Chapter 473 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

Utopia Rayhanon’s original name is Yuto Hanon. And according to the characteristics of the Hanons, all of their names use words that mean paradise or utopia.

So, on the other hand, I thought there would be a place called Yuto, but… Could this be there?

“Yutora, that’s what they call paradise here, right?”

“I heard it was a long time ago. Before the destruction? About that.”

“When did it perish?”

“I don’t know yet because I don’t have any data. There are places like ruins, but there are places where the data have become obsolete due to the passage of time. I don’t know everything about this yet.”

“It’s quite interesting. Doesn’t that mean we don’t even know the cause of the extinction?”

“That’s roughly it. I’ve looked around, but no one really knows.”

“Hmm”

It looks like it would be pretty fun.

In a post-apocalyptic world, finding detailed causes of destruction, solutions to it, or finding a place to rest is a cliché, but it works just as well.

Me too. If there is no purpose in travel, it is just wandering. It seems that the purpose of this trip should be to confirm the cause of the destruction of this world and to find the paradise that Ruri talked about.

“It’s good to have a goal. But isn’t this Utopia destroyed by any chance?”

“Is it really?”

I don’t think so.

No matter how much Utopia’s real name may be here, it’s not like it’s not. It is because it is unlikely that he is related to it as the birthplace of his name.

My mother-in-law’s name in Hanon was Elysion, the name of a paradise in Greek mythology. But did the mother-in-law of those days ever visit Earth?

It’s just as small as possible, but there is also one blind spot.

“Civilization cannot continue on a planet judged by utopia”

“Ah, really. I’ll make something like the sun and evaporate the ground, so it’s true that it will become a desert, but there won’t be any people left.”

This star has a population of about 300 million scattered across a planet slightly larger than Earth. Civilizations perished, but small societies continued unabated.

Utopia’s method of judgment leaves few survivors. Even if you’re lucky, it’s only one or two people, and if you stay that much, no matter how Adam and Eve you become, catastrophe will eventually come.

When Zion received migrants from Mars, don’t you think it received thousands of people for nothing? In a truly destroyed world, even if only the two of them remain and reproduce like Adam and Eve, they eventually collapse due to lack of genetic diversity. The problem caused by the incestuous marriage of the European royal family also arises there.

“Anyway, it seems that if there are only two of us, we can make progress toward that goal, so we’re going to try to exploit it.”

“Can’t you just ask for a favor?”

“I am the captain of this ship! Get off if you have any complaints!”

“Okay, build the boat”

“Oh, wait! Wait!!!! Sorry! I was kidding, kidding!”

“The speed of bending it is so fast. How is your pride?”

“I traded my pride for two potatoes when I was 10”

“Oh, um…”

I decided not to ask because I thought there might be something dark about it. Anyway, Zion and I continue our voyage while learning the language of this place.

All I could see for several days was a vast desert like the sea. The scene where only brown sand is reflected feels desolate rather than beautiful.

“Originally, this was the sea”

“The sea? Has all the water evaporated?”

“Where did you get that information from?”

“I’ve unearthed a map of the world before the fall from the ruins. So I was able to grasp the environment at that time… To be honest, it’s not as helpful as a modern map. A lot has changed.”

“Antarctica or North Pole?”

“It sucks there too. At least there is no murderous heat, so most of the population is concentrated there, so it’s one of the few places where a society of its own is maintained.”

“Hey, can I go?”

“It will take some time, but we can go. Right now, this planet has no ocean, so we can go anywhere by land. Even if other threats are put aside”

“I’m the only one who cares about that threat.”

“No, me too”

While learning the language, we talked about this place with Ruri. Most of us ask, but I was able to know some basic common sense.

First of all, to pick out a few things, there are ruins that are the remnants of civilization before the destruction.

It is said that there are various things that cannot be made with current technology. They said that Ruri’s ship we’re on now (even if it’s called a drum) was remodeled from something excavated from the ruins.

“People like me who live while digging up ruins are called wild dogs. Actually, if you’re lucky, it’s a job that makes you rich in one fell swoop, so it’s pretty good.”

