Chapter 133 Bed Crossbow

After returning from the swamp, Li Yuanhong felt relieved. For a long time, he had not dared to let the survivors join the battle easily because once he was scratched and bitten by a zombie, it would be the same as death. Therefore, Li Yuanhong had always avoided fighting with zombies. To charge by yourself, you also need to wear thick armor on the ship and activate magic protection. These limit the effectiveness of combat, especially if your magic value is not high. Have you developed a potion that increases magic value? Every time you fight, you must carefully calculate the magic. It's worth using, but it's very tiring. Now that there is finally an antidote to the virus, we can have less worries about fighting. It is time for those survivors to join the war and practice their courage.

After Li Yuanhong returned to the base, he came to the library. As a result, an unexpected thing made Li Yuanhong very happy. This was a blueprint for making a bed crossbow. This should be a blueprint extracted from a book about ancient long-range research. Unexpectedly, there was one in the library. In addition to this function, the library has several more skills, namely: Machinery (Elementary), Pharmacology (Elementary), and Prospecting (Elementary).

Machinery (Elementary): Have a preliminary understanding of various machine manufacturing, increase machine durability by 10%, reduce manufacturing loss by 5%, and reduce manufacturing time by 5%.

Pharmacology (Elementary): Preliminarily master the skills of manufacturing drugs, reduce the consumption of drug raw materials by 5%, reduce the manufacturing time by 5%, and increase the efficacy of drugs by 5%.

Prospecting (Elementary): Have a preliminary understanding of prospecting techniques, increase the probability of detecting minerals, increase the probability of detecting shallow minerals by 10%, increase the probability of detecting mid-level minerals by 5%, and increase the probability of detecting deep minerals. An increase of zero percent.

Bed crossbow blueprint: A blueprint for manufacturing a bed crossbow. The bed crossbow is an ancient long-range weapon with a maximum range of 1,200 meters.

After seeing these gains, Li Yuanhong was very satisfied, especially the bed crossbow, which was exactly what he needed. When the time comes, this weapon will definitely give the zombies a surprise.

Li Yuanhong happily took the bed crossbow blueprint and hurried to the weapons workshop. Zhang Haitao happened to be free. When he saw Li Yuanhong coming, he hurried over: "Why is Captain Li free to come here today?"

"Isn't this a new blueprint? Let me show it to you." As he said this, Li Yuanhong took out the manufacturing blueprint for the bed crossbow and handed it to Zhang Haitao.

Zhang Haitao took the drawing, unfolded it, read it over, and said after passing it: "This drawing should not be difficult. Nowadays, with precision instruments, it should be very simple to make such cold weapons. Captain Li, how many do you plan to make?"

Li Yuanhong thought for a moment: "Let's make ten of them first. Can they be completed within half a month?"

"No problem!" Zhang Haitao said, patting his chest.

Just as Li Yuanhong was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something and turned to Zhang Haitao and said: "Master Zhang, go to the library later and tell the librarian that I will let you learn machine learning. When the time comes, your manufacturing skills will be improved." You will get to a higher level. When you learn it, you will have talents that can be cultivated here. Let me know then and I can arrange for them to go to the library to study." Li Yuanhong said with a smile.

"Okay, I will definitely learn it later!" Zhang Haitao promised.

Li Yuanhong left the weapon shop and went to Li Luoxia's school again. He saw that Li Luoxia was concentrating on class, and Dr. Yuan was also sitting in the classroom, studying seriously. Li Yuanhong didn't have the nerve to interrupt, and quickly left the school, then the base, and went straight to Hunchun City. Li Yuanhong wanted to mobilize the survivors for real combat.

When Li Yuanhong came to Hunchun City, he first went to the market. Since the Eastern Expedition, Li Yuanhong had not been to Hunchun City. All foreign trade had been handed over to Shangqiu Yuan, so Li Yuanhong wanted to see the recent progress of trade. After all, the war was necessary People who spend money and materials currently rely on field collection to make money and collect materials. This is an abnormal economic model. Once the collection of materials outside is almost complete, this economic model will face bankruptcy, so Li Yuanhong hopes to establish it as soon as possible. Trade routes and let the economy run on its own.

