CHAPTER 89: CHAPTER 27: SIGMA MEN_2

If a player is proficient in certain skills in reality, then in the game, they can quickly bring their skills up to the real-life standard through similar practice, like Brother Ni’s craftsmanship, the big shot’s driving skills, or the silver-haired Natural Curl’s swordsmanship, and so on.

Not to mention, that’s just the basics. When diving deeper, there are things like [Vehicle Training] [Combat in Harsh Environments] [Psychological Analysis] [Environmental Recognition and Judgment] [Squad Tactics Planning], etc., and even the legendary ninja training exclusive to Huang Ban. Of course, these are all highly encrypted by Huang Ban’s hackers, normal people can hardly find a way to burn or copy the contents.

Although Lin Miao knows these so-called ninjas can’t pull off ridiculous skills like shadow clones or energy balls, it doesn’t stop rumors of these top Huang Ban agents from spreading all around the city.

They say that even the top lone wolves among punks wouldn’t dare provoke the leaders of these ninja agents easily.

It’s just unclear how many lives they have, whether they have enough time and resources to face off against the players.

However, Lin Miao doesn’t plan to open this up unlimitedly to players.

Because he doesn’t like internet-addicted teenagers, Lin Miao dares to bet that if he doesn’t impose some limits, this bunch of players will definitely spend all their time on this.

Then who will fix the office’s walls?

Who will repair the employee dormitories?

Will anyone still show up for work?

Electricity isn’t free!

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The next morning.

Today’s player login number -1

Red Bucket isn’t around, but it’s not because he quit the game.

It’s because——he has to stay up and watch over the gray.

This is the heavy life burden that every construction worker must bear.

But we can still gather two convoy teams. Although Pandora with her small frame is just tagging along without contributing much, the players don’t mind. If there wasn’t a need to guard the house and a time limit on the task, this eager bunch would love to take on eight missions at once.

Maybe doing so could increase the chance of monster spawns!

Watching the two player-filled transport trucks leave the office heading towards Garbage Mountain to inspect materials, Lin Miao sighed, and he followed soon after. He had arranged to go on a reconnaissance mission today.

The problem of manpower shortage is still too serious. The inadequate soldier on sentry duty watches the departing vehicles with eyes glistening like those of a forsaken bride.

Only Brother Ni, constantly busy at the workstation, looks quite pleased. After logging off yesterday, he spent the entire day studying the compound crossbow crafting process, and now it’s time to put it into practice.

If this guy hadn’t normally been harmless to humans and animals and rarely visited even small websites, he might have already gotten a call from Uncle Hat for a little chat.

First, cut the aluminum materials brought back from yesterday, put them into the recycling furnace to re-melt into aluminum blocks. Then follow the CNC panel instructions to put aluminum blocks and other materials back into the furnace to re-melt into special aluminum alloy.

Next, use the press machine to press the aluminum alloy into sheets, then cut into desired parts based on the drawn design for secondary polishing. The main structure of the crossbow body needs hollowing out, or it’ll be too heavy affecting the feel.

As for the carbon fiber used to make bow limbs, though there’s currently no way to produce it, there’s plenty of it in the junkyard, and due to its high strength and corrosion resistance, most still maintain good texture; it’s just that no one wants them.

Brother Ni picked up quite a bit yesterday, now he can choose suitable pieces for cutting.

Then there’s the bowstring, fix two metal rods in a straight line, then weave the suspected fishing wire or some other synthetic fiber found yesterday to the appropriate length of bowstring. Use composite nylon to wrap the string, cut it down, and use homemade hollow needle tubes to make looseness rings at both ends of the bowstring, leaving a thumb-sized hole; lastly, fix the rings using synthetic fiber, make three in a row.

Slot the bow frame to the crossbow body and fix with glue and screws, fit together the large and small cams, forming a compound pulley system, and attach it to the bow arm using screws and washers. Attach two auxiliary strings and one main string to the cam and tighten the bow arm.

The compound crossbow made like this is just one word – ugly and crude.

The crossbow body is full of unpolished burrs that just touching feels terribly prickly, and without coating or acrylic paint, there’s just the chaotic mix of aluminum alloy silver and carbon fiber colors.

As for things like scopes, buttstocks, and string stops, there are none.

But this doesn’t stop Brother Ni from crafting a few aluminum alloy arrows and heading to the range to cause chaos.

Ignoring the accuracy and appearance, just the arrows piercing through the boards is enough to prove its not-so-weak lethality.

Although guns have replaced bows, and their power and range far exceed bow and crossbow, which have been extended as long-range weapons for thousands of years, in certain aspects, crossbows still hold their advantages, not being completely obsolete.

No fire, no sound, unaffected by external environments, can be used as snipers at short range when paired with scopes, and with different arrowheads, can achieve different effects.

Next, Brother Ni only needs to optimize on the existing basis, make a few more, and his proficiency will naturally improve.

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The preliminary reconnaissance mission at the distant ridge battleground is important but not troublesome. With Adcardo and Lin Miao’s optical drones, along with the assistance of two hackers, it soon revealed the Night Wanderer’s action deployment and basic route in the surrounding regions.