Chapter 333

What appeared before Kirshtalia was a desolate land - just like the scene that the Triton had seen when it sailed on the blank earth in the past. There was no trace of any civilization that had ever existed here; the only difference was probably that this land still retained its original color, instead of being bleached into a uniform pure white like the blank earth.

"Is this...really Tokyo, Japan, 3,000 years from now?" Kirshtalia sighed and picked up a simple fortune-telling spell to guide her direction. "The spirit particle transfer system is still as unreliable as ever - but considering that we managed to land smoothly this time...I hope everyone's locations won't be too scattered this time."

After walking for a while on the desolate land covered with flying dust, Kirshtalia saw a shaky concrete building suddenly appearing at the end of his sight. This building may have been a high-rise apartment building commonly seen in the city in the past, but now only the three floors close to the ground are barely maintaining their original shape.

As Kirshtalia got closer, he discovered that even the first floor of the outer wall of this isolated building had partially collapsed, revealing a hole large enough for two people to pass through.

——The front of the building had long lost its power supply, and the tightly locked electronic apartment building door had become a complete decoration.

Kirshtalia, who was in urgent need of a place to sort out the current situation, entered the building after confirming the safety of the environment, and turned on the communicator that was installed with a new function by the engineering department responsible for technical research and development to facilitate the determination of the location of teammates to confirm the situation.

"By the way, what is the detection range of this communicator..."

At the same time, Kadoc, who was thrown into the indoor environment at the beginning, finally turned his attention to the outside world after checking the situation indoors. He reached out and opened the curtains that blocked out the light and made the room as dark as midnight. Kadoc was even irritated by the strong light from the outside world. It took him a while to notice that the outside world was a vast wilderness. He seemed to be isolated on an unknown island here.

"Let's confirm the coordinates of the others first..." Kadoc closed the curtains again, avoided the dusty area indoors, and turned on the communicator. "I remember the engineering department said that considering the safety of the Lord, they wanted to make a monitoring range that could at least cover the size of the United States... But it seems that the production was not smooth, so the current detection radius of this version should be 10km--"

"Wodaym!?!"

On the screen in front of Kadoc, the mark representing Kirshtalia overlapped with his own location.

"Ah, Kadoc is here." Kirshtalia looked up the stairs and went up before Kadoc's position changed. She began to search the few well-preserved apartments in the building. "To speed up the search, we should just tear down the doors of these apartments."

Just like that, before Kirshtalia used magic to violently break down the door to where Kadok was, Kadok opened the door of the apartment and walked outside - and waited at the entrance of the stairs for Kirshtalia, who had just broken down the door on the first floor and was holding a cane.

"...Thanks to you, I am now sure that there is basically no danger in this building." Kadok sighed and looked at Kirshtalia who was standing on the stairs and looking at him with a smile, "Who would tear down the door right away like you did and make such a big fuss in an unfamiliar environment?"

"Because most dangers can be resolved." Kirshtalia spread her arms to Kadoc, "I want to sort out the current situation before continuing. Do you think we should wait until we have collected more information, or should we just discuss it briefly now?"

"Have you contacted Control?" Kadoc asked Kirshtalia.

"No, because generally speaking our communication system is less reliable than the lepton transfer system." Kirshtalia shrugged, left the stairs and walked to Kadoc's side, watching him start to try to contact the control room with the communicator. "It's common for the Lord to lose contact. Instead of worrying about how panicked everyone in the control room will be, it's better to seize the time to solve the problem of the anomaly."

"You make sense." The screen in front of him flashed a red light indicating a failed connection. Kadoc sighed helplessly, turned off the communicator, and asked Kirshtalia, "So, from your appearance, it looks like you walked outside for a while to get here... Did you find anything outside?"

"I can only say that this place doesn't look like Tokyo, Japan 3,000 years after the AD." Kirshtalia straightened her face and began to sort out all the information she could find before she set out. "It looks like there is no trace of civilization here - although we are now talking in a building created by humans, and this building does look like a Japanese urban building."

"Then I will tell you the results of my investigation." Kadok opened the door he had walked out of and stood at the door to show Kirshtalia the scene inside. "This place must have been abandoned for a long time. The bed, table, sofa, and floor are all covered with a thick layer of dust. The footprints and handprints you saw were left by me just now."

