175 – To the Farther Sea (2)
When we started counting from the day we left the floating island, excluding the fact that we landed on a long island in the middle, it had been almost three days since Monia had been living on the boat.
There are some difficulties with living on a boat.
First, the hot sun and salty sea breeze. Because of these two unavoidable natural circumstances, even when I was still, my skin was cracked and cracked, causing soreness and pain.
Next, lack of fire.
Firewood is not easily available in the front yard of the house as it was on the island, so fire should be saved unless it is absolutely necessary.
I cut down trees on the long island to get firewood, but I couldn’t consume it by smoking it on the sea.
The third difficulty is the lack of water.
At first glance, it will sound like a funny story. Water is scarce in a sea where you can see only water in all directions. But this was the truth.
If you drink sea water, you will be dehydrated. The more you drink, the more you get thirsty and the water disappears from your body. That’s why you can’t drink this water that overflows wherever you look.
They can withstand the lack of fire, the scorching sun and salty winds that plague them. But the lack of water is unbearable.
So Chester wanted to solve this problem first before leaving the long island. However, even the grace of the top could not remove the saltiness of the sea water.
The saltiness of seawater is not a bad factor. If salt was a bad element, Grace at the top would have removed all salt from Chester and Monia’s body when it entered them.
“Let’s drink fish.”
“what?”
When Chester made that noise while resting in the shade with a simple awning, Monia thought Chester was crazy for a moment.
What is the person saying now, who said that we should refrain from exercising and lie down because our body can’t get enough water?
“You can drink fish.”
“Crazy?”
Chester spoke again, and finally Monia spoke up.
“Ah, I misunderstood.”
“right? I thought you were crazy and worried.”
“You can squeeze the fish and drink it.”
“… … .”
“really.”
Chester stood up quickly, raised his harpoon, and looked out over the sea. The moment he sees a fish swimming under the water, he throws a harpoon by predicting the refraction of light and the movement of the fish.
Having pierced the fish with one stroke, Chester grabbed the rampaging fish, suppressed the rampaging with force, and brought his mouth to the fish’s backbone.
Wood deok!
Strongly bites the backbone of the fish. Then, he began to drink the juice that came out of the part he had bitten off.
When he had finished, he bit off another part of the backbone, crushed it, drank the juice, and then repeated it over all the backbones of the fish, then took out a knife, took out the fish’s eyeball, and ate it.
“I heard from my father, um. Poop.”
Chester spit out the sucked eyeball and continued, bringing the knife to the other eyeball.
“It’s best not to eat anywhere except around the backbone and around the eyes. Peck.”
“Why?”
“Is it because there is a mixture of fat that more water is used for digestion than drinking water? Twi.”
Chester looked at the corpse of a fish with all its backs crushed and its eyes missing, and threw it into the sea.
“oh. Too bad.”
“It’s a pity, but in an environment like this, it will go bad quickly and you won’t be able to eat it. We drink less water, so what we eat is fatal.”
When you eat something and digest it, water is consumed.
But now the Chesters were still perspiring from the scorching sun, although they were covered with awnings.
“It would be nice to stop sweating a bit.”
“The awning doesn’t mean much.”
“Yeah.”
Every time the ship moves, the angle of the sunlight changes, so sometimes the sunshade completely covers the sunlight, but other times the sunshade penetrates the angle at which the sunshade cannot cover the sky.
Chester and Monia, Rex and Ant said that they should do something about this heat by catching fish for a while, sucking out their moisture and eyeballs like vampires sucking human blood, and then throwing them away.
“It was like that when I was walking on the plains in Wandering Island, but the lack of shade to hide it is too big.”
“right. Even the tolerable level of heat becomes unbearable simply because there is no shade.”
In addition, the ship was rumbling all the time, and the heat overlapped, causing motion sickness, headaches, and vomiting.
Chester said that if nothing else, the vomiting should be stopped. When you vomit, you lose a lot of water. If it was serious, dehydration could come at once.
Fortunately, after floating on the boat for a long time, the risk of vomiting naturally decreased as I got used to seasickness.
“The sea water is so cool.”
“Yeah. … … .”
Inevitably, Chester and Monia were cooling themselves by dipping their bare feet into the sea to cool them.
