Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 72 Unknown crystal ore

   Soon, Mark Watney, who was fully armed, dug out two crystals from the ground behind David's cabin under the protection of a full space suit.

David, who used the holy light to protect himself and watched the whole process, dug down and found that the two crystals were actually connected to a fist-sized, spherical transparent crystal. At the same time, when Mark was carefully trying to take out the crystal, he was embarrassed found that with a little force, he pulled the pink crystal off the 'root'.

   "..." Mark glanced at David next to him: "I didn't expect this thing to be so weak."

"It's okay, it's convenient to store it separately." Looking at it this way, this suspected mineral crystal is divided into three parts, a slightly larger pink crystal, and a long column-shaped blue-purple crystal that is much smaller than the pink crystal. And the spherical part that was finally dug out of the soil.

  Mark still didn't use much force next, but the long cylindrical blue-purple crystal was still 'pulled' off by him, shrugged and put it into a separate storage box. According to Mark, this box is used to store samples in the Mars base, and it can isolate radiation to a certain extent.

   Before determining whether this crystal has harmful radiation, storing it seems to be the most reliable choice.

"What if this kind of crystal continues to grow here?" Putting the three parts into three boxes, Mark looked at the small deep pit in front of him, wondering what weird things would grow here in the future s things?

   "It doesn't matter as long as it is confirmed that there is no harmful radiation." David glanced at the last relatively round part. He felt that this part was the key, and he could feel the energy contained in it.

  The other two crystals also contained energy, and gave him a very pure feeling.

   Even so, David did not make any contact rashly before he was sure it was safe. Anyway, it would not take long to conduct the test, so he was not in a hurry.

  Through the short-term observation just now, he felt that these few crystals should not be the Tiberium mine that he was most worried about.

Tiberium comes from the world of Command and Conquer, and came to the earth through the fall of meteorites. After this strange substance touches the earth, it will continuously absorb various minerals around it, condense it into crystal clusters and Jump out from the ground.

There are green 'basic models' and blue 'upgraded versions' of Tiberium mines, followed by 'seagrass versions' and various versions of other colors, but no matter what kind, Tiberium mines contain various At the same time as this kind of mineral element, it also has strong radiation and toxicity. If you touch this mineral without any protection, you are looking for death.

What makes David a little lucky is that Lieutenant Eva McKenna is not from the world line of Command and Conquer, but the world line of red alert she lives in, although there are various minerals that are suspected of changing Tiberium mines , but these minerals do not have those fatal side effects, maybe what I got is this improved version?

"However, even if it is an improved version, it doesn't seem to be useful!" Tiberium mines can absorb and grow various minerals around them, which is very convenient for humans to mine various minerals, but correspondingly requires special equipment to Decompose various mineral elements in Tiberium crystals.

In addition, the so-called Changpitai mine also mainly exists in the works of Red Alert 1 and Red Alert 2, but Eva came from the world of Red Alert 3. The mines in that world should be dug out from the ground with special equipment .

   "So... Eva rewarded me with something?"

  David, whose head was full of question marks, stopped his "prayer", and washed himself with holy light several times in a row. He firmly believed that even if there was radiation, it would be "purified" now.

   After a while, Mark has come back and has taken off the space suit.

   "It appears to be safe for the time being."

   "Yes." Mark didn't carry the three boxes in his hand, but stayed in the laboratory of the Mars base: "That spherical crystal has the most energy radiation, but it is harmless to the human body."

  Any object with energy has radiation, but not all radiation is harmful to humans, and the crystal ore growing behind David’s house this time has not been found to be harmful to the human body.

   "However, it will take more time to really determine whether it is harmful." Now it is only confirmed that this thing will not pose an immediate threat to the person, but whether it is safe for long-term exposure needs to continue to observe.

  Mark’s Mars base is a very good place, with all kinds of equipment in it, and a special isolation area, so you don’t have to worry about being stolen suddenly if you put the crystals there.

   "Continue to observe for a while..."

   "If there is no harm, how are you going to use that thing?"

   "I don't know." David really didn't think about this question: "You can observe the specific composition of these crystals next."

