I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

"So was the tower made by someone who lived here?" Yuri asked.

"Probably not. It is said that this floor-type city was man-made earlier, and our ancestors just lived in the infrastructure built by ancient people... That's what I think."

"I see."

"Turn left ahead."

"learn."

Follow Kanazawa's instructions. According to him, the roads nearby are very complicated and it takes a long time to get there. Cars cannot pass through alleys that used to be passable by a person.

A few people casually chatted some useless words to pass the time, and finally arrived at the bottom of the communication tower before dark.

When I looked at it from a distance, I didn't realize how thick the tower was. It was only when I got closer that I was shocked by such a magnificent building.

In the space vacated between the steel buildings, the car with a few people was as small as a grain of rice. The entire sky and world in front of it extended upward along the surface of the almost straight columns, until it reached a place that could not be seen when looking up.

"so big……"

"Will Kanazawa continue to draw the map there if he goes to the upper level?"

"Yeah, of course!"

"I feel like you are very happy now, full of life."

"--Yeah?"

…

There are several simple elevators with steel frame structures at the bottom of the tower, which should have been used by people in the past to move goods up and down. One of them had its cable broken, and it was completely deformed when it hit the ground as if it fell halfway up.

Kanazawa went up to the console of the middle elevator, "It is said that the original elevator was in the tower, but no one knew how to use it, so this was built. This should have been done a hundred years ago."

"So old."

Then there was the buzzing sound of the motor starting after the power was turned on.

"No problem, this still works."

Qianhu backed the car into the lift and said a little uneasily: "Will this thing break when it is halfway up..."

"I don't know."

Yuli said: "It should be fine."

"You are so optimistic."

Qianhu parked the car and sighed at Kanazawa's comment: "This guy is so optimistic that his brain is not working properly."

"hey-hey……"

Only two steel beams intersect

The lift door of the fork was closed, and with a burst of vibration, the motor started to drive everyone to slowly leave the ground and rise.

There was a rumbling sound from the combination of old parts, and the creaking and shaking car made Qianhu feel that it would fall in the next second, and there was fear in the bottom of his heart.

Yuri looked outside. The height of everyone was not higher than the surrounding buildings, so basically nothing could be seen.

"Maybe there will be more food in the upper levels, and many people will live happily."

Gradually, the height exceeds that of the surrounding buildings, and the view instantly broadens.

The ancient buildings neatly arranged with the tower as the center exude the atmosphere of the metal age, and the whining sound of the wind passing through them can also be clearly heard. At this moment, the sun is setting, and the golden horizon shines in the reflection of Yuli's pupils, causing her to shout. Little scream.

"awesome!"

Kanazawa took a picture of the scene in front of him with the camera in his hand, while Chito was trembling all over and tightly hugging Noretti with his eyes closed.

"Are Chihu afraid of heights?"

"……Um."

Noretti put her arms around the trembling Qianhu and whispered, "It's okay, I'm here."

Kanazawa glanced at the two people hugging each other, lit a cigarette and said: "Following what I just said, the food, water and fuel sources on this floor are gradually decreasing, and there is nothing left. Maybe the remaining urban functions of the new class above are It can be more complete, but of course this is just speculation.”

But as long as you keep going up, there will always be something new, he thought.

The elevator beneath his feet clanked and vibrated, causing Qianhu to scream. It was the first time that she had seen her look so scared. Noretti raised the corner of her mouth slightly and patted her on the back.

Youli shrugged and said: "Obviously the scenery at high places is very beautiful, why don't you take a look at it, Xiao Qian?"

"There's no barbed wire!"

"You must think it's a waste of material."

"What if it tilts and falls, relying only on this railing?!"

"It can't be so easy to get crooked."

Not long after Yuli finished speaking, the cable above shook violently, and then one side of the car suddenly dropped, and the entire elevator tilted rapidly, causing several people to briefly lose their balance.

Noretti quickly pulled on Yuri's hat to prevent her standing at the edge from falling out. Then she shouted to Kanazawa who was closest to the console: "Stop the motor!"

"……oh!"

The control rod was raised, the elevator stopped with a clang, and the tilt also stopped. After shaking with inertia for a while, the situation finally stabilized.

"You're not hurt, are you?"

Qianhu and Yuri shook their heads.

Kanazawa looked out and speculated that something might have been caught on the track.

The crooked elevator is stuck several hundred meters in the air and cannot go up or down. If it cannot be repaired, several people may end up here.

"...What, what should I do!?" Qianhu glanced at the sloping ground below her tremblingly. Such a height made her feel suffocated, and there were waves of dizziness in her mind.

Noretti became the calmest person at this time. She handed Qianhu to Yuli and said: "Take care of Xiaoqian, I will go outside to repair the track."

"It's too dangerous, Noretti!"

"It's more dangerous to just wait like this. The facilities from a hundred years ago are probably disposable now. There will be stronger winds soon after nightfall. By then, there is a high probability that the cables on one side will not be able to hold it up." living."

Noretti took off her heavy coat and threw it on the car. Being light-hearted, she stepped on the steel bars at the door, grabbed the top of the elevator, and climbed up.

Kanazawa was stunned by the light and dexterous movements, and Noretti's figure disappeared in the blind spot at the top in the blink of an eye.

Her voice then came: "I've come up and saw the fault location."

"You must be careful!" Kanazawa couldn't help but warn her.

