Chapter 12 Frozen Earth Crossbow
After a brief entanglement, Agula made a decision to bypass the bear and look for the woman's footprints. There are two paths to bypass the bear. One is a large mound and wooded forest behind the bear cave. However, the original knight of the grassland was born to have a resistance to this terrain that was not conducive to the galloping of war horses, and it was difficult to find women in this kind of dense forest. So Agula decided to choose to pass by the frozen river.
As a result, I never expected that the bear's warning distance was so far, but it was driven away!
Agula was very upset! But at this point, she had to go to the other side of the river in the direction of the war horses running away. If the women were dispersed by the giant bears, it was possible to cross the river. In fact, when Agula spent the night in the bear cave last night, she had already heard the howls of various beasts from the woods from afar, which means that the woman who escaped into the woods should have no hope of survival, so it is still possible to look for it on the other side of the river.
As a result, Agula searched along the river bank and found no footprints, which made Agula even more angry. The rule of the Dule God clan is to screen women for three days, and it will take two days to take women back immediately. Unless there are major gains, they must return to the team within five days. Not to mention that the apostle of the gods has arrived, and time is very tight.
Now that time has been wasted so much, the chances of women's survival are very slim. It's better to find a way to grab the bow and arrow. There are only one and a half left in my time.
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As a super player, Wang Qiang should use his time to the extreme under any circumstances. Even if he is forced to waste, he must not be idle waste!
Wang Qiang finally found out that he could do something, that is, after just moving the charcoal fire in the hole out and laying the kang, the hot water from the melting ice on the ground softened the soil. This soil was the clay with extremely strong plasticity by the river. Wang Qiang immediately dug a large ball of mud to make a mud model of the crossbow arm.
Although the principle of the crossbow arm is very simple, it is not possible to just think about it in your head. You have to make it and provide samples for manufacturing. That's right, NPCs know that using soil to burn ceramic arrows, and Wang Qiang can also follow the example and burn the mud mold into a ceramic with a large fire. Wouldn't all the problems be solved? It is absolutely fine to support the tens of kilograms of tension of the hanging string with the hardness of the ceramic, so there is no need to consider the various plane chisel tools needed to make wooden arms, perfect!
But the premise is that you must be able to burn ceramics! If it really doesn’t work, it’s OK to burn a long brick. If it doesn’t work, tie a few pieces of wood or bear ribs to reinforce it!
In short, with direction, there is motivation! Wang Qiang quickly kneaded a long mud ball like dough, and then clamped it with two spears as rulers, and the sides were flat!
Then, when using the spear as a rolling pin, the front is flat, and it is repeatedly repaired, and a long clay mold with a relatively standard shape will come out.
Wang Qiang was very pleased. This is the advantage of mud shaping. If it was carved with wood, without saws and planes, how could it be reached? And once the wood was not flattened, wouldn’t it be broken by a few strokes? Wang Qiang didn’t know what the steel wire-like string was made of. Once the string was broken, then tie it up and tie it together. What a big deal...
Then, press the mud strip with an arrow, and the "ballistic" groove will come out. Then, press the middle of the bow into the front end of the mud strip - a "cross bow" equipped with mud arms was born!
A Duo was stunned: "Chief, are you playing with mud?"
Wang Qiang wanted to laugh very much, yes, my brother has no other advantage, he just knows how to play! Wang Qiang sighed: "This is a crossbow!"
A Duo said in surprise: "This is clearly mud!"
It's time to enlighten a wave of wisdom! Wang Qiang carved a groove with strings on the end of the mud strip, and said earnestly: "This mud can be burned into something as hard as a stone as a fire. This kind of thing is called pottery. As long as we avoid the pursuit, I will teach you to burn pottery together. In the future, it will rely on pottery to cook soup..."
“What is soup?”
"The soup is boiled with meat and water. In fact, the nutrition is all in the soup..."
“What is nutrition?”
"The real essence of food is incomparable to eating barbecue, especially those who are sick and injured, who should drink soup..."
While speaking, Wang Qiang felt that the mud mold in his hand began to become cold. Wang Qiang looked down and ignored it for a while. The mud mold was frozen.
Wang Qiang was shocked and frozen! That's right, the weather is a bit exaggerated, it can freeze all the way to freeze the penis even if you urinate on the ground, right?
Wang Qiang shook a few lightly, and the mud was already fixed, and the bow pressed into the mud was also still motionless! Let me pull it away, my brother was still thinking about burning ceramics. This was not even necessary to burn ceramics. This is the benefit of winter. It is still useful to choose the beginning of winter! If it is so hard that it is frozen into ice bricks, can this mud mold withstand the tens of hundreds of kilograms of pulling force on the string? It must be able to do it! How can you give your fate of victory or defeat to the unreliable bear skin?
This is the legendary ice crossbow. Brother wants to kill him! At this moment, Wang Qiang was excited: "Let's go and pull a few strong branches in the woods. I remember that there are still withered vines on the tree..."
Yes, use branches and vines as plywood to strengthen frozen mud to ensure that it is foolproof. Even if there is no axe and saw, you must bite the branches off with your teeth...
Under A Duo's guidance, Wang Qiang chose a small tree with a straight trunk and only two or three fingers as thick as a tree. Wang Qiang's understanding of trees is very limited. Except for the characteristics of pine, cypress, fir, willow and locust trees and its obvious characteristics, they can basically name them even if they have seen them.
But now is not the time to care about the little things like the name. This tree was uprooted at once, and its skin could be easily peeled off and exposed the moist white wood poles inside. The skin is very tough and can be tied into a bark rope for binding.
Then A Duo took out a stone knife and cut out several wounds of the wooden pole. Under the cold wind during this period, the moist wooden pole quickly froze into very crisp popsicles, and then directly hit the censer and broke the wooden pole into several pieces.
Very good, this is the neat thing you want!
Below is Wang Qiang tied these wooden poles neatly around both sides and under the mud arm, especially the wooden poles on both sides against the bow body, ensuring that the main force is the two wooden poles on both sides when pulling the bow. Wang Qiang was afraid that the cold was not strong enough, so he washed the crossbow several times with melted water beside the charcoal fire, and further strengthened the bow body with mud and bark rope, and finally used wood chips to further strengthen the grooves that were hung out of the string.
Finally, an ice crossbow with a biting frost and non-sized appearance emerged!
A Duo looked at it with great anticipation: "Chief, how do you use this thing?"
Chapter completed!