After entering the Iron Age, the first equipment Fang Hao wanted to make was not a tool such as an iron pickaxe and an axe, but a crossbow.

The crossbow has a longer range, more penetration, and easier aiming than the short bow, making it ideal for a mid-range recruit like Fang Hao.

The materials needed for the crossbow are also very simple, only cast iron and leather, and leather can be obtained by hunting animals, and now Fang Hao still has a few pieces on hand, and the materials are sufficient.

But the price of the crossbow in the system is 300 energy, and Fang Hao doesn't have that much energy yet.

It seems that whether it is to hone his archery skills or the need for energy, he must hunt a large number of zombies.

Since coming here, Fang Hao's various skills have barely improved, and after coming here for a few days, the level of his character is less than level 2, and the full level is 100.

Various activities such as picking wood and stones can increase experience, but the improvement is relatively slow, and only killing zombies is the fastest.

Since he couldn't make a cross crossbow for the time being, Fang Hao could only make another melee weapon first, a hunting knife.

When making ironware, it is necessary to smelt pig iron into cast iron first, and after smelting some cast iron, Fang Hao's hunting knife is quickly made.

The reason why Fang Hao made the hunting knife was not because of its attack power, but because of its ability to cut through animal carcasses and harvest more pieces of raw meat and hides. Of course, there is only one melee weapon that can be made by the early system, so this is also a helpless move.

After making the hunting knife, Fang Hao took it in his hand and looked at it, the workmanship was okay, but it was a little too short, and he could only use it to fight with zombies in close combat.

After that, Fang Hao made an iron pickaxe and a shovel.

He took an iron pickaxe and dug at the stone wall a few times, which was two or three times more efficient than the stone axe and stone shovel, and dug out a one-meter-square space in only a dozen strokes.

Fang Hao decided to continue digging down, because zombies can sense far away, and the deeper they hide, the safer they are, of course, this underground cave is just to be prepared and leave a way back for themselves.

If he had the ability to protect himself in the future, he would definitely not put the base underground, and when the time came, he would have built a castle with high walls, and even a strong tower that towered into the sky.

Now, it's all just a thought, and now he's able to save his life.

Fang Hao put the flashlight on his waist, and with the light, he dug down more than twenty meters in one go.

Just as he was about to carve out a space at this depth, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he saw that the pig iron in his inventory suddenly increased dramatically.

Originally, under normal circumstances, there would be only one or two pig iron at most with a pickaxe, and sometimes the iron might not be dug up after several digging, but now, every time he digs, the amount of pig iron will increase by two or three.

"Got an iron ore? My luck won't be so good! Fang Hao was excited.

This manufacturing system is in great demand for steel, and it can be said that even if his furnace is open 24 hours a day, he will never have too much, because he has seen that many weapons and equipment in the later period will all use steel.

In fact, if you really want to say that the place that is used the most, Fang Hao thinks that it is still buildings and defense facilities, because in the later stage, all buildings can be upgraded with forged steel, and they are real steel fortresses.

If there is iron ore here, it is really lucky.

Fang Hao dug a few more times, thinking that he might have made a mistake, because he still dug out a lot of stones, and iron only accounted for a small part, and if this was really an iron mine, at least half of the iron content would be used.

However, Fang Hao was not very disappointed, this may be the edge of the iron mine, and there may be an iron ore hidden not far away.

Since there was so much pig iron, Fang Hao decided to keep digging down to see how deep these iron-rich rock layers extended.

I dug down more than ten meters deep, and almost every time I dug iron, I could dig iron, which shows that there is still a lot of iron content in this area.

After digging for such a long time, this hole is deep enough, Fang Hao calculated before and after, he is more than fifty meters above the ground here, and there are more than ten stories high, even if the zombie's perception is amazing, I am afraid that he will not be able to find this place.

It wasn't too early, Fang Hao stopped the work of digging holes, began to make wooden ladders, and installed the wooden ladders on the stone wall step by step, climbed out of the small room where the furnace was placed, took dozens of the cast iron that had been smelted inside, and then went back to the room to sleep.

