Live Streaming: Great Adventure in the Wilderness-Chapter 758 - 755 It’s Just This Flavor

Bi Fang traveled from Ugly Country all the way to the Resurrection Archipelago, a journey that took him more than two days, almost three days of traveling.

From such a distant journey, it was clear—Easter Island was truly an isolated island "without a village in front, and no shops behind"!

The island lies 3500 kilometers to the east of Chile, 7500 kilometers to the west of Australia, 5000 kilometers to the north of Ugly Country, and 4500 kilometers to the south of Antarctica.

It's quite outrageous.

This island is over 2000 kilometers from the nearest inhabited island, already about as remote as Nui Atoll, where Bi Fang was originally headed.

As Bie Fang walked, he introduced the relevant history and information about Easter Island, where you could often see several meter-high gigantic human figures, carved out of stone.

Occasionally, Bi Fang would stop to carefully photograph a few statues, showcasing some details.

Many people have seen and understood these enormous stone figures from images, yet from the perspective of an observer, the shapes of these statues seem somewhat naïve.

Modern humans, having been bombarded with giant buildings hundreds of meters tall and many sculptures that are ten meters, even tens of meters high, may not find these four or five-meter-high stone figures as astonishing from photographs.

But for ancient people, and even modern humans looking up from below, these figures remain mysterious and formidable, commanding awe and apprehension.

There are indeed hundreds of such sculptures on Easter Island.

"So many giant statues stunned the explorer Rogers Wen, but in his sailing diary, he only made a brief record of these giant statues before hastily leaving Easter Island,"

"It wasn't until 50 years later that another famous explorer from Central Country, Captain Cook, arrived on Easter Island and made the first measurements of these stone carvings."

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"Eventually, it was discovered that there were over 800 of these stone giants on Easter Island, known to the locals as 'Moai,' with an average height of about 4 meters and a weight of over a dozen tons each. The largest one stood at 21.6 meters and weighed more than 100 tons."

"Most of these stone statues are carved in the same style, with some wearing red hats made of stone. All the statues have elongated faces, elongated ears, and bodies extending to the hip region, while their eyes are made of coral and dark stone."

Bi Fang reached out to touch the rough statue, and even without exerting force, he could feel its heft.

Stones have their own life history, although this life history is markedly different from that of animals and plants.

Whether the stones we see on the roads or in the fields, they are exposed to the sun and rain year after year, trampled by vehicles and animals, affected by microorganisms, constantly undergoing change to become something new.

Humans can't see these changes because they are minimal.

Though our naked eyes can't detect it, we are acutely aware of it.

"If we could change the speed at which time passes, like shooting a movie, and capture millions of years of history, then fast-forward through it, we would witness the immense changes in nature within a few hours."

"Mountains emerge from the depths of the oceans, rise to the surface and then turn into basins. Minerals appear in the scorching melted substance, then crumble into powder before becoming clay."

"Countless animals and plants, within what seems like seconds, become thick layers of limestone; within minutes, people transform mines into flat land, turn ore into sheets of iron, tracks, or various machines."

"In this pulsating image, everything changes at a lightning-fast speed, and finally..." Bi Fang pointed at his own nose, "I appeared in front of you all."

[Cringe, I'm getting goosebumps]

[What's up with this imagery (cries while clutching head)]

[This has got to be a script, definitely a script!]

[Has Old Fang started writing drafts for his livestreams now?]

"Ahem, what I actually mean to say is, even a stone you casually pick up from the roadside may have a history of thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of years, but such a natural history seems to have no value to us."

Bi Fang patted the statue and laughed aloud.

"What's truly valuable are these stones before us, the ones that have seen the involvement of real living beings and are rich with human history,"

"They bear witness to a segment of time, engaging in a dialogue with the modern world across the endless expanse of space and time, allowing us to glimpse a corner of ancient human thought and proving that they were here, they existed, they were alive."

"But that's enough introduction for now. If you're genuinely interested, you might have a chance to come and see for yourself on the island. Let's get started with the main event for today."

Having briefly introduced the island's wondrous sights, Bi Fang felt he had fulfilled the official recommendation requirements of Chile.

After receiving their endorsement, naturally, he had to do a good job of promoting tourism.

"I have only one goal for coming to this island today, and that is to find suitable timber to build an adequate wooden ship, and then use it to cross the entire South Pacific, sailing through Nemo Point."

[Nemo Point, what's Nemo Point?]

[So what does this have to do with the desert anyway?]

[Are there deserts on this island too?]

As expected, the term "Nemo Point" baffled many viewers.

They hadn't even heard of it, let alone understand what it was.

"The so-called Nemo Point is 'the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,' and its geographic location is at 48 degrees 52.6 minutes south latitude, 123 degrees 23.6 minutes west longitude,"

Bi Fang explained what Nemo Point was, the three islands closest to it, and his reasons for being on Easter Island.

It was then that people began to understand somewhat, though a tourist hotspot like this didn't seem like a place with much to offer in terms of adventure.

It surely couldn't be that after a gap of three months, there would be another paddling excursion from Central Country?

That would be far too disappointing for the audience.

"In various travel and exploration writings, people often mention the 'ends of the earth,' such as the Arctic and Antarctic, Mount Everest, the Sahara Desert, Siberia, and so on."

"In reality, these places are much 'hotter' than Nemo Point in terms of human presence."

"Even without considering the climbers, tens of thousands of Sherpa people live at the base of Everest."

"The edges of the Sahara Desert and Siberia may be sparsely populated, but they still have inhabitants."

"Indeed, the South Pole and the North Pole are uninhabited, but Antarctica still has research stations, and there are quite a few cities within the Arctic Circle."

"But within a radius of 3000 kilometers from Nemo Point, there is no human settlement."

"The closest humans to Nemo Point might not even be on land, but in outer space. If I pass Nemo Point at the right time, the closest people to me will likely be astronauts in a space station over 300 kilometers above me."

Bi Fang pointed to the azure sky above him.

Many viewers couldn't help but follow Bi Fang's motion and look up until they saw their own ceilings and realized they were just watching a live stream.

Nemo Point, a place where one can experience solitude in the absolute sense.

"The first half of this live broadcast will be about constructing a seaworthy ship within fifteen days, and then I will navigate it through the loneliest point in the ocean on this planet."

Bi Fang's words were assertive and resolute.

[Fucking awesome, that's the spirit!]