Compared with the ghosts in front, this place is like another world, with bright lights and people coming and going. This street is not big, but it is the only commercial street in the vicinity for dozens of miles. To the left is the slave area, and to the right is the slum area. Compared with the slaves who have nothing, the purchasing power of the poor is obviously higher.
The formation of the commercial street lies in the purchasing power.
Biscuits, canned food, steamed buns, steamed buns, ham sausage... These things that were eaten as snacks before the end of the war have now become staple foods, and they are luxury foods. Because of the radiation problem, there is almost no place for planting and breeding on Mars. All the food today comes from greenhouse cultivation and indoor production. As long as it is something to eat, even a peanut has become a rare thing now. .
Liu Wei'an has always been below the poverty line. Today, he got 255 copper coins by accident. Adding the 6 copper coins he had originally saved, there are a total of 261 copper coins. to the point where it can be squandered.
Liu Weian took 10 steamed buns at 10 copper plates, compressed biscuits 8 copper plates each, took 10, and the rest of the money was all energy tubes, energy tubes 5 copper plates each, a total of 16 tubes, when returning, There was only one copper plate left in the pocket.
Thanks also to the 'loot' game, the money in it is the same as in the real world. It is worth mentioning that the credit crisis was also a very important factor for the opening of the war of the end times. After the establishment of the three empires, they unified the currency and canceled the banknotes maintained by credit. The currency in circulation today is basically There are three types, gold coins, silver coins, and copper plates. However, copper plates and silver coins are basically the main ones, and gold coins are relatively rare.
Passing through the dark streets, the environment in the slave area is not comparable to the slum area. Although after nightfall, because of the cold, most people choose to hibernate, but those who are extremely hungry cannot be ruled out. In this dark night, there are countless People like Liu Wei'an who don't even have an ID card will not even have anyone to ask if an accident happens.
Although today's society is advanced in technology and civilization, but here, it is like a chaotic world. Fortunately, there were no accidents along the way. Liu Wei'an felt that it was still early. If there were still people wandering outside after ten o'clock, they would basically encounter something.
Back in the basement, as expected, the lights in the room were turned off. Liu Wei'an turned on the light, and Zhao Xin saw the food in his hand at a glance. The buns were still hot, and his eyes lit up.
"Let's eat." Liu Wei'an grabbed a steamed stuffed bun and ate it. The long-lost taste, although not as delicious as the ones made on earth, but for a person who has been drinking energy tubes for three months, this is the supreme delicacy. .
Zhao Nannan looked at Liu Weian without moving. How could she not know the difference between buns and energy tubes? However, after all, the hope in Zhao Xin's eyes could not be met, and he felt sad, and silently grabbed a bun. Zhao Xin cheered slightly when she saw her mother making a move, quickly grabbed a bun, and ate it with a happy smile on her face.
The energy contained in the energy tube can only guarantee that people will not die. There are also many trace elements that the human body needs that cannot be provided. After all, the price determines the quality. Taking energy tubes for a long time will make people useless, and they must supplement food at regular intervals.
Zhao Nannan stopped after eating one bun. Zhao Xin came to see her mother and stopped eating. Liu Wei'an had already finished eating the second one, looked up at Zhao Nannan, and said softly, "Eat, I'm already on the right track in the game, so I don't need to be hungry anymore."
Zhao Nannan hesitated for a moment, and grabbed another steamed bun. She knew her daughter very well, if she didn't eat it herself, she wouldn't eat it either. Feeling moved and sad at the same time, he lowered his head not to let Liu Weian see his red eyes. Zhao Xin smiled happily, and quickly grabbed another bun.
After eating three steamed buns, Liu Weian went back to bed, meditated for a while, grabbed his helmet, and entered the game of 'Plunder'. Zhao Nannan glanced at it in surprise, but said nothing. Normally, Liu Weian would have fallen asleep exhausted at this point, but today seemed very different.
The bed is an old-fashioned iron frame bed, divided into two bunks, Liu Wei'an sleeps on the lower bunk, Zhao Nannan's mother and daughter sleep on the upper bunk. After Zhao Xin finished eating, Zhao Nannan packed up the leftover food and pulled Zhao Xin into bed. The 1.2 meter bed was a bit narrow for two people, but Zhao Nannan felt warmer than ever before.
Entering the game, the game is also dark at night. The time of World of Warcraft and the human world seems to be synchronized. There is also a sun in the sky during the day, and a day is also 24 hours a day. The only difference is that the moon at night in World of Warcraft is red. Look at Very strange.
Due to physical problems, Liu Weian always went online during the day and rested at night. His physical strength could only last six hours on average, and seven hours was already the limit. It was the first time he went online at night.
Stone City is much calmer at night than during the day, the flow of people has been reduced by more than half, some shops are also closed, and many people hold torches to go out or enter the city. Go, follow the moonlight, although the light is dim, you can barely make out the road. He had been to the direction of the cemetery many times before he got lost.
The farther away from the city, the fewer pedestrians. After walking for about ten kilometers, there was no one on the road. It was pitch black in the field, and there were only trees with shadows in their pupils. The insects made cheerful calls in the grass, which was the occasional scream of a bird. Pretty scary.
