Episode 10 The Feast of Genesis
The people of the autonomous group were not in a hurry to start the construction of the base immediately, and their first thought was to make a plan for the construction of the entire valley first. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
With Kelly's help, Danny used the Ark's computer to design several plans for the base. After careful and detailed discussion and revision of these plans, a set of camp construction plans was finally determined.
They plan to design the Valley of the Giants as a semi-militarized and semi-productive base, and the whole plan includes residential areas, production areas, farming areas, livestock areas, dock areas, fish pond breeding areas, etc., like a collection of small cities, once built, people can return to almost the same standard of living as the earth.
Although this design looks very good, it is not easy to implement, but it does not bother these intelligent and hardworking earthlings.
The next day, more than 40 days after the members of the Autonomous Group arrived on the island, as soon as the sun had just risen over the horizon, Grant and other members of the Convention gathered all the members of the Autonomous Group and announced the start of the construction of the camp.
They have a lot to do, but everything needs to be done from scratch.
First of all, Grant divides all the people of the autonomous group into different groups according to their own strengths, such as the construction team, the metal team, the planting team, the hunting team, the logistics team, etc., and these people will play their own skills in building the base. Next, there is the detailed division of labor.
To build a base, you need a lot of construction tools, and the first thing you need to do is to make a batch of suitable tools. People can't expect advanced tools such as mixers, lifts, and excavators like they do on the earth, nor do they expect a lot of finished cement, sediment and other materials, everything needs to be made by themselves.
People started by making a batch of metal tools. To refine metal tools, you must first have a furnace. In previous explorations, people found a large area of clay at the foot of the volcano, so a group of people were assigned to make brick embryos from clay, and then calcined them in a large fire to obtain a lot of bricks. Four furnaces were set up from these bricks, one of which they intended to use to refine the metal, one to continue to burn bricks, one to make everyday tools, and the other to produce other chemicals.
If you want to make it, you can't do it without energy. The previous exploration team had discovered a coal mine in the eastern part of the island, but it was too far away from the valley to mine it now. Fortunately, Dr. Connell and others discovered an open-pit coal mine in a small valley in the eastern part of the valley, and this coal mine is less than 4 kilometers away from the valley, although the reserves are not large, but enough to provide people with them. The discovery was so overjoyed that Sonia immediately organized a group of women to weave baskets and make poles, and had the sturdy convoy soldiers carry the coal basket by basket to the production area in the valley.
With the furnace and energy, the next step is to refine metal tools. Most of the iron ore on the island is concentrated in the easternmost part of the island, the coastal mountain range where Linda was found, but because of the distance, it is unlikely that the iron ore will be mined from the east to the valley. Grant decided to use local materials, and he asked the crew to remove a lot of unnecessary metal from the Ark, which was a good piece of steel.
As a result, the crew removed a large number of doors, windows, and decks in the face of the extremely ugly face of the modern captain. Then some of these materials were made into a blower, and under the operation of a group of people in the autonomous group who knew how to refine metals, these metals were returned to the furnace to be refined, and they were made into hammers, hoes and other tools.
With the tools and materials, the land had to be leveled to build a house on it. The soil of the valley is very fertile, so the variety of plants is very luxuriant, which is not suitable for humans who are accustomed to modern life, and the first thing they need to do to build a house on the ground is to level the land.
As a result, Ivanov, who was good at manipulating fire abilities, played an important role. After people lit a huge firework in the center of the land that needed to be leveled, Ivanov on the side immediately went up to the thousands, using his silver sword magic weapon to shoot a cloud of spiritual light and manipulate the fireworks. With his precise fire control, the fire burned just right according to people's intentions, destroying all kinds of vegetation on the ground and all kinds of pests hidden in it, and the two empty fields were revealed. One of them was about five or six acres in size, and it was intended to be built on top of a wooden house, while the other was much larger and close to the water source and was intended to be used for farming.
After Ivanov had cultivated the land, Tang Long sacrificed his Bagua Plate and aimed at the ground underground to shoot a yellow aura. Under the guidance of his magical earth attribute energy, the ground that was irradiated actually sank little by little. Tang Long urged the magic plate to constantly change the ground, and walked several times according to the planned path, and when he completed all this, a neatly planned farmland canal appeared on the cultivated land! He also designed a diversion canal to bring river water from the small river in the valley for irrigation, which solved the problem of cultivating water.
Hundreds of meters away, on the ground, which was mainly planned to be used for the construction of base houses, Dr. Arden and a group of staff first brought various measuring instruments, marked various marks on the ground, and after half a day of preparation, he led everyone to excavate the foundation with newly refined hoes and other tools. These scholars, who usually hide in the research room to do research, are now becoming construction workers one by one, and although they are very hard, they are extremely serious.
At the edge of a dense forest in the valley, Leo of the logging group was urging his diamond-shaped Venus magic weapon to emit a sharp energy light, and quickly cut down a big tree more than ten meters high in front of him, which was a sturdy oak wood, very suitable for casting furniture, and several people on the side immediately surrounded the fallen tree, cut it into planks of a certain specification with axes and saws, and then moved back to the valley one by one. Some of this wood is used as a material for building houses, and some is used to make various furniture.
Sonia and a group of women were busy weaving furniture and fishing nets next to makeshift tents in the valley, using rattan from the forest, wood cut by Leo and others, and cloth removed from the Ark. At the same time, the more than 30 women are also responsible for the food and various logistics of the entire team.
