one, run along regardless of the dangers on the road and try to leave within five hours, and two, explore carefully, confirming a direction first if we come across a fork in the road, and try to explore that branch within five hours and then come back to replenish the spray paint."
"So we... start on the far left?"
I looked at the crowd.
"How about we have the minority follow the majority?"
"It's decided!"
"One, two, three...push!"
Bai Yueguang and I both pushed hard against the metal door in front of us at the same time, a harsh metallic scraping sound came from the door and it moved inward a bit.
"Very well, everyone push!"
Saying that, I walked to the other side of the wall, then reached out and pressed my hand to the wall, then a huge icicle grew out of the wall and hit the metal door hard, and the metal door opened in response, along with some dust of some unknown substance.
This was the inside of a building, and it was all metal, there shouldn't be any dust... Then what was this dust?
Never mind, I don't want to research it either.
The two balls of light floated into the room and flew around as if it was a lounge with a sofa table and lots of cabinets.
I just took out a light and lit the room, then took the lead and walked in.
"Looks like a lounge for a guest, I don't know how this place arranges rooms."
We'd already explored three forks in an hour before, and most of them were just such rooms. Sure, there was an infirmary and a warehouse, but everything in there was worn out and there was basically nothing left to keep using.
"Is this place we came from a residential area? But why aren't there any obvious exit markings?"
Princess Xue'er beside her couldn't help but say.
By the way, it should be this princess-sama who is suffering the most right now, normally she shouldn't have the chance to walk this much, but now that she's walking through the maze with us for so long all at once, it must be hard.
"It can't be helped, maybe what the other party used to mark the location was something else we couldn't see, or maybe they didn't have to walk on their own at all."
"Is it a portal?"
"They don't even have magic, portals or anything... they might have!"
There's no space magic, but it's possible to teleport anything through a wormhole!
If you think of it that way, the other party's technology isn't a cover, if it really was, it could definitely be a lot ahead of this era!
"But it's more likely that it's a mobility scooter."
Bai Yueguang pulled out a two-wheeled mobility scooter from inside the corner, it looked quite similar to a modern mobility scooter.
"It looks pretty good, take it back to Mary-sensei and the others to study."
"It's useless, all the parts inside are gone, it's exactly an empty shell."
Bai Yueguang said throwing it to the ground, and there was a metallic hollow sound from inside.
"How is it possible... this..."
"It probably took everything of value with it, but why would it leave an empty shell."
"...I guess I know why."
Suddenly Hill said so.
"Why?"
"You guys see this..."
He said handing over a metal plate.
"We need to hurry..."
The text used above includes human language, elven language and various other languages... what the hell....
But that's not the most important thing of all....
"How long have we been in here...for?"
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At first the walls were as rough as stone walls, but when we opened the next door, a rather awful sense of disobedience dined on our minds.
This wasn't a ruin anymore... but some kind of base, right?
Under the illumination of my several glitter balls, the surrounding walls reflect that metallic shine and coldness that is characteristic of metal to the touch.
And this seamlessly designed walkway gives the feeling of a cosmic battleship from a sci-fi movie.
........
Could it be that this relic is a cosmic fortress that fell from somewhere?
It's so scary, we'd better walk around him as a relic, it's always scary.
That means we're going from one entrance to the other from this base? God, how long is this going to take?
Suddenly remembering a place that looked like a hospital when I entered the underground ruins a long time ago... Could it be that it was the hospital of the [Black Golden Age]?
A chill ran up my spine as I remembered the words I had seen inside that hospital.
Exactly the same words from our old world....
I wiped my cold sweat, okay, calm down, let's just get out of this place now.
If this place is really some kind of base, then we should be able to find a map or something here, and once we find that, we'll be able to get out of here faster.
"This metal structure, it does seem to be a product of the [Black Golden Age], let's just follow the passageway, one way to go through the maze is to keep going along one side of the wall, that way we'll always reach the exit."
"Then the passageway here... what if it changes its original appearance?"
