161 – New Life (5)
My hands were torn and bleeding, and I accidentally fell and broke my leg. In the end, with the help of the blue sound, Monia climbed to the top and three days passed.
Monia carefully looked at the spider in front of her. The spider had a body larger than Monia’s head, and devours fruit voraciously, with eight eyes shining like jewels.
The spider, with its golden fur and golden body, ate the fruit with pleasure, then broke into a branch and hid in the tree.
And after a while, a flower bud appeared in the place where the fruit that the spider had eaten had been. Monia was admiring the sight of the new fruit bearing in just 30 minutes.
“I thought our fields also grow very fast?”
said Chester, who was watching the same from the side.
“Our fields tend to grow quickly, too.”
“But you can’t compare it to here.”
“Yeah.”
Chester looked elsewhere.
The top of the island is dominated by the top people, but as the case of the spider shows, they are not alone.
Where Chester was watching, other creatures that normally would growl at each other for food were huddled together and eating plants.
Every time they pluck a leaf, it grows anew and eats that leaf again, so there is no need to compete with each other due to lack of food.
‘five… No, including us, six types? I can’t believe that nothing happens when so many different creatures gather in one place.’
Chester looked at it and admired it, but also looked for the existence of a carnivore.
It is absurd that there are so many herbivores and no carnivores to eat them.
‘The people at the top say it’s not honorable to hunt creatures that are too weak, so I won’t touch them.’
They always live by hunting strong creatures upstairs. Otherwise, like the creatures here, they live by eating the fruits provided by the abundant natural environment.
‘No, rather, it’s possible that there are no carnivores in this environment?’
Think about it. There is a prey that does not disappear even if it is eaten, but there is no need to become a carnivore who has to chase and hunt prey with great difficulty.
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Life changes by adapting to the environment. Both herbivores and carnivores have their own reasons and have changed that way. Then, if there is no reason to eat meat, carnivores will disappear.
Spiders without poison or webs, rabbits that do not run around, foxes that eat grass.
‘Looking at it this way, the people at the top are strange.’
They were not born at the top of the island, but those who gradually rose from the bottom to the top. Even after occupying the top of the island, those who have not been satisfied with the affluent environment at the top.
Chester and Monia called them top people, but in fact they were the most alien beings at the top.
“Chester, look over there. I have a raft.”
“yes?”
Chester and Monia went to a deep shaft in the center of the island, which cut through the island, and found huge rafts floating there, and people on top of the rafts chatting with children lying on the rafts or on their sides.
And after a while, a shark that can be active even in fresh water suddenly jumped out and made a fuss, and was hit by the fist of the top of the woman who was scratching her belly, and fell down, and turned into a plaything for children. After a while, the children ate the whole bone and disappeared.
“… … I wondered where on the island the water overflowed so abundantly, and now I know.”
Chester saw that and nodded, and Monia looked that way.
“Right, haven’t you taught Monia about filtration yet?”
“What is filtration?”
“To make dirty water clean by filtering it through pebbles and soil. If you’re in a hurry, you can get some water to drink with it.”
“really?”
“really.”
“I can’t believe Chester says he drinks his urine when he’s in a hurry.”
“Can you really drink pee? However, only drinking once when you are in a hurry. You can’t live by using it as drinking water. Also, if you are sick or if you have thick urine because you didn’t drink enough water the day before, don’t drink it.”
“I don’t want to know that perverted urine knowledge, but I’m curious about the island’s water source.”
“Rice, pervert… … . Great.”
After clearing his throat once, Chester pointed to the lake and said,
“This is sea water.”
“yes? You can’t drink sea water.”
“Hana, did I tell you about filtration? And two, why is there such a difference between sea level and the height of this lake?”
“… … .”
Monia thought for a moment and nodded her head.
“Is the sea water being absorbed by the island and being sucked up to the height? And in the process, the salt mixed with the seawater is filtered and turned into fresh water.”
“right. By the way, do you see it over there? The grace of the top that sticks close to the wall.”
