Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 121: Poison Sac, Bow Making [Two in One]

"Leader, Yuan Cheng has woken up!"

As soon as Xia Hong walked out of the camp, he was told that Yuan Cheng had woken up, and he hurried to the main hall.

Next to the iron smelting furnace in the main hall, Yuan Cheng had indeed woken up. Although he was still lying down and his face was very pale, the ulcers on his back had improved a lot, and judging by his mental state, he had obviously recovered well.

"Meet the leader!"

Seeing Xia Hong coming, everyone hurriedly bowed and made way for him.

"Alright, just stop moving and continue to lie down and recover!"

Seeing Yuan Cheng struggling to get up, Xia Hong immediately stopped him. He looked at his back again and estimated that he should be able to recover in a day or two, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Next time you hunt, don't get so close to the prey. You're lucky this time because I discovered in advance that Teng Jiao's saliva can detoxify. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to save your life."

"I was too reckless this time. Yuan Cheng, I will keep this in mind in the future!"

Yuan Cheng nodded heavily in agreement, with some fear in his eyes.

The lesson this time was a heavy one. If he didn't learn his lesson, it would be his own life that was in danger. He naturally understood what was more important.

Seeing the fear in his eyes, Xia Hong knew that he had learned his lesson, so he didn't say anything more.

There are now a total of seven Digging Realm in the camp, which is not a lot to begin with. Xia Hong would feel sad if any one of them was lost, not to mention that Yuan Cheng is an old man of Daxia and has followed him all the way from Tupo to here, and they have a deep relationship.

"Chief, why is your skin smoking?"

Hearing the reminder behind him, Xia Hong quickly turned his head to look at the leather bag hanging around his waist, and was stunned for a moment.

The skin bag was indeed emitting a thin white smoke.

"Scatter, scatter quickly!"

Xia Hong realized something and shouted loudly, asking everyone to disperse.

Inside the leather bag was the Tengjiao poison sac that he had just taken from the camp supply center.

Seeing that everyone had dispersed, including Yuan Cheng on the ground, who had been carried away, and no one showed any abnormality, Xia Hong breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the skin bag that had been covered tightly again, his brows furrowed.

Isn't the Teng Jiao poison sac wrapped in a piece of meat?

They were not dispersing over there just now, why are they dispersing for no reason now?

After thinking for a moment, Xia Hong shifted his gaze to the iron smelting furnace. With a hint of speculation on his face, he held the leather bag in his hand and slowly moved towards the furnace.

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As the temperature of the skin bag increased, the Tengjiao poison sac inside made a slight hissing sound, and wisps of white smoke slowly rose.

Xia Hong quickly took back the bag and immediately understood what was going on.

Just now when he was squatting and looking at Yuancheng, the leather bag on his waist was very close to the iron smelting furnace, which accidentally caused the Tengjiao poison sac inside to heat up, which triggered the release of poisonous mist.

"High temperature can trigger the poison gas in the poison sac."

When Xia Hong realized this, his expression suddenly froze, then a bright light appeared in his eyes, and his expression suddenly became excited.

"Got it, hahahaha, got it!"

Xia Hong clenched the leather bag in his hand, looking very excited.

"Someone go to the mine and notify Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan and the other five to go to the iron forge. I'll be waiting for them inside."

The hunting time tonight was very short and it was still early before dawn, so as soon as Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan and the other four came back, they ran to the mine to mine iron.

"Yes, leader!"

Seeing someone going to notify the five people, Xia Hong did not stay in the main hall, but went to the blacksmith room next door first.

As soon as he arrived at the blacksmith's room, Xia Hong was worried that the Teng Jiao poison sac would leak again, so he wrapped it with a layer of leather again for the sake of caution. He sat in the chair and pondered for a moment. Then Xia Chuan and four others walked in quickly from outside.

"Sit first!"

The camp had always been overflowing with wood, and many wooden chairs were placed in public areas such as the blacksmith room, the alchemy room, and the main hall.

Seeing that the five people sitting on the chairs were full of curiosity, Xia Hong did not keep them in suspense and told them everything about the Teng Jiao poison sac and saliva.

The three Zhao Long brothers were lucky. Although they had seen gnats before, they were not there when they were chased by a group of gnats and fled to Tengjiao's territory.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan, who were present at the time, only thought about it for a moment when they heard about the poison sac and saliva, and their eyes immediately lit up.

The two men looked up and exchanged glances with Xia Hong, and immediately understood why Xia Hong had called them over.

