Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

The cloaks on their bodies are thick and tough, with yellow and green camouflage stripes on their appearance. They move like swaying trees in the misty and dark rainforest.

The rainwater could only slide down their clothes, making a crackling sound.

Both swampmen changed their faces when they saw these people emerging from the woods.

They had heard of these intrusive visitors.

Outsiders are not welcome in the swamp, but there are always people who can force their way in.

They dress strangely, sometimes in groups, sometimes alone. They look like foreign traders, but they never trade with the native people of the swamp.

Even so, they always have the ability to cross the dangerous rainforest, and even dare to march in the rain. Even the gangs who regard the entire swamp as their own private property also acquiesce in the existence of these people, and they never come into contact with others anyway.

The elders in the village had warned the young men to stay away from these outsiders once they encountered them.

Don't even try to attack them just because you see them alone.

The leaders of several major gangs are more greedy and smarter than you. Don't think that you can take advantage of things that they don't dare to do.

However, these mysterious swamp passers-by actually came to them on their own initiative?

Lu Meng didn't pay attention to the strange behavior of the two swamp people. He turned around and said hello: "Is there any friend I know?"

There was a rustle, and a man stood up, glanced at Lu Meng who was soaked all over, and threw him a package.

Lu Meng took it and saw that it was a set of the same rain gear they were wearing, including a cloak, tights, and high boots.

"Long time no see." The man took off the hood on his head slightly, revealing a female face, and her golden forehead was wet by the rain in just a moment.

"Tei isn't here?" Lu Meng stepped forward to shake hands.

——It’s the female tech hunter Rona who once escorted them to Scone Town, Te Yi’s partner.

She also pestered Lu Meng and learned hunting skills.

"He is busy writing a report. The information you provided this time will be very helpful for us to study the phenomenon of madness among the Sharks."

"Even the Mechanic Headquarters attaches great importance to it, saying that it 'provides new ideas for studying the origin of multiple species', 'opens up the glorious path of biological evolution', and 'I am very interested in this world full of machinery and scrap iron. Hope has been rekindled, the genetic ascension has finally stood up' and so on."

Lorna straightened her hood while recalling the words of the mechanical scholars relayed by her partner.

As we all know, most of these remarks are out of tune. Many of them are just to use new discoveries to create new topics to facilitate application for funds...

However, even among these various studies, once one can achieve a breakthrough, it may push the world's scientific research level forward a big step.

This is also one of the reasons why the equipment level of the Tech Hunters, subordinate to the Mechanic, has always been far ahead of most forces.

From the perspective of technology hunters, the only things that can attract them are the ruins buried in the south of the swamp.

these people think.

Although the major factions in the swamp are powerful, they only guard some Kai coins and salted fish specialties, which cannot arouse interest at all, and there is no need to deal with them.

Lu Meng exchanged a few pleasantries and then got down to business: "Where is the thing I want?"

"They're all here." Behind Luo Na, several technology hunters came out, each carrying a black box and placing it in front of Lu Meng.

Because it was raining heavily, it was not convenient for Lu Meng to open them all, so he only took a brief look: some were common survival equipment such as portable stoves and lighting sticks, as well as the special tent he had been thinking about for a long time; some were chemicals and medical equipment to prevent and control common insect diseases in the rainforest. besides……

You know, Lu Meng originally planned to cross the swamp by himself.

For this, he must be fully prepared.

To prepare, of course, the most reliable way is to find experts like technology hunters.

Therefore, Lu Meng asked Xiao Huo to go to the relay station and hire Te Yi and others. After asking the technology hunter to assist Huang Jie in guarding the longhouse, he made an appointment with them to meet and hand over here.

The last black box was long and was delivered to Lu Meng personally by a technology hunter.

Regardless of the rain, Tech Hunter unboxed it directly.

Lying at the bottom of the cork box was a weird iron-grey piece of machinery.

"'Old World' series, crossbow, MK1 Improved Type 1..." The technology hunter stroked its surface and said solemnly:

"This is a restoration that we redesigned using the incomplete blueprints salvaged from the Ashes. Whether in terms of accuracy or range, it exceeds the mainstream military crossbows of any existing country."

Lu Meng picked it up from the box and shook it casually, and the rainwater stained on it slid off naturally, as if there was a layer of waterproof coating.

——"Expert" level, MK1 Old World Crossbow.

One of the mechanics’ black technologies.

In this world, the shooting power of a crossbow with a traditional structure mainly depends on the potential energy accumulated in the crossbow arm. Therefore, from the toothpick crossbow to the shooting crossbow, the crossbow arm has been continuously extended and thickened, and the spring crossbow adopts a composite design with multiple overlapping crossbow arms.

For example, the Eagle Crossbow, which is known as the pinnacle of crossbow skills, is more like a single-armed crossbow and can only be controlled by extremely skilled shooters.

This also resulted in the bloated shape of the crossbow.

It was fine in the open area. If he were in this swamp, Lu Meng might not be able to pass through the dense forest calmly with a heavy crossbow like a spring crossbow. He would be stuck by branches and vines at any time, let alone shoot flexibly.

In addition to the technical limitations of crossbow manufacturing, the terrain is also the reason why swamp forces mostly use small hand crossbows and even slingshots.

However, this MK1 Old World crossbow is different.

Its length is similar to Lu Meng's former crossbow. With his current arm strength, it is extremely light and can even be held and fired with one hand.

More importantly, the bow arm of the crossbow in the old world was reverse-loaded and fit tightly onto the crossbow body. Together with the steel cable and pulley set, it greatly reduced the size of the crossbow. From the appearance, there is no "cross" at all. feature.

If I must say it...

The appearance of the old world crossbow reminded Lu Meng of a modern rifle.

Its crossbow is even equipped with an optical sight.

Such a crossbow machine is as flexible and excellent as a small crossbow in the shooting range of the jungle, but its power and range are comparable to that of a heavy crossbow.

A technological hunter equipped with such weapons is quite threatening even if he is alone.

Not to mention in groups.

And when Lu Meng personally got the crossbow customized for him, he also thought of a question.

Just like what the technology hunters said, they used incomplete blueprints to reconstruct the old world crossbow.

Then maybe, in the extremely long ancient times, guns or similar things really existed in this world.

It's just that too much technology has been lost. If you had to build it from scratch, the power and rate of fire of those primitive firearms would not be as powerful as the crossbow series that had the technology tree crooked.

Unless he can restore the complete blueprints, or use the power of higher-authority modules, it will still be difficult to create modern firearms that can be called dimensionality reduction strikes.

Just as Lu Meng put the old world crossbow on his back, the technology hunter spoke again:

"Mr. Lu...thank you."