Zhang Heng glanced at his character panel and found that the skills on it had finally changed from two to three, but the harsh evaluation below remained unchanged.
Since the boy in shorts taught him how to make bows and arrows, Zhang Heng has added one more activity every day.
He set aside an area on the beach to practice archery.
Although he used the knowledge imparted by Ed and the boy in shorts to get rid of the troubles of food and fresh water, he even moved out of the original cave full of bird droppings and lived in a tile house built by himself.
However, soon after the improvement of material life, a new crisis appeared.
Ed once said that for those who master the skills of survival in the wild, the greatest enemy will never be the unpredictable nature, but yourself.
Once the basic survival needs are met, the vast majority of people will enter a dazed state. After losing their goals and motivation, they will be alone on a deserted island, and will soon be wrapped in a huge sense of loneliness.
Therefore, Zhang Heng had to find some extra things to do to keep his body and brain busy, so that he had no time to think about the fact that he was living on a deserted island.
Considering that he will survive here for more than 400 days (while studying with his brother), Zhang Heng set a new goal for himself.
He decides to explore the center of the island.
So far his activities have been limited to the outskirts of the island, the farthest being a short distance into the primeval forest in search of wood for making a fire, where he found some animals on the ground besides pheasants. bones, which also seemed to be evidence of a predator.
Since then, he has been carefully controlling his activity area, staying away from the virgin forest. After all, the resources by the beach are enough for him to survive.
But now, in order to fight against this terrible loneliness, Zhang Heng needs a goal to support him to continue living.
— Just go to the center of the island and see what's there.
After setting the goal, Zhang Heng began to devote himself wholeheartedly to it, and worked hard for it.
Considering that there are predators in the forest, he first needs to make himself as self-protective as possible.
The boy in shorts taught him how to make two long-range weapons, bow and arrow and sling.
The latter is the easiest to make, but the most difficult to use. There are extremely strict requirements on the angle and timing of throwing stones. If you let go a little earlier or later, you will find that the thrown stone deviates from your target by 100,000. Eight thousand miles.
It is not easy to hit the target four or five times out of a hundred.
On the contrary, bows and arrows are more accurate and easy to control, and Zhang Heng himself has a certain foundation in archery. In the training class, the coach taught him standard posture, force and breathing skills.
All he lacked was practice.
And this is something that can't be done lazily, it can only be worked out by time. In the real world, even if the day becomes 4 o'clock because there are too many things to do, it is impossible for him to spend too much time on a hobby.
And now, on this deserted island with only him alone, the most indispensable thing is time.
From the recurve bow sold in the mall to the original handmade bow, there is no doubt that it is a complete consumption downgrade.
Compared with the former, the accuracy and durability of the latter are somewhat worrying. It takes more power to open the bow, and the bark rope used by Zhang Heng to make the bowstring has the risk of breaking after being pulled more than a hundred times. About one hundred and fifty arrows.
The practice standard he set for himself was 300 arrows per day, which required two bowstring changes.
On the 172nd day when he came to the deserted island, Zhang Heng could basically hit a stationary target within ten meters without fail, and had a hit rate of 70% at thirty meters. Beyond this distance, the simple bow and arrow in his hand would be more threatening. reduce.
Afterwards, he was reminded that his archery skills had risen from lv0 to lv1.
Zhang Heng was still a little dissatisfied. His goal was to improve his archery skills to level 2 before going deep into the primeval forest to explore, so that he would have enough power to protect himself.
During this period of time, Zhang Heng was not idle except for practicing arrows. He had already moved into a tile-roofed house from the cave, but he only lived on the edge of the forest. After transferring all his belongings, he burned a batch of pottery. Live the life of eating with a bowl.
Relying on his archery skills which had been raised to lv1, Zhang Heng went a little deeper into the forest, and arrived near the place where he was looking for firewood last time. Sure enough, he encountered the suspected pheasant thing last time.
The latter seemed to be laughing at Zhang Heng's inability to do anything with it, and when they met each other, they let out two strange cries, and then spread their feet and burrowed into the bushes.
As a result, the next moment its body was pierced severely by a wooden arrow that fell from the sky.
At the same moment, Zhang Heng's ear rang again.
[Hunting is successful, game points +3, you can go to the character panel to view related information...]
Zhang Heng's palms were full of sweat. There was only seven meters between him and the animal that looked like a pheasant. This was a distance he was relatively sure of, but once the opponent started to run, his accuracy would drop significantly.
So the arrow was shot faster than usual, and his breathing was a bit scattered when the arrow was shot, but fortunately, the usual hard practice played a role, and the chicken was fatter, so he didn't miss the shot. .
The thing thumped a few more times, and finally went to the backstage to get the bento unwillingly.
Zhang Heng walked over, first finished recovering the arrows, and then squatted down to check his harvest.
This is a strange-looking creature. Zhang Heng thought it was a pheasant at first, but when he looked closely, he found that the beak of this thing was more like a duck, but the front end was hook-shaped. It was also much larger than a pheasant, with blue eyes Gray feathers, short wings, but with two small thick legs underneath.
This thing looks kind of ugly...
Zhang Heng has rolled over to an atlas of birds, but he can't find this thing on it, but since they eat fruits and seeds, theoretically speaking, probably, maybe, should... they can also be eaten.
During the time on the island, Zhang Heng didn't have no meat to eat, but fish, shrimp, and crabs, in terms of the aroma of seafood, were meat that would not be eaten on land anyway.
Ever since Zhang Heng saw this kind of suspected pheasant thing last time, he had made up his mind on the other party. Unfortunately, there was nothing to do with these things that were scurrying around the ground at that time. these innocent little creatures.
In the end, Zhang Heng returned from his first hunting with a lot of rewards. In addition to this fifteen-pound "pheasant", he also accidentally found a piece of wild yam on the way back.
This stuff is rich in starch and can be used as a staple food. At the same time, the yield is also very high. Zhang Heng didn't want to eat more, and only kept the two largest ones to be stewed with chicken at night. Into the weaving basket, planning to go back and cultivate a vegetable garden beside the tile house.
This thing grows very fast, as long as it is handled well, there will be a steady stream of yams to eat in the future.