Chapter 16: The Crossbow

"Boom"

A bolt of lightning streaked across the cloudy sky, followed by rolling thunder.

The raindrops the size of beans poured down like a pot, enveloping the whole world in a misty rain.

It was evening, but it was already dark as midnight outside, and with the pouring rain, people couldn't help but sigh that human beings were so small and helpless in the face of the great power of nature.

However, Lu Yu didn't have the heart to sigh so much, and had just finished a simple dinner with Xiao Ran - a can of canned herring, two poached eggs, and a pot of fragrant rice. Lu Yu needed to assemble Xiao Ran's weapon as soon as possible.

It was a small bow and crossbow, one of the relics left by Lu Yu's father.

Lu Yu's father didn't have any other hobbies during his lifetime, but he liked to study some ancient weapons, especially the hidden weapons in them. They often search the Internet for long-lost hidden artifacts and study how to restore and manufacture them using modern technology.

However, Lu Yu's father has not succeeded many times, because most of the relevant information is incomplete, and even many of them are fabricated by netizens. What Lu's father could successfully imitate was a relatively simple weapon such as a bow and crossbow, and what Lu Yu assembled at this time was a bow and crossbow left by his father.

In the past, every time Father Lu imitated an ancient weapon, after a simple trial, he would disassemble it into parts and place it on the bookshelf for display. First, because these models are extremely lethal and belong to the state control equipment; Second, Lu's father is worried that if his family is robbed, if these models are used by criminals to do something harmful to society, it will not be good.

Therefore, one or two key things are often missing from these parts on display, preventing someone from being able to easily assemble these weapons of mass destruction.

Lu Yu remembered that his father would often stand in front of the bookshelf, looking at the parts on display, and then sighed.

"These small parts, taken out individually, don't have the slightest effect, but once they are assembled and combined, they will explode with unimaginable power."

Lu Yu looked at the delicate bow and crossbow in his hand, and couldn't help but fall into memory again.

Since the death of his father, his mother's whereabouts are unknown. The originally happy family of three was left alone, and the models on these bookshelves were forgotten by Lu Yu in the corner.

Now that the catastrophe has broken out, the weapons in these bookshelves have become Lu Yu's most important life-saving cards.

"I really don't know if it's a coincidence, or if my father did it on purpose."

Looking at the bow and crossbow, Lu Yu knew that there were still two parts that had not been installed, which were the parts that his father had deliberately not copied - the 'hook heart' and the 'combination key' in the crossbow machine!

Without these two things, the bow and crossbow in Lu Yu's hand would still be a harmless model, because it would not be able to fire crossbow arrows at all.

"The combination key is easy to play, I remember that there should be a lot of materials in my father's toolbox, you can make one......" Lu Yu groaned, "What to do with this hook, I remember that the strength requirements of this part are still quite high, and it should not work with ordinary wire." ”

Just as Lu Yu was thinking about what kind of material to use to make the hook, Xiao Ran walked out of the study.

"I've finished reading all the books in the study, are there any new books?"

"You're done reading it all?" Lu Yu was surprised, although there were not many books in his study, Xiao Ran had only read it for two days since he woke up, and such an amazing reading speed was a bit too exaggerated for a 9-year-old girl?

"You're not going to be a gobble, are you?" Lu Yu put down the bow and crossbow in his hand and expressed skepticism about Xiao Ran's exaggerated reading speed.

"Really, if you don't believe it, I memorized it." Xiao Ran put his little hands behind his back, and his little face was full of eagerness.

"I really don't believe it, this coma really becomes the strongest brain after waking up?" Lu Yu thought in his heart, but his footsteps did not stop, he came to the study and randomly smoked an encyclopedia, opened one of the pages and asked Xiao Ran.

"The big-flowered purslane belongs to ......" Before Lu Yu finished speaking, Xiao Ran hurriedly replied.

"An annual herbaceous plant, 10~30 cm tall. Stems lying flat or obliquely ascending, purplish-pink, with clusters of hairs on many branched nodes......"

Xiao Ran's immature voice was like a tape recorder, reciting all the big-flowered purslane in the book one by one, and there was not a single word wrong.

"Really, not a word is wrong." Lu Yuhe closed the book and didn't test anything more.

When Xiao Ran just woke up, she showed Lu Yu her powerful computing ability, as long as she learned knowledge, she could flexibly apply it and quickly give accurate answers. And now Xiao Ran has shown another amazing ability, that is, unforgettable memory.

"Is it possible that as long as you survive the infection period, you can get an intellectual boost? Then I'll ......" Lu Yu couldn't help but have a bold idea in his heart, but soon he shuddered again and suppressed the idea.

That's right, he thought that since Xiao Ran was able to gain computer-like computing power and camera-like memory after recovering from the infection, then if he was infected, maybe he could also get some other improvements.

But the risk is too great!

If you don't get it done well and become infected and become a zombie, then it's a lot of fun.

"Probably the effect of aspirin......" Lu Yu remembered the two bags of aspirin that he threw in the corner of the sofa, which were the medicines that Zhang Heng, who called himself a "traverser", asked him to buy.

If you are infected, you should also take aspirin. But taking the initiative to contact zombies and then being infected, this kind of outrageous thing Lu Yu still can't do.

"It's better to be steady, don't waste ......," Lu Yu said thoughtlessly.

Xiao Ran on the side was confused, Uncle Lu Yu in front of him lowered his head and pondered after closing the book, the expression on his face was excited for a while and depressed for a while, and finally said something steady, don't wave......

"Well, let's take a look at your weapon." After re-stuffing the books into the shelves, Lu Yu and Xiao Ran returned to the living room.

