"However?" Yuuri was a little curious about the words of the autonomous machine, and didn't know why it suddenly stopped.
["Currently our communication is off,"] the autonomous machine said his situation bluntly, without the slightest idea of concealment.
Yuuri and Senju, who had been holding their weapons, relaxed. Senju had placed his sword in his inventory, while Yuuri ran to the side of the tank and stared at the fish.
Although Yuuri put the gun down, she was still a little disappointed with the machine, "So you can't?"
"Hmm," Chito was originally a little dissatisfied with Yuuri's rude attitude, but then she remembered what had just happened and asked, "Ah. Maybe this security machine is the one that we saw on the way here?"
"The big guy?" Yuuri also remembered, and Senju nodded, "It looks like it can fight, it must be."
["No, that's the construction machinery that maintains this facility,"] the autonomous machine refuted everyone's suspicions, ["He and I are the only active machines in this area."]
It tilted its head to look to the other side, and then they saw several autonomic machines lying on one side, but their heads and limbs were retracted to look like a flat steel plate.
From these board-like machines, it is impossible to see the mechanisms inside, let alone imagine that they can move or talk.
Although Chito had already seen it once, she still felt a little emotional, "So the people of old had technology advanced enough for machines like this... How did they made them?"
["We don't know, we don't have the information from the time, but there used to be a place to repair the machines, but now it's damaged."]
"That's it, no wonder so many are broken," Chito sighed a little as she touched the machines.
Senju thought for a moment beside her, and then asked, "Chito, do you need me to fix these?"
"Can you fix these Senju?" Chito turned her head to look at Senju on the side, still a little amazed at Senju's strange ability.
Senju nodded, and the autonomous machine next to him also spoke, ["Can you really? To be honest, I struggled to run this facility alone."]
"Yes," Senju agreed, and then put the machines away in his inventory, "It will be fixed in a while."
The autonomous machine didn't say anything after watching Senju made the broken machines disappear, and then Chito stood up and stepped aside, pulling Yuuri over who was standing on the edge of the sink staring at the fish.
"...Listen we won't eat this fish either, could you tell us more about the machines and this place?"
["Alright, I will show you the facility,"] the self-discipline machine replied and began to walk to the next room.
Chito pulled Yuuri forward, but Yuuri still didn't give up on the fish, "Hey! We don't need to talk. I want to eat it."
"You be quiet," Chito pulled Yuuri and followed, Yuuri, who was dragged out, was still staring at the fish and drooling, and Senju was a little speechless after seeing this scene.
'Could it be that Yuuri likes to eat precious food?'
It was the first time they had ever seen a living animal.
After thinking for a while, Senju leaned into Yuuri's ear and spoke, "Yuuri, how about you exchange two grilled fish for this when you go back?"
Yuuri's ears twitched, she immediately changed to an honest face, and turned her head, "Deal!"
After the deal was completed, Yuuri gave up her desire to eat the fish for now, and the three of continued to follow the machine forward.
After walking for a while, the autonomous machine turned a corner and came to a tunnel, but this tunnel was not made of earth and stone, but made of glass, and there was water and lights above it, and it looked very colorful from the inside.
The three of them were also stunned when they entered the tunnel, and they didn't expect such a dreamy scenery here.
"Wow~" Yuuri exclaimed, she was in awe upon seeing the view, and stared at the water above.
After gazing at it for a while, Senju sighed a little, this place is like an aquarium, but there is only one fish.
Chito also experienced this novel feeling, "Standing here... It's like we're in the water."
The three of them looked at each other in amazement, and the autonomous machine began to explain, ["This tunnel goes directly beneath the largest water tank."]
"This is nice, I'd like to try being in this much water," Yuuri said as she looked at the water and wanted to go in and try it.
["Would you like to go in it?"]
"Huh, can we do that?"
["Yes, so long as it is a tank that is not in use. There are 102 water tanks in this facility, only 12 are active now, and only one is in use."]
"Is that one the one from before?"
["That is correct,"] the autonomic machine replied immediately.
However, its words made Chito realize the problem, "Then there aren't any fish in the other tanks?"
["There are not."] After talking about the machine, he began to explain the function of the facility.
["This was a production facility for raising large quantities of fish for consumption."]
"Lots of them!" Yuuri seemed a little amazed, wondering how much the amount was.
But the autonomous machine shattered her illusions,
["However there is only one fish left now."]
"So—" Yuuri drooled again, completely forgetting about the fish pact.
["You can't eat it."] Theautonomous machine casually stopped Yuuri's thoughts, and Chito knocked her down to tell her not to do anything wrong.
They chatted as they walked, and after climbing a staircase, they arrived at a huge room with a water surface divided into multiple pools by walls.
The autonomous machine stopped next to one of the pools.
["You may use any of the other water tanks as you wish."] The machine said, and Chito and Yuuri undressed on the side.
However, Yuuri was stripped naked in a while, and Chito took off her coat as if she was going to wash it, and Yuuri stood there and ran a few steps after stripping naked, and then rushed into the sink.
"Hup!"
On the platform next to it, Chito, Senju, and the autonomous machine all watched as Yuuri jumped into the water.
After a string of bubbles rose to the surface, Yuuri emerged, struggling but not panicking, as she shouted, "I'm almost out of air!"
After shouting, Yuuri sank again, and just when everyone was worried, she floated up from below again, swinging her legs, and kept floating smoothly on the water, "Oh, I'm floating"
"You okay?" Chito watched her swim well, but she was still a little worried, so she squatted to the side and watched, and Yuuri also swam to the side, holding on to the platform next to her to rest.
"I'm beeeeat," she said, and then she changed the subject, "Hey, since I'm beat, let's eat the fish."
"Nope."
"I told you. You can't eat the fish," Chito knocked Yuuri in the head as punishment.
"I'm talking about grilled fish!" Yuuri was a little aggrieved, and Chito knocked again, "It's even worse to grill fish."
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Speaking of grilled fish, that's my lunch right now XD