102 – heterogeneous exchange(4)
Chester carefully removed Monia, clinging to his arms, so as not to wake him, then turned and looked outside.
Except for the occasional sound of insects, beyond the darkness of the forest, which was quiet and desolate, there was a lake that glowed softly unlike in the morning, and if you looked over it, you could see a sea of stars so high and beautiful that it was far away.
In the midst of beautiful nature that seems to be watched forever, there is a sudden rustling of the bushes.
It was a very small, very small sound.
The sound of grass being trampled on by something.
Is the opponent’s size small? No, maybe it’s just a creature that can walk quietly, unsuitable for its gigantic size.
Chester reached for the machete he had left near the entrance of the house.
Carefully withdrawing the machete towards himself so as not to provoke any creature outside, he sends a signal to the snarling Ant to be quiet.
It would be nice if it could just go on like this.
No matter how good Chester is, there is no way his eyes are better than those of beasts on a dark night.
Thanks to the light of the lake and the bright moonlight, you can fight while looking ahead, but there are more flaws than bright daylight.
‘I purposely made a house with an inconspicuous shape.’
I took care to make it look like a pile of leaves covering the tree branches that hold a strange shape with ropes or ties, and the entrance is hidden by a rock a little far away.
Artificial objects such as baskets and things that might attract animals and traces of campfires were always kept away from the house.
At that moment, the sound of the brush being trampled stopped and the sound of sloshing water began to be heard.
‘Are you drinking water?’
Compared to the sound of footsteps, the sound of drinking water is loud, as if the entire lake is being shaken by a strong storm.
‘As expected, he was a big guy.’
Since it is mainly active at night, it must have adapted to killing footsteps and hunting.
Just like the owl, the ruler of the night sky, quietly flies without a sound.
‘Just drink water and go.’
Chester was hoping for that, but the sound of drinking water disappeared before he knew it.
And again, the sound of stepping on the bush is heard. However, if it was a problem, it was that the sound that was supposed to be far away was getting closer and closer to them.
Chester and Ant held their breath as much as they could.
sound is coming
As they got closer, they started to hear voices right next to them.
“… … .”
– … … .
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Then, something huge started to move away after crushing part of the house.
“… … .”
Chester cleaned up parts of the collapsed house to hide his exposed figure, waiting for the sound to fade.
And the next morning, Monia woke up and saw the collapsed house and made a fuss.
“Kyaa! What is this?!”
“At night an animal came and crushed it.”
“Yes?! I had no idea!”
Chester swallowed a bitter laugh at the sight of Monia screaming in surprise.
You might say that it’s too dull, but sense is thoroughly a domain of talent, so it depends a lot on what you are born with. Chester is better than his father in that respect.
Of course, training and experience can sharpen your senses to some extent, but there are limits.
For example, I prefer the eyes of a 6-year-old child born in the steppes to the eyes of an assassin made sensible by rigorous training and dangerous drugs.
No matter how good human beings are, they can’t even reach the tips of their toes in their lifetime to animals that can sense and respond to typhoons or earthquakes coming from faraway places.
“I will have to be careful about sleeping in the future.”
Monia said as she lifted up the wreckage of the collapsed house and compared it to the intact part.
“I can see why Chester struggled to build a house in a tree.”
“Didn’t you explain everything before?”
“I couldn’t feel it with my body. There hasn’t been a serious typhoon since that day.”
“but.”
It is better to experience it once than to hear it painfully 100 times.
“Come to think of it, how long are you going to go back after working out? You can’t stay here forever.”
“Let’s stay for three more days.”
“Three days?”
“yes.”
The reason why Chester said 3 days was simple.
3 days.
They intended to tell the location of their home while saying that they were going back to the monster they were interacting with inside.
They can interact culturally and are a valuable source of information about the island, and they are kind enough to readily share food even though they have nothing to gain from them because they want to get something from them.
In order to take measures to ensure that the link with the owner of such a young island is not cut off, I was going to wait for him to appear for the next three days.
“So let’s exercise hard for three days?”
