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The Cursed Ship - Chapter 7

Published at 3rd of August 2022 07:01:51 AM


Chapter 7

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Zheng Yang thought to send the boat spirit back, thinking about the plan of collecting materials, while going home to wash and make breakfast. If it wasn't for the limitation of psychic reserve, he even wanted to tear down the house and turn it into material, and transform it into a "house boat" in one step.

At present, the biggest shortage is wood and steel. The rotten boats at the wharf can't get out two useful boards. Zheng Yang had a big bottle of fresh water for breakfast, packed his tools and went out again.

The island has a radius of about seven or eight kilometers, about twenty-five kilometers around the island.

Zheng Yang jumped on the spirit boat, put away his backpacks, rowed the boat for more than ten meters, and then set sail for the first time. Today, the sea breeze is gentle, which is suitable for him to be familiar with the operation of the dhow.

With the wonderful state of "man ship integration", Zheng Yang had a clear grasp of the wind condition of the spirit sail and the stress direction of the spirit boat. After a while, he mastered that he could get power by changing the angle of the triangular sail and drove the spirit boat around the island to the back.

At this time, the speed of nature is not 5 knots, but it is much faster than rowing, and it is more labor-saving. Two hours had passed when we got to the back of the island.

In the sea about 100 meters away from the shore of the island, a bow of the ship is exposed above the water.

To say that this sunken ship has something to do with Xiao Zheng Yang's family. At that time, it was the only private sightseeing boat that would come to the island. Unfortunately, it hit the rocks here, scraped the bottom of the boat, sank its tail, and put its bow on the rocks, which became what it is now.

Although no one was drowned at that time, it was said that the owner of the sightseeing boat was still bankrupt, and even the sunken boat was abandoned for salvage and towing. Since then, there have been no tourist boats coming all the way here, and the fishing village on the island is declining.

Xiao Zheng Yang's parents were two of the passengers who took the boat. After the accident here, they simply stayed in the fishing village on the island and settled down. Later, they gave birth to Xiao Zheng Yang.

The total length of the sunken ship should be 18 meters up and down. Some valuable things in the ship have been removed by the fishermen. That is to say, it is inconvenient to cut. Otherwise, the exposed part of the sea will have to be removed, which is a lot of steel.

Then, it became a favorite place for teenagers to play in the fishing village. Including now, there are several teenagers swimming in the sunken ship.

A few years ago, Xiao Zheng Yang also liked to come here with his friends, diving in and out, catching fish, looking for barnacles, and sometimes finding elephant clams, so he knew the general situation of the sunken ship.

Moreover, there was no death in the shipwreck accident, and all the passengers were saved, so Zheng Yang believed that there was no evil here.

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The main body of the spirit boat must be mainly made of wood, which is clearly recorded in the ancient travel notes. Zheng Yang didn't know what the reason was, but strictly implemented it anyway. However, this does not mean that Zheng Yang does not need much steel. What he lacks now is not only wood, gum, canvas and ropes, but also steel as keel, anchor, chain, winch, connecting rod, pulley block, rudder blade, directional plate, nail, binding material and hinge.

When Zheng Yang approached the wreck, the teenagers also found him and cried out excitedly. Even as the spirit boat approached the wreck, two of them tried to climb on it.

"Don't come up, the place is too small!"

Zheng Yang stopped it immediately.

"Ah Yang, are you here to play with us? You haven't played with us for a long time

"That's amazing. Ah Yang, you actually built a boat of your own. I heard from them yesterday that I didn't believe it!"

Zheng Yang took in the triangular sail, tied the cable to the bow of the sunken ship, and said to them, "my ship is too small, I want to make it bigger, so let's see what materials can be reused here."

A young man standing beside the wreck said, "ah, can it be reformed? I think it's better to build a new one! "

He was standing on the rock that had sunk the cruise ship. It was a little bit under the water. Now he was standing on the rock when the tide was not high. The water was deep enough to reach the bend of his legs.

