159 – New Life (3)
The next day, Chester and Monia set out on a journey to the top with the young warrior.
Before leaving the journey, I talked to a young warrior who had a timid personality unlike the rough, hot-headed, warlike, and bold top people I had met so far.
As Chester observed the young warrior, putting aside the conversation with the young warrior, his feelings were that he was quite a veteran, except for his position as a young warrior.
There are more scars on the body than the black wind. However, the number of prey he decisively hunted was less, and the number of accessories was less than that of the Black Wind. Only two bracelets were tied around the young warrior’s elbows and swaying.
The next thing that stands out is the weapon in his hand. He was using a rope to tie a stone around his waist, claiming it was his precious object, and it was something that could be considered a stone knife.
A stone pointed at one end. Although it is more primitive than Chester’s stone knife, it is a ‘tool’ that clearly shows its use.
Even though he has his own civilization, he is a top man who has fallen far behind in the development of tools as a result of his excellent physical ability, but he may have advanced to the tool civilization through the discovery of this timid baby warrior. It was only greatly accelerated by Chester’s existence.
As a timid personality, he always had the habit of looking around, and unlike the others who proudly wag their tails, they kept their tails close to their bodies. When I asked why, he said that he had the experience of something suddenly running into his tail while hunting and biting it off.
Although timid and timid, he still lives as a young warrior. Although he couldn’t become an adult warrior due to his timid nature, he stayed as a baby warrior for a long time and never gave up on hunting.
A person who continues to think so that even the timid himself can go hunting and play an active role in hunting. That was the baby warrior in front of me, the blue sound.
As the name suggests, the blue voice gave off a resonant voice that felt deeper than other top people.
At first, he talked to Chester cautiously, but as you can see from the fact that he had learned how to talk to Chester, he got used to Chester while traveling and had active conversations with him.
As they chatted, Chester learned where the blue voice was using the hand axe.
He was making a spear by carving a twig with a pointy, sharp piece of stone.
– If you hit it with this stone, a lot of blood will flow. If you poke it with something that looks the same, it will bleed just as much. Bleeding weakens prey.
The blue sound created by such a principle is the source of power that primitive mankind was able to protect themselves from the harsh nature and hunt even huge elephants dozens of times larger than themselves. It was a wooden window.
‘It goes beyond using stones and goes to the level of making weapons.’
Of course, it’s not a polished object that’s easy to use, it’s an object that only has a sharp tip, but the tip isn’t properly polished either. The top man used a blunt hand ax to polish it, but the grain of the wood was cracked here and there, creating a spear that would break if used once.
As Chester traveled, he informed the blue sound of various things. Now that they’ve accepted Chester into their family, they don’t have to obsess over trading anymore.
Didn’t the top people also help Chester without caring about anything else when Chester was in danger because of the sailors who came from outside?
The blue sound was also interested in Chester’s crossbow and Monia’s bow. However, in the case of catapults, I didn’t pay attention because they didn’t seem to be more powerful just because they were used.
The only problem was that the blue voice was very talkative. Where did his timidity go? Once he got used to Chester and Monia, he became very talkative.
“Uh, me, that? Hey, what are you talking about now?”
“I don’t know either… … .”
Moniaro, who had recently started learning how to communicate with Chester, couldn’t understand everything, and he gestured and gestured to speak so long that even Chester couldn’t understand it properly.
Chester roamed the upper floors of the floating island in peace, talking to the blue sounds with difficulty.
Of course, it wasn’t always comfortable. Occasionally the monstrous beasts that lived upstairs attacked them, and each time they managed to escape and somehow make their way to the top.
In this part, I could feel the difference between the blue sound and the black wind. If it was the black wind, it would run at the beast, but it wouldn’t think of running away.
– I like birds. it’s good.
Blue Sound likes birds, so every meal he catches a bird and eats it. The birds that were slowly returning to the island while leaving the cold region were becoming prey for the blue sound.
“I guess it was true that I hated grilled food.”
“Yeah.”