A few kilometers southeast of the valley, in a wooded area, Captain Schroeder and a few guards weave their way through the dense forest with their feet, stalking a huge creature that resembles the elk on Earth, one of the few large animals on the island that is relatively docile enough to provide meat for people.
When they cautiously approached the giant deer less than thirty meters, Schroeder aimed at its head. At this time, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, because people can't make bullets yet, so he has to save as many bullets as possible. Schroeder took a deep breath and decisively pulled the trigger, and after a loud bang, the multi-ton behemoth fell to the ground with a whimper. Schroeder lived up to his mission, he killed the big guy with one shot, and in one fell swoop solved the food for all the members of the autonomous regiment for several days.
Captain Modern and a crew crew drove two lifeboats aboard the Ark down the valley river for miles to the wide mouth of the sea. On a long stretch of mudflats, they found many clam-like shellfish on the earth, and when a crew member boldly ate one, they found nothing out of the ordinary, so they collected it with confidence. The beach and the beach above it are home to a variety of shells, seabirds, turtles and other creatures, which are abundant enough to feed the entire Blue Star. But Captain Modern would prefer to go out to sea to catch fish, but until Sonia and the others can make nets for him, a group of sailors accustomed to the wind and waves can only deign to collect shells.
At the same time, Dr. Bizet led another group of people along the edge of the valley, carefully searching for various junctions and gaps, and once they found a passage for wild beasts to enter and exit the valley, they immediately took local materials, cut down trees to make fences or move stones to block them, and some of the larger gaps were fenced with dense wood, and then piled stones and earth behind them, and planted some plants. After a while, the plants here will be able to fill the gaps, forming a solid earthen wall that is strong enough to block the entry of all kinds of wild beasts beyond the valley.
And Linda was not idle, he was busy building lighting fixtures with a group of people under the guidance of Dr. Connell. They removed two huge marine searchlights from the Ark and intended to install them near the makeshift camp so that they would have an adequate source of light. The electrical energy needed for the searchlight came from the Ark, a nuclear-powered research ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, which was docked at the bay in the western part of the valley, and was now a source of materials for the construction of the base, and the wires needed for lighting were also dismantled from the hull.
Of course, in order to take into account the emotions of the modern captain and the sailors, Grant even told Connell and Linda to do it after the captain set off for the beach.
The people carried out in an orderly manner according to the plan for the construction of the base, and although the tasks of each group were only completed a little, and some were only the beginning, the enthusiasm of the people was high, and everyone participated in the labor. Although these earthlings in the other world, although they are far away from human society and have no one to rely on, they have not given up hope of survival, relying on their ingenuity and hard-working hands, and strive to create a new life and survive in a harsh environment!
At the end of the first day's work, when night fell, the people returned to the makeshift camp in the valley, lit piles of bonfires, and sat around in twos and threes, eating the food prepared by Sonia and others, while eagerly discussing their respective work, and giving each other advice and arrangements.
In the crowd, the members of the Convention naturally stayed together, but only Tang Long sat by the fire, looking at the blazing bonfire, he suddenly remembered something, and asked Grant on the side, "Doctor, what day on earth is today?"
"Today, it's February 9, 2013, Earth time. Grant thought for a moment and said immediately.
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, today should be our Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve, right?" Tang Long sighed lightly. The so-called thinking of relatives every festival, unconsciously, everyone has been displaced to a different place for more than a month, thinking of relatives on the earth, naturally I can't help but feel a little sad.
Hearing Tang Long and Grant talking, the people next to him were also touched, and many Chinese from China or other parts of the world in the autonomous group also became sad. Although the others are not Chinese, seeing them like this, they are also touched by the scene, and the whole atmosphere suddenly becomes sad.
Although Linda was also a little sad to see his companion like this, he had always been optimistic, and in order to cheer everyone up, he held back the nostalgia in his heart and said loudly: "My friends, don't be so sad. Today is China's Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is also a very grand festival for us Chinese to welcome the old and welcome the new year and welcome the beginning of the new year. We should not be sad today, but we should be glad that God has not abandoned us. Come to think of it, we were lucky enough to escape when those shark monsters invaded the earth, and there were no accidents when we passed through the wormhole, and we were alive and well. After going through these tribulations, we also preserved the Ark and Hope intact, leaving us with the foundation and hope to survive. And today is a new beginning, we started the construction of the base, and it is also the day when we begin to be reborn in this world, and it is a day worth remembering. Why don't we remember today as an anniversary forever and celebrate it as a holiday, what do you think?!"
"Then what should be called today?" Everyone asked in unison when they heard Linda's words, and they immediately swept away the gloom and were in a happy mood.
"Well, I figured it out. As we begin the construction of our new home today, it is as God created the new world. Why don't you call this special day the Creation Day, what do you think?" Linda smiled and proposed loudly.
"Okay! Genesis Festival! That's a good name! Our Blue Star Autonomous Regiment finally has its first festival!" everyone cheered excitedly, swept away the sad emotions just now, and continued to drink and talk eagerly.
Linda didn't expect that his temporary proposal would become the most important and sacred festival for all human beings in the other world a hundred years later. From this day onwards, people also regard this day as the beginning of a new era in the calendar, which is called the Blue Star Era.