Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 76 The use of crystal ore

  Rindong Village’s snow fell earlier this year than in previous years. It is worth celebrating that the last batch of crops in the village have been harvested a few days ago, including several new crops that Mark planted later.

  For the villagers of Lindong Village, the next few months will be the most difficult period.

"How is the heating effect?" David was sitting in his log cabin with documents in front of him. He was dealing with various paperwork, preparing for the application for the upgrade of the winter village in the coming year, and reporting the various conditions in the village. All organized into text information.

"The heating effect is better than expected. The temperature in several wooden houses can easily exceed 20 degrees. Everyone feels that living in this kind of house does not have to worry about the cold weather outside." After a period of study, Eva , can already use the common language to communicate with everyone. This innocent-looking Allied intelligence officer is much more capable than David imagined: "In addition, the temporary cellars dug by the craftsmen have been completed, and the harvested Vegetables are already in storage."

  Because the harvest of the farmland in Lindong Village far exceeded expectations, not only the original warehouse was piled up, but also many potatoes were piled outside.

  In addition, the craftsmen built a wooden house for themselves and others in advance, so they dug a few simple cellars to ensure that these potatoes could be stored. The potatoes would not be inedible if they were frozen, but the taste would deteriorate.

  Anyway, the craftsmen have nothing to do for the time being, and they can let everyone vent their excess energy when they are busy. After all, they have never worried about eating since they came to Lindong Village. And in this world, soldiers from the Stormwind Kingdom would not rush to arrest them at any time, and they finally lived a stable life.

  People who are too comfortable may cause trouble. David racked his brains to find things for everyone to do. The senior craftsmen went to inspect the surrounding environment like Van Cleef, and the middle and low-level craftsmen helped Will build and repair various tools, help the villagers improve, repair residences, cowsheds, chicken coops, etc.

  If they still feel that they have no place to use their strength, David has no objection to them directly building a house of their own.

From the current point of view, the construction work in Lindong Town will start in the second half of next year. Before that, there must be some people who are unwilling to continue to live in the "collective dormitory" and want to move out to live with their families. It is also a good choice to build a wooden house as a temporary residence.

  However, it is not an easy task to dig a foundation and build a house in winter. Oh, is the Iron Man of Azeroth? That's all right! Feel free to toss it!

   "How is the linguistics of the newcomers?"

"Most people are able to have simple conversations, and some miners are slower to learn." As for people like Eva and Leonard, they have already mastered the common language, and Sheldon, a genius with a high IQ, also learned it by the way. Common language of Azeroth.

"It seems that everything is on the right track." David was very satisfied, and glanced outside through the window. Snowflakes the size of goose feathers were floating outside, and the whole Winter Village was covered with a new layer of white clothes: "You What? What do you think?"

"What?" Eva held a notebook in her hand, which recorded various situations and changes in Lindong Village, so that David could check it at any time when he asked: "I think it's very good, Peggy, Sharon, Laura, Mark, Jonah...all gave me a lot of help, but now I feel that I am useless and can't help much."

"You helped me a lot." With the increase of the population, various trivial matters also increased. David walked around the village every day, and after dealing with all kinds of small matters, he basically didn't have much time I have started my personal training, and now I have Eva to help with all kinds of trivial matters, which can ensure that David is well aware of the situation in the village, and can keep my personal training uninterrupted.

   “I just did what I could.”

   "That's fine, really."

  David wrote a few more notes on the note, and wrote Eva McKenna's name behind the clerk.

  After Lindong Village was upgraded to Lindong Town, various official systems had to be established, and it was impossible for only one village head to be an official in name as before.

  As for the specific official positions, the Kingdom of Tilan has no interference in the internal affairs of the lords. The name of the official and who to use are determined by the lord himself.

  David didn't think about what positions would be set up, and who would fill them. But now, after seeing Eva's performance, he felt that Eva was fully capable of being his secretary, but out of safety considerations, he wrote down the name of clerk.

   Just when David wanted to continue asking Eva if anyone in the village had expressed any appeal recently, the wooden door was knocked several times.

   "Come in."

   Following David's invitation, the wooden door was pushed open, and Laura walked in from the door: "Are you still sorting out the files?"

   "It's almost finished."

  David looked at the clock on the table—this thing only started to appear in Winter Village after Leonard and the others came. After careful observation, testing, testing, and verification by several scientists, they came to the conclusion that the world also has 24 hours a day, and the clocks on the earth can be used directly without additional design of new ones, such as 30 hours a day. clocks.

