Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 122: Guns or bows and arrows?

Wang Quan didn't think much about it. He just hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement. "Okay, that's how it's divided."

Hu Fugui was overjoyed, and immediately counted out a larger pile of copper spirit coins from the ones in front of him and pushed them in front of Wang Quan, "Here are 180 copper spirit coins, count them."

Then he took out four more from his pile, "These are for buying the fever tomato flowers today, and they are for you too."

Wang Quan was not polite. He chuckled, moved the money in front of him, and began to count it.

After all, even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, and it is good for everyone if the accounts are clear.

After a few minutes, Wang Quan raised his head and said, "The number is fine."

After a pause, he continued, "There's nothing to do in the afternoon, let's take a good rest, and then go see if there's any harvest after dark."

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Time passed like flowing water, and soon it was 4:30 in the afternoon and the sky had become completely dark.

Li Mu stood up from the bamboo chair, stretched his body, and said to Hu Li and Hong Pengfei who were still busy at the side, "That's all for today. Let's go home."

Throughout the entire day, Li Mu and the other two were thinking about what plants to use to create offensive weapons. He first took out the pea hand cannon he had modified before and showed it to the two of them, but they all had the same opinion: it was powerful, but its endurance was poor.

Li Mu also agreed with this point. The advantages and disadvantages of the pea hand cannon are very obvious. The advantage is that the damage is high enough, comparable to a sniper rifle. As long as it hits the vital point, one bullet can kill a low-level mutant beast.

But its disadvantage is that its range is very short, only a few dozen meters, far less than the hundreds of meters that firearms can easily reach. It also consumes a lot of source energy. The source energy in the body of a first-level awakener is only enough to fire a few bullets.

Therefore, Wanling City currently needs an offensive plant that can act like an ordinary firearm. Its power can be smaller, but its range must be more than two hundred meters, and it must also take into account the characteristic of saving source energy.

In this regard, Hu Li and Hong Pengfei put forward different views.

Hu Li believes that now is the end of the world, and the main target to be dealt with is mutant beasts, so it is not necessary to consider traditional firearms. The ancients used bows and arrows to hunt, so a "bow"-shaped plant can be created, matched with suitable wooden arrows, and with the super-ordinary power of the Source Warrior, it can also cause considerable damage.

What's more, the thing that Wanling City has the most is wood. Wooden arrows are easy to make. If you think wooden arrows are not hard enough, you can plant trees with hard materials such as ironwood and use them to make arrows.

If one's imagination is further expanded, one can directly transform the ironwood so that its fruits can be turned directly into arrows of the same size, thus skipping the step of manual production.

Li Mu felt a little excited when he heard this. Drawing a bow and shooting an arrow consumes physical energy, not source energy. Even people who have not awakened can use it, so the threshold is quite low. Moreover, the arrows can be recovered multiple times, so the cost of training is very low.

However, he did not express his opinion immediately, but asked Hong Pengfei for his opinion again.

Hong Pengfei's opinion is still inclined to the plants that make firearms. He believes that the reason why the pea hand cannon consumes a lot of source energy is because it fires energy bullets. If the sub-source energy bullets are replaced with physical bullets, the user only needs to provide the source energy required for the launch, so the consumption will be greatly reduced.

Moreover, bullets do not have to be produced by machines, they can also be grown. Anyway, this is easy for Li Mu.

When Li Mu heard his idea, he immediately thought of the air gun he played with when he was a child. The bullets of the air gun are solid aluminum bullets and do not contain gunpowder inside, so in order to fire them, they have to rely on compressed air to generate power.

In the same way, if source energy is used instead, it is definitely feasible.

As for Li Mu's choice, of course he wanted them all. Only children make choices! Besides, it's good to have a variety of weapons, so people can choose as much as they want.

However, Li Mu did learn another way of fighting. In the past, he always controlled the vines to attack, and the distance was limited. But after being inspired by Hu Li, he suddenly realized that he could use the vines as a bow and choose a plant as arrows.

With his strength, if he exerted his full strength, he could create a giant bow that is dozens of meters wide, with an arrow that is more than ten meters long and several meters wide.

In this case, the power of this arrow might be about the same as that of a cruise missile, but the missile will explode, while the arrow only has kinetic energy.

One is a range attack and the other is a fixed-point lock. This is the difference between the two.

However, the time is still short. Li Mu has spent the entire afternoon thinking about what plants to use for the transformation, but has not yet taken any action.

And now that he was off work, what he wanted to do was go downstairs and take a good walk.

Although the sun has set, the lights in Wanling City are still bright.

When Wanling City was first built, Li Mu had already scattered countless seeds of street lamp flowers in the residential area. Now, more than two months have passed, and the street lamp flowers have begun to grow. The bright white light they emit has illuminated the entire Wanling City.

He also thought about planting street light flowers on the wall to provide guidance to survivors outside, but considering that mutant beasts would also be attracted by the light, he gave up this idea.

After going downstairs, the three of them walked together.

As for why there were three of them, it was because when Hu Li heard that Li Mu was going to stroll around the residential area, she stood up proudly and said that she was familiar with the place and that if he wanted to find anything, he could just ask her.

After hearing what Hu Li said, Li Mu also remembered that she was one of the first people to join Wanling City and had her own tree house in the residential area. This trip was just the way home. Hong Pengfei was curious about what the tree house looked like, so he followed along.

"Little Fox, are there many people setting up stalls around you?"

Because of the similar homophony, and the fact that Hu Li was lazy and gluttonous and also pretty, Li Mu gave her the nickname "Little Fox".

"Well, there weren't that many before, only a few people, but there have been more recently."

Hu Li tilted his head, thought for a while and then answered.

"Oh? There have been more of them recently."

"What do they sell?"

Li Mu had a guess in his mind. In the past, there were few people selling things because everyone was poor and there was nothing good to sell. In addition, there was no currency, so they could only barter. But spiritual coins were issued some time ago, and everyone got wages and became wealthy, so there was a demand.

"In the past, we sold industrial products, such as instant noodles, mechanical watches, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. Now, many people are selling handmade furniture."

Li Mu understood something after hearing this. When he built the tree house, he did not equip it with corresponding furniture, only a wooden bed. However, as people are no longer just pursuing to have enough food, they naturally want all kinds of furniture to make their lives more comfortable.

(End of this chapter)