Pirate: Reincarnated as a Black Charcoal Orochi

At dusk, just like those days in the past, Enelu, who had worked hard all day, was finally able to sit down and rest for a while.

Putting down the recently made backpack, the rough skin on the back has been pricked with many fine blood spots by the burrs of the new backpack.

Because we are walking in a forest that has not been developed by humans, collecting tree fruits inevitably requires strenuous movements of climbing up and down. Apart from these tiny spots, Ainilu's entire back is marked with a ferocious bloody mouth. There are also many scars.

But this kind of injury that makes people feel painful just looking at it is just a common occurrence for Enelu.

A guy who needs to struggle alone in this world doesn't have much time to spend on meaningless sighs.

He casually picked up a handful of dry leaves, which were used as mattresses, and covered the piles of fruits stacked in the backpack for preservation.

Enelu reached out and groped gently in the dim tree hole again, and after a moment he successfully found a jug of water that he had stored here in advance.

Although what is inside is not a panacea for surgical injuries.

But the spring water itself, which comes from the grace of the clouds, is far purer than the Qinghai Sea.

Use it to clean your stinging back and soles, which will at least help you recover faster.

This is the secret of survival that Enelu summed up based on his own experience during his long life alone.

"Phew, today finally ended successfully."

At some point, Enelu had developed the habit of talking to himself.

Obviously we are on the edge of a forest full of dangers. This method of making abnormal noises is likely to attract some snakes that rely on vibrations to find food, or beasts that are very sensitive to human sounds.

To be honest, developing such a habit is not a good thing for Enelu who spends most of his time in the forest.

But no matter how "harmful and useless" this habit is to survival, Enelu has no intention of changing it.

Although there is no special meaning in doing so, it will not bring any additional benefits.

But human beings are different from other ferocious beasts that can stand on their own power and hunt from birth.

After excluding beings with extraordinary talents like "big mom", most ordinary humans are not only weak in body, but also have the ability to give birth to a soul, which is the only intelligence that humans can surpass those ferocious beasts. Side effects of things.

Although talking to oneself is not beneficial to survival, it is crucial to maintaining the existence of the personality of "Enilu".

"...The water stored before should be able to continue to be used for about two days. There are about 300 tree fruits collected today and yesterday.

However, the ripening stage of these tree fruits is approaching recently. If they are separated from the branches, these ripening tree fruits may not last long.

Even if it's a bit troublesome, we still have to find a way to exchange them for some bread as soon as possible. "

In addition to the bread used to satisfy hunger, there are still many necessities that humans need to maintain life in Enero.

Protein can be obtained from occasionally found bird eggs and small animals that fall into pits. Vitamins and minerals can also be supplied from their internal organs, fresh tree fruits and wild beans.

But starch and salt, which are crucial to humans, are not so easy to obtain for Enel, which is at the bottom of the food chain.

The salt may also be captured by the powerful sky-island mammals, who use bone knives to scrape a little bit of seawater intercepted by the island clouds that act as filters on their territory while they are out foraging for food. .

However, in order to maintain the starch necessary for physical fitness, Eneluk, who lives on the edge of the forest, has no way to be self-sufficient.

“…The last time I had bread was four or five days ago, and the money I get back from selling tree fruits in the market is getting less and less recently.

Although there are more people willing to buy tree fruits from me, the price of tree fruits is getting cheaper and cheaper.

If this continues, I will harvest all the fruits from the nearby trees, and it will still not be enough for living..."

The specific reason seems to be that the crops on the island have recently withered a lot due to an irresponsible guy. Even the land purchased at a high price from Bika has become sour due to the farmer's negligence.

As I heard from people in the market when I happened to pass by Elnilu, the scholars in the town were all discussing:

It must be the farmer on duty who was later sentenced to "Yunfuliu", who did something unforgivable to the land without authorization.

It offended the elves living in the land, which caused the acidity of the land to change irreversibly.

It is said that if the condition of the land continues to deteriorate like this, the condition of the crops will not improve even after one or two years.

Although it should not be a problem for a while, if the situation continues to deteriorate like this, the Vika Island, which can barely survive on the barren land, will also fall into a serious food shortage. situation.

Even though Vika Island is backed by Bika Island, which has the most advanced technology among the many sky islands, in the past, it was possible to make a considerable fortune by distributing some small businesses that people on Bika Island looked down upon. .

But in the human kingdom above this [-]-meter altitude, food is a vital hard currency.

Unless they are brother islands under the rule of the same "god", no ruler will allow the food they have worked so hard to grow to be flown out of the country, let alone sell such strategic materials to other islands in exchange for some Something that won’t die if you don’t use it.

As for the Vika Island where Eniro lives, a few years ago, it seems that due to the issue of the island's lords privately withholding tax revenue, there were a lot of troubles with Bika Island, which controlled everything behind the scenes.

In this case, even the warehouses on Bika Island do have enough food to keep everyone fed for a full year.

But if Vika Island can't come up with a "gift" that is rich enough, or even rich enough to make Bika's "god" forget all this.

It's hard to say that the people on Bika Island would be willing to provide critical food to support the people on this island.

No matter what the final result is, the consequences of this kind of extinction of crop yields due to land problems will eventually need to be shared and borne by all the ordinary islanders on Weka Island.

As for the priests and lords in charge of this island, they will not always worry about such a trivial matter.

It is precisely because people have a clear understanding of their own people that this sense of crisis can change from the scope of discussion among scholars to a lightning-fast within just a few days after it sprouts. The speed is transferred to ordinary Sky Islanders.

In the past two days, the atmosphere on Sky Island has become even more exaggerated.

