"The appearance of this city, how do you seem to have seen it somewhere!" The captain muttered.

Zhou Yan looked at the cylindrical thing on his mobile phone, he didn't know what it was for, and when he heard him muttering something, he couldn't help asking, "What did you find?" ”

"Nothing?"

At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly flashed in the field of vision of the telescope, and the captain was startled, and hurriedly moved the telescope to search for the thing again, but found nothing in the field of vision.

"Captain, look over there!" One of the team members reminded in a whisper.

Confused, he pointed the telescope in that direction and saw the appearance of the thing clearly, and the captain's eyes suddenly widened in disbelief.

"This... What a monster this is! ”

In the midst of that abandoned city, on the crumbling walls, an unidentified creature with a gray body and six legs was lying on a pile of rubble, and the monster's fat head had no eyes, and its huge mouth full of sharp teeth was tearing at a prey that had long been invisible.

Looking beyond the binoculars, there were a few of these creatures lying motionless on the ground in those dark corners, apparently having made the abandoned city their lair.

Putting away the binoculars, the captain's face was full of solemnity.

"Is that the thing that suddenly appeared here?" The captain looked at Zhou Yan and asked.

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "That's it, the monster is powerful, and the beast can't beat it." ”

"There are too many of these things, we can't do it at all, we just go to death, let's go back first and discuss it carefully." The captain suggested.

Zhou Yan was a little disappointed, but quickly adjusted, nodded and said, "Okay!" It's dark, it's dangerous here, and you can't stay overnight here. ”

"Well, let's find a safe place first, and return to the tribe early tomorrow morning."

Everyone quietly left the mountain, trying not to be discovered by the monsters entrenched there, and after descending the hill, they hurriedly left here.

After walking for two or three miles, it was not until it was completely dark that everyone found a relatively safe place to settle down.

Sitting by the fire, the captain looked at the crowd and said, "That monster is so weird, they look like bugs, but they are not bugs, I have never seen anything like this." ”

"So what do we do? Still help them? Zhou Yu asked.

The captain was silent for a while and said, "Although that monster looks terrifying, but beasts are beasts after all, as long as you find a way, you will definitely be able to kill them." ”

"But we have such weapons now, I guess the bow and arrow will have no effect on it, if we fight with them, there will inevitably be deaths and injuries, we are out to explore, not to fight monsters." Someone said worriedly.

Everyone agrees with this sentence, for the sake of a small tribe, no one wants to take this risk, and the atmosphere is extremely dull for a while.

"Why don't we leave here first, and explain the situation here to the imperial court after returning to the Xia Kingdom, and let the army deal with the situation here." Zhou Yu came up with his own ideas.

The captain shook his head and said: "That will take at least a few years, and it is not certain whether the people here can survive at that time, we can gather the surrounding tribes and create a large number of bed crossbows, the power of bed crossbows is not too great, as long as we ensure that there can be damage at twenty meters, we will ambush and send people to lure those monsters over, as long as dozens of bed crossbows should be able to kill them." ”

Everyone bowed their heads and pondered, thinking about the feasibility of this matter.

"But bed crossbows can't be made in a while, dozens of bed crossbows, even if they don't require too much power, with the conditions here, it will take at least half a year to make them, this is still the most ideal situation, if we encounter difficulties, it may take longer, can we stay here for so long? We have our own mission! Zhou Yu said in a deep voice, he disagreed with this approach.

The captain smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, what is the purpose of the imperial court for us to explore, that is, to find something that can bring benefits to the Xia Kingdom, if we can get the help of these people, our task can be much easier, there is no need to go to the westernmost part of the continent, and you have also seen that there is a salt department but knows the location of that metal." ”

"This..."

Zhou Yu was a little embarrassed.

Seeing that everyone was still not at ease, the captain said slowly: "Let's do it, let's try it for a month first, if this method is really difficult to operate in practice, we will give up this plan and try to persuade the people here to move to the Xia Kingdom, and leave the matter here to the imperial court to deal with, what do you think?" ”

Everyone thought about it and felt that this was also a good way, and a delay of a month would not affect too much, and they all agreed with this plan.

The next day, the group left in a hurry, and in the afternoon they returned to the place where the salt department lived.

Zhou Yan called the tribe's right-hand men, and the captain had already explained his plan.

Zhou Yan was also skeptical about whether this plan could be feasable, but after all, hope was better than no hope, those monsters were reproducing rapidly, and if it was delayed any longer, there would be no place for humans to settle in the entire mountain range.

Let these capable subordinates contact the rest of the tribes, and with the prestige of the salt department over the years, he believes that the leaders of these tribes should give him a face and come to participate in this discussion.

The warriors who got the order, took the food and set off immediately, the rest of the tribes were some distance from here, and most of these tribes were hiding in relatively hidden places, and the distribution was relatively scattered, so it was not easy to inform all the tribes.

After deciding to stay, the team members settled down in the Arishi Department for a while, and after a slow contact, the natives threw themselves to the ground with objects that they admired for the wisdom of the team members.

Although they are the unsuccessful students of the Xia Kingdom, their knowledge in this era is far beyond others, although they are not craftsmen, but they have read a lot of miscellaneous books that record a lot of mechanical production methods, even if they are not comprehensive, but they still make a big seven eight out under their own study.

The children of the tribe love the little songs that the team members usually hum, and this unique melody can bring each other closer through singing, even if they don't understand the language.

When they were working, these children gathered around the team members, imitating their appearance, as if they were playing with a very interesting intention.

And the woman who is married to Zhou Yu, during this time, he also knows the name of the woman.

