Chapter 4: A Fragment of a Plank

"I didn't expect this place to be an island."

Dong Chen stood on a relatively high reef by the sea, looking at the black shadow that stretched as far as the eye could see, "That side should be the real land, but the coastline is quite long." ”

"Yes, sir," replied Tianshu, "the length of this coastline is not a continental land or a giant island, and if there is a high-level intelligent civilization on this planet, then the land area there is enough to support the existence of civilization. ”

"That's okay," Dong Chen stretched out his head and looked at it a few times, stretching it in front of his eyes with his hand, and the black shadow over there magnified a little more, "You calculate the distance from here to the opposite side and see how far it is?" ”

"Okay, sir, please raise your arms to your chest, the smart bracelet carries a laser ranging system."

Dong Chen made corresponding actions according to his words, and then began to wait for the results.

There are quite a lot of functions integrated in the smart bracelet, and he definitely can't remember it himself, so he will often ask Tianshu, and then Tianshu will retrieve the list of functions to answer and operate.

A minute later, Tianshu got an accurate data, and by the way, he also showed Dong Chen a basic model of the continental side structure in his line of sight composed of points and lines, marking the distance to several major locations.

"Sir, the closest distance we have to the opposite side is about 150 kilometers, but this is only the distance within the line of sight, because the distance is too far, affected by the curvature of the planet, we can't see the lower part of the opposite side."

"So the distance to the other side is almost 150 kilometers, and the real coastline distance is about 140 kilometers to 100 kilometers."

"That's more than 100 kilometers away," Dong Chen looked at the distance marked in the Book of Heaven, touched his chin and said, "It seems that we have to build a raft, in this strange place, I don't want to swim across the ocean and break a world record for swimming across the ocean." ”

"Homemade simple raft rowing, if the weather is good, more than two days a day can be done, but floating in the sea, sleeping on this kind of raft is a problem, I don't know if it will work overnight, if you weave a simple sail with long leaves, you should set off in the morning and arrive at night."

Looking at the dense woods on the island, Dong Chen felt that there was no need to worry about the materials used to build the raft.

"Book of Heaven, do you have raft construction materials in your database?"

"Didn't find the exact item you need, sir," said Tianshu to show Dong Chen a few exquisite sail wooden boats, both Chinese and Western-style, "but there are such ones, is it okay?" ”

“???”

Looking at the shortest hull of 12 meters, Dong Chen said with black lines on his head, "Forget it, you can keep it to play by yourself, and when the time comes, I'll cut some trees and make a simple raft by myself." ”

Originally, all the electronic devices around me were under the management of No. 1, due to hardware limitations, "Book of Heaven" can only be regarded as general artificial intelligence, but with quantum communication technology, No. 1 can search for information anywhere at any time, so a lot of low-level basic information has not been put in.

"If you know that this will happen, you won't stuff some movies, music, novels and cross talk." Dong Chen muttered.

"But...... In this kind of place, maybe the movie or something is more valuable, and rafts are actually very easy to build. ”

Now the raft is not in a hurry, the construction of the raft and the crossing of the sea can not be completed in a day, looking at the "sun" that has reached the equivalent of two o'clock in the afternoon in Huaguo, Dong Chen plans to explore the island first.

It was already some distance away from his escape pod, and it was a bend, and it was this bend that allowed him to discover the continent across the sea.

At first, he just saw a lot of black mountain shadows, and so many mountains were connected, so it must be a large piece of land, so he immediately climbed a large reef nearby, stood high, and then used the retinal monitor to zoom in, and sure enough, he saw more land.

When the escape capsule was forced to approach the planet, some sensors on the escape capsule obtained some planetary information, but because the fall process was interfered with by the asteroid, the data was not very large and not very accurate.

But that's it, Dong Chen also knew that the volume of this planet was slightly smaller than that of the earth, and the gravity was also smaller than that of the earth, only about 92% of the earth's gravity, which made Dong Chen always feel light and fluttering when walking on the beach of this island.

I don't know if it's because of stepping on the sand, or if it's because the gravity is slightly smaller.

