Chapter 22: Unexpected Joy
Liu Qing has been to the beach, because of training needs, he has to go to sea training every two years, for two months, one month is beach tactical training, and the other month is island survival training, so Liu Qing is also quite familiar with the sea, but the sea in front of him seems to be no different from the sea he has seen before, but the difference in the salinity of the water is too great.
The sea water he had seen before was very salty, but the sea water here was like the saltiness of seaweed egg drop soup, almost just right. This had to make Liu Qing wonder, could this just be a lake that looked particularly large? After all, people's eyesight is limited, and they can't see the edge at all, and it is easy to think that some large lakes are oceans. But if you think about it, it's not right, how can there be tides in the lake, and there are so many big waves?
After tasting the much less salty seawater, Liu Qing also understood why there was so little sea salt boiled out before. However, the saltiness of this water is low, which he thinks is a good thing, and if you cook meat in the future, you can directly use it to get seawater, and you don't need to take fresh water, which can save a lot of trouble.
When he returned to the cave, he walked up to the gray-green orb plant again, and perhaps out of curiosity, he paused for a moment, and slashed down a long pole with his sword, hollow, hollow from beginning to end. The leaves on both sides are long, narrow, similar to those of bamboo, but wider. Liu Qing plucked a leaf, looked at it carefully, and suddenly felt that this leaf looked so much like a feather?
"Yes, why didn't I think of it earlier!" Liu Qing suddenly realized, without feathers, these leaves can also be used! These leaves can be regarded as feathers and used as tail feathers for arrows! "I am simply a genius!" Liu Qing praised himself without hesitation.
Looking at the stem in his hand again, Liu Qing smiled again, this pole is also useful, hollow, can it be used as a utensil. Fill it with water, and then plug the two ends, the pole with such a thick arm is more than a meter long, it can hold a lot of water, get a few more, bundle them together, and almost use it as a bucket!
The sudden thought made Liu Qing feel like he had opened the door to a new world, and he instantly felt that it was too worthwhile, and this trip was too worthwhile. If I hadn't seen this plant again, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought of it so much the next time I saw it.
Thinking of it, this is Liu Qing's consistent practice, with this kind of thought, he immediately took action, waved the sapper shovel, cut a dozen or so in succession, and almost couldn't hold it, so he took off the kettle, tied the big bundle of stems at one end with the strap of the kettle, walked in front of himself, dragged the strap with one hand, and dragged it forward.
It was still early in the morning, and it seemed that it was not yet four o'clock in the afternoon. However, it is slightly better in the grass, but not in the jungle, the air circulation is slow, and even though it is autumn, it is still a little stuffy inside. Less than half the way, Liu Qing was already sweating.
He threw the bundle down and sat down on the ground for a while before moving on. Fortunately, there was no danger on the road, and those velociraptors should have gone to chase small animals, and those small animals were also chased away, and they didn't encounter anything on this road.
Back in the cave, the sky had begun to darken, and the sun had set on the tip of the mountain, and the originally bright and dazzling sun looked like a drunk guy at this time, his face was a little red, and he couldn't wait to go home and sleep. Liu Qing is like this now, tired and half dead, and finally dragged this bundle of things similar to bamboo poles to the hole, this bundle has to have dozens of catties, dragged from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, it is not an easy job!
After putting the things away and "locking" the gate again, Liu Qing sat down on the ground tiredly, panting for breath.
Xiao Wu ran over excitedly, rubbing Liu Qing's thigh affectionately, Liu Qing smiled and reached out and touched its head, then stood up, lay directly in the faucet pot, poured a few mouthfuls of water, cut two fruits, and shared it with one person and one tiger.
After resting for a while, Liu Qing stood up and began to sort out the bundle. Pick all the leaves first, collect the ones that are intact, and throw the broken ones aside. Then the ten leaves are stacked in a bunch, and the petiole and the tip of the leaf are cut off with a dagger, leaving only the useful part in the middle, and the tail feathers are completed.
The next thing is to attach these tail feathers to the arrow shaft, for convenience, he directly took an arrow, used a dagger to split a hole in the tail, the nail stuck into the gap, and then put the trimmed blade in, and then pulled out the nail, the arrow shaft just stuck the blade, picked it up and looked, it felt that the effect was not bad, but I don't know how much effect it can play when shooting arrows.
The target was still hanging in the tree outside, and he didn't bother to take it back, and in this place, it was estimated that no animal would steal it. As soon as the finished arrow was put on the ground, the leaves fell out, maybe the crack was too big, Liu Qing picked it up, looked at it for a while, thought for a while, and decisively took out the fishing line, cut off a small section, clamped the blade again, and then tied the fishing line.
