7. Chapter 7 Fur
Lu Ge's expression was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the other scouts and villagers around him gradually surrounding, and he could only give up the action of wanting to make a hard robbery, remembering that Luo Di made him a little unable to get off the stage, he said loudly with some annoyance: "Just rely on you as a torturer, take your bow to the shooting range, and decide the victory with a dozen arrows, and see who is qualified to use it." Say well in advance, if you lose, kneel down and lick Lao Tzu's shoes!"
Luo Di didn't speak, just raised his eyes slightly, completely ignoring the other party's meaning, bent down and picked up the arrow, and walked into the distance.
There were not many people in the village, but when they heard that there was a commotion, they immediately rushed over, and the scout team's reconnaissance mission still had more than an hour to start, and it would not take ten minutes for the village to spread to every corner of the village. When Roddy crossed his shoulders and stood on the beautiful "shooting range" in the small square, Ruger held a straw pole in his mouth, held a horned bow and continued to provoke with a playful face: "Wait and lick my shoes, torturer." โ
He is qualified to say such things, even in the past, no one in the entire Nolan Village can be better at archery than Ruge, this kind of competition is just a means for Roddy to delay time.
He spat out the straw stalk, as if he was spitting at Roddy, and his disdainful gaze swept over, and then he raised the horned bow in his hand.
The scouts of Nolan Village occasionally had archery competitions, and the rules were simple - twenty-five yards of linen the size of a man's head on a straw stack, ten arrows per person, and the winners and losers were determined by the area of dispersion.
Although Ruger's mouth is always disgusting and disgusting, as the scout captain, his work is absolutely unambiguous. With standard movements and steady breathing, Luger raised his hand and shot three arrows in a row, all of which hit the center of the linen!
This precise swordsmanship amazed the surrounding farmers. However, the strength of the horn bow was too strong after all, and from the fourth onwards, the dispersion area of the arrows gradually expanded, and by the time of the seventh arrow, it could be seen that every time Ruger pulled the bow, his arms were trembling slightly, and even his movements began to deform......
Twelve arrows were fired, and two of Ruger were shot beyond the edge of the linen.
This is also because the angular bow is too heavy, the strong bow and hard crossbow are difficult to control, and even a guy like Ruger can't maintain high accuracy all the time, but at the moment this achievement is enough for the soldiers to be ashamed of, and the scene of the arrows barely feathering in, densely nailed to the linen, is really bluffing.
The villagers and soldiers who watched around added up to thirty or forty people, and there was an uproar, and many of them bluntly said that Luo Di had fallen into bad luck, and I am afraid that it will be really difficult to step down next. After all, in their eyes, Ruger is the "invincible" side, and considering Roddy's past performance in the village, no one thinks that he can defeat Ruger in archery.
Public opinion fell in favor of Ruger, so that he couldn't help straightening his waist, squinted at Roddy and spat again, and threw the horn bow over with disdain.
"Torturer, learn a little. โ
It's just that he would never have imagined that the words that Roddy said after taking the horn bow almost blew up Ruger's lungs-
"Heh... You think that's good archery?"
โ... You're just scratching the surface. โ
Ignoring Ruger's reaction, Roddy wrapped his fingers in thin cowhide, glanced at the target 25 yards away, adjusted his breathing, and then slowly raised the horn bow in his hand.
The next moment, all the scouts present frowned, and even the farmers who were joining in the fun began to whisper...
The bow was drawn for half a month, but it was not full, and Roddy's movements looked extremely casual and he raised his bow and shot, this gesture was completely unbelievable in the eyes of the scout - did he know that he couldn't win at all, so he didn't even bother to aim?
Speaking of which, archery is the most important thing is "consistency", every time the bow is pulled and released, all the actions must be highly "consistent" to ensure that the accuracy remains unchanged, the position of the right hand buckle string parking, the push bow point of the archer even if it is deviated by half a minute, the arrow shot out will have deviations, so the "fixed action" is the most basic common sense when shooting.
But what about Roddy? The bow is drawn for half a month, and the arm is released almost without being in position, so how can the arm hanging in the air confirm that the force of each bow is the same? How to make sure that the angle of aiming is the same?
The farmers didn't understand what that meant, and all the scouts thought he was fooling around.
It's just that the next moment, the continuous sound of "duh-duh-duh" caused everyone to look at the target, at first people just made a "huh" puzzled sound, and when Roddy's first five arrows were shot, the puzzled sound had turned into an irrepressible exclamation!
"This..."
"How is that possible?!"
"Oh my Godโ"
Beads of sweat appeared on Ruger's forehead, and he even felt goosebumps all over his body. Even if he had assumed countless possibilities in his heart before, he didn't expect such a scene in front of him - he had always been arrogant, and at this time he opened his mouth wide and looked at the straw stack not far away...
