Chapter 252
After getting the Improved Crossbow Cart Schematic, Qiao Sheng and his friends immediately took out the materials and started to improve the existing Crossbow Cart. As the name suggests, the new Schematic is based on the Crossbow Cart Schematic.
At first, Li Mu wanted to try to make a new Crossbow Cart directly with the Improved Crossbow Cart Schematic, but the game directly rejected his operation. Only then did they realize that the two Schematics were actually related.
On the world channel, players who got different Schematics started to exchange what they had, Crossbow Cart Schematic, Large Arrow Schematic, Improved Crossbow Cart Schematic. Players who did not collect all three Schematics could only exchange them with others.
This method is also good. At least if the player's ship is equipped with a Crossbow Cart, the combat power will be greatly increased.
Of course, there were some unscrupulous merchants who raised the exchange rate drastically at this time. The most outrageous one was a player who had a large arrow chart and wanted to exchange ten large arrows for a crossbow cart. As
soon as this order was issued, it was ridiculed by all players. The world channel was full of the player's code, followed by a lion's mouth.
However, this player did not say a word throughout the whole process. It is estimated that he also knew how outrageous his order was. After posting it on the world channel for a while, he quietly withdrew the order from the trading system.
Qiao Sheng and his friends were just watching the fun, but they couldn't go in to help other players with supplies. After all, the landlord didn't have much food left. Especially after seeing the giant pirate island, the four of them had to discuss combat strategies from time to time.
First of all, the firepower must be sufficient, and secondly, the reserves must be sufficient. Don't start with a strong firepower, but it will wilt after a while. Isn't it a waste of time? If you want to do it, you have to do it big.
Not only Qiao Sheng and his friends have been making preparations, but Pei Hong has also asked all combatants to start using sieves to collect supplies in order to obtain more supplies.
If Pei Hong's fleet is considered a large fleet, then Shen Li's fleet is a medium-sized team that has begun to take shape. It is a fleet built entirely on the food exchanged with Li Mu.
In particular, Li Mu's behavior of squandering money in the game has made many people think that he is careless. If he hadn't organized a fleet, Shen Li would have wanted to bring his team to join him.
Shen Li now has a little surplus food, but it is still unrealistic to store war preparations on a large scale. However, he has discussed with his team members. At that time, it is very likely that their firepower will only be enough for the early stage, and everyone will need to fight together in the later stage. His team members are also left because of their good character.
So their idea is that at worst, they can fight in hand-to-hand combat. Killing one is not a loss, and killing two is a profit. They will do their best to kill more pirates.
"Brother Shen, I have been in this game for more than a year. I only ate some other food after I followed you. Before that, I had fish meat for one meal and fish soup for the next. I didn't make much money in the real world, but I could eat normal food whenever I wanted. I have never suffered such grievances before. The first thing I did after returning home was to ask for leave to go back to my hometown. I miss my mother's braised pork so much. So these pirates don't want to affect my return home. Anyway, only one of me and these NPCs can survive!" After Shen Li's team members said this, the other team members immediately agreed.
Shen Li also felt that this was the only way to do this. Just do your best and be at peace with yourself. The
improved crossbow cart is a little bigger. Fortunately, the height has not changed, otherwise Qiao Sheng and his team would have to dismantle the ship and add a new deck, which would be too much work and difficulty.
They happened to be near a pirate island. They didn't check the specific situation when they arrived. They stopped near the island, pushed out the cannons, and blasted them. When the pirates came out to fight them, they recovered the cannons and pushed out new crossbow carts.
Before, they could only control one crossbow cart by themselves. Now, they can fire continuously until all the arrows are shot out by pressing the launch mechanism once. It is almost semi-automatic.
People only need to reload the empty crossbow cart with large arrows, and then press the mechanism to control another cart.
After constant running-in, Qiao Sheng and Xia Beibei were able to control four new crossbow vehicles at the same time. Li Mu was stronger and could control five, while Lin Haiyang could only control three. If there were more, he would be confused about which one to supply arrows to.
