Throne of Vientiane Civilization

On the body of the bow, the mortise and tenon structure made of polished bamboo slices is so delicate that Zhou Xu, who is holding the bow, subconsciously moves a little carefully.

[Hey! Why am I so careful? ! 】

Complaining about his instinctive reaction in his heart, Zhou Xu stretched out his hand and tugged at the bow made of mortise and tenon structure, but it turned out that it was not as loose as he expected. The combined structure of it was completely motionless.

During the period, Zhuang Mengdie at the side met and explained...

"The structure of this piece is buckled by the next piece, so it can't be pulled out like this."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu changed hands and went to the next piece.

"That piece is held by that one, and at the same time, there are two pieces of bamboo interspersed between these pieces."

"..."

"This one is also..."

"..."

"And this one..."

"..."

[Good guy, is this a combination of interlocking and crossing? 】

Zhou Xu never expected that Zhuang Mengdie, whom he had only briefly mentioned, could make such a complex and exquisite combination with his own ability, and use this combination to build a whole bow!

And according to Zhuang Mengdie, the structure of the bow body is interlocking, and each piece of bamboo can affect the entire bow body, so as to ensure sufficient integrity and stability. The design is so exquisite that it was proposed at that time He was amazed at what he imagined.

【Could it be...】

While thinking about it, Zhou Xu, who seemed to have thought of something, directly opened the "eye of insight" to confirm Zhuang Mengdie's attribute panel.

Sure enough, Zhuang Mengdie's intelligence star level has reached the same level as his, reaching the level of three stars.

This result can be said to make Zhou Xu overjoyed.

After all, Zhuang Mengdie is an important core talent under his command. The more comprehensive Zhuang Mengdie's intellectual development is, the easier it will be for her to independently develop any equipment in the future.

"You did a great job, Mengdie, the results you produced this time completely exceeded my expectations! It's amazing!"

Regarding this, Zhou Xu was not stingy with his praise, but made Zhuang Mengdie a little embarrassed, and hurriedly expressed...

"No, no, in fact, many structural designs on this bamboo bow are based on the structures drawn by you, the leader."

"That's amazing enough. Without the corresponding talent, even if I give you the structural drawings, you won't be able to use them."

What Zhou Xu said was not wrong at all.

Zhuang Mengdie, who was embarrassed by the praise, also quickly changed the subject.

"This bamboo bow is not yet fully finished. In order to further ensure the stability, the bow will be wrapped with animal skin ropes for reinforcement."

"Wrapping an animal skin rope, it shouldn't take long, right?"

"Soon."

While talking, Zhuang Mengdie took the bamboo bow and immediately got to work.

This matter did not take her much energy, so Zhou Xu also stood aside and asked some things.

"The arrow should be ready too, right?"

"it is done."

While speaking, Zhuang Mengdie directly handed an arrow to Zhou Xu.

Holding the arrow in his hand, Zhou Xu looked it over carefully.

The arrow shaft is made of arrow bamboo of appropriate thickness, which does not need to be polished, and can be used with simple processing. There are arrow feathers at the tail, which are obtained from pheasants, and are used to increase the stability of the arrow.

The arrow part was split with a thin slit, and the polished stone arrowhead was clamped there, and then tied with a thin rope to fix it.

The entire arrowhead was polished very lightly and delicately. Zhou Xu could feel its sharpness when his fingertips ran across the tip.

I believe that as long as some power is applied to it, he will definitely be able to form enough destructive power.

At the same time, at this moment, Zhou Xu realized that the bamboo bow Zhuang Mengdie made seemed to be a bit beyond his expectations.

He originally wanted Zhuang Mengdie to develop a low-end and cheap bow and arrow, but now, the other party showed off his skills and made him a bamboo bow so delicate and complicated that it almost made his scalp tingle.

Although Zhuang Mengdie is still doing the final processing of this bamboo bow, it definitely took a lot of work to make this bamboo bow. Under this premise, the opponent must have been tested before this.

From this point of view, the effect of this bamboo bow is undoubtedly worth looking forward to.

And just as Zhou Xu was thinking this way, Zhuang Mengdie had already wrapped the animal skin rope around the bamboo bow with agility.

"Leader, it's done."

"Go, try it."

Taking the bamboo bow, Zhou Xu strode out of the camp.

Since Zhuang Mengdie developed the bamboo bow, in order to test the performance of the bamboo bow, they naturally made a simple archery target.

A whole archery target is wrapped round and round with finger-thick straw ropes.

While saving trouble, it can also better protect the arrowhead. After all, polishing an arrowhead is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job. They must not be allowed to wear out the arrowheads that have been polished one after another when they are testing and practicing arrows later. Bar?

Although this thing is simple, it is very particular!

At the same time, in the process of rushing to the test site, because his entire attention was completely attracted by the mortise and tenon structure designed by Zhuang Mengdie, he really didn't pay much attention to the other parts of this bamboo bow.

It wasn't until now that he noticed that the weight of this bamboo bow is really not light, and at the same time it is quite long.

After making some gestures according to his height, Zhou Xu roughly estimated that the length of this bamboo bow is probably about 1.5 meters, which is quite a long bow.

When he told Zhuang Mengdie that he wanted to develop this bamboo bow, he only indicated a rough size at first, and then put forward his own requirements, saying that Zhuang Mengdie could follow those requirements and make the bamboo bow Make improvements.

And the longbow in front of him is undoubtedly the result of improvement.

Obviously, Zhuang Mengdie discovered that directly increasing the length is the easiest way to increase the power and range.

However, the increase in length also directly increases the weight, which greatly reduces the convenience of this weapon.

But this is the weapon of bow and arrow, which is a trade-off in itself. For now, he has nothing dissatisfied with this long bow.

When he arrived at the open space where the weapons were tested, Zhou Xu made some calculations in his mind, and then said...

"In order to be able to more accurately determine the range, power and stability of this bamboo bow, we will conduct this test step by step and slowly. Let's put the target twenty steps away first."

In their tribe, the distance unit of "step" was first proposed by Zhou Xu. It is mainly based on normal walking. One step is basically half a meter, and twenty steps are generally about ten meters.

To put it simply, he has no idea at all.

In the original world, he didn't have a hobby of archery. If he came up and opened it for 20 or 30 meters, if the arrow missed the target, wouldn't he be embarrassed?

But Zhuang Mengdie and the others didn't think much about it. Even in Zhuang Mengdie's view, their leader's performance was undoubtedly a rigorous attitude. Invisibly, their respect for Zhou Xu deepened.

Putting on the animal skin finger cots for drawing the bow, he took a deep breath. In order not to lose face in front of everyone, Zhou Xu did not spare any effort.

During this process, he could clearly feel the resistance from the bowstring, but even though he had used all his strength, he didn't suffer from it, and he pulled the bow like a full moon.

After some careful aiming, the bowstring was loosened, and the arrow flew out. Soon, with a muffled sound, the entire arrowhead and even a section of the arrow shaft didn't enter the target!