The Cursed Ship

Zheng Yang sent Chuan Ling back with a thought. While thinking about the plan to collect materials, he went home to wash and make breakfast. If it wasn't for the limitation of spiritual energy reserves, he even wanted to dismantle the house and turn it into materials, and transform it into a "houseboat" in one step.

The biggest shortage at the moment is wood and steel, and the few rotten boats at the dock can no longer afford two useful planks. Zheng Yang settled his breakfast three times, filled a large bottle of fresh water, packed his tools and went out again.

This small island has a radius of about seven or eight kilometers, and it goes around the island for about 25 kilometers.

Zheng Yang jumped on the spirit boat, put away the items in his backpack, rowed the boat for more than ten meters, and then set sail for the first time. The sea breeze is gentle today, which is suitable for him to be familiar with the operation of the dhow.

Possessing the wonderful state of "man and boat in one", Zheng Yang has a clear grasp of the wind-eating condition of the spirit sail and the force direction of the spirit ship. The spirit boat sailed around the island to the back.

The speed at this time is naturally not 5 knots, but it is much faster than paddling, and it saves effort. By the time we got to the back of the island, two hours had passed.

On the sea about a hundred meters away from the shore of the island, a part of the bow of the ship was exposed above the water.

As far as this shipwreck is concerned, it has some connections with Xiao Zhengyang's family. At that time, it was the only private sightseeing cruise ship that would come to the island. Unfortunately, after hitting a reef here and scratching the bottom of the boat, the tail sank and the bow rested on the reef, which became what it is now.

Although no one drowned because of this, it is said that the owner of this sightseeing cruise ship went bankrupt because of this, and even the sunken ship gave up salvaging and dragging it back. Since then, no tourist boats have come all the way here, and the fishing village on the small island has become more and more declining.

Xiao Zhengyang's parents were the second passengers on the ship. After the accident, they simply stayed in the fishing village on the island to settle down, and later gave birth to Xiao Zhengyang.

The total length of this sunken ship should be about 18 meters. Some valuable things in the ship were removed by the fishermen, which meant that it was inconvenient to cut. Otherwise, the part exposed to the sea would have to be removed as well, which is a lot of steel.

Then, it became a favorite playground for teenagers in the fishing village. Including now, there are several teenagers playing in the sunken ship.

A few years ago, Xiao Zhengyang also liked to come here to play wildly with his friends, diving in and out, catching fish, looking for barnacles, and sometimes geoduck, so he knew the general situation of the sunken ship.

Moreover, there were no fatalities in the shipwreck that year, and all passengers were saved, so Zheng Yang believes that there is no evil here.

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The main body of the spirit ship must be made of wood, which was clearly recorded in the ancient travel book. Zheng Yang didn't know the reason for this, but it was strictly enforced anyway. However, this does not mean that Zheng Yang does not need a lot of steel. What he lacks now is not only wood, gum, canvas and cables, but also steel for keels, anchors, chains, winches, linkage rods, pulley blocks, rudder blades, Stabilize boards, nails, bindings and hinges and the like.

When Zheng Yang was approaching the sinking ship, those teenagers also found him, and shouted excitedly one by one. Even when the spirit ship approached the sunken ship, two of them tried to climb onto the spirit ship.

"Don't come up, the place is too small!"

Zheng Yang quickly stopped it.

"A Yang, are you here to play with us? You haven't played with us for a long time!"

"It's amazing, A Yang, you actually built a boat by yourself. I didn't believe it when I heard them say it yesterday!"

Zheng Yang received the triangular sail, tied the cable to the bow of the sunken ship, and said to them: "My ship is too small and I want to make it bigger, so let's see what materials can be reused here."

A young man standing next to the sunken ship said, "Ah, can it be rebuilt? I think it would be easier to build a new one!"

He was standing on the reef that sank the cruise ship, a little below the water surface, and now he is standing on top when the tide is not high.

The water is only deep enough to reach the bend of the legs.