"Captain, if I'm not mistaken, you want to use the Teng Jiao poison sac to deal with the group of rats on the north slope of the mountain wall?"

Luo Yuan asked first, and when he saw Xia Hong nod, he knew that he was right. He was excited for a moment, but after thinking about it, he shook his head.

"No, from the last experience, they are not afraid of Teng Jiao and they will enter the poisonous fog area without any problem. It is definitely not possible to drive them away with poisonous fog. Moreover, the Teng Jiao toxin will probably not kill the rats. At most, it will affect them and make them move slower..."

When Luo Yuan said this, he looked up at Xia Hong and immediately realized that Xia Hong's original intention was not to drive him away.

"Brother, what you mean is to use the poison mist to weaken the strength of the rats, and then we will go together and kill all the rats?"

Xia Chuan took over Luo Yuan's words, but after he finished speaking, not only he, but also Luo Yuan, Zhao Long and the other two, had expressions of suspicion on their faces.

It should be impossible.

Three or four hundred gnawing rats, even if their strength was weakened by the poisonous fog, were still not something they could deal with. Not to mention the seven Digging Realm warriors, even if all the Logging Realm warriors in the camp were brought together, they probably wouldn't be able to defeat that group of gnawing rats.

"What if, add this!"

Xia Hong naturally knew what the five people were thinking. He slowly walked to the wall of the blacksmith room, pulled out a bow and arrow, and showed it to the five people.

When they saw the bow and arrow for the first time, the five of them were stunned.

But then, after thinking for a moment, the five people's eyes suddenly lit up.

"The defense ability of rats is not strong, bows and arrows are indeed useful!"

"I tried it last time. Bows weighing more than 10,000 jin have great lethality to them. If you shoot accurately, you can kill them instantly. You can't kill them instantly in the lumbering realm, but at least you can injure them severely. If there are enough of them, hunting them down won't be a problem."

"If we can release a large amount of Teng Jiao poison mist to slow them down, the hit rate of the bow and arrow will definitely be very high. It won't be difficult to hunt them this way."

"Besides, if we can find a better location, we won't even have to suffer too many casualties, really!"

"The only difficulty is that the number of rats is too large. If we really want to deal with them, we need a large number of bows and arrows and Tengjiao poison sacs."

Compared with Luo Yuan and the other three, Xia Chuan, who spoke last, was obviously more thoughtful and almost hit the nail on the head, pointing out the most difficult part right away.

Xia Hong nodded, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Chuan is right. If we want to deal with that group of rats, we need a large number of bows and arrows and Tengjiao poison sacs. In fact, more than that. If possible, we also need more people in the Woodcutters and Diggers realms. But we don't have that much time..."

If possible, Xia Hong certainly didn't want to deal with the swarm of rats right now.

He could have waited until Da Xia had enough diggers and loggers before dealing with the threat posed by the rat swarm.

The problem is that the group of rats won't give him so much time.

At a distance of less than two kilometers, they might discover the valley at any time.

If you don’t seize the time and take the initiative to solve the problem, you are just waiting to die.

Dong dong dong......

"Captain, the Teng Jiao spine has been delivered!"

There was a knock on the door, interrupting the thoughts of the six people in the room.

"come in."

Shi Ping pushed open the door and walked in. Seeing Xia Chuan and the other four were there, he first bowed to them, then handed the bundle of Teng Jiao spinal tendons in his hand to Xia Hong.

"The Teng Jiao has been completely processed. In addition to the poison sac, there are 5 kilograms of sticky liquid, which should be the saliva mentioned by the leader. There are 2210 kilograms of meat and 38 meters of spinal tendons. The bones have all been ground into powder and sealed."

Xia Hong nodded to indicate that he understood, then looked at the spine in his hand.

The Tengjiao spinal tendons have the three characteristics of elasticity, toughness, and durability, making them the best material for bowstrings. There are ready-made bows and arrows in the camp, and Xia Hong has studied them before, so he is not unfamiliar with them.

"The eleven bows currently in the camp are all made of ten-forged iron, but they are only equipped with double strings, and the pulling force is 5,000 kilograms. In fact, they are no longer suitable for use in the Digging Realm, right?" Xia Hong turned his gaze to the three Zhao Long brothers while speaking.

Zhao Long nodded. The three brothers were good at archery and had a deep understanding of bows and arrows. After thinking for a moment, he answered:

"That's true. I had the same feeling when I was rescuing the people at Chen Ye's camp and hunting the dragon just now. With my current basic strength, if I use a bow with a pulling force of 5,000 kilograms for a long time, it will probably break in no time. Two strings are really not enough."

