Chapter 22: It's Live Chicken!
Today, there are many people living on this reborn island.
There are about 100,000 people, all of whom come from Yongquan Island.
They even formed a small town here.
Relying on the supplies from Yongquan Island, the village life here is stable and quiet.
The island is home to a gold mine, as well as associated copper and nickel mines. Half of the islanders were miners, the rest were farmers, fishermen and hunters, with only a handful of artisans and merchants. The islanders here are not even prosthetic...... The inferior and the strangulation went all the way, and they saw that not even a tenth of them were equipped with prosthetics.
This remote island is also equipped with wires to meet the basic necessities of life. It's just that it's far away from the empty island, and there really isn't any internet.
Only in the harbor and the airboat apn, which are closest to the sea, can you barely connect to the wireless network from Yongquan Island.
When the inferior arrived here, he was still a little uncomfortable for a while——— he saw a clean vision that was completely obscured by no advertising, information, or pushes for the first time, and it was the first time he breathed such fresh air.
It was only then that he realized for the first time that there were so many insects in a place with dense vegetation and lakes.
It was the first time he had been bitten by a mosquito since he was born. During the more than ten hours he spent on Quanliu Island, he saw more than ten times more insects than he had seen in his life.
And the leaves here are not elastic and can be easily torn with fingernails. There is even a bug that makes the scalp of the inferior numb in the bark.
And the inside of this leaf is not dry, but wet and sapy. It was a slightly sweet and slightly bitter taste...... It's a bit like tea, but the aroma is less pleasing.
This is the first time that the inferior has seen the biological form of "chicken" - although similar knowledge is taught in biology classes at university, the inferior has never gone to school. Raw food is a luxury, which means that a lot of space is required to farm, and living space on an empty island is extremely limited.
The gas exchange on the empty island does not depend on the plants, but on the "earth" under their feet. Beneath the ground was not dirt, but pipes. This also includes water and gas exchange pipelines that allow them to breathe a constant supply of clean and sufficient oxygen.
And "plants" are already a luxury. If you want to plant a tree, you must first have your own yard, and then you have to have a relationship to buy tree seeds. This may not be enough to feed...... As for raising birds, cats, dogs, etc., it is basically a treatment that only retired company executives can enjoy. Especially those who have no children, the wealthy will keep pets instead of having children.
The plants on the Sky Island are all synthetic, decorative "buildings" with only empty shells. And if there are no plants, there are no insects, and there are no birds. Without birds and fish, there would be no wild cats. If there are no wild breeds, it also means that everything has to be cultivated, and the source is completely monopolized.
Because of this, whether it is pets, seeds, saplings or live livestock cubs on the empty island, they are all "specialties" imported from Taoyuan Island. When they are sold, they have already been dealt with———— whether it is cats, dogs, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, they are all infertile. It's just like the seeds they bought, there's only one stubble, and if you want it, you have to buy it again.
And not to mention the cargo capacity of the empty boat...... This kind of goods with absolute monopoly and extremely single origin, no matter what the purchase price is, will inevitably have to go through the second traffic after arriving on other air islands. After that, the market price has nothing to do with the import price, and it is absolutely impossible to buy it directly at the import price anyway.
So to speak......
On Happiness Island, it may cost a lot cheaper to keep a little girl who is a cat than a real cat. As for the luxury of "real chicken and fruit", it can only be eaten in the "Peach Blossom Garden" on Happiness Island.
The strangulation and the inferior stayed here for a night because the "natural food" here was so cheap———— they could eat it directly for the price of a gold bar. Not only real chicken and fish, but also real pork and live rice growing out of the fields. With the rest of the money, you can also bring a few apples to eat on the road.
It's just that what makes the inferior more confused is that this kind of bone that grows inside real chicken is really inconvenient to eat. And the real fish is a creature that is very difficult to eat...... It's different from the fish on the Sky Island. It has a thin cartilage that seems to have to be picked out in order to eat meat. The synthetic fish steak and fried chicken on the empty island are free of these "impurities".
And when the inferior picks off all the "fish bones" carefully, the meat will be cold. And the rest of the meat is not enough to eat at all———— which seems to be a kind of entertainment for the rich to pass the time. The taste of this fish is not much better than that of the fish steak, except that it is a little salty...... There is also a fishy smell that makes the inferior frown.
The strangulation tastes smooth. Although it was the first time he had eaten fish, his spiritual relatives seemed to have some kind of instinct.
