Mr. Heavy. That's what Barr called the farmer on top of the plateau. The farmer had been using ropes and buckets to get up and down the top of the plateau so that no one could basically steal from him. And he'd been doing it for so many years that he could tell that he had set up a farm farmhouse shed and a plot of land. It's got to be like 2-3 hectares large on top of this plateau.

  Barr called this guy Mr. Heavy because this guy was big. Like, I want to say he's tall, but he wasn't, and he wasn't wide like fat. This guy, when you looked at him, you were like, "Go ahead, sir, I'll let you buy." And he was just a farmer. But he did everything by hand. He had no animals. He did it all. He was 100 percent all points put into strength and vitality.

  So Barr had been traveling through not a desert, but underground. It was very sandstone, and on the top, it was sandy, but also had some vegetation. And there were these different plateaus of rock that just went hundreds of feet up into the air, then were flat. So he decided to pick one that he had seen a little something going on—some tracks and some other stuff Barr could see from underground if you had been walking in the same spot. So animal paths were like beacons. He could just see the disturbances.

  When he found a disturbance going right up the side of one of these, it got curious, and he started making a path all the way through the plateau. Well, what he found inside the plateau blew his mind because inside of it was a giant geode. The geode probably could fit an entire shopping mall inside of it. It was huge.

  After Barr found the giant geode, he went about keeping any gasses from escaping or getting in while he made an entire city down there, out of giant crystals, multiple colors. And he just basically played in there for like three days, making houses, and his ability to apply force almost at the molecular level allowed him, when he placed things, to put enough pressure that they kind of bonded. They weren't a permanent bond, so you have to put weight down on things for them to work, but that was enough to give them friction and keep things moving.

  After a while, Barr got good at making small structures, like a little town. It was then and during that time that he had also been watching Mr. Heavy. And after watching Mr. Heavy just work for like 4 hours, Barr just went until the entire mess—the entire thing—all the little rocks for 10 feet down. He picked them all up and made fences everywhere to keep the winds from blowing them. He basically fortified the top of the mesa, then made it so that when rain would fall, it would pool and drain around the whole place.

  Within like 18 hours, it didn't look too much different, but Mr. Heavy knew something had changed, and he knew kind of what had happened. As the field started changing colors and he walked through, instead of being rocky with dirt, it was just slime. He started crying and fell to his knees. He saw the rock wall had just started appearing. He just sat at his home, drinking himself silly, because he watched as a god basically remade his home for him. And it was beautiful.

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  He then gave Mr. Heavy one of his little stone contraptions and sent a small message saying if Mr. Heavy could point out water in the area that no one was using. Mr. Heavy just pointed to the other plateau you could see, and Barr, that's all he wanted. Barr then didn't have to look and might have taken a couple of hours to dig that way. But now Barr found water.

  Well, Barr used that water connected to his giant Rube Goldberg machine as the way of turning it off in the end. So he emptied out the mesa as deep as he could go and allowed it to fill up with 100 times more water than it normally had. And at the very bottom, he put multiple pipes, but he plugged them all. They would unplug until the back pressure popped them all, and then the water would flow down.

  He then spent at least three years making sure that water was flowing right and that the mesa actually became a water tower for the whole continent at one point. So it was kind of neat the day that Mr. Heavy watched the skies light up, the explosions happen, and then the giant explosion of water on the other mesa. Then the world was sucked in—the sound of the world just being sucked down. And then the environment just changed for the next day. The clouds, everything—it rained and rained and rained.

  Mr. Heavy's farm was inundated with so much water. The things Barr had done inside the geode set up an overflow system so that if Mr. Heavy's farm was ever going to be flooded, the water would not go into the geode but would go around into smaller pockets, which would then use that to spray out around the mesa, bringing life to the base of his home. And with that, Mr. Heavy was welcomed into the New World, going from a hard, rocky garden of safety to the most vibrant, lush, green garden across the entire savannah/desert area that he lived in.

  And his mesa would stay hydrated with its reservoirs pumping, thanks to air pressures and air currents—the way that started up for at least a couple of weeks extra. And if it rained, that would only get longer that it would stay hydrated.

  What Barr didn't know is that Mr. Heavy was an ex-con who had about a bounty out on his head, but because he had turned over a new leaf and saved some people in the local town, two people knew of him. Every once in a while, they would just come to the base of his tower, tie a rope, pull on it, and he'd pull up a basket. He'd send down little of his money he had left, and they'd send up stuff like salt and other spices. And they'd leave that basket hanging there for when they came back. If it wasn't there, then they had the right to go up and make sure that he wasn't dead. But for years they had been going and trading, and he never seemed to run out of money, so they never tried anything.

  It wasn't until they came and found all the plant life growing that they looked in the bucket and there was a note on a stone tablet from him saying he'd be back for his farm, but he was going on an adventure to pay back the spirit of the mountain. And that if he came back and his farm was harmed, he'd be very upset.

  The merchant realized that the ex-con, Mr. Heavy, had climbed all the way down the sheer wall with only one rope and walked away from his mountain to go repay a debt. The people in town—the right ones—were told that this would now be off-limits for the next year or two. And everyone saw someone would check on this tablet to see if it had been removed.

  That merchant also left a piece of wood, saying, "Burn this and put it back in the bucket when you're home."

  It was kind of odd. Barr didn't get to see this, but to see a very built man walking in robes and with a staff into the forest—it was just odd, but beautiful.