Chapter 44: Homemade Bullets and Expansion of Cultivated Land
But after the concrete pillars were pasted with steel plates, their hardness was much higher than before, and these zombies would not be able to destroy them for a while.
After spraying several waves of acid, the three military fertilizers seemed to have exhausted the acid in their bodies, and they suddenly stopped.
These three military fatties rushed towards Qin Fei's side.
In the game, as long as you don't kill the man, the amount of acid it can spew is almost limitless.
But the world that Qin Fei traveled through was not a game after all, and matter and energy could not be generated out of thin air. These military fertilizers have been attacking non-stop for so long, and it is not surprising that the acid is now depleted.
After these military fats stopped their long-range attacks, Qin Fei walked out from behind the furnace.
He picked up the iron crossbow in his hand and continued to shoot at the zombies below.
After the military fat has no means of long-range attack, it is actually not much different from the fat zombie.
As soon as these three military fertilizers rushed up, they were confined to the same place by the power grid.
Qin Fei immediately shot out the iron crossbow in his hand and shot the three military fats one by one.
The soldier fell to the ground after being shot by an arrow.
After a wail, their bellies immediately began to bulge, and as the first military fat exploded in place, the other two military fertilizers beside it also exploded.
The blade trap and power grid below were also damaged by the self-explosion of the military fertilizer. Even some ordinary zombies that were close to the military fertilizer were also killed by this self-explosion.
With the death of the military fat, the time is almost in the morning.
Gradually, a glimmer of light appeared in the sky, and this time the blood moon was over.
The shelter was in shambles, with zombie corpses lying everywhere on the ground. From the acid spewed out of the military fertilizer, there was a burst of corpse stench.
Because of the power grid and the blade trap, it was relatively easy for Qin Fei to tide over this corpse tide.
Almost none of the concrete pillars on which the platform was made were damaged by the affixing of steel plates.
However, the acid sprayed by the three military fertilizers completely disgusted Qin Fei.
Even though Qin Fei's shelter was built by the river, it took Qin Fei about a day to wash away the smell.
The military fat that appeared in the blood moon this time also gave Qin Fei some reminders.
The next Blood Moon will be more difficult each time.
This time, Qin Fei was indeed able to hold it, but if the next time the corpse tide attacked the shelter, the number of military fat in it was larger, the situation would be difficult to say.
Or if some stronger mutants appeared in the corpse tide, it would also make Qin Fei very troublesome.
The zombie mutants in these corpse tides, Qin Fei planned to use firearms to deal with them.
In fact, Qin Fei is not short of guns, he mainly has to make some bullets out of his own house.
According to the maximum temperature of Qin Fei's earthen furnace, he could only calcine lead ore at most. It may also be possible to soften and reshape the finished copper.
As for calcining iron with a higher melting point, the temperature of this earthen furnace is far from enough.
But lead and copper are enough.
After mixing some metal tin powder with the lead fired in an earthen oven, a relatively hard lead alloy can be made.
This is the material of the warhead.
Tin powder is easy to get.
Some of the electronic parts that Qin Fei got from the waterworks were made of tin.
Because copper has excellent thermal conductivity, it is an excellent material for making bullet cases.
Qin Fei found more or less metal copper in the houses in nearby towns... Like candlesticks, doorknobs, faucets, etc., almost all of them are made of copper.
When making a shell, the requirements for its size were strict.
Qin Fei's pistol used a nine-millimeter bullet.
But he didn't have a bullet mold.
Qin Fei could only use a caliper with a scale accurate to the millimeter instead.
Using this caliper, after Qin Fei heated the copper, he could use a hammer to process it little by little to create a special shell for a nine-millimeter bullet.
Of course, if you hammer it by hand, the production speed is very slow. And if it's a little bigger, or a little smaller, the cartridge case won't fit in the pistol's magazine.
Therefore, Qin Fei only made more than fifty rounds of bullets for the pistol.
And then there's gunpowder.
Qin Fei neither had the recipe for black powder, nor could he get the materials.
However, the powder made from the grinding of potassium nitrate and coal, after being steamed in a beaker, can also be used to make gunpowder.
Potassium nitrate and beakers can be found at clinics in town. Coal, on the other hand, is a bit harder to get... Qin Fei searched for a long time before he found a little in a residential house.
While Qin Fei was steaming the gunpowder, he also attracted some zombies nearby.
However, after the power equipment was repaired by Qin Fei, these ordinary zombies no longer posed much of a threat to Qin Fei.
The remaining gunpowder was processed into shotgun bullets by Qin Fei.
Shotgun bullets are mainly made of lead pellets and gunpowder, which are burned in the furnace and then wrapped in cloth or paper.
Fill the wrapped ammo into the shotgun and you're ready to go.
In order to ensure that his firepower could cope with the next wave of corpses, Qin Fei made a total of more than 300 rounds of ammunition for the shotgun.
There is a farm in this town that is used to raise livestock.
Most of the animals on the farm were dead, and there were carcasses scattered here and there, long since they had rotted and blackened.
In the cultivated land of the farm, Qin Fei also found a cornfield.
However, in this cornfield, except for the corn stalk, Qin Fei did not find a corn cob, and it is estimated that it was taken away by other survivors.
But this is also common in the last days.
There are still a few coffee beans planted in a nearby field, but they have not been taken, perhaps because they are not edible.
Coffee can be brewed into coffee, and with the addition of the system, these coffee beans are equivalent to a potion that can quickly restore physical strength in Qin Fei's hands.
Qin Fei uprooted these coffee seedlings and put them in his backpack.
To Qin Fei's great surprise, there were still two hens in the chicken pen on the farm, and when Qin Fei found them, these two hens were hiding in the corner, watching Qin Fei shiver.
On the wooden shelf inside the chicken pen, there is also a small handful of corn kernels, which should be used to feed the hens.
[Corn: It can be eaten directly, or it can be cooked as an ingredient in several recipes, and if it is planted as a seed, it will take about 14 days to harvest]
He brought back all the coffee plants he had found on the farm, two hens, and a handful of corn kernels.
The coffee plants were transplanted directly into the cultivated land by Qin Fei, and those corn kernels were also planted by him.
As for the hens, Qin Fei planned to raise them for a few days first, and he would not be in a hurry to kill them first. If these two hens can't lay eggs, it's not too late to kill them and eat meat.