But after running just a few steps, it felt the sky darken above its head.
The Crowned Eagle pressed down, pinning it onto the sand.
A few minutes later, the Island Monitor Lizard gradually stopped moving, lying quietly on the beach.
However, a large amount of blood flowed out from beneath its body.
Qin Ziwen glanced at the Hunting Ladder task; it still showed 1/10.
This ant it wasn't dead yet.
Compared to the thick-headed arrows, the conical-headed arrows had better armor penetration, but their killing width was insufficient. Against such large-sized prey, it was difficult to achieve a one-hit kill; they could only slowly bleed it out and wait for it to die on its own.
It seed a wider head was still better.
The thickness of the arrow shaft was justice.
Afterwards, Qin Ziwen began hunting Island Monitor Lizards on this stretch of beach. The beach was nearly two to three li wide. The earlier fight here had affected so nearby Island Monitor Lizards. For example, behind a nearby reef, two lizards that had just poked their heads out retracted them.
They wisely hid back inside.
But other parts of this beach still had a continuous stream of lizards coming up to lay eggs.
Qin Ziwen considered himself a rciful person. Before hunting these Island Monitor Lizards, he would wait for them to finish laying their eggs before taking action.
Through his testing, the thick-headed arrows had the greatest power, but they had higher distance requirents, and beyond fifty ters, it was difficult for thick-headed arrows to maintain accuracy.
Next were the conical-headed arrows. As long as they hit a vital area, even if the target didn't die imdiately, it would be severely wounded afterwards, with its combat power greatly reduced.
The weakest, or rather, the least suitable for hunting these Sea Beasts, were the broad-headed arrows.
The broad-headed arrows had the strongest blood-letting ability. Their flat arrowheads were like shovels.
After hitting the prey, the spinning arrowhead would churn and tear open the prey's body, creating a larger wound and causing continuous bleeding.
But for large-sized prey, unless multiple arrows could hit simultaneously, relying on a single wound to make it bleed out quickly was still too difficult.
Perhaps what broad-headed arrows were more suited for was actually people.
For the size of a human, the wound volu torn open by a broad-headed arrow was just right.
After an hour of hunting.
The task to hunt Island Monitor Lizards was successfully completed.
[Completed Hunting Ladder Level 1 Task: Hunt Adult Island Monitor Lizard *10]
[Reward Obtained: Level 2 Ordinary Building Card *1, 1 point]
After completing the task, Qin Ziwen originally wanted to look for Elephant Birds.
But after searching for a short while, he saw many people on the island raising torches, rushing towards the beach.
Qin Ziwen chuckled. It seed they had guessed soone was here competing with them for the task.
After all, they had been here for two days; it was impossible they didn't know what animals were on the island.
It was even possible they had already started hunting, trying to complete the task.
"Let's go."
Qin Ziwen patted the Crowned Eagle's head. Since they were coming, he could leave first.
Anyway, one task was already completed; the objective was achieved.
On the return journey, Qin Ziwen casually took out the card. He wanted to see what card he had obtained this ti.
[Building Card] Level 2 Residence *1
A Level 2 Residence?!
The corner of Qin Ziwen's mouth lifted.
Residence cards were sowhat scarce, not very common.
With a Residence, the Ho could recruit more people.
In his plan, buildings like Residences held a very important position.
.....
Returning to the Armory Departnt.
Li Yue and the others were still working overti at this hour.
Seeing Qin Ziwen return, Li Yue wiped his hands and ca forward. "Boss, I just saw a task on the Ladder leaderboard was completed."
"I completed it. Your crossbow is good, just a bit heavy. Ordinary people might find it quite strenuous to use." Qin Ziwen placed the hand crossbow on the table.
He told Li Yue about his experience using it. "Changing arrows might be difficult for ordinary people. Either two people cooperate, or use foot/waist/abdon strength."
Hearing this, Li Yue sighed. "No choice. The strength of the available materials can only achieve this level. Unless we could have tal with hardness and toughness no worse than this, but also lighter in weight, then we could reduce its weight."
"But even if such tal really existed, it would be more suitable for making armor. Using it for a crossbow would be sowhat wasteful."
Qin Ziwen thought of the Resource Upgrade Card he had traded from Luo Gang.
Should he gamble now?
The Iron Mine was only Level 2 now; upgrading would drop it to Level 1.
But this was a gamble.
If the new vein wasn't a tal with properties like iron.
Then most of the industries in the Ho would have to shut down.
After much hesitation, Qin Ziwen still put the card away.
He would consider advancing it after he had another Level 2 Iron Mine as a backup. After all, advancent was random.
Afterwards, he went to the ghost shipyard.
When Tao Fu saw Qin Ziwen, it was like seeing a savior. He hurried over. "Master, the shipyard is short of wood."
"How much is needed?"
Tao Fu said, "The more, the better. The wood in the Ho is almost used up. We don't just have this one ship."
Qin Ziwen pondered, thinking about where he could quickly get more wood.
Suddenly, he thought of a place.
The initial Forest map!
The backtracking function, activated but never used, was perfect to try returning to the Forest first.
The Forest might not have much else, but it definitely didn't lack big trees.
It was just that ti was a bit tight, only 6 hours.
So the number of people cutting trees couldn't be few.
It would be best to send more people. In six hours, they should be able to cut enough wood for several ships.
After thinking, Qin Ziwen decided to wait until tomorrow morning to act. At this hour, most people were already asleep.
He found Jia Liangcai and gave the instructions.
The next day.
Inside the Ho, a long line ford.
Many people carried axes, saws, and so other tools. So prepared them themselves, so were issued by the Ho.
Standing before the crowd, Qin Ziwen activated backtracking.
[Please select backtracking map: 1. Forest 2. Gobi Desert. After opening the channel, the channel will be maintained for 6 hours. Those who fail to return on ti will be lost within the map.]
Qin Ziwen looked at the final two words: "lost".
He had thought about it before: after this backtracking period ended, if soone hadn't returned through the channel, what would be the consequence?
Would they be permanently left in the original map, or forcibly brought back, or perhaps there was another punishnt chanism?
This "lost" here was probably the punishnt for failing to return on ti.
His thoughts turning, Qin Ziwen silently chanted in his heart: Forest.
Instantly,
Behind him, a bronze tal door, four ters high and three ters wide, abruptly materialized. It stood there quietly.
Then, untouched by anyone, the door automatically swung inward. A dazzling ray of light shone from behind the door onto the ground.
Inside the Ho, many people watched this shocking scene.
When the bronze door fully opened, through this door, many people saw familiar grassland, familiar forest.
So were stunned, their eyes suddenly reddening.
Others' breathing beca rapid.
Only after experiencing the latter two maps did many realize how "gentle" the very first map was.
No lack of water, abundant supplies.
The surrounding animals also seed so "harmless."
Even the final Giant Toad that appeared didn't cause any casualties. As long as you didn't disturb it, nothing would happen.
"Ti is limited. Act quickly. Let's go." Qin Ziwen waved his hand and was the first to step through the door.
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