“What if you’re out of luck?”

“Do you want to die more?”

“You managed to live”

It’s not that God-Ruri-Ruri’s terminal doesn’t die. Rather, Nuri, who was her terminal, faced such a miserable life and death that she awakened her abilities and laid the foundation for the Great Demon King.

It’s because you’re talented, not lucky, so when you die, you’ll definitely die. Besides, in a world like this, if it’s a woman’s body… There are cases worse than death.

Beep beep beep!

“Ah! Alarm sounds! Everyone on alert!”

“Something came, but it seems to be that.”

“If you knew, you should have told me earlier!”

The ship’s radar detects something and starts ringing. But it’s been a long time since my intuition caught him one step ahead of him.

After checking her radar, Ruri frowns at her and grabs her weapon. She goes outside carrying a crossbow and a firearm mixed in a powered suit with only minimal skeletons remaining to cover and strengthen vital parts.

Kreurreung!!!!

The sound of something growling is carried through the sandstorm. When you hear the cry, it seems like an animal close to the cat family, but the sound is not a joke. A heavy and gigantic monster appears, as if a tiger would not make such a sound even when it cries.

Fur brown enough to be used as camouflage in the desert. Even if you don’t touch it, you can feel that it will be stiff and tough.

Its size… Is about three to four times larger than a tiger or lion, like a typical large cat. Its sharp claws and teeth are quite menacing.

Most of all, it smells like human blood. Among carnivores, it is a dangerous one that has tasted for humans.

It almost feels like seeing some kind of hostile species, but is it different that it is in the ecosystem of this planet? Anyway, Ruri aims at him with something like a crossbow.

“Tsk, it’s a sand tiger. It’s thick leather, so it’s hard to inflict fatal wounds with it…”

Then she turned her gaze towards me.

“Go! Mawangmon!”

“It’s the Great Demon King?! Don’t call it like a Digimon that suddenly jumped out of a Power Digimon into a final boss like a mid-boss and ended up as a McGuffin!”

“It’s fucking detailed. Are you a Digimon fan?”

“But Digimon already…!!!!”

When was the era of the damn Bandai guys, did you play Tamagotchi and sit down? There are a lot of augmented reality games out there, but if the game is properly released, where will it be?

I can’t say anything because they’re holding on to my memories… Ah, I’m suddenly angry. Whether it’s a tiger or a sand tiger, you searched.

Whoa!!!

A gigantic tiger attacks. Before he gets on the deck, I run in, restrain him, and drop him to the floor.

A cat-nyang punch, no, a cat-cat punch that can make the size of a human skull out of crushed tomatoes, comes flying. I brushed it off lightly and jumped on his back and strangled him.

Khuong! Heh heh!!! Creeper!!!

The guy who was mad a lot rolled on the ground and yelled at me to get me off, but in the end he couldn’t get it off. Originally, these quadrupedal animals do not have a skeleton developed enough to touch their back.

It’s easy to break the neck, but I wanted to get an intact corpse if possible, so I set the goal of suffocation. And after a while, his resistance faded and stopped.

Cooong!

The body of the huge body collapsed onto Ruri’s drum. He has no heart and no pulse. The guy just died.

“Fuck, this is the first time I’ve ever caught a sand tiger so easily. This is why transcendence is a scam!!!”

“Then you should be a Transcendentalist too.”

“Do you think that’s easy? It’s not easy to become a transcendent no matter how many Ruri Ruri networks you have, right?”

“Can you do the initiation?”

“It’s not like you don’t die that much, so what.

“That’s great”

Even if you look at the remodeled Hagisa Drum, it has enough qualities as a gongdori. In fact, if it’s just Luri, it’s okay to settle down somewhere and earn a living with your remodeling skills, even if you don’t have to go around.

“Hey, to catch this guy without getting hurt! We have to dismantle it!”

“Is it money?”

“A lot! Come on, we need to disband, so help us”

As good as he is at cooking, he handles meat well, and if deepened, he is also good at shaping and bone-bonding.

