NOVEL NEXT chapter 28
28 – Pig Hunt (1)
A tree of appropriate size was covered with moss and used as a pillow.
Chester, who slept on the pillow, quietly opened his eyes after a good night’s sleep.
It was a soft darkness, with no sunlight coming in because of the blocked windows and roof.
Checking the bonfire, which had turned to gray charcoal, Chester got up and opened the window on the wall next to him.
After fixing the open window with a wooden stick, stretch while feeling the incoming wind and sunlight.
At the end of Chester’s stretch, Monia woke up too.
Monia watched Chester stretch with sleepy eyes, fanned the campfire, and fetched a pile of wood from the corner of the house.
Chester just said he would make a knife, then grabbed an unused animal claw with his hand, scraped the firewood with it, made a kindling stick, and threw it into the bonfire.
At first, Monia was afraid to go near the fire, but now she has become proficient at rekindling a fire that has been put out.
To what extent did you become proficient?
“Huaam.”
I could do it while yawning.
After stretching, Chester went out of the house to check the results of land fishing.
“Five.”
The first and second were in vain, but the third and last fishing hook was shaking wildly.
Chester, seeing the beast entangled in a fishhook from under the ground, grabbed the string and carefully pulled it up.
What caught the hook was a small mammal resembling a dog.
When the mammal came up a little, Chester raised an axe.
If I caught him like this, I might get scratched by my toenails or bitten by the mouth with those ugly teeth, so I thought I’d stop breathing before I pulled it all up.
“Suck!”
There was a loud noise.
– Hey hey! Kyaeaeng!!
“Suck!”
– Beep! Keeing! Hey!
“Huh!”
How many times have you swung an ax?
Blood flowed from the broken part of the limp mammal’s head.
“Whoa.”
Chester pulled up the mammal carcass and pulled out the hook stuck in his mouth.
He took out a stone knife, ripped through the skin of the mammal, ripped out the meat, put the meat back on the hook and let it hang down.
‘Where do I take care of this?’
House?
Chester thought for a moment about grooming game at home.
‘Well, that’s not a bit.’
Chester headed home, thinking that the river would be best.
“I went to the river and came back.”
“Oh, I’m going too.”
“Will you? Then bring a basket.”
“Yes.”
After getting the basket, Monia saw Chester going down the ladder and followed him down.
“I can come down just fine now.”
“Because I practiced! Is that personal?”
“Isn’t it a wolf?”
Monia calmly looked at the corpse of a mammal with a broken head.
Watching Chester groom animals and fish, he often saw cruelty, so he got used to it.
“It just went well. The smoke is also running out.”
Smoked meats fall off mainly because of monia.
“I wanted to eat more… .”
This is because she, who has lived affluently, does not have the concept of ‘saving food’.
‘It’s my portion of smoked meat, but I secretly stocked it up.’
Unbeknownst to Monia, the bottom of Chester’s basket was double layered with leaves. And he hid the smoked meat among the leaves.
And smoked meat was eaten when hunting and traps were not good, so when there was a shortage of meat, the rest was filled with meat obtained during hunting.
What is falling away is Monia’s smoked meat.
“I want to eat pig again.”
Pork.
It was tougher than domesticated pigs, but still more tender and tender than any meat you could get on the island.
Unlike her small body, the meat was plentiful, and the sweetness of the fat was clearly felt in the savory taste of the meat, especially in the belly area.
In addition, there was a flavor like a pig specially managed and raised while feeding only acorns while feeding on the rich nature of the floating island.
The first time Monia ate a pig, she ate it with a really loud cry.
Even after that, when a tasteless beast was caught, he fell in love with it to the point that he would only eat smoked pork.
Of course, because it was so delicious, Chester also had to move towards the pig as the top target, but unfortunately it was not easy to find.
* * *
The black figure rose quietly, alone among the sleeping family.
There was a distorted scar on his face, a scar caused by the boss’s corporal punishment for accidentally losing a livestock he had been raising a while ago.
The black shape gathered black mushrooms with a unique flavor and hard grains from trees, ground them to make feed, and then headed to work.
After striding down the precipitous cliff where the waterfall pours down, if you walk a little further, you will find his workplace.
There was a fence made of crudely stacked fallen trees, and within the fence the pigs grunted and grazing peacefully.
The black figure approached the pigs and fed them the food he had made.
Then he carefully counted the pigs.
“… … .”
And I found out.
Also, one pig is missing.
The black figure busily ran around looking for the pig until the rest of the family woke up, but in the end it couldn’t find it.
* * *
Chester laid the bloodless carcass of a mammal, whether it was a dog or a wolf, with his stomach facing the sky.
The corpse, whose head was only broken, had a large cut on the nape of its neck to drain the blood.
