The Caveman Made Me Awesome

Ever since meeting the mutated prairie otter in the Thorn Tribe, Ye Xi has been thinking about what weapons can effectively kill this behemoth.

They are too large in size, and bone knives and spears pierce them like thorns on the body, without pain or itching, and even the venom is extremely slow.

Make gunpowder?

However, it is not just knowing the composition ratio of a black powder that can make super cannons and super bombs.

After thinking for a long time, Ye Xi finally chose the Ballista—a masterpiece of the cold weapon era.

A ballista, more precisely a torsion spring ballista, is a lethal weapon that relies on a torsion spring to drive the crossbow arm to drive the bowstring. It possesses great striking power and precision, and can accurately penetrate the enemy's body through the armor even at a distance of several hundred meters.

Of course, its structure is also relatively complicated, and Ye Xi only happened to read it while reading history books, and did not study it in depth, so it is not an easy task to make it.

After drawing the general structure of the ballista, Ye Xi held the charcoal pencil, lowered his head and repeatedly revised, revised, and revised on the sheepskin scroll.

From day to night.

In the faint candlelight, the dimensions of the ballista's main beam, bracket, torsion spring group, long slot, ratchet, winch... and other structures were finalized one by one.

Ye Xi walked out of the house with the blueprint, and gathered more than 30 people including Pingyao, Boshan, Loujia, etc., and formed a team specializing in making ballistas, and devoted all their efforts to making ballistas.

Half a month later, the first giant ballista was born.

This giant ballista is five meters high, and its main material is curved black wood. Its power is astonishing. It can shoot stone bullets weighing fifty catties, and accurately hit the elk running three hundred meters away, smashing the elk's internal organs. away from the body.

But this is not enough, this is a prehistoric wild world, what they want to kill is not an elk, but a super monster as huge as a mountain, and the power of the ballista needs to be further strengthened.

Seven days later, the second improved giant ballista was born.

This giant ballista is larger and requires four people to operate it together. It no longer uses the torsion force generated by the mane of the hyena as power, but uses the tendon of the more resilient savage bull instead.

More importantly, it is a kind of ballista that specializes in projecting bronze giant spears. The diameter of the torsion spring installed and the length of the spear body have been carefully calculated to project the giant spears more accurately.

this time,

The giant bronze spear projected more than 500 meters away, successfully hit the running elk, and penetrated the five centimeter thick stone slab tied to the elk's body, killing it.

Everyone cheered.

This giant ballista amazed them both in terms of power and accuracy.

How could they have thought that there would be such a powerful weapon before! Moreover, this ballista does not need soldiers to operate, only a few ordinary people can drive this killing machine!

If there is another giant beast attacking Xicheng, maybe there will be no need for the curse witch!

However, amidst the thunderous cheers, Ye Xi didn't have much joy on his face. When everyone was stroking the ballista in amazement and trying to shoot again, Ye Xi quietly left the test site.

The ballista test was carried out in secret, and the test site was in a deep forest a few miles away from Xicheng.

Pingyao was the first to notice Ye Xi's departure, and immediately chased after him: "Lord Xiwu, is there something wrong with this crossbow?"

Ye Xi stopped and said truthfully, "The speed of opening the bow is too slow. If the monster attacking Xicheng is very fast, it will rush to our eyes before we can attack with the ballista!"

Ping Yao was stunned.

Yeah...how did they forget that.

Ye Xi rubbed the space between his brows, and said, "I'll think about it again, and you guys should think about it again. Feel free to report to me if you have any good suggestions for improvement."

Primitives are not good at designing such complicated equipment, so the design of the ballista basically depends on Ye Xi alone, and he is a little tired and irritable from the work of the past few days.

Back to Xicheng.

Ye Xi walked slowly along the stone-paved road, and found that his heart was still restless, so he simply jumped into the star lake with a plop.

He stretched his limbs and swam in the lake, and the clear water slowly soothed his anxiety and exhaustion.

After his brain regained his composure, Ye Xi even had the leisure to catch a beautiful big fish, and walked to the shore of the lake holding its tail.

"Master Xiwu!"

On the way to the public stove with the big fish, Diao suddenly finds Ye Xi.

Ye Xi: "What's wrong?"

Diao saluted, then paused, and then slowly said: "Lord Xiwu, I'm here to say goodbye to you, I want to leave Xicheng and go to another place."

Ye Xi was taken aback: "Why do you suddenly want to leave?"

Diao: "I want to become stronger, and I want to find the source stones, but I have exhausted all the source stones around Xicheng, so I can only search far away."

Yeah?

Ye Xi silently stared at his face.

Mink lowered his eyes slightly.

Ye Xi knew that Diao had always harbored hatred for the Heize tribesmen, and this hatred could not be healed even by time. He often targeted and provoked the Heize tribesmen during hunting, and even killed no less than five Heize tribesmen by different means. people.

For the sake of the Langya tribe, Ye Xi turned a blind eye to them.

Unexpectedly, Diao still couldn't appease the resentment in his heart, to the point where he didn't want to stay in Xicheng.

Ye Xi: "Do you really want to leave?"

Diao raised his head and said: "Yes, don't worry, I will come back when I find the source stone. Xicheng is always my home, here are my family members and friends, I will come back!"

Ye Xi was silent for a long time, then sighed, "Forget it, it's fine to leave, but wait a few more days."

Mink lowered his head and replied, "Okay."

Because of the news that Diao was about to leave the city, Ye Xi could only temporarily put down the research on ballistas.

Diao is now a fourth-level fighter, and his strength is not low, but he is still not good enough in the wild land full of dangers. He may encounter accidents just after walking a few hundred miles.

So he wanted to create hidden dominoes.

Just as Ye Xi started to hide the domino making, Ze from the Shuren tribe suddenly came to the door and said that he wanted to leave Xicheng.

Ye Xi rubbed his temples and laughed angrily: "Why do you want to leave too?"

Ze keenly caught the word You: "Is there anyone else who wants to leave?"

Ye Xi said nothing, just looked at him like this.

Ze hurriedly saluted, and said, "Lord Xiwu, please forgive me, it's because the patriarch of our tree-human clan is about to lose his grip! I have to go outside to find another tree-human clan that was lost, get the source of growth crystals, and save them." Hui Patriarch."

Ye Xi: "Do you big witches know about this?"

Ze: "The great witch knows, he agreed."

What he didn't say was that the great witch of the tree-human tribe originally disagreed, but when he saw that the situation of the tree-human patriarch was really bad, he reluctantly agreed, but he still didn't want Ze to go in person.

Ze struggled for a long time before the big tree-human witch reluctantly nodded.

Ye Xi: "Since that's the case, I won't stop you. You should wait a few more days before leaving. When the time comes, you will set off with the mink from the Tushan tribe and make each other companions."

"yes!"

Ze didn't have much contact with the Tushan tribe, and he didn't know Diao, so he just agreed, without much surprise in his eyes.