"Dimwit, start building the island!"
Rumble, rumble, rumble …
Following Chen Yu's command, the giant tools on the left and right sides of the deck slowly extended. The sound of hydraulic rods contracting then merged with the ship's vibrations to form a deafening roar!
This fully displayed the power of machinery!
"King!
Look here! "
Little Peach walked up to Chen Yu while holding the crystal ball. Amidst the rumbling, she shouted, "You want to set up a general island-building plan."
"General plan?"
Turning around, Chen Yu received the crystal ball. After carefully observing it for a moment, he showed it to the camera and said, "Everyone, can you see it?
It's a very simple plan.
The blue background is the sea. So long as you draw an island on it, the engineering ship will automatically start construction.
Below and above the projection are auxiliary options. You can choose the island's preset size, area, and height.
"As the first artificial island in human history, we definitely won't be interested in a preset model.
If we're going to build an island, let's build a cool one! "
After saying so, Chen Yu stretched out his index finger and drew a circle on the virtual projection under the gaze of his hundreds of thousands of viewers.
He then drew another circle next to the circle and pressed the two circles together, forming a two-sphere structure.
Finally, Chen Yu licked his lips and drew a cylinder with an arc at the tip between the two circles. The cylinder now looked like a raised middle finger...
The visualized image was as follows:
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[Dammit... What the hell is this?]
[The host is giving a middle finger to space.]
[It hurts my eyes.]
[It's so "cool"!]
[UP, you really are a genius.]
[I can't bear to look at it.]
[Can't bear to look at it + 1.]
[Wonderful, wonderful...]
[It's actually an Italian cannon.]
[The direction of the cannon's muzzle... Is there a deeper meaning behind it?]
[My scalp is going numb.]
[Stop showing off. Can't I do a handstand?]
[Nature's uncanny workmanship...]
[Amazing.]
[I really admire the UP.]
[If humanity goes extinct one day, this island will definitely become an unsolved mystery for aliens.]
[Hurry up and build it!
I can't wait anymore …]
Amidst the barrage of bullet comments, Chen Yu took a step back and carefully examined the work of art in his hands. Nodding in satisfaction, he said, "Beautiful, excellent, and flawless.
The raised middle finger represents humanity's unyielding struggle against fate and reflects our yearning for positive energy.
The tenacity, perseverance, wisdom, romance, and brilliance of a great civilization … are all shining at the tip of our fingertips! "
"Regardless of the vicissitudes of time, the passing of ten thousand years, regardless of whether the human race will still exist in the future.
I just want to express that in this universe, we have been here. "
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[I almost f * cking believed it.]
[Guards!
Kill him!]
[Hurry up. Hurry up.]
[I don't understand, host, how did you come up with such special effects?]
[There are even idiots who think that the host is fake.]
After drawing the island's shape, Chen Yu carefully adjusted the parameters. He then said, "Aside from expressing one's personality, this shape is also particularly practical.
Two circles and one long, neat and tidy, very convenient for the arrangement and construction of buildings. "
"The island's height is the default. As for its area... As everyone knows, I can't livestream for long periods of time. The larger the island, the longer the construction time will be.
Hence, after some fine-tuning, I have decided to set the island's size at 40 square kilometers.
Based on my shallow understanding, this island's area is roughly the size of four Tianjing urban areas.
Since ancient times, no human civilization has ever built such a large island.
"After today, I can be considered to have entered history."
After saying so, Chen Yu clicked the start construction icon.
Boom … Boom … Boom …
The ship's hull vibrated even more violently.
Two thick carbon pillars extended from the bottom of the ship, passing through 120 meters of seawater and piercing deep into the silt.
Immediately afterward, several sharp reamers moved in a circular motion. With the help of 36 ultra-high-pressure dredge pumps, the reamers sucked the seabed silt into the ship's hull at an efficiency of 1,000 tons per second.
"According to the AI's previous explanation, island construction is divided into four steps.
Right now, we are currently in the first step, the 'cofferdam.'
Simply put, we will first suck the silt into the ship's hull, mix it into a solid cylinder with a diameter of 28 meters, and insert it into the impermeable layer of the seabed.
Afterward, we will pour sand and gravel into the cylinder to stabilize it.
This process is called the cofferdam.
"Once the island's outline is surrounded by countless cylinders, the cofferdam will be complete.
"Next up will be the second step, filling the island.
After we drain all the seawater in the cofferdam and fill it with sand, a simple island will be formed.
Of course, this is still far from enough. The third and fourth steps are also extremely crucial.
However, we aren't in a hurry. Let's watch the island-building ship complete the first two steps first. "
While Chen Yu was explaining, the massive "cannon barrel" at the stern gradually extended and aimed downward.
Afterward, a hollow cylinder with a diameter of 28 meters shot out of the cannon barrel, plunged into the seawater, and continued moving downward.
Boom!
Roughly three seconds later, the solid cylinder made of silt reached the seabed.
Boom … Boom … Boom …
Afterward, the cannon barrel at the stern started shaking violently. Using a terrifying force, the cannon barrel pressed downward until it reached the sturdy, impermeable layer of the seabed.
This process lasted for 15 seconds, and the tremors caused Chen Yu's feet to go slightly numb.
By the time the barrel at the stern stopped shaking, the originally hollow barrel was already filled with special sand.
Immediately afterward, the ship moved forward by a dozen meters and inserted a second cylinder. Half a minute later, a third cylinder was inserted...
[This is the power of creation...]
[Are you treating my starting point as if it doesn't exist?]
[The efficiency is skyrocketing.]
[This is too brutal!]
[I suspect this ship can create a new continent overnight...]
[This is definitely not an act.]
[That's right. It's too intuitive...]
[My dream of surrounding the Pacific Ocean and building a fishery can finally be realized.]
[I have a big project!
UP, will you consider it?
I want to build a highway connecting the Pacific Ocean to America.
We'll split the toll 50-50.]
[That's the eighteenth cylinder. Dammit...]
[That's the nineteenth.]
[Is this how normal humans build islands as well?]
[Why does the term 'normal human' sound so uncomfortable?]
[Host!
Awesome!]
[What is China's efficiency?
(Tactically leaning back)]
As more silt was absorbed from the seabed, the cofferdam's construction speed also increased.
In just a little over 70 minutes, the 40-square-kilometer island had already taken shape.
"Next is the second step, filling the island."
As soon as Chen Yu finished speaking, the tallest machine on the left side of the deck extended over 20 large tubes into the seawater inside the cofferdam like tentacles.
"Buzz …"
A deafening roar suddenly resounded throughout the cofferdam.
The seawater inside the cofferdam started decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, the cannon barrel at the stern started "looking up" at the sky at a 45-degree angle.
The next moment...
Boom!
A 30-meter-thick water pillar that was even longer than a basketball court soared into the sky!
The water pillar shot into the distance, out of Chen Yu's sight...
Chen Yu: "Crap..."
Audience: "Crap..."