Zhang Heng wasn't too surprised, mainly because he knew this was just a game, so theoretically he wouldn't be too surprised even if he found Winnie the Pooh deep in the forest.
But for now, Zhang Heng has to admit that everything around him is extremely real. If the extra 24 hours on his body hadn't caused major problems in the game's duration, he might not have been able to find any bugs.
In addition to those houses and stone tools, the two also found a small lake nearby, about one hectare. Bell took the water from it and tasted it, and then said, "It's drinkable. This is a freshwater lake. No wonder they put it in Villages were built nearby.”
However, Zhang Heng was attracted by something half-explored from the mud near the lake.
"This tribe...do they already have the skills to smelt metal?"
Zhang Heng pulled out the thing and found that it was a piece of iron that was very rusty. It seemed to have been installed on a piece of wood, but the piece of wood was already in a terrible state.
Zhang Heng studied it and found that he couldn't figure out what this thing was used for.
Bell is not omnipotent. He also doesn't know the purpose of this thing. He just analyzed, "Judging from the technical level, they should still be in the Stone Age, so this iron tool is probably not theirs."
It was getting very late, so the two of them did not go any further, so they simply found a place nearby to light a fire and cook.
As we get closer and closer to the end of the journey, Zhang Heng's mood is a bit complicated.
For more than a year, he has relied on the idea of going to the center of the island to support himself to practice archery every day and keep exercising. This has almost become the instinct of the body, but to say how much he really cares about what is there, it is actually not Not really.
From this point of view, sometimes Zhang Heng is envious of Ed, Bell and others. They can comfort themselves by saying that maybe a ship will dock tomorrow or there is something in the center of the island that can help me get home. But as a player, Zhang Heng is very It’s clear that you can’t go anywhere until time runs out.
When he thought that the answer to the mystery would be revealed tomorrow, he felt a little bit excited. After all, he had been thinking about something for a year, but mostly he felt confused.
How will he survive after this is over?
But fortunately, four-fifths of the time has passed, and with the remaining more than a hundred days, I should be able to get through it even if I can't find a new goal and grit my teeth.
On the third morning, Zhang Heng woke up very early, but when he opened his eyes, he found that Bell had gotten up even earlier.
"Good morning, Zhang." The explorer greeted him cheerfully, "I just walked around the lake again. What do you think I found?"
"Uh...new breakfast?"
"It's true. I did catch a catfish for a change, but besides that, I also found something else." Bell placed two rusty balls in Zhang Heng's palm.
"What is this? Marbles?"
"This is a bullet," Bell said.
"How to fire a solid bullet?" Zhang Heng was stunned. He was not a weapons fan, but he still knew the basic knowledge. Modern weapons rely on the ignition of gunpowder in the bullet to propel the launch. Without gunpowder, nothing can be fired. .
"Remember what you found from the lake? I know what it is." The explorer said excitedly, "The matchlock gun, this weapon was used on a large scale in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. This weapon has gunpowder and bullets. They were filled separately and ignited with match ropes... At that time, the slave trade was booming. The indigenous people living here were probably attacked by the slave catching team, and they were all captured and sold to the farmers. ”
This speculation was reasonable and consistent with what they saw now. Zhang Heng was already planning to accept this statement. However, half a day later when the two came to the center of the island and saw the building that looked like an altar and the mountains of bones on it, Zhang Heng asked The explorer on the side asked, "Were all your European slave-catching teams in the 15th and 16th centuries so brutal?"
"...This was not done by the slave catching team. It was a bloody and dark era. As far as I know, slave traders would indeed kill those who dared to resist when capturing black slaves, as a deterrent to others. Some We will also kill all those that are too old and those that are too young to be transported.”
Bell walked to the altar and picked up a skull, "But...it doesn't seem like their style."
"If it wasn't the slave-catching team that killed the indigenous people on the island, then who killed them? Could it be them themselves?" Zhang Heng's casual words stunned both of them.
Upon closer inspection, the architectural style of this altar was very similar to the ruins they had encountered by the lake before.
"Well, the slave-catching team came to the island. These natives couldn't see any invincibility, and then they ran to this altar and ended their own lives... This is a bit unreasonable."
Bell walked to the pile of bones in the center of the altar, squatted down and wiped off the dust on the stone slab with his hands, "There is something else here. It is a totem. It depicts a creature whose upper body is a human and lower body is a snake. It seems to be The gods worshiped by the natives."
Zhang Heng was a little disappointed. Although he didn't care much about what was in the center of the island, he would still be frustrated to find that it was an indigenous ruin that was of no use to him.
After all, this was something he had been preparing for a whole year, and it was thrilling along the way. He was almost swallowed by the python, but in the end he only found a pile of bones and an altar.
However, he saw that Bell seemed very interested in the pile of things, so he did not rush him.
Both of them had plenty of food and water, and they had eaten less than half of what they had brought with them. Bell had hunted a lot of "game" along the way, although most of them looked a bit unpalatable. But the taste is surprisingly good.
Zhang Heng was considering whether to go directly through the forest to the other end of the island and then walk along the coastline back to where he lived.
But at this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the altar and pounced on the explorer above.
Zhang Heng was startled. This time, he recognized what the thing was without any further knowledge from Bell.
——The jaguar, the king of the tropical rainforest, is similar in size and appearance to a tiger. It has sharp teeth and claws and can easily hunt down caiman. It is a large predator at the top of the food chain.
However, Bell's reaction was also very quick. The explorer rolled on the spot, dodged the beast's thunder blow, and then pulled out the knife from his waist.
Zhang Heng also quickly took off the bow and arrow behind him, but then another jaguar jumped out.
This time Bell's expression also changed.
Isn't it? ! Zhang Heng was shocked. Logically speaking, there are still four days until the end of the plot of the explorer. These Jaguars appear so early. Could it be that they got the wrong script?
But there was no time for him to think too much now. Bell was in a very dangerous situation. No matter how powerful he was, he couldn't deal with two jaguars by himself. Zhang Heng bent his bow and nocked an arrow at the second jaguar.
The latter quickly jumped out of the way, and Zhang Heng was not too surprised. The distance between the two sides was about 278 meters. Normally, he would have a 50-60 hit rate when shooting Mickey Mouse from this distance. The Jaguar's His skills are higher than those of a dodo bird. I don’t know where he went.
