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Chapter 4 A Piece of Plank

"I didn't expect this place to be an island."

Dong Chen stood on a relatively high reef by the sea, looking at the dark shadow opposite, saying, "There should be real land there, the coastline is quite long."

"Yes, sir," replied Tianshu, "the length of this coastline is not a continent or a giant island. If there is a high-level intelligent civilization on this planet, then the land area there is enough to support the existence of civilization."

"That's fine," Dong Chen stretched his head and looked at him a few times, stretched his hands in front of him, and the black shadow over there was a little more magnified, "Calculate the distance from here to the opposite side to see how far it is?"

"Okay, sir, please lift your arm to your chest, and the smart bracelet is equipped with a laser ranging system."

Dong Chen made corresponding actions as he spoke, and then began to wait for the results.

There are quite a lot of integrated functions in the smart bracelet, and he will definitely not be able to remember them himself, so he will often ask Tianshu, and then Tianshu will search for the function list for answers and operations.

One minute later, Tianshu obtained an accurate data, and also showed a basic model of the lateral structure of the continent in the line of sight composed of points and lines in front of Dong Chen, marking the distance to several major locations.

"Sir, the closest distance we have to the opposite side is about 150 kilometers, but this is only the distance within sight. Because the distance is too far and affected by the curvature of the planet, we cannot see the lower part on the opposite side."

"So the distance we got to the opposite side was close to 150 kilometers, and the real coastline was about 140 kilometers to 100 kilometers."

"That's more than 100 kilometers away," Dong Chen looked at the distance marked by Tianshu and touched his chin. "It seems that we have to build a raft. In such a strange place, I don't want to swim across and break the world record of swimming across the ocean."

"If the weather is good, it will take two more days to go. However, floating in the sea, sleeping on this kind of raft is a problem. I don't know if it's OK to go on a night. If you weave a simple sail with long leaves, you should leave in the morning and arrive in the evening."

After looking at the dense woods on the island, Dong Chen felt that there was no need to worry about the materials used to build the raft.

"Shu Tian, ​​do you have raft construction information in your database?"

"I didn't find the exact project you need, sir," said Tianshu, showing Dong Chen several exquisite wooden sailboats, both Chinese and Western, "But there is such a thing, is it OK?"

“???”

Seeing that the shortest hull was 12 meters long, Dong Chen said with a black line, "Forget it, keep it for yourself. Then I'll just cut some trees and make a simple raft."

Originally, all the electronic devices around me were under the management of No. 1. Due to hardware limitations, "Tianshu" can only be regarded as ordinary artificial intelligence. However, with quantum communication technology, No. 1 can search for information online anywhere at any time, so many low-level basic information has not been put in.

"You must know that this will happen, so don't put some movies, music, novels and crosstalk on it." Dong Chen muttered.

"But... when you get to this kind of place, maybe movies or something are more valuable, and rafts are actually easy to make."

Now there is no hurry to build a raft. It is not possible to complete the construction of a raft and cross the sea in one day. Seeing that it has reached the "sun" equivalent to two o'clock in the afternoon in China, Dong Chen plans to explore the island first.

This place was already a distance from his escape pole, and he turned a corner, which was the corner that allowed him to discover the continent opposite the sea.

At the beginning, he only saw many black mountain shadows. And so many mountains were connected together, so he must have been a large piece of land. So he immediately climbed up a large reef nearby, stood up high, and then used a retina monitor to zoom in and saw more land.

When the escape pod was forced to approach this planet, some sensors on the escape pod obtained some planetary data, but because the fall process was disturbed by the asteroid, the data was not much, nor very accurate.

But that's it. Dong Chen also knew that the size of this planet is slightly smaller than that of the earth, and its gravity is also smaller than that of the earth, which is about 92% of the earth's gravity. This makes Dong Chen always feel light and fluttering when walking on the beach of this island.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m stepping on the sand or because the gravity is slightly less.

