Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 14 Red Cloak

   Handed a bag to David who was sitting next to him, Laura's face was full of expectation. But David always felt that Laura's expression was abnormal, as if she was having some fun waiting to watch.

  He didn't think about it too much, anyway, Laura couldn't send him a bomb or something, at most it was some prank.

   Received the bag in his hand, and when he opened the bag, he saw a mass of red: "What is this?"

   Reached out to take out the contents of the bag, David stood up and saw clearly what was in his hand with a slight shake: "A cloak?"

  A cloak with a hood, this is not a strange thing, it can even be said to be a very practical thing, but this color...

"Yes, a cloak, put it on." Afraid that David would refuse, Laura stood up and put the cloak on for David, and even put the hood on David's head: "Isn't it nice? "

  David looked at the red cloak with white fringe, and wanted to vomit in his heart: "It feels good, but this color..."

   "Oh, in my world, red cloaks can only be worn by the best hunters." Laura explained solemnly, without a smile on her face: "It's an honor."

"Is that so?" David looked at Laura, then at Mark...Mark, who covered his mouth, nodded solemnly—now David and Fording know that both Laura and Mark come from a place called Earth, The era of life is similar, but there is no Mars exploration plan in Laura's world, so it is determined that the two are not from the same earth.

   "Okay, thank you very much for the gift!" I said in my heart: I will remember this matter! David took off the cloak and carefully put it back into the bag: "I will keep such an important gift well!"

   "Well, now that the weather is getting warmer, I don't need it. I can take it out when it's cold." As time goes by, the temperature is gradually warming up, and I no longer need to light a fire to keep warm when I sleep at night.

The real meaning of Laura's words is not to say that the cloak will not be used for the time being, but the point is to let David wear it when the weather is cold: "Unfortunately, in my world, the legendary hunters wear the red cloak to kill Wicked gray wolf dead, which is a good moral considering what you're about to do."

  David could only express his gratitude again: "It took your trouble."

  Laura nodded in satisfaction, and then gave Mark a mobile hard drive that stored a large number of songs—he could finally get rid of the pile of disco music left by Captain Lewis.

"This is really great." During this period of time, Mark only complained to Laura about his captain's bad taste, because he felt that it was difficult for Fording and David to understand his pain. saved him.

In the end, Laura gave Fording a two-handed epee made of fine craftsmanship. Although she sent some cold weapons made by modern technology a few days ago, they were basically one-handed swords, short knives, daggers and other weapons. After using them, Ding felt that these weapons were of good quality, but they were too light to use easily.

   At this time, I was very happy to get the weapon in my hand. After expressing my gratitude to Laura, I began to think about what gift I could give in return?

   After thinking about it, it seems that he has nothing to offer except knowledge related to the Holy Light. Maybe he can consider going back to Azeroth to get some other knowledge? I just don't know what Laura is interested in?

  Eat a meal until the moon rises high. For those who are used to going to bed early and getting up early, it is already very late today.

   Quickly cleared the table and kept the rest of the food properly, and then went back to their cabins to rest.

Maybe it was a new bed that was many times more comfortable than previous years, maybe it was drinking a lot of wine, David fell asleep quickly after lying down, and even had various sweet dreams, such as Laura in only her red cloak...

  Opening his eyes, lying on the comfortable new bed, David didn't want to wake up at all.

  Since traveling to this backward world, this was the first time he had the idea of ​​staying in bed. The new bed was so comfortable, and the sealing effect of the quilt had been strengthened by countless times, so he almost couldn't break free.

   "Fortunately, my spiritual will is strong enough."

   Get up, wash up!

   When David walked out of his wooden house, he found that everyone had already woken up, and Mark had already prepared breakfast: "Hi, David! It's so rare that I woke up so late today."

   "Yeah, the new bed is so comfortable that I almost don't want to get up."

"Hahaha! I thought it was because you drank too much wine last night." In Mark's eyes, David is a young man living in a backward world. His living conditions are difficult and he has little chance to touch modern alcoholic beverages. His body is not used to it It's a very normal thing.

   "So how could a little wine knock me down?"

Sitting at the square table, everyone decided what to do while having breakfast: Fording will stay in the village and be responsible for dismantling two of the previous four temporary wooden houses, and the remaining two will be used as warehouses in the future .

