Before we knew it, the ice age had lasted for five months.
In the past five months, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General basically spent the rest of their time in their cave, except for occasionally going out for some fresh air when they felt like it.
I can't help it, the weather outside is too cold.
There was heavy snow in the sky all day long, and the temperature reached an outrageous minus 30 degrees!
Going out for a walk in this kind of temperature can freeze a person into a popsicle. It is better to stay in the cave and spend the winter. At least there is food, drink and a warm fire in the cave.
Lin Shuhang's longest "dwelling" record was that he stayed in the cave for more than two consecutive months without going out.
This feeling is very similar to the feeling of spending all day in an Internet cafe when I was in school. The only difference from that time is that now I choose to live in a small house purely for survival.
The cave-dwelling life is monotonous and boring.
Lin Shuhang and the Crazy General stayed in the cave every day, doing nothing except eating and sleeping, and otherwise pooping and peeing, and their lives were dull.
Because the staple food we eat every day is meat made from various animal carcasses, and we live in pits for a long time without exercising, fat easily accumulates in the body.
Soon, Lin Shuhang gained weight and reached 80 tons.
The Crazy General is even more frightening. This guy has a huge appetite, like a rice bucket, and can eat the carcass of a Titan bull in one day.
In 5 months, the crazy general gained weight and reached an astonishing weight of 120 tons.
Living like this for a long time will not only be unbearable mentally, but also physically. Because the human body is like a machine, and the heart is the most important engine.
As weight increases, the load on the heart will inevitably increase. Once the maximum load capacity of the heart is exceeded, various health problems will inevitably occur in the body.
For example, fatty liver, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, fatty liver, heart failure, etc.
For the sake of his own health, and at the same time to kill all kinds of boring loneliness, Lin Shuhang decided to find something to do for himself. Otherwise, if he continued like this within a few months, he would be completely disabled.
"Crazy General, we can't continue living like this!"
Lin Shuhang showed his big belly and said seriously to the crazy general: "You and I have eaten too much, which is beyond the normal range. For the sake of our bodies, we must control our weight. Otherwise, we will lose weight."
There will be problems with your health!”
"Roar!" Crazy General responded. It seemed to have discovered that its physical condition was getting worse and worse. I thought back then, it could single-handedly challenge an entire group of Tyrannosaurus rex without feeling tired. But it can't do that now. Now it's getting fat.
I'm out of breath after walking a few steps.
"Starting from today, we must exercise every day!" Lin Shuhang said: "Strive to control our weight within the normal range within two months. If we can't do it, whoever can't do it will cut off the fat on his body!"
"What? The anchor decided to exercise?"
"Holy crap, is it really true?"
After hearing Lin Shuhang's plan to start exercising, the live broadcast room immediately exploded.
"What do you mean by real or fake?" Lin Shuhang asked back: "Is it difficult to exercise?"
"No, no, no." The audience outside the venue said: "I'm just curious, anchor, why did you decide to exercise now?"
"Hey..." Lin Shuhang sighed: "This cave-like life is so boring! You have to find something for yourself to do. Besides, Crazy General and I have gained weight now. If we don't exercise, our health will deteriorate sooner or later.
Yes, I don’t want to be a giant with high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and high blood sugar.”
"Hahaha, you and the crazy general should have exercised a long time ago. You eat and sleep every day, just like raising pigs. It is really easy to have health problems like this. After all, you are huge and your heart load capacity is higher than that of pigs.
It’s hundreds or thousands of times larger than normal people.”
"Yes, I eat and sleep every day, just like raising pigs. I feel like I have lost my soul. To be honest, I don't want to be the kind of anchor who lives a dull life, so I want to change now.
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Lin Shuhang said with the live broadcast: "The coal stored before is about to be used up. Let's start exercising today by digging coal!"
Lin Shuhang was the kind of person who took action as soon as he said he would. After he decided to exercise, he did not hesitate and immediately took the crazy general to a nearby mine to dig coal.
Coal is a solid combustible mineral that was buried underground by ancient plants and gradually formed after a long period of geological changes.
This black mineral, known as black gold and the food of industry, is one of the most widely used energy sources in the human world.
The formation of coal is a long and complex process.