After walking for a while, the Tianshu, which was given the "active search mission" by Dong Chen, used a red coil to create a suspicious item.

"Sir, I found an unnaturally formed object, suspected to be a piece of wood board. Please go to the Red Label to check it out at the first distance of 35 meters."

"oh?"

Dong Chen ran over in surprise and said while running, "It seems that this world has indeed a high-level intelligent civilization, and traces of civilization can be found on any island. This shows that the level of civilization development on this planet should not be very low, and at least it should not be the primitive tribal stage."

Dong Chen, who ran to the target location, indeed saw a wooden board buried in the sand. When he pulled the board out of the sand, he found that it was a wooden board that was 40 cm long and 30 cm wide.

The long sides are smooth and neat, and the wide sides are uneven and broken, which should be violently broken and fell.

He patted the sand on it, took it in his hand and fiddled with it a few times, allowing Tianshu to complete the scanning. Dong Chen touched the rough and wet surface of the wooden board and said, "It seems that it should be the fragments of the wooden board on the boat."

"This ship must have damaged the hull due to war or bad weather, and then many broken wooden boards were scattered, and finally the fragments drifted here."

The book of the planks, which had completed the scanning and calculations, said, "Yes, sir, according to my scanning and simulation calculations, this piece of plank should come from the deck of a ship, or even the flats, at least usually soaked away from sea water."

"Its seawater corrosion situation has not happened for a long time. After the data obtained from the previous seawater detection and the current seawater corrosion state are calculated, it should be contacted with the seawater for no more than ten days. The site of the incident is very close to us, and there is a certain chance that it will float past the opposite continent."

"But no matter what the situation is, it means that we should not be far from the civilization gathering area of ​​this world."

Dong Chen nodded when he heard this, turned his head and looked at the distant coastline, feeling that the meaning of it to him was a little different.

At least it is a tragic idea that there are really advanced intelligent civilizations on this planet. If you are not alone on this planet, you don’t have to stay with animals forever, or even spend your whole life with plants. That’s really a pity.

This island is not small. In order to prevent it, Dong Chen did not run around in such a strange place, but instead advanced on the beach at a speed that was slightly slower than walking, so he kept turning until dark and did not turn the entire island.

After the sky was completely dark, Dong Chen sat on a large stone not far from the sea, turned on the lighting equipment, and felt the light shining.

He only felt like he had been in the dark for three or four days, but after waking up, he realized that he had been in the dark for 210 years, so he didn't want to stay in the dark anymore.

Since it wasn't cold at night, Dong Chen didn't light the fire, and he didn't need to boil the energy bar, so he turned on the light.

While chewing on the energy bars, Dong Chen sorted out what he had gained today. He looked at the biological images he saw when he heard the screams. After being restored by the model of Tianshu, Dong Chen looked like a pterodactyl.

Even if it is not the pterosaurs of the Earth's dinosaur era, it is at least a similar creature.

After chewing another bite of the energy bar, Dong Chen was puzzled, "How could this kind of creature appear here? Does the development of the life planet in the universe have to go through this stage?"

"And what the hell is dinosaurs and advanced intelligent civilizations together? Dinosaurs... have become spirits?"

"Sir, there is no practical evidence to prove that the development of life planets has to go through the dinosaur era. The data models on the earth are all based on theory," Tianshu said after showing several theories of the earth. "But if you need it, I can start the data collection task and then conduct a practical argument."

When Dong Chen heard the inquiry from Tianshu, he didn't care. After chewing another bite of the energy bar, he said, "No rush to do this. When we explore this planet, we will do it."

"I hope the civilization on this planet is not too strange, otherwise how to communicate will be a problem."

After finishing the last bit of energy bar, Dong Chen lay down and looked at the starry sky on the planet.

It is more gorgeous than the starry sky on Earth, with more and brighter stars in the sky. The "moon" looks smaller, but its brightness is not small, and it is brighter than the moon on Earth.

But no matter what, this is a strange starry sky with no trace of familiarity.
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