“yes. That’s right. In the process of being filtered, the sea water turns into fresh water, and the grace of the top melts into it, making it gracious water.”
gracious water. This is what Monia calls the water that glows blue under the influence of the grace of the top.
Chester asked if it could be just blue water, but Monia said how could such water be called that, and called it gracious water, saying it was another lifeline for us.
Chester knows. Sometimes at night, whenever I wake up because the bed is uncomfortable, Monia bows down to the pot of grace and graceful water at the top, prays, and relieves anxiety in my heart.
“But what does shark taste like?”
“I don’t know either. Wouldn’t Monia have more opportunities to eat sharks than I do?”
“Ugh. Well? Maybe I’ve eaten before without even knowing… … ? I do not know.”
After looking around the top for a while, the two headed towards the cave that the Black Wind was using as their home.
At the entrance of the cave, there is a picture drawn by the black wind, and around it are piles of gifts collected by the people at the top for their soon-to-be-born children.
Chester and Monia, who couldn’t prepare gifts because they came straight the day after they were told they had to go to see the baby’s birth, tried to prepare gifts, but the little old man who greeted them told them it was okay.
The people at the top were given a gift that would never happen again, the little sun, so there was no need for anything else.
You can tell by the fact that Chester and Monia try to move to prepare their presents separately, or that they look around the top instead of sticking next to the Black Wind.
It was not yet time for the baby of the Black Wind to be born.
She feels that the baby inside her belly is actively moving, so it looks like she will give birth soon, but she says she hasn’t come out yet.
‘Does he know how vigorously he will come out soon?’
No matter how strong creatures are, they are weak when they are babies, so what are they? Chester had some doubts about it, but decided not to worry too much about it.
The world is wide. Chester was confident that he wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere in the world there was a creature with immortality that was only told in legends, or a creature that would not die if its body was cut in half, but would grow two new creatures from two halves.
Of course, you might be surprised if such a monstrous creature appears in front of you and threatens you directly with fangs and claws. In fact, I was surprised by the huge creatures like the monster upstairs.
“When will the baby be born?”
Monia seems to be really looking forward to the birth of her baby. He made this sound every time he came to the house of the black wind.
The black wind looked at his wife patiently, then glanced at the two people who came nearby, then turned his gaze back to his wife. After meeting and greeting the first time, the black wind skipped greeting the two and focused only on his wife like this.
Chester and Monia also sat around, making as little noise as possible. Then, carefully look at the wife of the black wind, who is receiving the magic of easy childbirth from the magician.
On the body, hieroglyphs with the meaning of wishing for good luck, blessing, safe delivery, baby, health, etc. were drawn, and various plants growing on the top were plucked and put together and burned to create smoke.
The shaman’s disciples are diligently going back and forth between the Black Wind House and the outside, picking up plants.
The ceiling of the cave is full of smoke from burning plants all the time, but the smoke from the ceiling is quickly escaping, so there was no difficulty in breathing.
‘Amazing.’
And Chester was surprised by the idea of those who were already thinking of using fire magic, even though he had not long since passed on fire.
“Chester, Chester. Isn’t the wind a pretty wife?”
“is it? I think people at the top look the same whether they’re male or female… … .”
“That’s rude.”
“but. Maybe they can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman?”
“Your hair is shiny! In addition, her eyes are bright, and her hands and feet are bigger than other women.”
“Oh, that part must be pretty to them. Because their hands and feet are important organs.”
Just as humans in the past made women with big buttocks beautiful because they gave birth well, just as other animals boast that they have developed parts necessary for survival or hunting as an attraction to the opposite sex, the important parts of that creature are big and strong. is a good thing to see first.
While the two of them were talking in a low voice, the wife of the black wind suddenly began to stir her arms and legs violently.
– Tae, born!
The black wind, which caught her hair in the grip of the wife’s claws, screamed like a scream, and all the people at the top who heard the news of the baby’s birth gathered and began to mutter words like a sorcerer.