92 – Upstairs (4)

The water is gone.

To explain the circumstances a little more accurately so that we can easily understand this sudden reality, the well-connected waterway has permeated into the ground and disappeared without realizing it.

“Now what?”

“Originally, water flows under the ground.”

Chester said as he looked at the water that was just beginning to spring from the ground.

“There must be a source somewhere. The water that was there came out from under the ground and came out here.”

If so, you should be able to find a source somewhere.

“Perhaps Ant can find it.”

Ant was already tracking the water by smelling it when it disappeared underground.

I don’t know how deep the groundwater flows, but it probably doesn’t flow that deep, seeing as the clever Ant doesn’t give up and continues to search for the smell.

But there was one problem.

“You mean you can’t escape if there’s no water right next to you?”

“right.”

As long as the water supply is cut off, the method of buying time with red pepper powder bombs and escaping on a cushion raft in a crisis situation is no longer useful.

“What do you want to do?”

Chester asked Monia.

“… … .”

Monia looked at Chester’s legs.

His injured right leg was trembling, as if he had worked so hard to get to the tall, strong grass.

Chester has tried to hide the pain in his legs as much as he can this far, but his legs are probably already at their limit.

“Keep going.”

If this is the beginning of a stream, there must be a water source where this stream started.

The mysterious water that Chester is looking for that makes plants grow faster and heals wounds faster.

‘I’m sure you can find mysterious water that is thicker than any other place in Suwon, right?’

Besides, it seemed reckless to go back the way you came to Chester’s Bridge, go to the fork in the stream, and walk again along the stream on that rugged mountain pass.

“Keep going. See, Ant smelled it too.”

Ant had stopped sniffing for a moment and was looking at the two.

“I’m sure the one you’re looking for is not far away.”

It’s only hopeful, but let’s believe that and give strength.

Monia said, holding Chester’s hand tightly.

“If your legs get tired, I will support them.”

“… … .”

Saying that, Chester smiled slightly as he saw Monia sticking close to his right.

“thanks.”

The two of them walked side by side, following Ant’s small, twitching buttocks in the lead.

How long had I walked, I found a moderately good spot while walking on the road.

I saw a moderately flat ground under a large rock soaring high, so I decided to rest after making a soft floor with a lot of bushes on it.

I am happy whenever I find a place where I can rest properly like this.

There is no need to go around looking for materials to build a house and spend all your energy.

After making the house, Chester and Monia built two campfires and brought a large log to cover the campfire.

The bonfire spread thinly on the logs and starts to burn slowly.

“If you do this, you’ll be able to ride all night, and the beasts will also block it.”

Beasts are afraid of fire.

Of course, there are animals that approach fire with curiosity.

Chester, who recalled the huge monster he had seen not long ago, prepared himself a bit more in case he didn’t know, and then walked all the way here with Monia and Ant, ate the food he had found, and went to sleep.

* * *

The island owners have a custom.

For a person, the so-called coming-of-age ceremony was a custom to recognize him as one of the warriors if he did it successfully.

Those who fail are given the job of raising crops or livestock, and those who succeed become one of the great warriors who manage the island.

And the custom is to survive until the 31st sun rises and the 30th sun sets by yourself on the ‘upstairs’.

If you survive until the last 31st sun rises, you will be recognized as one of the great warriors.

The owners of the island know.

The reason they can rule the island is the power of numbers more than anything else.

Of course, their other weapon is also very powerful, but compared to the number, it can be said that it is weak.

Sometimes the owner of a weak island can’t stand the harshness of the upper floor and goes downstairs, but… … .

At least the owner of the island, who had come downstairs to perform the warrior’s ritual this time, was more confident than anyone else in performing the ritual perfectly.

It was he, not the other warriors, who dealt with the ‘strange creature that clumsily resembled them’ that had risen to the top a while ago.

I am an excellent fighter!

The reason why the boss scolded him for not being careful after that was because he was jealous of his ability to easily do what the boss couldn’t do!

Such confidence filled the young owner of the island.

