You Chen accompanied the Yuwen sisters for a few rounds before parting ways with them. She wanted to go home directly, but she stopped when she saw an advertisement.
"Emotion Arrow Shooting Club welcomes you.”
" Love with an Arrow? An archer?" You Chen suddenly remembered that he still had a Level 5 archery skill that he had not used yet.
Should he try?
Touching the bank card in his pocket, You Chen felt that 50,000 yuan was still a bit of spare money. If he felt that it was convenient to buy a bow to play with, he decisively walked in.
After entering the door, You Chen realized that although the interior of the house was decorated in a dignified manner, there were very few people. There were about twenty people there. Some of them were standing and shooting arrows, while others were sitting and chatting. It could be said that business was rather bleak.
She looked around and found the receptionist.
"Hello, may I ask, how do you…play here?”
After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of a suitable word, so he directly asked how to play.
"Fifteen dollars for a set of twelve arrows. It was 50 yuan per hour to prepare a bow and arrow.”The girl at the front desk was playing Fight the Landlord on the computer at the bar counter. She typed out two pairs, then another pair of three and two. After she was done, she looked up at You Chen. " Ah, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Is this your first time here?"
"First time, yes." You Chen nodded, but then asked with a slightly amused tone. "However, aren't you afraid of being complained if you play Fight the Landlord during office hours?”
"Aiyaya, it can't be. Archery is a very niche sport. It seems that our archery club is the only one in the entire Peng City.”the receptionist said with a smile. "So, the people who come here are either regular customers or semi-professional shooters. There were also some who came to try something new, but there were very few.”
" I see..." You Chen nodded. He now had some understanding of the status of archery in society.
"Is this your first time playing archery?"
" No, back in the countryside, Grandpa used ash wood to make a bow for Cousin. We brothers just played with each other…" You Chen said frankly.
"In that case, you can try how heavy the bow can be pulled first.”The girl at the front desk brought You Chen to the archery area and looked him up and down. Then, she picked up the bow that was placed at the side and handed it to You Chen."Look at your size…This is a twenty-five pound recurve bow.”
" Hey, Little Ya, there's a newcomer here to learn archery again…" A few middle-aged men in their forties saw the front desk girl bring You Chen to the archery area. They didn't know You Chen, so they immediately knew that he was a newcomer.
"Yes, Mr. Qian, this is a newcomer.”Xiao Ya saw the customer talking to her, so she also turned around and replied.
"Come, let me see how the newcomer is.”This guy was about forty years old and held a beautiful recurve bow in his hand. He held onto the middle railing and jumped over.
"25 pounds?" You Chen took the recurve bow and casually took out a special arrow from the quiver beside him. He subconsciously clamped his index and middle fingers and placed it on the bow. "How many pounds is a crossbow in ancient times?”
" In ancient times, a crossbow was about 120 pounds. Now, a pound is about 0.9 pounds, which means a crossbow is about 130 pounds…" Xiao Ya seemed to have done her homework on archery.
" How about this..." He pushed his left hand forward and held his right hand like he was holding a baby. With a swoosh, he decisively pulled the 25-pound recurve bow into the shape of a full moon. "Then in ancient times, people like Huang Zhong, who was so old and could break two stone bows on horseback with just his arms…wouldn't his arm strength exceed four hundred jin?”
" That's not necessarily true. The measurement units in ancient times are different from modern times. One jin in the Han system is only about five taels now, which means that Huang Zhong's broken bow is only about a hundred pounds now..." Mr. Qian, who was beside Xiao Ya, saw that she could not make it, and replied with a smile. "However, I'm more curious. Is this really your first time shooting an arrow?”
"What's wrong?" You Chen loosened his grip, and the arrow in his fingers flew out.
"Your posture is the traditional Mongolian archery technique…But, without the ring, doesn't your finger hurt?”Mr. Qian turned to look at the CCTV. "Eh, your posture is quite standard. Where are the arrows?”
" Uh…I shot at the wrong target…" You Chen awkwardly pointed at the target on the right. Only then did he realize that he had shot into someone else's archery path. He turned around and asked Xiaoya. "Can you give me a harder bow? Uh…I'll change it to a fifty-pound one first.”
"Ah, okay, there's one here." Without another word, Xiao Ya handed You Chen a fifty-pound bow and arrow. "You have to be careful. Don't force yourself or you might hurt yourself.”
This time, You Chen didn't shoot from the ten-meter area. Instead, he was pulled to the fifty-meter area by Xiao Ya.
There were only a few people in the archery club, but most of them were concentrated in the 10 - 20 meter archery area. There were only two or three people in the 50-meter archery area.
If the 45-pound bow was fully drawn, one arrow would probably pierce through the target in the ten-meter range.
No one knew what Mr. Qian was thinking, but he followed You Chen directly.
He drew the bow, loaded the arrow, let go, and the arrow flew away…
Miss target!
"Sigh, what a pity." Xiao Ya and Mr. Qian shook their heads at the same time.
You Chen didn't say anything. He shot three arrows in a row, swung his arm, and asked with a smile,""How much is this bow?"
"Ah?" Xiao Ya didn't seem to hear him clearly and asked back, but she immediately came back to her senses. "Do you want to buy a bow?"
"Yeah, why else would I be here?”
Xiao Ya pursed her lips. She thought to herself," If I'm not here to shoot arrows, what else can I do?" However, she didn't say it out loud. She found a list and handed it to You Chen. "This bow is a Strider imported from the United States. The bare bow alone costs 1,500 yuan, plus the shock absorbing…2,200 yuan.”
"No need, just a bare bow and a bow frame. There's no need for a shock absorption or release device.”You Chen waved his hand and said. " Give me more than ten arrows. Oh right, do you have any arrowheads or something like that…"
When You Chen walked out of the archery club, he was already gnashing his teeth in hatred.
I already expected a bow to cost 1,500 yuan, but an arrow actually cost more than ten yuan, and it was only a glass fiber arrow used in competitions. If it was just an arrowhead for hunting, it would cost anywhere from ten to forty…
No wonder archery was said to be a niche game. It turned out that only rich people could afford to play it.
If it wasn't for the 50,000 yuan he got in the movie world, he really wouldn't have been able to afford this bow…
"Beep. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a weapon. Strider's 50-pound recurve bow. Durability: 50/50.”
"Beep. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a consumable weapon. Fiberglass arrows for competition X24 (two sets). Sharpness value: 10. This arrow can be disassembled and replaced with a new arrowhead to obtain a stronger attack power or special attack effect.”
Walking to the invisible spot, You Chen deactivated his equipment. In an instant, a recurve bow and two stacks of arrows that had been assembled disappeared from You Chen's hands.
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