Surviving in anime world, playing with a girl and getting watched by the live chat.

Dongyun is busy every day, so busy that he barely has time to breathe, which makes him feel that there isn't enough time in a day.

Making bamboo spears and bows and arrows doesn't take much time, but making arrows and bamboo traps does.

He not only had to set up bamboo traps for hunting outside the camp, but also defensive traps around the camp, and he had to mark them and instruct the girls so that they would not fall into the traps while the intruders did not.

The traps that Dongyun set up outside the camp were designed to kill leopards; these traps could kill leopards as well as humans.

If he had more time, he would have even considered making a trap that could kill the walking fish, but such a trap might not be able to break through the walking fish's defenses with bamboo; it would require large trees and large rocks.

On the 40th day of his journey, Dongyun lays bricks with a stern face.

He wasn't in a bad mood; he was just numb from working so much that he was practically out of sorts.

[Gained the trait "Born to be a Superb Horse"]

"what?"

Suddenly, upon seeing the large green characters appear before him, Dongyun's brain rebooted.

He wanted to be happy, but the unique name of the character made him feel less cheerful.

What does "捏麻麻滴" (niē má má di) mean? Can't you use a nicer way of saying it, like "the god who governs labor"?

Dongyun had some reservations about the new features provided by the system, but he immediately apologized after reading the feature description.

"I'm sorry, I spoke too loudly!"

Dongyun was astonished when he saw the description of the "born as a bull or horse" characteristics.

This trait not only enhances his endurance, stamina, and strength, but also improves his physical and mental resilience, and slightly increases his pain tolerance and adaptability to the environment.

Wow, what kind of amazing property is this!

So what if the name of the trait is unpleasant? Anyway, only he can see it. Xiao Jia and the others can't see it, and neither can the viewers in the chat. As long as it's strong enough, it doesn't matter if the name is unpleasant.

but……

"It would be great if it had the ability to increase the speed of building houses."

Dongyun rubbed her stiff face with both hands.

Thinking that it had been more than a week and they still hadn't finished building the mud house, I couldn't help but sigh.

To prepare for a possible winter, their houses couldn't be too big, but to move around comfortably inside and store necessities, they also couldn't be too small.

Moreover, in order to withstand strong winds and rainstorms for a long time, and even more extreme and severe weather, the mud houses they build not only need to be bricked, but also need to be supported by a lot of wood. In addition, they need to install heating systems for the houses, making the construction of mud houses a very large project.

The weather has been bad these past few days, with frequent rain. I wonder if the weather will improve later, otherwise the completion time of their mud houses will be much longer than expected.

This rain is so annoying. It might be sunny in the morning, but then it pours rain in the afternoon.

Moreover, rain doesn't always come and go quickly; it might come late and go late, lasting for two or three days.

Over the past week, it rained for four days, with only one day being a shower, and the other three days experiencing continuous rain. A blood moon also appeared on the three consecutive rainy days, occurring on two consecutive nights.

Although the rain could shield them from the blood moon and make them a little safer, it was still very inconvenient for them to work on rainy days.

Working in the rain carries the risk of catching a cold or fever, which is why, even though he was building a house, he still had time to make bamboo spears, bows and arrows, and bamboo traps.

In order to have a place to store their creations and keep them from getting wet in the rain, they spent a day building a shed to store miscellaneous items, which made their already limited time for building the house even more precious.

Dongyun anticipates that their mud houses may not be finished by next week. He can only say that they have tents, so there's no need to rush the construction of their houses. Moreover, they haven't encountered any problems in the process of building their houses. It may be slow, but it's very stable.

There's nothing we can do; they need a place to live, and we really can't rush it.

If the quality of housing is not strictly controlled and people rush to build and move in, they may suffer great misfortune when bad weather strikes.

At best, the house will collapse; at worst, the collapsing house will crush them to death.

However, Dongyun was not only worried about the slow construction of the houses, but there was another problem that also worried him.

They've run out of jerky, so they're going hunting.

The good news is that they know roughly where the prey is; the even better news is that they have more and better weapons and traps.

If they're lucky enough, it's not impossible for them to hunt a deer and bring it back.

Chapter 116 Bows and Crossbows

"call out--!"

An arrow was shot out and hit the leaves on the tree precisely.

"Yay! I won!"

"You hit the target, you hit it! Isn't the target a bullseye? How did you manage to shoot it so far off course?"

It's raining again today. This annoying rain means we can't get anything done. Since we're just killing time anyway, we all started playing with bows and arrows, guided by the comments on the live stream.

On a small tree branch not far away, Dongyun hung a clay target with a rope.

There were no arrows on the target, but there was one arrow on a small tree. However, the arrow was on another small tree, and the person who shot that tree was Gabriel.

"What a tragedy, the entire army was wiped out."

Dongyun was surprised that the four of them missed their first shot. Even if they were just guessing, they should have been able to hit the target at least once.

