Looking at the mid-air ship, he asked with big eyes, "Who would be the ship?"
Zhang Ling said: "I don't know, maybe it was left by the ancestors, or maybe, like us, it was also left by the people who came to Shambala Cave."
I immediately said: "It can't be the boat of the ancients, and the boats of the ancients are unlikely to be preserved for such a long time. It is very likely that they were left by people who came to the Shambala Cave."
Zhang Ling nodded and said, "Yes, but the cowhide boat is not equipped with oars. It is only suitable for going downstream, not upstream."
"Ah!" Big eyes suddenly exclaimed as if thinking of something.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Ling and I looked at him and asked.
Big eyes excitedly said: "You said, will we be in the Shambala cave now?"
"This..." I groaned for a while, not daring to express my opinion, and ran into the Shambala cave by mistake? This is a coincidence too!
Zhang Ling said, "No matter where it is, let's go up and see before talking."
She took out the zip line and put it on her wrist, raised her hand, and inserted the cable head into the top wall. After tightening, she began to climb up. Dayan and I also threw the rope up and climbed over to the cowhide boat.
As soon as he touched the hull, Big Eye yelled "Yeah". It turned out that when he landed, he couldn't stand still. The ship shook suddenly, as if stepping on the tail of a behemoth. With a sudden flick of the tail, he almost fell off.
Zhang Ling and I came to the bottom of the boat, but nothing like this happened.
Standing at the bottom of the ship, I realized that the ship was even bigger than it looked from a distance. It was two or three meters wide and ten meters long, just like a train carriage. We tried to turn the whole ship over, and after a lot of effort, we found that it was impossible, unless we got the ship out of these stalactites first.
And once this big ship is launched, it is difficult for us to control the ship not drifting down the river. However, what is strange is that this simple boat is very sturdy, there is no difference between stepping on that leather object and stepping on a solid floor, and you can't feel the softness and collapse of stepping on the dough.
According to Zhang Ling, this is because the skin is tightly tightened by the keel. But I searched around and found no seams on the leather hull, or in other words, the boat was not spliced, it was supported by a whole piece of leather. But as far as we know, as far as the world is concerned, even the largest blue whale has its skin completely peeled off
, Is not enough to stretch such a ship.
So we infer that the shipmaker may have invented a rubber-like compound that looks like animal skin and is tough and durable.
I walked along the ship’s side to the inside of the inverted hull alone. The keel and ribs of the hull were exposed in the hull, like a huge open chest. There was nothing else, neither bottom bones nor sides. Bone, it's so simple that it's clear at a glance.
I tried to cut it with a dagger, and I was surprised to find that a sharp dagger didn't do much at all. Cutting along the edge of the skin could only remove some scales.
The thickness of this leather is five centimeters, which strengthens our idea that things are man-made compounds. If it is biological leather, the dried leather of this special preparation is five centimeters thick. What thickness should it reach when it exists in the biological body
There are also those keels that are even more surprising. The center of the keel adopts a lock structure, or more like the vertebrae of a certain kind of creature. They are connected in sections and do not slip off each other, but they are mobile. .
In other words, this boat has a soft leather-like hull, and a keel skeleton like a spine, plus a flat bottom. This structure ensures that it will not roll over in the water, but it can twist like a snake. The hull, no wonder the hull suddenly moved when the big eye fell on the bottom of the ship, as if it broke.
I said: "This should be a giant python estimated to be more than 20 meters in length and more than three meters in diameter. It was cut apart to make a boat, otherwise there would be no boats of this weird shape."
Zhang Ling said: "Such a creature does not exist in the rational world, and the hull of a biological leather hull does not match the keel in the middle. The ribs are still made of wood. The shipbuilder imitated the spine structure of a human body or an animal. , The use of this lock structure to create this twistable keel; as for the material used, it may be stone or wood."
The ribs that stretched the skin of the boat on the keel were indeed made of wood. Each of them was only an adult's arm thick and dark, but the length reached more than ten meters or even longer. From the outside, there are few traces of manual cutting, and it is more like just peeling off the bark, or not even peeling the bark, which is naturally generated.
Big eyes said: "I don't care
I wonder what this boat is made of. I want to get it down now. We can go by boat. In that case, we will save a lot of effort. "
Zhang Ling touched the rock supporting the ship and said: "It's definitely not possible with the strength of the three of us. If the supporting rock is destroyed, the ship should be able to fall."
"How to destroy it?"
Zhang Ling took out a grenade from his clothes and said, "You can try this."
I was surprised and said, "You still have this thing!" You know, during the avalanche, our guns and a lot of supplies were lost. Only Zhang Ling's bag was left, but her bag was full of some Rope and useless electronic devices.
Zhang Ling smiled and said, "I have been carrying this thing with me. Now let's try to see if we can blow up the stalactites."
"Okay." I said in unison with Big Eye.
The hull is sandwiched by three stalactites. The surface of the stalactites is very smooth, but not as hard as imagined. After Zhang Ling's calculations, we chose a location, and then I used an ice axe to carve out the grooves for the grenade.
Big Eye and Zhang Ling went down and hid first, then I pulled off the safety of the grenade and quickly descended using the rope, hiding behind a huge boulder.
With a loud "bang", a stalactite was blown off, and the stone chips splashed. The boat shook a few times, then tilted down, and plunged into the river like a shuttle.
When the boat floated out of the water, it was already ten meters away, drifting along the river. We cheered for a while, and then hurried to catch up.
The three people got on the boat together, and there was a lot of stagnant water in the cabin, so we went down the river to clean up the water on the boat.
When the water on the boat was cleaned up, the boat happened to reach a steep torrent slope, which immediately tightened our nerves, but at this time the uniquely shaped boat also began to show its advantages.
The hull soaked in water and the spine bones that can move freely make the hull firmly attached to the surface of the river. Each pair of ribs and the spine connected to it divide the serpentine boat into one section, one section.
The people sitting on the boat are like riding a roller coaster, sometimes swiftly down, sometimes from left to right to avoid the reef, sometimes hitting the cave walls or stone pillars, the elastic hull bounces off like a ball, and Crashed to the other side.
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