Chapter 81
My Ranch Chapter 81
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Translator : NoobTrans
In fact, the best time to hunt is autumn, because of the cool autumn weather, animals have come to accumulate energy for winter, the animals right now are the best to eat, because they are fat, but in addition to autumn, another good season for hunting is winter .
First, because a wide range of trees have shed their leaves and is very suitable for observing the birds on top of the trees .
Second, the snow is soft and the animals cannot move fast, and they will leave enough traces as they walk through the snow which will make them easy to track .
Third, many dangerous creatures hibernate in winter, such as snakes, bears, and a wide range of poisonous insects and poisonous ants while some have even frozen to death . These creatures that are threatening to humans have disappeared . Therefore, winter is also a season when people like to hunt . Jiang Hai didn’t understand these things before as he was just an ordinary citizen . While in the case of the domestic wild boars, they are all protected animals .
How could an ordinary person like him have been hunting? He hasn’t even hunted a rabbit!
Now that he has the chance to hunt it’s impossible to not be excited .
“What do we need to prepare?” Jiang Hai asked Robbins anxiously .
“Uh, We don’t really need to prepare anything special . After all, we will just be in this grove near the manor, but if we go to the mountains, we will have to do more preparations . But for now, wear thicker clothes, take the weapons, and then Just bring a bag to store your prey . ” Seeing Jiang Hai’s excited expression, Robbins hesitated and decided to tell him the truth .
Hearing that there was no need to prepare so much, Jiang Hai was slightly lost, but soon, he was excited again by the thought of going on a hunt .
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“Then I will bring my gun, and I will take this bow too! And then… . ” After listening to Robbins, Jiang Hai began to figure out what he needed to bring . Hearing this Robbins and others began to accumulate sweat on their foreheads .
They really wanted to tell Jiang Hai that they didn’t need to bring so many things, because there actually weren’t many things in Jiang Hai’s woods . After all, it’s just an artificial forest, not some ancient forest deep in the mountains . The forest is not small, but there are not that many kinds of woodland creatures living inside . Most of them are seabirds . After all, aren’t they very close to the seaside? As for the terrestrial animals, according to Robbins observations over the years, basically there are only seven or eight species, squirrels, hares, turkeys, pheasants, otters, possums, foxes, and possibly a few raccoons, and nothing more than that .
Don’t even mention creatures like wolves, bears, mountain lions and American leopards; there aren’t even lynxes here .
After all, this woodland is very close to the bull pens and the residential area . If there really are large carnivores living in it, it will also pose a threat to the people living here, especially in the previous years when only Robbins and his wife had been living here .
Therefore, Jiang Hai really didn’t need to bring so many things . It’s not like he’s going hunting in the mountains .
But they didn’t say it, they didn’t want to pour cold water on the boss’ excitement, so they decided not to mention it .
“Boss, can you shoot an arrow?” For a moment, the scene was somewhat awkward until Bell stood up and decided to change the subject .
“I really don’t . ” Fortunately, Jiang Hai didn’t care about changing the subject since what Bell said was also related to him .
“Then let me teach you . ” After hearing Jiang Hai’s words, Bell couldn’t help but smile, he had successfully changed the subject!
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Then he walked to Jiang Hai’s side, took out the folded bow from the wooden box and re-fixed the string . He smiled and prepared to pull it, but unfortunately, when he pulled it, he found that he underestimated the bow a bit .
“Huh, this is actually hard!” whispered, Bell smiled embarrassingly and then pulled the bow with all his strength, but unfortunately, with his full strength, he only pulled the string a third away before It refused to budge again .
“How could this be possible? Is it really that hard?” Robbins was also interested when he saw Belle’s bow and white face . He came over and took the bow in Bell’s hand, he took a deep breath and while breathing out slowly he also pulled the bowstring, but unfortunately, although he was larger than Bell, he also only pulled it by a third, and he couldn’t pull it anymore . He blushed, embarrassed .
“Let me try!” Seeing Robbins failing too, Philemon also ran over with a smile . Although the black man, Philemon, talks big and looks very weak, he’s actually pretty buff, and the most important thing is that he is a black man . The racial advantage is shocking enough, not to mention that this guy is not small .
But even so, he only pulled it a little more than them and gave up shortly after, and finally the three turned around and looked at Jiang Hai, the meaning in their eyes was easy to understand: why did you buy such an unwieldy bow? Seeing the eyes of the three men, Jiang Hai couldn’t help but show them a smug look as he took the bow in Philemon’s hand .
Jiang Hai pulled the bowstring all the way, seeing this the three guys couldn’t help but be shocked .
