The person in charge of Douyin eventually persuaded the others, and Ye Zi was able to keep the guns and ammunition in her possession.
Ye Zi also had this worry. She had finally learned how to use a gun, but the production team wouldn't let her use it, which would be upsetting.
However, Ye Zi also had her own contingency plan: if she wasn't allowed to use guns to get food, then she could play by herself, right?
I can practice disassembling and reassembling old WWII guns and hone my marksmanship. Anyway, I don't need a gun when I'm getting food.
But the drone never notified him that he couldn't use guns, so Ye Zi was relieved.
After maintaining all four guns, Ye Zi began checking the bullets. Since the guns were all the same model, there would naturally be no other type of bullet.
To be honest, there was a reason why the United States was able to profit from the war during World War II, and it remains the world's largest arms dealer today.
Putting aside the guns and grenades, it's easy to see from these bullets that their military equipment is indeed of very high quality.
After decades of seawater immersion, ten boxes containing a total of 20,000 rounds of ammunition still contain more than 80% of them that are still usable.
A wooden box covered with a layer of iron sheet, inside which are two iron boxes, and inside each iron box are one hundred small cardboard boxes, each containing ten bullets.
These bullets are not only well-sealed, but their surfaces are also clearly waterproofed.
Otherwise, brass bullets could not have remained intact after being soaked for decades.
Aside from the fact that these bullets were waterproofed at the factory, Yezi really couldn't think of any other reason.
Just as Ye Zi suspected, the bullets were indeed waterproofed.
War is all about money; as the saying goes, "When the cannons roar, gold pours in."
During wartime, nothing is more profitable than rapidly depleting commodities like arms.
The bald eagle understood this principle, and so did others. Therefore, during that period, not only the bald eagle was involved in the arms trade, but also the Hans, the initiating country.
One reason the bald eagle went into the arms trade was that it entered the war relatively late and had nothing to do in the early stages. Another reason was that at the beginning of the war, no one was attacking it.
This gave the bald eagle time to make money by dealing in arms.
Hanscat's only reason for selling the weapons and ammunition was that they had too many captured weapons and ammunition, and these weapons and ammunition were different from the standard equipment of their own army. Apart from reworking them, they could only sell some of them, since they also needed money.
There are other countries too; if you don't make money from it, you're a bastard.
At this point, in order to seize the market, the bald eagle naturally had to improve the quality of its products.
What Ye Zi didn't know was that the wooden boxes on the bullets weren't there when the bullets were manufactured; they were added by the arms smugglers themselves to make the ammunition boxes more stable during sea voyages.
After all, the principle that bigger is more stable is very applicable at sea.
Ye Zi didn't know, but that didn't stop him from cleaning up the bullets.
Cleaning bullets is a huge job. There are more than 18,000 bullets, and apart from those that are obviously unusable, the rest need to be cleaned.
While cleaning, they checked for other bullets whose casings were corroded beyond recognition due to prolonged soaking. Ye Zi would rather not use such bullets than risk an explosion during an experiment.
Reba also participated in cleaning the bullets. She washed the bullets with her leaves in a basin to remove the residue, wiped them with a gun oil cloth, and determined whether the bullet was to be used.
Discard the unused parts, hand the usable parts to Reba, wipe off the gun oil with a dry cloth, and finally put them into a dried wooden box for later use.
After two days of fussing, Reba finally finished cleaning up all the bullets. With a sigh of relief, she announced in a surprised tone the number of bullets she had handled: 12,462.
Ye Zi was surprised when he heard the number. He wasn't surprised by how many bullets were available, but by the fact that Reba was counting them while she was working.
It turns out that Reba would make a mark for every hundred bullets she handled, which is basically writing a tally mark.
Each character represents 500 bullets. There are 25 tally marks on the wooden stick next to Reba. Adding the remaining loose bullets, we can get the number of bullets that can be used.
Ye Zi gave a thumbs-up to indicate that Reba's work was beautiful.
Dilraba responded with a thank you emoji.
In fact, among the five or six thousand bullets that Ye Zi discarded, if one were to continue selecting, at least one or two thousand usable bullets could still be found.
But as I said before, it's better to fire fewer shots than to risk injury from a barrel explosion.
Moreover, with over 12,000 rounds of ammunition evenly distributed among the four rifles, each rifle would have a quota of 3,000 rounds.
Ye Zi was holding an old gun, a product from decades ago. After being soaked in seawater for decades, it had just been maintained, but Ye Zi's skills were only those of a beginner, not even as good as a novice.
Ye Zi didn't believe that such an old gun could still have a lifespan of three thousand bullets.
Furthermore, Ye Zi plans to keep the one with the highest precision, so that she might be able to catch fish when she goes out to sea in the future.
This meant he now had three guns to practice with, and each gun required several hundred more rounds of ammunition.
Therefore, the bullets selected now, whether for practice or for the condition of the guns, represent the maximum possible level of expectation.
Even if the quality of these old guns exceeded Ye Zi's expectations and they were still usable after firing three thousand rounds, so what? The bullets that were not picked over were not thrown into the sea, but kept in the box, ready to be picked over again at any time.
Moreover, Ye Zi is here to participate in the show, and the competition could end at any time. Don't forget that guns are prohibited in China, so he can't take these guns back with him. He'll have to throw them away when he leaves.
Therefore, these bullets are sufficient.
After preparing the guns and ammunition, Ye Zi casually picked up a rifle, slowly pulled back the barrel, and loaded five bullets one by one.
He cocked the gun and then gestured for Reba to stand behind him.
After Reba hid, Yezi imitated the soldiers in the anti-Japanese war dramas, holding the gun with her left hand and gripping it with her right, her index finger on the trigger guard, and bending her arm to support the butt of the gun on her shoulder.
Click...
A hollow sound was heard, but the bullet in the chamber was not fired.
She put down the gun, pulled back the barrel, and a bullet ejected. Ye Zi picked up the bullet and looked at the bottom.
There is a primer at the bottom of the bullet, which is the key to igniting the gunpowder inside the cartridge case and propelling the bullet outward.
There are obvious signs of impact from the firing pin on the primer area, which preliminarily rules out the firing pin as the problem. It is likely that the bullet was soaked for too long, causing the primer to malfunction.
He chambered another round and pulled the trigger.
Thud...
A gunshot rang out, and Ye Zi grinned, indicating that the gun was probably fine.
However, among the more than 12,000 bullets selected, there should still be bullets with faulty primers, which need to be eliminated one by one during daily shooting practice.
After firing the remaining three bullets, Ye Zi put down the first gun.
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