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Shima Rin helped Shinonome and Kagamihara Nadeshiko take the baskets off their backs and put them on the ground.
Therefore, wearing leaf-patterned clothes, Shinonome and Kagamihara Nadeshiko were rather bulky, making it difficult for them to carry or take off their baskets. It would be best if someone could help them.
"Rin-chan, look what I brought back for you!" After putting down her basket, Kagamihara Nadeshiko eagerly held up the bear-like creature inside and said with a smile, "I brought you a plush toy."
"Your doll will rot, won't it?"
Shima Rin smiled.
Although she couldn't recognize what kind of animal it was, she knew it wasn't a plush toy, but an animal carcass.
It looked quite cute, but it was already dead.
"You can make it into a specimen."
Dongyun said calmly.
"I don't know how to make specimens, and it feels a bit cruel."
Shima Rin shook her head and said.
At this moment, Gabriel also came over and, seeing the jackal carcass in Dongyun's basket, asked.
"what is this?"
Gabriel had seen jackals before, but she didn't recognize the corpse in the basket.
“Jackal, you’ve seen us when we hunt deer.”
"Oh."
Gabriel remembered.
"Xiao Jia, Xiao Jia, listen to us..."
Back at camp, Kagamihara Nadeshiko was very excited. She couldn't wait to share with Gabriel and Shima Rin the various things they had encountered in their jungle adventure.
To introduce the gluttonous grass, she even took out the "Rainforest Herb Illustrated Guide" from Dongyun's basket, found the illustration of the gluttonous grass, and vividly described how they encountered the gluttonous grass and how they killed it.
Isn't this child sleepy?
Dongyun rubbed his eyes. He hadn't slept well last night. Now that he was back at the camp and no longer had to worry about safety, he was relaxed and couldn't help but feel sleepy.
I won't make a boat today; I'll try again tomorrow.
He was tired and wanted to go back inside to lie down and catch up on some sleep.
Uh, I think I'll stay indoors and sleep in the hammock instead. I'm sweating buckets trying to sleep in the room during the day.
Feeling the increasingly hot weather, Dongyun realized he couldn't go back to his room to sleep.
"You guys chat, I'm sleepy, I'm going to take a nap."
Dongyun couldn't hold back any longer; he waved his hand and was about to leave.
At this moment, Gabriel stopped him, deliberately pinched her nose, and pretended to be disgusted, saying, "If you want to sleep, take a shower first, you smell bad."
"Wash it after you wake up."
Dongyun yawned and walked quickly toward the hammock.
Shinonome was very sleepy, but Kagamihara Nadeshiko, who hadn't slept well either, was not sleepy at all. She was very eager to talk and excitedly chatted with Gabriel and Shima Rin.
Gabriel and Shima Rin listened attentively.
He stretched his neck, glanced sideways, smiled, sighed silently, and thought it was absolutely wonderful.
This greatly satisfied Kagamihara Nadeshiko's desire to confide, and also gave Gabriel and Shima Rin a clear understanding of what she and Shinonome had encountered in the jungle.
While Kagamihara Nadeshiko was talking until her throat was dry, Gabriel and Shima Rin were not idle either, but were busy processing the two leopard skins.
The monitor lizard skin has been soaked and roasted by Dongyun, so it doesn't need further processing and can be used directly.
The jackal and the bear-like creature were hung on the meat drying rack, to be handled by Dongyun when he woke up. He was an expert at dealing with corpses, and he was the one who did most of the tendons, skinning, and butchering. It wasn't that they couldn't do it, but it was better to leave professional tasks to professionals. Anyway, Dongyun wasn't busy; on the contrary, he would be quite free today.
Dongyun didn't sleep for long, less than half an hour, before he woke up.
Wake up naturally.
Awakened by nature.
The howling wind woke up Dongyun.
He opened his eyes in confusion and saw the girls carrying meat and drying racks under the rain shelter.
"Isn't the sky still sunny? Why are we harvesting meat?"
"Look out to sea."
Gabriel said something.
Dongyun looked towards the sea and saw dark, heavy clouds pressing down from the ocean not far away.
Now he understood why Xiao Jia and the others had stopped collecting meat.
Damn it, it's going to rain again. This rain just won't stop!