When ten days had passed since I came downstairs like that.

The young island owner experienced death.

– Krukreuk… !

This is because the rhino, who was nervous about being invaded while moving near the rhino without thinking, rushed at it.

The sight of the rhinoceros rushing forward while lightly crushing a tree was terrifying.

The young owner of the island, frozen in fear and unable to escape, was blown away by the rush, and endured upstairs, trembling with the fear planted deep inside him.

different.

The upstairs he came down with the warriors and the one he came down alone were very different.

When he came down in groups, only the animals were terrified, but when he came down alone, all the animals were eager to hunt him down.

The young island owner realized that upstairs could be so frightening.

Realizing that, the young island owner behaved prudently, taking the shiny objects obtained from killing ‘creatures that vaguely resemble them’ as a talisman.

Hide yourself, don’t approach what you don’t know, and rely on the ‘second weapon’ as much as possible to solve it, whether it’s hunting or fighting.

One day while doing that, I came downstairs and on the fourteenth morning.

The young owner of the island newly discovered a creature that vaguely resembles them.

Of course, many things were different.

They were large and healthy, unlike those that had almost no meat, looked like they were about to die, and were so miserable that they were suspicious of illness.

Is it male and female?

The big one must be a female and the small one a male, thought the young island owner.

Most creatures do.

However, it wasn’t long before he realized that he was wrong when he saw a creature presumed to be female taking off her fur and relaxing in the river. Judging by the sturdy ones, the bigger one was the male.

Then, the smaller ones are not males who only gained weight in certain areas, but females, so they would have that body type.

The young owner of the island observed and watched them, calling them big and small.

catching fish.

She brought things around and made something, then fell asleep under it.

They also saw how they raised and used creatures different from themselves.

The more they looked, the more they resembled themselves, but it was clear that there was a crucial difference.

they are too weak

It’s so weak that it’s hard to believe that they resemble them.

Perhaps, they are the offspring of his own people who failed in the warrior ritual and disappeared to the lower levels of the island and never returned.

Isn’t it that he became like that because he became weaker and weaker as descendants were born among weaker people?

Chester’s bearskin suit… The young island owner, convinced by the black fur that they were related, guessed so.

– Unfortunately.

To be born so weak, it must have been difficult to live.

Although they are similar to each other, they look so different, but the owner of the young island, who had suffered greatly from being attacked by a rhino, sympathized with them.

May good luck come to them.

In that sense, the young master of the island came close to them for the first time on the nineteenth night.

They make something shiny and then hide behind it to sleep.

Seeing them, the young island owner tossed his trophy, the glittering amulet, at their feet and looked at the ‘sparkle’ they had made.

If he had known that the twinkle was fire, he would not have approached it, but the owner of the young island, who did not know about fire, recklessly touched the twinkle.

– Meee!!

I was startled by the heat I felt for the first time in my life and ran away screaming.

Then, the young island owner realized.

Even the weakest creatures have deadly weapons,

* * *

“… … .”

The next morning, Chester woke up and looked at the object at his feet.

“Monia.”

Then he scratched his itchy cheek and asked.

“What does this look like?”

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Likewise, Monia, who had woken up and still had sleepy eyes, saw the object Chester pointed at.

“lighter… I guess.”

“right?”

“Yes.”

“Why is this?”

“well?”

Why the hell is this at their feet?

“Has the man who lost the machete lost this too?”

“Oh, right. Obviously there were people here too. I forgot.”

Monia picked up a lighter and examined it.

“Did you leave it on purpose?”

“Things like that happen, too. I can see human footprints around me. I don’t know who this guy is, but he looks like he’s barefoot?”

“Oh, you are a good person.”

Monia looked at the lighter and laughed.

“Seeing that you gave this to me, you seem to be alive and well even after losing your machete, so I would like to say hello.”

“Yeah. He’s a good person. I would love to meet you.”

Chester and Monia laughed hahahahahoho while trying to guess who or what kind of ‘good guy’ they gave the lighter to.

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