First, cut it long from the head to the genitals.
As for tools, of course, I used a new stone knife that I had recently discarded.
After that, the skin is cut into lengths, and then the genitals are first cut out and processed.
Next legs.
After leaving only the thigh with the large flesh, the hind leg below it is broken and cut off with an axe, and then the skin is cut from the midline incision to the cut surface of the hind leg with a stone knife.
Now, if you put your fist between the hide and the flesh and rub it, the skin can easily come off.
Peel off the back skin first, then push it straight forward.
Now treat the front legs the same way as the hind legs, and start skinning again.
As the skin is peeled off, the animal’s head is peeled off from the neck area where it was cut to drain the blood, and it is covered in upside down skin.
Chester came with an axe, and the first thing he did was to smash the strong neck bone, then cut and cut off all the flesh around it with a stone knife.
When the animal’s head is separated from the body, the external treatment is complete.
Here’s the inside. It is built-in.
First, the stomach is cut open and the inedible organs are carefully removed so that they do not burst and contaminate the meat.
The heart and liver are edible, so set them aside.
After peeling off the inside of the mammal, the process is finished by washing the meat in clean river water.
“done.”
Chester put the mammal carcass in the basket, leaving only the bright red meat.
“Let’s go back.”
“Uh, how about checking the traps?”
“Meat that has been processed spoils quickly. So, you have to bake it quickly and deal with it. Let’s check the trap later.”
“Yes.”
On the way back, the two packed some roots and some fruits and headed to the villa.
Smoking was difficult to do at home because it required a lot of smoke.
Smoke escapes through windows and cracks in bamboo, but most of the smoke stays in the house, making it difficult to see and breathe.
Chester, who had cut the meat he was about to eat into large chunks, next began chopping up the meat for smoking.
While Chester does this, Monia prepares a campfire and smokes as she has learned.
In front of the cottage was a pit dug in the earth for smoking.
If you light a fire there, put a moist tree on it, and burn it, the smoke will come out. All you have to do is put the meat to be smoked on the grill installed above and grill the meat with smoke.
“But will this be delicious?”
“I don’t know.”
Chester grilled the meat, responding to Monia, who stared at the meat being smoked.
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Lastly, peel off the skins of the plants you took on the way, leaving only the flesh, and grill the root vegetables together with the meat.
“Let’s eat all of this and walk around a bit.”
“Yes.”
Unidentified mammalian meat.
Plant flesh and roasted plant roots.
A few grains of fruit.
The two started off a rich morning like that.
* * *
The pig, who had been surrounded and confined to trees since his birth, found the hole by chance one day.
Perhaps someone was playing a trick, a little hole had been dug under the tree slightly lifted from the ground.
Seeing this, the pig hurriedly dug a pit using its hard nose and protruding tusks.
It wasn’t like a desperate desperate attempt to escape from lamenting over the fate of being trapped somewhere.
There is no reason to abandon an environment where there is no danger of predators that eat you, and where food is always available when the time is right.
It was just because I wanted to play in the dirt.
What was unlucky was that the pig was a dwarf and smaller piglet than the other pigs.
After digging under the tree with its small body, the pig accidentally came out. The pig, who only grew up in a happy and comfortable place, unaware of danger and fear, started wandering around.
Then I was chased by a bear.
It was a monstrous bear twice as large as the pig himself.
– Kwiiik!
A pig, running away from a bear, stumbled near the river and fell into the river. The pig, unable to resist the current, was swept away.
On the way, he met a waterfall and fell down. The shock caused the pig to lose consciousness and drift down aimlessly, getting caught in something.
The pig, who got caught in the trap Monia had placed and stopped flowing down, broke the trap and rushed out of the river.
The pig ran and ran to escape from the fearful water.
how long did it run
In front of a pig that was about to collapse from exhaustion, ‘it’ appeared.
It was a very twisted monster.
It walked on the ground on only two legs, had no tail, and the only visible hair was the top of its head.
It doesn’t have tusks or claws, nor any weapon that can defend itself.
A ‘monster’ that looks so bizarre that you don’t want to believe that it exists in this world.
‘Did he get kicked out of the group because he was deformed?’
As the pig draws such a conclusion, one of the two monsters makes a strange move.
He wanted to pull out a wooden stick and a thin twig, but aimed it at himself.
It was a pig who didn’t know what the act of ‘aiming’ was, but I was able to intuit what kind of intention that act was doing now.
The eyes that I could feel clearly in the eyes of that deformed creature.
It resembled the look in the bear’s eyes that the pig had just chased.
predator’s eye.
I didn’t know what the bear was, what the creature in front of me was, or what the creature in front of me was doing, but the pig knew.
trying to eat yourself
The pig started to run away.