Even in the eyes of many school teachers, the art of trapping was an extremely useless and unnecessary course. What was the point of learning these boring things? Anything that could be trapped by those simple and crude traps and mechanisms were just some worthless low-level wild beasts like tigers and wolves. However, anyone who had reached the level of a LV 5 Fighter would be able to deal with these wild beasts effortlessly. They could even tear tigers and leopards apart with their bare hands. Why would they need to set up traps for these things? If they had the time, they might as well cultivate and light more burning points in their bodies. Anything that could be trapped by traps was worthless, while valuable ones would not be trapped by those cheap traps. This was the awkwardness of hunting skills such as traps and mechanisms. There were no such courses in schools, because it was not in line with the interests of the ruler of Blackhot City to train independent hunters. Neither did the teachers teach such courses. In the eyes of the teachers, it was a waste of effort to set up such a course that had nothing to do with individual fighting strength and bravery in order to deal with some harmless low-level wild beasts. In this era, individual fighting strength was the most important thing. Everything else was not worth mentioning.
In this case, the students trained by Blackhot City, even the entire Andaman Alliance, almost didn't pay attention to the effects of these low-level traps. Most of them knew nothing about them. In Zhang Tie's memory, in his entire academic career, the teacher had only casually said, "Sometimes, setting traps can be a bit useful!" In a survival class last year, the teacher had casually said, "Sometimes, setting traps can be a bit useful!" — — Only a few students would pay attention to such a sentence.
These methods of setting traps were the survival skills that low-level pioneers had learned in the wild. Naturally, few people would pay attention to them. If not for the experience of working in the grocery store, Zhang Tie would not have had access to such knowledge. This time, after coming to the Wild Wolf Valley for the survival training, Zhang Tie found that the traps he had learned could be put to good use...
If not for those golden threadfin fish, Zhang Tie wouldn't have the confidence to encourage the others to play the trap method. However, those golden threadfin fish made Zhang Tie believe that what Donder had taught him was valuable, at least in this survival training. The national education system of Blackhot City could indeed teach students many basic skills. However, in the limited compulsory education period, there were many things that could not be learned in the schools protected by the high city walls of Blackhot City.
In the eyes of those from the Brotherhood who had never come into contact with the art of traps, setting up traps seemed to be a very technical and mysterious matter. In some boring knight novels, those traps that were set up were all overflowing with murderous intent, rolling with mechanisms, incomparably complex, causing people to be intimidated at first sight. Even if they broke their heads, they would not be able to understand the key to it. In fact, those were things that some bored people thought up. After listening to Zhang Tie's detailed explanation, everyone suddenly realized that in the wild, the most effective and simplest trap skill to deal with low-level wild beasts was actually a powerful trap skill that everyone could master — — digging a pit! A pit with a depth of more than five meters was enough to trap most of the wild beasts and animals in the Wild Wolf Valley. As long as the wild beasts fell into the pit, they would become live targets for the others. By then, they would be able to use the "Iron Gate T21" brought by Barley to kill them.
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The next morning, Zhang Tie woke up at six o 'clock again. When he woke up, the entire Wild Wolf Valley had not completely woken up from the tranquil night. Besides the occasional chirps of birds and insects, the entire valley was in deep sleep. It was Sharwin's turn to keep watch last night. After waking up, Zhang Tie went to the brook to wash his face and rinse his mouth before letting Sharwin go back to sleep. Sitting in the hollow of a tree, Zhang Tie took out the "Iron Gate T21" and started to wait for the other members of the Hit-Plane Brotherhood to wake up.
It had been four days since Zhang Tie arrived at the Wild Wolf Valley. It was the first time for Zhang Tie to seriously study the "Iron Gate T21". Compared to the various hand crossbows made by humans before the Catastrophe, the "Iron Gate T21" was much more powerful. Before the Catastrophe, humans were in the era of hot weapons. In that era, humans had too many powerful weapons to choose from. Therefore, they didn't spend too much time on cold weapons. However, in this era, when cold weapons became the leading role in wars, those technologies that were not related to cold weapons were gradually used on cold weapons, gradually pushing the power of cold weapons to the extreme.
