Chapter 378

Depths of the Great Marsh.

Dark currents surged.

After a dizzying spin, the old toad landed steadily, raising a slight dust.

The fat catfish carried the large ship and drilled out from the tunnel with Liang Qu.

Liang Qu looked at the old toad and fat catfish's nonchalance and resisted the dizziness to stand up from the ground.

Still experienced too little, not very used to tunnel teleportation.

The old toad had sunbathed and was very sleepy, so it left first, moved its two frog legs to swim away, and disappeared.

Liang Qu carried the large ship himself, followed the fat catfish's pace, and saw the long-lost large toad.

The toad didn't immediately greet the person and the beast.

It poked its head out of the cave to look, confirmed that the old toad in the distance had disappeared, and only then accepted the new ship with joy, carefully wiping the ship's body with its claws.

"You guys are really slow this time, there haven't been any new ships for more than half a month!"

The toad grumbled with dissatisfaction, making Liang Qu stunned.

More than half a month?

Since sending one in late August, he went to Huaiyin County for flood control, Liu Quanfu and the beavers built the lucky ship, and after that, they didn't send two more until today, the end of January.

It's been almost five months in between, right?

The fat catfish was not surprised; it flicked its whiskers, signaling that Toad Big Brother counts one day as one sleep, and can sleep for ten days at a time.

Liang Qu suddenly realized, cupped his fists and explained: "King, don't be angry; slow work produces fine products, why not take a look at the new items on the ship."

"New items?"

The toad, who was observing the large Spring Festival couplets with red background and black characters on the ship, placed the warship flat and saw the turntable-style ship crossbow on the deck at a glance.

The fat catfish untied the cloth bag on its body and poured out more than thirty "spears," the spearheads cold and gleaming.

The toad hadn't eaten pork but had seen pigs run.

Many warships collected before all had similar devices, but none of them could be used; they were all broken and in pieces, and it had always wanted to own a complete and usable ship crossbow.

Could it be...

The toad was happy in its heart.

It observed back and forth, left and right, combined with the ship crossbow structure it had seen and dismantled before, and without anyone teaching it, it started using it itself.

First, it picked up a long spear like a toothpick, stuffed it into the barrel of the ship crossbow, then turned the turntable, heard a click to fix it, picked up the long rope, and pulled it down lightly.

"Pfft!"

The long crossbow broke through the water flow, shot out more than a hundred feet, and finally plunged into the soil slope, raising dust where it landed.

The toad almost jumped up.

It grabbed a handful of "spears" like iron signs from beside the fat catfish, picked out two, and stuffed them into the ship crossbows of the two ships respectively.

Twisted the turntable, pulled the long rope, all in one go.

The spears flew out together, and two more clouds of thick smoke rose.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The toad kept pulling the rope, playing with great interest.

Liang Qu knew his decision was correct.

What's the point of always sending ships? No matter how much you like them, if you send too many, you'll get tired of them; you have to come up with fresh things.

And sending a ship crossbow can't be just for show; it must be really usable and easy to use.

But if it's too easy to use, it will be a loss; the purpose of sending ships is to make money, and to make money in the long run.

So Liang Qu put a lot of thought into it.

Ordinary arrows naturally couldn't be shot very far underwater, and if they weren't far, it would be boring, without the thrill of violence.

Therefore, the material of the thirty-odd ship crossbow arrowheads was all Mysterious Water Iron.

It was the same material as the standard Mysterious Water Spear sent by the River Patrol Office after Liang Qu became a River Earl, which was later transferred to Li Li Libo and Chen Chen Jiechang for use.

This thing has average hardness and average toughness, but its biggest advantage is that the water resistance impact is small, and it's cheap!

"Fist" has been in the 【Cave Dwelling】 state for several months since entering from the pond; the patterns on its back are gradually becoming obvious, its defensive ability is starting to become super-model, and its perception range has also spread out quite a bit.

Liang Qu's own few acres of land have Mysterious Water Iron mines underneath, but the price of Mysterious Water Iron is not much higher than ordinary Mysterious Iron; rather than finding someone to dismantle walls and dig pits, making it impossible to live in, it's better to ignore it.

