Chapter 7 Basho Fan Sails
Alien scallop meat is delicious.
Alien crab meat is delicious.
The alien sea fish is also delicious.
This was Dong Chen's only thought after lunch.
Even in order to commemorate his first meal in the true sense of the word on this alien planet, Dong Chen also planned to take those two shells away as a souvenir.
After high-temperature barbecue and careful cleaning, the two shells are extraordinarily white, and the lines on the top look very beautiful.
After resting for a while after eating, Dong Chen also got a new piece of information, that is, time.
The planet's rotation period turned out to be 24 hours.
Yesterday, Dong Chen began to record the position of the "sun" after leaving the cabin, and this afternoon, after the "sun" reached the same position, exactly 24 hours had passed.
The rotation period of about 24 hours is not very unusual, after all, the rotation period of the Earth is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, and the rotation period of Mars is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22.6 seconds, both of which are about 24 hours, and there are two in one solar system.
But Dong Chen always felt that this 24 hours was a little different, especially when it came to the pterodactyl-like and dragon-king whale creatures he saw, as well as the familiar and plausible vegetation on the island, although they couldn't match the vegetation on the earth, but he always felt that there were some shadows.
The main thing is that the things he has seen on this alien planet so far are far from the feeling of "alien planet" as he imagined.
Maybe the universe is really full of wonders and happened to meet it, or this universe is suitable for the existence of this kind of living organism, so it looks somewhat similar, and it is not impossible.
However, after thinking about it for a long time, Dong Chen felt that this kind of conjecture with lack of evidence would be better to think less in the future, and it would be best to guess blindly without evidence, and it was the most difficult to refute himself.
Especially now that I am still suspected of "freezing stupid" sequelae, my brain and memory have not fully recovered, so don't think about these profound questions.
It's better to walk slowly, as he learns more about the planet, these things will gradually unravel.
Now, let's go to the other side of the land first, it's impossible to study this on this small island.
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"When—when—"
"When-when-when-"
With the sound of stones hitting the metal, Dong Chen began his own raft construction plan, and by the way, he also frightened some birds in the woods.
Since I didn't have a big axe or chainsaw, and I didn't want to make any stone axes, I had to use my own knife.
Use a stone to smash the knife diagonally downward into the trunk, and then cut diagonally upwards into the trunk with a slightly lower part, so that if the openings coincide, a piece can be cut off from the trunk, and the trunk looks like a lying V-shaped notch when viewed from the side.
The trunk that Dong Chen wants to use is not the kind of trunk that is too thick, as long as there is an arm thick, so that after operating around the trunk, the trunk with a thick arm will have an "hourglass structure", and the middle connection of the gap will be very thin, as long as you push hard, it will be broken.
Then clean up the branches and leaves on the top, cut off the excess trunk, and leave a three-meter-long trunk.
After another afternoon of following such steps, all the tree trunks that Dong Chen needed came out.
When cutting trees, as he became more and more proficient, Dong Chen could also watch and think about other things with two minds.
was about to leave this island, but Dong Chen had some feelings for this island.
Don't look at it so far, I've only been on this island for two days since I woke up, but after all, as the first land I landed on this planet, this island is still very memorable.
And his escape pod is still here, that guy is not only very heavy, but also has a big target, and he definitely can't take it away, so Dong Chen plans to hide it on this island.
In this case, maybe he will come back in the future, so Dong Chen planned to give this island a name, thought about it, and finally marked this place as "Hometown Island".
I don't know where the solar system is, so this island is the closest place to my hometown.
And this planet, Dong Chen plans to call it "The Other Star" first.
This galaxy is not named for the time being, and the stars are still called the sun, and the satellites are still called the moon, after all, they are used to it.
To top is to distinguish between the sun and moon of "this galaxy" and the sun and moon of "solar system".
As for the specific name, it will naturally be clear after seeing the native civilization on this planet.
In the evening, Dong Chen took advantage of the high tide to pry out the escape pod with a wooden stick, and then pushed it into the grove with great difficulty.
In the woods, Dong Chen found a cave when he explored before, and there were very lush plants growing next to it, which firmly covered the entrance of the cave, if it weren't for the scanning ability of Tianshu using smart bracelets, Dong Chen really didn't know that there was a hole inside.
The hole is not very large, but it is more than enough to put down the escape pod.
And after two days of exploration, Dong Chen found that this island really has no traces of civilized activities except for the traces he has been here this time, and it should be very safe.
It's been two days, and I haven't found any planes flying in the sky, but I've seen a few times like pterosaurs and large birds, and I haven't seen ships or anything, if it weren't for the flight routes and ship channels that don't pass here, then it is very likely that the level of civilization development in this world is not so high.
Otherwise, the distance of 100 kilometers from the mainland should not be too far, how can there be no trace of "people" landing on the island, to the stage of civilization development is relatively high, even if it is the stage of the earth, the island so close to the mainland has long been patronized by tourists.
However, even if it is discovered, with the level of civilization of this planet, as long as there is no technology that exceeds the earth's hundreds of years, it will not be opened, at most it will be transported away and put away.
Then before it was dark, Dong Chen found a banana tree......
No, the plantain tree......
No, it's supposed to be a banana tree.
Because this thing looks like the banana tree of the earth, it also has big leaves, and it is also a large herbaceous plant, but the fruit of this thing is not like a banana, and it is not even a relatively short and fat type of a plantain, but a fist-sized sphere.
It can be peeled like a banana, and the flesh is also white, and the scan results are very similar to bananas, but they are not ripe yet, so Dong Chen didn't try it.
But this thing has another great use, that is, there is nothing else in its herbaceous trunk, it is all long fibers, and it is not very good for kneading rope.
I found a banana tree that was not very thick, cut one in the same way, and then threw it into the small tan of the reef next to it and soaked it.
The fibers are too dry to peel, and if they are wet, they are easy to peel.
Then those large banana leaves were not lost, and then some large banana leaves were picked on other banana trees, and some thin vines with good toughness were dragged, which was the material that Dong Chen planned to use to make simple sails.
Night had fallen, Dong Chen turned on the solar light again, and after eating the remaining half of the energy bar, he began his sail making work.
A mast was made out of an arm-thick trunk, and then a frame was made with a few thinner sticks, which were tied with thin vines.
Pick a few large banana leaves on top of each other and put them vertically on the frame, basically covering the entire frame, and then use thin vines to tie the petioles on both sides to the frame.
Then put a few more horizontally and fix them with thin vines as well.
In this way, a simple sail that can hold the wind is basically formed, but in order to increase its structural strength, Dong Chen also used vines to pass through the overlapping places of banana leaves, like weaving a net with large holes.
After finishing, Dong Chen carried it up and carried it on his shoulder, and then tried to wave it back and forth, feeling that it could indeed hold the wind, and the petioles and vines gave the banana leaves good support, and the structural strength was not bad.
However, after a few waves, Dong Chen always felt like Sun Wukong was waving a banana fan, and he would not retract it when it became bigger.