Chapter 129 Shima Rin and the Breastplate
The heavy rain hasn't stopped; it's been raining non-stop for a week now.
The sky had just cleared up briefly in the morning, but the torrential rain returned in the afternoon.
Dazzling lightning flashed across the distant sea from time to time, followed by a deafening roar from afar.
"Ugh, it's raining every day, it's so annoying."
Dongyun leaned against the doorway, looking at the large raindrops outside and couldn't help but sigh.
When will they finish making the bamboo and wood cruise ship? He wants to get some spices and cooking oil to make a delicious hot pot. Even if they don't eat hot pot, spices would make grilled meat and barbecue even more flavorful.
Unfortunately, the seemingly endless downpour shattered his hopes.
"call out!"
An arrow shot out, interrupting Dongyun's melancholy thoughts.
The arrow hit the target on the tree precisely, but missed the bullseye.
"Wow, that's amazing, Rin-chan!"
Upon hearing the sound, Dongyun looked over and saw Shima Rin practicing crossbow techniques in the tinderbox and Kagamihara Nadeshiko clapping her hands.
During this week, Dongyun finished making the crossbows he hadn't completed before he fell ill, and he also made a bamboo bundle bow and three single wooden bows.
The bamboo bow has a lower draw weight than the old bamboo bow, but it's not suitable for hunting large game. It's better for medium-sized game. The three single-piece wooden bows are all straight-draw bows. Although they are straight-draw bows, their draw weight is much higher than the old bamboo bow and the bamboo bow, so they can be used to hunt large animals.
These three single-piece wooden bows were made of different types of wood. He selected the best one, but didn't throw away the other two. Instead, he used them as practice bows, just like the old bow and arrow and the bamboo bundle bow.
Next, Dongyun plans to make another crossbow and a single-piece wooden bow.
The crossbow was powerful, but not particularly easy to use. Reloading after firing an arrow required the use of both hands and the abdomen. To quickly nock an arrow, the crossbow had to be pressed against the abdomen, and both hands had to pull the string. This made Dongyun less inclined to use the crossbow and more inclined to use the bow and arrow, and to practice his bow and arrow skills.
So he gave the crossbow to Rin-chan, so that Rin-chan could learn both bow and crossbow.
He planned to give the other crossbow bolt to Xiao Jia after he finished making it, so that Xiao Jia could also improve her combat power. After all, she couldn't use her magic easily, and she didn't have the strength to use a bow and arrow.
After nocking the arrow, Shima Rin wiped the sweat from his forehead.
She glanced at Nadeshiko beside her and said, "It's not good enough. I only barely hit the target. And that was a stationary target. If it were a running prey, my arrows wouldn't even glancing at it."
If she were a member of the archery club, practicing archery there, she might even feel a little smug.
But she was surviving in the wilderness, and the accuracy of her arrows determined whether they could hunt prey more effectively and whether they could survive better. Hitting only a small, stationary target, without even getting close to the bullseye, left her somewhat disappointed.
"Rin-chan, hunting targets are fixed. If it's a moving target, it's hard to hit it even with a gun unless it's charging at you."
When Dongyun arrived at the tinderbox, he saw that Shimo Rin was dissatisfied and comforted him.
His words weren't exactly comforting; they were a fact, since moving targets are indeed very difficult to hit.
Reality is not a game. Even in gunfights between American police and criminals, it is difficult to accurately shoot each other.
Games have crosshairs, but reality doesn't. You can't aim exactly where you want to shoot. Even if some games realistically simulate factors that affect accuracy, such as wind direction, wind speed, and bullet drop, they still can't compare to real archery or shooting.
"Is that right?"
Shima Rin thought about the hunting scenes she had seen on TV and realized that it seemed to be true.
At that moment, Gabriel also came out of the house.
She saw the three people gathered under the tinderbox and walked over to ask, "What are you doing?"
"Practicing archery."
Shima Rin raised the crossbow in her hand, but because she was worried that she might pull the trigger, she did not point the crossbow at anyone.
"Rin-chan, you're so diligent."
Gabriel sighed as she saw Shima Rin practicing archery again.
Ever since Rin got her bow and arrow, she practices archery every day, rain or shine, as long as it's not dark and there's no thunder.
After acquiring the crossbow, she practiced archery even more diligently.