Falling into the Cretaceous

Chapter 88 Suona Blowgun

"You know what, there's actually a young woman who might use it!"

Zhang Qiming said excitedly.

"A woman? What a coincidence!"

Shen Ye was shocked. In theory, no one should use the skill of blowing arrows, since it is a very niche skill.

If it were really such a coincidence, he would really wonder if it was arranged by God.

"You'll see when I call her over!"

As Zhang Qiming spoke, he walked down the rocky slope and into the group of women, where he found a young woman wearing a white top and blue casual pants.

This is a Chinese girl. She has her hair tied up, her skin is very fair, her appearance is above average, she has a pair of narrow eyes, she is full of energy, and her figure is similar to Chen Yue's.

Zhang Qiming led her to Shen Ye.

"Mr. Shen, hello, my name is Li Zimei."

The young woman stepped forward and introduced herself.

Shen Ye certainly didn't recognize her; he didn't know the names of many of the survivors.

"You can blow arrows?"

Shen Ye asked directly, and Li Zimei frowned slightly.

She clearly didn't understand the unfamiliar word.

Shen Ye gestured with his hand again: "It's like a flute, the kind that blows out poisonous needles."

"I can't!"

Li Zimei shook her head and said that Shen Ye was somewhat disappointed.

"Brother Zhang, please investigate this thoroughly before you speak. Isn't this just making a scene?"

Shen Ye was speechless, never expecting Zhang Qiming to be so unreliable.

"No, Brother Ye, she's a suona player, you know? That instrument requires a lot of lung capacity. I think she should be able to play it after some practice!"

Zhang Qiming said.

Upon hearing this, Shen Ye paused for a moment, and had to admit that the idea was quite bold.

But he also knew that it was possible.

Shen Ye had also tried playing the suona, and it was something that not just anyone could make a sound with. If an ordinary person tried to make it sound, their cheeks would hurt.

While blowguns do require a lot of lung capacity, the key is explosive power.

Explosive power can also be trained, which is naturally easier for a suona player.

The remaining issue is aiming.

Li Zimei seems to be a quick-to-learn blowpipe player.

"Are you really sure you can do it?"

Shen Ye asked Li Zimei.

"I can give it a try, but I don't know if it will work."

Li Zimei did not refuse, after all, she also wanted to contribute.

"I'll get one for you to try."

Shen Ye nodded, and then he found blacksmith Li. Blacksmith Li's "workbench" had a lot of collected materials. Shen Ye didn't see any pipes that could be used to make blowpipes, but he did see several transparent flexible tubes about the thickness of a finger.

That must have been found in the aircraft equipment room.

Shen Ye picked it up and looked at it. Some were long and some were short. The longest one was two and a half meters long. If this hose were straightened, it could indeed be made into a blowpipe.

Moreover, its length reaches two meters, which is just right.

Although Shen Ye wasn't a master blowpipe expert, his knowledge was still very useful, because he remembered an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest called the Kichiwa, whose blowpipes could reach up to four meters in length!

The longer the tube, the higher the accuracy, and the farther the distance of the arrow.

Their daily training blowpipes are also one or two meters long. In the documentary, Shen Ye saw those natives use blowpipes to accurately hit targets fifty meters away, which was truly terrifying!

If Li Zimei could really become a blowgunner, then dealing with the savages on the sentry post would not be difficult, and she wouldn't be exposed.

Even daytime attacks will not be affected at all.

In this way, there is no need to use those vision-enhancing vines, so as to avoid causing irreversible damage to the eyes.

Shen Ye originally wanted to find a long stick to support it, but he couldn't find such a stick at all. If it were a spear, a length of 2.5 meters would definitely be a problem, and it wouldn't be very convenient to move around in the forest.

Shen Ye found Engineer Deng, who, as an engineer, might have some ingenious ideas about machinery.

Shen Ye told him his requirements.

Engineer Deng only needed to think for a moment to find a solution, and the solution was very simple.

That is, wrap a series of one-finger-long wooden sticks with tape on one side of the hose, with each stick connected end to end, so that it is like a spine, which can only bend in one direction and can be straight in the other direction.

In this way, you can simply roll it up when marching and unfold it like a carpet when you need to use it.

To prevent the tube from curling out of shape when it is extended, a rope can be tied to the end of the tube. When straightening the tube, tighten the rope to adjust the aiming direction and prevent it from curling.

Shen Ye immediately handed the matter over to Engineer Deng.

He was going to sharpen the blowgun.

Blowguns are best made of bamboo, but bamboo didn't exist in this era, so it wasn't easy to carve straight and thin blowguns out of wood.

Shen Ye found some pine branches, and he only took the straight ones, about thirty centimeters long.

Then use the survival knife to shave.

I can only shave ten pieces in an hour.

A loop of cotton is tied to the end of the sharpened blowgun to catch all the incoming airflow, allowing it to shoot out two...

