The correct way to open the sprite

Chapter 38

After listening to Feng Yu's words, Nicole said, "Is that the food you cooked for me at that time?"

"That's just the simplest. I'll still cook delicious food that's a hundred times better than those things, just because I'm afraid it won't be a good influence in the camp."

Nicole was very happy to see that Feng Yu was thinking about the camp, and said, "Dear Darren, this has nothing to do with food, as long as you can find food, it doesn't matter if you cook it yourself. You are not a soldier, follow the soldiers in the camp It's not good to eat together."

Feng Yu's eyes lit up, good guy, I'm afraid it's shameful to eat a small stove, but you told me that it's cheeky to eat a big pot of rice, that's all right, tomorrow I'll cook a few small frying pans to satisfy my cravings.

Nicole looked at Feng Yu's greedy look, and pinched his nose.

"Darren, I have eaten your food and it is really delicious, but I also found that you put salt in everything.

I don't know if your world lacks salt, but in our place, table salt is a very precious thing. When I went to the Elf Forest, I was only willing to bring a little, but you ate it all.

I have seen the table salt you brought, that kind of white grains, without any peculiar smell, there is also table salt of that quality in Grian Continent, but even among the nobles, that kind of thing is very rare. "

"So the camp eats sweets, not because you like sweets, but because you don't have salt?"

"Both, we elves and halflings are races that are good at raising bees. After our two races live together, the technology of bee breeding and honey making has been greatly improved.

Compared with table salt, honey is cheaper, the key is that you don't need to spend gold coins to buy it from goblins or other merchants.

In the past, when we were in the Elven Forest, some merchants would take the initiative to bring us salt to exchange for the special products of the Elven Forest, but now that we are here, it is difficult for us to get salt. "

"Wait, you elves have no money?" Feng Yu seemed to have heard a big joke.

"I know your idea of ​​making magic scrolls, but we elves will never sell magic scrolls to humans."

Feng Yu couldn't accept that the elves had been living in the rich elf forest for tens of thousands of years, but they were still poor. He thought it was just that the camp didn't leave any precious metals, and you guys didn't have any at all!

"Remember that poem I wrote by the sea?"

As soon as Feng Yu reminded her, Nicole couldn't help laughing when she thought of Feng Yu standing in the waist-deep sea and shouting "Ocean, you are all water".

Looking at Nicole's smiling face, Feng Yu couldn't help but sigh.

"what happened?"

"The wilderness where we are is exposed to the sun, little rain, and hot wind blows our faces, and the sea is less than fifty miles away from our camp. Under such conditions, there is a lack of salt. Don't you find it ironic?"

"You mean the salt in the sea? Darren, you can't think about the salt in the sea. You can't eat that kind of salt. If you eat too much, you will get sick, lose your teeth, and die miserably."

"Um, has anyone eaten?"

Nicole nodded solemnly, and said: "That's right, human beings once tried to boil salt with bitter sea water, and obtained a yellowish-yellow product, although it was a bit bitter, it was indeed very salty.

But it didn't take long for people who ate this salt to get sick one after another. They even asked the elves for help, but the elves' potion masters couldn't cure the disease.

But as long as you don't eat that kind of salt, you'll be fine. Mild patients can get better on their own, but severe patients can't, and they can only wait for death. "

"How did they make salt from the sea?"

"Put it in a pot and boil it. A big pot of sea water can boil out a little salt."

Feng Yu asked: "Is it all boiled?"

"Yup!"

"Isn't that killing you? You can't eat a lot of brine."

Nicole blinked her big eyes and asked, "What kind of bittern?"

Feng Yu said: "I can't explain a kind of chemical raw material, but as long as it is separated, you can get salt that is not bitter.

I lived not far from the seaside when I was a child, and I have seen artificial salt made by the seaside.

I've made a note of this, and when I'm done with the bow and crossbow, I'll give your grandfather an explanation and try to make some salt. "

Nicole said worriedly, "You have to promise me that you won't eat indiscriminately."

Feng Yu: "..."

"I'll find a mouse first, and feed it twenty catties to see the effect. Is that okay?"

Nicole laughed loudly: "Twenty catties of salt, the mouse would have died of salt."

Feng Yu: "..."

Feng Yu originally wanted to help the elves build a large bow and crossbow for use on a simple arrow tower with only a skeleton left, the kind that explodes the ghost's head at a distance of eight hundred miles. After all, the stupid, black and thick things are more delicate than the children Things are easy to make.

But after thinking about it, forget it. It has more than enough power, but not enough practicality.

The main threats facing the elf camp now are the halfling herders grazing in the cattail bushes in the estuary and the halfling farmers opening up wasteland and farming.

These halflings, who have little combat effectiveness compared to the elves who play bows and arrows and the muscular dwarves, are the food providers of the camp and the most indispensable agricultural practitioners.

The threats they faced were mainly beasts like murlocs and steppen wolves. They didn't have much armor, nor were they large herds. Most of them were small groups of three or five beasts or a single wandering beast.

The large beast herds near the camp were wiped out by the elf archers, but it was this wandering small beast herd that posed a great threat to the halflings.

There are too few elf warriors to protect all the halflings, so strengthening the self-protection ability of the halflings is particularly important for this camp.

The crossbow doesn't need to be too complicated. Things like safety bolts and guards are all removed. Most of the mechanisms are made of wood to strengthen the strength of the bow arm. The method of stepping on the string ensures the penetration of the crossbow, and also allows halflings to nice to use.

It adopts dwarven musket-style trigger firing, coupled with a simple machine sight structure, to ensure easy use, and casual practice can make halflings who are not good at fighting have good lethality.

This kind of bow and crossbow is easy to manufacture, and the crossbow does not need to use forged arrows like elf archers, and the arrows can be hammered into triangular arrows with just a few hammers.

An arrow of this shape shoots into the flesh, and the wound it creates is difficult to heal. Even if it is a strong beast, even if it is not killed on the spot, it will not be able to run very far before it will bleed to death.

Under Feng Yu's command, the dwarves cooperated with the elf bowsmiths, and used the stored materials for making bows and arrows to make the crossbow he designed in half a day.

Anthony and a few elf archers were watching the fun. After the crossbow was completed, the dwarf patriarch Dick looked at the familiar gunstock and the firing structure of the dwarf musket, and felt very cordial.

According to the method Feng Yu said, this meaty pier can easily string the crossbow by stepping on the pedal ring, install a ready-made crossbow arrow, and put it on the shoulder to pass the same as the dwarf musket designed by Feng Yu. The machine sighting device aimed at a target 20 meters away.

(End of this chapter)