Chapter 26

The collectables complete

The children were finding the mushrooms and collectables and the last blue beetle was still deluding them. They kept finding the common one and the uncommon ones and a rare one now and again yet the blue and green spot beetle still not found. Then as 9 year old Guapi past the gong encasement saw something flies past him and it landed right by him he went to check it and saw it was the blue and green spot beetle that had eluded them for months and now the children celebrated that they now completed the beetle collected and with the result of completing all four types of collectable would bring the population to 10. That meant that the village could have a max of 115-117 if born triplets. To show this was one each of each collectable was displayed on the researched hut roof.

Hung was playing tag and it was his 14th birthday, after celebrating his 14th birthday he went to work on construction and soon showed up to be a trainee farmer... Even though the farmers could fish, but as the farmers also were master builders all worked on scraping away the moss. Sometimes the master scientists would work on scraping away the moss. Top was Adept Builder and came to help for a bit and then went back to his researching. Nitis worked on all three jobs first on the ancient place then a spot of fishing when he found a crab then back to researching.

The guiding hand takes action

As the guiding hand looked in saw that the food had dropped below 2000, so needed to take action and Put one of the master farmers to farm which was Wabu, even though he was a master builder, someone needed to fish. The guiding hand did want the ancient place clean, but could not afford to have hungry villagers which would slow the production down. Also assigned Tobi to fishing also as he was the villager’s runner and could catch the fish faster. The guiding hand at first thought of teaching Hung to fish, as he had only a building as his skill, then decided not to as, there was no time at the moment to teach someone a new skill as there were enough master farmers and they could find crabs that is worth 55 food, and that Young Hung would be better at the construction of clearing the moss. Maybe Hung could learn to fish at a later time when the ancient place reveals its secrets. After this action was taken, soon the food bin had 2170 food enough to keep the villagers to keep working on the moss inbetween fishing trips.

The children were playing the tag game and Napuka was ‘It’ the one who liked dancing, now age 11. After the tag game came to watch the dig. Napuka saw a mushroom and picked it and took it to the food bin, and then she returned to watch the dig again. The builders had cleared 84% of the moss, yet this job was taking longer than expected as each percentage of the removal of the moss was very massive and large so everyone had a go at taking a turn at scraping it away. When the guiding hand looked in again was still 84%. So decided to leave them to it as one says: Quote “A watched kettle never boils”

To be continued