Chapter 55: Confessions of a Street-Fighting Author
"Shen Yan, what's wrong? It looks scary! Except for the black around his eyes, the rest of his face is all white, is he sick? A teenager said worriedly.
"It's exhausting, exhausting! You're still young, you don't understand ......," a ranger judged with experience.
"That's right, young people should cherish their bodies, otherwise they can't use it before the age of forty." A young woman joins the conversation.
"Wait, what are you talking about! What can't be used?! The boy was confused.
“…… Don't make a fuss, kids shouldn't know these things. The young woman and the ranger said in unison. Ahem~" The Ranger coughed twice, as if talking to himself, "You see I'm only thirty years old, and I'm strong!" There was no problem with Shen Yan at all. In order to prove that he was strong, he also deliberately stepped on the stirrup and posed a few times.
"You're only thirty? Look at your stubble, I don't believe it! The young woman stroked the Ranger's beard and pouted.
"True thirty! Check it out if you don't believe it! The Ranger was in a hurry, revealing his bulging pectoralis major muscles and letting her check.
"Check and check!" Not to be outdone, the young woman said, so they went to find a place to check their bodies carefully.
The teenager was stunned, what is there to check for his body?
Talk about the topic in three or two sentences, I'll tell you, you can't make friends like this!
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Whispering, whispering –
As if he hadn't heard those discussions, Shen Yan's whole person exuded an aura of being unapproachable. He stood on the shooting range he had made, and shot a pot of arrows seriously and unhurriedly. If a target is full or he runs out of practice arrows, he lowers his bow and goes over and sorts it out, and the cycle repeats.
Don't ask him about dark circles – if you dream of being abused and killed every night, it will be the same...... That's part of growing up, Penny says, and it's the price you have to pay to inherit a woman's legacy. Shen Yan not only had to learn how to draw nutrients from which memory fragments, but also how to clean up these fragments and maintain his personality independence from which fragments.
Because this is one of the difficulties that Shen Yan will face sooner or later - after coming to another world for a month, there are not a few creatures that have died in Shen Yan's hands. With the rapid growth of Shen Yan's strength, those memory fragments that were absorbed into the soul - the man in black, the swamp lion, and the baron's ...... Wait, it's quite a bit. Only by learning how to deal with these "garbage" by himself can Shen Yan not lose himself in the future.
- Don't learn from ladies, you can't keep an iceberg face for the rest of your life.
Think you can easily experience it once and you can get skills and a lot of experience points? What do you think! Too young, too simple.
Shen Yan had to go through at least four or five stages of laurel every night, memories that were unrelated to each other and even chaotic in chronological order. Fortunately, the Moon Elf's memory fragment was not just the assassination, which showed that the person Penny had chosen was not bad, and he at least had his own life.
The memories that Shen Yan entered every time were random, some of them were brutal battles, and some were just memorable daily life...... This way of entering is a collection of work and rest, and if it doesn't sound good, it is always in a state of surprise. Maybe it's because Yuegui's memory of the near death is too deep, on average, every four times she enters, Shen Yan will "assassinate the lady" once, and then die tragically under Penny's knife!
Other times, sometimes Shen Yan would make bows and arrows with Yuegui, sometimes he would participate in the hunting activities of the elven kingdom, and sometimes he would practice archery at a time - I have to say, this elf named Yuegui is really an arrow idiot! And, of course, the happy times of Laurel and his wife...... In short, Laurel is a legendary elf with a lot of experience and a sullen heart.
I don't know why he was absorbed by the cult and finally embarked on the path of terrorists.
I have to say that this way of inheritance is really unique and effective!
Shen Yan, who is rooted in the memory of laurel, frantically absorbs the nutrients needed for growth. While assimilating the blood of the Moon Elves, he also learned all kinds of magical archery skills in these memories. He and Yuegui thought and practiced together, and sometimes they couldn't even tell whether they were Shen Yan or Yuegui...... Especially after going through the initial difficult phase, when he woke up recently, he even had a sense of blood connection with the bow and arrow.
Yue Gui is already at an extremely high level, he is the perfecter of the elven magic bow profession, and the bow and arrow he masters is a complete system, and there is no special "skill".
But Shen Yan is different, he can't devote his whole life to the bow and arrow - in fact, in the end, even Yuegui begins to have self-doubt. Because his strength has surpassed the help that a bow and arrow can provide. When you can kill an enemy with a single punch, but you have to shoot three or five times with a bow and arrow, you think, "Do I really need a tool like this?" Is it really worth it that I had to pay far more than the bow and arrow would be worth in order to make a bow worthy of me?
It's like a superman who can drop a nuclear bomb at will, in order to maintain his identity as a sharpshooter back then, he has to do everything possible to continue to upgrade the small pistol of the year - knowing that even if he upgrades to the top, it can't compare to the power of his own punch...... But he wants to be a sharpshooter more than Superman, so he gets into a serious self-entanglement.
Bows and arrows, like guns, are tools to put it bluntly. A sword is also a tool, but this tool can be seen as an extension of the arm. And what about bows and arrows? The bow and arrow convert the force into elastic potential energy, which in turn converts the elastic potential energy into the kinetic energy on the arrow. After a transformation in the middle, the perception of power is far apart.
This is the laurel, and the obsession of everyone who breaks through to the wall of legends.
If you don't cut it, you can't move on.
From the very beginning, Shen Yan only regarded bows and arrows as a craft - his future was to become a blue-striped humanoid self-propelled turret that fires all kinds of heavy magic and bombarded targets non-stop - and before he could evolve into a "turret", he chose to become an "arrow tower" first.
