Seagulls, owls, and parrots were all the food of the first Easter Islanders. In addition, there were rats and seals because this place is extremely close to Antarctica.

In short, when they first arrived on the island, these islanders ate a combination of meat and vegetables, with dolphins as the main ingredient, accounting for one-third of the food.

The entire social state is very simple and belongs to the gathering and hunting life unique to the early stage of human development.

"However, this kind of good life with no worries about food and clothing has come to an end after more than 400 years. When most of the island's forests were cut down, they did not realize the seriousness of the problem. Instead, they felt that it was a waste to leave these empty spaces and satisfy their physical desires.

Then you should start pursuing spiritual enrichment.”

"So the islanders began to carve huge stone statues out of the tuff on the island. The first seven stone statues carved were about 10 meters tall. They all faced the sea, symbolizing the seven original leaders."

"At this time, the island's population has reached thousands. More forests need to be cultivated, more boats need to be built to go out to sea to catch dolphins, and more houses are needed to live in."

"And since the first batch of seven stone statues were erected, faith emerged for the first time on the island, that is, those stone statues. As long as people still have physical strength, they spend all their time building stone statues."

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

"There is no metal on the island. The best processing tool is obsidian. Obsidian can be found everywhere here."

Bi Fang knelt down, dug through the grass for a while, and took out a black rock with rounded edges and sharp edges, reflecting the dark light.

Around the stone statues, the residents of the island were divided into several groups, who used different ideas to build the stone statues, and occasionally fought for food and other resources.

The victorious faction will erect more and larger stone statues, and sometimes even knock down the losing side's stone statues. Pulling down the opponent's stone statues symbolizes absolute victory.

The size of the stone statues keeps 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 AD 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 gathering and hunting society with such a large population thriving.

To make matters worse - or inevitably, there are fewer and fewer palm trees on the island.

Palm trees are not a commercial crop, so they grow very slowly. It takes two years from seed to germination, and 15 years from germination to growing into a tree over 10 meters tall.

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

It was in 1650 AD, when the population reached its peak of 20,000, 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 were fatal.

The dolphin meat that people relied on for a living 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 consumed by the indigenous people on the island.

Most of the birds on the island are extinct. Because there is no forest, the birds will not come here to make nests. The few remaining land birds have also been eaten up by the people on the island.

Shellfish and conch, which were not worth much in the past, were all caught immediately.

Going forward, the residents of the island will have to rely entirely on agriculture. In the past, agriculture was a supplement to the gathering industry, but now vegetarian foods such as taro, banana, and sweet potato have replaced the meat they used to eat.

The only protein that can be produced stably is eggs, and those chickens are descendants of the chickens brought by our ancestors who first landed ashore 1,000 years ago. If chickens had not been introduced, there might not even have been a stable protein supply from 1,500 years on.

At 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 significantly. Resources are limited! No way to escape!

Everyone wants to survive! All that’s left is the killing for resources!

Food was depleting day by day, and the war was escalating. Both completed and unfinished stone statues on the entire island were torn down in the war.

The head of the stone statue was removed, and the eyes that had been made of obsidian for the stone statue were also dug out.

So much so that many of the stone statues that can be seen on Easter Island now only have high brows and no eyeballs in their eye sockets.

Along with Bi Fang's narration, the plain tone contained a despairing darkness. Many people shuddered and had goosebumps all over their bodies. [This is... a bit scary]

[What hell on earth?] [Is this why humans want to explore the universe?]

[Holy crap, isn’t the earth just an island? It’s just that it’s very big and has strong resilience. If humans don’t develop star navigation technology, wouldn’t they be like Easter Islanders without palm trees to build ships?]

[Another pessimistic day]

[I am still young, I am only eighteen years old, why should I think about the future of mankind (woo woo woo)]

Everyone seemed to see a vibrant paradise before their eyes, but in the end due to unrestrained demands, the creatures fell one after another. In the end, only humans were left on the entire island, killing each other.

From around 1500, when the forest began to disappear, to the first European arriving on the island in 1722, during these more than 200 years, food shortages and wars caused the island's population to suddenly drop from 20,000 to more than 2,000.

The islanders were skinny and skinny, and the social structure had completely collapsed. Similar species even began to appear in the food in the pots and pans.

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

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

"Today's Easter Islanders no longer mention the glory of the past. The worship of stone statues is history to them. In the later stages of social collapse, they began to worship a new thing called Birdman."

If it were normal times, many viewers would laugh when they heard this word, but now, they couldn't laugh out loud no matter what.

"Although the trees on the island cannot build large ships, they are still more than enough to carve handicrafts. They use a tree called Mele to carve the image of the birdman and worship the big bird."

The collapse of society means that the islanders can no longer recreate the glory of stone statues that are more than ten meters high. They can only achieve inner satisfaction by carving some palm-sized stone statues of bird-men.

"Perhaps their motive for worshiping the Birdman is that they hope to one day grow wings like a bird and escape from this 'island of death'."
Chapter completed!