Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 182
Tenchong Volcano 5
-Wow, wow.
“Little Dragon, what’s going on?”
“Little Dragon, what’s this noise? Did something appear?”
“Wh, what is it!? Your Majesty!”
The area around the well became as bright as day as people came running, awakened by the sudden noise.
This was because the lights from torches and lanterns held by people suddenly gathered around the well.
The eyes are unable to properly adjust to the sudden change from darkness to daylight, and only the light spreads.
He turned his face into a slightly darker well and answered people’s questions.
“Something bit a pig and disappeared inside.”
I didn’t see the pig actually get bitten, but I heard a short slap, so I guess it was.
As I explained, Hwa-eun, Seol-nu, and the village chief, who had gathered the people, looked at the well and asked.
“Into the well?”
“To the well?”
“Oh, to the well?”
“Yes, let me take a look inside.”
The three of them have expressions of not understanding, as the well is usually blocked.
Moreover, the village chief was someone who used the well every day, so he would know the details of the situation inside the well, so his expression seemed even more incomprehensible.
But when he shined the lantern down into the well again and showed a large hole at the bottom of the well, the village chief opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“Hey, when did that happen!?”
“There was a big hole. Little Dragon?”
Judging from the large basalt rock lying slanted on the ground, it seemed as if it had been opened and closed like a door.
But it seems like the guy was in such a hurry to escape that he couldn’t stop it again.
“Wow, the well… This, this is a big problem….”
The village chief, who had confirmed the appearance of the well, sat down on the ground with a blank expression.
An expression that looks like he’s lost everything in the world.
“How is that, village chief?”
The village chief sat down with a blank expression on his face and answered Seol’s sister’s question in a dejected voice.
“There is one well in the village, but it has been blocked up… Now this village is finished.”
As the village chief said, this well was the only one in the village on the hill, and the water flowing from the volcano flowed downstream from a distance at the bottom of the hill where the village was located.
But even that water is difficult to drink.
I had heard that it contained a lot of lime, so eating it would cause severe diarrhea, and that must have been why the village chief had such a blank expression on his face.
The bottom of the well was blocked by a large rock, so the village’s water source was completely cut off.
At the sight of the village chief and the villagers, I asked Bin-i, who was still waving his tentacles with his head half-way into the well, on the other side of the well.
“Binah, do you think that guy is still inside?”
-Tsrrrr!
The answer that comes immediately is no.
Since the fox can sense vibrations, Binnie’s intuition must be reliable.
He immediately asked Bin to remove the stone blocking the bottom of the well.
If it were us, removing that stone wouldn’t be a problem.
“Bin-ah, can you please move that rock down there? The old men must be in a lot of trouble because of that rock. Can you do it?”
I asked Bin if he could do it, but it was only a polite question.
Even the termite nests that were more like concrete than this were easily destroyed by Bin-i, so there was no way Bin-i couldn’t break basalt, which is on the hard side of rocks.
I knew that basalt was sometimes used to decorate things like terrariums, but basalt only has a hardness of about 4-5.
-Tsrrrr!
As expected, Bin answered loudly and quickly crawled down.
It seemed as if Bin-i’s body was disappearing into the well, but soon after, a loud noise came out from inside the well.
-Kudduk! Kudduk.
As expected, the stone was so big that it looked difficult to remove it all at once, so it seemed like they were breaking it.
After a while, Bin-yi slowly backed away and had a piece of basalt in his mouth. After repeating this four or five times, Bin-yi came towards me and stuck his head in, asking me to praise him quickly.
Dad said he wanted a reward for doing a good job running errands.
-Tsururut.
“Yeah, yeah, I should give him a reward.”
As I stroked the boy’s head and lowered the lantern, I noticed that although there were a few stone fragments left, most of the large stones had been removed.
He told the village chief, who was staring blankly at the stones that had been cleared away, to check since someone would go in and clean them up later.
