Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

57 – Ant Wolf (3)

The stone ax that had been struck was lodged in the log.

Monia picked up the log with the stone ax and struck it again.

Then, as the log split along the grain, a cool, exciting sound was heard.

Having once split a log in half, Monia took one of the split log halves, inspected the grain for a moment, then swung the stone axe again.

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This time, the tree splits in half in one blow.

After splitting the other half in the same way, Monia put the four pieces of wood in a basket and brought a new log.

After splitting all the logs like that, Monia climbed the ladder and climbed up.

The newly installed ladder was connected to the firewood storage, so Monia climbed up to the firewood storage and pulled the rope connected to the basket.

“Huh!”

It was quite a heavy weight for Monia, but she held back and pulled the rope to pull it all the way up.

It was hard as if her shoulder would fall off, but Monia gritted her teeth and raised the firewood all the way.

“Whoah!”

After putting the finished firewood into the shed, Monia went back downstairs with the empty basket.

As I climbed down the ladder, my weak limbs trembled.

“Huh… .”

As Monia rubbed her sore shoulder, she looked to the side, and Chester, who had gone up before she knew it, was pulling up three times as much firewood as Monia at once.

Monia admired it and picked up the twigs she had trimmed off the tree trunk and gathered them together.

This time, after putting a bunch of kindlings such as twigs in the basket, climb the ladder again.

As Chester was sorting wood in the shed, Monia pulled up the basket, handed it to Chester, and went downstairs to chop wood again.

Chester, who had finished organizing everything, went downstairs and cut firewood like Monia.

The days are getting colder.

On this cold day, two poorly dressed people cannot walk outside.

Chester said to stock up hard if you don’t want your fingers and toes to fall off on a cold day when you’re out hunting and chopping firewood.

As hard as the cold is, Chester even said to prepare for harder than the storm.

It’s harder than during a storm!

Monia did not dare to imagine such a thing, nor did she want to experience it.

That’s why I prepared hard and prepared again.

No matter how hard they prepared, they were able to fill the log shed they had built as big as a house in a matter of days.

Firewood stacked high up to the ceiling. Branches tightly packed on one side, fire starters prepared in advance and pressed tightly in the corner.

From Monia’s point of view, it seemed like all the firewood that could light a fire for the rest of her life had been gathered here.

‘I’m anxious.’

But not Chester.

he knew

This was not enough to survive the cold winter.

In the end, if the winter on this island lasts long, it means that you have to go outside sometime to replenish firewood.

‘I must be prepared.’

I thought to save firewood as much as possible and change the way I lit a bonfire, but I couldn’t help it.

‘The weather is so clear.’

Anyway, after the rain stopped, it was a sunny day without a single cloud.

* * *

The next day after stocking firewood in the warehouse, Chester and Monia next moved to gather food.

I plan to pickle it with salt, dry it in the sun, and smoke it to make a lot of preserved food.

After going to the river to inspect the traps as usual, the two went around the woods to check the traps.

Two rodents caught in a rodent trap hanging from a tree.

A single mammal caught in a lasso trap.

A dead bird whose head was caught in a figure 4 sculpture trap.

“What is this?”

While looking at the traps like that, Chester found a strange trace in a trap with a figure 4 sculpture installed elsewhere.

“why?”

“no… … .”

There were traces of the 4-figure sculpture working.

Judging by the blood and hair left under the rock, it must have been covered with something.

but it wasn’t

There was no prey.

‘Did he run away?’

Perhaps a creature strong enough not to die from the 4-character sculpture escaped.

But Chester had a hunch that wasn’t the case.

‘There are traces of digging a pit from the outside of the trap.’

It is said that there is a guy who dug a hole and pulled out what was caught in a trap.

‘It’s a smart creature.’

Seeing the state of the trap and thinking of digging a pit to save it.

Chester surveyed the surroundings.

The color of hair left on rocks.

Animal footprints left around.

A quick conclusion came through the traces.

‘It’s an ant wolf.’

When an ant wolf got caught in a trap, his companions rescued him.

‘Because ant-wolves don’t travel alone.’

But it was strange.

‘This area is probably not the ant wolf’s territory.’

