Chapter 142 From Melee to Ranged

"Wo Cao! Master Xu, what are you doing?"

"Master Xu actually has a face full of enjoyment!"

"Master Xu, you are really enough. You came to the island to survive, but you actually swim!"

Chen Xu came out of the water, looked at the drone, wiped his face, and said with a smile: "Everyone, don't make fun of me. I also went to find something to eat underwater, but I couldn't find it. I just went for a swim. There is no other way. The climate in the tropics is just too hot."

"It's not unavoidable to suffer from heat stroke, so it's good to swim more. When the sea water evaporates, it will take away the heat from your body surface, thereby quickly cooling your body down."

While talking, he swam back and walked to the beach, "Don't underestimate the tropical sun, it can be said to be very poisonous. If the skin is exposed to the sun for a long time, it will cause sunburn, dryness, and peeling. Wait for the symptoms, just like my arm, over time, it will bleed and get infected."

"However, I have a good method here, which is to apply sunscreen. Everyone knows that the pulp of old coconuts has a high oil content. We can crush the pulp of coconuts with stones and apply them on sunburned skin. "

"Coconut oil can effectively moisturize dry and cracked skin, and it can also reflect sunlight and ultraviolet rays, which is very practical!"

I saw that in the footage of the drone, Chen Xu was eating the coconut pulp while crushing the remaining coconut pulp and applying it on the reddish skin.

The audience in the live broadcast room were stunned when they saw this scene:

"My God, Master Xu's life! He's still oiled!"

"The hot-eyed scene completely destroyed my fantasy of oiling up my bikini on the beach!"

"666, I am the only one who can make every step of island survival so detailed!"

For breakfast, Chen Xu only had coconuts.

"I haven't eaten meat for two consecutive meals. If this continues, I'm afraid my body will become weaker and weaker. In other words, I have to find a way to hunt."

"However, the hares here are very cunning, and it is difficult for me to get close unless I catch them with a trap, but the trap is full of uncertainty. I can make a bow and arrow, which will greatly improve my hunting efficiency!"

Just do it!

Chen Xu got up immediately, went to the woods, chopped a tree trunk with a diameter of 5 cm with a stone axe, and brought it back, "I'll use this!"

The audience in the live broadcast room was puzzled:

"Master Xu,

Why not use bamboo, isn't bamboo more elastic than tree trunks? "

"Yes, Master Xu, why don't you use bamboo?"

"However, I rarely see bamboo bows used in ancient times!"

He saw the barrage and nodded, "Some viewers are right. Among ancient bow-making, bamboo bows are relatively rare, because bamboo has a special structure, hard material, and is not easy to polish. It is usually combined with wood. complex."

"On the contrary, the grinding and shaping of wooden bows is much simpler than that of bamboo bows, and the production is also simple, so it is very suitable for people like us who are in urgent need of tools and materials in the wild to make and use!"

After explaining, Chen Xu put the wooden stick on the stone slab, selected a length of about 11cm, stepped on it with one foot, and slowly chopped it down with the stone axe.

Then, he erected the 11cm wooden stick again, and split it again from the middle.

"The elasticity of the palm is still very good in the tree. We only use half of it, which also helps us to trim the shape."

Then, he began to use a stone chisel to trim the half of the tree into the shape of a bow.

The upper and lower ends are sharpened and thinned, and a groove for the bowstring is carved with a stone blade, and a handshake is made in the middle.

"We can use the bark of trees for bowstrings, but only the inner bark. After this natural plant fiber is dried, it becomes much tougher than ordinary artificial lines!"

Chen Xu used a stone chisel to peel off two large rolls, tore off the inner skin, and laid them flat in the sun to dry.

After being blown by the sea breeze, the bark was completely dried in about half an hour.

Then, he began to tear the bark into strands, picked up one of them, folded it in half, and twisted it into a twisted rope like a little girl braiding her hair.

"The air-dried bark fiber is tough enough. If we fold it in half, cross it left and right, and weave it into a braid, it will be more durable!"

After preparing everything, Chen Xu tied one end of the bark bowstring into a circle and put it on the groove at the lower end of the wooden bow. Then he bent the bow with his knees and wrapped the bowstring around the groove at the upper end. Made a buckle.

Looking at the bow body, the up and down angles were slightly uneven, so he sharpened it with a stone.

"finished!"

Finally, Chen Xu raised his wooden bow and laughed excitedly.

In his hand, he saw a wooden bow with light yellow wood grain and a grass-gray bowstring. It was exactly the same as the short bows used by soldiers in ancient times!

"666, Lord Xu is going to change from a melee class to a long-range class!"

"Ice Archer: Ai Xu!"

"Does anyone think Master Xu is so handsome holding a bow?"

"I think so too, like Hawkeye!"

Seeing the barrage, Chen Xu was a little proud, and picked some small and straight shrub branches, and made a total of ten arrows with the method of making tree thorns, and made a groove for the bowstring at the back, and then put them in the fire. The tips of the arrows are sharpened and carbonized to make them harder.

In the end, he found the largest piece of bark that he had peeled off before, folded it in half, and tied vines up and down to make a quiver, which he straddled his back.

After a few days of making tools, Chen Xu was more and more grateful for the choice of buying this skill in the first place, it was simply too practical.

With the production in the past few days, his experience has also risen from lv3 zero to half.

After finishing the preparations, Chen Xu found a thick tree about ten meters away, nocked the arrow, drew the bow, and aimed.

Then his eyes narrowed.

In the next second, there was a sound of "咻", and the arrow immediately turned into a black shadow and rushed out quickly.

Immediately afterwards, after everyone's eyes, the black shadow perfectly avoided the tree trunk and flew into the grass.

"Hahaha, Lord Xu shot nothing!"

"It's over, Eagle-eyed Xu has turned into Blind-eyed Xu!"

"Don't laugh, everyone. After all, this is Master Xu's first time shooting an arrow, although I want to laugh too!"

Chen Xu touched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile, "I just made a new bow, and I always have to try it a few times before I can find the feel!"

After speaking, he began to practice seriously.

Fortunately, he has extremely high reflexes, and people with quick reflexes generally have good handling.

This can be seen from the fact that the original owner is a game master.

Tried ten times, picked up the arrow again, and tried ten more times.

After going back and forth for more than ten minutes, Chen Xu finally managed to hit the tree trunk accurately from fifteen meters away.

And this distance is exactly the alert distance of the island hare, and its size is about the same as the diameter of a thick tree trunk.

Whoosh!

Several consecutive arrows hit.

The sharp carbonized arrowheads easily penetrated into the tree trunk.

Chen Xu nodded with satisfaction, "Now my accuracy is almost connected. The weight of this bow is not bad. I estimate it is around 35 pounds. Anyway, it is enough to kill hares!"