The Cursed Ship Chapter 7: When the transformation is in progress
Zheng Yang thought about sending Chuanling back, thinking about the plan of collecting materials, while going home to wash and make breakfast. If it were not for the limitation of psionic reserve, he even wanted to dismantle this home into materials and transform it into a "houseboat" in one step.
Currently, wood and steel are the most lacking. The rotten boats at the dock can no longer dig out two useful wooden boards. Zheng Yang settled for breakfast, filled a large bottle of fresh water, packed up his tools, and went out again.
This small island has a radius of about seven or eight kilometers, and it is about 25 kilometers up and down around the island.
Zheng Yang jumped on the spirit boat, put away his backpack, rowed out the boat for more than ten meters, and set sail for the first time. The sea breeze today is gentle enough for him to be familiar with the operation of the dhow.
has the wonderful state of "the unity of man and ship". Zheng Yang has a clear grasp of the wind-eating condition of the spirit ship and the direction of the spirit ship’s force. After a while, he mastered the power by changing the angle of the spinnaker. , Driving the spirit ship around the island to the back.
At this time, the speed is naturally not 5 knots, but it is also much faster than paddling, and it is even more labor-saving. When we got to the back of the island, two hours had passed.
In the sea about a hundred meters from the shore of the island, a section of the bow of the ship was exposed above the water.
I want to say that this shipwreck has some connections with Xiao Zhengyang's family. Back then, it was the only private sightseeing cruise ship that would come to the small island. Unfortunately, after hitting the rocks and breaking the bottom of the ship, its tail sank and the bow rested on the reef, and it became what it is now.
Although no one drowned, I heard that the owner of this sightseeing cruise ship went bankrupt because of this, and even the sunken ship gave up salvaging and towed it back. Since then, there have been no tourist viewing boats coming all the way here, and the fishing villages on the island have become more and more declining.
Xiao Zheng Yang’s parents were the second passengers who took the ship that year. After the accident, they simply stayed here to settle in the fishing village on the island, and later gave birth to Xiao Zheng Yang.
The shipwreck should be 18 meters in length. Some valuable things in the ship were taken away by the fishermen, which is inconvenient to cut. Otherwise, the part that is exposed to the sea has to be taken away. Less steel.
Then, it became a favorite place for children in the fishing village to play. Including now, there are several teenagers playing in the water on the sunken ship.
A few years ago, Xiao Zheng Yang also liked to come here to have fun with his friends, sneak in and out, catch fish and find barnacles, and sometimes can find geoduck, so I know the general situation of this shipwreck. .
And there was no death in the shipwreck that year, and all the passengers were saved, so Zheng Yang believes that there is no evil here.
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The main body of the spirit ship must be mainly wood. This is clearly recorded in the ancient travel note. Zheng Yang doesn't know the reason for this, anyway, it is strictly enforced. However, this does not mean that Zheng Yang does not need much steel. In addition to wood, gum, canvas and cables, he also needs steel as a keel, anchor, chain, winch, linkage rod, pulley block, rudder blade, etc. Stabilizing boards, nails, wrappers and hinges, etc.
As Zheng Yang approached the sinking ship, the teenagers also found him and shouted excitedly one by one. Even waiting for the spirit ship to approach the sinking ship, two of them tried to climb onto the spirit ship.
"Don't come up, the place is too small!"
Zheng Yang quickly stopped.
"Ayang, did you come to play with us? You haven't played with us for a long time!"
"It's amazing, Ayang, you actually built a boat by yourself. Yesterday I heard them say that I still don't believe it!"
Zheng Yang took the spinnaker and tied the rope to the bow of the sunken ship, while saying to them: "My ship is too small and I want to make it bigger, so let’s see what materials can be reused here. ."
A young man standing next to the sunken ship said: "Ah, can it be remodeled? I think it’s better to rebuild one with less effort!"
He is standing on the reef that sunk the cruise ship in the past, a little bit under the surface of the water, and now he is standing on top when the tide is not high, the water is only reaching the corner of his leg.