When eating a bird, the blue sound preferred to eat it raw without even a simple grooming such as plucking the feathers. I guess it was real that I turned down the invitation to dinner because I didn’t like grilled food.
In fact, other top people will eat like this. It’s just that Monia started to eat differently as she spread cooking.
– The head is the most delicious. Are you going to try it?
– Because it’s dangerous for us to eat raw.
– That’s right, it was. I forgot. sorry.
Chester and Monia also ate a meal from his catch, watching as Blue Sound gobbled up several birds whole.
Of course, I took off the feathers and trimmed the intestines to make them edible and ate them. Most of the organs are also given to Ant, but the edible parts, such as the heart and liver, are grilled and eaten separately.
As Monia carefully tore off the roasted bird’s heart and ate it, she gazed at the approaching top.
I’ve been here twice before, when Chester collapsed. But at that time, all my attention was focused on Chester, so I couldn’t see it properly.
‘Looking at it like this, it’s really really high.’
Just as a cliff suddenly rises from the lower floor and leads to the upper floor, a high and steep mountain sits between the upper floor and the top, as if it had been cut by someone.
Water falls from all over the almost vertical mountain and flows out to the island. It is not easy to climb because the mountain is always wet and overall slippery.
It’s not that you can’t go up. But it’s hard. Moreover, there are few places to rest. Near the caves that are everywhere. A tree growing vertically on the wall. I can’t rest if it’s not that much.
If it was Chester, he would be able to rest all over his body in a narrow gap, but that’s possible because he has skills and physical abilities like Chester.
In other words, it is a place that no bare-body person can climb without any equipment unless it is Chester.
Yes, a place that seems cut off from the world. What exists above it is grace with the power of fantasy that heals all wounds, and nature overflowing with that grace.
A world without hunger.
‘It’s just like heaven.’
A world where there is no pain or hunger is a form of heaven commonly promoted by any religion.
After eating all the bird’s hearts, Monia took the grilled worms next.
“Ugh.”
A plump white worm. Holding the slug in her hand, Monia contorted her face and carefully brought it to her mouth before dropping it.
“Ugh… !”
“Even though I ate spiders. You baked it there.”
“You can’t eat it raw!”
“You can eat this.”
“They hit me when I tried to eat something raw!”
“You can’t eat a rabbit raw.”
Chester looked at Monia as he chewed on the slugs. Blue Sound, who had finished eating before he knew it, also quietly looked at Monia.
“Ouch! I enjoy eating bugs so much?! Why are you looking at me like that!”
“Eat quickly.”
“Keeh!”
After groaning once, Monia held the browned slugs in her hands again.
“… … !”
What, what the hell am I supposed to say about this!
Monia, who closed her eyes tightly, shouted.
“I want to eat the normal size, at least at first!”
“It’s a normal size.”
“lie! It can’t be!”
“Look at the size of the kids you and I are eating.”
“This is not real!!”
In the end, Monia failed to eat slugs that day.
* * *
A few days after Monia failed to eat the slugs, two humans, an ant wolf, and a man on top were finally able to reach the beginning of the mountain to climb to the top.
“Oh oh. It’s the first time I’ve climbed here sober.”
Chester said that while looking up at the high mountain, then looked at Monia.
“Monia, can you?”
“I want to climb as far as I can.”
If you ask, they will help you with the blue sound, but since I wanted to climb it myself, it was within my power.
When Monia expressed her intentions like that, Chester nodded in agreement and then spoke with a blue voice.
After carrying Ant on his back with the two of them, he said that he would understand the blue sound he had planned to climb, and after carefully putting Ant in the backpack Chester had lent him, he prepared to climb the mountain with Ant alone.
“The trick is similar to climbing a tree. Use your legs more than your arms, and always look out for your surroundings to make sure you have a place to set your feet. Understand?”
“yes!”
“It will be difficult to climb if your hands are injured, so wear gloves. There are a lot of places where the stone has been broken sharply, so it looks like it will be cut.”
“I’m already ready.”
“great. let’s go.”
towards the top.