174 – To the farther sea (1)
It was easier to find traces of living things on a long island with less nature than a wandering island, where the traces were covered with constantly pouring leaves.
To some extent, even Monia, who had difficulty finding traces on the floating island, could easily find traces here.
Monia, who quietly ran through the forest chasing the trail, took out an arrow from her mouth and put it on a string when the trail seemed to be getting closer.
‘I can hear it.’
As expected, as he cleared the bushes, he saw a rabbit grazing and guarding his surroundings.
‘It’s a little bigger than a rabbit on the island.’
The rabbits on the island were so small that even Monia would not be full after eating one. Of course, for Monia of the past, that amount could be considered a decent meal, but it was not enough for Monia, who worked hard every day walking around the forest and sweating hard.
However, the rabbit in front of me was quite large, and there was a lot of flesh on top of it.
Monia carefully drew her bowstring toward the rabbit and quietly took a breath.
The rabbit is wary of its surroundings, but does not see Monia, who is far away. So, Monia was relieved and relaxed, aiming at the rabbit and letting go when it was in the most stable state.
The moment the bowstring was released, the arrow shot by Monia was sucked into the rabbit’s body.
The arrow pierced the rabbit as it was, and the rabbit that was struck by the arrow rolled back and forth, unable to overcome the power contained in the arrow.
It struggles in pain, but struggles unable to move due to the shock of being pierced by an arrow. Monia cautiously approached the motionless hare, raised her club and hit the hare on the head.
Wow!
When Monia lifted up the stretched rabbit and boasted about it to Chester, who followed, Chester laughed and praised Monia.
“good job.”
“It was easy!”
“Everything becomes easier when you get used to it. But just because it’s easy doesn’t make a mistake.”
“yes!”
Chester pointed somewhere while praising Monia. Then Rex quickly picked up a stone and threw it in the direction Chester pointed, and something that hit it made a sharp sound.
Approaching it, another rabbit had been hit with a stone and was lying with its legs broken.
After grabbing the rabbit’s neck and giving it strength, Chester crumbled the neck bone like a biscuit and took the rabbit.
“Good. I was worried that my senses might have become too dull on the island, but I think my senses have become sharper while living on the island.”
Monia, who lived on the floating island, becomes an excellent hunter here. Of course, Chester, who was originally an excellent hunter and trained as a wandering island, was achieving a higher level than that.
After hunting two rabbits, the family ate a simple meal with the two rabbits, and then looked at the shore where the boat Chester had found was in earnest.
Should I say it as Chester expected, there were many traces of people’s hands remaining on the shore, even though it seemed to be neglected quite a bit.
Starting with the traces of bonfires everywhere, there were traces of maintenance on the beach artificially by human hands as well as simple tools. It was probably to make it easier to dock the ship.
First of all, there were several boats on the beach that were left wrecked for various reasons.
Ships abandoned because the voyage was rough and the fatal part was broken and the ship could not be repaired and returned again.
Chester began carefully examining those ships.
Some of the boats were left undiscovered by the owner because they were in a corner, and there were decorations and sculptures that allowed us to guess the culture of the people who used this boat. And.
“It’s sand.”
“Why sand? Sand is everywhere.”
“The sand on this beach is white and coarse. But look, these sands are yellow and the grain is very fine.”
Chester scooped up some sand and held it in his hand. Then, through the gap between Chester’s hands, the sand gently falls down. Its appearance reminded me of water that could not be captured.
“The sand of the desert. And here.”
Chester pointed to the remaining pieces of the ship.
“Warriors riding huge lizards are depicted. is this a cactus? The warriors’ hair looks like a scorpion’s tail. They seem to be a tribe that regards themselves as scorpions.”
Among the objects Chester found was a necklace made of dry bones and a scorpion-shaped bracelet accessory.
“There are trees in the desert?”
“Even if there are trees, they will be rare. Look, isn’t the color a bit different here?”
After watching that part for a while, Monia noticed something and nodded.
“This is blood.”