The basic strength of humans in the Lumberjack Realm is over five thousand pounds, so ordinary bows and arrows cannot be used normally by them, not to mention the humans in the Digging Realm who have a basic strength of over ten thousand pounds.

A longbow is generally divided into two parts: the bow body and the bowstring.

The iron in this world is different from that in the previous life. Although it is strong, it still has a certain toughness and elasticity, so the bow must be made of iron.

There was no need to try wood, even arrows could not be used. Xia Hong had tried it before based on his experience in his previous life, using iron for the arrowhead and wood for the arrow body. The result was that the arrow was too light. After being shot, not only was the attack power greatly reduced, but the accuracy was also extremely poor.

The bowstring is Teng Jiao's spinal tendon. Generally, the bows used in the logging realm are double-stringed. If you want to increase the pulling force, you must add another one, and naturally more materials will be used.

"Let's forget about the bows of the Diggers for now. A bow with a pulling force of 5,000 kilograms is already enough to deal with a group of rats. There are enough Woodcutters in the camp now. Our main task now is to make a batch of bows and arrows in the shortest possible time. The second is to improve the archery skills of all the Woodcutters in the camp!"

Hearing Xia Hong's words, the five of them nodded.

"There are currently 152 people in the logging realm in the camp. In the short term, there should be more people who break through to the digging realm, but the number will definitely not be large."

Hearing the number of people in the lumberjack realm, Xia Hong nodded slightly, and was quite satisfied.

When the construction of the cabins began, there were already 140 logging sites in the camp.

However, another 18 people were killed when the collection and logging teams went out at night.

By this calculation, it has been almost a month since the new house was built, and the number of people who have broken through to the logging level is still as high as 30.

"An iron bow with a pulling force of 5,000 kilograms will consume at least 350 kilograms of iron ore. The amount of iron used for an arrow is not much, only 5 kilograms, but a bow must be equipped with at least 50 arrows. Based on this calculation, a complete set of bows and arrows will require at least 600 kilograms of iron ore, which is not much different from the amount used for a broadsword!"

After thinking it over, Xia Hong continued, "To be on the safe side, we'd better send all the woodcutters in the camp to deal with the rat swarm. By this calculation, we have to rush to make at least a hundred sets of iron bows."

To make a set of bows and arrows, you need six hundred kilograms of iron ore.

One hundred sets would mean 60,000 kilograms of iron ore.

The six people present all frowned slightly when they came up with this number in their minds.

Although this number is large, it is actually not impossible to achieve.

There are currently seven diggers in the camp. Two of them use rat-tooth chisels, with a daily output of 800 pieces. The other five use ordinary ram-horn chisels, with a daily output of 500 pieces, which makes a total of 1,300 pieces.

It takes about one and a half months to mine 60,000 kilograms of iron ore.

The reason why everyone frowned was time.

Just mining takes one and a half months, what about forging?

The Lumberjacks do not have the ability to forge, so these more than one hundred iron-framed bows must be forged by the seven of them.

Moreover, the hunting activities in the camp cannot be stopped, and it is impossible for the seven of them to spend all their time on mining and bow making.

"It will take too long, it's definitely not possible, so during this time, we have to find a way to go over there and take the risk of killing a few more rats. If everyone can have a rat chisel, the mining speed will be much faster!"

Hearing this, Xia Chuan and the other four's eyes immediately lit up and they nodded.

If all seven people were equipped with toothed chisels, the daily output of iron ore mining would be nearly 3,000 kilograms. In this way, it would only take more than 20 days to mine 60,000 kilograms, and the speed would be doubled.

"Also, we need to hunt a few more Teng Jiaos and prepare more poison sacs and saliva. Also, we don't have enough Teng Jiao spines to make bows."

For a group of three or four hundred rats, it is natural to prepare a few more poison sacs;

Saliva can be used to detoxify your own people, so you should also prepare more;

The spinal cord is even more critical. The bows used in the logging realm need to be equipped with double strings, and two meters of spinal cord are needed to make one bow. The Teng Jiao hunted tonight was of a good length, with a total of 38 meters of spinal cord. Not counting the loss, it can be used to make roughly 19 bows.

But if they want to make more than a hundred swords, they need at least a hundred and sixty meters. In the end, they have to hunt down at least five Tengjiao.