At this time, the boy looked at the spirit ship with envious eyes, and continued:
" Yesterday, I told my grandpa that I would also like to build a boat like yours. Grandpa said that such a small dhow is not good for practical use and wastes the plank. The slender wood of the back mountain should be used. The whole tree is used like a wooden raft. However, after the wood is cut down, it has to undergo complicated preservative soaking and shade drying, which takes a long time."
said this, while the boy turned and pointed at the forest on the shore, there were indeed many slender and straight trees.
Zheng Yang's eyes lit up, and he secretly said that he was in a fixed mindset, and he worked hard to find a plank. He can use these woods to rebuild it. This kind of trees are generally thick, tall and straight, and it is easy to cut them by themselves, and the whole wood is stronger to use, eliminating the need for sawing the board.
is if you don’t do soaking and drying in the shade, I wonder if the optimized effect of Lingchuan will work?
Before Zheng Yang could respond, the other two teenagers looked at each other and laughed. It turned out that they were also trying to imitate Zheng Yang's idea of shipbuilding.
"Ayang, the wood in this shipwreck is rotted, and there is nothing to use. Let's just cut down the trees together. Then you will teach us shipbuilding!"
I teach an egg!
Zheng Yang is speechless, he can only put together a full-length ship, and then it is automatically optimized and perfected when it is transformed into a spirit ship by the magic circle and rituals. Where do you know how to build a ship!
"Let’s cut down the trees first. Since Ferrer's grandfather understands this, we will ask him to teach when the time comes." Zheng Yang said to the young man on the reef: "What do you say Ferrer?"
"Good!"
With a common goal, these teenagers stopped playing in the water and swam directly back to the shore, ready to start work.
Zheng Yang also untied the rope, too lazy to raise the sail, picked up the oars and rowed over to the shore.
"Grandpa said that as long as twenty or so thin trees of this kind are enough to build a simple dhow. We start cutting now, and we will be able to cut enough wood for our boat by noon. By the way, you guys Have you brought tools?"
The young man named Feller took out an axe from his backpack and gestured excitedly.
Zheng Yang took out a hand saw, and the other two teenagers took out a double saw.
Okay, they are all bear kids, all are ready one by one!
Zheng Yang tried to specify the entire log to be used in the renovation plan before starting his hands. It’s amazing, as long as he imagines it, the image will show up, and then this kind of log will replace a large amount of wood in the feedback material list~IndoMTL.com~ and the consumption of psionic energy has not increased but decreased. He also tried to specify the use of steel to completely replace wood, but the result was "the plan is invalid"!
This shows that it is completely feasible to directly use this whole wood as the main material to transform the spirit ship, and it is better than the original plan, but the amount of gum and steel required has increased several times.
So the four teenagers started to work in full swing. They started cutting or sawing from the edge of the woods. The efficiency was amazing. They could bring down a tree in a few minutes.
This kind of tree grows straight and even, more than ten meters high, with low density and few branches, so it is easy to repair. They caught fish and grilled fish for lunch at noon, and then went on to work. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they worked together to carry at least 20 repaired tree trunks to the beach. Among them, Zheng Yang has the most trunks, with more than forty trees. Because he still needs to lay decks, part of the wood will be converted into boards for use.
Next, they need an adult from their family to take action. They will come over tomorrow to tie the wood into rafts and drag them back to the fishing village for disposal. Zheng Yang declined Feeller's kindness to help him drag it back by the way, saying that it would be good if his wood stayed here and he would deal with it.
Feller and other three teenagers walked back to the fishing village with a sense of accomplishment. Zheng Yang looked at his pile of wood with great joy.
"I'm going to collect gum, the more the better!"
The natural resources on the small island have not been developed, and the reserves are abundant. Like natural gums, they are easy to collect. You can collect 20 or 30 kilograms in half a day tomorrow. As for steel, isn't the shipwreck here ready-made?
When Zheng Yang drove the boat back to the fishing village, it was just dark, much slower than Feller and others. He hesitated, and decided to ask Hans to help get some more canvas and cables. Anyway, he had a lot of debt, and he had troubled others so many times, and it was not bad this time.