Chapter 84
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Chapter 84: The Development of Bows and Arrows
Luo Ji, determined to deal with the hyena pack, kept his word.
For the next few days, he spent most of his time in the Armament Department.
Although he did not have the ‘Armament Master’ talent, his modern mind was his biggest advantage.
Many structural components and problems that Little Fox could not immediately figure out, Luo Ji often only needed a single sentence to enlighten her.
This caused Little Fox’s loyalty to him to rise linearly over the past few days, and the development speed of bows and arrows and leather armor also significantly increased.
A few days later, holding the newly completed prototype longbow, Luo Ji’s mood was subtle.
In the past few days, failed products had piled up into a small mountain in the corner of the Armament Department’s tent.
He was very excited when the first prototype longbow was completed, and he was also very excited when the second one was completed.
However, after nearly a hundred attempts, all that remained in his heart was subtlety and complexity, perhaps with a hint of apprehension.
“Let’s go, let’s test it outside the camp!”
Luo Ji sighed heavily, picked up the longbow, and walked out. Even the tribal citizens inside the camp had gotten used to their constant coming and going over the past few days and continued with their respective tasks.
Testing the effectiveness of weapons was probably the only time Little Fox would leave the Armament Department’s tent, besides eating and sleeping.
Although she had experienced nearly a hundred failures, she was not discouraged.
She held the bow and arrow design drawing, which had been modified many times, and followed closely behind Luo Ji with a somewhat nervous expression on her small face.
Although it was called a test, there was actually no grand process.
To put it bluntly, it was just finding a place to shoot an arrow and try it out.
Walking to an empty space outside the camp, Luo Ji held the longbow and took two deep breaths to calm himself down.
Then, he took an arrow from a member of the Armament Department nearby, ready to begin the test.
To be honest, the arrow was very crude, even somewhat shoddy, but there was no other way due to limited conditions.
They could not get a large quantity of fletching for the tail end of the arrow for now, and metal arrowheads were even more out of the question.
Therefore, they simply sharpened a straight wooden stick to serve as an arrow.
However, its lethality was still fine.
After all, there were no armors or defensive equipment in this era.
If it was just shoddy leather armor, it could still be pierced through based on the sharpness of this arrow.
Of course, the focus was on the longbow itself.
After all this time, Luo Ji, who had test-fired countless times, was already very skilled at the action of drawing the bow and setting an arrow.
Not daring to pull too hard at once, Luo Ji controlled his strength and slowly drew the bowstring, which was woven from two animal tendons.
Watching the bowstring tighten little by little and continuously stretch, Luo Ji’s originally calm mood uncontrollably became a little nervous again.
His heart began to beat fast, he had not expected that researching a bow and arrow would fail so many times.
The toughness of the bow he made this time was fine.
Looking at the fully drawn longbow, Luo Ji took a deep breath, as if wanting to test the limits of this bow’s endurance.
The hand pulling the bowstring actually applied a little more force, forcing the already full-drawn bowstring to stretch even further.
Then, with a release of his two fingers, accompanied by the flying arrow, a system notification sounded in Luo Ji’s mind.
[System notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for successfully crafting ‘Bow and Arrow.’]
[System notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for successfully unlocking the military project ‘Archery.’]
Two consecutive system notifications plunged Luo Ji, who had been nervous, into a frenzy of ecstasy.
There was no need to say much, looking at the parabolic arc the arrow traced in the air, the overwhelming joy that swept over everyone in the Armament Department like a tsunami in that instant almost made them dizzy.
Every face was flushed red with excitement, and then each of them began to dance wildly and cheer!
Many of them even shouted like idiots, releasing the emotions in their hearts in this way.
“We succeeded! We succeeded! Hahahaha!”
After a burst of almost insane cheering and celebration, Luo Ji took two deep breaths, trying to calm himself down again.
But the obvious grin on his lips simply could not be contained.
However, he still pretended to be serious and spoke.
“Alright, alright, everyone calm down.”
“This is just a prototype, there are still many areas that need improvement.”
“All of you do your best.”
“Tonight, we’ll add two more fish to the pot in the Armament Department!”
Unsurprisingly, Luo Ji’s generous reward once again drew a burst of cheers.
Many even cheered “Long live the leader,” making Luo Ji himself a little embarrassed.
He quickly laughed and urged them to get to work.
A qualified longbow, in addition to being able to shoot lethal arrows, clearly needed to be durable.
Of course, beyond that, range, accuracy, and stability were also very important.
Therefore, to confirm these data, shooting just one arrow was clearly not enough.
After everyone was in position, Luo Ji once again drew his bow and set an arrow, beginning their subsequent tests.
Facts proved that after learning from so many failures, the longbow they had made this time was of extremely solid quality.
The bow itself was very resilient, and the bowstring was also sturdy enough.
After shooting ten arrows consecutively, no problems occurred.
Just as Luo Ji was about to shoot a few more arrows and finish collecting data, a clear sensation of pain suddenly came from the hand pulling the bow, causing his brow to furrow uncontrollably.
“Hiss—”
Luo Ji hissed lightly and looked down, only to see a deep red mark on his finger, caused by the bowstring.
Including the failed experiments from before, Luo Ji had shot at least five hundred arrows in the past few days.
He had not paid much attention before, but when he came to his senses, his finger was like this.
Feeling the pain in his finger, Luo Ji slapped his forehead.
“Careless.”
Then, his mind raced, and he quickly called for someone to find a relatively thick piece of soft animal hide.
He then made a few items similar to ‘finger guards’ and put them on his fingers.
He had been so focused on researching bows and arrows that he had forgotten about the other small pieces of equipment archers needed.
It was a real miscalculation.
However, the amount of information he had noted down recently was simply too much and too varied.
With so much on his mind, it was inevitable to occasionally forget one or two things.
After putting on the finger guards, Luo Ji wiggled his fingers, which were still quite flexible.
Then, he tried shooting a few more arrows, and it was indeed much more comfortable.
After shooting more than a dozen more arrows, he finally collected all the necessary data.