"But in terms of its own setting..."

"Like the 21st century." Kirshtalia blinked and exchanged glances with Kadoc. "Then, there are obviously no other clues here... Should we go outside and continue exploring?"

"Are you planning to run across this singularity on foot like Ritsuka did across North America..." Kadoc lowered his head and looked at the white uppers of Kirshtalia's shoes that were completely covered with sand. "Perhaps there will be some unexpected dangers in this singularity. Wouldn't it be better to have a means of transportation?"

"Shadow Border's off-road vehicle?" Kirshtalia thought for a moment and gave Kadoc an example. "But in this situation, you can't find energy to power ordinary cars, right?"

"...I downloaded the drawings of the Apocalypse, the first means of transportation designed by Leonardo da Vinci for Ritsuka in 2016, which was based on modern car drawings." Kadokla hid half of his face with his high collar. "It should be possible to transform the energy system into a type that uses magic power instead of gasoline."

"If it's you, providing magic power to the car as a driver shouldn't be a problem."

"If we can find a car next." Kirshtalia nodded and agreed to Kadoc's proposal, "But I don't have a driver's license - I arrived in Chaldea in 2006."

"We are all the same." Kadoc shook his head and spread his hands to indicate that he didn't have a driver's license either. "We all came to Chaldea when we were still minors, and later we didn't take any special tests for these certificates... But now in this environment - we don't have to abide by traffic laws, as long as we can keep the car moving, it should be fine, right?"

With this in mind, the two of them, guided by Kirshtalia's magic of occupying the vine, successfully found an abandoned off-road vehicle.

"But the car is on its side..." Kadoc circled the SUV several times, and finally cast a tentative look at Kirshtalia, "Wadym, can you straighten the car?"

"Is this the only one?" Kirshtalia confirmed to Kadoc, her hand already touching the shell of the SUV. "If it's just to position it, then using ordinary strengthening magic, you can move this SUV with your hands."

"Well, this is the one." Kadoc nodded and stepped back a few steps. "After you straighten it out, I'll modify its engine. As for other possible problems like broken tires or broken seats..."

"We can use magic to repair it after it becomes mana-driven. Just like Guardiola, we can use projection magic to directly check it and repair the damaged parts with magic." Kirshtalia shrugged, and the magic circuits in her body lit up due to the replenishment of magic power. "Anyway, now we just need it to run."

With the joint efforts of the two, they successfully solved the problem of transportation before the sun set in the west.

"Now that we have a means of transportation, we should consider new problems." Kirshtalia successfully activated their means of transportation by following the tutorials for different brands of off-road vehicles found in the database on the communicator, allowing the refurbished old off-road vehicle to rush forward. "The question now is - what is the next problem we should consider?"

While pressing the accelerator, Kirshtalia listed her problems to Kadoc, who was in the back row and had a pale face due to the high-speed start.

"Should we go look for Holmes and his friends who don't have the communicator and are nowhere to be found? Or should we go look for Mary and her friends who have the communicator? Or should we contact the locals first? Or should we just run around and see if we can come across any incidents and learn about the situation at this anomaly?"

Kirshtalia slammed on the brakes to stop the off-road vehicle that was moving at super high speed, then turned around and looked at Kadok, who had just fallen back into his seat and was not thrown out because of the seat belt.

“…Next time you drive…don’t step on the accelerator or the brake too hard.” Kadok grabbed the back of the driver’s seat where Kirshtalia was sitting, and reminded his captain who was quite ignorant at times, “There is no Saber or Rider in our team who has mastered riding skills this time. If they fall off the cliff, I won’t be able to save them.”

"Ah, generally speaking, what is a suitable speed?" Kirshtalia asked Kadoc humbly.

"60 kilometers per hour is about right." Kadoc took a deep breath, stood up and answered Kirshtalia's question about what to do next. "Regarding the next step... I think that instead of looking for other teammates who have not been heard from yet, we should try to contact the locals inside the special point first."

"It's the quickest way to fully understand what's going on in the world - after all, this doesn't look like the everyday world, does it?"