The Cursed Ship

Chapter 7: While the renovation is in progress

   Zheng Yang thought about sending Chuanling back, thinking about the plan of collecting materials, while going home to wash and make breakfast. If it were not for the limitation of psionic reserves, he even wanted to dismantle this home into materials and transform it into a "houseboat" in one step.

   Wood and steel are currently the most lacking. The rotten boats at the pier can no longer produce two useful wooden boards. Zheng Yang settled for breakfast, filled a large bottle of fresh water, packed his tools and went out again.

   This small island has an area of ​​about seven or eight kilometers, and it is about 25 kilometers up and down around the island.

  Zheng Yang jumped on the spirit boat, put away his backpack, rowed out the boat for more than ten meters, and set sail for the first time. The sea breeze today is gentle enough for him to be familiar with the operation of the dhow.

With the wonderful state of "the unity of man and ship", Zheng Yang has a clear grasp of the wind-eating condition of the spirit ship and the direction of the spirit ship's force. After groping for a while, he mastered the power by changing the angle of the spinnaker. The spirit ship sailed to the back around the island.

   The speed at this time is naturally not 5 knots, but it is also much faster than paddling, and it is better to save effort. When we got to the back of the island, two hours had passed.

   In the sea about a hundred meters from the shore of the island, a section of the bow of the ship was exposed above the water.

  I want to say that this shipwreck has some connections with Xiao Zhengyang's family. Back then, it was the only private sightseeing cruise ship that would come to the small island. Unfortunately, after hitting a rock here and breaking the bottom of the ship, its tail sank and the bow rested on the reef, and it became what it is now.

   Although no one drowned because of this, I heard that the owner of this sightseeing cruise ship was still bankrupt because of this, and even the sunken ship gave up salvaging and towed it back. Since then, there have been no tourist viewing boats coming all the way here, and the fishing villages on the island have become more and more declining.

   Xiao Zheng Yang’s parents were the second passengers who took the ship that year. After the accident, they simply stayed and settled in the fishing village on the island, and later gave birth to Xiao Zheng Yang.

   This shipwreck should be 18 meters in length. Some valuable things in the ship were taken away by fishermen, which is not convenient to cut. Otherwise, the part exposed to the sea would have to be taken away. That is a lot of steel.

   Then, it became a favorite place for the teenagers in the fishing village to play. Including now, there are several teenagers playing in the sunken ship.

   A few years ago, Xiao Zheng Yang also liked to come here to have fun with his friends, sneak in and out, catch fish and find barnacles, and sometimes can find geoduck, so he knows the general situation of this shipwreck.

   And there were no deaths in the shipwreck that year, and all passengers were saved, so Zheng Yang believes that there is no evil here.

  ……

  The main body of the spirit ship must be mainly wood. This is clearly recorded in the ancient travel note. Zheng Yang doesn't know the reason for this, anyway, it is strictly enforced. However, this does not mean that Zheng Yang does not need much steel. In addition to wood, gum, canvas, and cables, he also needs steel as a keel, anchor, chain, winch, linkage rod, pulley block, rudder blade, etc. Stabilizing boards, nails, wrappers and hinges, etc.

   When Zheng Yang approached the sinking ship, the teenagers also found him and shouted excitedly one by one. Even when the spirit ship approached the sinking ship, two of them tried to climb onto the spirit ship.

   "Don't come up, the place is too small!"

   Zheng Yang quickly stopped.

   "Ayang, did you come to play with us? You haven't played with us for a long time!"

   "It's amazing, Ayang, you actually built a boat by yourself. Yesterday I heard them say that I still don't believe it!"

   Zheng Yang took the spinnaker and tied the rope to the bow of the sunken ship, while saying to them: "My ship is too small and I want to make it bigger, so let's see what materials can be reused here."

   A young man standing next to the sunken ship said, "Ah, can it be remodeled? I think it is better to rebuild one with less effort!"

  He is standing on the reef that sunk the cruise ship in the past. It is a little bit under the water. Now he is standing on top when the tide is not high, and the water is only as deep as his legs.