Zhou Yan told him that the woman's name was "Ashgil Lennon, which means child born by the river." ”

And Zhou Yu gave her the name of Xia Guo, He Nu.

And during this period of the world, He Nu has been pestering Zhou Yu, and everyone can see that this woman is very interested in Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu's shabu has become the seasoning agent for the team members in their boring time.

The design of the bed crossbow is very smooth, although most of the bed crossbows of the Xia Kingdom have been eliminated in the army, but this weapon that accompanied the establishment of the Xia Kingdom will have some samples in each city.

Designed according to things, this is obviously difficult for these students with high IQs.

In order to save time, the team members are ready to imitate the modular production mode of the Ministry of Engineering, for which the team members also specially made a ruler, although this ruler is not standard, but it is barely enough for them.

Drawings are easy to draw, but it is not easy to put them into practice.

What stumped everyone was the shortage of tools, although the expedition team had axes and even a small saw, but these things were too few to work as efficiently as in Xia Kingdom.

There is a way is always more than difficult, after the discussion of everyone, it was decided to use stone instead of saw, of course, the stone is very brittle and certainly can not be processed into wooden boards, but the stone axe and jagged can be made of wood can be easily processed into rough embryos, and the rest of the fine processing is carried out by a few metal tools, which can ensure the service life of these precious metal tools.

During the day, the women were responsible for gathering wild vegetables and fruits in the surrounding area, and the hunting animals were responsible for going out to hunt, and the people who stayed in the tribe became a rare labor force for the expedition.

The arrival of the expedition team has brought new technology to this very primitive small tribe, and the appearance of the fire bow has brought great convenience to the way of making fire, and there may not be a situation where Mars will not appear without rubbing off a layer of skin like before.

Although the salt department had a very primitive fishing technique, the expedition team gave them the method of fishing with nets, which greatly enriched their diet.

Although the arrival of the team members increased the number of the tribe, the technology they brought brought brought great convenience to these natives, and the food was not only scarce, but even sometimes there was leftover food.

Ten days later, the warriors in charge of liaison who went out returned to Youyan, the leaders of those small tribes, who had already hated those monsters, and Zhou Yan's prestige among these tribes was also very high, and they raised their hands in favor of this method after hearing that there might be a way to eliminate those monsters.

And explain that they will send someone to the salt department in the near future to discuss the specific course of action.

This is undoubtedly good news, as long as these tribes join in, the united humans may really be able to take out those ugly monsters.

In more than ten days, the bed body of the bed crossbow has basically taken on a rudimentary shape, although it looks bulky, but the team members all know that Wang Lang and they relied on this thing to kill several Titan pythons, thinking that even if the power they made is not enough, in the case of shooting at close range, a large number of crossbow arrows should be able to wipe out those fat monsters.

The bed crossbow made by the team members is different from the bed crossbow in the Xia army, which is a combination of several huge bows, and the power generated is very huge.

But what the team members made is undoubtedly a simplified version, if there is a reference to make a comparison, the bed crossbow they made is very similar to a ballista, although the power is much smaller than the bed crossbow, but the process of making it is much simplified.

The ballista has a sturdy bracket with a main beam on top of it, and its front end is flanked by two torsion spring sets, which are powered by the torsion generated by two bundles of tensioned leather rope or animal tendons, each of which drives a crossbow arm, and the end of the crossbow arm is connected to the bowstring.

There is a dovetail groove on the upper side of the beam, a slider with a long guide rail can slide back and forth along the long groove, and a set of firing mechanisms is installed behind the slide, which makes it easy to lock and release the bowstring.

A winch was installed at the end of the beam, the operator could pull the handle, drag the slider through the rope to move, and when the firing mechanism locked the bowstring and pulled back, the weapon was in a state of readiness. Although in order to make it less laborious to operate the winch, metal racks can be arranged on both sides of the beam, which not only allows the work of opening the bow in one go, but also adjusts the projectile power of the weapon to obtain the required range.

But for the time being, metal was too much of a luxury for the expedition members, and they had to settle for the next best thing, replacing the metal rack with a round ratchet made of wood.

Although the bed crossbow has been simplified, it is still very difficult to make, this bed crossbow will take nearly a month to prepare, and this is still an experiment, the material for the production is fresh wood, it can be said that this thing will be scrapped after using it a few times, basically there is not much value, but the expedition team is not using it to arm these natives, as long as those monsters are solved, it makes no difference whether this thing is there or not, and it is not as convenient as throwing stones into it.

And the team members are not worried at all that they will pose a threat to the Xia Kingdom after mastering this weapon, with their backward conditions, if they rebel, the Xia Kingdom can send an army of several hundred people to completely wipe them out.

Time passed slowly in these quiet and busy days, and after a month of hard work, the first bed crossbow made by the students was completely completed.

Zhou Yan looked at this big guy with a complex structure, and said in amazement: "Do the Xia people use this kind of weapon?" ”

The captain shook his head and said: "How can this weapon be used, what we do is not comparable to the Xia Army, if we show it to the soldiers, it will only be treated as useless waste." ”

"Can you show me the power of this thing!" Zhou Yan said with some expectation.

"Yes!"

As he spoke, he asked the team members to carry the ballistas to a relatively spacious open space.

Put the carbonized and polished crossbow arrow into the groove, Zhou Yu and another team member turned the winch with great effort to pull the crossbow string to a fixed position.

Listening to the tooth-aching sound of the crossbow, everyone was nervous, fearing that the improvised ballista would break under this huge pull.

Fortunately, when the strings were fixed, nothing particularly serious.

"Captain, are you ready, are you ready to begin?"

Zhou Yu asked.

The captain nodded and said, "Let's start!" ”