Chapter 6: Strange Stones
Lu Ning was covered in a cold sweat.
His movements were almost subconscious, as if he had practiced them a thousand times, and he took out the slings from his pocket, rounded them, and threw them out with a snap.
Luckily, one hit is the right one!
The stone slammed into the white shadow's head, and the white shadow was stunned for a moment, and rushed out again.
However, Lu Ning did not hesitate at all, he had already taken out the stones and put them on the round, and shot out the second shot!
This stone directly hit the joint of the white shadow's leg, and the white shadow whimpered, and fell into the snow.
The white shadow tried to get up, but one leg was gone, and his body staggered, unable to stand still.
And Lu Ning's mind was blank at this time, and he didn't think about being scared and running away at all, but he was angry in his heart, picked up the axe and threw it over.
It was still very easy to hit a large, immobile target, and with a click, the hand axe shattered the white shadow's skull.
The white shadow twitched twice, and stopped moving.
Lu Ning waited cautiously for a while, and saw that the other party had no life, so he slowly walked over.
It was a monster resembling a tiger wolf, with a single horn on its head, gray and white fur stripes, and a huge body, which was taller than him when it stood upright.
But although this monster is large, its body is pitifully thin, and it can't feel the flesh with its skin and bones, and it looks like it has been hungry for a long time.
I'm afraid that's why this monster was taken down so easily.
Otherwise, look at the creature's teeth and claws, and the sun-reflecting horn on its head—
If you really want to be close to it, ten of yourself is not enough to see!
Lu Ning came back to his senses, and a cold sweat flowed down his body.
It's a life-or-death journey!
But now, the monster is in his own hands.
"One tiger falls, one life, I will enjoy your inheritance."
Lu Ning patted the monster's corpse, then dragged it back to the dilapidated house, and dismantled it into materials with great difficulty with a hand axe.
"The quality of the fur is really good...... It's a pity that the number is not enough, and if you want to make a tent, you have to have another seven or eight...... No, it's better not to come. ”
Lu Ning thought about the possible combat effectiveness of this thing, and vigorously rejected the idea.
"It's a shame that you can't skin like a real hunter." Lu Ning looked at the tattered fur that he had made with some regret, but he didn't care too much about it and put it aside.
"The bones can probably be polished and something made......"
"You can eat this meat for three or four days if you save some food, it's not bad."
"Huh, what is this?"
Lu Ning took the axe and pulled it twice, and took out a cyan stone from the monster's body.
"Swallowed stones? Jewel? ”
Lu Ning reached out to pick it up, but when he touched the stone, there was a sudden stabbing pain on his finger.
Lu Ning hurriedly took his hand back.
"It's round, no thorns."
Lu Ning looked at it carefully, reached out to take it again, and this time he was not pricked.
"It's pretty ......, it's the same as this one," Lu Ning remembered the red stone he had thrown by the campfire, and turned to get it.
However, when he saw it, he was shocked.
The red stone has a faint red glow, and when you touch it, it's extremely warm.
That's right, it's not the reflected light, this stone can shine on its own!
"What the hell is this?"
No matter how stupid Lu Ning was, he knew that he seemed to have found something terrible.
He took the two stones together and looked through them—
The two stones have one thing in common, that is, there is a beautiful rainbow light circulating on the surface, which he thought was reflected sunlight and fire, but when he looked closely, it was actually the quality of the stone itself.
After some experimentation, he also discovered that the red stone could be placed next to the campfire to absorb heat, and when it was away from the campfire, it would slowly release the heat.
The cyan stone can be placed in the open air, and the sting will be felt when you touch it again after a while.
The longer it is left on, the stronger the tingling sensation will be.
"This kind of stone is really strange......" Lu Ning was amazed at the characteristics of the two stones he had experimented with.
And he quickly thought of the use of these two stones.
"The red stone can be carried to keep warm, so that you can go further and explore.
"The cyan stone can be used as ammunition for the sling, which increases the lethality, but you have to remember to use it up and get it back.
"Perfect."
Lu Ning was satisfied.
For the next few days, Lu Ning repeated his monotonous and boring work:
In the morning, I first cleared the snow around the broken house, and then I took my things out and explored repeatedly until noon.
In the afternoon, he continued to train his stone-throwing skills with dead trees and berries, and after a few days, Lu Ning was able to accurately hit the berries hidden in the middle of the dead branches when he was in good condition, and his progress was rapid.
In the evening, go back to the campfire to eat something, put the red stone by the campfire to heat it, put the blue stone outside to blow the wind, and then receive the supplies made by the ship.
In the past few days, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about the materials put on the ship, sometimes they will directly give some resources such as forage and branches, and sometimes they will send some technical drawings to Lu Ning.
With the help of the techniques on the drawings, Lu Ning polished the stones he picked up, and combined rope and wood to make some simple utensils, such as stone plates, stone cones, etc.
Yesterday I got a drawing of a stone spear from a ship, and Lu Ning has been learning to cut wood for the past two days.
Frankly speaking, Lu Ning's life has definitely not been good these days.
Going out to search for resources and food is not something that can be gained every day, although he can generally maintain food every day, he can still only eat one meal a day, and only eat five or six percent full at each meal.
Occasionally pick up a dead rabbit, or happen to encounter some small monsters that are half starved to death and not so vicious, and you can eat a little better that night.
He could only drink snow water when he drank water, which caused Lu Ning's stomach to be uncomfortable all the time.
Although I slept by the campfire at night, the dilapidated house could not block the wind, and I woke up every morning with back pain, headache, and the quality of sleep was very low.
He now wears a gradually worsening dark circle under his eyes every day, and he is like a cultivator every day, and he walks a little floating.
It's a shame that I haven't encountered particularly fierce wild monsters these days, and most of the wild monsters are either half starved to death or half frozen to death in such weather, and Lu Ning can still handle it.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to say who can do it at that time, after all, no matter how accurate his kung fu is to throw stones, he can't stand his own spirit becoming more and more trance-like.
But he never dared to relax, and could only make himself act in an almost forced way.
Although they are both survivors who came to the New World, others at least started under normal circumstances, and Lu Ning started in the cold winter.
If I had changed someone, I am afraid that I would have exhausted myself and given up on myself.
But Lu Ning is obviously not a person who will consider "whether it is good or not" or "whether it will work".
He always thinks about it and does it until he finishes it to prove that the road is not going to work, and then moves on to the next thing.
Therefore, although this period of time is not good, Lu Ning's daily life is unprecedentedly fulfilling.
The drawings issued by the ship, each of which was knowledge and technology that he had never really understood, and now he could try everything to his heart's content.
And after so many days of perseverance, Lu Ning's efforts have finally paid off:
The hides used to make the tents were finally gathered.