“Now that the stone has been removed, let’s take a look.”
The village chief runs up and looks down at the well illuminated by the lantern light, with a surprised expression on his face.
The village chief suddenly bowed to Bin-i and shouted.
“Thank you, my lord! Thank you, my lord. What a blessing!”
“””thank you!”””
Then, even the villagers who were shocked by the fact that the well was blocked came forward and began to bow to Bin.
When he came into the village earlier, he had a very unpleasant expression on his face, but now it’s like he’s meeting his deceased father again?
-Tsurut?
Bin’s question of what this was doing to people’s behavior was heard immediately.
He seemed curious about what this meant, as he had never been bowed to by anyone before.
Because all Binnie learned was greetings.
“This is…. I mean, it’s about expressing gratitude and thankfulness. Bin-ah. Does it mean that I’m very grateful?”
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-Tsururut!?
Bin-yi, startled by my words, wiggled his antennae for a moment as if thinking about something, then after a while, he crawled over to the village chief and placed one of his front paws on the village chief’s bald head.
The village chief was frozen with his mouth open in surprise at Bin-yi’s actions, and Bin-yi gently stroked his head.
‘What, what are you doing, Bin-ah?’
As I asked myself at the absurd sight, Bin-yi’s innocent answer came to my mind.
“I’m telling you that the child is good.”
Oh my.
So, when someone says they are very grateful for a small help, he pats them on the head and says, “You’re a good guy, aren’t you? Then I should praise you.”
It was clear that Binnie thought that being petted was the best form of expression of all emotions, including being kind, cute, and pretty.
And then the following words echoed in my bewildered mind.
“Should I scratch your chin?”
I felt like I had to let her know that such deep expressions of affection should only be done with her father.
‘I shouldn’t do this to people, but Bin-i scratches my chin. Maybe I should give it a try?’
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As the day dawned, people gathered at the well again.
Ropes made from vines that grow in subtropical jungles were prepared around the well.
That’s because I decided to confirm the identity of the guy who bit the pig and ran away yesterday.
Since the guy who came last night was clearly nocturnal, I thought the best time to confirm his identity would be during the day when he was asleep.
We decided to move during the day because it was safer when the guy was asleep than when he was active.
“Don’t you need a torch?”
When the village chief approached and asked, Ji-ryong answered on my behalf.
“It’s okay, my lover and I have some night liquor.”
Torches and lanterns are inconvenient, but fortunately, there are night lights at Ji-ryong and Eumbong.
“Here it is. So So-hyeop. I will take the lead, so please take it.”
“thank you.”
He accepted the night liquor that Ji-ryong gave him and held it in his hand. He placed Hwayangi on his head and went down to the well first, taking Bin-i and Cho with him.
-Suddenly.
There was a horizontal hole drilled into the bottom of the well that reached up to the thighs.
When I held up the night light and looked inside, I saw a hole filled with water that led to the volcano.
Perhaps the water had overflowed from the well.
The size of the hole is ambiguous.
It was a size that was uncomfortable for an adult to stand in and required them to bend their heads slightly.
Should I say that it’s just a little too high for my head to touch?
Judging from the shiny surface, it was clearly a hole made by something, so I decided to go inside as intended.
“Let’s go, guys!”
-Tsrrrr!
-Tsurut!
Bin-i and Cho, who put their bodies into the hole without hesitation at my words.
Since I couldn’t carry Hwayang on my head, I decided to carry her in my arms and follow Cho and Bin.
“It doesn’t seem to be close, so let’s go in first. The hole isn’t that big, so watch your heads.”
Let’s shout above your head, the sound of water flowing in and buzzing through the hole.
“Understood. So So-hyeop. We’ll follow right behind you.”
I followed Bin-yi, who was walking forward, sometimes ahead and sometimes behind, and before I had even walked far, I suddenly heard Bin-yi’s voices in my mind.
‘Tsurut. Tsurut.’
