During the time when Zhou Jitang was out, Zheng Jieming led everyone to make weapons in the house.

"I only have nail sticks on hand now, and there are few decent knives, and I have to keep a few clean ones for cooking, if there are more zombies around, I can't bear it at all." Zheng Jieming, Li Yimeng, Wang Yueshan, Hua Feng and others were in the hall on the first floor, waiting to answer Zhou Jitang, while discussing how to increase some armaments.

"How about making a bow and arrow out of a twig?" Li Yimeng looked at the trees in the yard and pondered that if he broke some long straight branches, cut them into arcs, and added ropes, he should be able to become a bow.

"I guess I won't be able to shoot a few arrows before it breaks." Hua Bong shook his head, he had played with compound bows, recurve bows, and harmony bows, but he didn't expect much from this grassroots idea.

"Don't worry about it yet, try it!" Zheng Jieming had never played with this kind of weapon, so he simply went out, picked a branch that looked like a bow in thickness and shape, and broke it off.

"Is there a rope? Looking for something to try? Zheng Jieming asked Li Yimeng. Li Yimeng thought about it, ran to the second floor and rummaged through the tool room, and finally brought rubber bands, thick hemp rope and the most common red rope down.

Hua Bong watched from the sidelines and did not express an opinion, he thought that this kind of bow and arrow would be difficult to use. But he didn't want to show that he understood very well and discourage everyone's enthusiasm and enthusiasm for trying.

Zheng Jieming punched holes with nails at both ends of the branch, and then without thinking about it, he intuitively loaded the rubber band directly to the branch.

Hua Bong shook his head and didn't speak.

Wang Yueshan picked some stiff branches, broke them, and directly sharpened one end.

"You have to add a few feathers to this arrow, right?" Li Yimeng looked at Wang Yueshan's arrow and said.

"That's right, but no feathers, I'd like to figure out a way... Is it okay to paste a piece of paper? Wang Yueshan ran to the study on the second floor again, looked at the door, confirmed that there were no special zombies crawling inside, and opened the door and copied a book with particularly thick pages. Then I took the scissors and glue from the tool room and went downstairs

He tore off a page of paper, cut it into three pieces with scissors, and glued each to the tail of the arrow.

"Good! Great, the lethality must be good, let's find a corpse to try. Li Yimeng said happily.

Hua Feng watched silently beside him, and he concluded that the bow and arrow made by everyone in front of him could not be used at all, but it seemed that the improvement and improvement could also have lethality, and it could not have the effect of long-distance killing of traditional bows and arrows, so it could be used for melee cover.

The four of them went out, found the nearest corpse, propped it up, and leaned against the wall.

"Hua Feng, you have learned archery, right? Why don't you try it? Zheng Jieming handed the bow and arrow to Hua Feng.

"No, you guys can experiment with it yourself, I'll watch you shoot from the side, looking for ways to improve." Hua Bong shook his head and said. Zheng Jieming looked at Hua Feng's thoughtful appearance, and he had a little bottom in his heart.

Wang Yueshan took the bow and arrows, trembling and leisurely put on the bow and arrows, this pulled back, Hua Feng found that the string was very long, but the bow did not change its displacement.

"Go!" Wang Yueshan faked a shout, his right hand was loosened, and the arrow flew to the zombie's head, and fell to the ground with a bang.

"How can this be? Can't at all? Li Yimeng said disappointedly, he picked up the arrow on the ground, took the bow, and wanted to try again, "It must be that you are not strong enough!" ”

Hua Feng stopped Li Yimeng and took the arrow in his hand.

"It's not a matter of strength. If you really shoot into it just now, this rubber band bowstring will be scrapped, this method will not work! Hua Bong asked for the bow and turned to enter the house.

Zheng Jieming looked at Wang Yueshan and Li Yimeng and smiled, "He must have a way to get it!" The bow and arrow thing is scored! ”

"You're going to help me find all the shells from before!" Hua Bong said as he walked, "By the way, help me go to the second floor to find something like a." ”

"Good! Do it now! Zheng Jieming he, hey, took Wang Yueshan and Li Yimeng to look for bullet shells all over the ground. He had fired a lot of shots on the first floor, and he had fired shots on the third floor, and soon they recovered eight shells.

At the same time, Hua Bong took the wood used to make the bow, first removed the rubber band, and then tested the strength and elasticity of the wood, and felt that it was barely okay, so he cut the middle of the wood a little thinner.

He walked to the second floor, watched the curtains hang from the ceiling to the ground, he cut off the part of the curtain hanging below the windowpane, tore it into strips, wrapped it around the middle of the wooden strip a few times, glued it with tape, it was a grip, and he wrapped the tape back and forth on the bow body to increase the toughness of the bow, and wrapped some flat stones around the upper and lower ends of the bow to increase the counterweight at both ends.

After doing this, he directly picked the most common red rope, tied the rope at both ends of the bow body loosely, and tied a slipknot to the rope so that it could be loosened slightly and adjusted the tightness when not in use.

"Bow ready, give me a shell." Hua Feng handed the bow to Zheng Jieming, took a bullet case, looked at it carefully, and then took the slab and began to smash the tail of the bullet case, trying to tip it as much as possible.

"Okay, it's almost, try it first, and then it's more difficult to sharpen the sharpening."