David used to think that the time of day was similar to that of his previous life, but he couldn’t be as sure as these people were like the earth, but he was sure of another thing, that is, there are four hundred days in a year in this world, and Winter Village The length of winter in Beijing is more than 150 days (referring to low temperature and particularly cold days); this year, the snow fell so early, it may exceed 180 days.

   "Where are you going?" David noticed that there was a lot of snow on Laura's body, so she probably didn't just come from her home.

   "I just came from Will, and I came here specifically to find you."

   "Oh? What happened to Will?" David was stunned for a moment, wondering what happened to Will? Seeing Laura like this, shouldn't it be a bad thing?

   "You will know after taking a look."

   Arranged the things in front of them and put them aside, got up and took the overcoat that Laura handed over, and then went out of the wooden house to the blacksmith shop together.

  Will's blacksmith shop is very spacious inside, but it seems a bit crowded at this time. When David came over, he found that all the visitors from other worlds in the village had gathered here.

"Did Will rub out the steel armor?" David looked at so many people, including Leonard, and made a joke curiously: "Who solved the energy problem? Sheldon? "

   Looked around and found that Sheldon was not there?

   "Sheldon is still pestering Van Cleef, and wants to learn how to sneak from him." Leonard replied to David, but his eyes were still fixed on the front, and he didn't even turn his head.

  David curiously followed Leonard's line of sight, and found that what everyone was looking at were a few ordinary-looking weapons.

   "Is this Will's new work?"

"Yes." When Will saw David coming, he immediately stopped communicating with Mark. After greeting David, he pointed to several weapons on the table: "Because of an accident, Mark and I I discovered the special usage of the crystal ore, and I did a few tests by the way."

  Will pointed to Mark next to him, and at the same time raised the crystal ore in his hand, which was the blue-purple columnar crystal ore. David noticed that the crystal ore in Will's hand had become significantly smaller.

"oh?"

  The crystal mine was brought back from the Mars base a few days ago. It has been confirmed that this thing will not cause harm to people, and it has also been confirmed that this thing contains energy.

   Apart from this, there is no other discovery. Leonard and Sheldon have suggested that this thing may be used as an energy source, and they want to study a way to efficiently use the energy in it.

   Unexpectedly, Leonard and Sheldon hadn't released any research results yet, and Will actually made a new discovery.

   "What kind of discovery?"

   "When forging weapons, add crystal ore powder." Will took out a swift sword, also known as the stabbing sword, which was the weapon he was best at making and using before: "It will have such an effect."

   Winking at Mark next to him, Mark immediately moved a target with an iron plate from the side knowingly and placed it in the open space, then stepped aside decisively, leaving the stage to Will alone.

   Everyone didn't make a sound to disturb them, and watched Will quietly raised his sword and walked to the target with an iron plate hanging on it, and then stabbed the iron plate on the target with a very standard sword posture.

   Shua!

A light that cannot be ignored flashed, and everyone clearly saw that the swift sword glowed when it touched the target, and then the iron plate was easily lifted by the sharp sword in Will's hand like a fake made of paper. run through.

   "Wow~"

The onlookers exclaimed in unison, of course they would not think that the iron plate was fake, and Will specifically mentioned that the powder of that mineral was added when forging the weapon, so everyone present understood that Will's iron plate was fake. What is the discovery.

   "It's not over yet!" Will was very happy, he enjoyed the feeling of being noticed by everyone, and he finally showed his worth.

  Placing the swift sword in his hand aside, Will picked up the shield next to him, and then nodded to Laura.

  Laura, who had been standing by the side, directly took out the pistol she had prepared in advance, aimed at the shield in Will's hand, and emptied the magazine.

  The loud noise was still reverberating, making everyone a little dizzy, but no one expressed dissatisfaction. Everyone's attention was on the shining shield, and there was no trace left on it.

David looked at the undamaged shield and the bullets that fell in front of Will, and realized the great value of the crystal ore—in addition to containing energy, it may be used as energy, and it can also be used as a material to enhance the attack and power of weapons and equipment. defense.

   "Good stuff!" If it wasn't for Laura, he really wanted to kiss Eva who provided the crystal mine: "However, this usage...StarCraft?"

  (end of this chapter)