Magus Tech

Chapter 3 The Flame Python and the English Longbow

The sun is shining brightly.

The huge fireball-like sun in June seemed to go crazy, and the world was scorching lifelessly. The air was extremely hot and hot, and the water in a river on the wilderness seemed to boil.

Beside the river, there is a majestic city-the Blue Lion City. As the capital of the Blue Lion Kingdom, it is magnificent, like an ancient beast lying on the ground.Inside the city, various buildings are scattered, with the central palace as a dot and distributed in a radial pattern.

Suddenly, the door of the palace opened, a group of fast-paced cavalry rushed out of the city, and pedestrians on the street evaded.

Soon the cavalry rushed out of the Blue Lion City and set foot on the dirt road outside the city, and yellow dust rose in a flash.But regardless of the cavalry, the team kept going straight away.

...

after an hour.

Richard arrived more than ten miles outside the city, on an extremely remote hillside, and jumped off immediately.The cavalry behind them also dismounted and flew away, vaguely protecting Li Cha and a black man.

The strong man in black is carrying a box in his hand, which is the No. 3 manager of the'KGB' shop. Of course, he has a more secret identity, such as... the absolute confidant of Richard's training.

In fact, the "KGB" and several other shops were built or controlled by Richard, either explicitly or implicitly, and he controlled much more than a prince.

The reason for this is, on the one hand, because he has a much higher ability than ordinary princes, and even beyond this era, on the other hand, because he has never felt so precious for the identity of a prince, especially when it happened a few years ago. After the incident.

In his view, the identity of the prince is more of a disguise and... procrastination.If he can, he would like to put aside this identity and do some things without any restrictions.For example, to study this world, research has always been rumored... magic power.

Thinking of these, Richard looked to the side.

On one side, the wizard in the dungeon was tied to the horse, and his face was pale. After the captain of the dungeon guard untied the rope and grabbed the horse, the station was unstable.

The captain of the guard can ignore this. After knowing that the wizard is a liar, the fear has all disappeared, only anger.Kicked and kicked the wizard, and then smiled to Richard: "His Royal Highness, look..."

Richard ignored the captain, looked at the wizard, and asked, "Where did you say the python was seen at the time, show me?"

"In..." The wizard looked up at the distance, looked at it carefully for a while, and finally reached out with a finger. "Just under that tree, when I was passing by, the python suddenly appeared and almost scared me. But okay, it It seemed that I was not interested in me, so I quickly walked away, so that I could take back a life and find its molting."

Richard nodded slightly and turned to look at the captain of the guard.The captain of the guard waved his hand vigorously, and the dozen soldiers who followed him pulled out their weapons one after another, and quickly passed to the front.

Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...

The place the wizard pointed to arrived quickly, but not to mention it was a big python, not even a rabbit.

The captain of the caretaker looked at the wizard, who was not good. The wizard narrowed his neck to fear that Licha thought he was lying, and quickly explained: "Wang... Prince Your Prince, it may be that the python went to the rest of the place..."

Richard squatted down, his eyes falling on the ground.The young weeds were peeled off, revealing a trace of flame burning below, and it seemed that there was indeed a wandering flaming python passing by here.

After taking a little soil with his nails, Li Cha put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, with a yellow phosphorus taste similar to garlic, and a special smell of sulfur mixed with it.

Richard stood up and turned his head to command the captain of the guard: "Search forward, pay attention to the feet and trees. The snake is a warming animal, cold and hot. If the demonization does not change its characteristics, it is in this weather. , It is very likely to hide in some places, pay attention."

"Yes." The captain of the guard nodded vigorously, without a word, quickly conveyed Richard's orders to the men, and the soldiers scattered forward to continue the search.

About ten minutes later, the news came back, and the trace of the python was found in a thick grass more than 200 meters in front, but I was not sure whether it was the one I was looking for.

Richard didn't hesitate, hurried to it, walked a few tens of meters away from the python and was stopped by the captain of the guard.