His tongue has barbs, which are perfect for licking off fish. The inferior ones can see that strangling and eating fish is like eating lollipops, and it is easy to get rid of the fish. As for the bones of chicken, strangulation is directly bitten off, chewed, and eaten K
After the meal, they also bought a lot of fruits.
It's different from Sky Island...... The apples here are cored, hard and bitter.
After the first bite, the inferior one directly gripped his teeth. But he spit out the apple core without a teacher...... And strangulation is frowning, chewing and swallowing the apple core.
Overall, in addition to the food that is more pleasantly surprised...... Rice, in particular, seems to have a distinctive, sweet aroma. And other "natural foods" don't seem to be so rosy.
After just eating it once, they were not interested. The quality gap between natural foods and their synthetic foods that have been continuously optimized and adjusted is too great.
The most regrettable thing for the inferior person is that he only saw live chickens and not live "deer" on this trip. When he was young, he also curiously inquired about the animal form of his spiritual relatives...... But basically there are only pictures, and there are very few videos. On the contrary, videos of kittens, puppies, rabbits, and birds are easier to see on the Internet.
And it seems that because the curse here has not been removed, the strangler began to sneeze incessantly after arriving here.
Immediately afterward, he began to have tears, a runny nose, red eyes, a dry and itchy throat, dizziness and headaches, and weakness in his limbs...... Then there is itchy skin and many rashes surface. I didn't fall asleep all night of strangling, and even my temper became much more irritable. The inferior wants to take him to the doctor, but Strangling doesn't believe in the abilities of this doctor who has no network and no prosthetics. He decided to go to Yongquan Island to see it again, so he just put up with it.
They stayed up until the early hours of the morning, strangling and even feeling his body temperature rise———— he seemed to have a fever.
After taking the ship away from Izumi-ryu Island, the symptoms of strangulation gradually became much lighter.
Strangled lying in the room of the ship, he slowly regained some of his senses.
But then, it was the inferior one who began to have problems - if it weren't for the strong willpower controlling his body, he would have vomited almost soon after he got on the boat, and he couldn't stand steadily. He felt his teeth and antlers begin to tingle from ischemia, followed by numbness in his fingers...... His mind was bulging, and he could barely get any better if he knelt on the deck, clinging to the ground.
It seems to be a condition called "seasickness", and according to the captain, it has to do with everyone's ability to balance. And this made the inferior person be strangled by his eyes that were still a little red, and he laughed fiercely while rubbing his eyes.
The captain said that this was because the shock absorbers and floats of the floating boat were so powerful that some people would not be used to it when they first came to the deck, which would shake strongly. Rather, it is a very small number of people who can fully adapt to the first time they get on board.
But fortunately, this is a very common situation, so the enthusiastic captain has also prepared a special medicine.
And he didn't take money from them for strangulation, but generously gave the inferior a pill. This kind of "powerful seasickness medicine" from ampoule biomedical, just after taking it for a while, he was obviously much better.
But even so, his abdomen was still very uncomfortable. The constant feeling of nausea in his heart made his face as white as paper, and he tensed his face and kept staring at it, barely able to maintain his dignity without saying a word. The strangulation felt much better after being far away from Quanliu Island, and he collapsed on the boat in a daze
Fell asleep. After waking up, his "curse" symptoms were much better.
Although the rash on the skin is still present, the eyes are still dry and red, and the limbs are still weak...... But at least the fever went away and I didn't sneeze anymore.
The two of them just tossed all the way to Yongquan Island.
By the time they arrived, they had basically lost half their lives.
They didn't bother to connect with the Brokers here, or to visit the Springs Road...... Instead, after the inferior person connected to the Internet, he exchanged some money from the "gold shop" of Thotronic Energy, which was closest to the port, and then found the nearest place to sleep——— strangled and slept after eating, but the inferior person couldn't eat anything at all.
He tossed and turned and still couldn't sleep...... He had arrived at Springs Island, but he still felt the undulations of the ship in his mind; He was already grounded, but he felt that the ground under his feet was still fluctuating. Even if he stood still, he felt the whole world fluctuate.
Eventually, he couldn't stand the vague feeling of vomiting. He simply vomited out all the expensive natural foods that he had eaten with half a gold bar, and drank some white porridge to fill his stomach, so that he felt a little better.
By the time they woke up, it was already night.