Thump!
A large tree, thick enough to require five or six people to encircle it with their arms, fell straight to the ground.
An elderly man with greying hair and a hunched back approached the fallen tree.
His body trembled, as if a gust of wind could knock him over.
The old man stooped to squat slightly.
Pff!
With one thrust, the old man's right hand penetrated the trunk.
The tree, which had grown for hundreds of years, was as soft as tofu.
Then, with an understated motion, he lifted the tree single-handedly above his head and walked eastward.
About five hundred meters to the east, a pile of wood had accumulated into a small hill.
Reaching the pile of wood, the old man casually tossed it. The massive trunk, seven or eight meters in length, carrying its enormous crown, whooshed through the air and landed neatly onto the five-meter-high wood stack at the top with a swish.
