It was a sunny night, there was basically no light pollution in Shennongjia, and the starry sky was bright.
This was Lin Shuo's second night staying near Dalongtan.
The reason why I dragged my hands off the night before was because the intelligence was unknown.
The Lin family hunted, the Lin family collected information on the ground, and the Lin family's black phoenix had to come in the sky.
The prey is a bird, so Xiaoba has to work hard and give the bird a whole night of preparation time.
Presumably the same is true for Gu Eagle, it didn't attack this team from the sky last night, it was also observing.
This is the habit of the vast majority of beasts of different species. When humans first break into their territory, they will not attack immediately, but observe and evaluate secretly.
This habit can be regarded as the result of survival of the fittest.
The beasts that do not have this habit have too intense conflicts with humans and are too harmful, so they have been hunted and killed by the concentrated force of the hunting gate long ago.
The last Gu carving on the land of China was hunted in the Qing Dynasty, more than two hundred years ago, it can be regarded as a kind of beast that has lived in China for a long time.
Being able to survive for such a long time must be more cautious by nature.
If it was bloodthirsty like Nao, it would have been extinct in China as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties.
So last night Lin Shuo could rest assured to sleep, recharge his batteries, and at the same time set aside a night for Lin Xiaoba to make adequate preparations for tonight's hunt.
At this moment, the bonfire next to everyone was burning fiercely, driving back the chill of the mountain night and bringing a certain degree of light.
But following Xiaoba's reminder from the sky, Wei Xingshan and Zhou Lingshi both shook hands together, and their hairs stood on end.
Something got out of the water.
Wei Xingshan quickly raised the sniper rifle in his hand, aiming wildly at the sky.
It's a pity that Wei Xingshan couldn't see anything except the stars in the high-power scope at this time.
At this moment, he finally remembered one thing, and hurriedly asked: "Old Lin, how big is this Gu carving?"
"It depends on the species." Lin Shuo sat on the spot without moving at the moment, Flying Yaksha was placed across his knees, "A kind of Gu sculpture in the Hexi Corridor used to be the largest, called the Golden Beak Gu sculpture, with a wingspan of More than fifteen meters.
However, the strength of a Gu carving is not absolutely related to its size.
That kind of golden-beaked carving is actually the weakest of the gu carvings. Without us hunters taking action, the Qin army used Qin crossbows to basically kill them all.
To be able to occupy the mountain as the king in Shennongjia today, this should be a sword-feather Gu carving, about the size of an ordinary eagle, this is the strongest species of Gu carving. "
"Sword Feather Gu Carving?" Wei Xingshan asked, "What is this?"
"The reason why this blade feather Gu carving is so powerful is that apart from its own extremely high level of strength and speed, the flying feathers on the wings of the male individual are also extremely sharp.
Not only are the wings like a pair of machetes, which can kill prey in close combat, but the row of flying feathers can even be shot out of the body when necessary, just like a hidden weapon flying knife, which is hard to guard against. "
"I'll go, so powerful?" Wei Xingshan was dumbfounded.
"Of course it's amazing. In order to compete with this thing, everyone in the Hunting Gate lost a lot of good players, and they were once helpless."
"Then how did this thing become extinct in China?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"There are two reasons, one is the constant hunting of our hunting gate.
Later, we discovered that this kind of Gu sculpture is dioecious, the male ones are difficult to deal with, and the female ones are not so powerful.
Therefore, I, Senior Liemen, concentrated my efforts on destroying the mother's Gu carvings, to limit the reproduction of the population of such things.
However, the females of this blade feather Gu carving are slightly weaker than the males, and they are still a very powerful beast variant.
And don't look at this kind of thing. The male and female don't usually live together, but they are actually monogamous. Once the female is attacked, she will use a special call to call the male out of the nearby waters.
Often before the mother is taken down, Feiyu shoots from behind the hunter.
In short, because of this kind of thing, our Liemen also suffered heavy losses back then.
Yunmengze was once one of the forbidden areas of Chinese civilization. "
"Yunmengze?" Wei Xingshan was stunned for a moment, "What kind of place is this, it sounds familiar."
"This is the name of an ancient place, in the land of Chu, which is now the Han River Plain.
Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still continuous lakes and swamps near the Hanjiang Plain, surrounded by a large number of virgin forests. This place was called Yunmengze.
This kind of environment is also very suitable for the survival of this kind of sword feather Gu carving.
The male is in the water and the female is in the forest.
This thing disappeared in Huaxia later. In addition to being taken care of by our Liemen, the second reason and the main reason is that the geographical environment of Yunmengze has gradually changed.