I looked at the white moonlight that had asked the question and frowned, what kind of game do you usually play? Or are you watching some horror movie? How could the plot be so terrible?
"Don't worry about that kind of stuff, I have a full set of equipment."
I said, I took out a can of spray paint and sprayed it at the wall, the original grey wall slowly glowing where it had been sprayed.
"Oooooh, is this...is it fluorescent spray?"
White Moonlight came closer to stare at the wall.
"Not really, there are also light and plant-based magic crystal powders that are mixed in a certain ratio and then circulate with each other and glow like this."
"So if we keep spraying with this spray paint we can mark a route, even if the passage changes we'll be able to spot it first?"
"Exactly."
"Then why don't we get going?"
"But one thing I would like to state in advance is that according to the test, a bottle of spray paint can only be sprayed for one kilometer, and this spray paint is not eternal, but only has five hours of display time."
"Which means we can only go one kilometer?"
"No, we can go pretty far, because we just need to mark the fork in the road we've traveled, but..."
"But we can only leave in five hours or we won't see it, right?"
"Right."
I nodded.
"Our options now are, one, run along regardless of the dangers on the road and try to leave within five hours, and two, explore carefully, confirming a direction first if we come across a fork in the road, and try to explore that branch within five hours and then come back to replenish the spray paint."
"So we... start on the far left?"
I looked at the crowd.
"How about we have the minority follow the majority?"
"It's decided!"
"One, two, three...push!"
Bai Yueguang and I both pushed hard against the metal door in front of us at the same time, a harsh metallic scraping sound came from the door and it moved inward a bit.
"Very well, everyone push!"
Saying that, I walked to the other side of the wall, then reached out and pressed my hand to the wall, then a huge icicle grew out of the wall and hit the metal door hard, and the metal door opened in response, along with some dust of some unknown substance.
This was the inside of a building, and it was all metal, there shouldn't be any dust... Then what was this dust?
Never mind, I don't want to research it either.
The two balls of light floated into the room and flew around as if it was a lounge with a sofa table and lots of cabinets.
I just took out a light and lit the room, then took the lead and walked in.
"Looks like a lounge for a guest, I don't know how this place arranges rooms."
We'd already explored three forks in an hour before, and most of them were just such rooms. Sure, there was an infirmary and a warehouse, but everything in there was worn out and there was basically nothing left to keep using.
"Is this place we came from a residential area? But why aren't there any obvious exit markings?"
Princess Xue'er beside her couldn't help but say.
By the way, it should be this princess-sama who is suffering the most right now, normally she shouldn't have the chance to walk this much, but now that she's walking through the maze with us for so long all at once, it must be hard.
"It can't be helped, maybe what the other party used to mark the location was something else we couldn't see, or maybe they didn't have to walk on their own at all."
"Is it a portal?"
"They don't even have magic, portals or anything... they might have!"
There's no space magic, but it's possible to teleport anything through a wormhole!
If you think of it that way, the other party's technology isn't a cover, if it really was, it could definitely be a lot ahead of this era!
"But it's more likely that it's a mobility scooter."
Bai Yueguang pulled out a two-wheeled mobility scooter from inside the corner, it looked quite similar to a modern mobility scooter.
"It looks pretty good, take it back to Mary-sensei and the others to study."
"It's useless, all the parts inside are gone, it's exactly an empty shell."
Bai Yueguang said throwing it to the ground, and there was a metallic hollow sound from inside.
"How is it possible... this..."
"It probably took everything of value with it, but why would it leave an empty shell."
"...I guess I know why."
Suddenly Hill said so.
"Why?"
"You guys see this..."
He said handing over a metal plate.
"We need to hurry..."
The text used above includes human language, elven language and various other languages... what the hell....
But that's not the most important thing of all....
"How long have we been in here...for?"
--- Seven Nights' announcement ----.
Monthly tickets, praise and clicks.
emergency notice
The third resting area is about to enter a long-term thermal disinfection state, destroying all organic matter in the area, with a cycle time of 2
Once every hour, please stay away from the third rest area.