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After two months of island life, Zhu Youzhen is no longer the soft, weak, and powerless little prince he used to be. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info The high-intensity physical labor not only made him suffer a lot, but also greatly exercised his physique.

Now his limbs are muscular, his chest and abdominal muscles are angular, and even his head has grown a little taller. Due to the long-term exposure to the wind and sun, his skin has turned a toned bronz, and he really looks a bit like the fierce warriors of the primitive tribes in the tropics. Nearly 100 catties of wood, he could easily carry it on his shoulders, trot all the way from the top of the mountain to the sea, and then return to the summit with a brisk walk, repeating it several times.

Not only that, Zhu Youzhen also practiced an excellent hunting skill. Because although he has a division of labor with Li Zhenyan, and he doesn't have to do the hunting work, he still has some machismo in his bones, and thinks that although women should also work, they are still suitable for doing light manual labor such as weaving and childcare. As for the dangerous and hard work of hunting, it should still be done by men.

It just so happened that he had a master Li Zhenyan with strong martial arts, and he had a lot of time, so in addition to building a house, Zhu Youzhen would always pester Li Zhenyan and ask her to teach him the skills of hunting.

As the saying goes, "there is nothing difficult in the world, only people with hearts", although Zhu Youzhen has no foundation in martial arts, but he is better with his heart. In addition, the living environment is harsh, and if you can't catch prey, you have to go hungry, so Zhu Youzhen quickly learned spearfish and archery.

Especially archery, although the bows and arrows he and Lee Jung-yeon made were very simple, he could also accurately shoot the seabirds perched on the reef within twenty or thirty steps. Even if you can't shoot 100 times, you can shoot 5 or 6 times out of 10. And this is not a practice of shooting targets, but shooting live animals, and it is basically close to actual combat. If he replaces a seabird with an enemy, he is sure that he will have a higher chance of hitting, because the size of a person is much larger than that of a seabird.

Now that it has entered the cold winter, the two have stocked up on a large amount of food and firewood for the winter. The house has also been built, everything is ready, only the boat is owed, and Zhu Youzhen can finally start making canoes.

However, before that, Zhu Youzhen still used the remaining wood from the wooden house to build a raft first. Then I made two wooden paddles so that I could paddle in the sea near the island.

The reason why I want to make a raft is because Zhu Youzhen knows that the canoe is too difficult to make. If rafts can also sail long distances, then why bother.

But when I got out to sea, I realized that no matter how tightly the raft was tied, it was made of multiple pieces of wood after all. There was no wind and waves in the sea, and under the repeated lapping of the sea, the raft soon became unstrong. In addition, the wood used for the raft is relatively fine, and after being soaked in seawater for a long time, it will absorb a lot of water, resulting in deformation and cracking. It is undoubtedly very dangerous to use such a thing to go on a long voyage.

It seems that there is no way to be lazy, so Zhu Youzhen had to honestly start making canoes.

The first step is to select the material. Because the canoe, as the name suggests, is made from a whole tree trunk, so that it is not unsturdy like a raft. And if you want the boat to be stable in the sea, the bigger the better.

Zhu Youzhen traveled around the island and finally chose the largest pine tree near the top of the mountain. This pine tree is supposed to belong to the cedar species, the trunk is straight to the sky and is more than ten meters high, the branches are luxuriant, and the thickest part is almost one meter in diameter, which is very suitable for shipbuilding.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen knows that among the many types of wood, oak is the most suitable for shipbuilding. In Europe, from the time of the Great Discoveries to the 19th century, all wooden sailing ships were made of oak.

But there is no oak on the island, so pine is the only option. Because pine wood is rich in pine resin, and pine resin can protect the wood well from water and microbial corrosion, so there is a saying of "water immersion of ten thousand pines". Although the coconut wood by the coast is easy to source, it is not so thick, and the other does not have the performance of pine, so Zhu Youzhen can only seek the near and far.

After choosing the materials, the next step is to cut down the big tree. This is another difficult project, because Zhu Youzhen does not have a chainsaw like the bald head, and his tools are only rough stone axes. If you want to use this thing to cut down a tree as thick as one meter, you can imagine how difficult it is.

And not only felling, but also transporting such a large tree from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, with the strength of Zhu Youzhen alone, is almost an impossible task. It is important to know that although the specific gravity of wood is smaller than that of water, it is also more than 0.5. A cylinder with a length of more than ten meters and a diameter of one meter, as long as you have learned three-dimensional geometry, will calculate the volume, and the pi multiplied by the square of the radius and then multiplied by the height, that is, more than ten cubic meters, folded into a weight of nearly ten tons. How do you get such a heavy guy?

In the end, Zhu Youzhen had to grit his teeth and be ruthless, and simply cleaned up all the slopes from this pine tree to the foot of the mountain. The so-called cleaning is to cut all the trees that block the road and remove all the large stones to form a relatively smooth slope. In this way, if all the branches of the tree are cut down and then cut down, the cylindrical trunk will roll itself down to the foot of the mountain. There is a huge reef below, and there is no fear of tree trunks rushing into the sea.

But it's easier said than done. Just cleaning up this section of the hillside took Zhu Youzhen a whole month. It was winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and the temperature on the island was already quite cold. Coupled with the frequent rain in this area, doing such heavy physical work in the bleak wind and cold rain can be imagined.

I don't know how many times, Zhu Youzhen was cold and tired, and he almost fell off the rake. But when he thought that there were still so many relatives on the mainland who didn't know his life and death, and were still anxiously waiting for his news, he gritted his teeth and told himself: You must hold on, and you must not give up!

After the hillside was cleared, the next step was to cut down the trees. This is even more difficult, because the pine wood is soft and tough, and the trunk is so thick that the blades of the stone axes are often smoothed, and only a shallow mark can be cut on the trunk, and the logging has to be suspended to make stone axes again.

After more than half a month, Zhu Youzhen had lost count of how many stone axes he had broken. It is now the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and he and Lee Jung-yeon have to spend the New Year on the island. Even on that day, Zhu Youzhen did not rest, he ignored Li Zhenyan's advice that "you can't work on the first day of junior high school, otherwise you will work hard for a year", and still persistently competed with the big pine tree.

As the so-called water drops and stones wear, under Zhu Youzhen's tireless work, the gap in the big tree is getting bigger and bigger, and finally ushered in the day when it was cut down!