With the continuous impact of the Yangtze River and Han River sediment, Yunmeng Lake gradually disappeared and became today's Jianghan Plain.
This made most of the blade feather Gu carvings gradually migrate southward, and the existing populations are basically in Southeast Asia.
I guess the current Shennongjia Gu sculpture is a cub caught by Ma Yixian in Southeast Asia, and it has now grown up. "
"Then how powerful is the flying feather of this thing?" Zhou Lingshi asked at this time.
"How powerful it is, I'm not very clear about it." Lin Shuo said, "However, there were several hunters inherited from the Su family on the death list of the hunting gate back then, and those seniors were all from the Nine Realms.
Once the hunters of the Su family entered the Nine Realms inherited by their own family, their quick response and vigorous agility would definitely surpass the hunting gate.
They will all die under the knife feather, which shows how powerful this thing is.
Anyway, I don't want to forcefully pick up the flying feathers of this black light, this gu carving, do you two have this interest? "
"Absolutely not!" Wei Xingshan and Zhou Lingshi shook their heads like rattles.
Among them, Zhou Lingshi asked: "Master, now this Gu carving is flying in the sky nearby, don't you worry at all? If Fei Yu comes down, there will be only three of us in this sect. Even if you are extinct!"
"The flying feathers of the knife feather Gu carving, this is the life-saving skill of this kind of beast.
Once the flight feathers are shot out, it cannot fly, and it has to stay in the water for a year or two before it can slowly grow new flight feathers.
If it were in the former Yunmengze, it would not have to worry about this matter, because there are fish in the water, and the mother will also bring it food.
Now this Gu carving is living in the Great Dragon Pool, the aquatic products near the Great Dragon Pool are definitely not enough for it to fit between its teeth.
Moreover, the wild beasts in the entire Shennongjia forest area are now suffering from famine. Once they lose the ability to fly, it is very likely to be fatal to them.
So as a last resort at this moment, it will not shoot down the flying feathers.
Moreover, this kind of beast in the sky is arrogant by nature. As long as it flies in the sky, it will not pay too much attention to things on the ground.
As long as you don't look up to the sky and look for it, at most it will observe you silently, and it won't fight you desperately.
What we have to do now is to continue chatting and pretend to be okay.
So, old Wei, if you keep aiming this gun at the sky, our school might really be wiped out. "
"I'll go!" Wei Xingshan shrank his neck and quickly put down the gun in his hand, "Why didn't you say such a big thing earlier!"
"If I don't explain the truth to you, how can you, an apprentice, learn to be capable?" Lin Shuo asked, "Besides, using a pole to smash into the sky is not a fatal threat to the sword feather Gu carving. As for quickly recruiting its flying feathers."
"Master." Zhou Lingshi asked, "Then we're chatting like this now, and we don't look up to the sky, so how are you going to hunt and kill that Gu Eagle
I know that Master Ba is staring at the sky right now, but how can you two cooperate
And Ba Ye's "Night stargazing, positioning and locking the enemy", what kind of locking method is it? "
Lin Shuo glanced at his second apprentice: "Zhou Lingshi, what level is your cultural class?"
"I never went to school." Zhou Lingshi scratched his head, "However, my former master Wu Tiannan taught me for several years."
"How about mathematics, physics and chemistry?" Lin Shuo asked.
"I haven't learned much." Zhou Lingshi shook his head, "But I know a little bit about arithmetic."
"Do you know the coordinates?"
"I know that." Zhou Lingshi nodded.
"Then I can explain it clearly to you." Lin Shuo nodded, and said, "Let me talk about the location first. If we want to determine the location of something, do we often need specific geographical coordinates, which are east longitude and north latitude when placed on the ground."
"That's right."
"Then if we want to determine the position in the sky, do we also need coordinates?"
"Um."
"So the coordinates in the sky, do we have a ready-made system called astrology?"
"Oh." Zhou Lingshi's eyes lit up.
"Don't, it's as if you understand." Lin Shuo said lightly, "The coordinate system of astrology is not fixed.
The stars in the sky, three walls, four images, and twenty-eight constellations, are generally centered on the North Star, which rotates continuously with the changing seasons.
And the star closest to Polaris is the Big Dipper.
Therefore, the stars in the sky refer to the Big Dipper.
At the same time, due to the change of the earth's rotation axis, the position of the North Star has also changed from ancient times to the present, which is called precession.
This is a dynamic coordinate system. If you want to determine a fixed position in the sky, you need to combine the calendar.
At every moment, the position of every star in the sky, we hunters of the Lin family, demand to know without looking up.
