Paths: Changes×Chances

chapter 10

Gon sat on his sleeping bag and started thinking about the spiecies they had seen so far

They noticed that all the animals had set their huts near the lake, Kite had a theory that the territory of the United States of Ochima used to be covered in swaps before humans started to reclaim the territory during the various agricultural revolutions that took place in the period going from 890 a.C and 1306 a.C

Kite had explained how Ochima used to be the center of the ancient world during that period, and Leorio explained how thanks to those revolutions, it was possible to find a soil near a vulcano in the region of Orsta, north of Maiadel, where a plant called Alos Salvator could grow very easily, this plant turned out very useful in medical treatments and helped researchers develop a cure to a specific bacteria that was weak to a gel released on the plant's leafs

Since the territory was used to grow these plants, the animals had fewer and fewer swaps where they could sustain their ecosystem and eventually had to live near lakes and rivers instead of swaps

Gon himself noticed how all the animals were very agile in the water and had specific traits made to thrive in a tropical environment

Eva, from a species called Fur Ursi, looked like a bear but was a bigger and a skin structure between it's paws allowed her spiecies to move in wanter much faster and in fact, Eva only ate fishes off the lake and had no hostility towards other mamals

Of course, Gon assumed the animal wouldn't have been as friendly if it had a cub to protect

Gon quickly thought back of all the species they met in the past four days. They were very particular, to say the least. Some resembled other animals, while some others looked like something completely different

He had met Eva during the second day of camping in the reserve, he had found her in the lake hunting, Leorio was scared at first but Kite allowed Gon to keep the bear for the time they would stay in the reserve and Leorio decided to roll with it, most importantly Eva was one of the only two tipes of predators in the reserve and it was also the biggest one, in fact they never got to meet the other predator, which according to Kite resembled a raccoon, probably they were afraid of the bigger predator and never took a step in Eva's territory

When the group wasn't going around doing researches they would usually walk together through the forest and spend time sharing experiences or simply doing some chatting to pass the time

Gon started reading some books Killua had brought with him and found stuff that was a lot more interesting than the old rusty books that were in his house on Whale Island, he begun getting intrested in modern fiction and planned on bringing some new editions on Whale Island when he'd get to go back

Leorio had started cataloguing some plants that  seemed to have some resemblence to a family of erbs that grew in the Belgerosse union, he also discovered that the plants from the reserve seemed to have effect much faster than the ones from the Belgerosse Union

He tried this by cutting his arm with his knife, and his wound had been disinfected in less than five minutes of exposure to the gel produced inside the leaf of the plant

Leorio had gone to the facility to ask if he could bring a couple of specimens with him, and the director approved

Killua didn't seem attracted to any animal or plant in particular. He just kind of followed Alluka around wherever she would go and seemed content with it

However, Killua seemed more interested in Gon than the reserve, Gon always had the feeling that Killua wanted to talk to him, and...Gon wanted to do that as well, but he himself didn't feel like it