Did the ant wolf expand its territory?

‘Is there any reason to expand the area?’

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Lost in a territorial battle?

‘no. Antwolves live by digging burrows and building foundations. I can’t easily abandon the realm.’

Chester thoroughly observed and investigated the creature he was supposed to keep an eye on.

More than 10 ant wolves live in one den.

The young live only around the burrow, and together they form a large group of 30 or more.

Abandon the burrow where such a group can live and run away, building a new foundation?

‘I’ll fight against that.’

Unless a few bears appear and attack in the first place, there is no creature that can defeat the ant wolf.

If so, the reason is different.

What else could be the reason?

‘… … .’

Chester cited the changeable weather as the reason.

If the behavior of animals has changed in the current situation, of course, the changed weather can be cited.

‘These days, birds are disappearing on the island.’

It is said that the birds started migrating according to the changing weather.

Even the ant wolf will change its behavior.

‘If the reason the ant-wolf expanded its territory… To catch prey.’

In the next trap, Chester’s thoughts became clearer.

It wasn’t that no creature had ever touched the trap.

However, usually such creatures were touched a little, and only the creatures were eaten.

But this time, the trap was completely destroyed and there were many traces of the ant wolf.

“No, what is this?”

“Ant-wolf.”

“No, why don’t they calmly take it and break it like this?”

“Do you know that it is me?”

Even if he said this, Chester somehow guessed the reason.

To the ant-wolves, it would have been strange to see animals dying from something strange.

‘Smart creatures know how to use them.’

Tried to use a trap.

A mysterious something that creates prey if you stay still. Can’t you use it?

‘Well, I don’t know what I was trying to do and how it ended up like this.’

At least, unlike animals that only take food, this is a sign that they tried to do something more than that.

‘I can’t do it unless I have limbs.’

What did humans get in exchange for a body weaker than beasts?

superior head.

and hands and shoulders

‘… … It might be dangerous to stay here any longer.’

I couldn’t move recklessly because I didn’t know how wide the territory of the ant wolf had become.

“Monia.”

“this! Blessed! this! this! I made! trap! profit! Yes, why?”

Monia, who was losing her temper at the ant-wolf, calmed down when Chester spoke to her.

“Let’s step back.”

“Yes? Haven’t you checked all the traps around here yet?”

“yes. So let’s get out of here early.”

“?”

Monia couldn’t understand Chester’s words, but she nodded in agreement and prepared to go back.

While Chester also turned to go back.

“… … .”

Chester saw.

Probably, Monia would not have seen it.

But it was clear to Chester’s eyes.

The eyes of a beast that glimpsed far away, in that darkness.

A bush that swayed in a different way from how the wind blows.

A trace that could be seen from the corner of the field of vision that had not been seen before.

Until now, it was difficult to know because of the traces left in the trap, but now it is clear that the animal’s distinctive smell is beginning to spread in the air.

“Chester? What’s wrong?”

“Shh.”

Chester held Monia’s shoulder as he approached him with his hand and tried to relax his tense body as much as possible.

All of Chester’s senses, and the information he was getting through those senses, were telling him.

That they are now besieged by ant-wolves.

* * *

“Huh… ! Heo-eok… !”

If a man had one weapon, it was luck.

It was really great that a beginner who had never had a proper adventure or exploration came out to sea and found a floating island.

How many people are looking for floating islands in the world?

Among the countless people, this man has found the floating island, so his luck has been proven.

And thanks to that heavenly luck, the man was able to come all the way to this place without dying even though his body and mind were endlessly devastated.

The last area of the floating island.

A demonic scene where no animal that dares to live on a wandering island dares to set foot in fear of losing its life.

The place where the rulers of the floating island live.

The man was climbing the ‘mountain’ now.

Towards the ‘top’ of the floating island.

“Here, if we just go up here… !”

A starved and exhausted body.

a thirsty heart.

All of that is painted over by the greed created by the man’s delusion.

In order to find something called ‘God’s treasure’ that didn’t even exist, the man whipped himself up the steep mountain.

“Just go up!”

nothing goes up

However, the man smiled brightly and moved towards his death.