Chapter 16: Floating Island on the Sea

Lin Lei woke up feeling incredibly energetic. He stuck his head out of the tree hole to look around. The star in the sky was being eclipsed by the second satellite. He had probably slept for about ten hours.

Lin Lei, having just woken up, was dying of thirst. Having no time to be picky, he crawled out of the tree hole, collected a large pile of wet moss from the ground, and squeezed water into his mouth with his hands.

Sigh, he really missed the big pool under the big Tree House. That was a pool full of clear water where he could swim as he pleased.

Once the meat here was finished, he would definitely rush back at the first opportunity, take a good bath, and wash himself. His body was sticky right now, and it felt terrible.

Lin Lei squeezed over a dozen mouthfuls of juice before he felt slightly relieved. He returned to the tree, preparing to undertake a project.

A project that would evolve him from a primitive man to a barbarian. He was going to use Armored Rhinoceros hide to sew clothes. He had had enough of the days when his little brother was exposed every day!

If an Alien ecological survey ship came and saw his wild streaking image, it wouldn’t just be his own face that was lost; it would be the face of all Earth Humans.

As the first Earth Human to set foot on a distant Alien planet, leaving a good first impression on the Aliens was quite necessary!

Actually, Lin Lei was just afraid that if others saw his image as too uninhibited, they wouldn’t take him away, and that would be a huge loss. So sewing clothes was currently a top priority.

Well, to sew armor, he needed tools. The simplest ones: an awl, thread, and hide were indispensable.

Aw? The teeth of a Komodo Beast could be used. Although the holes drilled might be a bit large, this was not the time to be fussy.

Thread? The tendon of the One-horned Armored Rhinoceros was a very good material; anyway, Lin Lei couldn’t break it even if he pulled hard.

As for the hide, that went without saying; it was ready-made.

He had the tools, but cutting the Armored Rhinoceros hide was still a big project. Lin Lei didn’t have a sharp knife. Helplessly, he had to drill holes one after another on the hide. Once a row of small holes was densely drilled, he could tear it open with force.

Lin Lei used the tooth dagger to mark the cutting lines on the Armored Rhinoceros hide, then began the arduous task of drilling holes.

This hide was so tough that Lin Lei both loved and hated it. By the time Lin Lei finished cutting all the required materials, the planet that had just set before he went to sleep had already shown half of its body above the eastern horizon. Another day had passed.

Lin Lei had a habit: if he didn’t finish something, he would feel uncomfortable all over. When doing other things, his mind would still be thinking about the previous matter; it had a bit of an obsessive-compulsive feel to it.

That was the situation now. He had struggled continuously for over ten hours, but he still had no sleepiness. He looked spiritedly at the cut hide and began drilling holes at the edges again. The holes this time were smaller, and they didn’t need to be so dense or so thorough. The workload was much less than before.

Lin Lei planned to make a leather skirt, chest and back armor, and a wrist guard. They were all very simple, just sewing the Armored Rhinoceros hide together.

He didn’t know how to make complex things, nor did he need to. Sometimes the simplest was the most practical.

By the time he finished all three pieces, the planet had risen to the middle of the sky. Another nearly nine hours had passed.

Lin Lei satisfactorily put on this purely handmade armor. He walked around a bit and felt it was okay. It didn’t feel loose, nor was it particularly tight. It was just right. It seemed he had a talent for making clothes; he succeeded on his first try.

Although the sewn parts looked as ugly as if a dog had chewed them, Lin Lei wasn’t picky. As long as it could be worn, it was fine.

At this moment, hunger and fatigue surged in waves. The exhausted Lin Lei picked up a piece of One-horned Armored Rhinoceros meat and began to gnaw voraciously.

Pah! Pah! Why was this One-horned Armored Rhinoceros meat so coarse? And so hard to chew. Muscle fibers stuck straight into his teeth. If his teeth weren’t good, he really wouldn’t be able to eat it.

Next time, he would never do such a thankless task again!

Lin Lei tore and bit, spending nearly an hour before he was barely full, but a tragic thing happened.

“One-horned Armored Rhinoceros meat block: low energy content. Muscle fibers are difficult to digest effectively. Absorption rate is 70%.”

Damn it! If he hadn’t received an A-grade evaluation this time, it really would have been a waste of effort. Indeed, taking shortcuts wasn’t the way to go. He estimated that all the energy in this meat had been used up by the One-horned Rhinoceros’s final venting.

That was all the light emitted at the end of its life! It had even knocked down a Mushroom Tree with a diameter of more than 30 meters.

No, this meat couldn’t be eaten. If he finished gnawing this ghost thing, the Shadow Beast meat he left in the big Tree House would go bad. That would be a loss outweighing the gain.

Hmm, rest a bit, then go back immediately to eat the high-energy Shadow Beast meat. Lin Lei made a decision before going to sleep.

……

When he woke up again, the blue planet had already traveled 90% of its path in the sky. Lin Lei estimated it would be another one or two hours before the sky became fully bright.

He was now more than 20 kilometers away from the big Tree House. It was still achievable to rush back before the temperature peaked. Lin Lei’s leg strength had been trained out now; it was very abnormal.

