Chapter 27: It's Over
After breakfast, Liu Qing cleaned up briefly, although it was in the cave, he was still used to cleaning it. The whole cave was simply arranged by him, but it didn't look so dirty.
The big tiger seems to be quite good at picking a location, sleeping on the right side of the cave, the terrain is a little higher, and the position on the left near the entrance of the cave is the place where he defecates, perhaps because it is close to the entrance of the cave, and the smell inside is not very big. Liu Qing wanted not to go to the toilet in the cave, but he couldn't find a suitable place outside, and it was not safe, especially at night, so he simply cleaned the place, collected many large leaves and put them aside, every time the toilet was on the leaves, after using it, he simply folded the leaves, and threw them outside along with the leaves after dawn. The small toilet can be solved on the outside, so that the smell in the hole is almost gone.
And on the stone wall of the cave, there are some raised places, and Liu Qing hangs the dried meat pieces, as well as his backpack and the like. It turned out that the sleeping bunk had also been rearranged by him, and the new hay had been cleaned by him, which was clean and soft, and it was more comfortable to sleep on. There is a fire on the right side of the cave entrance, and it is not far from the sleeping bunk, so you can feel the warmth of the fire at night.
In the innermost part of the cave, some materials were placed, such as piles of firewood, yards of neatly made arrows, and water storage pipes.
After cleaning up, Liu Qing took the longbow on his back and was about to get out of the hole with a bundle of arrows. Little Five followed him, it was stuffy in the hole all day yesterday, and it almost didn't suffocate it. A man and a small tiger came out of the cave one after another, the sun was shining outside, the autumn was high and cool, the sky was cloudless, and the sky was extremely blue, as if it was a huge blue gem. Liu Qing looked at the sky and suddenly felt that he was in a good mood.
Go to a tree not far away, straighten the target, and measure the steps to return. The stride distance of people is generally about seventy-five centimeters, of course, different heights and different leg lengths will also lead to different stride distances. However, Liu Qing has experience in the army, and they usually measure their step distance, so that in some special cases, as long as they remember the number of steps, they can roughly measure the distance.
When Liu Qing was training before, the distance from the target was fifteen meters, but now he wants to increase the shooting distance, twenty-five meters. This distance, even if he can't hit the target with one hit, gives him enough reaction time to escape. At fifteen meters, time is very tight, and animals like this can run at an amazing speed, even the coyote of last night can quickly catch up with him in a short distance. When it comes to locomotion, animals are naturally stronger than humans.
Twenty-five meters sounds very close, and the target looks conspicuous, but when it comes to archery, you will find that the difficulty is much higher. First of all, the distance of the arrow is extended, and it is more difficult to determine where it lands, and the air resistance, and even the slightest breeze, can cause a large deviation from it. Liu Qing shot ten arrows in a row, but only five were on target, which was still a very good result of his early training, and if he practiced at this distance at the beginning, I am afraid it would be more difficult to hit the target.
In addition, he found that the distance of this bow and arrow is very limited compared to that of a pistol, the effective range of the pistol is 50 meters, but in the hands of a master, it can also hit the target at a distance of 50 meters. But this bow and arrow is different, Liu Qing ran to a farther place to test it, at a distance of fifty meters, to shoot the arrow to the position of the target, almost to the angle of elevation thirty degrees to do, and whether it can hit the target is already extremely difficult to judge.
This made Liu Qing can't help but suspect that the ancients said that if you shoot at a target from a distance of 75 meters, I'm afraid it's a lie! I raised the bow in my hand and looked at it, and felt that it might be true, after all, my bow was shoddy, and the bows and arrows specially built in ancient times, even with iron tires and hard bows, it would not be a problem to reach a range of more than 100 meters, and with long-term practice, it should be possible!
Although his bow is an original ecological product and cannot reach the level of the ancients, he firmly believes that as long as he has practiced for a long time, it is not impossible to reach 100 shots and 100 hits within 30 meters.
After practicing for a while, I suddenly found that Xiao Wu didn't know where to run, and he hadn't seen it running and jumping for so long, and he hadn't even heard its cry. Liu Qing's mind instantly remembered the dream last night, and he suddenly panicked, and shouted eagerly, "Little Five!"
"Meow ......"
"Whew......"
A few cries came, Liu Qing hurriedly looked towards the source of the sound, only to find that the little guy had a piece of meat in his mouth and was running towards him with a vague scream. Liu Qingzheng wondered where it got the meat from? He saw that there seemed to be something in the grass over there, and after a little thought, he understood that it should be something that those coyotes had bitten and eaten last night.
Liu Qing put the longbow on his back and walked towards the grass, Xiao Wu had meat in his mouth, and he also twisted and went back. Liu Qing stepped into the grass, and suddenly there was a bloody scene in front of him, an animal with four hooves like a pig, but with a long nose, was lying in the grass, its stomach was broken, and even the skin on its back was torn off piece after piece, and two long fangs stretched out of its mouth, which were also stained with some blood.
