Chapter 16 The Crossbow
"Boom"
A flash of lightning streaked across the dark clouds, and followed by the rolling thunder.
The raindrops as big as beans poured down like a pot of sprinkled scoop, covering the whole world in the misty rain curtain.
It was evening, but the sky outside was already dark like midnight. With the heavy rain, people couldn't help but sigh that human beings are so small and helpless in the face of the great power of nature.
However, Lu Yu didn't have the heart to sigh so much. He just finished a simple dinner with Xiao Ran - a can of canned herring, two poached eggs, and a pot of fragrant rice. Lu Yu needed to assemble Xiao Ran's weapons as soon as possible.
It was a small crossbow, one of the relics left by Lu Yu's father.
Lu Yu's father had no other hobbies during his lifetime, but he liked to study some ancient weapons, especially those hidden weapons. He often searched for those long-lost hidden weapons online to study how to use modern technology to restore and manufacture them.
However, Lu Yu's father did not succeed much, because most of the relevant information was incomplete, and many of them were made up by netizens. The ones Lu's father could successfully imitate were relatively simple weapons such as bows and crossbows, and Lu Yu assembled at this time was a bow and crossbow left by his father.
In the past, whenever Lu's father imitated an ancient weapon, he would dismantle it into parts and place it in bookshelf after a simple trial. Firstly, these models are extremely lethal and belong to state-controlled equipment; secondly, Lu's father was worried that if his family was thieves, if these models were used by criminals to do something that harmed society, it would be bad.
Therefore, one or two key things are often missing from these displayed parts to prevent anyone from easily assembling these weapons of destruction.
Lu Yu remembered that his father would often stand in front of the bookshelf, watching the displayed parts, and then sigh.
"These small parts are not of any use to pick them up alone, but once they are assembled and joined together, they will burst out with unimaginable power."
Lu Yu looked at the exquisite crossbow in his hand and couldn't help but fall into memories again.
Since his father's death, his mother's whereabouts have been unknown. The originally happy family of three is only alone, and the models on these bookshelf have been forgotten by Lu Yu in the corner.
Now that the disaster has broken out, the weapons in the bookshelf have become Lu Yu's most important life-saving trump card.
"I really don't know if it was a coincidence or my father did it intentionally."
Looking at the crossbow, Lu Yu knew that there were two other parts that were not installed. This was the part that his father did not copy - the "hook heart" and the "key combination" in the crossbow machine!
Without these two things, the crossbow in Lu Yu's hand would still be a harmless model, because it was impossible to fire crossbow arrows.
"The key combination is easy to work with. I remember that my dad should have a lot of materials in his toolbox, which can be made..." Lu Yu pondered, "What should I do if I do this? I remember that the strength requirements of this component are quite high, and it should not be possible to use ordinary iron wire."
Just as Lu Yu was thinking about what kind of materials to use to make the hook heart, Xiao Ran walked out of the study.
"I have read all the books in the study. Are there any new books?"
"You have finished reading?" Lu Yu was surprised. Although there were not many books in his study, Xiao Ran had only been reading for two days since he woke up. Such an amazing reading speed was a bit too exaggerated for a 9-year-old girl?
"You can't swallow it all in a hurry, right?" Lu Yu put down the crossbow in his hand and expressed skepticism about Xiao Ran's exaggerated reading speed.
"Really, if you don't believe me, I'll take it down." Xiao Ran put his little hand behind her, and his face was full of eagerness to try.
"I really don't believe it anymore. After waking up from coma, I really become the most powerful brain?" Lu Yu thought to himself, but his steps did not stop. He came to the study and took a random encyclopedia, opened one of the pages and asked Xiao Ran.
"The big flower pilosu belongs to..." Before Lu Yu finished speaking, Xiao Ran rushed to answer.
"Annual herbs, 10~30 cm tall. The stems are lying flat or tilted, purple-pink, and there are hairs on many branches..."
Xiao Ran's tender voice was like a recorder, and she recited all the big horned gussets in the book without any mistakes.
"It's true, no word is wrong." Lu Yuhe closed the book and did not test anything more.
When Xiao Ran just woke up, she showed Lu Yu her powerful computing power. As long as the knowledge she had learned, she could flexibly apply it and quickly give accurate answers. Now Xiao Ran has demonstrated another amazing ability, which is the memory that can be remembered through the eyes.
"Can you achieve intelligence improvement as long as you survive the infection period? Then I..." Lu Yu couldn't help but have a bold idea, but soon he shivered again and suppressed the idea.
That's right, he thought that since Xiao Ran could gain computer-like computing power and camera-like memory after he recovered from the infection, then if he was infected, he might have achieved some other improvements.
But the risk is too great!
If you don't get it done and become infected with a zombie, the fun will be great.
"It's probably the effect of aspirin..." Lu Yu remembered the two bags of aspirin that he threw in the corner of the sofa. It was the medicine that Zhang Heng, who called himself a "time traveler", asked him to buy.
If he is infected, he will also take aspirin. But Lu Yu still can't do such an outrageous thing as if he takes the initiative to contact the zombies and get infected.
"It's better to be more stable, don't be irritated..." Lu Yu said blindly.
Xiao Ran was confused by the side. Uncle Lu Yu in front of him closed the book and lowered his head to ponder. The expression on his face was excited and depressed. Finally, he said in a daze, "Stay calm, don't be irritated..."
"Then what, let's take a look at your weapons." After stuffing the book back into the bookshelf, Lu Yu and Xiao Ran returned to the living room.
