celestial system of the solar system

Chapter 289 Hunting ([-])

Like the leader of the caravan, the captain gets a bigger share when it comes to distributing the loot.The captain can get three shares, the veteran hunter can get two shares, and the rookie can only get one share.

Luo Dayou is very confident that he will shine in this year's hunting and will be elected as the captain next year.This kind of confidence does not come from the pistol - as a cultivator, it is impossible for Luo Dayou to not even have this kind of confidence.On the other hand, Luo Dayou also learned about the prices of pistols and bullets from the village chief.Luo Dayou's heart ached when he thought that each bullet fired was equivalent to at least forty catties of flour.If Luo Dayou had known the price earlier, Luo Dayou would have even canceled the necessary test firing in the process of familiarizing himself with pistols.

In Luo Dayou's plan, pistols would never be used unless there was a particularly urgent situation.Therefore, his main weapon is still the bow.

The bow is arguably the oldest projectile weapon in human history.In the last days when firearms became extremely rare, the bow regained its historical glory.

In the eyes of the Nine-Headed Bird villagers, the best bow is the compound bow.This kind of bow and arrow made of bone or wood bamboo, horns, tendons, glue, silk and lacquer is very lethal.When shooting at close range, it can even shoot through the hide of wild buffalo.Carrying a compound bow has much less impact on running than a longbow made of wood.However, the disadvantages of compound bows are also obvious, that is, its craftsmanship is too complicated, there are hundreds of processes, and too many materials are required.The only few compound bows in Nine-headed Bird Village were bought from caravans by the wealthiest hunters.

What the Nine-headed Bird Village can make by itself is a single bow made entirely of wood.In terms of power, a well-made all-wood longbow is no less powerful than a compound bow.Although carrying a longbow has a greater impact on running, the villagers of Nine-headed Bird Village are not qualified to be picky.

In fact, making an excellent all-wood longbow is also not something that can be completed in a short period of time.It takes a lot of time to develop and debug.Bow body selection and production, grinding and adjustment, acquisition and processing, ensuring uniform strength and strength of the bow arm, selection of bow strings, production of arrows, materials and techniques of arrows, etc. A series of problems and processes, Without many months and years of effort, the hastily made wooden bow can only shoot small animals such as hares and pheasants.

The advantage of the all-wooden longbow is that all the materials it needs can be obtained in the wild.There is an inexhaustible supply of high-quality wood in the forest, which can be used to make bows.As long as you can hunt wild buffalo, you will get horns and tendons.The first choice for the adhesive is fish maw, but the pigskin swim bladder made from wild boar skin can also meet the quality requirements.

Luo Dayou's bow is an all-wood long bow. He was very satisfied with this bow before, but now he has the idea of ​​making a more powerful bow.In the past, Luo Dayou had to exert all his strength to draw the full bow, and at most six bow draws would lead to weakness.But now, he had to use it carefully so as not to break the bow.

The bow, which Luo Dayou identified as soft, began to make meritorious deeds not long after hunting.

Larger herbivores will consciously run away when they find the joint force of humans and wild dogs.However, small animals such as hares, squirrels, and voles are rarely attacked by bows and arrows at a long distance because of their small size, so they often do not respond immediately.If a wild dog charged at them, the critters would quickly flee into holes or climb up trees.In short, if the distance is 50 meters away, those small animals will not have any sense of crisis at all.

This time, however, the animals made an empirical error.

After practicing internal strength, Luo Dayou's strength has become stronger, and he has sharp eyesight and quick hands.With his keen observation skills, Luo Dayou was able to easily spot small animals hiding in the dense grass in the distance.Moreover, Luo Dayou's rate of fire is both fast and accurate, and the range is still very far.This shooting method causes the small animal to be shot before it becomes alert.

Along the way, although no large prey has been hunted, small animals such as hares have gained a lot.Every time Luo Dayou puts his bow and arrow, and pulls and releases the bowstring, the wild dogs will bark and rush towards the swaying bushes.After a while, a wild dog with a small animal carcass in its mouth would rush back out of the tumbling grass, and flirt with Luo Dayou triumphantly.

In spring and summer, animals instinctively try to keep their bodies as flexible as possible.But in autumn all the animals of the moor fatten themselves up.

Needless to say, animals that need to hibernate, if they fail to store enough fat before winter comes, they will not be able to survive the cold winter.

In the wilderness, the biggest difference between hibernating and not hibernating is actually whether you stay awake.In fact, in order to maintain body temperature, animals that do not hibernate basically do not move outside the cave during the winter.Wilderness bison are one of the very few animals in the wilderness that can move freely at minus [-] degrees Celsius.However, in the wilderness covered by heavy snow, it is also difficult for the wilderness bison to find food.

So, regardless of whether they need to hibernate or not, and whether they can move freely in the wilderness during the severe winter, all animals are forced to eat desperately in the fall.Without this, they would not be able to store enough fat to survive the harsh winters.

It is precisely because of this that the small animals such as hares, squirrels, and voles harvested by Luo Da's group were all very fat.

Regarding Luo Dayou's performance, members of the hunting team did not show much surprise.Because they had already heard about the "Basic Internal Strength Cultivation Experience" from the village head.For things that cannot be understood, imagination can naturally expand infinitely.In other words, no matter how exaggerated Luo Dayou's performance is, they "know the reason".The only regret is that according to the village chief, the "Basic Internal Strength Practice Experience" is not effective for mutants, and there are no natural people with the slightest mutant characteristics in Jiutouniao Village, probably only Luo Dayou and his children.

However, the characters of the Wastelanders are mostly straightforward and optimistic, so the members of the hunting party are not very depressed.Seeing how much they had harvested in such a short period of time, most of the senior hunters in the team smiled happily.Because this means that when they encounter a herd of bison or a herd of wild boar, they have a much wider choice.

As for the other members of the team, the young hunters who were participating in hunting for the first time were both happy and worried.

Happy because the team's harvest is closely linked to their own income.

The reason for worry is that if they keep harvesting while walking like this, it won't take long for the team to return with a full load.That way, they would lose the opportunity to kill beasts such as Siberian tigers and wilderness lions.

(End of this chapter)