Zhang Heng looked at his character panel and found that the skills on it had finally changed from two to three, but the mean comments below remained unchanged.
Ever since the boy in shorts taught him how to make a bow and arrow, Zhang Heng has had one more activity every day.
He set aside an area on the beach to practice shooting.
Although he used the knowledge taught by Ed and the shorts guy 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-roofed house built by himself.
However, after the improvement of material life, a new crisis soon appeared.
Ed once said that the biggest enemy for those who master wilderness survival skills is never the unpredictable nature, but yourself.
Once the basic survival needs are met, most people will enter a state of confusion. After losing their goals and motivation, they will be alone on a desert island and will soon be enveloped in a huge sense of loneliness.
Therefore, Zhang Heng had to find something extra to do to keep his body and brain busy so that he would have no time to think about the fact that he was living on a desert island.
Considering that he still had to survive here for more than 400 days (while studying with his younger brother), Zhang Heng set a new goal for himself.
He decided to explore the center of the island.
So far, his range of activities has been limited to the periphery of the island. The farthest is a short distance deep into the virgin forest when he was looking for wood to make a fire. There, in addition to seeing pheasants, he also found some animals on the ground. Bones, which also seemed to prove the presence of predators.
Since then, he has been carefully controlling his activity area and staying away from the virgin forest. After all, the resources on the beach are enough for him to survive.
But now, in order to fight against this terrible feeling of loneliness, Zhang Heng needs a goal to support him in continuing to live.
——Just go to the center of the island and see what’s there.
After setting a goal, Zhang Heng began to devote himself wholeheartedly to it and work hard for it.
Considering that there are predators in the forest, he first needs to make himself as strong as possible to protect himself.
The guy in shorts taught him how to make two long-range weapons, bows and arrows and slings.
Among them, the latter is the simplest to make, but the most difficult to use. The angle and timing of throwing the stone have extremely strict requirements. If you let go a little earlier or later, you will find that the stone you throw is 100,000 points away from your target. Eight thousand miles.
It is not easy to hit the target four or five times out of a hundred times.
On the contrary, the bow and arrow are more accurate and easy to control, and Zhang Heng himself has a certain foundation in archery. The coach taught him standard posture, force exertion and breathing techniques in the training class.
All he lacked was practice.
And this is something that cannot be done lazily, and can only be done through time. In the real world, even if a day becomes 48 hours because there are too many things to do, he cannot spend too much time on a hobby.
But now, on this deserted island where he was the only one, the most indispensable thing was time.
From the recurve bow sold in the mall to the original handmade bow, I don't think it is a complete consumption downgrade.
Compared with the former, the accuracy and durability of the latter are somewhat worrying. It takes more force to open the bow, and the bark rope used by Zhang Heng to make the bow string is at risk of breaking after being pulled more than a hundred times. The average lifespan is one About one hundred and fifty arrows.
The practice standard he set for himself was 300 arrows per day, which required changing the bow string twice.
On the 172nd day after arriving on the deserted island, Zhang Heng could basically hit a stationary target within ten meters, with a 70% hit rate at thirty meters. Beyond this distance, the simple bow and arrow in his hand would be more threatening. reduce.
Afterwards, he received another reminder that his archery skills increased from lv0 to lv1.
Zhang Heng is still a little dissatisfied. His goal is to improve his archery skills to level 2 and then explore deep into the virgin forest, so that he will have enough power to protect himself.
During this period of time, Zhang Heng was not idle except for practicing archery. He had moved from the cave into a tile-roofed house, but he only lived on the edge of the forest. After moving all his belongings, he burned a batch of pottery. Now he has finally passed the time. Enter the life of eating from a bowl.
Relying on his archery skills that had reached level 1, Zhang Heng went deeper into the forest and reached the area where he was looking for fire wood last time. Sure enough, he ran into something that looked like a pheasant last time.
The latter seemed to be laughing at Zhang Heng's inability to do anything with it. After the two met each other, they made two strange screams, and then spread their legs and burrowed into the bushes.
As a result, the next moment its body was severely pierced by a wooden arrow falling from the sky.
At the same moment, Zhang Heng's ear sounded again.
[Successful hunting, game points +3, you can go to the character panel to view relevant 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 confident about, but once the opponent started running, his accuracy would drop significantly.
Therefore, the arrow was shot faster than usual, and his breathing was a little scattered when the arrow was released. However, fortunately, his usual hard practice worked, and the chicken was fatter, so he did not miss the shot. .
The thing fluttered a few more times, and finally reluctantly went backstage to get the lunch.
Zhang Heng walked over and finished recovering the arrows first, then squatted down to check his harvest.
This is a strange-looking creature. Zhang Heng thought it was a pheasant at first, but upon closer inspection, he found that its beak was more like a duck, but its front end was hook-shaped. It was also much larger than a pheasant and had blue markings on its body. It has gray feathers, short wings, and two small thick legs underneath.
This thing looks a bit ugly...
Zhang Heng did roll over an atlas of birds, but he couldn't find this thing in it. However, since they eat fruits and seeds, theoretically speaking, they probably, maybe, should...can also eat them. .
It was not that Zhang Heng had no meat to eat during his stay on the island, but seafood such as fish, shrimp, and crabs were not as good as meat on land in terms of flavor.
Ever since he last saw this kind of thing that looked like a pheasant, Zhang Heng had already set his sights on the other party. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do with these things that were running around on the ground at that time. Now that he has become a master of archery, he couldn't wait to reach out to him. These innocent little creatures.
In the end, Zhang Heng returned from his first hunting trip with a full load. In addition to the fifteen-pound “pheasant,” he also accidentally found a patch of wild potatoes on the way back.
This thing is rich in starch and can be used as a staple food. At the same time, the yield is also very high. Zhang Heng did not want to eat more. He only left the two largest ones to be stewed with chicken in the evening. He dug out the rest and packed them carefully. After entering the knitting basket, I planned to go back and cultivate a vegetable garden next to the tiled house.
This thing grows very fast. As long as it is taken care of, you can have a steady stream of potatoes to eat in the future.
