Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Homemade Iron Crossbow
Qin Fei followed the route he had taken and walked all the way back to the Baishuihe store.
By the time we got to the front of the store, it was already half dark.
In the apocalyptic town, there is no electricity supply, and the street lights on this street are all black, so it is almost dark near the Baishuihe store.
Only the gate still had a little bit of fire.
I don't know who put an empty oil drum outside the door, and the faint fire is burning inside the oil drum, which seems to be used for lighting.
The person standing guard on the wall at night was no longer the bearded uncle during the day, but a young man with a nose ring.
Qin Fei waved the medicine bottle in his hand, and after showing him the antibiotic he had found, he let him in.
After walking into the camp, Qin Fei found that a bonfire had been lit in the open space in the Baishuihe store at this moment.
A crowd gathered around the campfire.
Maybe it's because I'm worried that the flames will be too big and attract zombies in the distance. The area of this campfire looks pitifully small, about the size of a bowl.
There were some barbecued meats placed near the fire, but Qin Fei couldn't recognize what kind of animal these meats were.
The female doctor Qin Fei had seen during the day, as well as the bearded uncle, were all sitting around the fire at this moment.
I saw Qin Fei coming back. The female doctor stood up and walked in front of Qin Fei.
She glanced at Qin Fei with a slight look of surprise in her eyes.
Because the clothes worn on Qin Fei's body were not damaged in the slightest, and there was no trace of blood on his body.
You must know that when Qin Fei went to get the antibiotic, he left empty-handed.
And when he came back, not only did he successfully get the antibiotics, but he was not injured at all.
Seeing that Qin Fei was able to complete this task so easily, the female doctor naturally felt a little surprised.
In fact, this female doctor overestimated Qin Fei's strength.
Under the prompt of the yellow dot in the system, plus Qin Fei's backpack, there are also bows and arrows brought from the previous world. Retrieving a bottle of antibiotics was not a difficult task for Qin Fei.
Qin Fei gently threw the antibiotic in his hand over.
After the female doctor caught the medicine bottle, she opened the upper lid, smelled the smell in the bottle, and praised: "Well done, you passed the test!" ”
After introducing himself, Qin Fei knew this woman's name.
Her name is Jona, and she is the only doctor in Camp Whitewater, and she is also the owner of the area.
If Qin Fei is added, there are currently a total of nine people in the Baishuihe camp. They had come together from the survivors who had fled from various regions and had been taken in by a female doctor.
The members of the camp, in addition to trading with survivors from the outside world, obtain food. Occasionally, they will go out on their own and venture to scavenge for some supplies.
The distribution of materials in the Baishuihe store is based on a private ownership model.
That is, to each his own.
If you don't want to starve to death, you'll have to help out, or go outside the camp and scavenge for something valuable.
If you want to live here permanently, there are three rules that must be followed.
The first and most important point is that you should never start a fire without permission.
Even at night, the camp is lit in the courtyard with a fire the size of a bowl for everyone to light up.
The reason is simple.
Seven days to kill the zombies in the game, when looking for the living, mainly rely on two abilities. That's hearing, and the sensitivity to heat.
Whether it is using electricity or fire, as long as the temperature reaches a certain value, even zombies more than ten miles away can sense the location of this heat source and be attracted to it.
Therefore, it is absolutely forbidden to light a fire in the camp without permission.
The second requirement is not to shout and make noise.
The last point is that no one is allowed to open the gate of the camp at night.
Zombies at night will run.
Therefore, the opening of the door at night does not need to be reminded by anyone, everyone will abide by it. Unless they think they've lived too long and want to die, no one will leave the door open at night.
After retrieving the antibiotics, the female doctor gave Qin Fei a can of macaroni and two hundred casino tokens as a reward for completing the mission.
【Macaroni canned: Authentic Italian flavor!】 Delicious! 】
After putting away the cans and casino coins, Qin Fei came to a simple room made of iron sheets.
This room is very small, it looks like it is only about ten square meters, and it is long and narrow. Looking at the styling, it seems to be used as a garage.
The room was empty, not even a bed.
However, Qin Fei can accept it.
In his backpack, there is also a sleeping bag brought from the previous world. Although it was a little worn out now, with it, at least Qin Fei didn't need to sleep on the ground at night.
This is how the last days are.
Most of the survivors in this world are just struggling to survive, and no one has the energy to care about others.
Qin Fei opened the can of macaroni and tasted two bites.
It's some shrimp crackers.
These things seem to be fried with flour and some seasonings such as salt, and they seem to taste like some ketchup.
This kind of pasta is a typical Western sweet and sour taste. The first time I ate it, I felt okay, but Qin Fei estimated that after eating too much, he would definitely get tired of it.
After eating, Qin Fei fell asleep here.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day.
After Qin Fei woke up, he planned to buy some weapons from the female doctor.
The stock of supplies in the camp is abundant.
Among them, clothes and fabrics are the least valuable, and most of them can be bought for only a few dozen casino tokens.
The food is slightly more expensive.
Like the canned macaroni that Qin Fei got yesterday, it would take about twenty casino coins to exchange it.
And some rare canned beef and mutton are more expensive.
Don't look at the price of canned food and clothes.
But you should know that you can wear clothes all the time after you buy them, but if you change them to canned food, you may eat them in one day.
As for weapons, they are more expensive.
Most cold weapons are sold for at least a few hundred casino coins.
Firearms start with thousands of casino coins.
Composite bows and crossbows of better quality are even more sought-after. Because they don't make noise when firing, crossbows cost even more than firearms.
The three hundred or so currencies on Qin Fei's body can't buy anything good.
At most, it's enough to buy a few bullets.
So he was going to make a crossbow.
Qin Fei is more proficient in hunting bows, so if he uses an iron crossbow, he can still get started relatively quickly.
Moreover, he himself has some arrows made of birch branches that can be used, so the step of making crossbow arrows can be directly omitted.
The bowstring of an iron crossbow requires much more toughness and strength than a bow.
However, this is not difficult, Qin Fei only needs to rub together the intestines of multiple animals and make the bowstring thicker.
There are still a lot of dried animal intestines in Qin Fei's backpack, and there is no need to worry about the materials used to make the bowstring.
The hardest part to get is the crossbow arm.
Crossbow arms can usually be made from cow horns or tough bamboo. But Qin Fei didn't have this condition, he could only choose iron bars to use as materials for making crossbow arms.
Qin Fei had a crowbar in his backpack, which could be used as an iron bar.
In order to reduce the carbon content of the crowbar, Qin Fei also had to heat it at a high temperature and beat it repeatedly.
So Qin Fei prepared some tools and coal, planning to further process his crowbar.
Since it was not possible to make a fire in the Baishuihe camp, Qin Fei could only go outside and find a safe place to build it slowly.