178 – Great Wind (1)
Suddenly feeling that her body was very hot, Monia slowly opened her eyes and looked around.
And when he noticed that he was lying on a cot made by splitting and spreading logs, the remains of a raft, he lowered his gaze and saw a terrifying grain of sand that seemed like it would cook his skin just by touching it.
‘Oh, I think I’ve seen something similar before.’
Have you just been abandoned on a floating island, lying on the beach and dragged by Chester? With that thought in mind, Monia rolled over and tried to get up from her seat. However, at the same time, a tremendous sting hit his skin, and he shrank in surprise.
“What, what?!”
“Woke up?”
Hearing Chester’s voice, I looked over and saw Chester lying under the shade of a tree, fanning leaves toward the fallen family.
Seeing that, Monia hurriedly tried to get up, but her body, exhausted from fighting the storm, was exhausted and collapsed again.
The collapsed body touched the sandy field, and Monia, surprised by the heat incomparable to the sand of the floating island, jumped up again.
“Kyaaa! It’s hot!”
“yes. As I expected, this continent is a desert.”
Chester spoke calmly, but did not say that this desert was the land of immortal gold.
“The desert is beautiful because the grains of sand glitter like gold.”
“yes. Yeah. ha ha ha. It’s pretty, isn’t it?”
“… … What are you hiding?”
“Why are you saying that?”
“Tell me honestly.”
Monia took the grace of the top and rubbed her sore skin with the grace of the top.
Then he glared at Chester.
“… … Come on, let’s go through the desert. Which direction would you prefer to go? I don’t know the way, so I knocked down a wooden stick… … .”
“Hey!”
“Actually, I was planning to wait and find my way by looking at the stars in the sky at night.”
“Where are you!”
Chester, who kept talking, suddenly realized.
‘Ah, that’s why my father always gets scolded by my mother!’
When I was young, I saw my father get scolded, and later learned not to do that, but Chester, impressed by realizing that he was acting similar to his father, decided to be honest and reveal the truth.
“It’s called the Golden Land of Immortality, it’s one of the Demonic Realms… … .”
“… … !!”
demon scene.
At the same time, the desert.
Even Monia, who doesn’t know the desert well, knows how harsh it is. How harsh the environment would have been, no one would have brought anything tasty or valuable from the desert to give to them!
It’s such a desert, but it’s even a demonic realm!
‘How can I live?!’
Monia, who had been stained by Chester, thought so involuntarily while despairing.
However, the knowledge that Monia possesses is all that Chester passed on according to the wandering island. In other words, nothing to do with the desert.
However, Monia has learned another thing. Once you know something, you can apply it and use it someday.
And one of the things Monia learned was that ‘plants become water’.
“I need to find a wet ground first!”
“yes. It would be nice to find an oasis, but if you find some damp ground and dig it up, there will be water inside.”
Of course, Chester remembered that, and while Monia was collapsing from exhaustion, she had finished observing her surroundings.
“Wait a minute.”
After Chester briefly explained the surroundings, Monia, who dried Chester for a moment, climbed up the tree, looked around, took out a notebook, and quickly began drawing a map.
The experience of carving a map of a floating island on leather with a knife helped in this place. Monia quickly moved her pen to draw an easily recognizable and appropriate map before descending.
After a while, Chester and Monia looked at the map Monia had drawn, then observed the surroundings again, filled in the missing parts, and quickly made a detailed map.
At the same time, preparations were made to make drinking water for drinking until nightfall.
Making drinking water is simple. First, a deep pit is made in the ground, and then the pit is filled with seawater. Next, put a cup or water bottle in the middle to cover the top of the pit.
At this time, it is good to cover the pit with a cloth that does not absorb water. It wouldn’t have made any sense if Chester and Monia were sails made of plant fibers, but it’s okay because they used spare sails for large sailboats.
Finally, the area around the sail covering the pit is pressed with sand and stones to prevent it from being blown away by the wind, and then a stone is placed in the center of the pit.
Then, over time, the evaporated sea water is blocked by the sail and pooled, and the pooled water droplets flow along the slope created by the stone pressed in the center of the sail, and then gather in the center and fall.
Not knowing how much water the jug would hold, but hoping to collect as much as possible, Chester and Monia dug a hole where they could make a sail and set it up.
“You draw maps well.”
“Hooheung.”
When Chester praised the map, Monia stretched out her chest and laughed.
Chester learns from his father, omits so much that only he can barely recognize it, and writes only symbolic pictures, so people won’t recognize him unless he educates him. All you can think about is the level of wanting an earthworm to crawl out.
On the other hand, Monia’s map was neat. In addition, if there is a characteristic tree or rock somewhere in the terrain, I wrote it down and its name so that it could be known, and I wrote a brief description of the surroundings around it so that I could know the surrounding information at once.
“Wouldn’t it be better to go in that direction since there will be a lot of water where the plants are?”
“yes. But first, figure out the approximate direction.”
“That? how?”
“There are some stars in the sky whose position does not change. By looking at it, you can understand the east, west, south, and north.”
Chester looked up at the sky and said.
“I would like to go north if possible.”
“North? Why?”
The Golden Land of Immortality is a place on a distant continent southwest of the continent where the kingdom is located. If you go north and catch a boat in the port, you will be able to go to the continent where the kingdom is located.
“From here north leads to the kingdom.”
“… … I see.”
“Even if the anger disappears, even if it weakens, but you should actually go to the kingdom and draw conclusions to your heart as well, right?”
“… … yes. Since I came from the island, I think that would be good.”
Monia nodded and tore off the jerky.
“Then let’s go north!”
As the two decided, Rex and Ant, who had fallen asleep, began to come to their senses.
* * *
“Rex holds up to the heat better than I thought.”
“Yeah? Ants are all about to die.”
Monia gently shook the Ant she was holding in her arms. Ant was about to die of steam due to the heat of the desert. Originally, ant wolves are active only when it is cooler and live underground when it is extremely cold or hot, so they are weak against both cold and heat.
On the other hand, the people at the top were different.
They live on the island whether it’s cold or hot. As always, hunt and gather food. When it gets too cold, the amount of activity decreases because the prey decreases. If there were many prey even when it was cold, there would be no change in activity.
While Ant fights the heat and Rex sees the mysterious desert shining in golden light and accepts his rampage, he steadily digs a hole to get water.
And Chester listened to the story of the desert written in the travelogue he had read.
“It is said that a colleague who vomited out all the water in his body due to the heat eventually died.”
“The heat is worse than I thought.”
“I’m scared.”
“I heard that white clothes are cooler than black clothes. So, bring your white clothes and wear them.”
“yes.”
While talking about the desert, prepare to move on to the desert.
“Among the ways to beat the heat, you wet a cloth with urine and put it on your head?”
“uh? What is that. pee is dirty Aren’t bad things going through your skin?”
“As water evaporates, the evaporated part becomes cool. You used that.”
“If I really can’t, then I should.”
After a while, the sun went down, the heat dissipated, and the terrifyingly cold desert night began.
Monia, Rex, and Ant, as well as Chester, who had only heard that the day and night in the desert are vastly different, were surprised by the weather that had changed so much from before.
“It’s almost winter, isn’t it?”
“Mi, I’m going crazy. Put some clothes on.”
Chester and Monia, who hurriedly got dressed and took out buckets of water from the pit, replenished their hydration and started to wander around the desert.
The Golden Land of Immortality is a desert with few rocks and lots of sand, so it was not easy to walk because every time you took a step, your legs were soaked in sand.
How long did you have to walk in the desert looking at the stars in the sky?
“what?”
“Is it fire?”
Chester and Monia see a village burning in the distance.