The 1.5-meter-long pipe reaches the target directly.

Engineer Deng has also completed the "spine" of the blowpipe. Although it is a very simple thing, it still requires a lot of effort to do it well.

Shen Ye took it and looked at it. Each piece of wood had been sawn very flat at both ends, and even sanded. When the pieces of wood were connected end to end, they fit together perfectly.

This allows the tube to remain straight when it is unfolded.

The most ingenious design is at the back of the blowpipe; instead of using a piece of wood the length of a finger, he used a piece of wood about fifty centimeters long and as thick as a finger.

This eliminates the need for the cumbersome design of tying a straight rope.

It's not too heavy to hold, but to keep it stable and steady without affecting shooting accuracy, you need to practice a lot, or you can prop the tube up on a tree in front of you while shooting.

Shen Ye brought a blowpipe and a blowgun to Li Zimei and explained to her how to use them.

"I don't have any experience either, but this is how it's used. Whether it's accurate or not depends on your practice. Try it first, especially controlling the tube; it's very important not to shake it."

Shen Ye said to Li Zimei.

Shen Ye didn't actually have high hopes for Li Zimei; he knew she had no problem blowing the blowgun out.

The key is still accuracy.

Aside from naturally gifted blowgunners, most people need to practice for a long time to achieve the ability to hit a target 20 meters away.

The savage's sentry post is in a tree, only about seven or eight meters above the ground, but its field of vision is extremely wide. To ambush it, you have to be more than 20 meters away.

Therefore, Li Zimei was only a backup blowgunner; the real reliance was still on Zhou Jian, the archer.

Zhou Jian will be under a lot of pressure because there are three sentry posts there, guarding from three different directions. If he shoots one, he will easily be discovered by the second and third savages.

Li Zimei took the tube, fiddled with it for a while, and then took the blowgun that Shen Ye gave her.

"When you practice, use it on soft targets, like those animal skin bags, otherwise you might break it," Shen Ye reminded him.

After all, it took him a lot of time to sharpen those blowguns.

"Okay, I understand. I'll practice hard."

Li Zimei nodded and said.

She was holding the tube, which was too long, and her hands were shaking violently. Shen Ye glanced at it without much hope and turned away.

Although Li Zimei is a suona player, she has to run long distances and exercise every day to improve her lung capacity, so her hand strength is also very strong.

As Shen Ye turned to leave, Li Zimei had already steadied the blowpipe. She took a deep breath, and the blowpipe produced a sharp, short, and rapid sound.

The blowgun inserted into the tube flew out with a whoosh and hit a leather bag piled up ten meters away.

"It's really fun!"

Li Zimei was quite surprised, never expecting that she, a suona player, would one day become a master of blowgun.

Li Zimei took back the blowgun and started practicing again.

She also couldn't bear to use the other nine new blowguns.

Li Zimei grew up with her father, but he never taught her to play the suona because it was a skill passed down only to men, and women were not allowed to play it at weddings and funerals in the town.

However, his older brother wasn't talented either, and he didn't like playing the suona, so he always resisted and never met his father's expectations.

Fearing the art would be lost, her father passed on the skill of playing the suona to Li Zimei. Li Zimei did not disappoint her father, bringing this ancient art to the international stage. Her performance of "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" amazed international audiences.

She never expected to encounter such a thing while performing abroad. All she can do is try her best to survive and hope to return to modern society.

Li Zimei was able to endure hardship. Through repeated training, she discovered that she also had a considerable talent for blowguns, which she probably developed when she was a child, using slingshots to hunt birds with the boys in the village.

They practiced until evening.

An average person might feel dizzy after practicing this a few times.

Her lungs are truly made of iron; she's been training for so long and she's still perfectly fine.

Li Zimei discovered that she could now blow into animal skin bags from fifteen meters away, and she could hit them every time.

Shen Ye had no hope. He glanced at her casually as he passed by, but he never expected that Li Zimei would be right three times in a row. This was clearly not a coincidence.

"He really is blessed with natural talent!"

Shen Ye immediately became somewhat excited.

He found Zhou Jian practicing archery at the edge of the woods. Zhou Jian had filled a leather bag with mud and sand and hung it on a tree to practice his archery skills.

He can currently hit a target's heart at 20 meters and their torso at 30 meters; beyond that, he can't, not because of him.

No, it's the bow that's no good.

"Zhou Jian, go check on Li Zimei. She seems pretty amazing. She practiced all afternoon and can now hit a target from 15 meters away. The key is that she practiced all afternoon! She's practically got iron lungs!"

Shen Ye rarely gets this excited.

Zhou Jian immediately became interested as well.

"I'll go check it out too. If she's really good, then I won't need to practice anymore, and I can set off tomorrow!" Zhou Jian was under a lot of pressure, after all, he had to take down the savages on the three sentry towers without being discovered.