Chapter 020: Homemade Canoe, Escape from the Deserted Island
Morning comes with the cheerful chirping of birds.
A new day has arrived!
Lin Shuhang sat by the fire, feebly adding coal to the dying fire, but he was always thinking about how to fill his stomach.
Although this giant turtle island has a large area, the things that can fill the stomach are very limited, they are only some tropical berries and arthropod insects.
And more importantly, he now has a very important task - to increase his weight to 3 tons within a month!
You cannot gain weight quickly by eating grass and insects, so now, a large amount of protein and fat are what Lin Shuhang urgently needs.
After thinking about it, Lin Shuhang came up with the idea of the sun-shading bird.
Lin Shuhang stood up, put his hand on his forehead and looked at the place where the Sunbird fell. A huge mountain of meat weighing more than a thousand tons was lying quietly in the mud.
But there is a slimy mud soup all around, how can I get there?
For a while, Lin Shuhang was worried about this.
"Would it be great if I could fly?"
Looking at the vast muddy land, Lin Shuhang fell into sadness.
"Wait, I really want to think of something..."
Lin Shuhang suddenly had an idea: "Maybe I can make my own hot air balloon and leave here."
Lin Shuhang couldn't help but be delighted with his idea.
But it didn't take long for reality to pour cold water on him.
He couldn't find the materials to make a hot air balloon on the Turtle Titan continent.
"It seems we can only think of other ways."
Lin Shuhang returned to the fire in disappointment.
All roads lead to Rome is a famous Western proverb, said by the Roman Emperor Julian, which means that there are many different ways and means to accomplish something.
Now it seems that it is impossible to escape from Giant Turtle Island by making a hot air balloon and go to the place where the bird corpse fell.
The huge bird carcass is several kilometers away from Turtle Island, and it is surrounded by slimy yellow mud soup, and the mud is full of all kinds of dangerous creatures.
Of course, Lin Shuhang couldn't swim directly across this harsh environment, so he had to build a boat.
There are big trees in the primeval rainforest on Turtle's Back, and there are quite a few of them.
In order to build a canoe for crossing the swamp, Lin Shuhang picked up the stone hammer and drilled into the dense turtle rain forest.
With Lin Shuhang's size, the tree used to build the canoe must be at least 5 meters in diameter.
It was not easy to find a big tree with such a diameter on the turtle's back. Lin Shuhang rummaged through almost the entire turtle's back and only found one big tree with a diameter of 3 meters.
"Just make do with it."
Lin Shuhang chose this big tree. Since he didn't have the tools to cut down the wood, Lin Shuhang thought of using fire to burn down the big tree.
Lin Shuhang quickly returned to the camp and brought back some fire. In order to prevent a fire, Lin Shuhang was extremely nervous when burning the trees and kept patrolling around the fire.
Fortunately, due to his careful actions, no accidents occurred during the burning of the tree.
The fire burned for two hours before the big tree was burned down.
After the big tree fell, Lin Shuhang used the same method to burn off the other side of the big tree, and a ten-meter-long trunk became the main part of the canoe.
In most people's minds, canoes are made with chisels and shovels, but this is not the case.
In the beginning, humans relied on fire to make canoes.
The fire used is also particular.
It must be a charcoal fire without flames, because if you use flames to burn it, it will easily ignite the entire tree, but charcoal fire will not.
The charcoal fire will only slowly eat away at the wood until it carves out a space in the trunk.
Although he has no experience in making canoes, Lin Shuhang has received nine years of compulsory education from the state. Watching movies on weekdays is not free.
I saw him putting some burning charcoal on the big tree, then finding a hollow bamboo pole, squatting by the tree and slowly blowing the charcoal on it.
Lin Shuhang carefully blew air into the charcoal fire. The charcoal fire flickered on and off, eroding the trunk of the big tree bit by bit.
Whenever the charcoal fire penetrated three-thirds of the wood, Lin Shuhang would extinguish the charcoal with water, and then use a wooden stick to smash the carbonized part of the tree.
Just like this, Lin Shuhang, like a woodpecker, hollowed out the trunk of the big tree bit by bit.
After working back and forth for three hours, the canoe has begun to take shape.
After the main part of the canoe was completed, Lin Shuhang tried to sit in it. Except for the small space, there were no obvious flaws.
In order to sail faster in the mud, Lin Shuhang made some special changes to his canoe.
He equipped the canoe with a sail.
The sail of the canoe is made of palm tree leaves, which are not only huge but also very tough. They are fixed to the trunk of the sail by some broken bamboo pieces, covering an area of almost twenty square meters.
Considering that he might encounter windless weather during the voyage, Lin Shuhang made another oar for his canoe for safety reasons.
The oar is a tool used for ship propulsion. Its shape is similar to that of an oar, but it is larger than an oar. It is usually supported on the eaves of the oar at the stern or side of the ship.
The methods of using oars and oars are completely different.
The paddle slides back and forth.
The oar swings from side to side.
The ancients had a saying of "one oar and three oars", believing that the working efficiency of an oar can be three times that of an oar, because oars stroke water intermittently, while oars move water continuously.
To put it more simply, in the water, the paddle is like a human being and can only paddle like a dog, while the oar is like a fish, which can continuously swing its tail. It is clear who is faster and who is slower.
The day passed like this, and the exhausted Lin Shuhang decided to set sail tomorrow.
The next morning, after waking up, Lin Shuhang came to the rain forest early.
Today was the day to set sail, and he had to move the canoe to the muddy ground before noon.
The entire canoe was very heavy. In order to transport the canoe to the edge of the tortoise shell 300 meters away, Lin Shuhang put in a lot of effort. Not only did he use levers and rolling logs, he even used a hanging wheel.
With the help of levers and rolling logs, Lin Shuhang moved the homemade canoe to the edge of the turtle shell bit by bit.
"Woohoo! Let's set sail!" Lin Shuhang suddenly pushed the canoe off the turtle's back.
The heavy canoe hit the muddy ground below Turtle Island, splashing up a huge mud flower.
"I can finally leave this damn place!"
Lin Shuhang glanced at the giant turtle island where he had lived for two days, and climbed into the canoe along the vines on the edge of the turtle shell.
His target was the huge sunbird carcass in the distance.
That's a mountain of meat!
Only when he gets there will he have a chance to survive!
What made Lin Shuhang unhappy was that there was no wind today.
The canoe seemed to be made of iron, motionless as it was stuck in the rotten mud.