Chapter 278: Descendants Of Xu Fu
My gaze shifted, and I found myself on the small island where the group that constantly threw trash into the sea lived.
I wasn’t in a hurry to make a move, because even someone as awesome as myself doesn’t like to underestimate enemies. As the old saying goes, know yourself and your enemy, and you will win a hundred battles.
A careless mistake at Jieting, a serious loss at Jingzhou.
Although I have the capital to be arrogant, my strength lies in being modest and prudent, not letting self-righteousness blind me.
Just as my own Art of War states; damn it, if you have too many people, I won’t directly confront you, I’ll hide first, damn it! I’ll break you one by one when your people are scattered.
If you have few people now, I’ll study our respective strengths. If your strength is equal to mine, I’ll wait.
If your strength is greater than mine, I’ll flee first. But if your strength is much weaker than mine, and you still dare to show off, go to hell, I’ll beat you to death, hahahaha.
In short, if I can beat you, I’ll fight, if I can’t, I’ll run. If all else fails, I’ll think of a way and have a go at him before leaving. Hehehehe.
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I wandered around the island at will. The environment on the island was relatively clean, but the human nature was quite dirty. Their environment was clean, but they threw trash into the sea. They are truly a very selfish race.
I don’t know what day it is today, but it happened to be an event on the island. Men, women, and children were only wearing rope underpants, with a sanitary napkin on each person’s head, and deliberately a round piece of menstrual blood was soaked in the middle of the sanitary napkin. Holy crap! What kind of hobby is this?
I found a guy who looked like a roasted egg and was reasonably intelligent, pretending to be there for sightseeing, and asked him, “Stealing your sweet potatoes, quack quack quack, your sweet potatoes are so big! You eat sweet potatoes raw, no wonder you’re so small!”
He replied, “My sweet potatoes are really good! Really good! Eating a lot of sweet potatoes makes you not grow, yo xi yo xi, not growing means you have to work, it’s exhausting me.”
Our dialogue was in the local dialect, which most people couldn’t understand.
Translated, it means:
I asked him, “Why are so many people wearing rope underpants and sanitary napkins on their heads?”
He said it’s their excellent traditional culture, commemorating something about “cheating” or something, also called “night climbing.”
I asked him again, “My sweet potatoes, are they good? Pack me a sack.”
He said, “Yo xi yo xi, they are really good! I’ll give you two sacks.”
Hehehehe, wahahahahaha, wait a moment, wait a moment, let me laugh for a bit before I continue, hahahaha…
I asked him the second part of the meaning: “Why are you guys doing this thing? Isn’t that too immoral?”
He said, “There’s no choice. In the past, they were wicked and had too few people. To avoid extinction of their race, they had to do this.”
After chatting with him for a bit, I very considerately let him owe me two sacks of sweet potatoes. Then I planned to go to his house to get them at night. After that, I stopped talking.
Anyway, I don’t know if he understood, but I understood. I said I was going to his house to take sweet potatoes, and he said, “Yes, yes, take more, thank you very much.”
After the conversation, I recalled what he said about night climbing.
This night climbing, I have indeed heard of it. It is a custom with a long history, mainly existing in the culture of certain island nations, with a history of about a thousand years.
Due to the scarcity of population in these island nations and frequent natural disasters and man-made calamities, they feared extinction and, for the sake of reproduction, would have men climb to women’s rooms at night to engage in activities like “drawing turtles” and playing cards.
They didn’t care if they knew each other or not; as soon as night fell, they would climb into the women’s rooms. Initially, if the woman agreed, they could play freely. Later, it gradually became that they would forcefully play regardless of consent. No one dealt with this matter at the time.
Even married women, as long as their husbands were not home, these beasts would go and climb. Sometimes, if there were too many people, they would even draw lots to decide who went first.
Afterwards, if an unmarried woman gave birth, the child would be raised by the entire village, becoming their hope. If a married woman had a child, it would be raised by the woman’s husband, becoming Kame-ta Kojiro.
In modern times, this custom has sparked much controversy and moral dilemmas in society. Because women were deprived of control over their own bodies during this process, their will and marital status were relegated to a secondary position. It negatively impacted women’s rights and family ethics, and thus it was slowly erased from their lives.
After recalling this matter, I released my Eye of God to trace the origin of this ethnic group. Holy crap, I was surprised by what I discovered.
It turns out that the people on this island are related to a famous historical figure.
It is said that during the reign of the First Emperor, there was a very famous alchemist named Xu Fu. Xu Fu told the First Emperor that there were immortal mountains in the sea where immortals lived.
The First Emperor believed him to be true and ordered Xu Fu to take three thousand virgin boys and girls, along with three years’ worth of grain, clothing, medicine, and farming tools, and set sail on a mirage to seek immortality.
They spent a lot of money, but Xu Fu found nothing. Fearing he would be killed upon his return, he directly settled on a small island and declared himself king. He taught the locals farming, fishing, whaling, and paper-making.
Due to the extremely small population, he allowed these people to engage in reproduction activities anytime, anywhere. These people didn’t have much culture; when farming, if a child was conceived, they would be named “Tianbian Shashen.” When cutting firewood on the mountain, if a child was conceived under a pine tree, they would be named “Songxia Shashen.”
When fetching water, they were named “Jingshang,” on the hillside, “Gaoqiu,” and when the left kidney started hurting, they were directly named “Sato.” Cough cough cough, anyway, the surname wasn’t determined by the person, but by the place where the child was conceived. It became quite meaningful.
These people were those brought by Xu Fu, plus the descendants of the local aborigines, or rather, Xu Fu’s descendants.
I also checked the origin of the Great Orochi Serpent, and damn it, it turns out it came from the same source.
In the era of the Great Wilderness, there was a great demon named Xiang Liu, also known as the Nine-Headed Xiang Liu or the Sea Demon King. It was a large snake with nine heads. Its body had nine heads, it devoured countless people, and wherever it went, it turned into a swamp.
This means that Xiang Liu not only devoured countless people but also spewed poisonous water, which was more powerful than floods, bitter and spicy, and would be fatal if consumed. Therefore, wherever Xiang Liu went, even wild animals could not survive, turning into a dead, silent water area.
Afterwards, it was killed by Yu the Great during his flood control efforts.
But looking at it this way, Yu the Great only killed one of its lives. It had eight heads left, ran to this small island, changed its name to Orochi, became the local people’s guardian deity, was supported by them, and acted as a tyrant.
After investigating this far, I grumbled under my breath impatiently, “Damn it! So it was this little brat? Back then I killed…,”
Oh dear, what was it back then? What was I trying to say?
As soon as I started muttering, I completely forgot what I wanted to say.