Lin Lei estimated that if he ran 100 meters now, he would definitely surpass Bolt. The two had different purposes for running; Lin Lei was running for his life now, so he had to be fast.

Lin Lei hurried along the way and didn’t encounter any carnivorous beasts to spoil his fun. Finally, an hour after the star rose, he saw the big Mushroom Tree.

It wasn’t easy. If conditions allowed, who would want to be exposed under the star? This star emitted blue-white light, and the radiation was definitely stronger than the sun. If he basked for a few hours, it would be strange if he didn’t lose a layer of skin.

“Ah, clear water pool, here I come!” Lin Lei quickened his pace, ready to take a good soak in his private swimming pool. When he went out, Lin Lei had checked; it was slowly filling the pool. The deepest place was four meters, enough for swimming.

Full of excitement, Lin Lei rushed under the Tree House, preparing to do a cool diving move, but was shocked by the situation in the pool.

This… what was going on? When he went out, it was a full pool, so why was it only one meter deep now?

Could it have been dried by the star? No, this star couldn’t even dry the ground. It was a paper tiger, good-looking but useless. How could it possibly dry up the water in his pool?

Depressed, what on earth was going on with this ghost place? Lin Lei stood there thinking for a long time but couldn’t figure it out.

Stop thinking about it. Drink water, go up to the Tree House, maybe water will come later. Although the water was scarce, it was enough for eating and drinking. Lin Lei wasn’t a greedy person; he was just hit by the gap between reality and expectation.

Belonging to the optimistic type, he quickly let go of this problem. If he couldn’t figure it out, he wouldn’t think about it. Standing here being exposed to the sun, wasn’t that silly?

Lin Lei estimated that the Blue Rain Star was now moving between the planet and the star. So these days, the star and the planet rose and set regularly. In the future, there should be situations where the star and the planet appeared in the sky at the same time.

Inside the Tree House, Lin Lei boredly gnawed on Shadow Beast meat while poking his head out to look at the pool under the tree, expecting a miracle that would fill the water.

Perhaps God heard Lin Lei’s inner voice; the water in the pool really began to fill up bit by bit. When the star moved to the middle of the sky, the water in the pool was almost as full as it had appeared that night, no more than twenty centimeters from the ground.

Magical! What was going on? Could it be that even the pool on this land had such an obvious gravitational tidal effect, and it even started to ebb and flow? Wasn’t this a bit exaggerated?

Lin Lei thought about it left and right but still felt this explanation was a bit unreliable. Although gravity had tidal effects on solid, liquid, and gas states, he hadn’t seen such obvious ones on Earth.

“System, please explain the current situation. Is this caused by gravity?”

“Correct. The area where the Host is currently located is actually a large Floating Island. It floats on the ocean of Blue Rain Star, so it can feel relatively obvious gravitational tidal effects.”

Floating Island! That meant beneath his feet was the unfathomable sea of Blue Rain Star! Just thinking about this feeling made Lin Lei shudder. If this island disintegrated, what would happen? He wasn’t sure if he could swim to the continent before exhausting himself.

Moreover, there were definitely huge beasts in the sea that could swallow him in one bite, and he could only wait for death. That was not the result he wanted.

Wait, Lin Lei discovered an anomaly. The water in this pool was fresh water. Could the ocean of Blue Rain Star be entirely fresh water? This possibility shouldn’t be high. As the saying goes, the ocean accepts hundreds of rivers. If it could still maintain low salt content like this, Lin Lei could only say he was impressed.

“No signs of disintegration have been detected for this Floating Island. The average salt content of the Blue Rain Star ocean is 4%. The Host’s current authority cannot query the reason for the fresh water on this island.”

Fortunately, fortunately, there was no danger of falling into the sea to swim for now. As for the reason for the fresh water, it wasn’t within the scope of Lin Lei’s concern; he felt it didn’t matter.

He couldn’t control this thing; as long as it let him drink, it was fine. Hmm, this rising and falling was good too. Gravity changed the water for him for free every day. Not bad, and without paying water fees. Lin Lei felt he had made a profit.

Judging by Lin Lei’s range of activity these days, the area of this Floating Island should be quite large, and it was very stable.

Perhaps he should prepare to walk in one direction and see the sea of this world. Lin Lei suddenly had a whim.

Ha, looking at the sea was such a romantic thing; he should do it while he was young. He wasn’t looking at an ordinary sea; this was an alien sea, hehe.

However, all this had to wait until after his Level 2 Reinforcement. His body’s 2.0 Energy Level was not enough to dominate this island. Like that One-horned Armored Rhinoceros today, its Physical Energy Level was as high as 5.0. It had an almost overwhelming advantage over Lin Lei.

He had to wait for Level 2 Reinforcement, when his Physical Energy Level reached 10.0; then the scene would be completely reversed. He could completely grab that guy’s tail and swing him around for fun. Hehe, Lin Lei fell into a fantasy.

It took him a while to come back to reality. Thinking about this stuff occasionally could provide some motivation, but thinking too much made him feel empty.

The goal at this stage was to dominate the entire Floating Island. Without physical strength superiority, he would become the creature at the top of the Floating Island’s biological chain!