Chapter 13 Arrow Shooting Aircraft Carrier (Fog)
After entering Manhattan, Xin Sheng, who had been living in Brocklin before, clearly felt a sense of incongruity.
The Night Demon in Manhattan is not only denser, but also more fierce and warlike than Brooklyn's, and is also stronger.
In the months when Xin Sheng searched in Brooklyn, he had never seen an individual as strong as the Night Demon King.
At this time, Xin Sheng and Robert sat side by side on a dock at the port of Manhattan South Street.
This is where Robert stands guard every day. At noon, he will go to the dock to wait for possible survivors to contact.
The waiting time from noon to afternoon has become a part of his life.
Xin Sheng's appearance injected new hope into Robert's heart, which was gradually desperate and numb.
He believed that besides Xin Sheng, there must be other survivors hiding in the vast downtown New York, but they did not find the right opportunity to meet with them.
Xin Sheng knew that Robert's conjecture was correct, at least Anna and Ethan should have entered the downtown area of New York at this time.
The full channel broadcast broadcast Robert's call to survivors in various districts of New York. During this period, Robert used his laptop to seize the time to conduct theoretical research on the antidote.
Although he had not fully believed in the possibility of Night Demon's evolution before witnessing it with his own eyes, Robert did try to speed up the research progress driven by a sense of urgency.
Human working state is easily affected by joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.
Robert, who was always influenced by despair, had low work efficiency. He even once doubted whether his research had practical significance, but he was still conducting research habitually, but he was in a daze in his heart.
Xin Sheng's appearance gave Robert new hope and injected impetus into his research.
Looking at Robert typing his fingers quickly on the keyboard, Xin Sheng didn't waste time.
He hung the training target on the bow of the aircraft carrier and stood on the dock and aimed and shot from a distance.
Yes, aircraft carrier.
As the first city where the virus began to spread, New York tried to block and quarantine the city of New York from three aspects, including sea, land and air before the disaster broke out completely.
Among them, the main force of the sea and air blockade is this Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Abraham Lincoln.
Norfolk Military Harbor, the largest native aircraft carrier base in the United States, is located in Virginia on the east coast.
Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Harry Truman and George Bush, five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers use Norfolk military port as their home port and guard the United States for many years.
It is hard to prevent viruses that can be infected through air. Navy soldiers in the entire aircraft carrier battle group were infected one after another, and the maritime and air blockade plans were also miscarried.
As a sweeper, Night Demon has already eaten no body in the aircraft carrier, and has left the ship docked on the shore because of lack of food and entered downtown Manhattan to live.
Robert often went to the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to relax, and occasionally stood in luxury on the Blackbird reconnaissance plane to play golf.
Yesterday, Robert discovered a wild deer on the aircraft carrier through the high-power scope of the m4 and followed the night demon king's nest.
"Swoosh!"
The round-head training arrow shot from 50 meters away accurately hits the red heart in the center of the target.
Robert, who was working, was attracted by the sound of the vibration of the bowstrings. As soon as he looked up, he saw the long arrow inserted into the bull's eye.
"Wow~ so accurate?"
Xin Sheng ignored Robert's reaction and pulled the bowstring again in a very standard orthophone posture, and shot the second arrow calmly.
"Swoosh!"
The arrows hitting the bull's eye one after another made Robert more and more amazed. He didn't expect that in the contemporary era where guns were popular, there were people who were so skilled in traditional bowing techniques.
"Xin, you won't be a professional archery athlete before the end of the world, are you?"
Xin Sheng, who happened to shoot a group of arrows, shook his head in a funny way.
"Of course not, I'm just an ordinary hunter, and the bow and arrow are the guy I eat."
‘Is this still normal…’
Orthoshooting is the most standard shooting posture, but there are often no opportunities to stand straight and pull the bow in actual combat.
Xin Sheng either squats or stands, and tried many different postures one after another. The hit rate of some postures made him unsatisfied.
‘As a matter of fact, we still need to continue to improve. The direct shooting rate of 50 meters is not enough to meet the actual combat standards.’
No matter which combat skills are, there will be a big gap between training and actual combat.
During training, you can usually maintain a relatively stable mentality and exert your most stable strength.
However, in actual combat, mentality fluctuations often occur due to interference from various factors.
You may perform exceptionally under pressure, or you may lose your standards due to mental imbalance.
What Xin Sheng needs to do is to raise his lower limit through strict daily training, try to develop the habit of keeping a high degree of calm in drawing bows and archery, and avoid losing in actual combat.
It was not until the row of targets suspended from the bow of the aircraft carrier were inserted into porcupines that Xin Sheng finished today's training and was preparing to board the aircraft carrier to recover targets and arrows.
"!"
The sudden chill from behind made Xin Sheng turn around subconsciously and pull out the actual arrow from the quiver beside him as fast as possible to hit the bowstring.
The pier at the port of South Street is very empty, and there is no place around which the Night Demon might hide.
Moreover, 2 pm is the time when the sun is the strongest, so no night demon dares to walk out of the room at this time.
Xin Sheng's sharp vision, like an eagle, extended inland along the dock, and finally frozen on the high-rise of a skyscraper with sunlight reflected on the window.
He has poor eyesight but cannot be a good hunter. Xin Sheng could vaguely see a flash of black shadows from behind the brown sunshade glass.
‘Night Demon?’
Xin Sheng's actions aroused Robert's idea. He stopped typing on the keyboard, raised his head in confusion and asked, "What's wrong? Have you noticed anything?"
Xin Sheng narrowed his eyes and observed the target skyscraper around: "Something is staring at us in the dark, I suspect it is the Night Demon."
"Night Demon?" Robert was stunned: "It's broad daylight? No, they should be sleeping to replenish their energy at this time."
Confirm that the surveillance gaze had disappeared, Xin Sheng took back his weapon and reminded him solemnly: "There is a saying in the East that something abnormal will happen, there will be monsters... You can understand it as Murphy's Law."
Many people have heard of Murphy's Law more or less. In fact, the law itself is a very ordinary sentence.
"If something is likely to go bad, no matter how small the chance is, it will always happen."
The existence of Murphy's Law is more of a warning role, reminding people to prevent serious consequences that Murphy's Law may cause in daily life and prevent problems from happening.
Murphy's Law is known as one of the three major discoveries of Western culture in the 20th century. As a native American, Robert can certainly understand it.
Following Xin Sheng's gaze to the distance, Robert noticed no abnormalities.
But he had seen Xin Sheng's accurate archery skills and keen intuition, and did not think that this companion of survivor who was a self-righteous hunter would be aimless.
‘Is the night demon active during the day…’
Robert turned to look at the paper content on his laptop, and some stubborn ideas in his mind were quietly relaxing.
Chapter completed!