"Dad! I want to eat meat."
On an island in Southeast Asia, a group of wild men huddled inside a cave. They wore padded jackets, had leather wrapped around their hands and feet, and blankets wound around their necks and even their faces.
Surprisingly, despite all that, not a drop of sweat covered their bodies. They were even curled up as if they were freezing. The skin exposed on their faces was covered in obvious frostbite!
Only a dark-skinned boy dared to approach the cave entrance. He was sweating all over from the heat and had even become dizzy from heatstroke. He could only feel a little better by constantly rubbing essential oil onto his face.
He stared longingly at the seabirds flapping outside the cave, looking ravenous. "The bird Big Brother caught last time was really delicious."
An elder beside him handed him a potato. "That was all an illusion, Tengkong. Eat this."
"Oh." The boy unhappily gnawed at the potato. After the elder left, a somewhat older young man crawled in from outside the cave with a greasy face. Sneaking around, he handed him a roasted bird leg.
His eyes lit up, and he hurriedly took it and began eating. "Big Brother, did you sneak out to hunt birds again?"
Big Brother grinned. "I even ate a sea turtle!"
"What's a sea turtle?" the boy asked.
"That big thing I showed you last time. I told you, I was definitely going to eat it." As he spoke, the young man pulled out two more potatoes and handed them to the boy. "Tengkong, I'm full. You can have my share."
Tengkong licked his lips. "Big Brother, Dad said last time that you were so thin you were almost dead. Even if you sneak food from outside, you can't stop