Chapter 972: Creating Water Tanks And Ropes (1/2)

”Alright, this looks pretty good.” Krune heaved an exhausted sigh as he looked at the ground before him. He was currently inside a wide cave where he had dug the ground and placed all the rocky gravel on one side.

He then made numerous trips from the cave to the topmost cave, bringing with him the mud that was in there. The closer the cave was to the ocean layer, the more abundant the mud in it. Thus, he transported the mud from there to the large caves in the walls.

It was to plant the Rope Bushes. Having raised two of them for more than a year now, Krune had collected quite a few of their seeds. A Rope Bush finished growing within a month and bore a seed at the end of each month.

Krune collected the seeds and stored them. As he hadn't uprooted the two Rope Bushes, they bore seeds every month. Because of that, he had 30 Rope Bush seeds now, including what he obtained from the Primary Landmass.

As they needed a lot of rope to descend to the ground, their priority was to grow even more Rope Bushes. With that, all their needs would be satisfied.

The Seamstress worked on the delicate parts of making rope, pipes using the rope, and so on while Krune worked on the grunt work and created places to plant the Rope Bushes, the bone trees, and other plants they had.

He also dug a large pit in one of the longest caves. This cave only had a width of three meters but a length of almost 30 meters. He chose this place for the Motor Fishes to live in for the time being. Keeping them in a small place would cause them to die sooner or later. After all, even if they were a tamed species, moving in the water was what they loved.

So, if he didn't wish to lose them, Krune had to create a place for them to survive. He couldn't leave them in the ocean since it was too risky. When he checked using his Sonic Radar, Krune noticed a lot of predator fishes in the vicinity.

Even if he was strong, they would swarm him to death within a dozen seconds. It was too risky. This was another reason he almost despaired. After all, he would have to face them when they planned to leave the place.

The Seamstress only had one Helper Whistle with her that she carried around for emergencies. Naturally, it was clearly insufficient in this place filled with predator fishes. Even if she summoned all 10 predator fishes, they would easily be overwhelmed.

'Once the two of us grow stronger, leaving this place should be possible,' Krune thought as he finished planting all the thirty Rope Bush seeds in a couple of caves.

The Seamstress had created a bundle of threads that were wound close to one another to create tiny flexible pipes. She lodged a rectangular piece of coral into the walls that were submerged in the water, fixing all the thin rope pipes into it.

She then extended them straight, stopping them at the entrance of the topmost cave.

Capillary Rise!

It was a concept of physics where water moved up in a thin tube against gravity. She used the same concept here, making the water move a certain distance until the gravity changed. At that exact point, she increased the diameter of the rope pipe, causing the principle of capillary rise to fail.

With gravity acting on it, the water soon dripped down. This way, she created an automatic pumping system. Even though the water only dripped one drop per second, she had placed around a hundred pipes in the cluster. In other words, it was a considerable amount that was generated automatically every second.

She had created an inclined slope over which the water dripped. They slid down into a funnel that was connected to another pipe, with it being connected to the water tank. The water tank had a width of three meters, the same as the cave's width.

It was a considerable reservoir of water, able to hold 24,000 liters of water. Once filled, it would last them for a month. Though, they still had other necessities, like watering the bone trees and the Rope Bushes. With that, they needed even more water.

Then again, considering the speed of water influx, they would have more than enough water to use after a couple of days. After all, the dripping from the numerous thin pipes equaled to five milliliters per second, which amounted to 18 liters per hour.

It was more than enough for all their uses. As the water began to drip into the water tank, the Seamstress continued to make more rope pipes, intending to connect them to the other tanks that Krune was making.