Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 760: Shipbuilding Without Wood

Searing lava poured down streets and hillsides, sending plumes of fire and smoke billowing into the sky.

Volcanic eruptions are cataclysmic, destroying homes, cities, and entire civilizations, with fiery lava engulfing everything it touches in flames.

This is the volcanic eruption that most people imagine, and its appearance is accompanied by destruction.

Yet nature is balanced.

Volcanoes are so violent and destructive, which is why they produce some of the richest and most lush ecosystems in the world.

These ecosystems were able not only to survive, but to thrive after these violent explosions from Earth.

On the land of more than 100 square kilometers on Easter Island, there are three giant volcanic craters. The largest one is about 1,600 meters in diameter, more than 200 meters deep, and more than 600 meters in water depth. source of drinking water.

But such a volcanic island is a complete grassland, and there are no trees higher than 3 meters on the island.

This is also the "mysterious" origin of much of Easter Island.

Because I have seen the construction of the pyramids, I know that erecting giant stone figures requires a lot of wood for transportation and hanging stones.

But botanists only found 47 kinds of herbaceous plants on the island, and the others were bushes. These trees and plants are obviously not suitable for transporting stone statues.

So some theories such as "alien" are clamoring.

"Of course, this is the most enthusiastic explanation of the marketing account." Bi Fang shrugged. Explorers like him have traveled far and wide, and the so-called alien ruins are simply nonsense.

"The reason why there are no trees on Easter Island is entirely because of the dryness of the marsh for fishing. It is the best case of a game between human beings and the environment in evolution."

"The only difference is that, in this case, the aboriginal people on Easter Island — and perhaps the human race — have suffered a crushing defeat, if not almost, a complete defeat."

[Humans have suffered a crushing defeat? 】

【How did you lose? I'm so sloppy】

[Blind guessing is that it is excessive logging, which leads to environmental damage. After a certain level, it cannot be recovered, leading to the mass extinction of the population on the island.]

[I came back from time travel after an hour, and the prophet knife is upstairs]

"As for how it failed so badly, don't worry, just look over there."

Bi Fang stopped and pointed to the distance. After walking for more than twenty minutes, he finally saw a small forest in his sight.

Sure enough, these trees are very short and quite neat.

But it doesn't matter, Bi Fang doesn't need to build a big boat, he only needs a one-person raft, and a three-meter-high tree is enough.

Bi Fang took out a series of tools from his backpack and piled them at his feet.

There are saws, axes, and even planes, all of which are relatively simple production tools, all of which are produced by the system and the quality is guaranteed.

"I will use these tools before the official crossing to improve the quality of the raft or boat. After I go to sea, I will go into battle lightly."

[Congratulations, Fang Shen finally used the tool. 】

[Transition from the Stone Age to the Iron Age]

[It's over, Fang Shen has used modern tools, Ye Qingjie]

[Fast forward to knocking out the nuclear warhead with a hammer]

[Small bullets, made by masters! 】

Easter Island is very large, but there are not many types of trees on the island. Most of them are palm trees, and they are also very short. Only a few trees are larger, but they still feel a little worse.

"For shipbuilding, the lighter and tougher the wood, the better. It should be hard and corrosion-resistant. Common fir and pine are good materials, but many times people have to learn to adapt to local conditions."

"Many islands have quite a single type of tree. Most of them are like Easter Island. There are many palm trees. In fact, palm trees can also be used to build ships."

"For example, in Thailand, many villages still retain the traditional craft of building canoes with palm trees."

Bi Fang wandered around in the grove, trying his best to choose a suitable tree. It doesn't have to be long, but it must be wide enough to accommodate at least one person.

He is going to build a canoe first.

It's just that the palm trees with a height of more than three meters are really not enough to see.

Bi Fang walked around and felt that these trees were too small for a canoe. At most, he cut one piece and cut the appropriate part to make a raft.

"Wait and see, and then look elsewhere."

Helpless, Bi Fang could only give up and go to other places on Easter Island.

"Hey, the current situation is the sequelae of the initial failure."

Bi Fang picked up the previous topic again.

The audience also pricked up their ears.

"Originally there were trees on Easter Island, and it was a very dense forest."

"According to the Langerang writings of the original Easter Islanders, the first inhabitants of Easter Island were exiles from other Polynesian islands, and their boats carried chickens, taro, bananas, and Sugarcane, with seven men at the head, found the island by chance after many days of sailing."

"After landing on the island, I discovered that this is a place with lush forests, with large tracts of tall palm trees, and there are many animals in the forest. There are three volcanoes on this island, but fortunately, they are all extinct volcanoes."

"This place, which is quite rich at first glance, has attracted seven people. The only thing is a pity, that is, the temperature here is a bit low, so there are no coral reefs in the nearby sea. No coral reefs mean that there are no fish schools nearby to settle here. No fish There will be no fish to eat."

The residents of the Polynesian islands are all sea people, and they do not have sufficient conditions to develop planting, so they can only rely on the sea to eat the sea.

The lack of fish is a fatal point, but it doesn't matter much, because there are other things to eat on Easter Island, and that is dolphins and sea birds.

"Dolphins generally live in the deep sea. The depth here is not the depth, but the horizontal depth, which means that it is far from the shore and in the inner sea, so places like Dolphin Bay are actually relatively rare."

[Dolphin Bay was flogged again]

[I heard that the person in charge had already taken the blame and resigned last time]

[What's the use of resigning? 】

[I guess, they must have bowed and apologized. 】

"Although the dolphins are all in the deep sea, don't forget that the first residents of Easter Island were exiled from other islands 2,000 kilometers away. They are good at sailing technology, and there are so many tall dolphins on the island. Palm trees can be used to build big ships."

"The rope can be made from the fiber of a shrub of the linden family on the island, and the fruits of the big palm trees here are still edible. After they are ripe every year, the fruits are not edible, so they are made into wine. The sap of the tree is still Sweet, you can eat it as syrup."

"After the big boat was built, they went to catch dolphins. The birds on the island have never seen people for generations. Therefore, when the Rapa Nui people came towards them with sharp knives, these stupid birds instead It's curious to move forward."

"What happens next is predictable."