“yes. He probably killed the sailor who wrecked the ship. A boat made of precious wood. In addition, the actions of those who go out to sea and hunt. The ship must be their lifeline. I killed him because I couldn’t forgive the man who dared to destroy that precious ship.”
Chester studied the bloodstains on his stomach for a moment, then looked around, then looked in one direction.
“Is it around here? It would have been covered in sand anyway, so it wouldn’t be that deep.”
“what?”
Chester took a stick and prodded it around, then dug into the sand around it when he felt something break at the end of the stick.
Then, buried under the sand, a skull with a part of the eyeball shattered by Chester’s violently poking around is revealed.
‘It’s a primitive tribe.’
There are signs of ‘surgery’ on the skull. Chester saw the mark carved into part of the skull. It was probably carved by cutting off the skull after peeling off the scalp to ward off some disease.
‘The cut surface is rough.’
The next thing I looked at was the sign of the neck being cut. The cut surface may have become rough from being scratched by sand for a long time, but there were traces of being smashed more fundamentally.
‘At least it doesn’t seem like the tribe has a sword that’s good enough for decapitation. It shows signs of attempting to decapitate several times.’
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Looking at the scars left on his neck, Chester reasoned about the lives of the tribes living in the desert beyond the sea, which he did not yet know.
‘Is there still cannibalism?’
What worries me the most is that.
If there is no cannibalism, even outsiders are not immediately rejected.
Foreigners who can pass on knowledge and skills they do not know are valuable guests. If you treat them well, treat them, but don’t kill them.
However, if it was a lack of cannibalism, the reason was different. Of course, even if there is a lack of cannibals, they will not try to eat people if they see them unconditionally.
‘Although sometimes there are closed tribes that try to kill everyone when they see outsiders.’
At least they weren’t.
Whether it was a cannibal tribe or not, they exchanged so much that they were taught the ‘ship-building technique’ from outsiders.
Chester looked at the only human piece whose hair didn’t form a scorpion shape, making a belly and saying something with its mouth.
Perhaps, it was the piece that actually taught me how to build a boat while building it.
‘I hope it’s not a cannibal tribe.’
At least none of the pieces left on the ship suggested cannibalism.
Even if it’s a cannibal tribe, if you communicate well, you’ll be able to pass it without incident. However, at the same time, you have to take the risk that they may be provoked in some way and rush to eat them.
‘I’d rather not meet them.’
I wanted to let Monia experience the world and see a lot of beautiful things, but I didn’t want to let her experience interacting with primitive people who had to take the risk of being a cannibal tribe.
‘Because not all primitive tribes are like the top people.’
The people at the top were surprisingly classy and intelligent for their level of culture. Of course, since they revere strong men and hunting, they often show outrageous behavior by trying to fight each other and even destroying the surroundings, but they accepted them as family, so they could easily turn a blind eye to such shortcomings.
“There is no further information to come.”
Chester said after explaining the information he had deduced to his family.
“I don’t think it’s good to go in that direction unless you know how wide the desert is, how about it?”
“But even if you go to another place, you don’t know if a continent will appear or not.”
“Well. That’s right.”
“In addition, if you go to the desert, you may or may not meet the tribe unconditionally, and if you can make trees there, doesn’t that mean there is enough water to grow trees?”
As Monia continued, Chester smiled and nodded in satisfaction.
Monia was hesitant because she didn’t want to leave the island, but when she started coming out of the island, she was about to move forward without hesitation.
Just as Chester taught.
Make your decision carefully. act boldly.
In this situation, they have three ways to go.
Back on the floating island. Taking a boat and going to the desert land. Or to continue living a drifting life that never ends.
If you decide to settle on an elongated island, there are four paths, but Chester and Monia also have a much better option called the Wandering Island, but since you can’t choose it, it’s as good as no option.
“let’s go.”
Monia said.
“Let’s move on. Since the journey has already begun, let’s continue without stopping.”
At Monia’s words, Chester nodded.
“Okay, let’s go.”
They carried the raft that had been anchored on the other side of the island to the beach by sea, and after spending a day on the island, they started heading in the same direction Rex had seen the boat that had settled on the island go.
to the farther sea.