When passing by a forest, Liu Weian stopped and began to cut trees. This forest is made of iron poplar, and the number is not much, only more than one hundred. Iron poplar, tough and resilient wood, is an excellent material for making bows.
There is a saying in ancient books: bows are mainly made of stems, horns, tendons, glue, silk, lacquer and other materials, also known as "six materials". Dry ones are considered far away, horns are considered to be diseased, tendons are considered to be deep, glued ones are considered to be harmonious, silky ones are considered to be solid, and lacquered ones are considered to be exposed to frost and dew.
Dry, including a variety of wood and bamboo; used to make the main body of the bow arm, laminated in multiple layers. The performance of the dry material plays a decisive role in the performance of the bow. The dry wood is made of zhe wood, followed by eucalyptus, eucalyptus, etc., and bamboo is the bottom. The horn, that is, the animal horn, is made into a thin sheet and attached to the inner side (abdomen) of the bow arm. Bow-making mainly uses ox horns, and the horns of natural white, medium green, and unfeng are the best; "the horn is two feet long and five inches (nearly 50 centimeters), and the three colors are not unreasonable. It is called a cow wearing a cow". The best horn material (the price of one horn is equivalent to a cow, so it is called Niu Dai Niu). Tendons, the tendons of animals, are attached to the outer side (back) of the bow arm. The function of the tendons and horns is to enhance the elasticity of the bow arm, making the arrow more vigorous when it is shot, and the object penetrates deeper. The selected ribs should be small and long, and the large ones should be round and moist. Glue, that is, animal glue, is used to bond dry wood and corner tendons. "Kao Gong Ji" recommends six types of glue: deer glue, horse glue, cow glue, mouse glue, fish glue, and rhinoceros glue. The preparation method of glue is generally to boil animal hides and other animal tissues (especially the muscle cavity) in water, or add a small amount of lime alkali, then filter and steam to concentrate. According to the experience of bow making in later generations, the The isinglass made from fish tissue, especially the inner skin of the palate and fish fat is the best. Later Chinese bow makers used isinglass to make the important parts of the bow, that is, the place where the force is placed. Animal skin glue was used for less important places , such as covering the epidermis. Silk, that is, silk thread, tightly wraps the bow tube of Fujiao with silk thread to make it stronger. The selected silk must be bright in color, just like in water. Paint, paint the finished bow arm Lacquer is used to prevent the erosion of frost and moisture, and it is required to choose a paint with a clear color.
To really make a good bow, the process is complicated and time-consuming. Obviously, Liu Weian does not have such time, so the bow he makes is the simplest kind. Then tie the tendon and you're done.
This is the second time to make a bow, and it was done in just one hour. Unlike the first time, it took two full days. The bow is done, and the next step is the arrow, a sharp arrow. When it comes to craftsmanship, The bow doesn't have to be so simple, but what Liu Weian needs are disposable arrows, so there is no need to be so strict.
However, although it is a one-off, the material cannot be sloppy. Liu Wei'an knew that bamboo was good, but there was no bamboo in this area, so he could only choose wooden poles.
Iron poplar is hard enough, but the elasticity will affect the accuracy. Liu Wei'an walked about three miles to the northeast on a familiar road, and the dense forest looked gloomy. If he hadn't been here many times, Liu Weian would not have dared to come in alone.
After carefully looking at it for a while, his eyes lit up, he took a few steps forward, drew his knife, and chopped off five or six small saplings the size of fingers, and then picked them up and ran away. This black cloth Londong's is so scary. The fluttering wings of the startled bird seemed to be right behind him. Liu Weian didn't even look back until he reached the main road. After taking a few deep breaths, he began to make arrows.
This is an iron birch tree, as hard as iron and as straight as a gun. It is difficult to grow. If the dagger is not sharp, it is really not easy to cut them down. A small sapling can be cut into four arrow shafts, exactly twenty-four, peeled and polished, all unnecessary things are removed, and finally the nail clippers from the carrion hands are installed, and one arrow has already manufacture complete.
The arrowheads of the twenty arrows were carrion nails, the arrowheads of one arrow were animal bones, and the other three arrows had nothing to install, so Qin Zhou sharpened them. The arrows just happened to be all used up.
After the bow and arrow were made, the next step was to kill monsters. Liu Weian hesitated for a moment, and set off towards the cemetery. In the dark night, going to the cemetery alone, to be honest, was a bit frustrating.
There are obviously more monsters in the night than in the daytime, slithering around, civet cats, bobcats, wild dogs, wolves... Liu Weian was not sure about shooting them, so he avoided them one by one carefully. After about an hour and forty minutes, he entered the cemetery range, it can be clearly seen that the moonlight in this piece of heaven and earth is even darker, and everything is silent.
It seems that because of the shrouding of the corpse, there are basically no creatures that like to live in it, no monsters running around, no insects screaming, but Liu Wei'an is not used to it, there is no one around, he gritted his teeth, or strode away go in.