Farming Druid - Chapter 74
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074. I have two eyes so I can see.
I don’t know how many times I rubbed my eyes.
No―. Realistically speaking, does this make sense?
Those streamlined, gray-white and dark gray creatures before my eyes.
They all come up to the pebble beach and show off to people.
Doesn’t that make sense?
Phew―
I looked up at the sky.
I wondered if it was a dream.
I looked at the sea again.
No, it was reality.
Kurit- Whiyoot-
“Uncle – This isn’t a dream, this is reality. Come here. The patients are waiting.”
“Huh? Patient?”
At the words of his niece, Haneum, Dojungha looked at the sea animals again.
Everyone seemed to have a strange feeling about it.
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Their bodies were covered in black nets and plastic-like things.
“Oh my― that is… … .”
It was only then that he realized what he had to do.
The tree was already cutting the nets on their bodies with its tools.
A finless porpoise emerged from the water with a severe wound, its throat having been pierced by a net.
“This is too much?”
Han-eum and Do-jung-ha’s eyes gathered at the words they heard.
It was dug deep and was oozing with either pus or blood.
“Oh my― That must have hurt―.”
He approached the dolphin cautiously.
The dolphin’s body language showed tension as the stranger approached.
The first time I saw a tree talking to an animal, I laughed.
“It’s okay. There’s someone who can help you.”
Kiririt- Kreurut-
The dolphin made a cry.
He showed me the wound on his neck quietly.
The doubts that arose during this process began to arise: could trees now communicate with animals?
His hands moved quickly, and his words came out of his mouth softly, as if he were talking to a patient.
“The net has dug in and the wound is severe. Let’s remove the net first.”
“yes-.”
“You try to hold it so it doesn’t move.”
Let’s gently grab the net that has dug deep into the head of the dolphin while giving instructions to the tree.
The finless porpoise moved its body violently as if it was in pain.
Every time.
The tree is talking to the dolphin and trying to appease it.
Every time, his quiet appearance seemed strange to Do Jung-ha.
Taak-
Let’s remove the net that has been dug in.
After that, spray the diluted antibiotic evenly on the exposed area of the wound.
He sutured the wound with a thread that melts along with the sound.
Okay then.
The tree says something while applying some thick, melted liquid around the dolphin’s neck.
The dolphin made a gesture indicating that he understood.
“… … .”
How much time has passed?
Plastic bottles in nets that catch sea creatures around their necks.
Let’s even deal with the ones that come up asking for things like straws to be removed from their necks.
I felt sorry for the sea creatures along the way.
At first I was interested in ashes.
I wanted to give my wife the small, round, softly shining pearl that my niece had shown me.
What I felt while treating the sea creatures with Haneum and Namu was that I felt sorry and sad for them.
I thought that I should at least reduce my use of plastic.
“There are more coming today… … Huh?”
The tree opened its mouth in surprise, looking up at Haneum in the middle of speaking.
“Han-eum, are you good at swimming?”
“Swimming? Well, so-so.”
“Really? Then can you help him out?”
Let’s look at the place where the tree is pointing with its index finger.
A water column was visible.
“It’s too big to come in. I guess you and I will have to look at it… … .”
I didn’t understand the conversation between Han-eum and the tree during the performance.
“What are you two talking about?”
To the question of the subordinate during the process.
The tree awkwardly pointed towards the sea a little way away.
“Professor, do you see it over there?”
What the tree was pointing to was something poking out of the water.
“Hey—how do I get there? I don’t even have diving gear.”
“The dolphins gave us a lift there.”
“… … .”
Haneum was speechless.
While I was listening, I felt envious of something that was happening.
I thought it was just my imagination that it sounded like an attractive offer.
Riding a dolphin is something everyone dreams of at least once when they are young.
“I won’t fall into the water anyway. F**k―.”
Haneum was breathtaking.
A friend doing some warm-up exercises to get into the water.
“Are you going into the water?”
“The weather is nice and the water temperature is okay, so I should go out soon.”
The tree’s voice was calm.
Dojung nodded as he spoke as if he was going to go get a drink at the house next door.
“I’ll be watching from here. Have a nice trip.”
While he was speaking, the tree could see a deep regret flowing from Ha-na’s eyes.
“Professor, do you want to go? I don’t think that guy will go anyway.”
“What? Is that okay?”
The tree nodded at Dojoongha’s words.
Professor Doojungha got up and finished his warm-up exercises by swinging his arms and legs with all his might.
Honestly, I was happy.
Because he didn’t know that the tree would invite him to go with it.
“Are you ready?”
The tree’s question.
Dojoong nodded his head, looking at the tree with sparkling eyes.
The tree looked out at the sea and called out to someone in a slightly louder voice.
“Guys―”
Two dorsal fin dolphins approached.
“Huh? Now you’re calling the southern bottlenose dolphin too?”
“You saw it waiting there. Didn’t you see its fin? By the way, do you know that it’s a southern right whale?”
“I studied whenever I had time because of you.”
“Oh―. As expected, my friend.”
“But if I stand here, will those guys come?”
The tree shook its head at Dojoongha’s voice.
“No – the water here is shallow, and there’s a drop-off about three meters ahead of me. You can just ride those guys in front of it. Let’s go.”