"His Royal Highness, you have to be careful, pythons are very dangerous." The captain of the guard said, "Why don't I ask someone to try it out to see if it will catch fire?"

Richard shook his head and said blankly: "No more."

While speaking, Richard's eyes had fallen into the grass a few tens of meters away. A brown piebald python was lying inside, eyes closed like a nap.Under the light, the python's surroundings looked distorted.

Richard knew that it was the refraction of light when it passed through different media.

There is only air around the python. The reason why the light is refracted is that there is only one explanation: the surrounding temperature is very high, which greatly exceeds the average temperature of the air.Considering that the surrounding weeds are not scorched, the fire point will not exceed 200°C, and it is likely to be between tens of degrees Celsius and one hundred and dozens of degrees Celsius.

The average python can't do this, the answer is obvious.

Richard yelled to the captain of the guard: "Tell your people to prepare, no temptation, just start catching. Try the opponent's defense first with a bow and arrow, it is best to catch the live after the serious injury, if it doesn't work... can."

"Yes." The captain of the caretaker nodded, quickly left Richard's side, and began to command. The shouting sounded, and several soldiers with the highest level of shooting skills quickly picked up their bows and arrows.

The bows and arrows used by the soldiers, in Richard's view, are similar to medieval English longbows.This kind of bow and arrow is generally about 1.5 meters long, and the individual is up to 2 meters long. The back of the bow is made of a complete piece of wood. The wood is purple fir, which is strong and flexible.The bowstrings are made from lamb intestines or beef tendons.Because of the long length of the back of the bow, this kind of bow and arrow gives the arrow a huge power and a long range, far exceeding the ordinary modern bow and arrow, can shoot the arrow 350 meters away.

Generally, it can penetrate leather armor at a distance of 200 meters to 250 meters.Within 200 meters, it can penetrate chain mail.Within 100 meters, it can penetrate plate armor.Within 50 meters, with the exception of shields and specially-made armor, there is hardly anything that can resist its shooting, which can be said to be indestructible.

At this time, the distance between the soldier and the snake is about 50 meters.

The four soldiers are all veterans, because of the years of archery training, the formation of extremely obvious long and short hands-this is a symbol of experience.At this time, he picked up his bow and arrow, took out a bundle of 24 arrows from the quiver on the back, untied it and inserted it directly on the ground in front.Each arrow has a length of nearly one meter, and it can be caught without bending down when it is inserted on the ground, thus allowing continuous shooting with ease.

The four soldiers were ready, looked at each other, took a deep breath, each grabbed an arrow and placed it on the longbow, and began to aim.

"Boo hoo hoo hoo", four consecutive sounds, four arrows shoot like meteors, shot at the location of the python, but there is no hit, the nearest one is also more than ten centimeters away from the python.After all, soldiers are not all sharp shooters who wear Yang in a hundred steps. On the battlefield, they usually rely on dense volleys to ensure their hit rate.

Richard was not angry about this and continued to watch.

The four soldiers who failed once quickly grabbed an arrow in front of each other and shot it on the longbow. This time it took a little longer to aim, and then there were four more beeps.

The already disturbed python was about to take action, four arrows fell, and two of them hit directly.One hit the tail and the other directly penetrated the body, and the red blood flowed out quickly.

"His!"

The python screamed, seeming to be angry, and twisted violently, snapping the arrow with two clicks.Opening his mouth, the snake letter spit out, ejecting a large cluster of Mars.After swimming, he rushed towards the crowd, and the atmosphere was tense instantly, and a few soldiers subconsciously retreated.

What was most exciting at this time was not Richard or the captain of the guard, but the wizard.

The wizard almost jumped up, grabbed the captain of the guard, and whispered: "You see it, you see it! What I said is true, there is really a python that will catch fire, and His Royal Highness promised me, so I can't kill me."

The captain of the guard was nervous. There was no time to take care of it. With a wave of his hand, he pushed the wizard down to the ground, pulled out his long sword, and calmed some panicked soldiers with his momentum. , The rest prepare the net and catch it alive!"

"Yes." The soldiers responded quickly, getting busy.