At this time, the boy looked at the spirit boat with envious eyes, and continued:

"yesterday, my grandfather and I said that we also wanted to build a boat like you. My grandfather said that it was not good to use the boat board for such a small triangular sailing boat, which was a waste of board. You should use the long and thin wood of Houshan, the whole tree, just like making a raft. However, it takes a long time for the wood to be cut down to undergo complex preservative soaking and drying in the shade. "

With that, the boy turned and pointed to the mountain forest on the bank. There were many slender and straight trees.

As soon as Zheng Yang's eyes brightened, he said in secret that he had fallen into the mode of thinking, and he was looking for something. He can completely use these woods to transform them. They are generally thick, tall and straight. It's convenient to cut them by himself. Moreover, the whole wood is more solid, which saves the process of sawing.

If we don't do soaking and drying in the shade, we don't know if the effect of Lingchuan optimization is OK?

As a result, before Zheng Yang responded, the other two teenagers looked at each other and laughed. It turns out that they are also trying to imitate Zheng Yang's idea of shipbuilding.

"Ah Yang, the wood in this sunken ship is rotten and there is nothing to use at all. Let's go and cut down trees together. Then you can teach us how to build a ship!"I'll teach you an egg!

Zheng Yang is speechless. He can only put together a whole ship model. Then, when he is transformed into a spirit ship by the Dharma array and rituals, he automatically optimizes and improves it. How can he know how to build a ship!

"Let's cut down trees first. Since Fowler's grandfather knows this, we'll ask him to teach us then." Zheng Yang said to the boy on the reef, "what do you say, Feller?"

"Good!"

With a common goal, these teenagers stopped playing in the water and swam back to the shore, ready to start work.

Zheng Yang also untied the cable, too lazy to lift the sail, picked up the oars and rowed to the shore.

"Grandfather said that as long as there are only about twenty of these fine trees, it will be enough to build a simple dhow. We'll start cutting now. We'll be able to cut enough wood for our boat before noon. By the way, do you have any tools with you? "

The young man named Feller took an ax out of his backpack and began to draw excitedly.

Zheng Yang took out a handsaw while the other two teenagers took out a double saw.

Well, it's all bear kids. They're all ready one by one!

Zheng Yang tried to specify the whole log in the transformation plan before he started. It's amazing. As long as he imagines it, it can be seen in the image. Then this kind of log replaces a lot of wood in the feedback material list, and the consumption of psionic power does not increase but decreases. He also tried to specify the replacement of wood with steel, but the feedback was "invalid"!

This shows that it is feasible to use the whole wood directly as the main material to transform the spirit boat, and it is better than the original plan, but the amount of gum and steel needed has increased several times.

As a result, the four teenagers began to work enthusiastically, cutting or sawing from the edge of the forest. The efficiency was amazing, and a tree could be put down in a few minutes.

This kind of tree is straight and even, more than 10 meters high, with low density and few branches, and easy to repair. At noon, they caught fish, roasted fish for lunch, and then continued to work. At about 4 p.m., they worked together to carry at least 20 repaired tree trunks to the seaside. Among them, Zheng Yang has more than 40 tree trunks. Because he has to lay the deck, part of the wood will be turned into boards.

Next, we need the help of their adults. Tomorrow, they will come to tie up these woods into rafts and drag them back to the fishing village for treatment. Zheng Yang declined Feller's good intention to help him drag it back, saying that he would just leave his wood here and deal with it.

Feiler and the other three teenagers walk the mountain road back to the fishing village with a full sense of achievement. Zheng Yang looks at his pile of wood with great joy.

"I'm going to collect gum, the more the better!"

The natural resources on the island have not been developed and are rich in reserves. For example, natural gum is easy to collect, and 20 to 30 jin can be collected in half a day tomorrow. As for steel, the shipwrecks here are ready-made.

Zheng Yang sailed back to the fishing village when it was dark, much slower than Feller and others. He hesitated, and decided to ask Hans to help him get some more canvas and ropes. Anyway, he was in debt, and he had been in trouble for so many times, and this time.




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