Liu Qing looked at the fishing line in his hand, and then at the pile of arrows and blades, and he didn't know if this roll was enough. Suddenly, he thought of something again, got up and walked to the stone wall of the cave, and took down a stack of white things from it, which was the white film that he had taken off from the last dinosaur killing, and there was still a lot of bowstring left behind, and he stuck it on the stone wall of the cave. Now it's time to put it to use.
Cut the dagger into thin strips, rolled it on the fingers of both hands and pulled it, I thought that this thing would not be strong when it dried, who would think that it would be very strong, and it didn't break when I pulled it hard. After cutting the thin strips, fold them in half a few times and cut them directly into suitable small pieces, and then tie a thin strip with a leaf...... That's it, until it's really out of sight.
I slept and the next morning, I simply ate a few fruits and went back to cooking. It wasn't until almost noon that all the more than 100 were finished. During this period, Xiao Wu had been lying quietly beside Liu Qing, although he couldn't understand what he was doing, he was extremely well-behaved and didn't bother Liu Qing at all.
"It's done!" Liu Qing tied the last arrow, stood up and stretched, and said with a smile. He put the pot on the fire, threw a piece of dried meat into it, thought about it, poured in the pot of sea water from yesterday, took the longbow on his back, and carried a bundle of arrows out of the cave.
There was a slight breeze outside the cave, the weather was a little gloomy, and the sunlight looked a little dim. According to his training yesterday, when aiming, he should be slightly higher, so that when the arrow flies to the target position, it can just hit. The principle is very simple, whether it is a bullet or an arrow, it will tilt downward due to gravity during flight, and the whole trajectory is a downward arc. The bullet will be better, the initial velocity is fast enough, and it is almost straight forward at a certain distance, but the arrow is different, the dead weight is too large, and the initial velocity is far less than the bullet, which naturally causes their falling speed to be much higher than that of the bullet.
The reason why archery masters can hit hundreds of shots or even penetrate Yang in 100 steps depends on long-term practice and can accurately judge the landing point of arrows. The purpose of Liu Qing's current self-training is to achieve this effect, so that he can learn to judge the flight characteristics and landing point of arrows in a long period of practice, so as to achieve the goal of 100 shots and 100 hits.
"Whoosh!" The arrow flew away, hitting the target, but not at the bull's-eye position, the distance was only about twenty meters, Liu Qing could clearly see that the position where the arrow hit was above the bull's-eye, and it was on the edge of the target.
Liu Qing was very surprised, and hurriedly bent down to pick up an arrow and shoot it again. This time he didn't aim above the bull's-eye, but directly at the bull's-eye.
"Pounce!", the arrow was firmly inserted into the target, such a big target, Liu Qing saw very clearly, this time actually hit the bull's-eye, although it was a little above the bull's-eye, but this is indeed the bull's-eye! More importantly, only two arrows were shot today, and they all hit! Liu Qing was so excited that he was about to cry, he shot more than 100 arrows yesterday, and only about a dozen shots were on target, and today he just added a leaf to the arrow shaft, and he could actually shoot two shots and two hits!
All of this shows that Liu Qing's method is effective! The role of that leaf on the shaft of the arrow is far greater than he imagined before!
What does this mean by moving the arrow's landing point upward? This shows that the leaf can already make the arrow fly farther and more stable, which is an unexpected surprise for Liu Qing!
With progress, this can stimulate Liu Qing's enthusiasm even more, and he kept practicing, until there were only about a dozen arrows left in the pile on the ground, and Liu Qing heard the cry of Xiao Wu in the cave. Stopping the training, Liu Qing suddenly remembered that the pot was still simmering on the fire, and suddenly shouted: "It's broken!" He was not afraid that the meat would be boiled badly, but that his faucet pot would be burned...... After all, that pot was the only thing he could use to cook rice now, the kettle shell and the stainless steel cup, it was simply too small, and it was almost the same for drinking water, once it was used to cook something, it would not be more difficult.
Running a few steps, opening the gate, there was a smell of boiled meat coming from the hole, Xiao Wu was squatting beside the fire, looking at the meat in the pot, but it had seen the power of the fire, and it really didn't dare to get too close, but the fragrance came from the fire, which made it very reluctant, so that there was that mournful cry.
"Little gluttonous cat, you're hungry again!" Liu Qing looked at Xiao Wu with a smile and walked to the fire, there was still a lot of water in it, and it was still a kettle of water away from boiling dry. There was no flame in the fire below, only red charcoal burning.
Liu Qing is really happy today, just because of a few leaves, he has solved a big problem, can he not be happy!