The small crossbow was placed on the coffee table. Xiao Ran's eyes lit up, and he grabbed the crossbow and started fiddling with it.
"It can't be used yet," Lu Yu sighed, "The material for making hook hearts cannot be found. Even if there are crossbow arrows, this crossbow cannot be used."
"Hooking heart? That structure that requires high strength?" Xiao Ran curiously dismantled the crossbow in his hand. At this time, Lu Yu was still thinking about the material of Huooking heart in his mind, and did not notice the movements in Xiao Ran's hand.
When he realized it, Xiao Ran had already restored the crossbow in his hand into a bunch of parts.
"Damn what's going on! Why did you disassemble it? It took me a long time to install it." Lu Yu, who was traveling thousands of miles, finally discovered Xiao Ran's movements, but it was too late. The crossbow on the coffee table had turned into a bunch of parts.
"I think the structure of the hook and the combined key can be solved by changing the structure. I have seen in the book that the force that the tenon structure can withstand is amazing. Changing the hook and the structure should meet the requirements."
However, Lu Yu didn't listen carefully to what Xiao Ran was saying. His mind was now full of those scattered parts.
But in the end, Lu Yu did not lose his temper at the little loli, but sighed helplessly and began to assemble the pile of parts.
"Saw the legs of the chair and make a crossbow with a mortise and tenon structure." Xiao Ran slapped Lu Yu's hand that stretched over, looking calm and composed.
"I don't know how to be my little ancestor!" Lu Yu spread his hands and signaled that he was just a stupid ordinary person.
"I'll teach you!" A smile floated on Xiao Ran's cheeks, and his blue and black alien pupils shone with a cunning light.
The heavy rain was still tirelessly falling, and a thunderous thunder brought Zhang Ning's consciousness back to reality.
"Why did I faint again..."
After touching the slightly swollen back of his head, Zhang Ning remembered that he seemed to have eaten the "good stuff" from the Money Tree before, and then suddenly lost consciousness. His head was probably hitting the ground at that time, and it was swollen.
"You are still here, how long have I been in a coma?" Zhang Ning found that there were a few zombies around him, the ones he used to use as bait for the money tree before.
The zombies naturally could not answer Zhang Ning's question, but they twitched their noses unconsciously, and saliva kept dripping from their big open mouths.
"Oh, forget it, look at your low-powered look."
The wealthy tree in the distance had already turned into a pile of broken branches and leaves. The heads in the tree had lost their support, and they all rolled to the ground, looking like watermelons spread all over the floor from a distance.
Zhang Ning didn't get up and went to take a closer look. He had this thing, so there was no need to study anything.
But if he went to observe carefully, he would find that the heads of those who rolled on the ground had more or less black scales on the same neck as those on Zhang Ning's neck, but the scales had lost their vitality and had a lot of shrivels and fall off.
"Why aren't you hungry? Are you too hungry?" Zhang Ning touched his stomach. The strong feeling of hunger had disappeared, and his whole body seemed to be full of strength. There was even a comfortable numbness coming from his chest...
"Ah!" A shrill scream echoed in the uninhabited supermarket. Even the zombies surrounding Zhang Ning were frightened and roared repeatedly, as if they were scared by Zhang Ning's exaggerated scream.
"Why does the psoriasis on my neck seem to be a bigger circle..."
Zhang Ning was like a yellow-flowered girl who was used by a gangster, constantly groping his neck and body. He felt that the scales that were originally only on his neck had now spread to the chest.
I had previously felt the comfortable numbness, which was where the scales grew on my chest.
"Is it because I ate that white thing?"
"Sure enough, you can't eat casually!"
"But this psoriasis doesn't seem to be impossible. It's quite comfortable to grow, it's just a bit ugly."
"Can it be that the white thing that grew from the wealth tree is what kind of treasure is it?"
"But I didn't encounter any white-bearded old man or a cool and cool system?"
"Is my golden finger my superb IQ? Could this battle of the Money Tree be my adventure?"
"So the psoriasis on my body must be because I ate the strange thing under the fortune tree!"
Zhang Ning, sitting cross-legged on the ground, muttering in a low voice like a Tang monk chanting, his tone changed from the original fear to calmness, and then from calmness to excitement. Finally, he stood up from the ground and made his own judgment.
"I am indeed the protagonist. With my intelligence and talent, I defeated the first big boss in my life and obtained the treasure of heaven and earth. The weird scales on my neck should be an evolution, the only one of the protagonists!"
But soon, the excitement retreated rapidly like a tide on the beach. Looking at the dilapidated supermarket around, Zhang Ning remembered his girlfriend, Jiayi.
"Jiayi knows that I am dead, so I must be very sad..." Zhang Ning thought that when he first regained consciousness, he was lying in the morgue. That was much. In the message Jiayi received, he was already in a state of death.
"By the way, there is also my parents!" Zhang Ning patted his head, as if he was blaming himself for his unfilial behavior of thinking about his girlfriend first and then his parents.
"You have to go home quickly. Now it's so messy, I don't know how my parents are doing."
After making up his mind, Zhang Ning no longer hesitated and immediately had the idea of leaving the supermarket.
He wants to go home first and understand clearly what is going on in this world.
But when he was about to leave the supermarket, he suddenly felt a chill in his lower body. When he looked down, he found that the thin cloth used to prevent him from running naked had fallen to the ground at this time, and the little brother under his crotch was bathing in the slightly cool air.
Chapter completed!