Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 54
At night, Chen Xuan, who had eaten, put together the metal parts collected in the past few days and started to smelt them.

It's not that it can't be smelted before, but the process is more fuel-intensive.

Burning one is burning, and burning a bunch is also burning.

The materials used are the same.

It's better to save it first, after all, oil is so hard to find.

Out of this consideration, he didn't start working until the amount of metal parts was almost saved today.

Looking at the flickering fire, Chen Xuan fell into deep thought.

Because the "Kunpeng" was advanced and some new vehicle technologies were added, a large number of material gaps suddenly appeared.

Fortunately, wood and plant fibers can be found in some floating debris even on the surface of the sea.

By comparison, oil and metals are much rarer.

As far as oil is concerned, the only sources he knows so far are extracting fish oil from fluorescent seaweed fruit or extracting fish oil from fish.

Fluorescent seaweed is hard to find, and fishing is not what he is good at. If it weren't for the stupid big guy who helped kill a lot of sardines, he might have fallen into a state of fuel crisis now.

However, in this regard, it may be much better to wait until the newly emerged "fishing module" is activated.

Chen Xuan is still very confident about the system's technology.

Compared with "oil", "metal" is a more difficult material to obtain.

The density of metal is high, which determines that it is almost impossible for him to obtain this material from the sea.

And even in today's Times Mansion, there are limits to collecting metal.

Among the things I have encountered so far, besides the metal parts on the computer, is there no other source of metal?

There must be.

After all, metal is a material that can be said to be involved in all aspects of human life just like plastic.

As small as the nib in a ballpoint pen, as large as a large mechanical device, metal is inseparable.

Even the table he dismantled before, and the furniture he destroyed before, there were inevitably some small metal parts such as steel nails and screws inside.

There is also the reinforced concrete wall of the building, which must be full of steel bars when disassembled.

But these things are not easy to collect.

The metal material is not like wood and plant fibers that can be directly collected into the material space.

Instead, he needs to pick up these parts one by one by himself, and then take them to smelt.

This will definitely take more time.

And now he has to focus on efficiency.

Because of the emphasis on efficiency, when Chen Xuan collected resources before, his main goal has always been to put wood and plant fibers and some things that can be used directly.

For some miscellaneous parts that have no obvious function, he generally ignores them selectively.

These things are of various types, large and small, and their functions are unknown.

If you really want to collect all the pieces, not to mention that he only has 10 cubic meters of space, even if you give him another 100 cubic meters, it may not be enough.

Maybe one day the paper can be collected by the system.

Or maybe one day even the reinforced concrete walls can be taken away.

But it doesn't prevent them from being of much use now, and they also occupy his little living space.

Put too many things, and the boat will have too deep a draft.

Not safe.

Not to mention that it takes a lot of time to collect these things.

Not cost-effective.

Now is the end of the world, collecting resources is of course essential, but for Chen Xuan, it is more important to hurry to the North Wind Plateau and gather other survivors as soon as possible.

If he just blindly clings secretly in one place, relying on the wretched development of the system, that doesn't make any sense.

He will never know the overall situation of the last days.

For the understanding of the end times, relying on him alone must be like a blind man feeling the elephant. Only by concentrating the wisdom of all mankind can we have a clearer and more comprehensive understanding.

What's more, the problem of failure to advance has always been like a knife hanging over his head.

Before he understands this, he can't advance rashly, which is equivalent to putting on a shackle invisibly.

In addition, the metal in his hands does not know how to use it other than as a system material.

These things cannot be solved by him alone.

If one day, he has a better way to deal with those things in the building, he can come back again, anyway, the Times Building will not run away with long legs.

Back to the collection of metals.

Taking advantage of being in the building now, he must collect as much metal as possible, after all, there may be no such shop after passing this village.

But tomorrow, efficiency is still a prerequisite, so we must pay attention to the size of metal parts.

Things that are too small will not work.

Those screws, nails, etc. are as small as shrimp, and it is difficult to find them with a magnifying glass, and how should they be brought back?
Make an airtight container?
Whether it is wood, bioplastic, or plant fiber, it can only be simply deformed through the system, and his existing technology cannot further process it into a suitable container on this basis.

He looked at his body again, and there seemed to be no place to put these things.

Grab a handful of nails and come back?
This is so stupid.

Too small for his needs.

And not too big.

Not to mention the possibility of exceeding the limit of material collection, even if the door is stuck, he can't get it out.

And the metal thing, even if he used an iron gun, he couldn't break it down, or he would have torn down the door of the safe passage long ago.

The same is true for the steel bars in the walls.

It was too big for him to bear.

Thinking about it this way, computers are indeed the best source of metal parts, and items with metal brackets in the office should be fine, such as chairs and so on.

This type of item is moderate in size, as long as he brings a fishing net down tomorrow, he can bring up many items at once.

Absolutely a lot more convenient.

While Chen Xuan was thinking about the problem, all the metal parts in front of him had been burnt and were automatically collected by the system.

There are 28 units of "Metal" in total.

He expanded the material panel of the system to view it.

【Current resources】：
"Wood": 39 units.

"Plant fiber": 303 units.

"Bioplastic": 30 units.

"Oil": 28 units.

"Metal": 36 units.

During this period of time, the materials have changed a lot.

Among them, less than 10 units of wood were newly added, which were provided by the desks of the office building.

There were nearly [-] units of plant fiber originally, but it cost a little to decorate.

In terms of oil, 5 units are seaweed oil, and the remaining 23 units are fish oil.

Moreover, seaweed oil, as Chen Xuan's ration, was still being consumed every day.

At this rate, he will run out of gas to eat in another seven or eight days.

"Oh, it's such a hard day."

Chen Xuan sighed lightly.

However, the number of "metals" has exceeded 20.

In other words, the conditions for activating the "Balance Module" have been met.

(End of this chapter)