"I will."

Chapter 24 Street Lamp

Chapter 1213 Chapter 24 Street Lamp

The steel cable wrapped around the motor on the right extended upwards. Halfway through, an aging pulley group hooked up with the protruding steel frame, causing one side to rise faster and lose its balance. The problem was discovered. Noretti quickly climbed up the steel cable and should be able to solve this problem soon.

However, just when she arrived at the fault site, the steel cable on the other side became old and collapsed due to carrying the entire weight of the entire elevator and crawler vehicle. It was whipped over like a whip and hit No. The vector size of Letty's body was changed and she lost her power.

Although there was nothing going on at Noretti's side, the elevator below shook violently, and Yuli and others' exclamations came from it.

Fortunately, there is more than one steel cable carrying the elevator, so it should not be possible to fall...

"map!!"

With a loud cry, it turned out that the map bag that Kanazawa valued as his life slipped out of the elevator.

Kanazawa, who went to save him, missed the opportunity and lost his balance and fell out of the elevator. Fortunately, Yuri and Chito had quick eyesight and quick hands, and grabbed his ankles to hold him back, preventing him from falling. The tragedy of dying on the ground.

The satchel was opened in the air, and the maps that Kanazawa had put so much effort into fluttered out like snow.

That was all his life meant.

"If I don't have this... I will definitely die."

Noretti recalled Jin in her ears

Ze's words, the map paper flying in his eyes were plated with a golden color like life by the beautiful sunset.

Because of the curse that is doomed to loneliness...will someone around me die because of it?

Just as Chito and Yuri pulled the ashen-looking Kanazawa back into the elevator, a silvery white shadow flew past the elevator and shot down!

After the two people saw clearly who the falling figure was, their eyes widened instantly, as if they were frightened.

Qianhu completely forgot that he was still afraid of heights and immediately rushed to the railing to check what was going on below.

"--elder sister!"

Noretti, who was flying down, used an even faster speed to catch up with the satchel and map that had been blown away by the wind. She put her hand into her arms, and as the steel cable stretched in her hand, In an instant, a shrill scream ripped through the air.

Unfortunately, Noretti flew to the rescue regardless of her own safety but failed to save all the maps. More than half of the drawings were scattered to various places on the lower level due to strong winds at high altitudes, and it seemed that they could not be recovered.

Noretti, who was hanging on the broken steel cable and swaying in the wind, held the map tightly with one hand, and climbed back to the top of the car with some difficulty with the other hand.

…

After repairing the elevator, we arrived at the connected upper area. It was already dark.

"It's really scary, you two! Are you both going to die?!"

It wasn't until he stepped onto safe and stable ground that Qianhu burst into panic tears from the corners of his eyes and scolded the two of them loudly.

God knows if her heart stopped beating for a few seconds when she saw Noretti flying down from above.

Although Noretti knew that she was absolutely sure that even if she fell like that, there would be no problem, but in the face of Qianhu's blame and worry, she still bowed her head and accepted it all without saying a word.

"You can't do this next time, absolutely not! No, there is no next time. Do you understand?"

"Oh, I see."

Although Noretti and Qianhu and others did not get along for a long time, in this cold world full of despair and littered with ruins, Noretti's appearance still became a rare and shining moment in the lives of Qianhu and Yuli. A shining treasure.

While chatting on the way to the communication tower, Kanazawa also asked Qianyou what the most precious thing between them was.

The answer they gave was:

Before, it was books, diaries, food, and each other.

After Noretti appeared, and to this day, the most precious thing is each other's existence.

After accepting Chito's nagging, Noretti came to Kanazawa holding a satchel containing the remaining maps.

Some of the maps were inevitably wrinkled and damaged due to the urgency of the rescue operation. Noretti smoothed them out one by one and placed them in front of him.

Kanazawa knelt on the ground, caressing the map as if caressing a lover, then raised his head in confusion and asked: "Why would you risk your life to rescue these things? It's obviously just the first time we met, and we even It didn’t take more than half a day…”

In fact, the moment Kanazawa caught the chance, he imagined all kinds of situations that would happen to him in the future, but he never thought that the beautiful woman next to him who had always been cold and cold would jump down to save something that he regarded as the meaning of life.

That has no value to her at all, right? !

Noretti replied calmly: "I just don't want you to die."

"But you will die."

"I won't die."

"You will die!" Yuli yelled in disbelief and corrected, "Everyone will die!"

"Yes." Noretti's cold voice came with a definite reply, "Everyone will die. The only difference is when and how they die."

"As for people, it is not enough to just "live". Maybe they are already dead while they are alive. "

Only those who have lost know the happiness of having it. In that case, loss will cause greater pain.

Noretti has tasted too much of that kind of pain, so she doesn't want to bring such pain to the people around her.

This is her tenderness.

Just like facing the player brother and sister who wanted to kill her, at the last moment, Noretti still chose to let them embrace each other without any regrets.

If there is too much helplessness in life, some of it should be transformed into opportunities and grasped sincerely.

It would be best if it could be slightly less.

There is light in life. Before I extinguish it, I can illuminate you a little bit, that's all I can do.

Noretti half-knelt in front of Kanazawa and stretched out her hand to him.

"This is your most important thing. Although you haven't snatched it all back, the ones that fell may be picked up by other people who are still alive in the corner but have lost their direction and hope, and can guide them in the direction."