Chapter 225: One Day in Heaven, One Year on Earth
Quickly climbing up to the platform on the top of the mountain, Chen Jue lifted the camouflage cloth covering the two supply boxes. He first found a customized inflatable tent from inside, but did not unfold it directly.
Instead, he picked up an engineer shovel made of special alloy, found a suitable location on the hillside of the mountain and started digging.
Chen Jue had seen a rather bizarre video on the Internet before, in which two foreign guys dressed as savages used natural resources to dig holes and build various earthy underground villas.
However, the production of this type of underground villa is very time-consuming, so much so that the videos released are all fast-forwarded edits.
Chen Jue, however, did not need that much trouble. With his current agility of over 5 and strength of nearly 6, applying them to the work of digging soil and rocks was just like an ordinary person watching a video at four or five times the fast forward speed.
In addition, the engineer shovel in hand was hard and sharp, and shoveling the mountain rock that seemed to be made of Jianmu petrification was as easy as digging tofu.
He dug all the way down according to his own idea, first finding an entrance that could accommodate one person, then going to the steps, and finally to the space inside the mountain. He dug for more than three hours in one go, and directly dug out a square basement covering an area of nearly 60 square meters and three meters high.
"It feels a bit like a cave for cultivating immortals!"
"The area is about the same as the first floor of Chencun's hometown. It's enough for now, but the light is a little lacking." Chen Jue wiped the sweat from his forehead. He transformed into a human excavator for three hours, using his hands to constantly dig, dig and chisel with a shovel. These were all boring mechanical movements. Even he, a true saint on earth, felt a little tired.
Fortunately, after a long period of hard work, he was able to gain 0.03 free attribute points. Although the efficiency of gaining attributes was much lower than that of simply practicing, it was better to have something than nothing.
As for the fact that the cave was too dark, Chen Jue was not worried. With the status bonus of [No Distinction between Day and Night] provided by the Night Walking Technique, even without lights or natural light, it was as bright as an incandescent lamp in his eyes.
Two supply boxes were moved into the basement, and an inflatable tent was unfolded in the corner. Originally, this kind of inflatable tent needed an air pump to inject air, and larger ones even needed a blower. However, in Chen Jue's hands, it was not so troublesome. With his cardiopulmonary function, he only needed to blow a few times and the inflatable tent would inflate and become extremely hard.
In order to prevent rainwater from flowing back into the basement, Chen Jue specially opened a water trough at the entrance and led it all the way to the edge of the mountain.
As for the entrances and exits, they were covered with the camouflage cloth they brought with them, and a temporary enclosed underground base was temporarily built.
The reason why Chen Jue did not set up the tent directly on the mountain platform was that he was worried about encountering unknown dangers.
After all, the platform on the top of the mountain is connected to the lunar crater behind the wormhole tunnel. If he were to stay there, a meteorite might fly from the other side and take him away with a single explosion.
Moreover, since there are signs of flying creatures on this strange planet, setting up a tent on the top of the mountain will be so conspicuous, so it is better to live in a cave.
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After digging the underground base, Chen Jue took off the helmet of his aerospace combat suit and lay down in the inflatable tent to rest for a while.
The long journey from the Earth to the Moon and then to this strange planet, spanning more than 380,000 kilometers, took nearly twenty days, and his whole spirit was tense.
Because most of the journey is in outer space, and the aircraft manufactured by current human technology still have many defects and have not reached the theoretical "Void Level", it is inevitable that concerns will arise when relying solely on an extraordinary body in such an environment.
Fortunately, the journey was safe and sound. After arriving at this second home, they preliminarily explored the nearby woods for dozens of kilometers and temporarily confirmed that there was no danger. They also found an unexpected source of drinking water, which solved the big problem of survival. Chen Jue's tense nerves relaxed a little.
He closed his eyes and took a short nap, using the [Dragon Sleeping Technique] to put his body into a deep sleep. Chen Jue's body began to practice sleeping skills.
His consciousness returned to chaos, but the cells in his body were constantly absorbing the innate Qi that seeped from the smooth rock walls in the cave that had been shoveled out by the engineers during his sleeping practice, and began to slowly strengthen.
When opening up this underground base, Chen Jue discovered that no matter how he dug the rocks of this mountain, they all had dark gold patterns on them. Moreover, the texture of the rocks was very different from ordinary ores, rocks, and soil, and was very close to the Jianmu fossils he speculated.
