Chapter 7 Banana Fan Sail
Alien scallop meat is delicious.
Alien crab meat is delicious.
Alien sea fish is delicious too.
This is Dong Chen’s only thought after lunch.
Even in order to commemorate his first real meal on this alien planet, Dong Chen planned to take away the two shells as a souvenir.
After high temperature barbecue and careful cleaning, the two shells look particularly white, and the patterns on them look very beautiful. Anyway, they are so pleasant to see and are quite suitable for commemoration.
After a while after dinner, Dong Chen also got a new message, that is time.
The rotation period of this planet is actually 24 hours.
Yesterday, after Dong Chen left the cabin, he started recording the "sun" position. This afternoon, after the "sun" reached the same position, it happened to be 24 hours.
The rotation period of about 24 hours is not very strange. After all, the rotation period of the earth is 23:56:4 seconds, while the rotation period of Mars is 24 hours, 37:22.6 seconds, both of which are about 24 hours, and two appear in one solar system.
But Dong Chen always feels that this 24-hour period is a bit different, especially when it comes to the pterosaur-like, dragon-like whale creatures he saw, and the familiar and seemingly unfamiliar vegetation on the island. Although it cannot match the vegetation on the earth, he always feels that there is some shadow.
The main reason is that the things he has seen on this alien planet so far are far less like the "alternative planet" feeling he imagined.
Perhaps the universe is really full of wonders, and it happens to meet it, or this universe is suitable for the existence of such organisms, so it looks a bit similar, and that is not impossible.
However, after thinking for a long time, Dong Chen felt that this kind of guess that lacks evidence is better to think less in the future. If there is no evidence, he will guess blindly, and he will be the most troublesome to refute himself.
Especially now, I still have the suspicion of "freezing stupidity" sequelae, and my brain and memory have not fully recovered, so I should not think about these profound questions.
It is better to walk slowly and see. As he deepens his understanding of this planet, these things will always be gradually untied.
Now, let’s talk about it first on the land opposite. It is impossible to study these on this island.
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With the sound of stones hitting metal, Dong Chen began his own raft construction plan, and by the way, some birds in the woods were shocked.
Since there are no big axes and chainsaws that can be used to make any stone axes, I can only use my own knife.
Use a stone to smash the knife downward into the trunk, and then cut the slightly lower part into the trunk diagonally upward, so that as long as the break is overlapped, you can cut a piece of it from the trunk. From the side, the trunk looks like there is a lying V-shaped notch.
The trunk that Dong Chen wants to use is not that thick tree trunk. As long as it has a thick arm, it is enough. After operating around the trunk, the trunk with a thick arm will have an "hourglass structure". The connection between the gap will be very thin, and it will be folded as long as you push it hard.
Then clean up the branches and leaves above, cut off the excess trunks, and leave a three-meter-long trunk.
After following these steps for an afternoon, all the tree trunks that Dong Chen needed came out.
When cutting trees, as he became more and more proficient, Dong Chen could also use it to read and think about other things.
It was about to leave this island, but Dong Chen had some feelings for this island.
Don’t see that I have only been on this island for two days after waking up, but as the first piece of land to land on this planet, this island is still very memorable.
Moreover, his escape pole is still here. Not only is the guy very heavy, he also has a very big target, so he will definitely not be able to take it away, so Dong Chen plans to hide it on this island.
In this case, maybe I will come back in the future, so Dong Chen planned to name the island, think about it, and finally marked it as "Hometown Island".
I don’t know where the solar system is, so this island is the closest place to my hometown.
As for this planet, Dong Chen plans to call it "Outer Rank Star" first.
This galaxy is not named for the time being, and the stars are still called the Sun and the satellites are still called the Moon. After all, I am very used to it.
To pass by means of the sun, moon, and sun and moon in the "solar system" are distinguished.
As for the specific name, it will naturally be clear after seeing the local civilization on this planet.
In the evening, Dong Chen took advantage of the high tide and pried out the escape pod with a wooden stick, and then pushed it into the woods with great difficulty.
In the woods, Dong Chen discovered a cave while exploring before, and there were very lush plants growing beside it, which firmly covered the entrance. If it weren't for Tianshu's scanning ability using smart bracelets, Dong Chen wouldn't have known that there was a hole inside.
The hole is not very big, but it is more than enough to put down the escape pod.
Moreover, after two days of investigation, Dong Chen found that apart from the traces of his visit, there were really no traces of civilized activities in this island, and it should be very safe.
It has been two days since I found no planes flying in the sky. I have seen pterosaurs and large birds several times, nor have I seen ships or anything else. If it weren't for the flight routes and ship paths that did not pass here, it is very likely that the level of civilization development in this world is not so high.
Otherwise, the distance of one hundred kilometers from the mainland should not be far, so there is no trace of "people" landing on the island. When it reaches a relatively high stage of civilization development, even at the stage of the earth, an island so close to the mainland has long been visited by tourists.
However, even if it is discovered, with the level of civilization of this planet, as long as it does not have technology that exceeds the earth for hundreds of years, it will not be able to open it. At most, it will be transported and released.
Then, before dark, Dong Chen found a banana tree...
No, banana tree...
Not right, it should be a banana tree.
Because this thing looks like the banana tree on the earth, it also has large leaves and is also a large herb, but the fruits of this thing are not long-shaped like bananas, nor are they even relatively short and fat bananas, but spheres with fists as big as bananas.
It can be peeled like a banana, and the flesh is also white. The scanning results are very similar to those of a banana, but they are not yet ripe, so Dong Chen didn't try it either.
However, this thing has another great use, that is, there is nothing else in its herb trunks, it is all long fibers, so it is not too good to use it to rub the rope.
I found a not very thick banana tree, cut one in the same way, and threw it into the reef next to it and soaked it.
The fiber is too dry and it is difficult to peel, and it is easy to peel if it is soaked and wet.
Then the large banana leaves were not discarded. Some large banana leaves were picked from other banana trees and some fine vines with good toughness were pulled. This is the material that Dong Chen planned to use to make simple sails.
As night was already falling, Dong Chen turned on the solar light again, and after finishing the remaining half of the energy bar in water, he started his own sail production work.
Use a tree trunk as thick as an arm to make a mast, and then use a few thin wooden sticks to make a frame, and then tie it with thin vines.
Pick a few large balls of banana leaves overlapping each other and put them on the frame, basically covering the entire frame, and then tie the petioles on both sides of them to the frame with thin vines.
Then put a few more pieces horizontally and fix them with thin vines.
In this way, a simple sail that can hold the wind was basically formed, but in order to increase its structural strength, Dong Chen also used vines to pass through the overlapping places of the banana leaves, and went it like a net of weaving a large hole.
After finishing it, Dong Chen carried it on his shoulders, and then tried to wave it back and forth, feeling that it could indeed hold the wind, and the petioles and vines gave the banana leaves good support, and the structural strength was also pretty good.
Chapter completed!