“Shit, such strength!” “My God!” “Son of … cough, I didn’t swear . ”
Although they had long known that Jiang Hai was strong, they never thought he was this strong!
It’s hard for them to imagine where that strength comes from seeing Jiang Hai, who isn’t tall coupled with a body that doesn’t look particularly strong .
Seeing the surprised eyes of the three people, Jiang Hai chuckled a little, and then released the bow again . The trembling of the bow string made the three people feel a little shocked, but fortunately, Bell was a soldier so he reacted first .
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Although Jiang Hai gave him a blow to his pride but since he said he’d help teach Jiang Hai archery, he would naturally keep his word .
He took out a human-shaped target . There was no other choice, since he only had human-shaped targets in his house . He then erected it on the grass outside so that Jiang Hai could try it first while they were preparing .
At the same time, he also told Jiang Hai the essentials of archery . Archery is different from shooting a gun .
Guns only needs more practice, but archery is more troublesome, when using a gun you can use the aiming aids such as a scope or an iron sight which is convenient when shooting, but archery is different, the head is fixed and cannot be moved, and every time the string is pulled, you must take note of your position and the position of your target, even when you let loose the arrow there are some people who also take note of this, these are what he told Jiang Hai that are for beginners .
After figuring it out, Jiang Hai ran into the grass outside with his bow and arrows . After seeing Jiang Hai’s movement, Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai also ran out with him and watched Jiang Hai practice .
“Go!” Looking at the target position in the distance, Jiang Hai picked up a pure metal arrow and directly laid it on the bow and with the force of his arms, the 120-kilogram bow’s bowstring was completely pulled by him, but to be honest, he couldn’t imagine himself ever pulling the bow if it was before his strength was upgraded by the python tattoo . But even with the python tattoo, trying to fully control the 120-kilogram bow would be hard .
He can only maintain it for about ten seconds, until his hands start to tremble .
“Shit . ” In the first ten seconds, he hadn’t even aimed yet, and now he was trembling, and there was no way to aim anymore . With a curse, Jiang Hai had to release the arrow, but it was obvious . The arrow missed the target by about 10 meters…
And the force of 120 kilograms is indeed a little scary . It flew . And flew . And flew . It has been able to fly for a distance of one kilometer before it fell in the snow . Among his dogs who were watching the arrow fly, Xiao Huang beside Jiang Hai ran after it and ran back again with the arrow in his mouth .
He rewarded Xiao Huang with a pat on the head for his cleverness, but Jiang Hai was still thinking about archery .
He was only 50 meters away from the target . The arrow flew more than 950 meters and missed the target by about 10 meters . No one can blame him because he really isn’t an expert…
“Pulling the string with the arrow and without it really isn’t the same . ” After shooting the arrow, Jiang Hai couldn’t help but massage his shoulder . 120 kilograms, it really is difficult to get used to, but he is stubborn, since the bow he bought was 120 kilograms, it must be 120 kilograms, if it gets too hard then find a way to aim and shoot in the first 10 seconds!
Now that he made up his mind, Jiang Hai didn’t say much . He took a deep breath and started with the second arrow . This time it was slightly better . Before his hand started shaking, he shot the arrow out . It’s better, but it still did not hit the target . It still missed it by 2 meters . This time, it flew directly for a kilometer and before Xiao Huang could chase after it, Xiao Bai had already run out . After the transformation using the dragon’s blood Xiao Bai’s IQ got upgraded, it’s ability to learn has gone up .
After Xiao Bai brought the arrow back, Jiang Hai shot again, and he had to admit that Jiang Hai’s body was really good, with good learning ability and adaptability . The third arrow he shot, hit the target but it still flew 500 meters away…Because the target was shot through, although it only hit the side and not the center, it was still a great improvement . His progress gave Jiang Hai the encouragement to continue with the practice . Aiming for 10 seconds really was too short .
Especially for Jiang Hai, a beginner, as long as it exceeds ten seconds, he will definitely hit . But within ten seconds? The hit rate is not too impressive . Out of the 10 arrows, 3 of them would miss the target and hit only dirt and only 7 would hit the target . The only way to remedy this is either to downgrade the bow or wait for another upgrade on his python tattoo . Since Jiang Hai isn’t willing to downgrade the bow, he could only wait for the upgrade .
Fortunately, as he has recently improved all the pastures, the scales in his body that he receives per day have increased .
With eight scales a day along with almost three hundred scales that he currently have, He is less than three months away from one thousand and eighty scales that he needs to upgrade .
//TL: this chap has been especiaally hard . in addition to the info dumps which includes some of the author’s bs, most of the words here have multiple and different meanings when translatted to english so i expect that some have been lost in translation . //