124 – Touch from outside the sea (1)
Rotin stood on the prow and took out a telescope to look at it. Then, in the distance, in the middle of the vast sea, the horizon where the sky fell down and touched the sea level, I saw something existing like a foreign substance like an unknown black dot in the middle of pure white marble.
“Are you sure it’s a floating island?”
“Yes. I watched it for a while, but it was clearly moving. It is a living island.”
The man did not say the name of the floating island called by the kingdom, but the name of the island called by his country of origin.
Knowing that, Rotin quickly understood and nodded.
“great. I found it sooner than I thought. No, did the island move slower than expected? It doesn’t matter. Everyone! Landing!”
At the word of landing, all those who were tired of life on the boat cheered.
“Wow!”
“finally!”
“My God, how did you find it!”
“I mean! Our captain is great.”
Sea life makes people miserable.
At first, you may admire the endless blue sea and sky, and in the horror of the dark sea, you may get sentimental at the silky sky embroidered with the moon and stars, but people are adaptable creatures.
Seeing and appreciating the beautiful natural scenery does not take three days at most. If it is short, the admiration ends in one day and degenerates into ‘ordinary scenery’.
The moment something to calm one’s mind disappears, the only thing one faces is an extreme environment in which people cannot live.
The stinging sun beats down as it is without a single shield. The wind that blows is full of salt, making the hair sticky and dehydrating the body, making it rough and discolored.
A boat bobbing along the waves makes people feel bad, and as they have to conserve food, insufficient and scanty meals take away their energy every day.
Water is especially painful.
Water is everywhere you look, and here water is more precious than gold.
No matter how dirty your body is, you cannot wash it, no matter how thirsty you are, you cannot drink water. That’s why everyone lives with strong rum in their mouths.
In such an environment, people naturally become wild, and the weak often end up committing suicide just by enduring.
Even in the case of this expedition, the destination was not in a clear location, but the task of sailing the sea endlessly in search of an island of unknown location.
Perhaps, if the voyage had been a little longer, a mutiny on board would have occurred.
However, once the floating island is discovered, that is the end. Now, what they have to do is to land on that island, find Monia, and move to the sea area near the kingdom while staying on the island.
The island will naturally lead them there, so they just have to wait.
‘Usually, the cycle of a wandering island appearing near the kingdom is about 2-3 years. I’ll have to hold out for a year or two.’
Fortunately, there was a lot of material stored up for the long voyage. You’ll be able to hunt on an island, and it’ll be better than staying on a boat.
Of course, it’s not easy.
You never know when those sailors, who are now well followed, may suddenly change and thrust their blades.
It would be difficult to survive on that primitive island with no traces of civilization as much as living on a boat.
‘Isn’t that a big problem since you can tie the boat to the island and live on the boat?’
If it was a ship, everything was ready. There is also a large bed large enough for two men and women to lie down and sleep.
You can only enter the island when you really need it.
‘Yeah, no problem.’
After meticulously examining many other uncertainties, Rottin nodded and pointed to the floating island.
“Everyone, as you may have already heard, the boat will be anchored in the direction of the shore where there are traces of people. So, everyone is waiting at their seats so that we can operate the ship right away.”
“All right!”
“Yes!”
“Okay, it’s nice to hear a loud reply. Let’s go somewhere.”
* * *
Yesterday was a really busy day.
While the ore was being melted, the field that had been cleaned up was completed again and seeds were sown, and among the thorns planted as a fence, those that were shattered and unusable were thrown away, and intact thorns were brought in and planted in the empty spot.
Since the aqueduct didn’t work properly in the morning, I had to check the entire aqueduct to see what was wrong, and that also took a lot of time. As a result of the investigation, it was found that a large fish was blocking the waterway and it was not working.
While concentrating on melting the ore, I was busy because there were many things I had put off. Now I have to remake the red pepper powder bomb, and I have to remake the preserved food that I consumed step by step because I couldn’t hunt.
“I haven’t come back yet.”
“Well. As the creatures here fled, the other places would have been saturated with a surge in the number of creatures. The competition will be fierce.”
“Only the kids who were defeated and had to run away returned here?”
At Monia’s words, Chester nodded.
“This is why hunting is prohibited. All the traps have been taken, so there should be no problem.”