Compared to the traditional hand crossbow, the biggest feature of this crossbow was the hydraulic sliding rod on the body of the crossbow. The principle of the hydraulic sliding rod was similar to that of a jack. However, with some gears, its structure was more complex than that of a jack. Using this hydraulic device, a commoner could easily pull the string of a crossbow that required over 200 kg of strength from a strong man to the desired firing position. With the hydraulic sliding rod and the standard crossbow cartridge developed from the cartridge clip of hot weapons, the weight of this crossbow was far greater than that of a common crossbow by about 30 kg. However, the great weight also brought great power. Theoretically, if this "Iron Gate — T21" was in the hands of a guy with great strength, the theoretical shooting speed of this lightweight composite crossbow could reach over 120 bolts per minute.
Of course, if it was in the hands of Zhang Tie and the others, it would be very difficult for them to shoot 10 arrows per minute. Over the past two nights, they had tried it out. Even after adjusting the pressure adjustment knob to 1/8, Sharwin and the others still had to use all of their strength to move the hydraulic sliding rod eight times before they could pull the string once. Gritting his teeth, Bagdad could adjust the pressure adjustment knob to 1/5 of the position and pull the string twice before his hands became sore. This morning, when nobody was paying attention to him, Zhang Tie tried to adjust the pressure adjustment knob to 1/5 of the position. Lifting the body of the crossbow with his right hand while operating the hydraulic sliding rod with his left hand, Zhang Tie's situation was similar to Bagdad's. He could only pull the string twice before the muscles and arms of his left hand started to become sore.
After playing with the "Iron Gate — T21", Zhang Tie confirmed two things. First, his strength as a LV 1 fighter was almost the same as that of Bagdad, who was a black man. Second, the crossbows of the Iron Gate series were really powerful weapons. Barley's crossbow was only a light one. Zhang Tie really couldn't imagine what a heavy crossbow would be like.
As he played with the crossbow, Zhang Tie familiarized himself with it while visualizing the abacus of "mental arithmetic by abacus" in his mind, waiting for the other guys to wake up. After reaching the great success level of "mental arithmetic by abacus" in the seventh gear, Zhang Tie had started to attempt to reach the eighth gear, which was able to perform tens of millions of calculations. These days, Zhang Tie had been practicing whenever he had time. Now, without being disturbed by anyone, it only took him two minutes to slowly perform eight-digit calculations with the eight-gear abacus in his mind …
After Zhang Tie's spiritual energy had increased by seven times and all of his senses had become sharper, Zhang Tie could also sense the slight increase in his spiritual energy from the golden abacus after practicing "mental arithmetic by abacus". Although he didn't know why, Zhang Tie was very excited that practicing "mental arithmetic by abacus" could really increase one's spiritual energy. He had already started to think about how to share this discovery with his elder brother. Oh, there was also Donder. After what had happened to Huck and Snade, Zhang Tie had always felt that he owed Donder a favor. Perhaps he could use the secret of "mental arithmetic by abacus" to repay this favor … Zhang Tie had never heard of a cultivation method that could increase one's spiritual energy during his 15 years of miserable life. Zhang Tie believed that he had already done enough for Donder. Because Donder had told him that the skill of abacus could not be passed on to outsiders, and Zhang Tie didn't intend to break Donder's rule, he could not share it with the other members of the Hit-Plane Brotherhood for the time being.
About one hour after Zhang Tie got up, Barley and the other guys climbed out of the tree hole one after another. Barley, who was the first to climb out, didn't even bother to wipe his eyes. Seeing Zhang Tie sitting in the tree hollow, he was very surprised. "Wasn't Sharwin the one who kept watch last night? How come it became you?"
"I got up early today and couldn't fall asleep, so I let Sharwin go back to sleep first!"
Barley didn't say anything more. Instead, he quickly got off the tree and went to the brook to wash his face and rinse his mouth. After Barley got up, the other guys also got up one after another …
After everybody was ready, except for Sharwin, who stayed in the tree base, all the others excitedly followed Zhang Tie to see the trap that he had set up to catch golden threadfin fish in the brook.
After confirming that nobody was following them, the six guys followed Zhang Tie to the brook where Zhang Tie had set up the trap yesterday. The moment they arrived at the brook, they were shocked. In the early morning, a shoal of fish, ranging from the size of a palm to the length of a chopstick, and even the length of a finger, were scrambling for water and swimming up to the surface of the brook. This scene was also out of Zhang Tie's expectation. Zhang Tie hurriedly came to the edge of the brook and stealthily picked up the twig that had been covering the brook …
It was like a cornucopia. After a night, the number of fish in the small pond did not decrease, but increased. There were at least five golden threadfin fish that were bigger than the ones from yesterday, and there were also more than ten to twenty fish of different sizes. Everyone was overjoyed …
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