Volcanic island.

The full name should be "Pelle's Volcanic Island".

Pelle is the name of an ancient Hawaiian goddess, and it is rumored that she lived in a towering volcano in the middle of a volcanic island, and every time she was angry, she would destroy the village and kill the villagers who angered her, so the locals did not like to add her name to the name of her home, and over time it was simply called the volcanic island by the islanders.

The coastline around the island is about 100 kilometers, with a total area of nearly 400 square kilometers, and in the center of the island is an iconic large volcano, with evergreen trees all year round, a large number of seabirds, and a rich variety of flora and fauna.

Over the centuries, the island's volcanoes have erupted twice on a large scale. In the end, however, some survived and continue to recuperate and thrive on this rich and beautiful island.

From antiquity to modernity, from modern to modern.

The island's population is now just over 3,000 people, scattered across six villages, as big as only one island in the world, and the rest is the ocean.

In the 21st century, the volcanic island has no electricity, no internet, no asphalt roads, no schools and other modern appliances, all in all, the volcanic island is pristine and natural, and the inhabitants are simply called ...... Aboriginal.

this day.

The islanders gather at Shark Beach, where the sparkling waves crash on the white sand and the sea breeze rustles the coconut palms on the shore.

The sky was blue, and large clouds were floating.

There are many small boats parked not far from the shore, fishing nets are placed on stones to dry, and sheep can be seen stopping at the edge of the coconut grove, they do not like to step on the sand, and they do not like to touch the sea, they are bleating, chewing something.

The old owner passed away peacefully last night, and according to island custom, today is both a funeral and the day when a new owner is chosen.

Being both an owner and a chief means being brave and wise, and a bunch of young lads can't wait to go out to sea to hunt, and whoever can catch the biggest fish is more likely to become a chief.

In the past, the rule was that father and son passed on, but this generation of chiefs did not leave a son, only a daughter, and a woman could not be the owner of the island, which was the rule left by the ancestors.

Seeing that several villages are already on the verge of "war", some people have taken out machetes, some people have taken out fish spears, and in recent days, they can be called chickens and dogs, and resting on this island can be regarded as "a group of heroes competing for deer".

The noble priest on the volcanic island hurried to several villages a few days ago to mediate to avoid the destruction of his home, and finally came up with such a plan - to choose the most heroic young man to take the place of chieftain through a competition, and continue to lead them to fight the strange people of other islands to the end.

Did the residents of the volcanic island know that it is just over 100 nautical miles away from Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii?

Nature is aware.

The volcanic island is not completely isolated from the rest of the world, and for many years there are people who can't resist the temptation to flee from the island, and once they leave according to the rules, they can't come back for the rest of their lives, but they still go without hesitation.

Fortunately, they are not allowed to come back, so in this closed environment, the people on the island know that the world is very big, but most people can't tell what it looks like.

If in the past few hundred years, it was a struggle between the inhabitants of the island and the sea and the natural environment, but now it has become a struggle with the state capital, because as long as the volcanic island is not declared integrated, the entire archipelago will not be complete, and some people will be discouraged and disgraced.

Many years ago, those white people did not think about forcibly entering and regaining control, and then the aborigines and the residents on the local side supported the volcanic island, and a conflict that almost turned into a tragedy was settled.

What makes people speechless is that no one on the volcanic island knows that hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, there were modern people who paid attention to this side, forcing decision-makers to abandon the forcible plan and turn to a prudent strategy of ignoring and not asking, and focusing on protection.

At that time, the old island owner also held a bonfire banquet to celebrate the success of the warriors on the island to scare away the cowardly and incompetent enemy.

To this day, the two sides are still not at peace.

The priest was the only one allowed to come into contact with outsiders, and had succeeded in bringing back many things.

Most of these things are painted with red patterns, one horizontal and one vertical, and from time to time there are fishing nets, mosquito nets and the like, mainly medicines.

Humanitarian relief supplies are described by the priest as a gift from the sea.

Those people also want to send doctors to test ...... After getting the things, the old priest immediately turned his face and didn't recognize people, it was impossible for outsiders to live on the island.

The reason why the volcanic island is closed and independent is that it all started with a certain chief more than 100 years ago.

At that time, Hawaii was not a bald eagle, and the locals had no resistance to many viruses because of the arrival of white colonists, let alone vaccines.

There was a great island owner named Bananunnu, who was very brave (afraid of death) to isolate the entire volcanic island, and sent people to kill all people and creatures who wanted to land on the island, including the big lizards that swam, and the islanders thanked the heroic island owner for saving their lives and driving away the god of death, Kanaro, so they carved a statue of the great island owner in a very abstract way, and stood on the cliff by the sea.

Unfortunately, the stone was too heavy, and the wind and rain finally crushed the fragile rock formation just a few years ago, and the stone statue was planted headlong into the sand.

So much so that after every low tide, you can still see the two round buttocks, as well as the two thick fat legs, unruly kicking into the sky, telling the greatness of the lord of Bananunu.

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In fact, many young people don't want to be chiefs at all because chiefs are busy.

Whoever lost the sheep, who caught the fish that should have belonged to whom, gave birth to children, and named these are enough to annoy these rough men who are so simple that they just want to eat, sleep and give birth to dolls, in addition to sending the old island owner back to the sea and watching the raft from afar, what is more important is that whoever becomes the new island owner can marry the daughter of the old island owner, which makes them excited.

Many old fishermen in their 40s, whose skin has turned bronze due to long-term sun exposure and have bad teeth, also come to participate, and many young people have tattoos painted on their bodies and faces, which is one of the traditions.

For this matter, many people present did not care about the sea burial ceremony at all, and often couldn't help but glance at a girl wearing a Roman (yellow or red cloth made of tree bark) with a grass skirt underneath, and she was used to it, the grass skirt did not cover her knees, most of the girls present wore it like this, the temperature was hot all year round, no one would wear much, and many men were naked all year round.

As soon as the priest gave the order, hundreds of people rushed to the fishing boats, each with fishing tools, and pushed the raft into the sea one after another, and went out to fish.

About two kilometers away.

A young man clung to a foam block and wore a wetsuit and went with the flow.

Looking at the chapped lips and confused eyes, I don't know how long I have been in the sea, and I guess I will hang up if I don't drink water again.

Because he was delirious, he naturally didn't look down.

I saw a huge black shadow suddenly appear, and the figure was obviously an adult humpback whale, and then ...... It's a pod of whales.

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