“Uh-uh.”
I walked slowly into the water with the tree in my way.
Maybe it was because the weather was hot, but the water wasn’t that cold.
Still, I could feel the cool touch of the water.
“This is getting deeper?”
“It’s a bit dangerous here. If an outsider makes a move here, they could die without any help.”
The tree explained and then remembered that when he was young, he too would have died if it weren’t for his grandmother.
Here’s why swimming on a pebble beach is dangerous unless you’re an expert.
The gentle slope suddenly subsides and the water becomes incredibly deep.
Moreover, the waves themselves were a bit rough, so the locals did not even think about swimming here.
Pioot―
Two fairly large dolphins approached the two people.
The tree reached out to them.
They put their snouts to the tree’s hands as a sign of friendliness.
“Please, guide him carefully too.”
As the tree finished speaking.
Abel, who was sitting on the beach looking at the sea, started barking.
Woof woof woof woof (Guardians, be especially careful! Friends.)
The tree heard Abel’s words and just laughed.
“Professor, please spread your legs a little.”
“Huh? Huh.”
Spread your legs wider than your hips, following the tree’s instructions.
I felt something coming between my legs.
Ohhhh―.
Something smooth brushed my calf.
For a moment, goosebumps and a thrill ran down my spine.
Wow―.
I found myself exclaiming in admiration without even realizing it.
I was surprised at the feeling of my body floating.
It felt like the first time I got on a jet ski and started it up.
Uh-uh-uh-
I thought it was a bit fast.
“Guys, could you slow down a bit? Sorry… … .”
When the tree’s words fell.
The speed slowed down as if it understood.
Only then did Dojoong realize that the sea creatures had been listening to the trees.
I remembered one of the papers I was working on.
It was a paper that was dismissed as nonsense and was buried among scientists.
‘There was a story that some people with brain tumors developed a special constitution and gained the ability to communicate with animals. That paper may be true… ‘
I thought that way as I looked at the back of the tree ahead.
Let’s go out to the deep sea.
A large whale was slowly approaching without even making a spurt.
Whioooooo―
After hearing the whale’s words, the tree waited for Professor Dojooha to come next to it.
“Professor. There’s a wound on the tail side where the net got wrapped around it pretty badly… Could you please take a look?”
“That’s right… … But, what’s happening right now. It can’t be a dream, right?”
“sure.”
“That’s fascinating. It seems like he can understand and talk to animals. I’d like to study whether it’s because of a tumor in his brain.”
“I don’t like research…?”
“Let’s help that whale first, then we can talk.”
“…yes.”
The tree asked the dolphin Professor Joong-ha to help him, and he himself headed towards the giant whale’s face.
Let’s put our hand on the whale’s face.
The minke whale began to tell the story of what had happened so far.
“You escaped from Japan… … back then. The net got tangled tightly around your tail. You had a hard time… … .”
The tree knew that Japan had a culture of whaling.
However, Minke Whale bit his lip when he heard that Japan, which had stopped whaling for a while, had recently been slaughtering whales cruelly.
“I see… … Your child did that there… … .”
Phoooooo― Whiiooooo―
Sadly, the pain of the mother whale’s howl reached the tree’s heart.
“I’m human… … I’m sorry.”
The whale tried to shake its head at the apples on the tree.
The guardian, who was so small, was so afraid of being swept away by the waves he had created that he just blinked.
Wheeeeeeee―
At the whale’s words, the tree turned towards the tail.
The whale was seen groaning and moving to cut the net that was wrapped around its tail.
It seemed like it wouldn’t break easily.
“Help me hold this.”
“yes-.”
* * *
While observing the sea with a telescope from a Coast Guard ship guarding the East Sea.
I saw something strange in my eyes.
“uh?”
He looked ahead, holding the telescope up and down in front of his eyes.
The senior who was watching from the side asked curiously
“But why?”
“There’s a whale floating over there. But it’s strange.”
“What’s strange about a whale floating?”
“There are two people attached to the tail.”
“What? You’re eating well, so what are you talking about? You?”
“No. Look here.”
The sea sergeant who spoke handed the telescope over to his senior.
“Huh? What is that? How—”
“I am right.”
“Launch the patrol boat. Let’s go find out what’s going on.”
“All right.”
The four or five coast guards on the patrol boat could not help but be surprised as they approached the place where the whale was visible.
This was because dolphins and finless porpoises were blocking the progress of the patrol boat.
Waaaaa …
A police officer with a siren blared and spoke into a microphone.
“Ahhh – This is the Dokdo Marine Patrol Ship. Please cooperate with the identification of the two people over there. I will say this again.”
The police officers who were looking toward the sea, other than the person doing the broadcast, were laughing in vain.
“No― why are they blocking my path?”
“I don’t know either.”
It was shocking to see that finless porpoises and dolphins were blocking their path.
After the broadcast.
Two people were approaching, floating on the sea.
“What the heck? Those guys are riding. Huh? A stone… whale?”
“I can’t believe it. It’s ridiculous that you’re not even a zookeeper and would ride a dolphin.”
“I know. You have two eyes, so you can see.”
Hae-kyung’s expression hardened slightly as he saw the two people approaching.
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