Section 04 Tools

Chen Zheng's foothold on this planet is easy to find, as long as he follows the footprints he left when he fled here.

Fortunately, the ground is covered with a thick layer of snow, and the traces left behind can be used as a reference. Otherwise, returning to the previous place on the vast ice is like drifting on the sea with no reference, not to mention finding the previous place, and even whether you can come back is a matter of whether you can come back.

However, Chen Zheng still needs to prepare some tools before that, after all, he walked for more than 6 hours before he came to the shore, and it would not be less than 4 hours if he walked back.

He didn't have to think about Chen Zheng or walking, so he was going to make a pair of skis that he could use when exploring his surroundings.

Chen Zheng thought about the material of the board for a while, and finally chose a smoky and dried branch.

In fact, it doesn't matter what material you choose, after all, you can't make modern skis without waterproof coatings, resin glue, aluminum sheets, etc., and even anti-corrosion and moisture-proof materials such as tung oil or asphalt are not, which is destined to make skis as a temporary substitute.

With the amount of materials that Chen Zheng can obtain, the future skis will slowly evolve into the "monthly throwing" type and the "annual throwing" type, but now this kind of very primitive, without any treatment, and even the drying has not been thoroughly carried out, can only be made of the "weekly throwing" type.

However, although it has been destined that the life of the pair of skis will not be very long, there is one thing that must be done best, and that is the smoothness of the skis. If there are too many burrs, skiing is more strenuous than walking, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Chen Zheng carried the smoked material that had been caught on the campfire yesterday and walked in the direction of the forest, until he came to the huge stump of the tree that had been cut down before—the only dry and snowless place that Chen Zheng could find.

Jumping on the stump of more than 70 square meters, finding a flat place to sit down, Chen Zheng carried this piece of smoked material and checked it.

The log is about 2 meters long and about 15 centimeters in diameter, and it is full of smoky fire marks. Due to the uneven temperature during drying, a gap was split in the middle of the wood, which penetrated the entire log.

Chen Zheng held the wood with his left hand, closed one eye and went straight in the direction of the wood.

I don't know if it's the relationship between eating fish and meat in the past few days, or the relationship between "visualizing" the "dual-core" galaxy in the world, Chen Zheng's strength is much greater than before, this two-meter-long material is 6 or 70 catties, but he can fiddle with the whole sturdy log with one hand.

After turning it around and looking at it several times, Chen Zheng finally knew this piece of wood, thought about it with it, took the dagger and inserted it along the cracked place of the wood, and then found a wooden stick and slowly hit the dagger.

With the sound of cracking wood, the whole wood continued to crack along the gap until it finally split in two.

It was only at this time that Chen Zheng summoned a lightsaber, resting the surface of the wood with a sharp lightsaber, and where the lightsaber slashed, there were still some wooden thorns slowly cocking up from time to time.

This is the reason why the dagger is used to split first, instead of using the lightsaber directly to save trouble.

Although the water in the wood was almost evaporated during last night's smoking, the temperature was very uneven, with high carbonization in some places and still wet in others.

When this uneven drying continues into the morning, although the moisture in the wood is almost dry, the stress accumulated inside the wood fibers reaches its maximum in a short period of time, and when the limit is broken, it naturally becomes cracked.

The place where the cracks are produced is naturally the place where the internal stress is concentrated and released, Chen Zheng chose here, splitting the wood along the direction of the internal stress, releasing most of the stress, and the problem occurred when the province slipped halfway.

The pale blue light was constantly changing in Chen Zheng's hand, and it could be seen that he was becoming more and more proficient in the application of the lightsaber, which could not only grow to two meters wide open and close, but also shrink to the length of his index finger and be finely crafted.

In the sharp lightsaber, two snowboards, only a finger thick, gradually took shape.

After trying to test the center of gravity and no deviation, Chen Zheng said that the lightsaber reduced the size of the tip of the pen, and carefully took out four evenly sized holes in the middle and back positions, and the distance between the front and back holes was just the same size as Chen Zheng's shoes.

After doing all this, Chen Zheng turned the already formed skis on the stump, picked up the back of the dagger and pressed it on the back of the skis to slowly scrape.

Although the sharpness of the lightsaber makes today's skis look extremely smooth, in fact, the newly cut wood fibers still have small "threads" that are invisible to the naked eye, and when they get wet, they will warp, which will naturally affect the life and ease of use of the skis.

What Chen Zheng has to do now is to use hard metal to compact the wooden fibers that were previously cut by the lightsaber, so that the density of this side of the snow is slightly higher and smoother.

This kind of work is very tiring and tedious, but Chen Zheng still repeats the simple action with concentration, until the skis are already smooth to the touch, and then straighten up.

"Whew...... It's done. ”

Chen Zheng moved his sore waist, and the joints up and down his body made a rattling sound, and then returned to the fire with his skis, roasted the skis front and back slightly, and then bent them up to make them.

"Hmm...... Not bad. ”

Looking at this pure wood-colored and smooth ski, Chen Zheng showed a look of satisfaction on his face.

Although this is his first time making snowboards, he was a little weak when he first started to do them, but when the finished product is in front of him, its completion is far better than Chen Zheng's expectations, although it is not comparable to the modern skis in the store, but it is still above the standard.

After having skis, considering that there is a large plain after that, Chen Zheng also needs to have a pair of ski poles.

Don't look at Chen Zheng's easy way of making skis, making this pair of ski poles can give him a little headache, and the most high-tech part is the bump where the tip of the ski pole touches the snow surface.

On the one hand, it increases the resistance so that the poles do not get deep into the snow and cannot be pulled out, and on the other hand, it also gives the skier more forward momentum.

But it was such a small thing that made Chen Zheng a little embarrassed.

Chen Zheng's original idea was to directly carve a saucer-shaped bulge, but it turned out that the snow surface was very soft, and the ski poles easily plunged deep into the snow.

However, when Chen Zheng enlarged the butterfly shape, it directly caused the fragile saucer-shaped wood chips to break when he tried to support it.

Next, Chen Zheng's idea is very simple, if the strength is not enough, it will be thicker! As a result, a freak with the thickness of an apple at the bottom and a normal pole on the top of the handrail was born.

Chen Zheng tried it and found that it was too heavy, and it was not easy to use - also, this snow pole has caught up with the big mallet, and it will sink when you pick it up, can it be comfortable to use?

What to do?

The limitations of the strength of the material and the type of material made Chen Zheng helpless for a while.