In order to ensure that the crossbow vehicles he controlled could operate normally, he did not have to show off, but chose to control three. He even thought about it. Even if Xia Beibei mocked him, he had to control himself and not get carried away, otherwise it would be troublesome if something went wrong during actual combat.
Unexpectedly, Xia Beibei said nothing, but gave him advice and summarized his experience.
With the blessing of the new crossbow vehicle, the pirate island in front of him was cleared very quickly. In the state of the pirates fighting to the death, it took less than half a day to solve all the hundreds of pirates on the island.
They took the cassock cubs to the island to search for something, and returned to the boat in the afternoon. Considering the weather, drifting on the sea late at night, if they encounter pirates, they have to get up from the warm quilt to fight. Everyone unanimously chose to stay on the shore of this island for one night and leave tomorrow morning.
It was still early, Li Mu and Xia Beibei were busy storing the supplies they had just brought back in the locker, and by the way, they also needed to complete the orders for exchanging weapons in the trading system for today.
Qiao Sheng and Lin Haiyang went to the kitchen, scratching their heads and thinking about what to eat tonight.
Since the temperature dropped to below zero, the consumption rate of their hot pot base has increased significantly, because they are not as good as Fang Yueyi in making it, and every time they take a lot of ingredients to her for processing.
Hot pot is delicious, but eating it every day is unbearable, and it's always spicy hot pot. Qiao Sheng and Xia Beibei were the first to complain. They ate too much and their faces started to break out.
"How can this digitized body still have skin problems? It's so annoying. There's a pimple on the middle of my forehead. I don't have any acne gel or acne patch. I can't eat any of this hot pot." Xia Beibei raised her hand to touch the pimple on her head. Qiao
Sheng didn't have acne, but if he continued to eat, he would get it, so he followed Lin Haiyang to the kitchen to research what to eat.
Thinking that he hadn't eaten stuffed food for a long time, he took out some of the dumplings that he had put in the ring space. Lin Haiyang thought that tomorrow morning's breakfast would be meat buns, so he halved wild boar and eggs tonight, and put the dough in the greenhouse for planting.
In order to get rid of the acne on Xia Beibei's head as soon as possible, they also fried a lot of vegetables, and even removed her favorite juice and replaced it with tea.
The cassock cubs still eat steamed buns and boiled shark meat. Now that they are getting bigger and bigger, their appetite is also getting bigger and bigger. Qiao Sheng and his team have no choice but to increase the amount of shark meat for them. Later, they also developed corn kernels, mashed sweet potatoes and mashed shark meat to make a full bowl of food.
Qiao Sheng and his friends looked like they had no appetite, but they didn't expect to win the favor of the kassa cubs. This bowl of fish and meat has almost become their dessert after meals. No matter what they eat, they have to have another bowl to feel full.
They really want to say that the cubs are too difficult to raise, but when they think about it, they don't eat anything expensive, just a large amount of food, which is not a big problem for them.
After dinner, Qiao Sheng and Xia Beibei were busy making canned food, while the other was collecting supplies with a colander. Li Mu and Lin Haiyang first went to the fourth-floor roof and collected all the snow in a wooden barrel, then pulled the inclined roof to prevent the snow from piling up on the roof.
After that, they all gathered in the first-floor cabin. Li Mu took advantage of this time to take a fishing rod to fish, while Lin Haiyang and Xia Beibei competed in collecting supplies.
This peaceful time only lasted until late at night. The four of them were sleeping soundly in the greenhouse when they heard a noisy sound outside. The roars of the cassock cub and Xin Xinbaba were particularly loud, and the sound of Ah Dai and the little eagle flapping their wings sounded wrong.
Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were the first to wake up. They sat up and listened to the noise outside. They knew that they were attacked by pirates. They woke up Lin Haiyang and Xia Beibei. The four of them dressed and hurried out.
As soon as they walked out of the greenhouse, they saw the monks roaring at the ship's door. The clanging sounds outside the door showed that the pirates had boarded the ship and were trying to force their ship's door.