The small bow and crossbow were placed on the coffee table, Xiao Ran's eyes lit up, and he grabbed the bow and crossbow and fiddled with it.

"It can't be used now," Lu Yu sighed, "I can't find the materials to make the hook heart, even if there is a crossbow arrow, this bow can't be used." ”

"Hook Heart? What is the structure that requires a lot of strength? Xiao Ran picked up the bow and crossbow in his hand with curiosity, and at this time, Lu Yu was still thinking about the material of the hook heart in his mind, and he didn't notice the movement in Xiao Ran's hand at all.

By the time he reacted, Xiao Ran had already reduced the bow and crossbow in his hand to a pile of parts.

"Damn, what's going on! How did you dismantle it, it took me a long time to put it on. Lu Yu, who was in a fugue, finally discovered Xiao Ran's movements, but it was too late, and the bow and crossbow on the coffee table had already turned into a pile of parts.

"The hook and key combination part, I think you can change the structure to solve, I have seen in the book, the mortise and tenon structure can withstand the force is very amazing, change the structure of the hook should be able to meet the requirements."

However, Lu Yu didn't listen carefully to what Xiao Ran was saying at all, his mind was now full of the pile of scattered parts.

But in the end, Lu Yu still didn't lose his temper at Little Lori, but sighed very helplessly, and set out to assemble the pile of parts.

"Saw the legs of the chair and make a crossbow machine with a tenon structure." Xiao Ran slapped away Lu Yu's outstretched hand, looking calm and relaxed.

"I won't, little ancestor!" Lu Yu spread his hands and showed that he was just a stupid ordinary person.

"I'll teach you!" A smile appeared on Xiao Ran's cheeks, and the blue-black heterochromatic pupils shone with a sly light.

The heavy rain was still falling tirelessly, and a thunderclap brought Zhang Ning's consciousness back to reality.

"Why did I pass out again......"

Touching the back of his slightly swollen head, Zhang Ning remembered that he seemed to have eaten the 'good things' of the fortune tree before, and then he suddenly lost consciousness, and his head probably hit the ground at that time, and it was swollen.

"You're still here, how long have I been unconscious?" Zhang Ning found that there were several zombies around him, which were the ones he had used as bait for the Fortune Tree before.

The zombie naturally couldn't answer Zhang Ning's question, but unconsciously twitched his nose, and saliva continued to drip from his grinning mouth.

"Well, forget it, look at your imbecile look."

The fortune tree in the distance had already turned into a pile of broken branches and leaves at this time, and the heads of the previous tree had lost their support, and they rolled to the ground one after another, looking like watermelons on the ground from a distance.

Zhang Ning didn't get up to take a closer look, he also had the human head, so there was no need to study anything.

But if he went to take a closer look, he would find that the heads of those who rolled to the ground had more or less the same black scale armor as Zhang Ning's neck, but those scale armor had lost their vitality and shriveled down a lot.

"Why aren't you hungry, are you too hungry?" Zhang Ning touched his stomach, the original strong hunger had disappeared, his whole body seemed to be full of strength, and there was even a comfortable tingling sensation coming from his chest......

"Ahh A terrible scream echoed in the unmanned supermarket, and even the zombies around Zhang Ning were shocked and roared, as if they were frightened by Zhang Ning's exaggerated scream.

"The psoriasis on my neck, why does it seem to be bigger......"

Zhang Ning was like a big girl with a yellow flower who had been used by gangsters, constantly groping her neck and body, and he felt that the scale armor that only grew on her neck had now spread to her chest.

The comfortable tingling sensation I felt earlier was exactly where the scales grew on my chest.

"Did I eat that white thing?"

"You can't just eat randomly!"

"But this psoriasis doesn't seem to be able to, it's quite comfortable to look at, but it's a little ugly."

"Could it be that the white thing that grew from the fortune tree, what kind of heavenly treasure?"

"But I haven't encountered any white-bearded grandfathers or crazy cool hanging systems?"

"Could it be that my golden finger is my superior intelligence? Could this battle of the Fortune Tree be my adventure? ”

"So I have more psoriasis on my body, it must be because I ate that strange thing under the Fortune Tree!"

Zhang Ning, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, was like a Tang monk chanting, muttering in a low voice, his tone changed from the original horror to calmness, from calmness, to excitement, and finally stood up from the ground with a brush and made his own judgment.

"I'm really the protagonist.,With my ingenuity, I defeated the first big boss in my life.,And I also got the treasure of heaven and earth.,The weird scale armor on the neck should be a kind of evolution.,The evolution that belongs to the protagonist alone!"

But soon, the excitement receded like a tide on the beach. Looking at the dilapidated supermarkets around him, Zhang Ning thought of his girlfriend - Jiayi.

"Jiayi must be very sad to know that I am dead......" Zhang Ning thought that when he first regained consciousness, he was lying in the morgue, that is more, in the information that Jiayi received, he was already dead.

"By the way, and my parents!" Zhang Ning patted his head, as if he was blaming himself for thinking of his girlfriend first and then his parents' unfilial behavior.

"I have to go home quickly, it's so messy now, I don't know what happened to my parents."

With his mind already decided, Zhang Ning no longer hesitated, and immediately came up with the idea of leaving the supermarket.

He had to go home first and find out what was going on in the world.

But when he was about to leave the supermarket, he suddenly felt a cold in his lower body, and only then did he find that the thin cloth that was originally used to prevent him from running naked had fallen to the ground at this time, and the little brother under his crotch was bathed in the cool air.

"Well, let's find a pair of pants first......"