"The reserves of cold beast meat are sufficient at present. For the next month, the hunting team does not need to go out. When Yuan Cheng's injury is healed, I will take the six of you out to hunt five more Teng Jiaos. The rest of the time, the six of you will follow me and focus on mining."

"Yes, leader!"

Now that the decision had been made, Xia Hong did not delay any longer and began to make arrangements.

“Oh, Chuan, go and inform Shi Qing now that during this period of time, everyone in the camp who is above the logging level must set aside half of their time every night to practice archery with him and let him teach them well.

There are not enough bows and arrows at the moment, so inform Mu Dong and ask the craftsmen to make a batch of wooden ones first so that they can practice. Once the bows and arrows are made, there will be no time for them to practice. "

"Yes, leader!"

Xia Chuan nodded and left, going downstairs to inform Shi Qing.

Looking at the remaining four people from Luo Yuan, Xia Hong spoke directly:
"There's no time to lose. The four of you continue to the mines. I'll stay here to make bows. Tomorrow night, we'll go to the north slope of the mountain wall and see if we can find a chance to hunt a few more rats."

The four of them nodded and obeyed, then turned around and went downstairs to the mine.

"120 iron resources are only enough to make four bows. There should be some more over there in the mine. Make a batch of bows first, and we can worry about arrows later."

Xia Hong directly took out the iron ore, put it into the furnace to smelt it, and began the tedious and boring process of making a bow.

In fact, the efficiency of forging weapons in the Daxia camp is very high.

According to Luo Ming's original statement, an ordinary ten-forged broadsword would require the cooperation of at least two people at the Digging Realm, and would take three to five days.

In the Daxia camp with grinding stones, a person at the Digging Realm can forge a ten-forged weapon weighing about 700 kilograms in one night.

The iron-framed bow weighs only three hundred kilograms, and two can be forged in one night at the Daxia camp. This efficiency is beyond imagination.

But when Xia Hong thought about playing a hundred games, he still felt it was too slow.

"Don't worry, don't rush. Use up the iron ore first, and then concentrate on mining with the other six people. If there is enough iron ore, with seven Digging Realm people working together, we can make bows faster."

While waiting for the iron ore to be smelted into liquid, Xia Hong was not idle either. He took the cold beast meat that had been prepared on the side and began to practice against all odds.

After Xia Chuan notified Shi Qing, he went directly to the mine and worked against the clock with Luo Yuan and the other three to collect iron ore.

When Shi Qing received the notice, he immediately called his son Shi Ping, and went to find Bai Dongying and Cheng Feng respectively to tell them Xia Hong's order.

"The gathering team, logging team, hunting team, and all the loggers in the camp must set aside half of their time every night to practice archery!"

Although Cheng Feng and Bai Dongying did not understand, they confirmed that it was Xia Hong's order and immediately followed it, notifying all members of the collection team and logging team.

The other nine members of the hunting team and the craftsmen's workshop confirmed that all the logging personnel in the camp knew everything. Then Shi Ping went to the mine and reported to Xia Chuan.

Xia Chuan, who was mining, did not look back. He thought for a moment and said directly:
"Also tell them that from now on, every ten days, we will have a bow and arrow competition. The top three will be rewarded with 10 contribution points, and the fourth to tenth places will be rewarded with 5 points."

"Yes, my lord."

Shi Ping was stunned for a moment, then his face was full of joy. He nodded and obeyed the order, then hurriedly left to inform others.

Xia Chuan naturally understood why he was so happy. Although Shi Ping only had the strength of a lumberjack, his archery skills were inherited from his father Shi Qing and were quite good.

He may not be in the top three, but he will definitely be in the top ten, so that's why he is so happy.

"That's brilliant. With contribution points, they will definitely practice harder."

"Chuan, no wonder the leader made you the quartermaster, awesome!"

After Shi Ping left, Luo Yuan and his four companions who were mining nearby couldn't help but give Xia Chuan a thumbs up.

In theory, even if there is no competition, the lumberjacks in the camp will definitely practice seriously, after all, they will be useful when they go out in the future.

But with this competition, they will undoubtedly practice more seriously.

The overall archery level of the camp will definitely improve faster.

Facing the praise from the four people, Xia Chuan remained calm and said in a deep voice: "The faster their archery skills improve, the greater the chances of the camp's victory against the gnat group. After all, they are all practicing for themselves, and the contribution value is just icing on the cake!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Yuan and the other three became serious and nodded.

"Hurry up and start mining. The leader is still waiting."

"it is good!"

The five of them raised their tools again and began to dig faster.

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