Chapter 027: A giant with a displacement of 0.3 tons
After surviving on the big tree for five days, Lin Shuhang suddenly thought of something serious.
A week has passed since the mission was announced.
These days, Lin Shuhang only eats crazily every day and completely ignores measuring his weight, making himself confused. Now he has no idea how many pounds he weighs.
This is not the way to go!
If you don't know your current weight, your weight gain mission may be unexpected.
Lin Shuhang felt that it was necessary to develop a method of measuring weight so that he could observe his weight changes and make corresponding adjustments to the effect of weight gain.
"I have to make a scale! Otherwise I won't be able to measure my own weight."
Lin Shuhang thought this way, lying on his tree house and lost in thought.
In a primitive forest without modern equipment and far away from human civilization, it is undoubtedly difficult to accurately measure your own weight.
Fortunately, human wisdom is infinite. After much deliberation, Lin Shuhang came up with an amazing solution.
The weight measurement method Lin Shuhang came up with is similar to the "wooden boat weighing method" that appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Speaking of wooden boats and elephants, we have to talk about a very famous historical figure - Cao Chong.
Cao Chong was the son of Cao Cao, a hero during the Three Kingdoms period.
Cao Chong was very smart when he was young, and his mind reached the level of an adult when he was five or six years old. He was deeply loved by his father Cao Cao.
One day, in order to improve the relationship between the two countries, Sun Quan of Wu State sent an envoy to give Cao Cao an Indian elephant.
Cao Cao was very happy when he learned about it. On the day the elephant was transported to Xuchang, he put aside everything else and led all the civil and military officials to watch it.
During the Three Kingdoms period, people in the mainland of China rarely saw elephants.
It was the first time in Cao Cao's life that he saw such a huge land creature. He was shocked but also very curious.
Suddenly, on a whim, he asked the elephant how much it weighed.
"This thing moves like an earthquake. How heavy is it? Who knows?"
No one can answer the question of how much an elephant weighs.
Like Cao Cao, it was the first time for the Wei soldiers to see this giant creature, and they were talking about it.
"Wouldn't it be clear if you do a pole scale?"
Someone suggested making a large steel scale.
However, it soon encountered opposition from some people, because with the conditions and levels at the time, it was simply impossible to produce such a large scale.
Finally, someone suggested killing the elephant and cutting it into pieces and weighing them.
Naturally, Cao Cao refused to kill such a precious gift. If the people of Wu knew about it, it would not only hurt the friendship between the two countries, but also give himself a stupid name.
Seeing that no one could come up with a good solution, young Cao Chong came over at this time.
I have to say that this kid Cao Chong is really smart.
He suggested that Cao Cao drive the elephant onto the ship to see how much the ship sank, then carve marks on the ship along the water surface, drive the elephant out, and load the ship with stones of the same weight.
The weight of an elephant can be found by measuring the stone.
Cao Cao was so impressed by this proposal that he ordered his sergeants to follow Cao Chong's method and indeed measured the weight of the elephant.
Precisely because of Cao Chong's amazing wisdom, he was chosen by Cao Cao as his successor when he was very young.
Unfortunately, due to jealousy of talents, Cao Chong suffered a serious illness when he was thirteen years old, and a generation of child prodigies died.
Otherwise, if Cao Chong had become the leader of Wei State, history would probably have been a different story.
The weight measurement method Lin Shuhang came up with is similar to Cao Chong's method of weighing wooden ships.
That is, using the physical principle that the buoyancy force of water on an object is equal to the gravity of the object on the water surface, the same amount is used to convert one's own weight.
To put it bluntly, this measurement method is a high imitation version of "Cao Chong's Image Weighing Method".
The idea was good, but when Lin Shuhang actually started to implement it, he could still find some problems.
First of all, although Lin Shuhang has the ability to make a boat out of giant trees, the only places where the wooden boat can float are the rivers deep in the giant forest and the distant seaside.
Whether it's a big river or the sea, if you want to get there, you have to pass through a dangerous giant forest.
The dangerous giant forest is shrouded in a black poisonous mist all year round, and countless overlord-level terrifying creatures live in it. At this stage, Lin Shuhang is not qualified to live and explore in the giant forest, so Lin Shuhang does not dare to take this risk easily.
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It's not that Lin Shuhang doesn't have courage, it's that he knows that he doesn't have the ability to cross the giant forest yet.
As the saying goes, trees are dead but people are alive. Lin Shuhang decided to improve the weight measurement method and dig a pond by himself.
The location of the pond was chosen under my tree house.
Since he didn't have the tools at his disposal, Lin Shuhang spent a whole day digging the pond with tree branches. It took quite a lot of energy.
It's said to be a pond, but it's actually just a pit.
The pit was three meters deep and filled with collected rainwater. It was the result of Lin Shuhang digging with tree branches for a day.
"The bloodline giant with a displacement of 0.3 tons is here!"
Lin Shuhang moved his limbs and jumped into the pond filled with rainwater with excitement on his face.
With a "pop" sound, the huge body hit the puddle and water splashed everywhere.
After Lin Shuhang, who was more than 3 meters tall, jumped into the pit, more than half of the water in the pit immediately overflowed.
When the water in the pond stopped overflowing, Lin Shuhang climbed onto the pond.
He lay down on the edge of the pit and observed the changes in the water line. Almost two-thirds of the water volume was missing.
The amount of water lost is Lin Shuhang's weight!
Lin Shuhang drew a mark on the waterline, stood up and began to make a large scale for measuring weight.
Lin Shuhang learned his own displacement by jumping into a puddle to measure it.
However, Lin Shuhang still doesn't know how much the displacement is.
In order to accurately know the weight of lost water, it must be measured with the help of tools.
Lin Shuhang started producing and became famous.
Of course, a person with Lin Shuhang's physique couldn't use an ordinary scale. He found a strong tree in the forest and tied it to another big tree with vines to make a huge scale.
scales.
This simple balance looks like a seesaw in the People's Park, but it is an important tool used by Lin Shuhang to measure his weight.
The only difference between a balance and a seesaw is that a balance has a weighing plate.
In order to equip his homemade balance with a weighing plate, Lin Shuhang found a few moso bamboos in the forest, chopped them into pieces with stone chips, and then woven two large bamboo baskets out of the bamboo chips.
One of the bamboo baskets is covered with banana leaves and is used to hold water, while the other bamboo basket is used to hold mud and sand.
For the first time, the balance tilted sharply.
Bamboo baskets containing water are obviously much heavier than bamboo baskets containing soil.
Lin Shuhang added sand to the soil frame based on his feeling.
As the amount of sediment increases, the tilted balance gradually returns to normal.
Until the two bamboo baskets remained stationary at both ends of the scale, Lin Shuhang's weight was successfully transferred from the displacement to the sand.
"It seems like this basket of soil is my weight."
Looking at the soil in the bamboo basket, Lin Yihao breathed a sigh of relief.