[Plank ship construction takes 3 minutes, please wait]
The system's answer made him full of anticipation.
The large and small timbers behind his butt quickly began to move independently.
These timbers were all treated, but the system re-sanded and polished the planks in the spirit of excellence. All of them looked brand new after being re-treated.
A long keel is quickly formed, and the keel(the main bottom bearing timber), the hull, the rudder, and the side planks are quickly shaped, placed, and put together to form the ship in seconds.
The planks are joined together using a traditional woodworking technique called mortise and tenon, in which its principle is to combine the concave and convex parts of the two planks together.
This crafting technique does not require nails but is stronger than nails and can be disassembled. The only drawback is the complexity of the design and process. But with the help of the system, this difficulty does not exist at all.
At this point, Raine's heart was pounding with the system's busyness, and he couldn't help but marvel on the sidelines, "Holy... it's breathtaking! System, I suspect you'd earn lots of money if you went to work as a carpenter."
The system continues to be busy...
"Look at this wood treatment, tsk tsk, like new ah. And this wood grain looks particularly comfortable."
"The hull's lines are nice too. It has a sense of flow. Eh, this can reduce wind resistance. Ah that place, what's it called? Anyway, it's great!"
...
Somehow, the system surprisingly finished ahead of schedule, and a brand new plank boat appeared in front of Raine.
If it had been any slower, Raine would probably have been sleeping on the sidelines for a long time.
The boat was small, about two meters in length. It is about the same length as Raine's raft, about seventy centimeters wide and looks narrow.
The entire hull has a certain curvature that gives the boat's interior a grooved appearance. The bow and stern are not decorated in any particular way, except for the planks being a little thicker.
For a wooden boat, this one has no bottom cavity, and its bottom plate is the boat's deck. It is definitely easy to get to the top of the shabby list.
But Raine doesn't care about that. He's pretty excited right now.
Dude! What could be more shabby than a raft with three pieces of bamboo? Nothing, absolutely nothing! This is an epic super-evolution!
[Performing host consciousness and item migration while destroying the three-bamboo pole raft]
"Hey, hey, hey, don't destroy it. It's nice to keep it!"
Raine found that his perspective instantly shifted from the bamboo raft to the wooden boat. All the items on the raft, water purification equipment, miscellaneous items, White, and even the fish skin ropes tied to the bamboo were all smoothly transferred to the wooden boat.
In a moment, the transfer was complete.
When the items landed on Raine's body, the boat sank a little significantly.
When Raine looked back, the raft had disappeared into the air.
"Ah, my bamboo! Wouldn't it have been great for a mast?"
The system had stopped making noises. Without someone talking, Raine was finally quiet, "At least that AI system was funny. Now, this is a machine with no humor at all. Forget it, let's get to business."
"Basic information menu!"
[Host: Raine
Ship: Small single-deck plank ship
Crew size: 1
Ship Speed: Not equipped with a power system, not measurable
Combat Power: 1
Load Capacity: 37.3/300 (kg)
Evolutionary Progress: 1.3/50 (Wood)]
The load capacity had changed from the previous 43.9kg to 37.3 kg. At first, Raine thought he had lost something, but then it occurred to him that it was impossible to lose something. It must be the loss of moisture in those clothes that made the total weight a little lighter.
Of course, that wasn't the point. The point was that his load limit increased from 50kg to 300kg in one go, six times more than before!
"Now my most important task is to collect materials. The load capacity is very important. 300 kg load capacity means I can fit 15 Whites, cool!"
"Something else is not shown here yet. Now I have a rudder and don't have to keep twisting and turning when I want to control the direction!"
"It's just that the bottom of the boat is still a bit worrying. Even if the system is unbelievably crafted with seamless mortise and tenon joints for the bottom, the wood will rot when immersed in seawater for a long time... It looks like I have to find a way to wrap the bottom."
"Okay, I have so many more supplies and materials now. Before, it never showed what I could build. My level was probably not high enough. Now let me see!"
Raine wanted to mull it some more. Still, after a hard day's work and too much excitement, he even completed a consciousness transfer. After those, Raine couldn't hold it together for much longer. His consciousness began to struggle gradually.
The night on the sea was particularly tantalizing, the water gently swaying his body. He was becoming accustomed to this sensation, this feeling just like he was lying in his mother's arms and sleepiness swept him.
He glanced dazedly at White, who was sound asleep and uneasily went back to check the water purification equipment, finding that it had been stocked with drinking water, which finally reassured him from his worries.
"The Azure Era? The Age of the Great Voyage?" Raine smiled slightly, although he wouldn't laugh either... eventually he couldn't hold on any longer and fell into a deep sleep.
......
[Heading 22 degrees northeast, position 270 meters, timber and humans found]
[Heading 21 degrees northeast, position 220 meters, timber and humans found]
[...]
He doesn't know how long he slept, but before it was fully light, Raine was woken up by the system.
"Fuck you! Why don't you go and become a fucking alarm clock!"
[24 degrees northeast, 170 meters, found timber and humans.]
Raine was speechless, he opened his eyes in a daze, and his brain finally started to work.
"Timber and humans? What, humans!?" Raine was suddenly awake. He was unexpectedly very nervous when he heard the word "human".
"How many humans?"
[Only found one human and 0.2 units of wood.]
"One human?" Raine breathed a small sigh of relief. He wasn't too afraid of one person.
"Nah, what the hell are 0.2 units of timber? There are more shabby ships than me? It can't be."
Raine had at least looked at the system's boat-building process and roughly imagined that 0.2 units of wood were just a small plank. It's definitely not a boat.
Curious coincidence, the current seemed to keep drifting in that direction. Surprisingly it didn't deviate from its course, and about a hundred meters in, Raine could see a small black dot rising and falling in the distance in the faint light.
"Did they fall into the sea?" Raine finally understood. The guy probably fell overboard and floated on the sea surface just with a plank.
"Is there anyone? Anyone? Please help me. I can't hold on much longer... " A weak woman clung onto a plank and faintly saw a wooden boat coming towards her in the distance.