Blood was everywhere, and it had become a little black after a night of drying, but the flesh still looked fresh, and it should have been killed last night. Okay! I got a bunch of meat for nothing! Liu Qing was happy in his heart, he forgot about this stubble, and Xiao Wu actually found it.
It took a lot of effort to drag the corpse to the cave, and when he was free in the afternoon, he cleaned up the corpse. Look at the sky, it's almost noon, Liu Qing walked to the target, planning to collect the scattered arrows first, these things are not easy to make, it is better to save some of them.
Go behind the target and start pulling out the arrows that are stuck in the trunk of the tree, and throw them into a pile one by one, and then collect the ones scattered on the ground together, and carry the whole group back to the hole, and then select the ones one by one. As for those that are broken or have relatively large cracks, they will be used as firewood. This is not his picking, each of these arrows is the result of his painstaking efforts to make, and it really needs to be used sparingly.
After collecting nearby, Liu Qing continued to run farther, although his simple bow and arrow range was limited, but there were still some arrows flying at this distance. But when he had barely walked five meters, he noticed that there seemed to be something behind a large leaf, which felt like the legs or tail of some kind of animal.
Liu Qing was a little worried, he was wondering, is this animal sleeping? If he wakes it up, will it be attacked? The reason why he is worried is because he doesn't have any weapons on his body now, and the longbow was in the hole when he dragged the pig-like pig, because he wanted to collect arrows, he didn't think too much, so he didn't have any weapons with him, and he didn't bring the pistol in his bag.
Liu Qing, who found out that there was a situation, seemed to have been enchanted, and he didn't dare to move there, for fear that he would wake up the unknown animal. After pausing for a while, Liu Qing found that the animal was still motionless, which was really a little unsure to him, it stands to reason that the alertness of animals is much stronger than that of humans, and a little animal can wake them up. But when he was pulling out an arrow in the woods just now, and when he picked up the arrow, the movement was not small at all, and the distance was so close, he couldn't wake him up?
Thinking of this, Liu Qing simply put the arrow in his hand behind him, and left one in his left and right hands, ready to fight it when the time comes. Then the body slowly moved backwards, for fear of its sudden attack, he didn't even turn his body, and just walked backwards.
Until Liu Qing withdrew from the tree area, he didn't see any movement of the animal, Liu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Sleep like a pig!" After speaking, he didn't even hold the arrow, spread his legs and ran into the cave.
After returning to the cave, I was still a little afraid, this is simply too exaggerated, I really didn't expect to encounter this situation, scared to death! Although I don't know what the situation of this animal is, herbivores or carnivores, but these don't matter, in order to appease his injured heart just now, Liu Qing decided, go and take down this animal! It doesn't matter if it eats meat or grass, as long as it is not a big scary dinosaur, what is there to be afraid of!
Liu Qing brought his weapons and equipment, held a longbow, carried a pistol at his waist, carried three full magazines in his satchel, and carried a bundle of a dozen or so long arrows stained with venom on his back.
Coming to the target again, Liu Qing was less than twelve hearts this time, and quietly entered the trees, landing as lightly as he could, trying not to make a sound. For a short distance, he walked for four or five minutes, and there were a lot of fallen leaves on the ground, which greatly reduced the movement he made.
Seeing that the fluffy tail or feet appeared in front of him again, Liu Qing stood still, bent his bow and arrows, and shot directly! Liu Qing deduced that the animal's body was behind the leaf according to the exposed part of the animal, and he aimed at the big leaf, this time in such a good light, aiming at a stationary target, this kind of condition is really rare to encounter.
Liu Qing adjusted his breathing, his fingers inadvertently let go, and with a whoosh, the arrow swished, cutting through the air barrier and flying straight towards the leaf. Speaking slowly, it was fast, Liu Qing's fingers were not let go, the arrow had already penetrated the leaves, and at such a close distance, Liu Qing could even hear the sound of the arrow inserting into the flesh.
"It's in!" Liu Qing was very happy. He didn't use the pistol first, both to save bullets, which are non-renewable resources, and to practice archery. After an arrow hit, Liu Qing pulled the bowstring and put the longbow on his back, and then immediately pulled out his pistol, always on guard, and slowly walked towards the animal.
As he walked, he muttered to himself, "Is there something wrong with this guy? Why did the arrow hit it and it didn't even move?"
Anyway, he had already walked up to the animal, holding a long stick in his left hand, slowly picking up the leaves, holding the pistol tightly in his right hand, and always keeping a vigilant aim.
The leaf was picked aside, and Liu Qing was suddenly a little stunned, this guy was actually the coyote he shot last night! The reason why he recognized it at a glance was not that he recognized it, but that there was a landmark arrow stuck in his leg, and it was difficult to recognize it!