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Chapter 761 The Destruction of an Island

Seagulls, owls, parrots, this is what the first Easter Islanders ate.

Plus rats and seals, because it's so close to Antarctica.

In short, when they first arrived on the island, these islanders ate a combination of meat and vegetables, mainly dolphins, which accounted for one-third of the food.

The whole social state is very simple, belonging to the unique gathering and hunting life in the early stage of human development.

"However, after more than 400 years, such a good life without worrying about food and clothing is coming to an end. When most of the forests on the island were cut down, they did not realize the seriousness of the problem. Instead, they felt that these empty spaces were too wasteful, and their physical desires were satisfied. Then the pursuit of spiritual abundance should begin.”

"So the islanders began to carve huge stone statues out of the tuff rock on the island. The first seven stone statues about 10 meters in height were carved out, facing the sea in unison, symbolizing the seven chiefs."

"At this time, the population of the island has reached thousands, and more forests need to be reclaimed, more boats need to be built to catch dolphins, and more houses are needed to live in."

"Besides, since the first batch of seven stone statues were erected, the island has created a belief for the first time, that is, those stone statues. As long as people still have physical strength, they will spend on making stone statues."

"The stones needed for the stone statues are all taken from the three extinct volcanoes on the island. The tuff is softer and easier to carve."

"There is no metal on the island, and the best processing tool is obsidian, which can be seen everywhere here."

Bi Fang squatted down, plucked the grass for a while, and took out a black rock, the rounded edge was sawed, reflecting the dark light, and it was extremely sharp.

Around the stone statues, the residents of the island are divided into several factions, who use different ideas to make stone statues, and occasionally there are battles for food and other resources.

The victorious faction will erect more and larger stone statues, and sometimes even topple the stone statues of the defeated side. Push down the stone statue of the opponent, which symbolizes absolute victory.

The size of the stone statue is getting bigger day by day, just like showing off one's own mansion.

This is nothing, what is really terrible is that the population is increasing. During the period from 1200 to 1500 A.D., when the construction of stone statues was the craziest, the population even exceeded 10,000.

A small island of more than 100 square kilometers obviously cannot afford to live in a society of gathering and hunting, with so many people multiplying.

To add insult to injury - or to say that it was inevitable - there are fewer and fewer palm trees on the island.

Palm trees are not commercial crops, so they grow very slowly. It takes two years from seed to germination, and 15 years from germination to a tree more than 10 meters high.

They were cut down to make boats and houses, to transport stone statues, to light fires for warmth, and to be eaten by mice for seeds.

It was in 1650 AD, when the population reached its peak of 20,000 people, that all the palm trees on Easter Island disappeared.

In addition to palm trees, several other tall trees also disappeared during this period.

The consequences of this are fatal.

The dolphin meat that people live on is gone, because there are no trees to build new boats to hunt dolphins in the deep sea.

However, dolphins once accounted for less than half of the food of the indigenous people on the island.

Most of the birds on the island have become extinct, because there is no forest, the birds will not come here to make nests, and the few remaining land birds have also been eaten up by the islanders.

The shellfish and conch, which were not seen at all in the past, were also caught up immediately.

In the future, the residents of the island can only rely on agriculture. In the past, agriculture was a supplement to the gathering industry, but now the vegetarian food such as taro, banana, and sweet potato has replaced the meat they used to eat.

The only protein that can be produced stably is eggs, and those chickens were descended from the chickens brought by the first ancestors who landed 1,000 years ago. If chickens were not introduced at the beginning, there may not even be a stable protein supply after 1,500 years.

By this time the islanders were desperately trying to find something to eat.

The rats that destroyed the palm trees were eaten up, and food production dropped drastically.

Limited resources!

Can't escape!

All want to survive!

The rest can only be the killing for resources!

Food is becoming increasingly depleted, and wars are escalating. All the completed and unfinished stone statues on the island have been toppled in the chaos of war.

The head of the stone statue was removed, and the eyeballs made of obsidian for the stone statue were also gouged out.

As a result, many stone statues that can be seen on Easter Island now only have high brow bones and no eyeballs in their eye sockets.

Accompanied by Bi Fang's narration, there is a desperate darkness in the plain tone.

Many people shuddered and got goosebumps all over their bodies.

【This is so scary.】

[What hell on earth? 】

[Is this why humans want to explore the universe? 】

[Damn, isn't the earth just an island? It's just that it's very big and has strong resilience. If humans don't point out star navigation technology, wouldn't they be equivalent to Easter Islanders without palm tree shipbuilding? 】

[Another pessimistic day]

[I'm still young, I'm only eighteen years old, why do you want me to think about the future of mankind (woo woo woo)]

Everyone seemed to see a vibrant paradise in front of their eyes, but in the end, because of unrestrained demands, one after another the creatures fell down, and finally only human beings remained on the entire island, killing each other.

From around 1500, the forests began to disappear, and until the first Europeans arrived on the island in 1722, during these 200 years, food shortages and wars caused the population of the island to drop from 20,000 to more than 2,000.

The islanders were skinny and skinny, and the social structure was completely broken.

The same kind of food even began to appear in the pot and pan food.

When the Dutch arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the guide brought by Tahiti also heard a very vicious curse: "Your mother's flesh is still embedded in my teeth!"

Bi Fang put the obsidian block into his backpack and stood up again.

"The current Easter Islanders no longer mention the past glory. The worship of stone statues is history for them. In the later stage of social collapse, they began to worship a new thing called birdman."

If it was a normal day, many viewers would definitely laugh when they heard this word, but now, they couldn't laugh no matter what.

"Although the trees on the island cannot build large ships, there are still more than enough carving handicrafts. They use a tree called Mailer to carve the image of bird people, worshiping big birds."

The collapse of society has made it impossible for the islanders to recast the glory of the ten-meter-high stone statues. They can only achieve inner satisfaction by carving some palm-sized bird-man stone statues.

"Perhaps their motivation for worshiping the birdman is to hope that one day they can grow wings like birds and escape from this 'island of death'."

"At that time, they could already see their desperation. There are many relief sculptures of bird heads and human bodies under the cliffs of this island."

Push the book, "The Abnormal Collector" is finished, and the brothers can kill it.