Therefore, Shen Yan re-divided Yuegui's archery system into various archery skills - in addition to the "soul arrows", "battle shower arrow rain" and the evil awe-inspiring "Killing Demon Arrow" that he saw during assassination, there were also enchanted arrows with magic power to increase the lethality of arrows, guide arrows that were actively guided within a certain range, and demonic arrows that used special arrows to explode, freeze, acid etch, and even heal (Shen Yan called them grenade arrows, because they fire different types of warheads like howitzers).
These skills can be a useful addition to his "turret" firing intervals even in the future......
As for the more bizarre archery skills, such as the "Lock-Foot Arrow" that shoots 100% of the knee, the "Wandering Arrow" that flies and turns back to the Yin Man, and the "Broken Root Arrow" that is specially used to cut off something unwritten, etc...... For the sake of his reputation as the "No. 1 self-propelled cannon in the universe" in the future, Shen Yan chose to give up......
When you really use it in the future, you must report the name of the laurel!
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Shen Yan's pulley bow was finally completely scrapped after the big war - mainly because the core wheel was broken, which was not repaired in another world. He asked Penny to try to make one, but she didn't know what was wrong and didn't match it at all.
Shen Yan could only remove the bowstring attachment or everything for later use, and completely give up the pulley bow that had accompanied him in the battle for a month.
He had planned to select the resilient bones of the swamp lion and make a new bow.
However, the swamp lions all drank too many carbonated drinks, and their osteoporosis was terrible - no wonder the swamp lions mainly rely on the tentacles on their backs to fight, and rarely pounce on such actions. Because their bodies are too heavy, they usually rely on the buoyancy of the swamp to support their bodies, and their bones can no longer withstand the intense movements that are too strong.
In a way, the swamp lion is a creature that has not yet evolved.
Fortunately, the swamp lion is similar to other beasts with large bodies, absorbing and enriching certain metals, and then accumulating them in a corner of their body. After Shen Yan burned the body of the swamp lion, he obtained a few pieces of metal that could not be burned and were irregularly shaped. Among them was a metal rod about 20 centimeters long, which was left by the largest male swamp lion...... Anyone who wants to be crooked goes to face the wall!
The specific material of the metal is unknown, but it is lightweight and has full strength and toughness. It's simply a natural alloy, making it perfect for making a war bow.
Shen Yan pondered for a while, so he simply made a hunting recurve bow out of these metals - when he bought the pulley bow, he had studied all the modern bows and arrows carefully, and even borrowed a friend's recurve bow to experience it in the archery hall.
Today, the pulley bow has proven to be impractical, the structure is too complex and fragile, and it breaks down three times a month! This proves that the pulley bow is completely unsuitable for the complex environment of this otherworldly adventure, and you can't even carry it through the world, what else can you use it for?
However, the modern recurve bow is different, and the modern recurve bow absorbs the advantages of classical bows and arrows, while adding a variety of research on composite materials and mechanics in the computer age. While the design is reasonable, the structure is not further complicated. It can be said that the modern recurve bow is an optimization of the classical recurve bow rather than a subversion.
The bow structure is easier to disassemble and easy to carry, the bow and the bow handle are fixed or buckled with screws, from the state of the accessories to the screws on the winding, two or three minutes to get it, the practicality is even better than the classical bow.
Moreover, of all the bow types, only the recurve bow can shoot the speed of two arrows in a moment like the laurel, and the pulley bow cannot reach it anyway. Of course, we're talking about the modern recurve bow for hunting, not the competitive recurve bow with a dozen bits and pieces on the bow of the Olympic archery style – the hunting recurve is technically made up of four parts: the handle, the upper and lower blades, and the string, and then it's gone!
It is basically a foregone conclusion that the modern recurve bow is superior to the classical. The only point of contention was the issue of the Arrow Tower. The modern recurve bow has an arrow platform, which is divided into left and right hands, and shoots more steadily and accurately; The classical recurve bow has no arrow platform, and it can be opened left and right without dividing the left and right hands.
Shen Yan also took this question specifically to consult Ozmat, and as a result, he saw six words in the eyes of the lizardman - cheap, human, just, yes, hypocritical, and affectionate!
In Ozmat's opinion, not to mention the Shenma hunting recurve bow, even the pulley bow that Shen Yan used before is an excellent thing - the biggest problem with using a bow and arrow is not the left and right hands, but you have to shoot first, right? As long as Shen Yan can hit every shot with a pulley bow, then he is a great archer - this has nothing to do with his left and right hands!
It doesn't matter if the bow isn't durable...... In real combat, no matter how good a weapon is, there is no guarantee that it will be used in the next battle.
You say that awesome people can shoot left and right? People especially use their feet to pull a rope to make a hundred shots, okay? If you really practice to that extent, having an arrow tower will not prevent you from firing your bow left and right. In order to increase his persuasiveness, the lizard head specially got on the horse and demonstrated a variety of "unconventional" archery postures for him, and the hit rate was super high.
Shen Yan was defeated.
And replied, "You're the slut!" ”
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PS: I wrote a little more about bows and arrows, because there is a paragraph here.
When Lao Lei wrote "Watching the Dawn", he once said the wrong sentence, "The bowstring made of unicorn's tail hair is more elastic", and then he was scolded by a book friend - later Lao Lei went to check the information and learned that the shooting power of the bow and arrow comes from the energy storage and release of the bow arm, not the elasticity of the bowstring, and the best bowstring should be flexible and flexible...... After that, Lao Lei began to pay attention to collecting information on bows and arrows, and later went to the archery hall with his friends to experience it, and then gradually became fascinated to the point that he lost a lot of money......
Now I have to write a book seriously to pay off my debts.
Why all of a sudden?
I just want to know the book friend back then, are you still reading my book?
I'm not looking for you to lose money, really! I just want to introduce you to a few more books...... Can you pit them all the time?