Chapter 125 The product of showing off skills

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 125 The product of showing off skills

On the bow body, the mortise and tenon structure made of polished bamboo pieces was so delicate that Zhou Xu, who was holding the bow, was subconsciously careful in his movements.

【Hey! Why should I be so careful?!】

Zhou Xu complained about his instinctive reaction in his heart. He stretched out his hand and pulled the bow body which was composed of mortise and tenon structure. The result was that it was not as loose as he expected. During his pulling process, the bow body

The combined structure is actually completely motionless.

During this period, Zhuang Mengdie saw him and explained...

"The structure of this piece is held by the piece next to it. It cannot be pulled out like this."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu changed hands and went to get the piece next to him.

"That piece is fastened by that one, and at the same time, there are two pieces of bamboo crisscrossed between these pieces."

"..."

"This is also..."

"..."

"And this piece..."

"..."

[Good guy, is this a cross-linked 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 an entire bow body!

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 whirled, Zhou Xu seemed to have thought of something and directly opened the 'Eye of Insight' to confirm Zhuang Mengdie's attribute panel.

Sure enough, Zhuang Mengdie's intelligence star level was the same as his, reaching the level of three stars.

This result can be said to have made 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 produced this time completely exceeded my expectations! It's amazing!"

In this regard, Zhou Xu was not stingy with his praise, but he made Zhuang Mengdie a little embarrassed and hurriedly expressed...

"No, in fact, many of the structural designs on this bamboo bow are based on the structures you drew before, leader."

"That's impressive enough. Without the corresponding talents, even if I give you the structural drawings, you won't be able to use them."

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 an animal skin rope around it. It shouldn't take long, right?"

"It'll be fine soon."

While talking, Zhuang Mengdie took the bamboo bow and immediately started working.

This matter didn't cost her much energy, so Zhou Xu stood aside and asked some questions.

"The arrows should be ready too, right?"

"it is done."

While talking, Zhuang Mengdie directly handed 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 feathers, which are obtained from pheasants to increase the stability of the arrow.

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 force is applied to it, it 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.

He originally just wanted Zhuang Mengdie to develop a low-end and cheap version of the bow and arrow, but now, the other party directly showed off his skills and made him a bamboo bow that was so exquisite and complicated that it almost made his scalp numb.

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.

And just when Zhou Xu was thinking this, Zhuang Mengdie had already neatly wrapped the animal skin rope around the bamboo bow.

"Chief, it's done."

"Let's go, try it."

Taking the bamboo bow, Zhou Xu strode towards the outside 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 really didn't pay much attention to other parts of this bamboo bow.

It was only now that he noticed that the weight of this bamboo bow was not even light, and at the same time it was quite long.

Based on his own height, Zhou Xu roughly estimated that the length of this bamboo bow was probably about 1.5 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 follow those requirements and make the 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 itself. For now, he has nothing dissatisfied with this long bow.

Arriving at the open space where the weapons were 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, we will conduct the test step by step and slowly. Let's first place the target twenty steps away."

In their tribe, the distance unit of "step" was first proposed by Zhou Xu. Normal walking is the main one. One step is basically half a meter, and twenty steps is usually about ten meters.

To put it simply, he has no confidence at all.

In the original world, he didn't have any hobby of archery. If he just moved twenty or thirty meters away, wouldn't he be embarrassed if the arrow missed the target?

However, Zhuang Mengdie and the others didn't think much about it. In Zhuang Mengdie's view, their leader's behavior was undoubtedly a rigorous attitude, which invisibly deepened their respect for Zhou Xu.

Putting on the animal skin fingertips for drawing the bow, Zhou Xu 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 set the arrow, and used all his strength as soon as he came up.

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 bowstring was loosened and the arrow flew out. Soon, with a muffled sound, the entire arrowhead and even one of the arrow shafts entered the target!
Chapter completed!