Magus Tech Chapter 3: Flame python and English longbow

The sun is shining brightly.

In June, the huge fireball-like sun seemed to go crazy, scorching the world desperately, the air was extremely dry and hot, and the water in a river in the wilderness seemed to be boiling.

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

Suddenly, the door of the royal palace opened, and a group of fast-moving cavalry roared towards the outside of the city, and pedestrians on the street avoided one after another.

Soon this team of cavalry rushed out of Blue Lion City and stepped onto the dusty road outside the city where smoke was rising. But this team of cavalry ignored them, kept their formation and went straight to the distance.

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Half an hour later.

Li Cha reached a gentle hillside outside the city and jumped off his horse. The cavalry behind them also got off their horses one after another, dodged around, and vaguely protected Li Cha.

The wizard in the dungeon turned pale because he was tied to the horse. After the captain of the dungeon guard untied the rope and pulled him off the horse, he couldn't stand still.

The captain of the guard doesn't care about this, after knowing that the wizard is just a liar, all fear has disappeared, only anger. He kicked and kicked the wizard to Li Cha, and then looked at Li Cha with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, look..."

Li Cha ignored the guard captain, but looked at the wizard, and asked: "Where did you see the python you mentioned, show me?"

"At..." The wizard looked up into the distance, looked carefully for a while, and finally pointed out, "It was just under that tree. When I was passing by, the boa constrictor suddenly appeared, which almost scared me to death. But still Well, it doesn't seem to be interested in me, and it swam away quickly, so I got my life back."

Li Cha nodded his head lightly, then turned to look at the guard captain. The captain of the guard waved his hand forcefully, and the dozen or so soldiers who followed drew out their weapons one after another, and quickly surrounded the front.

Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...

The place the wizard pointed to arrived soon, but let alone a boa constrictor, there was not even a rabbit.

The captain of the guard looked at the wizard, a little unkind, the wizard shrank his neck lest Li Cha think he was lying, and quickly explained: "My lord...Your Highness, it may be that the python has gone to other places..."

Li Cha squatted down, his eyes fell on the ground. Pulling away the young weeds, revealing a flame-like trace below, it seems that there is indeed a wandering burning python passing by here.

Picking up a little soil with his nails, Li Cha put it in front of his nose and sniffed it. It smelled like garlic and yellow phosphorus, mixed with the special smell of sulfur.

Li Cha stood up, turned his head and gave an order to the captain of the guard: "Search forward, pay attention to your feet and trees. Snakes are temperature-changing animals, and they hate cold and heat. In this kind of weather, they are likely to be stationary and sunbathing somewhere. , as long as you don't leave this area, you can find it."

"Yes." The captain of the guard nodded vigorously, without saying a word, he quickly conveyed Li Cha's order to his subordinates, and asked the soldiers to spread out and start searching.

About ten minutes later, news came back that a boa constrictor was found in a bush more than 200 meters ahead, but it was not sure if it was the one he was looking for.

Without hesitation, Li Cha rushed to it, and was stopped by the captain of the guard when he was tens of meters away from the python.

"His Royal Highness, you have to be careful, pythons are very dangerous." The captain of the guard said, "How about I ask someone to test it and see if the whole body is on fire?"

Li Cha shook his head and said expressionlessly: "No need."

While speaking, Li Cha's gaze had already fallen on the bushes tens of meters away, where a brown piebald python was crouching inside, its eyes closed as if taking a nap. Under the light, the surroundings of the python looked a little distorted.

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

There is only air around the boa constrictor, and there is only one reason why the light is refracted, and that is that the surrounding temperature is very high, much higher than the average temperature of the air. Considering that the surrounding weeds do not look scorched, then the ignition point will not exceed 200°C, which is likely to be between tens of degrees Celsius and hundreds of degrees Celsius.

The general python does not do this, so the answer is already obvious.

Li Cha said to the captain of the guard: "Tell your people to get ready, don't try to try, and start arresting directly. First try the opponent's defense with a bow and arrow. It's best to catch them alive after serious injuries, otherwise, they will die." It's okay."

"Yes." The captain of the guard nodded, quickly left Li Cha's side, and began to command, shouting, and several soldiers with the highest level of archery quickly picked up their bows and arrows.

The bows and arrows used by the soldiers, in Li Cha's view, resembled the medieval English longbows. This kind of bow and arrow is generally about 1.5 meters long, and some are as long as 2 meters. The back of the bow is made of a complete piece of bent wood. Bowstrings are tanned from sheep intestines or beef tendon. Because of the super long back of the bow, this kind of bow and arrow endows the arrow with great power and super long range, which can shoot the arrow 350 meters away.

Generally, leather armor can be penetrated at a distance of 200 meters to 250 meters. Within 200 meters, it can penetrate chain mail. Within 100 meters, it can penetrate the strongest plate armor. Within 50 meters, except for shields and special armor, almost nothing can resist its shooting, and it can be said to be indestructible.

At this time, the distance between the soldier and the python was about 50 meters.

The four soldiers picked up their own bows and arrows, took out a bundle of 24 arrows from the quiver bags on their backs, untied them and stuck them directly on the ground in front of them. Each arrow has a length of nearly one meter, and it can be caught without bending over when inserted into the ground, so that it can be shot continuously with ease.

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

"咻咻咻咻", four consecutive sounds, four arrows shot out like meteors, and shot at the python's position, but none of them hit, and the nearest one was more than ten centimeters away from the python. After all, soldiers are not all sharpshooters who can penetrate Yang with a hundred steps. On the battlefield, they rely on intensive salvos to ensure their hit rate.

Li Cha was not angry about this, and continued to watch.

The four soldiers who failed once again quickly each grabbed an arrow in front of them and shot it on the longbow.

The disturbed boa constrictor was about to take action when four arrows fell, two of which hit directly. One shot at the tail, and the other directly pierced through the body, and bright red blood flowed out quickly.

"Hiss!"

The boa constrictor screamed, as if angry, twisted violently, and broke the arrow with two "clicks". Opening its mouth, the snake letter spat out, ejecting a large cluster of sparks. Swimming and rushing towards the crowd, the atmosphere became tense in an instant, and several soldiers subconsciously retreated.

At this time, the most excited person was not Richard or the captain of the guard, but the wizard.

The wizard almost jumped up, grabbed the guard captain, and said repeatedly: "You saw it, you saw it, what I said is true, there is really a python that can catch fire here, His Royal Highness promised me, So you can't kill me."

The captain of the guard was nervous and had no time to answer. He pushed the wizard to the ground with a wave of his hand, drew out his long sword, calmed down the flustered soldiers with momentum, and shouted: "What are you afraid of! Take the bow and arrow to him. I will continue to shoot, and the rest of them will prepare their nets, and I will catch them alive!"

"Yes." The soldiers quickly responded and got busy.