   At this time, the boy looked at the spirit ship with envy in his eyes, and continued:

"Yesterday, my grandpa and I said that I would also like to build a boat like yours. Grandpa said that for such a small dhow, its practical boat plank is not good and it is a waste of plank. You should use the slender wood like the back mountain, the whole tree It is used like a wooden raft. However, after the wood is cut down, it has to undergo complex preservative soaking and dry processing, which takes a long time."

   Saying that, the boy turned and pointed at the mountain forest on the shore. There were indeed many slender and straight trees.

   Zheng Yang's eyes lit up, and he secretly said that he was in a fixed mindset, and he worked hard to find some plank. He can use these woods to remodel it. This kind of trees are generally thick, tall and straight, and it is easy to cut them by themselves, and the whole wood is stronger to use, eliminating the need for sawing.

   If soaking and drying in the shade are not done, I wonder if the optimized effect of Lingchuan will work?

   Before Zheng Yang could respond, the other two teenagers looked at each other and laughed. It turns out that they are also trying to imitate Zheng Yang's idea of ​​shipbuilding.

   "Ayang, the wood in this shipwreck has rotted, and there is nothing to use. Let's just cut down the trees together. Then you will teach us how to build a ship!"

   I teach an egg!

   Zheng Yang is speechless, he can only put together a full-length ship, and then it is automatically optimized and perfected when it is transformed into a spiritual ship by the magic circle and rituals. Where can I know how to build a ship?

   "Let’s cut down the tree first. Since Ferrer’s grandfather understands this, we will ask him to teach it at that time." Zheng Yang said to the young man on the reef: “What do you say Ferrer?”

"it is good!"

   With a common goal, these teenagers stopped playing in the water and swam directly back to the shore, ready to start work.

   Zheng Yang also untied the cable, too lazy to raise the sail, picked up the oars and rowed to the shore.

"Grandpa said that as long as twenty or so thin trees of this kind are enough to build a simple dhow. We start cutting now, and we will be able to cut enough wood for our boat by noon. By the way, you bring tools. ?"

   The boy named Fehler took out an axe from his backpack and gestured excitedly.

   Zheng Yang took out a hand saw, and the other two teenagers took out a double saw.

   Okay, they are all bear kids, all are ready one by one!

   Zheng Yang tried to specify the entire log to be used in the renovation plan before starting his hands. It’s amazing, as long as he imagines it, it will be shown in the image, and then a large amount of wood will be replaced by this kind of log in the feedback material list. UU read www.uukanshu. com and the consumption of psionic energy is not rising but falling. He also tried to specify the use of steel to replace wood completely, but the result was "the plan is invalid"!

   This shows that it is completely feasible to directly use this whole wood as the main material to transform the spirit ship, and it is better than the original plan, but the amount of gum and steel required has increased several times.

   So the four teenagers started to work in full swing. They started cutting or sawing from the edge of the woods. The efficiency was amazing. They could bring down a tree in a few minutes.

   This kind of tree grows straight and even, more than ten meters high, with low density, few branches, and easy repair. They caught fish and grilled fish for lunch at noon, and then went on to work. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they worked together to carry at least 20 repaired tree trunks to the beach. Among them, Zheng Yang has the most trunks, with more than forty trees. Because he has to lay decks, part of the wood will be converted into boards for use.

   Next, they need their adults to take action. They will come over tomorrow to tie the wood into rafts and drag them back to the fishing village for disposal. Zheng Yang declined Feeller's kindness to help him drag it back by the way, saying that his timber would just stay here and he would deal with it.

  Feller and other three teenagers walked back to the fishing village with a sense of accomplishment. Zheng Yang looked at his pile of wood with great joy.

   "I'm going to collect gum, the more the better!"

   The natural resources on the small island have not been developed, and the reserves are abundant. Like natural gum, it is easy to collect. Tomorrow, you can collect 20 or 30 kilograms in a long time. As for steel, isn't the shipwreck here ready-made?

   When Zheng Yang returned to the fishing village by boat, it was just dark, much slower than Feeller and others. He hesitated, and decided to ask Hans to help get some more canvas and cables. Anyway, he had a lot of debt, and he had troubled others so many times, and it was not bad this time.

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