Chapter 208: Pierce A Willow Leaf With an Arrow From the Distance of a Hundred Feet? Not Just a Hundred Feet! (I)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In most normal circumstances, Jiang Pengji had a fixed ti for streaming. She opened the streaming room after she got up, cleaned herself up, and shut it down after dinner at dusk. She would adjust the streaming schedule for whenever she needed based on special streaming missions.
It was her normal streaming ti now and the room was filled with an audience of more than ten thousand.
There were always backup viewers who squeezed in when they found available spots left behind by those who got bored in the middle of the stream.
Whoever had the best resource of high-speed internet and pure luck could compete for one spot in the room.
Chi Yun: “I still prefer our host to those pretend innocent b*tches. The mont I saw her eyes shine, I was shocked by her. I felt my heart throb... and like electricity went through my whole body...”
Pianxian Diewu: “I figure that feeling would be a thrill, right?”
The audience believed that there would be so hardcore background music when her eyes shone. It made people hot blooded and gave them goosebumps.
“Show my crossbow...”
Jiang Pengji was born in an era with extrely advanced war weapons and she had even driven and conducted a battle carrier––not to ntion the portable ones. Unless she traveled to a place with more cutting-edge technology, there would hardly be any weapons that would make her heart pump harder.
But clearly one wouldn’t be able to find those in the current conservative, closed off, and undeveloped technological society.
And of course, she didn’t need it.
As long as she owned a better weapon than average in the current ancient age, she prevailed far ahead of the rest.
Don’t use a sledgehamr on a nut.
It was a bold move to ask the craftsn to do a research and modification on the crossbow in an extrely short ti.
The craftsn exhausted all their energy and knowledge day and night, and they didn’t slack because of Jiang Pengji’s command. They were relieved to see her ecstasy and eagerness.
The craftsn handed the crossbow to her with caution. They watched Jiang Pengji take it, terrified that she was going to hurt herself.
Jiang Pengji schooled her expression and focused on so sort of crude crossbow.
It was bigger than what she expected. The crossbow was three feet three inches long, the string was two feet and five inches and painted in black. It had a distinctive paint sll when you got close to it. She could feel the weight when she was holding it, but it wasn’t overweight. It would be still considered practical.
All the materials used for the integral construction were collected by the craftsn themselves. Jiang Pengji had only provided the data.
It was definitely astonishing that they had made a finished product in such a short ti, regardless of the result of the experint.
There were around ten black, various shaped bolts, which were relatively different from the normal ones.
Most of the bolt heads had so carved slots that were particularly sharp in order to pierce skin and make people bleed. So of them had a number of tiny reversed hooks. If the bolt heads penetrated the target, it was obvious that they would dig hard into the big section of flesh. It would be a large piece of flesh that would co out if anyone tried to pull the heads out, which sounded quite brutal.
But she liked it.
The arrowheads were designed to be specifically used on composite crossbows based on the calculations she did with the help of the data.
Each of them had a unique strength, and each of them were designed to be used in different circumstances and locations.
The length of the bow was adjustable in order to match the different bolt heads and to reach certain shooting ranges.
The sighting device was detachable, which could minimize the loss considering how often they could get damaged.
On the other hand, the modification increased the difficulty of finding the right material and manufacturing.
Jiang Pengji took reference of the weapons in service from military recordings and the ones from historical docunts to help design the crossbow. If it matched all the criterions she had made, the shooting range and power of penetration would be frightening.
There were several fanatical military fans in the stream room and they were terrified the mont they saw the reversed hooks.
Wannian Shaojiang: “Gosh, you would basically skin soone if you wanted to pull these arrows out.”
Xie Huangdou: “That looks painful. It is so horrifying that our host created sothing so ferocious.”
Xiang Guazi: “This crossbow seems a bit different from the one before.”
The craftsn glanced at Jiang Pengji’s emotionless face and they started to get anxious.
Was she happy with it? Or not?
As they started to panic, Jiang Pengji put down one of the big bolts and asked, “Have you guys tried them?”
The craftsn all shook their heads and kept their heads low. They replied to her with a sense of fear, “We didn’t want to keep you waiting for too long. We had to allocate the work in small portions to ourselves and we tried a couple of tis to obtain the perfect materials for the bow. Thanks to Langjun’s trust we worked it out. We sent them in as soon as we completed the finished products.”
Even though they said so, they had quite a sufficient amount of confidence in their work.
They tested nurous materials and each of them took charge of the sections of the bow assigned to the individual persons. All the material matched the data provided by Jiang Pengji.
“Each of you took a part of the work? That’s smart and it saved ti.”
It wouldn’t be efficient to accomplish the half-finished products if they didn’t divide the labor.
To Jiang Pengji, the crossbow was still just half-finished with plenty of flaws, but they were mostly minor problems. It gave her a good idea and impression with the wisdom of the craftsn in the current era, however.
She had to admit that, even though the technology was very far behind and the society refused to change, the craftsn were not fools and they never stopped experinting.
Jiang Pengji’s design sketch was elaborate and there was referable data attached to each section; most proficient craftsn would figure them out if they would like to spend ti to work on them. But these people, they knew how to work properly as a team and to promote efficiency to the maximum in order to save ti...
They are quite promising and worthy to be taught.
“We are flattered. Without such detailed sketches from you, we wouldn’t have been capable of achieving the goal with ten tis the amount of ti.”
The head of the craftsn wasn’t going to take all the credit; instead, he tremulously touted Jiang Pengji.
Jiang Pengji wore a smile and told him, “Don’t be this uneasy. I’m not the type who doesn’t appreciate the hard work of others. If it is your work, then you’ve got to take the credit for it. You guys did a really great job this ti in spite of so deficiencies, which we need to fix.”
The head of the craftsn took a deep breath and realized that he was soaked with sweat. It seed that they had passed this test.
Carpentry was not one of the profitable businesses of the Liu’s, but it didn’t an the craftsn didn’t desire to be valued. They were sick of the tedious heavy labor that basic tables and chairs required, which had nothing to do with developing or exploring their skills. There was a hierarchy in the crafting field, and they wanted to improve themselves.
Ever since they took the order from Langjun, every single one of them knew it was their chance. It wouldn’t make sense that they were not going to get recognition; therefore, they were all galvanized for their work.
With that purpose, they worked overti in order to draw Jiang Pengji’s appreciation. It seed like they were halfway through to achieving their goal.
“You guys leave the crossbow here for now. I will figure out the deficiencies after I do so tests. Then you guys can focus on fixing those problems,” Jiang Pengji said. “All the materials and the thods you used in the process, even the initial design sketch, were all confidential pieces of information. No one else can know about them, even your family.”
The craftsn reverently respond to her, “Of course!”
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