Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 12 Making a Freshwater Collector

The seaweed continued to burn for a while, but strangely, there was no sign of burning.

After stopping the flame, Chen Xuan reached out and poked the seaweed when the seaweed cooled slightly.

After burning for so long, except for the residual heat that made his hands slightly hot, everything else was not much different from before.

"Is it because the flame is not hot enough?" Chen Xuan was a little confused.

In order to confirm his guess, he prepared to increase the flame temperature.

But before that, Chen Xuan got the seaweed in his hands first. Under the higher intensity flame, if he still put the seaweed on the raft to heat, he was afraid that the raft would be burnt through.

Holding the seaweed in one hand, the other hand started to spray flames. This time he wanted to continue to increase the intensity of the flames.

I saw that the original red flame began to change slowly, and finally, the flame turned into blue.

The flames turned Chen Xuan's face blue, and the air became distorted.

And the seaweed, which has never changed, finally began to melt slowly at this temperature.

At the same time, a new wave of energy appeared in his radar vision.

There is a play.

Chen Xuan carefully maintained the temperature of the flame, and the melted seaweed extract fell on the raft drop by drop because there was no suitable container.

He didn't dare to use the instant noodle bucket, after all, the temperature was enough to burn the instant noodle bucket.

Eventually, all the algae melted and became a glue-covered mass that covered the surface of the raft.

And when he retracted the flame, these hot gelatinous substances quickly began to cool and harden at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The thermal conductivity of these seaweed extracts seems to be quite good.

Chen Xuan waited patiently for them to cool down for a while before reaching out and tentatively touching the seaweed extracts.

After confirming that the temperature was ready to take over, Chen Xuan took these solidified seaweed extracts in his hand and began to observe.

After repeated burning, the seaweed that originally covered the entire raft was now condensed into a pile of light solids.

The color also becomes transparent and crystal clear.

Add up these solids and it's about the size of a backpack.

Chen Xuan tried to cut it with a wooden knife, but could not leave the slightest trace. Obviously, this material has a strong hardness, which is completely different from the original softness of seaweed.

It looks like everyday plastic.

Unexpectedly, after the seaweed was burned again, such a huge change had occurred.

This made Chen Xuan even more curious.

Try again, maybe there are other changes.

Chen Xuan grabbed the solidified seaweed extract and tried to burn it again.

However, this time, no matter how much he increased the intensity of the flame, the seaweed extract in front of him would not change in any way other than melting into its original plastic form.

It appears that this is the end product of the mutated seaweed.

Or it needs higher temperature and other conditions, but he can't meet these conditions for the time being.

Only other attempts can be made later.

Chen Xuan temporarily put down his thoughts on continuing to study.

Judging from the energy fluctuations in perception, these seaweed extracts are also a kind of material.

Through the system, it is absorbed into the material space. The seaweed extracts in front of him provide Chen Xuan with 3 units of "bioplastic".

Bioplastics, this is the system's name for the magical gelatin that Chen Xuan extracted from seaweed.

Looking at the bioplastics in the material space, Chen Xuan had some ideas.

The re-deformation of bioplastics can be easily carried out through the system, and since this material has the same properties as plastics, maybe it can replace plastics to make some new props?
Plastics are used in a wide range of applications.

But the most important thing right now is access to fresh water.

Only by ensuring sufficient fresh water resources can you have a worry-free trip to the Times Building.

Maybe build a simple freshwater collector first.

This is enough with the material in front.

In fact, he has long wanted to build such a device for collecting fresh water. For him who is currently drifting at sea, fresh water can only be obtained by distillation.

There are only two ways to distill, one is to evaporate by solar energy, and the other is to boil water by himself.

The former needs to be made of transparent texture materials, while the latter needs items that are resistant to high temperatures and easy to conduct heat.

After a day of drifting at sea, he has not found suitable materials.

Why are so many daily necessities made of wood?
This once made Chen Xuan very puzzled.

Now that the materials were finally available, Chen Xuan began to quickly search for the part of the field survival materials related to fresh water collectors in his mind.

"There is heavy humidity at sea, so you don't need to do too many filter designs, but you need to increase the ability to collect water vapor."

"Add a distillation design so that it can be used in an emergency."

"Just use a double-layer structure"

"This bioplastic can withstand high temperatures, so a heated bottom layer can be added to facilitate distillation."

"A drain must also be designed to increase efficiency and reduce waste."

"Use charcoal to blacken the bottom to increase heat absorption."

"A fixed design should be added for easy placement."

……

Chen Xuan was thinking quickly, and a simple freshwater collector design idea was quickly constructed in his mind.

After the design is completed, the next step is to start production.

But before starting production, Chen Xuan needs to rest and recover.

The continuous use of the "flame jet module" had consumed a lot of his mental power, and he had already started to feel slightly dizzy.

After lying on the raft for a while, until he regained some energy, Chen Xuan sat up and started making the fresh water collector.

The main material of the fresh water collector is transparent bioplastic.

The bioplastics in the space appeared separately under Chen Xuan's consciousness, and began to slowly expand and deform.

After transforming a few parts that suit his mind, Chen Xuan started to splice and assemble them according to the previously predetermined ideas.

Don’t worry if some gaps cannot be filled perfectly, it can be left to system optimization.

A conical fresh water tank slowly takes shape.

As a final step, use system optimization.

The white light began to wrap the fresh water collector made by Chen Xuan.

Perhaps because of the different materials and more cumbersome craftsmanship, the time is not as fast as before.

While waiting, Chen Xuan continued to close his eyes and meditate.

Until the system prompt came from the ear: "The fresh water collector has been optimized for the first time, increasing the efficiency of the effect! (Speed ​​up the corresponding work efficiency of the item.)"

Chen Xuan opened his eyes and looked at the completed fresh water collector.

The size of the optimized fresh water collector is equivalent to a 12-inch three-layer cake. Overall, it looks like the top of an ice cream bucket.

The design shape of the cone is optimized and very regular and round, with a seawater injection port at the top.

The injected seawater flows to the corresponding area, and the distilled steam can be condensed and collected quickly through the design of the interlayer, and then quickly slides down to the collection area at the bottom.

In order to enhance heat absorption, he used charcoal to simply blacken the bottom of the area containing seawater, but now it is directly processed into a pitch-black plastic plate by the system, which is darker and more durable.

There is a plastic buckle extending from one side of the edge, so that not only can the freshwater collector be fixed on the mast very conveniently, but also the fixed position can be adjusted so that it is suspended in the air, so that seawater can be distilled from below with flame.

The fresh water area and the sea water area can be heated independently, and they are basically not affected by each other.

There is also a water outlet that can be switched on and off below.

If you ignore its appearance, this can simply be used as a self-service water dispenser, and it also has dual hot and cold controls.

It is indeed a system product.

Finally, the freshwater collector also adds an "efficiency" special effect.

It is the icing on the cake.

Now, there is no need to worry about fresh water.

(End of this chapter)