Twenty-five yards away, there was only one arrow in the center of the linen... And every time Roddy raised his hand and let it go, the next arrow hit the tail of the previous arrow, nailing it into the grass target!
The previous arrow was shattered at the end of the arrow, split and fell to the ground.
This phenomenon is commonly known as "chasing arrows", which is often encountered by Ruger himself, and once the intensity of archery practice is too high, this situation will often happen, and to some extent, it is also a great proof of the accuracy of archery - but at this moment everyone saw a shocking fact... Except for the first arrow that hits the center, all the arrows are chasing arrows!
"Duh-"
"Duh-"
"Duh-"
...
When the continuous chasing arrows appeared, the nerves of the audience were a little numb, and they no longer thought about whether they could hit the linen, but faintly thought in their hearts: Can eleven arrows catch up?!
"Duh-"
When the last arrow was fired, Roddy still had a calm face, compared to the trembling posture of Ruger's arm that had just finished shooting a set of arrows.
At this point, the arrows in the bullseye have been split one after another because of the continuous pursuit of arrows, leaving debris all over the ground.
Twelve arrows, all shot at the same point!
The crowd erupted in an explosion of exclamations after a muffled silence, they couldn't have imagined that archery could do so much - something that only the bards would say could be done by elven marksmen!
In the noisy environment, perhaps only Carter and the two scouts who participated in the battle yesterday were not too surprised, they looked at Roddy with complicated eyes, and they didn't even know whether to come forward and talk-
At this moment, Ruger has realized what mistake he has made.
He was trembling, and not just because he had lost the bet. His archery skills are not bad, so he can better understand what Roddy's hand just now...
The extremely high strength of the angular bow, but Roddy didn't have such accuracy at all, which shows that Roddy didn't take this competition seriously at all from beginning to end - he made this competition lightly, really just for the bow?
Thinking back to what he had just said, Ruger suddenly understood what the look in Roddy's eyes that he had just looked at him meant...
That's the indifferent look that only comes when you look at a dead person.
"I-I..."
He wanted to say something, but saw that Roddy was already standing in front of him, raised three fingers, and pointed to his chest.
"You just poked me three times. โ
Although the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, he looked like he was smiling, but the coldness made Ruger shudder for an instant - looking at the oncoming leather boots, he immediately realized what this guy wanted to do, but he was not too nervous when he was surprised.
Even if it's hand-to-hand combat, who has Luge been afraid of?
As soon as he made the action of blocking, he found that Roddy's kick had strangely changed the direction of his attack and kicked him hard in the lower abdomen!
"Phew!"
Ruger, who thought he had good combat skills, flew upside down, stayed in the air for half a second, and then crashed to the ground. The conversation among the surrounding villagers stopped abruptly, but this was only the beginning, Roddy's figure appeared in front of Luger like a ghost, dragged him up from the ground, and then slammed his fist on the other party's stomach!
Raising his leg and knee hit, Lu Ge, who had just been arrogantly cursing, didn't even talk nonsense, and flew out directly back again, rolling on the ground twice before falling into shock.
After doing all this, Roddy picked up the horned bow, turned and left.
Not far away, Dick, who was sweating with three copper coins in his hand, swallowed hard, and after watching Ruger be dragged away by the scouts for treatment, he quickly trotted over and stammered, "Roddy, you... What more do you want? I try to... I can get it for you..."
Luo Di looked ahead, one moment with the ruthlessness he had just beaten, but the next moment he was full of emotion, and put on a gentle expression with a smile on his face: "Ah... I'll also need a small file if I can, and if I have one, it's best. โ
Dick was covered in a cold sweat, and when he left, he felt that his legs were very weak.
In a place like Nolan Village, the strongest person is a veteran ruffian like Luger. Not to mention the captains of the Knights or the guards of Holier City, for the simple villagers and the soldiers who eat here, they can definitely not afford to provoke Ruger without hesitation to knock him down three times.
Military sanctions, judicial trials, who the cares about a team of border scouts that don't add up to dozens of people, do they have to go to Houllier City to file a complaint? Those old men will only pay attention to this trivial after eating too much.
Fighting is fighting, just like Ruger bullying Lodi before, in this kind of place, big fists are the last word. It was precisely when Roddy figured this out that he made a brazen moveโof course, it was due to Luger's excessive ridicule, but more because of the plans that were gradually taking shape in Roddy's heart.
The villagers gradually dispersed, and Roddy pulled out the arrows that had been shot away, and his heart was a little distressed - he was basically penniless now, and according to the memory of this guy named "Lodi", he still had some money stored in a dilapidated house in a village not far away, but with the rest of his hand, a total of thirty copper coins.
This money, if it weren't for the food he had in the scout team, I am afraid it would be enough for him to live in the town for a month.