At this moment, it was like he was sleeping in a cave made entirely of natural treasures. He was surrounded by life-giving minerals containing the innate Qi from top to bottom and from left to right.
After sleeping for nearly three hours without realizing it, Chen Jue opened his eyes, glanced at the watch on his suit, and confirmed the time he had slept.
He got up again, felt the changes in his body, and took another look at the attribute panel:
Name: Chen Jue
Lifespan: 297 (+1)
Strength: 6.01 (+0.02)
Agility: 5.02 (+0.01)
Constitution: 6.67 (+0.01)
Intelligence: 2.49 (+0.01)
Free attribute points: 1.91
Other items: Omitted
"Sleeping for three hours can actually improve so many attributes!"
“It’s really a bit against the will of heaven!”
"Is it related to the content of innate Qi in this environment?" Chen Jue stretched his body, stretched his muscles and bones, and his whole body was exploding like a string of cannonballs. His blood and energy were vigorous and his spirit was high. He felt as relaxed as if he had received an expensive one-stop massage and sauna service.
The most important thing is that the lifespan that was worn out by space radiation actually increased by one year after a night’s sleep!
"It prolongs life! It really prolongs life!"
"No wonder the immortals in ancient legends all wanted to find a famous mountain or river to open a cave and cultivate immortality."
"It's worth digging this cave. If I live here for a while longer, won't I become an immortal?" Chen Jue took a deep breath and sighed in his heart.
He took out his backpack from the inflatable tent, took out the notebook inside, and wrote down the situation he had encountered. Then he took the notebook and walked to the cave exit step by step, and lifted the camouflage cloth that blocked the light.
The world outside was still bright, which did not match the 19:36 time displayed on the watch.
"Logically, the sun should have set at this time. Could it be..." Chen Jue looked up at the strange star that was different from the sun and found that it had only shifted a certain distance during the time when he was digging the cave and sleeping. There was no sign of the sun setting in the west.
"Not only is the gravity and air pressure of this strange planet different from that of Earth, but even the time of day and night change, that is, the length of a day, is different from that of Earth!"
After observing this phenomenon, Chen's determination was stirred. He remembered the description of heaven in myths and legends, and muttered: "One day in heaven is one year on earth."
This sentence means that for every day spent in heaven, one year has passed on earth.
However, this is just an exaggerated and fictional element in ancient mythological novels. The real saying "one day in heaven is one year on earth" comes from a magical phenomenon discovered by the ancient Imperial Observatory when observing the stars at night.
The ancient Imperial Astronomical Observatory discovered that the starry sky layout observed on a given night was always two hours later than the same night of the previous month, so they recorded this phenomenon: one month on earth was equal to one hour in heaven. Twelve hours in heaven was equal to twelve months on earth.
Chen Jue had learned a lot of scientific knowledge in the base before, and knew that this was the argument about the difference between time and space that Einstein had expressed in his general theory of relativity: the speed of light is constant, and the movement of all objects and even time itself must correspond to it.
To put it simply, there is no unified time in the universe; the time for each person and each celestial body is different.
In addition, Ye Guangming had previously passed through the space station and learned a lot of theoretical knowledge of astronomy. For example, it only takes one day for Neptune in the solar system to orbit the sun, while it takes a whole year for the Earth to orbit the sun.
The rotation and revolution time of this strange planet around the strange star above its head was different from those of the Earth and the Sun, so that when Chen Jue woke up, he felt as if 24 hours had been stretched out.
"Time dilation effect?" After Chen Jue figured this out, he added another heavy note to the notebook in his hand.
I ran to the top of the mountain and observed the deviation caused by the sunlight in the past six hours. I roughly calculated that the day and night on this strange planet should be about 48 hours.
It is equivalent to two days passing on Earth for one whole day to pass on this planet.
However, Chen Jue has not yet experienced the dark night of the strange planet that he is about to face, so he does not know whether the mathematical formula he speculated in the notebook is accurate.
"Be patient and wait one more night!"
"Let's wait for another day, wait until the night is over, and then go to the place where there are signs of bird activity tomorrow morning." Chen Jue stood on the edge of the platform on the top of the mountain, looking into the distance with a plan in mind.