After getting up the next day, Fang Hao cooked a few packets of instant noodles on the campfire, took a few ham sausages, broke them with his hands and threw them into the pot to cook together.

"Wow, there's something delicious again!" Zitong saw the ham sausage and immediately screamed.

Fang Hao put the bowl of noodles in front of Zitong: "Eat, it's good to work when you're full." ”

Zitong picked up the bowl and started eating, and when he ate the ham sausage, he praised it again, and glanced at Fang Hao from the corner of his eyes from time to time.

As for the pack of instant noodles she put away last night and said she wanted to eat today, she seems to have forgotten all about it.

After eliminating the noodles in the bowl, Zitong wiped his mouth: "Say Brother Hao, what are you letting you do?" ”

"Let's go out and fight zombies today." Fang Hao said: "But let's talk about it first, all the crystal nuclei that I hit are mine, and I am useful." ”

"Brother Hao, you have the final say here!" Zitong touched his belly and said.

She ate almost two packs of instant noodles this morning, looking at her like this, it seems that she has never eaten enough, today may be the fullest meal she has eaten, just for this full meal, she is going to prepare to go to the soup for Fang Hao.

After going out, Fang Hao asked Zitong: "Where are there a little more zombies around here?" ”

Zitong thought for a while and said, "Go up this river, there are many villages, but there are many zombies, and ordinary people rarely go anywhere. ”

"Don't go where there are too many zombies, just have a little more zombies here."

Zitong pointed to the other side of the river: "After crossing this river, there is a plain there, and there are more zombies than here, and I sometimes go there to kill zombies." ”

"Then let's go to the other side of the river."

The two men went down the river, and for the past two days they had been walking outside, knowing that there was a small bridge not far from here.

When he encountered one or two zombies along the way, Fang Hao shot two arrows first, and if he couldn't shoot to death, he asked Zitong to mend the knife, and picked up five or six crystal nuclei one after another.

After crossing the small bridge and rounding the two hills, sure enough, there was a large plain to the north, which may have been farmland, but now it is all wild meadows.

Without humans, tree seeds would take root and grow on the plains, and all kinds of trees of all kinds would spread across the plains, making it like a wild wilderness.

Fang Hao was afraid of being suddenly attacked by zombies, so he deliberately looked for some places with fewer trees to walk, even so, on two occasions they were also startled by the zombies that suddenly came out.

The further you go, the more zombies there are, but they're scattered and don't pose much of a threat to them.

Fang Hao came out this time, brought out all the arrows, and made the remaining feathers into stone arrows, whenever he saw a zombie, he pulled his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow first.

But his archery skills are so poor that it's hard to hit from a distance, but he still enjoys it.

In the system, his archery experience has been slowly rising, and now he is almost at level 2.

Each level of archery increases damage and hits by a point, but the range of the bow and arrow does not change.

Zitong is like a real assistant at this time, she has been picking up arrows for Fang Hao, but she is not picking for nothing, she often secretly stuffs the arrows she picks up into her bag.

The two of them were walking along a ditch, Fang Hao suddenly saw four or five zombies crawling out of the ditch, he saw that Zitong wanted to shoot with an arrow, and hurriedly stopped her.

"Don't move, let me do this time!"

"You're coming? Can you? Zitong was skeptical.

But suddenly, two piles of ground thorns appeared in front of Fang Hao, and then, another wooden frame appeared in front of Fang Hao, he jumped on it, jumped again, and then he stood on top of the two wooden frames, condescendingly, and began to shoot zombies.

Several brainless zombies were pulled into hatred by Fang Hao, and they didn't even know to attack the child behind them, but stubbornly crawled over from the ground thorns, stood next to the wooden frame, and reached out to grab Fang Hao.

Fang Hao unhurriedly shot one arrow after another, the arrows shot at the zombie's head, although the zombie's head shook so that he shot several times, but more than a dozen arrows went down, and several zombies all fell at his feet.

Zitong opened his mouth wide: "Can you still play like this?" ”

Fang Hao waved his hand: "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield." ”

The death of several zombies made Fang Hao's archery skills rise to level 2, and at the same time, he personally also increased by one level, and now his skill points have increased to 10 points.