Chapter 12: The Ice Crossbow

After a brief struggle, Agoura decides to bypass the bear in search of the woman's tracks. There are two paths to get around the bear, one is a large mound forest behind the bear cave. However, as a knight from the grassland, he was born with a resistance to this kind of terrain that was not conducive to the galloping of war horses, and it was difficult to find women in this dense forest. So Agoura decided to choose to pass by the frozen river.

As a result, I never expected that the bear's warning distance was so far away, and it was still driven away!

Agoura is very irritable! But the matter has come to this point, and I have to follow the direction of the war horse to the other side of the river to find it. If the women were scattered by the bears, it would have been possible to cross the river. In fact, when Agoura spent the night in the bear cave last night, he had heard the howls of various wild beasts from a distance in the woods, indicating that the woman who had fled into the woods should have no hope of survival, so it was still possible to find her on the other side of the river.

As a result, Agoura searched all the way along the riverbank and found no footprints, which made Agoura even more annoyed. The rule of the Du Thor clan is that the time to screen women is three days, it takes two days to put women on the horse and bring them back, and unless there is a major gain, they must return to the team within five days. Not to mention that the apostles of the gods have come, and the time is very short,

Now that time has been wasted so much, the chances of the women surviving are very slim, so let's find a way to retrieve the bow and arrow, and there is only a day and a half left for my own time.

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As a super player, Wang Qiang should make the best use of his time no matter what the circumstances, even if it is a last resort now, but it must not be a dry consumption of idleness!

Wang Qiang finally found out what he could do, that is, after removing the charcoal fire from the cave just now and paving the ground, the hot water from the melting ice on the ground softened the soil, and this soil was the highly plastic clay by the river, Wang Qiang immediately dug up 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 enough to think about it in the head, and it has to be made to provide a sample for manufacturing. That's right, this NPC knows how to burn ceramic arrows with clay, and Wang Qiang can also learn how to burn the clay mold into a ceramic with a fire, so won't all the problems be solved? It is absolutely no problem to support the hundreds of catties of tension of the hanging string with the hardness of ceramics, so that you don't have to think about the various planers and chisel tools needed to make the wood arm, perfect!

But the premise is that you can fire ceramics! If it doesn't work, you can burn it into a long brick, and if it doesn't work, you can tie a few pieces of wood or bear ribs or something to reinforce it!

In short, with direction comes motivation! Wang Qiang quickly kneaded a long mud ball like kneading dough, and then used two spears as a ruler to clamp it, and the sides were flat!

Then, the spear is used as a rolling pin, the front is flat, and after repeated trimming, a long clay mold with a fairly standardized shape comes out.

Wang Qiang was very pleased, this is the advantage of mud molding, if it is carved with wood, and there is no saw and planer, how can it reach this level? And once the wood is not planed, won't the strings be worn out in a few strokes? Wang Qiang didn't know what this wire-like string was made of, and once the string broke, then tie it up in a knot, how big of a deal......

Then, press an arrow on the mud strip, and the "ballistic" groove will come out. Then, press the middle of the bow directly into the front end of the mud bar - a "cross bow" with a mud arm is born!

Ah Duo was dumbfounded: "Chief, are you playing with mud?" ”

Wang Qiang wants to laugh very much, that's right, my brother has no other advantages, he just knows how to play! Wang Qiang sighed with emotion: "This is a crossbow!" ”

Ah Duo was surprised: "This is clearly mud!" ”

It's time for a wave of wisdom! Wang Qiang carved a groove hanging string at the end of the mud strip, and said earnestly: "This mud can be burned into something as hard as a stone as long as it is burned with a large fire, this kind of thing is called pottery, as long as we escape the pursuit, I will teach everyone to burn pottery together, and it will rely on pottery to cook soup in the future......"

"What's the soup?"

"The meat and water are boiled together is the soup, but in fact, the nutrition is in the soup......

"What is nutrition?"

"The real essence of food, which cannot be compared to eating barbecue, especially those who are sick and injured have poor absorption, so they should drink soup......"

While speaking, Wang Qiang felt that the clay mold in his hand began to become cold, Wang Qiang looked down, and ignored it for a while, the clay mold froze.

Wang Qiang was shocked and frozen! That's right, the exaggeration of this weather is that spilling urine on the ground can freeze the cock all the way, right?

Wang Qiang shook it lightly a few times, the mud was already fixed, and the bow that was pressed into the mud was also not moving! I'll go to it.,Brother still thinks about burning ceramics.,I don't even need to burn ceramics in this battle.,This is the benefit of winter.,Brother chooses the winter start or it's useful! If it is frozen into ice bricks so hard, can this clay mold withstand the hundreds of catties of tension of hanging strings? It has to be able to! How can you leave the fate of victory and defeat to an unreliable bearskin?

This is the legendary ice crossbow, brother wants to fight back! At this moment, Wang Qiang was excited: "Let's go, go to the woods and pull a few sturdy branches, I remember that there seem to be dead vines on the trees......"

That's right, using twigs and vines as splints to reinforce the frozen mud is foolproof, and even if you don't have an axe and saw, bite the branches off with your teeth......

Under Ah Duo's guidance, Wang Qiang chose a small tree with a straight trunk that was only two or three fingers thick. For trees or something, Wang Qiang's cognition is very limited, except for the pine, cypress, cedar, willow and locust characteristics and obvious trees can be named, the others are basically not named.

But now is not the time to care about such a trivial matter as the name, this little tree was uprooted at once, and its skin can be easily peeled off to reveal the moist white wooden pole inside, which is very tough and can be tied into bark ropes.

Then Ah Duo took out a stone knife and cut a few wounds on the wooden pole, during which the cold wind froze, the moist wooden pole quickly froze into a very brittle popsicle, and then directly snapped a few times against the cut, like a sugar cane, and divided the wooden pole into several pieces.

Very good, that's what you want to be neat!

The following is that Wang Qiang tied these wooden poles neatly on both sides and under the mud arm, especially the wooden poles on both sides against the bow body, to ensure that the main force is the two wooden poles on both sides when pulling the bow. Wang Qiang was afraid that the cold would not be strong enough, so he washed the crossbow several times with meltwater next to the charcoal fire, further strengthened the bow body with muddy water and bark rope, and finally used wood chips to further strengthen the grooves hanging from the strings.

Finally, a frost-piercing crossbow with a cold ice and earth crossbow that is not earthy in appearance was born!

Ah Duo looked forward to it: "Chief, how do you use this thing?" ”

Wang Qiang took a deep breath: "It's time to perform real technology......"