One Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy-Eight Kiss the Earth

.., the latest chapter of Carapace Frenzy!

John couldn't believe his ears: "Lost?" He looked around blankly. As far as he could see, there was nothing but the blue sea and sky and a few dotted white clouds.

"Damn storm!" Carlos was indignant.

Carter advised: "Anger is useless. The most important thing now is to figure out where we are!"

"Where's the compass? You should know the direction, right?" John asked anxiously.

"Sorry, the compass is broken." Rand shrugged helplessly, "If you know the direction, you are not lost."

"No way?" Carlos was in a bad mood, pointing to his wrist and anxiously, "Can't you soldiers use watches to determine the direction?"

It is not difficult to determine the direction with a watch, and there is more than one way.

One is the Beidu method, which Ye Han learned when he was a recruit, and there are two formulas: half of the hour is facing the sun, and the twelve points are north.

That is, at six o'clock, point the three o'clock scale at the sun and the twelve o'clock scale points to the north; at six o'clock in the evening, it is eighteen o'clock, point the nine o'clock scale at the sun and the twelve o'clock scale points to the north.

There is also a common method in the West, that is, the hour hand and the bisector of the twelve o'clock scale are pointed to the sun, and the twelve o'clock scale points to the south.

These two methods are simple and clear, easy to learn and use, as long as there is a mechanical watch, you can determine the general direction.

Rand showed his bare wrist with great regret: "Unfortunately, there is no watch on this ship, and this place is very close to the equator, it is difficult to determine the direction by looking at the sun."

Carlos was deflated like a punctured balloon.

"If there is a magnet, it would be great to make a simple compass." John scratched his salt-stained hair hard, distressed.

"Yes, magnet!" Carlos shouted, "Is there a radio on the ship?"

"No!" Rand shook his head.

"Is there a walkie-talkie?"

"No!" Rand still shook his head.

"Is there a radio? Is there a..."

"No,

Nothing at all!" Rand shook his head firmly, "I searched the whole ship, and I didn't find a single magnet!"

Carlos' eyes widened in surprise: "How is it possible?"

Rand pointed to the cabin impatiently: "If you don't believe me, go find it yourself!"

John said: "The pirates dismantled everything that could be dismantled on the ship."

Carlos was completely speechless now, but he quickly raised his head and looked at Carter with hopeful eyes: "Dr. Carter, you should have a way, right? You are a doctor!"

Carter smiled bitterly: "I am a biologist, not a doctor of physics. I know what electromagnets are, but there is no electricity on the ship, so it's useless for me to know."

John asked unwillingly: "Is there no electricity left in the battery?"

"The battery is dead a long time ago." Rand said.

Carlos spread his hands: "I can't think of a solution at all."

Carter looked up and squinted at the scorching sun: "It would be great if there was a solar panel."

John said: "How about searching again? Especially the engine room, the generator or other power source, there should be magnets in it, right?"

This sailboat is a yacht, and it has an engine room, but the equipment in the cabin has been almost dismantled by the pirates, and there is almost only an empty shell left.

"Then look for it again." Carter agreed clearly.

"Okay!" Rand also agreed.

Modern equipment cannot do without electricity and magnetism. Such a large sailboat should have something useful left.

So the group went back into the cabin and searched for magnets separately. John did not forget to mobilize the masses and tell others the news that magnets were needed.

Before John finished speaking, a bug man stood up: "It's not easy to get magnets. Isn't there a whistle under the bow?"

John almost jumped up and immediately called Spade over and asked him to hang under the bow to see if there was a magnet.

Spade climbed up in just a few minutes, holding a trumpet in his hand.

The magnet was found, and the leaders, led by John, gathered together again. John personally rubbed a piece of wire on the magnet a few times, passed it through a plastic sheet to increase buoyancy, and placed it in a coconut shell filled with seawater.

The magnetic needle floated on the water with the help of the buoyancy of the plastic sheet, slowly turned half a circle, and soon stabilized!

Everyone was overjoyed, but Carlos asked a question that froze everyone's laughter on their faces: "Which side is south and which side is north?"

John waved his hand: "You don't need to know so much, just find a direction and go!"

At this point, he looked up at the sun, then at the shadow left by the mast, and suddenly said: "No, why is the sun moving counterclockwise? We are in the southern hemisphere!"

Everyone was stunned. After careful recollection, the movement trajectory of the sun was indeed different from before.

"How could this happen?" Carlos almost pulled out all his hair. He stared blankly at the sun and then at the sea, and he was completely lost.

John smiled bitterly: "We are so lucky."

This is not nonsense. Buha Island is in a very good location. There are large islands in the east, west and north, and only the south is a gap.

No matter where the storm blows the ship, there will be an island waiting in the end. Only the south is the real sea.

Carter said: "The most important thing now is to determine where we are!"

"Let me calculate!" Rand took the responsibility, "It's almost noon now, just the right time!"

John and others didn't understand what Rand meant, and when Rand took action, everyone suddenly realized it.

Rand's method was very simple. He first measured the height of the mast, then the length of the shadow, and calculated the angle between the sun and the ground through trigonometric functions, and then took the month into consideration. The final result was that the location here was about 14 degrees south latitude.

Carlos' eyes were wide open: "Buha Island is 4 degrees north latitude, and now it is 14 degrees south latitude. The storm pushed us a full 18 degrees of latitude? 18 degrees of latitude... Well, the radius of the earth is more than 6,000 kilometers, 6,000 times 0 and then multiplied by 3.14... and finally divided by 360..."

Rand rolled his eyes helplessly: "Is it necessary to go through so much trouble? The circumference of the equator is 40,000 kilometers, divided by 360, one latitude is 111 kilometers!"

"Oh my God!" Carlos was dumbfounded on the spot, "Nearly 2,000 kilometers? Where are we?"

Rand said: "If I remember correctly, this should be not far from northern Australia..."

At this moment, Spade on the mast suddenly pointed to the south and exclaimed: "Look, land!"

John and others looked at each other, is it such a coincidence?

But life is often more coincidental than drama. Soon after, the coastline rose from under the sea, and everyone cheered and was overjoyed.

The six days and nights of suffering are finally over!

Soon after, the sailboat hit the beach. John was the first to jump off the boat. He laughed wildly and knelt on the sand. He kissed the sand excitedly and swore that he would never go out to sea again.

Since then, more than 60 insect people led by John have taken root in northern Australia and started a difficult road to survival between humans and aliens. (Shell Mania..6868629)--(Shell Mania)