My Island Survival in the Wild

Chapter 205 Quick Shade-dried Wood
Using the function of the Universal Illustrated Book, Lin Xiu exchanged the ability to build a ship.

"This omnipotent illustrated book is a good thing, but it's a pity that there are not many of them!"

Looking at the omnipotent illustrated book whose number has been reduced to zero, Lin Xiu feels a little regretful.

The Almighty Illustrated Book can provide him with a skill that is not top-notch. Although it can't let him jump from novice to master in one step, it is also very cost-effective.

It's a pity that the chance of getting this item is not high. Now that Lin Xiu has used up the omnipotent illustration book, it will not be so convenient to exchange for any abilities in the future.

After acquiring the ship building skills, Lin Xiu immediately started working.

They don't have planing wood, saws, or even axes. It's not easy to build a boat from scratch.

Lin Xiu didn't immediately build the boat, but found a few more big rocks and began to smash them.

As the saying goes, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and Lin Xiu is no exception.

The boat he wants to build must be able to support ocean voyages, so ordinary rafts cannot support it at all.

And to make a sufficiently sophisticated ship, it is natural to use a lot of tools.

Now that there is no condition for cast iron, Lin Xiu can only use stone tools.

In the impression of ordinary people, stone tools are backward weapons of primitive people, and they are basically useless.

But in fact it is not the case.

You know, before the appearance of bronze and iron tools, human beings survived entirely on stone tools.

If the stone tools were really so unbearable, it would be impossible for human beings to survive in an era surrounded by natural enemies.

Of course, it is impossible to say how powerful the stone tools are.

But now under such circumstances, Lin Xiu can only make stone tools.

And the crude ax that Lin Xiu made for Xiong Batian today, although it was said that Xiong Batian chopped it off, but he also cut down a lot of trees.

This shows that stone tools can also be used.

After Lin Xiu polished the few stones in his hand, he began to grind out their shapes.

This process took Lin Xiu nearly a day.

After he finished a bunch of stone axes and knives, it was completely dark.

After Lin Xiu talked to the water friends in the live broadcast room, he turned off the live broadcast room.

The dinner is also made by Xiong Batian, and now in order to win the favor of Xiongmeizi, it has already started to change jobs to become the head bear of the family.

In order to make it succeed, Lin Xiu specially built a stone pot for it today.

In this way, Xiong Batian can cook other dishes.

And Xiong Meizi, who likes gourmet food, is slowly being captured by Xiong Batian.

After dinner, Lin Xiu didn't lie down to sleep immediately.

He called Xiong Batian to come outside, then took the stone shovel that he had made today, and ran directly to the beach.

Then the two of them dug a hole by the beach.

By moonlight, after nearly an hour of working with one person and one bear, they finally dug a big hole.

After all, this place is full of sand, so it doesn't take much effort to dig it up.

This pit is very big, if it is deeper, Lin Xiu is worried that they will not be able to climb out.

After completing this work, Lin Xiu took Xiong Batian to drag all the wooden sticks piled up in front of the cave.

Then Lin Xiu threw the sticks into the big pit.

At this time, the big pit was already full of sea water, and after throwing these wooden sticks in it, a huge wave of water was instantly aroused.

"Okay, today's work is over!"

Looking at the wooden stick soaked in the sea water, Lin Xiu clapped his hands to stop.

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The next day, after Lin Xiu finished his routine morning exercises, he started to make boats.

He first brought the materials, and then walked to the place where the wood was soaked yesterday.

"When did the wood in this pit be dragged over!"

"The anchor moves very fast, so much wood can be moved!"

"If you don't understand, just ask, what does the host mean by soaking this wood!"

Seeing that Lin Xiu soaked so much wood, the water friends were all shocked.

Firstly, they were surprised that Lin Xiu still had the energy to move so many logs after the live broadcast, and secondly, they were curious about why Lin Xiu soaked these logs.

They have never heard that the wood needs to be soaked first to build a ship.

"The wood for building a boat doesn't need to be soaked first, but it needs to be dried in the shade. We don't have enough time to dry in the shade, so I came up with this trick!"

Lin Xiu walked to the side and reached out to explore the sand under his feet.

There isn't much moisture left in here.

It seems that the seawater that flooded the entire pit yesterday was fake.

"Everyone has also seen that although there is still water on the wood, the water here has completely disappeared with the low tide. This is the way I thought of as a quick alternative to drying in the shade!"

"The principle of this method is that the fluctuation of seawater has very strong potential energy. Even if there is such a large beach across here, it can also generate strong potential energy when the tide ebbs.
This can help me extract some moisture from the inside of the wood and meet the standard of shade drying. In addition, the salt in the sea water can decompose the water. As long as my pile of wood waits for the sun to shine, it will be perfect shade drying wood! "

Lin Xiu explained to the live broadcast room that this knowledge was brought to him by systematic shipbuilding knowledge.

Of course, shade-dried wood like his is actually not very qualified, because the method of pumping water with seawater can only take away part of the water.

Most of the rest of the moisture will remain in the wood, and this moisture will have to wait long enough to disappear.

There may be no problems in building ships with such wood, but problems will definitely occur after a long time.

The cracking of the wood is not bad. The biggest possibility of building a ship with this kind of wood is that the water in the wood will start to seep in the future, which will cause the entire wood to expand, and by the way, the entire ship will also expand and deform.

Therefore, although this method is recorded in the knowledge of ship construction, it is not recommended at all.

But now how could Lin Xiu have time to wait for it to dry naturally?

If you want to get a batch of shade-dried wood, you need to wait at least half a month.

And during this half-month period, a sufficient temperature must be maintained.

Otherwise, it will take longer to dry in the shade.

Waiting for such a long time, not to mention the threat of the savage tribe, even the approaching rainy season is enough to make Lin Xiu completely unable to go back.

In order to keep these problems away from himself, Lin Xiu's only choice is to use the fastest method to make the boat, and then leave the island.

As for the cotton that he didn't get, Lin Xiu had no choice but to give up.

Now that he and the savage tribe have completely torn apart, and Luya has no power or idea to seize power for the time being, it is impossible for Lin Xiu to obtain cotton peacefully through negotiations.

So now, leaving this island is Lin Xiu's first goal.

As for the problem of the wood not being durable, Lin Xiu didn't need to think about it any more.

(End of this chapter)