As we all know, there were many huge swamps, forests and grasslands on the earth in ancient times, and a huge number of plants grew in those areas, including fungi, ferns, shrubs, trees and other plants.
Due to changes in the earth's crust, these plants will be buried underground after death and interact with various microorganisms on the geological surface.
As time goes by, the plant corpses will slowly be completely decomposed by microorganisms. The decomposed plant corpses will still leave some residues, which will be further decomposed by bacteria.
During this decomposition process, the plant's body begins to slowly change.
After various weathering and a series of chemical reactions, some carbon elements will gradually form from the remains of plant corpses.
These carbon elements accumulate together to form peat. After a long period of sinking and accumulation, the peat gradually combines with the surrounding small stones to form rock layers.
These rock formations will then undergo the baptism of time, as well as the action of high temperature and pressure within the earth's crust, and finally coal will be formed.
Although the formation process of coal seems very simple, the actual formation process is not simple at all. Because during the formation process, it is very likely that the temperature is not enough, or the earth's crust suddenly stops moving during this period, and encounters
In this case, the rock formation may no longer be able to form coal.
Even if the two necessary conditions of high temperature and crustal pressure are met, coal will take a long time to form.
Precisely because the formation process of coal is very long and difficult, it is a non-renewable resource.
The thickness of the coal seam in a coal mine is related to the rate of crustal decline in the area and the amount of plant remains accumulated.
The faster the earth's crust declines, the thicker the plant remains are accumulated, and the thicker the coal seam of this coal mine is. On the contrary, the slower the earth's crust declines, the thinner the plant remains are accumulated, and the thinner the coal seam of this coal mine is.
The coal mine mined by Lin Shuhang and Crazy General is 1,200 meters thick and has a coal storage capacity of about 100 million tons.
If Lin Shuhang chooses to follow the path of the industrial age in the future, the coal stored in this coal mine will be enough for him and the crazy general to use it continuously for hundreds of thousands of years!
Of course, the current Lin Shuhang cannot think that far ahead. After all, he is still in the backward cave-dwelling era.
However, as his abilities increase and his ideas increase, it is not impossible for the industrial age to appear in Titan Continent. It depends on how Lin Shuhang goes.
Lin Shuhang and Crazy General are not professional coal miners, so one can imagine how clumsy their coal mining methods and efficiency are.
However, fortunately, coal is only used for cooking and burning the kang, and the demand is not very large. There is no need to work hard to dig coal. Only a dozen tons of coal are needed to supply Lin Shuhang and Crazy General for two days.
consumption requirements.
The tool for digging coal is Lin Shuhang's homemade stone hammer.
This kind of stone hammer has high hardness and heavy weight. As long as you are willing to use force, raise your arm and hit it with the hammer, you can break hundreds of kilograms of coal.
With another hammer blow, a large amount of coal peeled off from the coal seam.
"Huh? Is there something in the coal seam?"
A white bone object peeled off from the coal seam attracted Lin Shuhang's attention.
"What is this?" Lin Shuhang bent down and picked up the thing.
I put it on my hand and looked at it, and found that this thing was very heavy, like a piece of iron.
"What a strange thing?" Looking at the huge white bone object in his hand, Lin Shuhang frowned.
"Looks like some kind of creature's...teeth?"
Lin Shuhang was right, this was indeed a tooth.
This mysterious tooth is triangular in shape, two meters long and three meters wide, and weighs about 500 pounds.
I don’t know how long it has been buried in the underground coal seam, but the entire surface of the tooth has been completely petrified, turning it into a magical fossil tooth.
Lin Shuhang couldn't confirm which creature's tooth this thing was.
Thinking of the many great gods in his prehistoric live broadcast room, Lin Shuhang decided to ask the audience outside the venue if anyone knew what this thing was?
"Old fellows, does anyone know what this is? I picked it up from the coal seam." Lin Shuhang said, reaching out and pointing the huge petrified tooth at the live broadcast camera.
It was okay not to look at it, but everyone was shocked when they saw it.
The spectators outside the venue never expected that Lin Shuhang would find the teeth of this creature in the coal seam.
Yes, this is a giant tooth that does not belong to land creatures!