Even Anilu, who lives in isolation at the edge of the forest where no one wants to come, was actually affected by the news.

Originally, only I and a few hunters or herb collectors would enter the forest area.

Nowadays, some soldiers under the priests come here in groups, trying to collect some tree fruits and wild potatoes and legumes that are usually regarded as cheap products by these superior soldiers. Transported back to town to serve as pre-storage grain.

Although these people don't even have any common sense about the forest.

Not only are the branches that are vital to this delicate fruit tree broken off when picking the fruit;

When walking in the forest, he would make inappropriate noises regardless of the rhythm of the forest;

Even when they find some precious medicinal herbs or pregnant animals, they will catch them all without mercy.

Everything these guys did was seen by Enel, who only dared to hang far behind them because of his timidity.

"...Those guys don't know how to live here at all. The forest nearby has been completely destroyed by them."

It was as if he wanted to vent all the anger and panic accumulated during the day into the deserted night.

Enelu lowered his voice and poured out his words faster and faster.

The following paragraphs are the most emotional and the most subdued.It even reached a point where even he himself couldn't tell the difference:

“… If the branches of this kind of tree that bear fruit in the current year are cut together, the whole tree will not bear a single fruit next year.

If you make a lot of noise in the forest in broad daylight, then those animals that are originally nocturnal will become more ferocious.

Herbs will not grow again if they are uprooted, and after pregnant animals are killed, other animals will smell the smell and will not come near..."

Although Enilu did not have the opportunity to go to school like those empty island children who were born in middle-class families, but he did not receive a systematic education, but it does not mean that Enelu is a person who does not understand what "fishing from the lake" is like. city ​​people.

On the contrary, although it is only the fringe area with the lowest overall risk on Vika Island.

The department was able to live alone on the edge of the forest for so many years.

It can be said that Enelu understands the forest growing on Vika Island far better than those scholars who only read about it in books.

Unlike delicate crops that require precious soil to grow smoothly.

Most of the trees on the empty island can be rooted inside the island clouds. They are so tall that they grow up to the height of white rice at any time.

Most of these native tree species unique to Sky Island have the ability to directly absorb nutrients from the island clouds.

And in order to prevent themselves from being pulled down and falling into Qinghai by the huge mass attached to their huge size, these tree species have also evolved over a long period of time a special structure similar to bamboo, which is "hollow and straight on the outside."

This is not only convenient for people like Eniro who have no choice but to live in the forest for a while.

It also benefits many parasitic plants that need to cling to other trees to grow.

It provides them with a valuable place to stay and a valuable "soil" where they can absorb nutrients for rooting and sprouting.

The tree fruits collected by Enelu and the soldiers were harvested from the fruit trees parasitic on the surface of the giant tree.

For the first time, these giant trees, together with the hundreds of parasitic plants that cling to them, form the basis of the Weka Island forest zone.

In addition, the herbivores that lived on this huge flora, and the carnivores that subsequently came to hunt these herbivores.

All of the above mentioned together can form this forest that is not vast but rich enough.

So much so that "wingless children" like Eniro, who are discriminated against, can survive by relying on the forest, which treats all animals and plants equally, and is a generous and dangerous gift.

But all this ended with the footsteps of the soldiers who originally disdained the forest.

No matter how good Anilu is at taking pleasure in hardships to vent his emotions and adjust his mentality, when he thinks about facing the current situation, Anilu feels a despair as if his eyes are darkening, shrouding his body.

"...More people will come over and compete with me for the forest's supplies, and I am destined to be unable to defeat them.

I don’t even need them to do anything. I can’t deal with animals that have become violent because their habitats have been invaded by outsiders..."

He obviously knew in his heart that he couldn't make too much noise in the forest now, but the more Enelu started to think about it when he returned home from a hard day's work, he realized that he could no longer think of any way to break the situation. The volume of what was originally just talking to himself couldn't help but increase in volume.

In the end, Enelu seemed to have poured his dissatisfaction with the miserable life so far into what might be his last cry. He shouted loudly:

"Obviously I have endured it for so many years, and obviously I have been working very hard to continue living...

But in the end, those guys will still take away my only place of refuge!

Why?Why should I end up like this next time? ! "

"Oh ho ho ho!" Snap!boom!boom!boom!

"What, what's going on?!"

As if to prove that there is no limit to a person's misfortune, or in other words, he was awakened and disturbed by the noise of the soldiers during the day, but retreated because of the large number of people and the sharp spear in his hand. The beasts are only now starting to go out in search of food.

But the moment he left the lair, he happened to hear the disgusting sounds of the two-legged beasts again.

The beasts, who were so excited for a moment, rushed towards the direction of the sound without hesitation.

Although a giant tree looks like a towering ancient tree from the outside, as if it has been rooted in this land unshakably since ancient times, but for the ferocious beasts who also lived on this empty island in ancient times, , these hollow tree shells that look extremely hard on the outside cannot withstand the slaps of their front paws in anger.

Just with a loud "snap", the giant tree, which was fully 30 meters high, broke in half.

Enelu, who was denouncing his fate in the tree hole, was naturally exposed to these ferocious beasts with scarlet light shining in their eyes.

"Ah, ah hahaha, yeah hahaha! Is this my destiny?! I won't agree with it!"

At this critical moment of life and death, Enelu changed his previous decadence and became brave again even in the face of many ferocious beasts that could end his life in one round.

Holding a bone knife, or bone dagger, less than two palms long, he shouted loudly:

"If you want to eat me, why don't you try it?! Even if I die, I will break one of your teeth!"

Just when Anilu was ready to end his life here, another voice suddenly sounded from his heart:

"Guhehehe, that's well said, Mr. Eniro, I really fall in love with you more and more."