Whoosh!
Under the powerful force of the metal crossbow string, the arrow broke through the wind, sending out a slight scream that tore through the air. With a flash of black light, the front part of the arrow pierced deeply into the tree.
Seeing this situation, Liu Chang hurriedly ran forward to check his results - he saw that the 40cm long crossbow bolts had not penetrated into the tree and were a full 30cm long, only the tails of the crossbow bolts were still exposed. Stepping forward to grab the arrow tail with one hand, he worked hard dozens of times before pulling out the crossbow arrow from the tree bit by bit.
"It's so powerful!" Liu Chang looked at the deep hole in the tree and the juice flowing out of it, and sighed: "It's much more powerful than that police pistol. If you count the quality, this The power of the crossbow bolts within 30 meters is really greater than the power of military rifle bullets!"
"Unfortunately, the ballistic trajectory is really bad." Liu Chang checked the hole in the tree and found that the place where the shot was shot was slightly lower than the place he was aiming at—this shows that the ballistic trajectory of the crossbow bolt is arc-shaped, because Overweight, their ballistic trajectory is more difficult to grasp than that of bullets. And also because of the weight, although it is indeed more powerful than rifle bullets at medium and short distances, when the crossbow bolts leap more than 50 meters, the power will drop significantly.
But fortunately, in this red misty weather, even Liu Chang himself can hardly see things eight meters away—so he has never considered the issue of fifty meters away.
What he has to do now is to test the properties of the crossbow bolts and master the operation of the crossbow, and at the same time practice his ability to shoot prey at close range.
So, the afternoon passed like this, and his experience in the afternoon caused countless holes in the tree of the big tree—of course, if the big tree evolved aggressiveness, Liu Chang, the culprit of all this, It has long been torn apart by its anger.
It's a pity that it slowed down by several beats on the way of evolution to that horrible kind that took root in the entire underground world—it didn't turn into that huge and terrifying monster, it was still the same tree, only a little sturdier than before.
Liu Chang learned a lot from this afternoon's test. He is now proficient at winding the bow and crossbow in the shortest possible time. He also understands the difference in ballistics and power between long and short crossbow arrows. He can roughly grasp the shooting distance within ten meters—everything seems so simple. smoothly.
As the sky gradually darkened, Liu Chang's vision distance in the thick fog became shorter and shorter. When the sight distance was shortened to less than three meters, Liu Chang left here decisively, put away his crossbow arrows and headed home.
All the way through the black and red world, the surrounding fog slowly flowed past him, Liu Chang stirred the surrounding thick fog like a mouse in a soup pot, and walked all the way to the dormitory room.
Back to the door of his room on the first floor, Liu Chang's sensitive nose smelled a trace of familiar corpse odor from the room. Then, his heart tightened—the smell of corpses means that there are corpses, and the presence of corpses means that someone is dead, and the dead people belong to his own house.
Who died, Liu Chang probably already guessed.
Pushing the door open and entering the room, he saw a dead body covered by a white sheet on the only bed in the family of three, the corpse of an old man, the sheet covered most of her body, leaving only her head exposed in the air. Next to the corpse lay the same dying old man. His faint breath was not much stronger than that of the lifeless corpse next to him. It was truly "dying", "dying", "one" and "breathing".
Guarding next to the two old people is the single woman who has never spoken—she is sitting on the edge of the bed like a puppet at the moment, with no expression on her face, no tears, and no sadness, only From time to time, he wiped the sweat off another old man's head.
Although there was no sadness on her face, the aura she exuded was full of sadness.
"Ah." Sighing, Liu Chang walked into the smelly room, walked past the old man's corpse, and sat on his own bed next to the corpse, feeling a sense of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox rising in his heart.
He was still hesitating last night whether to make a bed for the two old people, and one of the two old people passed away today. Liu Chang couldn't help thinking with some regret in his heart, if a bed was vacated for the two of them yesterday, although they couldn't prevent their weak fate from dying, would it bring them the last bit of warmth before the end of their lives.
But then he thought again, if he hadn't had a good rest last night, would he have been able to escape the countless "life and death" when facing the giant dog today, or even accidentally, would he have seen the giant dog hit the prey? ? Is it possible to finally sit here alive
If you give yourself a chance to choose again, will you change your original choice? Therefore, he fell into a deep contradiction and entered a logical circle.
Just then, a big hand patted his shoulder.
Liu Chang looked up - it was Li Qingshui.
"Go, go out and smoke a cigarette with me." Li Qingshui said, then took out a pack of crumpled cigarette cases that he didn't know where he got from his butt pocket, took out one from it and handed it to Liu Chang.
Holding the tobacco in his hand, Liu Chang saw that even the dried cigarettes had become moldy in this terrible world, and the original white cigarette paper had turned yellow and green, just like the old man lying on the bed.
"Let's go."
"good."
The two didn't talk much, they took cigarettes and left the dormitory one after the other.
Walking into the aisle, leaning on the bed, Liu Chang took the lighter and lit his own cigarette: "Do you know when I last lit a cigarette?"
"have no idea."
"When Liu Tao died." Liu Chang reached out and touched the finger bone necklace on his chest, and said, "On the first day when the red mist came, he asked me for a cigarette, but I didn't have one. Later, we went together because of wound infections on our bodies. The hospital looked for medicine, and then... Then we found the medicine and took it, I survived, but he died. After I woke up, I lit a stick on his corpse."
After saying this, Liu Chang took a deep puff of his cigarette.
"The old man in that family died, are you a little sad?" Li Qingshui didn't answer Liu Chang's words, but glanced at him and asked other questions.
"It's a little bit, but it can't be called sad..." Breathing out the smell of tobacco in his lungs, Liu Chang thought for a while and said: "It should be called uncomfortable. After all, I haven't had any intersection with her, so I can only count it as sympathy."
"Compassion is a good word. I pulled you out just to tell you about it." Li Qingshui caught Liu Chang's quarrel and said, "I came here just to tell you, it's best not to There’s this emotion of empathy, and it affects your motivation to survive.”
"Why?" Liu Chang was puzzled.
"Because sympathizing with the weak is essentially a betrayal of nature." After a moment of silence, Li Qingshui said something that made Liu Chang stunned for a while.
Then he seemed to feel that his tone was not strong enough, and added: "What kind of world is it now? It is no longer the previous human social world, and we have returned to the most primitive state of natural people. Natural selection, what you did last night Choosing is definitely the right choice, don’t let this matter affect your judgment on survival in the future. Next time, you must not be influenced by sympathy and make wrong choices! Because those who are going to be eliminated will eventually be eliminated Elimination, don't let you who shouldn't be eliminated be eliminated because of your wrong judgment!"
"..."
What Li Qingshui said made Liu Chang fall into deep thought, and there was a moment of silence in the corridor.
"Thank you..." After a while, Liu Chang lifted his lowered head and said with a wry smile, "But if you don't even have sympathy, isn't that a betrayal of human nature?"
"Don't think about such complicated things as human nature, then you will fall into the vicious circle of philosophy. As long as you live well, it is not a betrayal of yourself and your family, nor is it a betrayal of me, the fat man and the little girl. It is not a betrayal of your own life. betrayal!"
After Li Qingshui finished talking about the plan, he smoked all the remaining cigarettes in one gulp, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomped it out, then turned around and opened the door to enter the dormitory.