Because we humans cannot see the stars during the day, we must keep them in mind.
If you remember this set of things, you will be able to cooperate with Lin Jiaheifeng. "
"Old Lin, why do you and Ba Ye want to determine the position in the sky?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"Hey, it must be used to determine the position of the enemy in the sky." Zhou Lingshi said.
"No." Lin Shuo shook his head, "Old Wei is a sniper, he can realize this, but you Zhou Lingshi can't realize it. What I decided with Xiao Ba is not the enemy's position."
"What is that?" Zhou Lingshi asked.
"The direction and elevation angle of the trajectory." Lin Shuo said, "This system is applicable not only at night, but also during the day.
The prey targeted are not only those flying in the sky, but also those running on the ground.
The core of the system is not me, nor Lin Xiaoba, but Master Zhui.
In modern military terms, this is a battle system beyond visual range.
I don't need to see the prey, I use the Lin family's "Wind and Identify Position" to roughly know the prey's position, and shoot the bow in advance.
Lin Xiaoba observed the positions of me and the prey in the sky, determined the trajectory, and then notified me with the names of the stars.
After fine-tuning, I shot an arrow into the sky, and the hunt was over. "
"Oh, so that's what happened." Wei Xingshan suddenly realized, "This is the same as the cooperation of anti-aircraft guns and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft."
"That's what it means." Lin Shuo nodded, "But today, it's somewhat troublesome."
"What's wrong?"
"The core of this system is Master Zhui. Master Zhui has been meticulously maintained by the blacksmith of the He family. The strength of each bow is constant. Therefore, as long as there is a direction and elevation angle for the ballistic trajectory, I will add a little more. The error caused by the wind direction can be determined.
Lin Xiaoba mastered this system.
After all, it is a starling, no matter how smart it is, there is a limit. It is not easy for it to remember the ever-changing astrology and the shooting elevation angle under a fixed force.
It is impossible to let it learn the ballistic function and calculate various ballistic trajectories under different forces on the spot.
Let alone it, if someone else is in the sky, without any calculation tools at hand, if he is not a genius of mental arithmetic, it will be useless.
Therefore, the force of the beast's fork cannot be changed, it has to be the same as the force of Master Zhui's shooting.
Master Zhui was not by my side this trip, so I had to use throwing to imitate the strength of the old man's bow.
Once there is a deviation in the strength of the hand, it will be a thousand miles away.
Moreover, the angle of the shot is also a difficult point, it is not as easy to grasp as directly shooting the bow.
So let me say it first, if my fork fails later, you are not allowed to laugh at me. "
"Then what if the two of us couldn't hold back and laughed out loud?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"Expelled from the teacher on the spot." Lin Shuo said lightly.
There was a moment of silence around the campfire.
Lin Shuo went on to say, "However, if I fail this time, there should be no need to expel you from the sect."
"Why?"
"The Gu carving is not stupid. I missed it, and it must have counterattacked with its flying feathers. It has eighteen flying feathers on one wing, and a pair of wings. This is a flying knife array composed of thirty-six flying knives. Lin Shuo said, "The two of you will be gone by then, so why should I bother?"
"Master, I have confidence in you, you will definitely be able to shoot!" Zhou Lingshi hurriedly expressed his opinion.
"Junior Brother, don't listen to him scaring people. Tonight's prey is in the sky and not on the ground. The entire trajectory is short and only the upper half, so the allowable error value is much larger. Don't be afraid, it should be close to ten."
While speaking calmly, Wei Xingshan took out a steel helmet from his bag and put it on his head.
"Brother, your helmet is not bad, do you have any more?"
"It's gone, just this one." Wei Xingshan straightened the helmet, and quickly fastened the buckle.
"Brother, I'm a younger brother, you have to give way to me, why don't you put it on for me first?"
"Go away, I'm ten years younger than you."
"It doesn't depend on age, it depends on how soon you get started." Zhou Lingshi turned to Lin Shuo for help, "Master, take care of yourself."
"Let him wear it, anyway, a helmet like the flying feathers carved by Gu can't stop it." Lin Shuo said with a smile, and then finally figured out what it was like, his face froze, "What do you two mean?"
At this moment, the voice of Lin Xiaoba from the sky came from afar.
"Brother Shuo! Ready."
Lin Shuo didn't have time to worry about the two apprentices, so he stood up slowly.
He shook his shoulders, and changed the "Flying Yasha" in his hand from holding it flat with both hands to holding it backwards with his right hand.
Ready to gesture, Lin Shuo said, "Old Wei, who told you that the prey tonight is only in the sky?"
"ah?"
"On the ground, there are also."
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