At this time, the young man looked at the spirit boat with envious eyes, and continued:

"Yesterday, I told my grandpa that I wanted to build a boat like yours myself. Grandpa said that such a small triangular sailboat is actually not good for practical boards, and it is a waste of boards. We should use the slender wood from the back mountain, the whole tree It’s like making rafts. However, after the wood is cut, it needs to go through complex anti-corrosion soaking and drying in the shade, which takes a long time.”

Having said that, the boy turned around and pointed to the forest on the bank. There were indeed many slender and straight trees in that area.

Zheng Yang's eyes lit up, and he secretly thought that he had fallen into a stereotyped thinking, and he worked so hard to find some kind of plank. He can completely use these woods to transform them. This kind of trees are generally only thick in the mouth of a bowl. They grow tall and straight.

That is, if you don't do soaking and drying in the shade, I don't know if the optimized effect of Lingchuan will work?

Before Zheng Yang could respond, the other two teenagers looked at each other and laughed. It turned out that they also had the idea of ​​imitating Zheng Yang's shipbuilding.

"A Yang, the wood in this shipwreck is rotten and there is nothing to use. Let's cut down trees together. Then you will teach us how to build a ship!"

I teach an egg!

Zheng Yang was speechless, he could only put together a complete ship sample, and then it was automatically optimized and perfected when it was transformed into a spiritual ship by the magic circle and rituals, how could it know how to build a ship!

"Let's cut down the tree first. Since Feller's grandfather understands this, we will ask him to teach him." Zheng Yang said to the boy on the reef, "Feller, what do you think?"

"it is good!"

With a common goal, these teenagers stopped playing in the water and swam back directly to the shore, ready to start work.

Zheng Yang also untied the cable, didn't bother to raise the sail, picked up the oars and rowed towards the shore.

"Grandpa said that as long as twenty or so thin trees of this kind are enough to build a simple dhow. We will start cutting now, and we will be able to cut enough wood for our boat before noon. By the way, you have brought tools ?"

The boy named Feller took out an ax from his backpack and gestured excitedly.

Zheng Yang took out a hand saw, and the other two teenagers took out a two-person saw.

Well, they're all bear kids, and they're all ready for it!

Zheng Yang tried to specify the whole log to be used in the renovation plan before doing it. It's amazing, as long as he imagines it, it will appear on the image, and then a large amount of wood will be replaced by this kind of log in the feedback material list, and the consumption of psionic energy will not increase but decrease. He also tried to specify that steel should be used to completely replace wood, but he reported that "the plan is invalid"!

This shows that it is completely feasible to directly use this kind of whole wood as the main material to transform the spirit ship, and it is better than the original plan, but the amount of gum and steel required has increased several times.

So, the four teenagers worked with zeal and enthusiasm. They cut or sawed from the edge of the woods, with amazing efficiency, and they could bring down a tree in a few minutes.

This kind of tree grows straight and uniform, with a height of more than ten meters. It is not dense, has few branches, and is easy to repair. They caught and grilled fish for lunch at noon, and then continued to work. After four o'clock in the afternoon, they worked together to transport at least 20 repaired tree trunks to the seaside. Among them, Zheng Yang has the most tree trunks, more than 40, because he still needs to lay decks, and some of the wood will be turned into boards for use.

Next, the adults of their family need to take action. Tomorrow, they will come over and tie the wood into rafts and drag them back to the fishing village for disposal. Zheng Yang declined Feiler's kindness to drag him back by the way, saying that it is good to keep his timber here, and he will handle it by himself.

Fei Le and the other three teenagers walked the mountain road back to the fishing village with a full sense of accomplishment. Zheng Yang looked at his pile of wood and was also full of joy.

"I also want to collect gum, the more the better!"

The natural resources on the small island have not been developed and are rich in reserves, such as natural gum, which is easy to collect, and you can collect 20 to 30 catties after half a day's work tomorrow. As for steel, isn't the sunken ship here ready-made?

It was just dark when Zheng Yang returned to the fishing village by boat, much slower than Fei Le and others. He hesitated for a while, but decided to ask Hans to help him get some canvas and cables. Anyway, he had a lot of debts, and he had troubled him so many times, so this time was not bad.