The ashes began to move towards the supply point... Soon, the supply point located under a big tree appeared in his field of vision.

It was a white tent, half buried in the snow, half exposed, and a striking orange flag was inserted at the top of the tent.

The pointer on the compass no longer swings, but points straight to the location of the tent.

There were no wild beasts wandering around the tent, and there were no traces of traps on the ground, and everything looked like there was no abnormality... However, for the ashes, there was no abnormality, which was already the biggest abnormality.

The assessment party obviously intentionally increased the difficulty of the assessment. There was no reason to just give the first supply point to himself for free... Although the supplies were within reach, the ashes stopped twenty meters away from the supply point.

He bent down and grabbed a pile of snow, kneaded it into a fist-sized snowball, and threw it hard towards the tent-

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Just as the snowball hit the tent, the branches and leaves of the cedar above the tent suddenly shaking violently. With a slight sound of mechanical sounds, dozens of sharp steel cones shot out from the branches and leaves, and were densely inserted around the tent!

If Ashes had not tried with snowballs just now but went straight to the tent, he would have been nailed to the snow now...

Outside the assessment area, the starting camp.

"Sir, the trap at the No. 1 supply point has been triggered!"

"Oh? Is that boy dead?" the instructor raised his eyebrows slightly and asked in a deep voice.

"...It seems that there is no, the compass position is still moving, and he seems to have triggered the trap with something else first."

"It's interesting... Let the death row team enter the assessment venue and tell them that if anyone among them can kill the target, they can be exempted from death and exiled for twenty years."

"yes."

...

Ashes threw seven or eight snowballs into the tent, and even several of them were thrown at the cedar. But except for the steel cone that was shot out at the beginning, nothing happened. It seemed that this supply point should have only one trap.

There were not many supplies in the tent. Apart from a few essential supplies, there was only a thirty-cm long cast iron barrel, a copper hammer with flint, some fragmented mechanical parts, plus a small barrel of black gunpowder and ten eight-mm-diameter round lead bullets.

Pipes made of cast iron are still competent as water pipes or steam pipes, but they are not ideal materials for making gun barrels. The compressive and corrosion resistance of cast iron is not as good as carbon steel alloys with high hardness. After the advent of integrated seamless steel pipes, barrels made of cast iron were basically eliminated. Even in the civilian gun market, cast iron barrels have become marginalized.

The cast iron barrel is made of two castings closed, which means that when black gunpowder explodes in the barrel and high-temperature gas pushes the projectile, the internal stress of the barrel is uneven, and gaps or even deformations may occur at the closing, and even directly lead to the explosion of the barrel.

The barrel made of cast iron has a short service life, generally between 150 and 200 rounds. It is strictly forbidden to fill gunpowder that exceeds the standard amount, it is strictly forbidden to use heavy warheads with excessive bore pressure, and it is prohibited to drill bore threads in the cast iron barrel.

This means that the flint gun made of cast iron gun barrels is extremely limited in terms of range, power and accuracy. It can play a role in actual combat, even worse than military crossbows...

But for the ashes now, even though the cast iron barrel has so many shortcomings, no matter what, as long as this thing is in hand, he can make a gun that can shoot bullets... It is a world of difference between a gun in the true sense and a dagger.

The barrel is the most demanding component in the entire gun. As for other parts, if you do not pursue top-level fineness, you can also use simple hand tools to process it.

The ashes saw several branches as thick as arms with the side of the multi-function dagger with steel teeth, then cut them into suitable shapes, stuffed the cast iron barrel into it, and made a simple firing device with the hammer and those fragments, fixed it to the front of the grip, and a simple flintstorm was formed.

There is no sight, no safety device, and not even a trigger. If you want to design the gun, you must manually pull the hammer and then manually move the hammer to lock the mortise... Looking at the thing in front of you that can barely be called a "gun", Ash smiled bitterly and inserted it into the holster under your ribs.

Even if Yuri was asked to assemble it, that guy wouldn't have done better than himself if he had only this little material... Ashes thought so, and plundered all the remaining supplies in the tent into his backpack and planned to leave this place.

At this moment, a rustling sound came from a place not far ahead. Ashes quickly hid behind the tent.

This is the unique sound of snow being trampled in real time. It is obvious that something is approaching here.

"Is it a wild beast... no... it's not a wild beast..." Ashes carefully distinguished the sound of footsteps, and he suddenly realized that the sound should be some kind of creature walking with two feet...

A bipedal creature... in this place, it seems that it is only humans...

But, besides myself, there are other people in the assessment area? Didn’t I say that I am the only candidate to postpone the postponement?

Ashes' guess was not wrong. He was a strong man, nearly 1.9 meters tall, with a hard and straight short inch. In the snow and ice, his upper body was almost covered with only a brown leather vest, which was covered with weapons such as hand axes and short swords.

The exposed skin of this strong man was covered with various scars, and there was a black tattoo mark on one side of his cheek. This mark only appeared on the face of a person, that is, those who committed a serious crime. After they were arrested and imprisoned, the jailers would stab such marks on their cheeks. The markings contained the prisoner's personal information and the crime they committed, and this process was also called "tabbing" or "tabbing".

This tattoo uses special dyes and is extremely difficult to wash away. Unless the whole piece of meat is cut off, this mark will accompany them for the rest of their lives...

However, why does a prisoner who committed a felony appear in the assessment area?

If the crime is so serious that it needs to be "tatted", even if it is not a death sentence or life imprisonment, it must be exile at the least... It basically means that you have no chance of freedom in the second half of your life. Coupled with the various defense methods outside the assessment area, it is definitely impossible to "mistake"... Then, this prisoner should have been deliberately put into the assessment area...

Could it be that this guy is also considered his own "assessment content"?

Ashes suddenly remembered a sentence Yuri had said to himself before - "In the assessment area, in addition to this, any living thing you see is your enemy."
Chapter completed!