Chester has already regained the athletic ability he originally had, and even developed more.
“Hee hee… .”
All that was left was Monia.
And… … .
‘Now that I’m feeling better, I’ll have to explore the bottom of the lake.’
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Let’s find out the secret of this mysterious water.
* * *
Chester dived into the lake water.
I already know that there is no problem opening my eyes in the lake water while swimming for physical training, so I open my eyes to my heart’s content and scan the water.
‘As expected, it seems that there are only a few plants on the wall.’
Chester watched the aquatic plants swaying with the current in the lake.
Then, carefully, I looked down at the hole in the ground.
It is through that hole that the water of this lake drains out and forms a river.
Perhaps, from a hole somewhere else, there is a stream of water flowing towards the lake.
Chester guessed the approximate location through the flow of water he felt with his body and the swaying of the water plants, and then moved to examine the area.
Fortunately, there were no ferocious creatures in this lake.
There were a variety of aquatic creatures, but none of them were capable of targeting large creatures like Chester.
However, that could only be said when confined to this shallow place near the surface, and looking into the depths of the lake, a monster-like fish bigger than Chester’s body was swimming leisurely.
The fish had blade-like scales and fins, and instead of swimming leisurely, it jumped at the turtle and shattered its shell at once to hunt it.
‘If I get bitten by that thing, I won’t even be able to pick a bone.’
After briefly rising to the surface and breathing, Chester dived and swam across the lake.
Maybe you can find out the secret of the lake somewhere.
That’s why I decided to swim hard and cross this vast lake.
Monia sat near the lake and watched the two cushion rafts floating on the surface.
A cushion raft tied to Chester’s waist with a rope was slowly floating on the lake, following Chester’s trajectory.
This cushion raft is insurance that will give Chester a little resistance should he be dragged down by some creature in the lake.
‘indeed. The water comes in here. Is there only one entrance?’
Chester looked at the flowing water and noticed something odd. The water entering the lake was transparent water that did not shine blue.
You can see the transparent water flowing into the brightly glowing lake and pushing it away, forming small, weak vortices.
‘Then, even if I go further upstream against this lake, I won’t be able to get the secret of this mysterious water.’
After all, the secret is in the lake.
But.
‘… … Searching beyond this is impossible.’
As well as the huge and ferocious carnivorous fish that live beneath the lake, the biggest problem is the size of the lake.
‘It’s too big and deep.’
You’re going to dive all the way there with your bare body? You will have to use up all the air you have in your body just by diving in and coming back up.
It was physically impossible to navigate the bottom of a lake of this size naked.
‘Let’s go up.’
Unfortunately, Chester has decided to abandon the plan to bring home the ‘mysterious water secret’ and produce mystical water at home.
‘Maybe it’s a power that people shouldn’t be greedy for.’
Excessive greed makes people ugly and calls for ruin.
Chester gave up the secret of the mysterious water and went up to the lake.
* * *
The owner of the young island who came to the lake looked at the lake shining blue as always and thought.
‘Although the color is pale, it looks like a lake in the sky at the top.’
At the top of the floating island, in the central part, a lake more than twice as large as the present lake, shining the same color as the lofty blue sky.
The cliffs surrounding the lake are the home of the owners of the island.
‘Perhaps the big one among the fragments split from the stone where the ancestor’s soul dwells settled here by chance, right? As for leaving the ancestors off the top, should I retrieve them later?’
The young owner of the island thought so and appeared in front of Chester and Monia in a few days.
And in return for Ba-Zoo, he carefully held out the item he had brought.
The young island owner, who made a gesture similar to Chester’s in exchange for a rope, carefully watched Chester’s reaction.
Indeed, what kind of reaction will it show?
“?!”
And Chester looked at the thing in his hand with wide-eyed and gaping strange faces.
“This, this.”
“Chester? What is it?”
“Where did you get this?!”
Chester shouted and looked at the young island owner, who was satisfied with Chester’s reaction and nodded with a grin.
In Chester’s hand, the ‘shiny and hard stone’ that the young owner of the island had saved.
Its true identity was ore.
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