At the words of the two guys that there was something, I squeezed through the gap between the guys lining up on either side of the wall and went a little further forward.
Then an open space is revealed.
A large space came into view in front of me.
‘Oh, this is a lava cave!?’
-Suddenly.
As I came out of the hole and jumped down about a meter, the view came into view.
Water splashing on the floor and high ceilings.
Water droplets were falling like rain from here and there on the ceiling, and the sound of them splashing could be heard like the performance of a musical instrument.
-Pong. Pong. Pong···.
The place we came out was a hole in a part of a lava cave created by the traces of lava passing through.
Something had hollowed out the wall of the lava cave and made its way into the village.
A large, tall passageway, large enough to fit a subway train, stretched far into the darkness on either side of where we emerged.
“I think it would be better to wait for the group and then go together.”
While waiting for Oryongsambong, Hwaeun, and Seol Nui to follow me, I looked around with a night light.
To figure out which way the guy might have gone.
‘There’s water on the floor, so maybe it moved along the ceiling or walls? By the way, it’s warmer inside the cave than I thought because it’s a volcanic area.’
I checked the environment, checking the walls and ceiling to see if there were any traces the guy left behind.
Even if you don’t know what you’ll catch, you need to figure out the environment in advance so you can adjust the breeding environment.
‘I’m so excited to see what I’ll catch.’
It would be normal for a cave to be a bit cool, but perhaps due to the influence of the surrounding volcano, the interior is very warm.
The nights in the jungle were a bit chilly, but here the temperature was consistently warm.
Perhaps it was a guy who liked warm places, but soon after, people with their heads bowed awkwardly walked out of the hole we came out of.
“Oh my, my neck. My neck feels better now.”
“Get out of here quickly, my neck is going to break.”
Others struggled with ambiguous heights.
People who jumped to the bottom of the volcanic cave rubbed their necks and waists and made expressions of suffering.
It wasn’t that long, but it was an awkward height that made it difficult to stand or stand on, which was very uncomfortable.
“I waited because I thought it would be better to gather and go.”
“Well done, So So-hyeop. So, which way should we go now?”
It is said that when the Five Dragons gather, the Earth Dragon uses its head, and he asked me which way I was facing.
“I thought about it before people arrived, and I think it’s over there. The warm wind blowing from over there must be in the direction of the volcano.”
“Understood. So So-hyeop. Doryeong, stand close to So So-hyeop, and Changryong, stand right behind. Behind him is Gungbong.
“Geomryong and Gwonryong will stand at the very back, and the rest will follow, standing between Gungbong, Geomryong, and Gwonryong.”
“Okay.”
“all right.”
If Ji-ryong had played fantasy games in his previous life, he would have formed a formation with Gyu-seong-hyeong, a tank, in front, followed by Chang-ryong, a mid-range dealer, and Gung-bong, a long-range dealer.
The rear was a typical formation protected by the melee attackers Kwonryong and Geomryong.
‘Okay, that’s great.’
Cho and Bin move forward, clinging to the cave walls on both sides, while being hit by water droplets falling from the ceiling.
As we continued further inside the cave, the water droplets subsided and the cave became longer and wetter rather than humid.
And then we arrived at the end of that moist cave, a large cavity.
Something was crouching between the lava columns in front of me.
-Tsuru···.
People stop at Bin’s low warning sound.
[Excuse me, what is that!?]
[Do you know what that is?]
People who confirmed the guy’s identity in the darkness and sent out telegrams with surprised faces.
[Let’s go a little closer and check.]
As I approached, hiding in the lava pillars that had formed here and there through the holes in the ceiling, I could clearly see the figure of the guy crouching in the corner of the room.
At the sight of the guy, an uncontrollable exclamation bursts out from within.
‘Ohhh!’
And at that moment.
For some reason, Hwayang suddenly tried to jump forward from my arms, but I grabbed his hind legs and he started crying.
-Beep!
The guy looked at me in the dark.
