Chapter 125 The product of dazzling skills
On the bow body, the mortise and tenon structure made of polished bamboo pieces is so exquisite that Zhou Xu, who is holding this bow, subconsciously moves carefully. a bit.
【Ouch! Why should I be careful? ! 】
Muttering his instinctive reaction in his heart, Zhou Xu stretched out his hand and tugged at the bow made of mortise and tenon structure. The result was that it was not as loose as he expected at all. During the process of breaking it apart, the combined structure of the bow body did not move at all.
During the period, Zhuang Mengdie saw him and explained...
"The structure of this piece is held by the piece next to it. It can't be pulled out like this."
Hearing this, Zhou Xu changed his hands and went to get the piece next to him.
“That piece is buckled by that one, and at the same time, there are two pieces of bamboo crisscrossed between these pieces.”
“…”
“ This is also..."
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"And this piece..."
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[Good guy, this is an interlocking and cross-combination. ? 】
Zhou Xu had no idea that Zhuang Mengdie, who had only been briefly mentioned by him, could actually make such a complex and exquisite combination based on his own abilities, and use this combination to build a A whole bow!
And according to Zhuang Mengdie, the structure of this bow body is interlocked, and each piece of bamboo can affect the entire bow body to ensure sufficient integrity and stability. The exquisite design made this idea proposed at the time. He was amazed at the idea.
[Could it be...]
As his thoughts flew, Zhou Xu, who seemed to have thought of something, directly opened the 'Eye of Insight' and took a look at Zhuang Mengdie's attribute panel.
As expected, Zhuang Mengdie's intelligence star level was the same as his, reaching the level of three stars.
This result can be said to make Zhou Xu overjoyed.
After all, Zhuang Mengdie is an important core talent under him. The more comprehensive Zhuang Mengdie's intelligence is, the easier it will be for her to independently develop any equipment in the future.
"Well done, Mengdie, the results you came up with this time completely exceeded my expectations! It's amazing!"
Zhou Xu had no idea about this. Being stingy with her own praise made Zhuang Mengdie a little embarrassed, and she hurriedly said...
"No, no, in fact, many of the structural designs on this bamboo bow are based on the structures you drew before, the leader. . ”
“That’s amazing enough. If you don’t have the corresponding talent, you won’t be able to use it even if I give you the structural drawings. ”
Zhou Xu's words are quite right.
Zhuang Mengdie, who was embarrassed by the praise, quickly changed the subject.
“This bamboo bow is actually not completely finished yet. In order to further ensure stability, the bow will be wrapped with animal skin ropes for reinforcement later.”
“Wrap a beast around it. The leather cord shouldn’t take long, right?”
“It’ll be ready soon”
While talking, Zhuang Mengdie took the bamboo bow and immediately started working.
This matter did not cost her much energy, so Zhou Xu also stood aside and asked some questions.
"The arrow should be ready, right?"
"It's ready."
While speaking, Zhuang Mengdie directly handed over an arrow To Zhou Xu. Taking the arrow in his hand, Zhou Xu looked at it carefully.
The arrow shaft is made of arrow bamboo of suitable thickness. It does not need to be polished and can be used with simple processing. The tail has arrow feathers, which are obtained from pheasants and are used to increase the number of arrows. Arrow stability.
A thin slit was split into the arrow part, and the polished stone arrowhead was clamped there, and then tied and fixed with a string.
The entire arrowhead was polished very thinly and delicately. Zhou Xu could feel its sharpness when his fingertips passed across the tip.
I believe that as long as some power is applied to it, he will definitely be able to create enough destructive power.
At the same time, at this moment, Zhou Xu realized that the bamboo bow made by Zhuang Mengdie seemed to be a bit beyond his expectation.
Originally, he just wanted Zhuang Mengdie to develop a low-end and cheap version of the bow and arrow. But now, the other party just showed off his skills and made him one that was so sophisticated and complicated that it almost made his scalp numb. The bamboo bow comes out.
Although Zhuang Mengdie is still doing the final processing of this bamboo bow, it definitely took a lot of work to make this bamboo bow. Under this premise, the opponent must have been tested before this.
Considering this point, the effect of this bamboo bow is undoubtedly worth looking forward to.
While Zhou Xu was thinking this, Zhuang Mengdie had already neatly wrapped the animal skin rope around the bamboo bow.
"Leader, it's done."
"Let's go, give it a try."
Taking the bamboo bow, Zhou Xu strode out of the camp.
Since Zhuang Mengdie developed the bamboo bow, in order to test the performance of the bamboo bow, they naturally made a simple archery target.
The entire archery target is wrapped around a circle with finger-thick straw rope.
While saving trouble, it can also better protect the arrowheads. After all, polishing an arrowhead is a time-consuming and laborious task. They cannot let them wear out the arrowheads they finally polished one after another when testing and practicing arrows later. Bar?
Although this thing is simple, it is very elegant!
At the same time, while rushing to the testing site, because his entire attention was completely attracted by the mortise and tenon structure designed by Zhuang Mengdie, he also had to pay attention to other parts of this bamboo bow. I really didn’t pay much attention to it.
Until now, he noticed that the weight of this bamboo bow was really not light, and it was also very long.
Based on his own height, Zhou Xu roughly estimated that the length of this bamboo bow was probably about one and a half meters, making it a long bow.
When he told Zhuang Mengdie that he wanted to develop this bamboo bow, he just drew a rough size at first, and then put forward his own requirements, saying that Zhuang Mengdie could comply with those requirements and make a bamboo bow. Make improvements.
The long bow in front of me is undoubtedly the result of improvement.
Obviously, Zhuang Mengdie discovered that directly increasing the length is the easiest way to increase power and range.
However, the increase in length also directly increases the weight, greatly reducing the convenience of this weapon.
But this is a trade-off inherent in the bow and arrow weapon. For now, he is not dissatisfied with this long bow.
Arriving at the open space where the weapon was tested, Zhou Xu thought about it in his mind and then said...
"In order to more accurately determine the range, power and stability of this bamboo bow, our test will be done slowly and step by step. Go slow and put the target twenty steps away first. "
In their tribe, the distance unit of 'step' was first proposed by Zhou Xu. Normal walking is the main one, and one step is basically half a meter. It looks like twenty steps is usually about ten meters.
To put it simply, he has no confidence at all.
In the original world, he had no hobby of archery. If he had to move twenty or thirty meters away as soon as he came up, wouldn't he be embarrassed if the arrow missed the target?
However, Zhuang Mengdie and the others didn't think much about it. Even in Zhuang Mengdie's view, their leader's performance was undoubtedly a rigorous attitude, which invisibly deepened their respect for Zhou Xu.
Putting on the animal skin finger gloves for drawing the bow, he took a deep breath. In order not to lose face in front of everyone, Zhou Xu did not spare any effort, bent the bow and nocked the arrow, and used it as soon as he came up. Full strength.
During this process, he could clearly feel the resistance from the bow string, but even though he used all his strength, he did not suffer from it, and he pulled the bow like a full moon in one stroke.
After taking careful aim, the bow string was loosened, and the arrow flew out. Soon, with a muffled sound, the entire arrowhead and even one arrow shaft did not enter the target. middle!
(End of this chapter)