  If Mark can find the composition of various minerals in it, it means that this thing is a pure version of Tiberium, and how to use these special minerals is a headache.

"If Van Cleef and the others come over, there are many miners and blacksmiths among them, and they may be able to figure out how to use this strange mineral." There are also a lot of strange minerals in the Azeroth world. He should have rich experience in this area. Even if Van Cleef's masonry guild doesn't have such talents, Fording can go to Ironforge to ask the dwarves for help.

  The two stood here chatting for a while, and saw Laura leading Eva back from a distance, accompanied by Peggy and Sharon.

   Peggy and Eva chatted very happily. They are also from England and are also soldiers. The two women have enough common topics.

In addition, because Laura's figure is very different from Eva's, but the tall, long-legged and broad-minded Mi Ziqi woman Captain Carter is closer to Eva's figure, so Eva's new clothes should be Peggy's. .

The four women lined up, talking and laughing all the way to David and Mark, Eva's complexion was much better than before: "David Village Chief, Lindong Village is a very beautiful place, I am very happy able to come here."

By the way, I also thanked David who promised to let her stay. After all, David and Cold Winter Village have kept her away from the threat of the Rising Sun Empire, and this is not the "backward rural village" she originally thought. After learning more information from Laura, Eva has realized what is going on in Winter Village.

  Although it looks backward, there are residents from all over the world. Rinwinter Village can get advanced machinery and equipment, and all kinds of daily necessities that she is used to using can also be seen here.

   She doesn’t have to worry about food. At present, Lindong Village still has a centralized supply system. As long as you go to the cafeteria when the time comes, you can eat delicious meals.

  As for the others, everyone is doing what they are good at according to their own abilities. Now Eva has started to think about what she is good at—as if all she did was clerical work before?

Looking around, Eva felt that this small village didn't seem to have so much paperwork. Maybe she should do some physical work within her capacity, like Sharon and Peggy she just met. Ji's body is about the same, so he should be able to do those jobs by himself?

   Comes from a world like Red Alert, which is completely different from the ordinary earth. Eva, who doesn't know what Peggy is like at all, doesn't know what Captain Carter is, and treats Carter and Sharon as ordinary people.

  So, when she saw Captain Carter and Sharon Rogers easily lift, lift, and throw the huge log aside the next day, she doubted the level of military training she had done.

  Did the instructors let themselves down? Why is there such a big gap between myself and Peggy, who are also British female soldiers?

   "No, this is obviously not something ordinary humans can do!"

   Fortunately, Eva just looked cute, not really stupid, and soon realized that the two in front of her were not normal people at all, and it was at this time that Eva knew what a super soldier was.

   While Eva was tutoring new knowledge, David met Edwin Van Cleef again.

  The leader of the Stonemasons Guild and the current founder of the Defias Brotherhood doesn't look very good-looking. The whole person seems to be shrouded in low air pressure.

   "What's wrong with him?" David could feel that Van Cleef's anger was not aimed at himself, and turned to ask Fording next to him.

   "After Edwin returned, he recruited his partners in the Stonemasons' Guild to discuss a plan to move to Rinwinter Village together. It was at this time that he discovered that the Defias Brotherhood was not under his control at all."

According to Fording's narration, Van Cleef noticed something was wrong with the Defias Brotherhood when he recruited his "brothers". Instead of lurking according to his order, he continued to act on his own.

Noticing the anomaly, Van Cleef sent several cronies to investigate, only to find that the bottom layer of the Defias Brotherhood had not received his orders at all, and was also accepting various orders from unknown sources. Unscrupulous destruction and attacks are launched everywhere.

   Until this moment, Van Cleef believed what David said to him: the Defias Brotherhood is not really monolithic.

   "So, now he is willing to completely abandon those bastards?"

   "Yes, after all, no one wants to be manipulated as a pawn." Fording and David looked at each other, and blinked a few times on purpose.

  David saw Fording's expression and knew that the other party had pushed in this matter.

   "So, roughly how many craftsmen and their families are willing to come to Cold Winter Village?"

   "Around four hundred people."

  (end of this chapter)