Hua Bong sharpened the front of the wooden strip used to make arrows, tried to put the bullet case on, and then ripped off the arrow made of paper shell at the tail.

"Why don't you want the arrows!?" Wang Yueshan was puzzled when he saw that the arrows he had worked so hard to stick were torn off by Hua Feng.

"This kind of thing, it's useless." Hua Bong said.

"Isn't this for balance?" Li Yimeng also expressed doubts.

"It's a long story. First, the combat use of bows and arrows is often a group of people shooting together, it doesn't matter how high the skill and balance are, a large number of arrows are always shot in the past, so in fact, many of the arrows used in the past wars do not have arrows, saving production time and cost. ”

"Oh... Ten thousand arrows are fired at once, and if you can't dodge, you always have to be shot in the knee. Li Yimeng nodded.

"That's right, in medium and long-distance bow and arrow combat, the decisive factor is not the shooting accuracy of a single entity, no matter how bad the skill is, there is a high chance of shooting. Second, for us, there is no time to make so many arrows, even now, we can make a few dozen first, it is enough to waste time, how can we have time to get the most troublesome arrows, this thing is particularly particular about specifications, we get it is equal to not getting it. Hua Feng said in an orderly manner, and Zheng Jieming nodded again and again.

"Only a few dozen? That's a disadvantage! Wang Yueshan said that the archery he imagined was at least a quiver containing hundreds of arrows, and he had to shoot it happily.

"We're not watching movies, of course we can do more when we have time to do more, but in fact, you can't use too much. Third, according to the experience of resisting zombies in the previous few times, basically this bow and arrow is mostly used for close cover, which is just conducive to our recovery after use. In that case, just think about being able to shoot at close range. Hua Bong said.

Zheng Jieming carefully recalled what Hua Feng said, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was correct, he was still thinking about whether everyone didn't know archery skills, whether to do a training or something, but the questions that Hua Feng thought about were all practical, and every sentence was to the point.

There weren't many people in the first place, and the long-range group injury effect of the bow and arrow itself could not be used, so it would be good to train close-range archery to cover other melee survivors. This information is great news for Zheng Jieming! Or the whole team to engage in bow and arrow shooting? It's unrealistic.

At this time, there happened to be a zombie slowly wandering around.

"I'll try it first. If it doesn't hit, you cut it for me. ”

Hua Feng put the bow with his left hand, lightly twisted the tail of the arrow with his right hand, about ten steps away from the zombie, his body was slightly sideways, his legs were shoulder-width apart, he raised the bow with his hand, lightly hooked the bowstring, took the arrow with a straight arm, and held his breath. Zheng Jieming saw the bow bend back steadily, making a soft clicking sound.

The zombie seemed to be aware of Hua Bong's presence at this time and turned towards him.

At this moment, without warning, the arrow flew forward decisively, the bow fell forward, and Hua Feng's right hand slid behind him, making a beautiful swing movement.

The arrow hits the zombie in the head.

"Pretty!!" The three of them sincerely admired Hua Feng's archery skills and couldn't help but applaud. Zheng Jieming recalled Wang Yueshan's archery appearance, on the surface, it seemed that he was also archery, but his legs and feet were unstable, his eyes were not right, his arms were uneven, his shoulders were uncertain, and he was not brave to release arrows, so it was no wonder that the arrows flew over lightly.

"It's amazing, I'm so bad." Wang Yueshan looked admiring, "You are really very good at all kinds of martial arts." ”

"I don't think of it as a martial arts, it's just a favorite sport. And it's not just a matter of skill just now, it's also the reason why the bow and arrow are not done well, and with a rubber band, you are not shooting an arrow, but a slingshot, and the force can't come out. Hua Feng said, his heart is very calm, people who practice martial arts first cultivate their minds, not to mention that he thinks that as long as the bow and arrow are almost done, it is normal for him to shoot the head within ten steps.

"Then let's hurry up and make a thousand! Shoot a hundred arrows a day to practice! Turn back and walk through Yang in a hundred steps! Li Yimeng took the bow and arrow with an expectant expression.

"How many arrows do you expect to be able to shoot with this simple monolithic bow? The life span is not long. As for the number of arrows, we are not attacking the city and trapping the ground, so we can't make too many at once, and slowly build it in the later stage. Don't think about wearing Yang in 100 steps, 10 steps and one kill is enough! It's easy to practice with an arrow every day, and I'll stick an arrow target in a while, and I'll teach you how to do it. Hua Bong said, pulling the arrow out of the zombie's head, finding a stone, knocking the bullet casing tightly, and setting it in the wooden strip of the arrow.

Zheng Jieming went upstairs directly, called all the idle people down to the next floor, and began to help make arrows.

Everyone was very excited to see the new weapon, and they made a lot of new suggestions.

"Can you just use a nail instead of an arrow?" Jin Yue asked.

"Yes, that's a good idea!" Hua Bong thought about it, made a T-shaped card slot at the tip of the wooden strip, inlaid the nail inside, the nail head pointed outward, and then glued it firmly, "This is more useful than a warhead!" But be sure to stick it firmly, otherwise the nail will fall out of the slot. ”

Together, they soon made four bows, eight arrows with shells, and fifty-six arrows with nailheads.