Chapter 35 Teach Beast-eared Girls How to Shoot Arrows.
Lin Ye put the ox horns aside and began to concentrate on making the bow body.
The Beast-eared Girls, after smoking the beef, started making arrows again.
It was around noon when Lin Ye finished eating the beef tripe.
And when Lin Ye finished making the bow and raised his head again, the sun had already begun to set, and only half of it could be seen.
In one afternoon, Lin Ye diligently trimmed out exactly twenty bow bodies.
Lin Ye took a bow body that he felt was the most satisfactory and went to the stone where the cowhide was being dried.
He also selected a piece of the best cowhide.
He twisted the cowhide into a spiral, until the two-centimeter-wide cowhide was twisted into a thin rope less than one centimeter wide.
Then Lin Ye began to string the bow.
With Lin Ye’s monstrous strength, he easily hung the bowstring made of cowhide onto the pre-cut notches at both ends of the bow body.
Lin Ye took the strung bow and went to the bonfire to grab some arrows made by the Beast-eared Girls.
A newly strung bow absolutely cannot be dry-fired.
This is because dry-firing means that all the energy that should have been released with the arrow is absorbed by the bow limbs, which can cause hidden damage in mild cases, or directly break the bow in severe cases.
The Beast-eared Girls saw Lin Ye walk over holding something they had never seen before.
Their attention was completely drawn to Lin Ye.
The Beast-eared Girls, who were originally wondering what Lin Ye was holding.
Saw Lin Ye pick up an arrow from the ground.
They understood that what Lin Ye was holding was the other part of the weapon he had mentioned.
The Beast-eared Girls all put down what they were holding, gathered around Lin Ye, and curiously looked at the bow in Lin Ye’s hand.
At this time, Xing and the others also saw the commotion and all ran over.
Upon seeing the bow in Lin Ye’s hand, they also asked with confused faces.
“Ye, is this the weapon you were talking about?” Xing asked, looking at the bow in Lin Ye’s hand.
“Ye, with this, can we protect others?” Sakura asked, blinking her big eyes.
Lin Ye was surrounded by the Beast-eared Girls, and they kept asking him questions.
“Ye, is this thing a weapon?”
“Ye, how do you use this thing?”
“Ye, can this thing really protect others?”
Lin Ye was asked by several Beast-eared Girls at the same time and didn’t know who to answer first.
Lin Ye thought to himself that he just wanted to test the bow, and he didn’t expect the Beast-eared Girls’ curiosity to be so strong.
“Okay! Listen to me first!”
Lin Ye shouted, which finally made the curious Beast-eared Girls around him stop.
Lin Ye looked around and after no one spoke, he began to speak.
“What I’m holding is called a bow, and what you made is called an arrow. Together, they are the bow and arrow I mentioned.”
“Next, you all move aside and stand behind me, and I’ll show you how to use this thing.”
The Beast-eared Girls obediently retreated behind Lin Ye.
Lin Ye waited until there were no Beast-eared Girls in front of him.
Then he raised the bow and arrow in his hand.
“Spread your feet shoulder-width apart, with your toes in a straight line. Note that you are not facing your target; the target should be to your side. You should turn your head to look at it.”
“With your left hand, use the area between your thumb and index finger to hold the middle of the bow. Note that it feels like you are pushing the bow forward, not gripping it. At the same time, the hand holding the bow should not be straightened, otherwise, the bowstring will easily hit your arm when shooting, causing the arrow to fly inaccurately.”
“Then, place the arrow on your thumb of the hand holding the bow. Hook the bowstring with a knuckle of your right hand, then pinch the tail of the arrow with your index and middle fingers, aim the arrow at your target, and pull it back to just below your chin.”
“Note here, when pulling the bow back, your shoulders must be relaxed and not hunched up, as this can easily injure yourself.”
Lin Ye explained the key points of the movements in words that the Beast-eared Girls could understand while drawing the bow and nocking the arrow.
“Finally, when you are about to shoot the arrow, this is the most important part. Whether your arrow hits the target largely depends on how you release the bowstring.”
“Note that when you aim at the target and are about to shoot the arrow, the arm pulling the bow must not move. Only your fingers can move. You must release the bowstring lightly and quickly, and the bowstring will push the arrow towards the target.”
After saying this, Lin Ye aimed at a tree tens of meters away and lightly released the bowstring.
The arrow flew out with a “whoosh” and hit the target tree directly.
Lin Ye was not surprised by this result.
This is because when the system transmitted the knowledge of bow crafting to him.
It first transmitted the techniques of archery.
It can be said that to learn bow crafting, one must first learn archery. Only by having a sufficient understanding of bows and arrows can you craft a truly useful bow.
The Beast-eared Girls watched as the arrow that was just on the bow suddenly disappeared after Lin Ye released it.
They didn’t know the arrow had been shot and were still blankly looking at the bow in Lin Ye’s hand.
Lin Ye helplessly covered his forehead.
It seems that the most difficult thing next is how to teach these Beast-eared Girls how to shoot.
Lin Ye carried the bow to the tree he had just shot to check the arrow’s lethality.
At this time, the Beast-eared Girls also followed.
It was then that they discovered that the arrow had already penetrated that big tree.
Lin Ye pulled the arrow out of the tree.
Then he found that the arrow’s lethality was very strong, having penetrated the tree by a full three fingers.
However, due to the material of the arrow, this arrow had already cracked.
The Beast-eared Girls looked at the arrow in Lin Ye’s hand, then at the small hole left in the tree after the arrow was pulled out.
They all looked at Lin Ye with immense shock.