"Nonsense, I hit the target with an arrow, okay?"

Gabriel retorted.

"Huh? You hit the target with an arrow? You don't mean that arrow that hit another tree and ended up in your grandma's yard, do you?"

Shinonome suspected that Gabriel might be out of her mind, wondering how she could believe that the arrow had hit its mark.

"Just tell me whether you got it or not."

Gabriel said smugly.

Although her arrow missed, compared to everyone else who hit nothing, at least she hit something.

“No.”

Dongyun said earnestly.

"whispering sound!"

Gabriel pouted unhappily and waved her hand, saying, "You guys play, I'm going to study the clothes."

Rainy days greatly affected Shinonome, Shima Rin, and Kagamihara Nadeshiko who were building the house, but had little impact on Gabriel, who was in charge of the handicrafts.

Gabriel used the leopard skin from the camp to make four pairs of panties.

When Dongyun gave her the leopard skin, she instructed that three be made for them, and that if there were any left, she would make him a leopard-print skirt. But after that incident, she decisively chose to make an extra pair of leopard-print panties for him to wear as well, in case something like that happened again while they were sleeping at night.

She doesn't want a sticky gift!

Although she made an extra pair of panties, she still had a lot of leopard skin left over, so she used the remaining leopard skin to make a short leopard skin skirt for Dongyun.

With the leopard-skin skirt and leopard-skin underwear, Shinonome no longer needed the grass skirt and Gabriel's coat. This allowed Gabriel to take back her coat, which she would wear whenever the temperature dropped, such as on rainy days or after dark.

Gabriel is currently making clothes from monitor lizard skin.

The monitor lizard skin was quite large; not much monitor lizard skin was used in the making of the bellows.

Before making the bellows, she had already made the first set of clothes from the monitor lizard skin. After finishing the bellows, she seemed to have enough monitor lizard skin to make another set of clothes. In addition, with the python skin she hadn't touched yet, she could probably make a set of clothes for everyone.

After Gabriel left, Shinonome stopped playing with bows and arrows and instead prepared to work on making new ones.

He made one bow and arrow.

After finishing the bamboo bow, he realized that its draw weight was too low. Moreover, the bamboo bow he made was just an ordinary straight bow, not a recurve bow or a compound bow. It was fine for hunting small animals, but it would be difficult to hunt large animals or defend oneself.

Sure enough, they wanted to make crossbows.

They were better suited to using crossbows than bows and arrows.

Becoming a qualified archer is impossible in a short period of time; it requires extensive practice and long-term training, which can take years.

After all, drawing a bow and shooting an arrow relies on the archer's arm strength. The larger the bow, the more force is needed to draw it. But crossbows are different. Whether it's an adult or a child, as long as an arrow is nocked, the potential energy stored in the bow arm will be converted into kinetic energy, requiring little effort from the user.

This is just like a gun; it doesn't matter whether the user is an adult or a child.

However, whether it's a bow and arrow or a crossbow, if you want to hunt medium to large prey, you need to make large bows and crossbows with a high weight; otherwise, you still won't be able to kill large animals.

You can't make bows or crossbows that can hunt large animals using only bamboo.

Although bamboo is very flexible, the thickness of bamboo strips is limited, and the bamboo fiber is loose and unstable, making it easy to get damp and crack, resulting in a short service life. Therefore, if you want to make bows or crossbows that can hunt large animals, it is best to find suitable wood.

Bamboo is indeed very suitable for making bows, but this suitability refers to toy bows; it is not suitable for large bows.

However, some viewers commented that bamboo linings could be used to increase the draw weight, or to make bamboo-bound bows, which is what Native Americans used. But rather than insisting on using bamboo for bows, they still recommended using wood, and the same goes for crossbow bolts; if wood is available, then wood should be used.

Dongyun plans to ask the barrage of questions and make a crossbow out of wood.

He learned from the comments which types of wood were suitable for making bows and arrows, and which types of wood were suitable for making crossbows. However, he didn't recognize most of the trees mentioned in the comments. Even if the comments could help him identify them, he couldn't possibly go into the jungle to look for trees because it was raining today.

Therefore, he had to use what was available, searching for suitable wood to make crossbow bolts from the firewood pile and the timber used to build the house.

So what if the materials are a little inferior? They're all wood, so it's not that much worse. Crossbows have much lower requirements for materials than bows and arrows. Unlike bows and arrows, which require wood that is tough, has good elasticity, is straight, and has few knots.

The only downside is that crossbows are quite complex to make. Without pictures and only text, he might not be able to make a crossbow today, and it's uncertain whether he can make one tomorrow. However, Dongyun doesn't plan to give up on bows and arrows either. Although crossbows are easy to learn, bows and arrows are much better to use once mastered, as they are more portable and easier to operate.

Small crossbows are definitely more portable and easier to operate than bows and arrows, but that's not necessarily true for high-powered crossbow bolts.