Put your feet in the sea to cool off, and when you feel your body has cooled down to some extent, take your feet out and dry the seawater, then when it gets hot, put your feet in the sea again to cool off… … . repeat
At first, they did that, but as they grew more and more intolerable, they began to cool themselves off from the heat by soaking their clothes in water and putting them on.
Fortunately, the sea was cold even under the hot sun, so I was able to quickly cool myself in this way, and even after the sea water dried up, I was able to stay cool by receiving the power of the shade for a while under the awning.
Of course, the salt all over the body caused a rash, and as I said, the skin cracked and hurt, but Chester and Monia solved this problem very well.
It is the almighty answer obtained on the floating island, the grace of the top.
No amount of grace from the top had the power to change seawater into drinkable fresh water, but it could heal a rash or blistered wound on the skin.
“Huh.”
As Monia lay down, Chester held the top boon in both hands and carefully rubbed the top boon all over Monia’s body to heal the rashes and sores on her body.
As Eunhye of the top caresses the skin, the itchy, stinging and painful wounds disappear along with the feeling of being refreshed.
After Monia’s treatment, Chester is next.
Monia eagerly held the grace of the top and carefully rubbed it on Chester’s skin so as not to hurt him.
“Even if you don’t dissolve your strength in water, it works well.”
“Among the stones, there are stones that stop blood and speed up healing when rubbed on a wound, so it’s not unusual.”
“really?”
“really. Ah, well, it’s not a serious wound, it’s really only effective for a little bit, a scratch.”
After the process of restoring the skin by massaging the whole body with the grace of the top is finished, the clothes are again soaked in seawater to cool off.
Chester and Monia were slowly getting used to living on the sea like that.
* * *
During the day, the sea is dazzlingly beautiful and blue like a jewel, but when the sun goes down and the moon rises, the sea reveals a completely different look.
It reveals the dark and terrible side of it, like pitch black, where everything is sucked in and disappears into darkness.
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Looking at the pitch-black sea on a large boat is difficult, but what about on a raft waving in the waves?
After anchoring the raft to keep it from being swept far away by the waves, Monia decided to sleep on the raft, but for some reason she couldn’t fall asleep while looking at the darkly swaying sea.
Fear is felt strongly.
The black sea sometimes reminded her of Monia’s father, the eyes of a peacock, or the captain of a ship he didn’t even know the name of which was strangely obsessed with him.
When I look at it, fearful things come to mind.
Occasionally, beautiful stars and the moon reflected in the sea, embroidering the night sky on the surface of the sea, giving a spectacular view, but even that was only for a short time.
Monia stared at her face reflected in the sea surface.
Monia, who had no expression and her eyes were stained black, seemed to be seeing her old self.
She had no self-consciousness, and was just a doll that could move as the Duke wanted.
Obviously, the past is now okay, but why is it that the past comes up anew and becomes painful?
While thinking that the human mind is really complicated, Monia suddenly heard Chester breathing.
‘Aren’t you sleeping?’
Chester’s breathing came in every day. I could tell whether he was sleeping or not without looking at him.
Turning to look at Chester, Monia saw Chester pretending to sleep with her eyes closed.
‘He said that sometimes.’
When there was something to think about, Chester used to act like that.
Pretending to be asleep, doing nothing until you fall asleep, just thinking about it.
Chester, who usually thought deeply about something and finished many tasks, but when there was something he really needed to think deeply about, he didn’t do anything.
‘Are you worried about the natives who live out there?’
If Monia was stronger, there would be no reason to worry.
Feeling apologetic, Monia squirmed closer to Chester, then pounced on Chester like a cat and beast attacking its prey, crushing him from above.
“… … Monia?”
Embarrassed Chester called out to himself with his eyes closed, and Monia smiled coquettishly, lowered herself, pressed herself closely to Chester, and kissed him on the lips.
“It’s not good to worry too much, is it?”
Monia whispered in Chester’s ear as she put her hand down and gently caressed Chester’s precious body.
“Let’s pour it all out and cool off.”
* * *
“Oooh!”
“So don’t overdo it.”
Chester patted Monia on the back so that Monia, who had been hit hard by the rocking of the raft along with the unusually vigorous up-and-down movement, could end her vomiting quickly.