When he arrived at the market, the first thing Li Yuanhong saw was the endless flow of people. There were local people in Hunchun City and people from outside. The trading order was okay, mainly because anyone who dared to cause trouble would be shot to death by the guards here, and then in After being arrested, after several bloody lessons, no one dared to cause trouble here, and even thieves turned this place into a restricted area.

Li Yuanhong is very satisfied with the prosperity here. After all, only when the economy is prosperous can he have tax revenue and collect resources faster.

Li Yuanhong was walking forward with the crowd when a voice suddenly stopped him: "Captain Li, why are you here free today!"

Li Yuanhong turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. It turned out to be Gao Zhiyuan. This guy came back by boat after conquering Hasansky County last time. Unexpectedly, this guy was also sitting in the market today.

"Well, I happened to be in Hunchun City today because I had something to do, so I stopped by to see how the market is developing. By the way, why are there so many people here?"

"Oh, it's a long story. Captain Li, sit down inside so I can tell you in detail."

Li Yuanhong looked down at his watch and saw that it was still early, so he nodded in response: "Okay!"

The two entered Gao Zhiyuan's exclusive office. After someone served tea, Li Yuanhong took the lead and asked, "What business is Boss Gao busy with recently?"

"Haha, it's not Captain Li's fault. I got a lot of bullets from Lao Maozi. I didn't expect the business to be so good. By the way, Captain Li, I see your army is still using cold weapons, why don't you change the guns? What about combat?"

"Of course it's good to have guns, but have you ever thought about what is the biggest disadvantage of gun combat?"

Gao Zhiyuan was stunned. Does this gun have any shortcomings? So he shook his head and said he didn't know.

Li Yuanhong smiled slightly, and then said: "It's the bullets you sold. As mercenaries, if you fire a few shots in a casual manner, the bullet consumption will not be very large, but if you are like me, the light one and thousands of zombies will be the most serious. In a battle with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of zombies, have you ever thought about how many bullets are needed? You have been to Russia. Most of the bullets you buy from them are made in manual workshops, regardless of speed or quality. They are not as fast as previous factory production, and the cost is also high. The ammunition produced in this model cannot support our operations at all. Therefore, no ammunition production line has been found, and the guns can only be used for training and warning." Li Yuanhong showed a helpless look.

"That's it!" Gao Zhiyuan suddenly realized that if you don't act as a leader, you won't be able to see through many things.

"By the way, you haven't said why there are so many people in the market!" Li Yuanhong changed the topic back.

"That's it. Didn't Miss Baiyu Qianbai make a radio broadcast? The radio boasted that our base is almost like heaven. No, many survivors from the surrounding areas have come to seek refuge. There are also some slightly larger gathering places. Those people didn't want to give up their rights, so they came to trade with us, and they continued to be mountain kings. There are also some people who are used to being idle, so they registered in our mercenary association here, doing tasks every day, and making money. Just go to the tavern to eat and drink, and then resupply in our market. You can see there are many people there, most of them are mercenaries and people from other gathering places." Gao Zhiyuan explained.

Li Yuanhong also did not expect that Bai Yuqian's broadcasting influence would be so great. It seems necessary to strengthen Bai Yuqian's publicity, which can not only speed up his economic reform process, but also speed up population collection. After all, his own development cannot be separated from population support. In the future, if there is no one to take back the land from the zombies, it will be impossible to hold it.

Li Yuanhong chatted with Gao Zhiyuan for a while and learned about the situation of many mercenaries. Only then did Li Yuanhong realize how powerful the system was. Just a small mercenary ID card could do many unexpected things. However, the specific , Li Yuanhong did not ask in depth due to time constraints, but when he had the opportunity, he still needed to explore the potential of the Mercenary Association. After all, this facility would not appear in the system for no reason. There must be something powerful about it.

After leaving Gao Zhiyuan's shop, Li Yuanhong found Shangqiu Yuan. He saw Shang Qiu Yuan frowning and looking worried at a report. He didn't even notice Li Yuanhong coming in, so Li Yuanhong coughed, which made Shang Qiu Yuan wake up.