“There is no problem that can be solved quickly.”
“Yeah. I wish the grace of the top, which is given as an apology, would be as good as that.”
Up there, Chester watched the rodent run from branch to branch and then onto the branch of another tree.
The rodent seemed to look around nervously, then sprinted into a crevice in the tree.
‘Is it a baby.’
The reason why the cheeks were puffed up must have been because he was biting down on a lot of food for the young.
“It’s kind of strange.”
“what?”
“Because there are always lots of animals here.”
“Ah, indeed it was.”
Even if the hunt failed, there was never a day when he could not hunt because there was no prey. Even if you kill and kill, the creatures suddenly appear.
“To the extent that plants grow well, life must be overflowing.”
The biggest factor hindering the increase in the number of creatures is food. In ancient times, humans also started farming and could not increase their numbers until they obtained stable food.
But this island is different. A lot of herbivores are born to eat the overflowing plants, and a lot of carnivores are born to catch and eat the herbivores.
Thanks to this, the forest was always filled with animal sounds.
But now I can hear the song of the grass blowing in the wind better than the sound of the animals.
It was awkwardly quiet and desolate, as if they were left alone in the world, so Monia held Chester’s hand tightly without realizing it.
“Something is scary.”
“yes? It’s fine.”
“… … Yes.”
Monia nodded cautiously.
But the feeling of awkwardness and awkwardness did not go away.
The feeling that something bad is about to happen. The anxiety that arises when a gloomy and dark scene appears in an opera, when the music is drastically reduced and subdued.
‘The forest is so quiet that it makes me anxious. yes.’
Feeling uneasy for no reason, Monia caressed the rope tied around her wrist.
That day, Monia, unable to overcome her anxiety, clung to Chester even more than usual and went to sleep.
* * *
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Looking at the black sea, humans feel as if they are going to be sucked into the sea and disappear.
Despite the fact that it is nothing but the sea whose color has just turned black, some people are overwhelmed by some unknown pulling force and take a step toward the sea without realizing it.
Such are the accidents that sometimes happen in the sea at night. It’s dark and they fall into it by mistake, or they throw themselves into the sea because they are enchanted.
Of course, the moment the body is thrown, it becomes night and the sea, which is deprived of heat and cooled, knocks the mind of a person who seems to be trapped in a hazy fantasy in the name of reality at once.
However, it is already too late at the moment of escaping fantasy and falling into reality, and all one can do is struggle and scream in the cold sea and rough waves.
How many people threw themselves under the night sea and disappeared.
After taking his eyes off the telescope, Rotin looked at the floating island in silence.
Using the wind and waves as much as possible, I approached the island faster than the island, but by the time I approached the island that was floating on the far horizon, it was already dark.
“Let’s give up landing.”
At Rotin’s words, the sailors who went to bed at breakfast and lunch and woke up at night to drive the ship nodded knowingly.
“I’ll pass it on to the ship behind you.”
“Well. Fold the sails! It’s windy. If we continue like this, we might run into an island. After keeping a proper distance, when the day is bright, they find a sandy beach and land.”
As the sails folded, the ship’s speed slowed down, and the ship, which had gradually slowed down, moved side by side at a speed similar to that of a floating island.
Rotin looked at the floating island again.
The island, seen with eyes dimly accustomed to the darkness of the night, looks like a monster whale soaring above the sea and about to fall down in the direction of the ship at any moment.
This is all the more so because Wandering Island is made up of sharp, sharp cliffs on all sides, except for the sandy field on one side.
“what?”
At that time, I saw something strange in the eyes of Rotin, who was quietly looking at the island.
Is it the top of the island? A lump of orange light suddenly appeared in the vicinity of the place where the unknown blue light was flowing.
‘… … .’
Rottin quickly raised his telescope and looked at the light.
‘It’s moving. Could that be a torch? Could it be Monia?!’
No one else can live on a floating island. And no animal could have the intelligence to handle a torch.
Rottin was certain that the light on top belonged to Monia, and looked at it with a heart that throbbed with love.
And at that time, one of the top people who had woken up from sleep at night because of the need to urinate, relying on the light of a torch to do his errands, yawning profusely from sleepiness and scratching his itchy buttocks for no reason.
‘Monia… … !!’