…….Actually, dismantling people has improved my skills, but I’m good at dismantling animals anyway.

Buzz buzz!!!

“Crane?”

“I have to drain blood first. But here, it’s not a simple blood draw.”

“Blood… Ah, isn’t blood also water?”

“Yes, so, after collecting the blood separately, it is purified and made into water. As long as there are enough batteries in the drum box, you can extract only the water without additional chemicals. Although the efficiency is a bit poor.”

“After all, water is precious here.”

“I don’t know about anything else, but it’s directly related to survival. There are cases where people fight and die because of water.

“Keuheu, the bitter taste of the post-apocalypse hits me”

“Your taste is very peculiar.”

After hoisting the sand tiger’s huge body with a crane, it cuts and bleeds. Dripping blood drips into the tank below and gradually begins to pool.

Blood occupies about 10% of the human body. About 5 liters comes out. If so, it would be calculated that if a tiger was several times larger than a human, the amount of blood would come out in the tens of liters.

If you remove this or that, it will decrease, but it is natural that a few liters of water will come out.

Disintegration after bleeding. With the dagger Ruri gave her, she peeled off the skin and removed the bones and flesh.

“What are you going to do with the meat? Originally, the meat of carnivores has an unpleasant smell, and it’s tasteless… More than anything, this guy ate people.”

After all, the law of the jungle is one of the most important principles in the world. Even if you don’t affirm it, if the opponent is an animal, it’s the original duty to eat it if you kill it.

However, this guy is not just a carnivore, he is a guy who has a taste for human flesh. Eating this is disgusting because it feels like eating human flesh indirectly. No matter how much Shion likes meat, I don’t think he’ll even like this.

“What are you doing by leaving it? Once you get into the stomach, everything is the same anyway.”

“It’s nice to have a bad stomach”

“For now, I’ll store as much as I can, and make the rest into beef jerky.”

“What about the seasoning?”

“What do you want besides salt? Spices, after all, come mostly from plants, right? Those things are expensive.”

“Can’t you buy something like that even with a boat like this?”

“I’ll live well if I save it. And I got this ship the year before last at most.”

“It’s surprisingly recent.”

I sorted out the sand tiger byproducts. Guts to viscera, lean meat to lean meat, fat to fat, bones to bones.

After dismantling everything, I wonder if these are all combined in ton units. Even a normal tiger weighs 300 kilos, but it’s well over three times that.

“Grind the intestines, extract only the water, discard the rest, salt the meat and fat, collect the bones and sell them in the city, and the skins… Hmmm, where do you sell the skins? If you get this at a good price, you’ll get a piece of it.” I can”

“You’re fucking thrifty. Are you more thrifty than me?”

If I’m not going to eat the intestines, I throw them away. However, hearing the sound of grinding the intestines and extracting moisture, I feel that the values ​​are quite different.

“By the way, is the fat pickled?”

“Ah, what is that…Isn’t there something called rice in Russian cuisine? It’s roughly similar to that.”

“You mean those dishes where the fat is salted and stored?”

“I made something. Would you like to try it?”

Ruri took something out of the storage shed. It is a large lump of fat that has turned slightly yellow and has grains of salt attached to it.

I don’t know what type of meat the fat came from, but after eating a piece, I could feel the greasy taste. And with the smell that hasn’t been removed.

“You… Do you eat this?”

“Ahhhhh, that’s true. The land is very barren, so we eat everything we can eat.”

“I have an inexhaustible premonition that my diet will suck…”

“Still, if you go to a city or a village, there’s something to eat.”

After quickly dismantling the sand tiger, we set off on our journey again.

In the meantime, it reaches a logical conclusion. The existence of such a top predator means that there is something to eat around it, and the humans it ate will also be around.

In a desert where there was only sand, we entered a place like a steppe climate where some grass has sprouted. You can’t see anything like trees, but it’s still better than the desert where there was nothing.

“There seems to be an oasis nearby. There must be a village, so let’s replenish water there and go.”

“Five!”

I wonder what the village of the destroyed world would be like to visit for the first time.