According to the plan mentioned by David and several people, after the completion of several people's residences, the temporary wooden houses will be demolished one after another, such as kitchens and warehouses will be rebuilt to be more durable. These tasks are not urgent, and in the following days Slowly build up here.

After checking the potato fields, Mark will go to the Mars base to start his own Mars potato project—without using any resources from Cold Winter Village, but completely relying on the resources from the Mars base. As a botanist, Mark will give A research project of my own arrangement.

  The project was troublesome early on, so Mark will be on Mars for most of these days, only coming back to eat and sleep.

"The two of us will go to the forest in the north and wipe out the wolves if possible." Putting the last bite of potatoes and homemade bacon into his mouth, David reminded Laura: "Bring enough weapons, because I don't know what else can appear in the forest besides wolves."

"clear!"

   "If you are in trouble, send a signal!" Fording finally told him to let David and Laura notify himself when they encounter unsolvable dangers, and he will rush to support as quickly as possible.

  David nodded. With Fording's strength, he felt that there should be no enemies near Cold Winter Village that he couldn't solve!

After changing into new clothes that are convenient for movement (the training uniform bought by Laura), after making sure that the first aid medicine, ropes, water, and ammunition are all available, he put the backpack on his back. Round pistol and handaxe, brand new hunting bow, and quiver slung from his waist.

   After confirming that he could draw out the arrow by simply reaching his lower back, David turned his head and looked at Laura.

  Similar to her own situation, Laura is also fully armed. In addition to bows and pistols, she also brought an extra shotgun. Compared with David, she has more climbing picks but less handaxes in her waist.

  Looking at the attire of the two, it is impossible to tell whether they are going on an adventure, hunting or going to war—Mark Watney.

   Waved to Mark, David and Laura headed towards the forest in the north. After passing through an open plain area and a not-so-steep slope, David and Laura officially stepped into the forest.

  The originally comfortable temperature seemed to drop several degrees in an instant, and the feeling of shade invaded the body from all directions. It seemed that the entire forest was greeting two outsiders.

   "It's cool here..."

  Going forward quietly for a while, and looking back, I can no longer see the Rindong Village in the distance, and all I can see are huge trees that have turned green.

   "Have you been here before?"

   "No." To Laura's question, David answered quickly: "I used to move around the edge of the forest, and would even go around the forest looking for prey, and would not go deep into the forest."

   The last time he was attacked by a pack of wolves was the one he went deep into the forest. That encounter proved that David's previous caution was correct.

"I didn't expect you to be such a cautious character." Although I have known you for a while, Laura feels that her understanding of David is not detailed enough, and it is not even as good as her understanding of Fording—yes, Laura searched after returning. Tirion Fordring, great harvest!

  But searching for David didn't turn up any useful information. The name David is so common that she couldn't be sure which of the search results corresponded to the young man beside her.

  Of course, she did not rule out the possibility that David did not exist in any records in her world, and such a completely unknown existence also made Laura even more curious.

   "If a hunter is not cautious enough, he would have died in the mouth of wild beasts." This is not David's perception, but a sentence that the old hunter who raised and taught him kept saying, and he also recognized it.

"So, you are now the village head of Winter Village, a hunter, and a priest of the Holy Light." Laura thinks this kind of professional combination is quite novel: "You are learning fighting skills with Tirion every day, and you also want to work part-time. a soldier?"

"Anyway, there are no restrictions. It's always good to have more things. It allows me to deal with various situations calmly." David carefully observed the surroundings, but he never saw any traces of wild animals, let alone wolves. signs of activity.

   There was an unexpected harvest: "These should be ores?"

  Looking at the hills ahead that were not as tall as the surrounding trees, David carefully looked at the stones on the ground with various metallic lusters.

  Laura squatted down and identified for a while before giving the answer: "It's copper ore and iron ore. This should be good news for you?"

   "Of course!" The discovery of easy-to-dig metal mines near the village is of course a good thing for the development of the village: "With these ores, today is not in vain."

  Walking around the hillside for half a circle, David and Laura found a naturally formed cave. Just as David was about to light a torch and go in, he glanced at Laura next to him.

   "?"

  (end of this chapter)