Chapter 5: 5. A Shabby Epic Evolution

[Plank ship construction took 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 on their own.

The timbers were all treated, but in the spirit of excellence, the system re-sanded and polished the planks. All of them looked brand new seconds later after being re-treated.

A long keel is quickly formed, followed by the keel (the main bottom bearing timber), the hull, the rudder, and the side planks, which are quickly shaped, placed, and put together to form the ship in a matter of seconds.

The planks are joined together using a traditional East woodworking technique called mortise and tenon, which uses a combination of concave and convex parts on the two planks to be joined together.

This craft technique does not require nails, but is stronger than fitting nails with nails and can be disassembled. The only drawback is the complexity of the design and process. With the system in place, this difficulty is completely out of the question.

Watching the system busy there, Raine's heart was pounding at this point and he couldn't help but marvel at it from the sidelines, "Holy ...... it's breathtaking! System, I suspect you must be earning a good income going into carpentry."

The system continues to be busy ......

"This wood treatment, tsk tsk, like new ah. Look at this wood grain, look particularly comfortable."

"The lines of the hull are nice too, it has a sense of flow. Eh, this reduces the wind resistance. Aaah, and that place, what's it called, anyway, eh, great!"

......

Somehow, the system actually finished ahead of schedule, and at the two-minute and twenty-second mark, a brand new plank boat appeared in front of Raine.

If it had been any slower, Raine would probably have been bleeping 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, and about seventy centimeters wide and seemingly narrow.

The entire hull has a certain curvature that gives the interior of the boat a grooved appearance, and the bow and stern are not decorated in any particular way, except that the planks are a little thicker.

Even for a wooden boat, this one has no bottom cavity, and its bottom plate is the deck of the boat. It is easily at 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 tied up with three pieces of bamboo? Nothing, absolutely nothing! This is a super-evolution of epic proportions!

[Performing host consciousness and item migration, while destroying the three bamboo rafts.]

"Hey, hey, hey, don't destroy it, the bamboo is so nice to keep!"

Raine said while finding 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 matter of moments, the transfer was complete.

When the items landed on Raine's body, the boat sank a lot!

By the time Raine looked back, the raft had disappeared into thin air.

"Ah, My bamboo! Doesn't it good to be a mast?"

The system had stopped making noises and Raine was finally quiet without someone to talk to, "It's still that AI system that's funny. Now, this is a machine, with no humor at all. Forget it, get down to business."

"Basic information menu!"

[Host: Raine]

[Ship: Small single-deck plank ship]

[Crew size: 1]

[Ship's Speed: Not equipped with the power system, not measurable]

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[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 have been 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 had gone from 50kg to 300kg in one go, six times more than before!

"My most important task now is to collect materials. The load capacity is very important to me, 600kg load capacity means I can fit 15 Whites, cool!"

"Something else not shown here yet, I now have a rudder and no more twisting and turning when controlling 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 corrode when immersed in seawater for a long time ...... Looks like I have to find a way to wrap the bottom."

"Okay, I have so many more supplies. It never showed what I could build before, probably not enough levels, now hurry up and see!"

Raine wanted to mull it over some more, but after a day of hard work, and too much excitement earlier, he completed another consciousness transfer, and finally Raine couldn't hold it up a bit, and his consciousness began to gradually struggle to focus.

The night on the sea was particularly tantalizing, the water gently swaying his body, a sensation he was becoming accustomed to, feeling like he was lying in his mother's arms as sleepiness swept over 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 was reassuring.

"The Azure Era? The Age of the Great Voyage?" Raine smiled slightly, although he wouldn't have laughed either ...... eventually couldn't hold on any longer and fell into a deep sleep.

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[Ding, heading 22 degrees northeast, position 270 meters, timber and humans found]

[Ding, heading 21 degrees northeast, position 220 meters, timber and humans found.]

[Ding ......]

I don't know how long I slept, but before it was fully light, Raine was woken up by the system.

"Fuck you ding ding ding! Why don't you go and become a fucking alarm clock instead!"

[Ding, 24 degrees northeast, 170 meters, timber, and humans found].

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 a man who was so nervous to hear the word "humans".

"How many humans?"

[Only one human found so far, 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 boat building and roughly imagined that 0.2 units of wood were just a small plank of wood. It's definitely not a boat.

Ghostly, 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 already see a small black dot rising and falling in the distance by the faint light of day.

"Falling into the sea?" Raine finally understood, the guy had fallen overboard and was now leaning on a plank, floating on the surface.

"Is there anyone? Anyone? Help me, I can't hold on much longer ......" a weak female voice, clinging to a plank, dimly saw a wooden boat in the distance, coming towards her.