109 – Beach walk (2)
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The ant wolf, hit by Chester’s wooden spear, fell out.
Chester evaded the antwolves that followed, got into position, swung his machete to kill one, and stabbed the other with a wooden spear to keep him in check.
On the second day after returning from the lake, the three of them were attacked by ant wolves.
I don’t know why, but whether it was because they lost in a battle for territory or if the group was destroyed because they failed in hunting, but about five ant wolves suddenly appeared and attacked them.
However, since Ant had noticed their presence from the beginning by smelling it, they easily counterattacked and subdued their attack.
“The clothes Monia made are helpful.”
“uh? really? Really?”
“yes. It’s better to fight comfortably now that your defenses are stronger than before.”
In the past, Chester fought wearing only a piece of cloth, and even had no sleeves, so he had to fight with his arms exposed.
The moment you accidentally bite it, it becomes a fatal wound at once. Because of that worry, my body was very atrophied.
“Because I didn’t even know about the mysterious water back then.”
Chester laughed as he killed the last ant-wolf with a machete.
“There is a lot of meat at once!”
“Yeah. Shall we eat a little more today?”
“Wow! Thanks to Ant for letting me know!”
Monia hugs Ant, praises him, and blows kisses.
Chester put two ant-wolves in Monia’s basket and three in his own basket.
“Let’s go to the river, take care of it, and go to the villa.”
“Yes!”
* * *
Speaking of the most inactive time of Chester and Monia’s day, it was looking at the sea from the villa and looking for ships or continents passing by.
“Did you make this yesterday?”
“yes. You never know when the continent will be visible and you will have to go on a raft.”
Monia was observing the raft Chester had built by himself yesterday, and Chester had nothing to do, so he was making extra string and rope.
Monia, who has finished observing the raft, also approaches Chester and gazes blankly at the sea while doing simple tasks.
“Chester, have you decided what to do with the ore?”
“Ugh. First of all, we need to build a facility that can melt ore. I tried it with a campfire, but it didn’t melt.”
Chester didn’t know any blacksmith skills. I just remember blacksmiths sweating profusely, beating iron and making things.
“The skills of a professional job are knowledge and know-how accumulated over a long period of time, and a realm of senses that only those who live in that job can know. So I’m going to go in a simpler way.”
“What method?”
“First of all, you have to make a frame that has the shape of the object you want to make. I’m going to pour melted molten iron into it and make it into a shape. Next, I will sharpen it with a stone and sharpen it.”
It’s a crude thing that’s far less than what a professional blacksmith can make, but it’s sure to make iron tools.
“The problem is the facility to melt the ore.”
“If it doesn’t work with a bonfire, won’t it just work?”
“I want to make a stronger fire… … I don’t know how to make it.”
Ordinary people can live their whole lives if there is enough dissatisfaction to boil water and cook food.
There is no need for more fire.
Of course, even in the environment of ‘survival’, you don’t need to know more than that as long as you know how to light a bonfire.
That’s why Chester didn’t know this much.
A way to make the fire stronger than it is now, I had never thought about in my whole life.
“It would be convenient if there was magic.”
“There is no such thing in the world.”
“Know. I tried to grumble.”
“Oh, don’t our bodies get hot when we hug each other? Why don’t you do the same with fire?”
“Hmm… … .”
At Monia’s words, Chester began to think quietly.
‘Creatures have fever.’
When heat meets heat, it becomes hot.
‘What if you bring two campfires close? It’s just a big bonfire. That’s not right.’
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Living things make heat. In the cold winter, hot steam flows out when you open a freshly caught animal. Just like hot water steams out of a cold place.
‘Then why isn’t it so hot when you touch a living creature?’
It is because the hot place is inside the creature.
‘not. It’s hot on the inside. The inside of the fire is hotter. Why is it hotter inside?’
This is because the outside of living things is deprived of heat.
When making a bed, Chester always worried about losing heat to the ground, so he could sleep away from the ground.
He always used trees to build his house away from the ground, and even when he left to explore the lake, he gathered lots of grass around him and made a cot to keep his body from touching the ground even a little bit.
The reason why the body becomes hot when people are closely attached to each other is because, in the end, there are fewer ‘parts where heat is taken away’.
They can transfer heat to each other.
‘Heat is not reflected.’
When I was staying outside on a snowy winter day, I would light a bonfire with rocks or trees around and spend the night warmly using the heat reflected from there.
“… … Let’s make a kiln.”
“Yes?”
Monia looked at Chester as the thoughtful Chester uttered a few words.
“I am making a small kiln. It puts heat in there. The heat of the burning flame, the heat that escapes to the surroundings and returns when it hits the walls. You can use it to melt ore.”
