Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 9 Glowing Algae

Chen Xuan was restless at the moment, and kept tapping his thigh with his index finger.

Everything in front of him was too unbelievable.

Global warming causes glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and flooding the land.

This kind of statement is not unheard of. It was once a very hot topic, and many classic disaster movies have also been derived.

But according to experts, even if all the glaciers melt, the sea level can only rise by tens of meters at most, and it has never been heard that the entire city will be submerged.

Not to mention that the altitude of their Dinghong City is not low.

Judging from the water level of the TV tower, this is already hundreds of meters high.

It's like the legendary sunken city.

However, the legendary Lost Kingdom is said to be an offshore city that sank to the bottom of the sea due to crustal movement. However, Dinghong City is inland, so it is absolutely impossible for this to happen.

The reason for all this is temporarily unknown.

But Lenovo's sudden, appalling waves.And then to the mysterious strange fish that appeared later, and the big and abnormal tuna.

These are no accidents.

The world may have undergone unimaginable changes.

The reason for all this is temporarily unknown.

And no matter how shocking the reality is right now, Chen Xuan must accept it.

It's just that everything happened so that people had no time to react.

Before he fell into a coma, he was still a good young man who was actively preparing to enter the society. He had enough food and clothing, finished his graduation thesis in a down-to-earth manner, obtained a degree certificate, and found a job with good rewards. A bright future was beckoning to him.

However, when he woke up, the reality was turned upside down.

The future is also blurred.

Chen Xuan felt like he had suddenly become a homeless person.

Although I am an orphan, I grew up in an orphanage. I didn't get much care from my family, and I didn't have many friends. I went my own way and walked alone. Usually I can only pass the time by hand.

But even then, he still has a home, the orphanage is his home, the school is his home, and his small rented house is also his home.

But now all this is gone.

This made him feel an emptiness he had never felt before.

He really misses the land now, the down-to-earth feeling.

We must find a way to return to the earth.

Chen Xuan calmed down his sadness, and began to carefully plan the next arrangement.

The first is to gather resources.

The TV tower in front of me is the tallest building nearby, and the other buildings are much shorter.

With a height difference of tens of meters, it was basically impossible to collect resources in those places. He could not dive to such a deep distance.

The TV Tower is also inaccessible from the outside.

Although the TV tower itself is a steel structure, its scale must have exceeded the size limit of the system's collection of items, and it is impossible to dismantle it.

In addition, you need to plan where to go next.

Judging from the water level of the TV tower, those mountains and plateaus with higher altitudes should not have been submerged, and they must still have intact civilization and social structures, as well as a large number of survivors.

Dinghong City is located in the Jiangnan Plain, and the closest to here is Dongji Mountain in Shanhai City, but the distance is more than a thousand kilometers.

At the current speed of the raft, it will take years of monkeys and horses and months to arrive.

In addition, the sea breeze has a great influence on navigation.

The strong sea wind makes it very easy to change the direction and speed of sailing.

Chen Xuan is not good at controlling the sail.

There was no clear direction before, and you can drift arbitrarily, but once the goal is established, if the course changes frequently, it will be even more difficult.

This also requires a long-term plan.

It is not easy to go to the distance, so we can only focus on the near.

The Times Building in Jinzhou, which is closest to him, should still be partially submerged, and there might be survivors.

The Times Building is directly north of the TV Tower, about 200 kilometers away.

This distance is much more reliable.

Chen Xuan's thoughts were racing.

Time passed silently, the sun slowly moved down, and finally sank into the sea.

Tonight the sky is cloudy and the moon is covered, and the stars are dim.

When Chen Xuan came back to his senses, at some point, he was already in a strange space, and the sea under his feet was glowing with a faint blue light, reflecting the entire sea surface beautifully and magically.

Sea water glow?

Chen Xuan remembered that the Science and Education Channel had recorded the luminescence at sea before, which was caused by plankton.

And the glowing phenomenon in front of him is obviously not the reason.

Looking down through the sea surface, you can see many huge seaweeds swaying constantly, and the blue light is coming from the depths of the seaweeds.

During the day, because I was focused on the TV tower, I didn't notice that there were so many seaweeds growing nearby.

These seaweeds must have appeared after the area was submerged by water, and it is amazing that they can grow to such a scale.

The glowing seaweed made Chen Xuan very curious.

This is the third strange creature he has seen.

Or go into the water to take a closer look?
There didn't seem to be any aggressive creatures in the water.

Chen Xuan looked at the sea water shining with blue light again, and carefully stretched out his hand to explore.

The sea water is also very safe, and no vicious changes have occurred.

Taking advantage of the light from the seaweed, Chen Xuan decided to go into the water to investigate.

Hundreds of seaweeds are scattered in the depths of the sea, at different heights.

The nearest seaweed is about 3 meters deep from the water surface, and Chen Xuan quickly arrived near the seaweed.

Next, he needs to approach slowly.

After all, it is impossible to tell whether this algae will be as aggressive as piranhas.

Survival in the wild must be done carefully.

Chen Xuan slowly swam to the seaweed and confirmed that the seaweed was not aggressive.

The whole seaweed looks like a giant feather duster from afar.

The thick cylindrical rhizome hangs many huge curled needle-shaped algae leaves, like a girl's hair.

Seen up close, the entire seaweed looks like a charged light tube.It emits a soft blue light.

Chen Xuan tentatively touched it with his hand, and found a piece of soft skin, as if it was human skin.

Feel it carefully, it should be non-corrosive and toxic.

This seaweed should be safe.

Chen Xuan continued to dive all the way along the seaweed, and the light became stronger and stronger.

After diving a few more meters, he finally stopped in front of several fruit-like objects, which looked like fruits from seaweed.

The roots of the seaweed are still deeper, but he is almost suffocating to the limit.

Different from other parts of the seaweed, the fruit part shone with a faint yellow light and was in the shape of a water drop, about the size of a fist.

The top of the fruit is connected with seaweed, like pears growing on a pear tree.

Chen Xuan reached out to pick a few fruits, but found that the surface was very slippery, like a spherical soap.

There is no way to grab it with one hand, this thing is too easy to let go.

He has no clothes and no pockets now, so he can only hug one with both hands, then step on the water with both feet, and dive quickly.

When he reached the surface of the sea, Chen Xuan gasped for breath, he could hardly hold on just now.

Fortunately, I did not leave empty-handed.

Chen Xuan looked at his hand again, only to see that the brilliance of the fruit that had left the seaweed quickly dissipated and restored its original appearance.It's just that under blue light, its color cannot be clearly distinguished.

I don't know if the fruit of this seaweed can be eaten.

Chen Xuan didn't dare to say anything about something of unknown origin.

If it was placed half a day ago, he might stuff it into his mouth regardless of his hunger.

But now that he has received food supplies, he has a more research attitude towards this fruit.

There is not much material in his hand for him to cut the fruit.

And now the light is not very good, it is really inconvenient to study the fruit.

Or leave it to study tomorrow during the day.

He's a little sleepy now.

Jumping back and forth on the verge of death for a day, he now feels that every cell in his body is complaining of exhaustion.

After Chen Xuan put the fruit on the mast properly, he climbed onto the raft and made two ropes to bind the mast and the TV tower to prevent the raft from drifting away.

Then find a comfortable position to lie down.

Although at night, the temperature became slightly colder, but because the temperature difference at sea was relatively small, it remained at an acceptable level.

Lying on the raft, Chen Xuan slowly fell asleep.

In the dream, he seemed to be back on land and on campus.

(End of this chapter)