Based on the two advantages of being cheap and having small water resistance impact, the bows and arrows on the River Patrol Office's ship crossbows were almost all forged from this material.

Of course, the quality of the regular army's bows and crossbows is much better, and at the very least, they are refined ten times.

Great Shun's weapon refining has a unique craft called stacking forging, which can turn low-level materials into superior-quality magic treasures through stacking.

Ten parts stacked is a ten-refined weapon, and one hundred parts stacked is a hundred-refined weapon.

Liang Qu's former Mysterious Iron Great Bow came from this, built by Liu Jie at a huge cost.

However, the pile given to the toad was clearly the most basic one-refined.

A total of thirty-odd pieces, the package price was only over four hundred taels, and the labor cost wasn't much; it was produced by an apprentice named Li Yuan under Lu Gang.

Shot more than thirty times in a row.

The toad shot all the spears beside its claws, but still felt unfulfilled.

It ran to the hillside, flattened the hilltop with one hand, and picked the spears out from the soil again.

Liang Qu saw the toad shaping the terrain like kneading plasticine and remained silent.

Picking up the spears, the toad was in a great mood and asked Liang Qu directly what he wanted to exchange for.

As a result, he heard Liang Qu asking for treasure fish.

The toad was in a dilemma and scratched its head.

"It's a festival today, all the delicious treasure fish have been taken to make New Year's Eve dinner, there aren't many on hand..."

Good guy, the Long Ren celebrate the Spring Festival, and the toad celebrates it too!

Liang Qu was speechless for a moment.

But on second thought, it was normal.

Except for the border areas and deep mountains and old forests, where is the human race not powerful and martial arts not prosperous?

Hero worship is everywhere.

Great Shun is prosperous, and a group of small surrounding countries take pride in celebrating Great Shun's festivals, and even send gifts.

Demons are the same.

Human culture is a strong culture.

For demon beasts, to read books, they must first learn human characters.

What is the best enlightenment?

Naturally, start by learning from enlightenment reading materials like solar terms.

Cultural invasion of a group of demon clans without foundation is normal to lead to imitation and become a demon clan custom.

"No matter, King, why not let me take a look first; I'll pick the treasure fish, it doesn't matter if they are delicious or not."

In the toad's eyes, the delicious ones are good treasure fish.

But Liang Qu only wants the useful ones.

The toad didn't understand, but it still moved two large shells from behind, and eight treasure fish were swimming in the transparent barrier.

After observing for a while, Liang Qu wasn't sure and picked the two largest treasure fish.

Afterward.

Liang Qu looked at the large shell: "King, I don't know what this shell is, why can it imprison treasure fish?"

"It's useless, the shell's ability to imprison treasure fish is not the shell's ability; it's just a shell."

"Alright."

Liang Qu looked up at the sky, saw the water color was yellowish, and proposed to leave.

"Wait, the warship is very good, I'll give you one more thing."

The toad ran out of the cave, stretched its claws to dig into the belly of a warship that had broken into two, and took out three "short spears" about 1.5 meters long.

The "short spear" styling was quite strange, pitch black, and very thick.

"King, this is..."

"'Explosive Spear', left over from the previous warship, I don't know if it can be used, wait, let's try it, let you see its power."

The toad pinched one with its hand, about a hundred meters away from Liang Qu, and pressed both ends lightly.

The moment the short spear bent and deformed.

Boom!

A violent water flow rushed toward them.

The mud and sand at the bottom of the water flew up, like a gale passing through, and yellow fog flowed along the ground.

Liang Qu and the fat catfish felt as if their chests had been hit by a heavy hammer, rolling and flying out one after another, falling to the ground and eating several mouthfuls of mud and sand.

The toad poked its head over: "Haven't played with it for too long, I only remembered its power when I saw the ship crossbow today, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay."

Liang Qu spat out the mud in his mouth, stood up from the ground, took the two remaining short spears from the toad, and thanked him tremblingly.

"Many thanks, King, for the gift of the spears."