“… … Will that be enough?”
I can understand that it gets hotter, but I don’t know if it will melt the ore through it.
“yes. So I’ll try it first and if it doesn’t work, I’ll add something else. I’m going to try it.”
‘Can I put the ore in an earthenware vessel and melt it? If the heat is too hot, won’t the earthenware break? I’ll have to try the pottery first. And if it does, I need to make it easy to put in and take out the earthenware… … . If it’s hard to put in and take out, it can spill even when the ore is melted.’
Monia looked at Chester, who kept thinking and thinking, then unfolded a piece of leather that had been rolled inside the basket.
This hide was something Monia was making to surprise Chester after watching him write on it.
‘I’m concentrating on my thoughts right now, so I can’t see it, right?’
After sharpening the tip of the stone knife, Monia brought her hand to the leather and started drawing a new picture from where she had previously drawn.
It started with two dots.
Next, I drew a line between the two points. Not just a straight line that continues straight, but a line that bends and bends here and there.
Next, I started stuffing various things around it. Some became forests, some became rivers, some… … .
‘Whoops, I’m sure you’ll be surprised!’
Anticipating the reaction Chester would show on the day he showed it to Chester, Monia worked hard today as well.
Today, something was stuffed into a corner of the wide spread leather.
Next to the small drawing of a house, Monia carefully wrote the word ‘Villa’.
Draw a line there, write ‘salt farm’, draw another bumpy picture next to it, write ‘pointed rock field’, and write the information ‘source of trap bait’ there.
Carefully, one by one, the leather is sliced thinly and carved with the feeling of carving a work of art.
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Like that.
The ‘Map of the Wandering Island’ was slowly filling in the blanks.
* * *
Chester and Monia’s lives have not changed since they returned from the lake.
When I wake up in the morning, I spend my daily routine as always, and after the routine, I decide what to do that day, find it, and solve it in the spare time.
If you have a lot of plants in your field, harvest them and replant them.
If the peppers or chilies are dry, grind them into a powder and set aside.
They make the necessary earthenware from clay, and if there is something dry enough among the earthenware they make, they put it in a kiln and bake it.
If there is a red pepper powder bomb material in the baked earthenware, make a red pepper powder bomb.
Even if it’s not right now, I’m working on making preserved food in preparation for the coming winter someday.
After I’ve done that, it’s past lunch for a while, but it’s probably around 3 or 4 in a sensuous way. Some days it ends earlier and some days it ends later.
In the case of kiln baking, you have to watch it constantly, so if you bake it, you will blow the whole day.
When that’s done, there’s nothing else to do with your own hands, so you go to the villa.
I do my chores while looking at the sea.
Chester contemplated how to melt the ore, and Monia drew a map behind the troubled Chester’s knowledge.
Then, when time passes and the surroundings get dark, I return home, have dinner, and go to sleep.
The night is dark and dangerous.
On the floating island, there is nothing to do outside at night, and even if there is, it should not be done considering the degree of risk.
Have a hobby until you fall asleep.
Chester plays a musical instrument carved from wood or made simply. Even if it is a musical instrument, it is at the level of hitting wooden blocks of different thicknesses. It’s crude, but even the monotonous sound made by that crude thing mixed with the sounds from the forest made great music.
There are various sounds.
The sound of a bonfire burning. The sound of bugs chirping. The sound of animals hunting. When the wind blows, the song of the leaves and blades of grass.
Mixed with it, you can hear it faintly, the clear tone that comes from knocking on each other.
Monia did a simple exercise that can be done in a small space. Or, I studied and studied how to enjoy a more luxurious diet with the things I have now. He enjoyed painting all over the house with dyes made by crushing flower petals.
The first thing I drew was my father, Jordi, and the tiara. Characters who want revenge.
Next, I started painting places that left a deep impression on me in the kingdom, and then slowly the paintings began to change into the scenery of this island.
The fruit he ate delicious, the fish caught in the trap, the painting of a lake where the dye was not yet dry, and the brave and lovable warrior who hunted various creatures such as snakes, ant wolves, and bears.
Ant wanders among people who enjoy their time like that, or starts sleeping a little early by himself.
How long would it have been for the quiet days to continue?
While spending time at the villa like any other day, Chester suggested Monia to take a walk on the beach.
“A walk on the beach? Suddenly?”
“yes. I think my head will work better if I give it a little different stimulation.”
Monia, who hastily hid the map and hid it in a basket, nodded in agreement.
It was a beach walk that started without much thought, but there, Chester and Monia discovered something shocking.
“This?!”
It was so astonishing and shocking that even Chester, who was never surprised by anything, and was surprised when the black wind first appeared, but his head turned blank.