Red Maple Leaf Boarding School (25): "They Still Didn't Find the Medicine They Wanted"
Two hundred years ago, two races separated by vast oceans met each other's gaze on an endless expanse of black earth. With neither their languages nor writing systems in common, they could communicate only through the most primitive gestures and signs.
The unfamiliar environment and sweltering climate left the outsiders struggling to adapt at first. They frantically drove away venomous insects and wild beasts, pitched flimsy tents on the damp soil, and begged the indigenous people—who still engaged in primitive production—for food.
Under the natives' hospitality, the outsiders quickly witnessed the marvels of this land. Gold and precious gemstones lay piled everywhere, and simply throwing seeds into the soil promised a bountiful harvest.
Greed spurred them to claim the land for themselves, but what drove them even more was arrogance. In their eyes, it was only natural for advanced civilization to reshape backward civilization.
The occupation and colonization proceeded smoothly. More and more outsiders took root in the foreign land, while the pathogens they had brought spread through the population. Vast numbers of natives died in sudden outbreaks of plague, leaving behind even more land to be occupied.
Human desire was inexhaustible. More absurdly, people often could not distinguish between the desire to possess, the desire to kill, hunger, and lust, and were accustomed to lumping together every act that could display their status.
After completely dominating the newly discovered continent, they hunted the natives as though they were no different from deer, cattle, or sheep, while eagerly indulging in all the desires forbidden by public morality.
Some illnesses might not have spread through ordinary means, but after more explicit contact and indulgence that defied nature, new pathogens bred in damp, foul-smelling places, like punishments and