After walking for a while, Tianshu, who was given the "active search task" by Dong Chen, circled a suspicious item with a red line.

"Sir, an unnaturally formed object has been found, suspected to be a fragment of a wooden plank, please go to the red mark to check at the beginning, 35 meters away."

"Oh?"

Dong Chen ran over in surprise, and said as he ran, "It seems that there is indeed a high-level intelligent civilization in this world, and traces of civilization can be found on any island, which shows that the level of development of civilization on this planet should not be very low, at least it should not be the primitive tribe stage." ”

Dong Chen, who ran to the target location, really saw a wooden board buried in the sand, and when he pulled the wooden board out of the sand, he found that it was a wooden board 40 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide.

The long side is smooth and neat, and the wide side is unevenly broken, which should have been violently broken and fell.

Patting the sand on the top, fiddling with it in his hand a few times, and letting Tianshu finish scanning, Dong Chen touched the surface of the somewhat rough and wet wooden plank and said, "It feels like it should be a piece of wood on the ship." ”

"The ship must have been damaged by war or bad weather, and then a lot of broken planks were scattered, and finally this piece of debris drifted here."

Tianshu, who had completed the scanning of the planks and had completed the calculations, said, "Yes, sir, according to my scanning and simulation calculations, this piece of wood should come from the deck of a ship, or even the cabin deck, at least it is usually kept away from the seawater. ”

"Its seawater corrosion has not been in existence for a long time, after the previous detection of seawater, combined with the current seawater corrosion state to calculate, it should not be in contact with seawater for no more than ten days, the incident site is very close to us, and there is a certain chance that it is floating from the opposite continent."

"But in either case, it means that we should not be far from the gathering area of civilization in this world."

Dong Chen nodded when he heard this, turned his head and looked at the coastline in the distance, feeling that the meaning of it to him was a little different.

At least I know that there is really a high-level intelligent civilization on this planet, and I am not alone on this planet, and I don't have to stay with animals forever, or even live with plants for a lifetime, which is really miserable.

This island is not small, and Dong Chen, in order to prevent accidents, did not run around in such an unfamiliar place, but advanced on the beach at a speed that is usually slightly slower than walking, so he turned to the whole island until it was dark.

After the sky was completely dark, Dong Chen sat on a big stone not far from the sea, turned on the lighting equipment, and felt the feeling of the light shining.

He only felt like he had been in the dark for three or four days, only to wake up and realize that it had been 210 years, so he didn't want to stay in the dark anymore.

Since it wasn't cold at night here, Dong Chen didn't light a fire, and he didn't boil or heat it when he ate energy bars, so he turned on the light and finished the job.

Dong Chen gnawed on the energy bar, sorted out today's harvest, looked at the image of the creature that he saw when he looked up because he heard the cry, and after the model restoration of the Book of Heaven, how did Dong Chen look like a pterodactyl.

Even if it's not a pterosaur from the age of the earth's dinosaurs, at least it's a similar creature.

After chewing another bite of the energy bar, Dong Chen was a little puzzled, "How could such a creature appear here, could it be that the development of life planets in the universe must go through this stage?" ”

"And what the hell are dinosaurs and advanced intelligent civilizations living together? Dinosaur...... Sperm? ”

"Sir, there is no actual evidence to prove that the development of life planets has gone through the age of dinosaurs, and the data models on the earth are all based on theory," Tianshu said after showing a few theories of the earth, "but if you need to, I can start the data collection mission and then make a practical demonstration." ”

Hearing Tianshu's inquiry, Dong Chen didn't care, and after chewing another energy bar, he said, "There's no hurry in this matter, when we explore this planet, we will do it by the way." ”

"I hope the civilization on this planet is not too strange, otherwise how to communicate will be a problem."

After eating the last bit of energy bar, Dong Chen lay down and looked at the starry sky on this planet.

It is more gorgeous than the starry sky of the earth, the sky is full of more stars and brighter, and the "moon" looks smaller, but the brightness is not small, but it is brighter than the moon on the earth.

But no matter what, this is a strange starry sky, and there is no trace of familiarity.

So where is the direction of the earth?