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2024-10-29 19:42:56“I do not believe in coincidences. It is merely the nature of things to be connected with one another. One reacts, and it affects the others, like a domino of fate.”
CHAPTER LXVII: More About the Villagers and the Cave of Writings; Another Puzzle Piece? (Part I)
“OH, HELLO HUMAN, why don’t you join us here?” Suddenly, an elephant offered me a bowl of some thick liquid in green color. It looked like some toxic formula for bombing if I were to be asked. But it had some bubbles and some black, springy stuff in it. I wonder what it was made of. “Oh, you haven’t had anything like this before?” it added as it noticed me looking at it for too long. “It’s a pysola. A soup made from raw caterpillars, squeezed and crushed together, mixed with some dried, salted grass and twigs.&r
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