[Chapter 11 Invincible Potato]

David didn’t hesitate for too long, because there was no point in continuing to hesitate. Before he really encountered this situation, everything was just his guess.

Instead of wasting time worrying about these uncertain things, it is better to deal with the problem in front of him first: for example, to cultivate a field and plant potatoes.

Mark Watney had a bag of live potatoes in his hand, which was the basis for him to successfully cultivate a potato field on Mars and plant a large number of potatoes in the plot.

At this time, the bag of live potatoes was placed in front of David and Fording.

“Isn’t this a potato?”

Fording, who is well-informed, also knows this thing. It is also a very common food in the world of Azeroth.

Hearing Fording’s words, David remembered that the world of Azeroth also has many “familiar” crops, and he really overlooked this point before.

“Although the quantity is not much, it is enough to eat for a few days when paired with venison and wolf meat.”

“No, this is for planting.” David immediately explained to Fording the use of the bag of potatoes: “Just now when I was taking Mark around to visit, I unexpectedly found wild potatoes growing next to the village, so Mark thought that the land here should be able to grow potatoes.”

“Oh? If it succeeds, will there be a stable supply of food?” Fording finally realized what the bag of potatoes in front of him meant.

He was already clear enough about the situation of David’s Winter Village – the situation was there, and it could be explained in a few words.

Things like the low temperature in winter and the difficulty in getting through it can be overcome, but the problem of food is the most difficult to solve.

If you can’t ensure a stable food supply, it will be difficult to really build a village, and there will be no way to attract more people to settle here.

Once the food problem is solved, the rest of the problems will not be a problem.

Winter is cold, so put more effort into the house. Even if every family builds a fireplace, it is not difficult to burn firewood. After all, there is a forest not far away, and there is enough firewood there.

At the same time, being able to open up fields that can produce food stably can also attract farmers to live here. With enough farmers, it will also attract blacksmiths, stonemasons, tailors and other professionals to settle here, and slowly the village will be perfect and prosperous.

Fording thought of these things, and David certainly thought of them, so he is very happy now.

On the contrary, Mark Watney was still lamenting that he could travel between different worlds at will. As a scientist, he was very curious about what caused this magical phenomenon? Even the potatoes in front of him could not attract him.

For Mark Watney, the problem of food was mostly solved when he found that he could come to this world; after discovering wild potatoes, they no longer existed.

As an excellent botanist, he was very confident in his judgment and did not think that his judgment would be wrong, so a large amount of potatoes were waiting for him to enjoy at will, but it would take some time to get them.

“It’s amazing. Not only did I become the first human to live alone on Mars, I also became the first person to set foot on and confirm the existence of another world… um, it may be another planet far away from the solar system.”

After muttering for a long time, Mark Watney retracted his attention and put it on how to cultivate the fields.

“Where are you going to cultivate the potato fields?”

“Do you have any requirements?” Mark, David and Fording stood outside, looking at the vast river in the distance: “If possible, I want to plant it here.”

Mark chose the west side of the village, which was a little far away from the village, but not too far. Choosing this location may be to get as close to the Winter River as possible for easy access to water.

After carefully observing for a while, David suggested that Mark open up the potato field next to the wooden house, closer to them.

His reason was also very sufficient: the closer the distance, the better the care, because this place is not as peaceful as it seems, and the beasts in the forest will not stay out obediently.

“Well, what you said does make sense.” Mark agreed with David’s suggestion, not knowing whether David made such an arrangement for the sake of insurance.

The wild potato appeared suddenly, and the land conditions around the cabin seemed to be different from those further away. Although David couldn’t be sure whether he was overthinking, there were only so many live potatoes at the moment, and he didn’t want to take a gamble.

So it was safest to plant them next to the cabin. Even if he wanted to conduct a test, he had to wait until he had enough potato reserves. After

choosing a place, the next step was complicated physical labor.

Fortunately, the three people present were strong enough. Even Mark Watney, who had undergone rigorous training, could not be treated as an ordinary person. To become an astronaut, there were very high physical requirements, and he had to undergo various physical training.

Coupled with a wealth of botanical knowledge, so… he was also a good hand at farm work.

The three men were working hard with tools to turn the soil. The Winter Village, which was originally deserted and seemed to be dying at any time, was bustling in the spring of the third year.

David was so excited that he worked so hard that he didn’t even know what tiredness was. He didn’t come to his senses until Mark reminded him: “This is enough.”

“What? Enough? I haven’t used much effort.” David looked down. It seems that he didn’t reclaim much land. Is this enough?

He looked up and understood. The iron man Fording was too efficient. He was more powerful than Mark and David combined. Most of the soft land under his feet was reclaimed by Fording. Fording, who was leaning

on the shovel, didn’t even sweat. This amount of work was not even a warm-up for him.

The next step was to plant the potatoes. The subsequent work only required Mark to take care of it from time to time. David and Fording were no longer needed before the harvest.

“Leave it to me. I promise that there will be more potatoes than you can eat soon.”

Although he had just planted the potatoes, David seemed to have seen a huge amount of potatoes piled up in front of him. He even began to consider that he might as well go to Iron Tree Castle to recruit farmers after the first batch of potatoes was successfully harvested.

While enjoying a bright future, Laura’s figure gradually appeared not far away.

She looked terrible, and her blood stains made her look very embarrassed.

Seeing her condition, David immediately released a holy light, turning Laura into a 3,000-watt light bulb.

“Don’t worry, David, I’m not seriously injured, and none of this blood is mine.”

Hearing Laura say this, David let out a sigh of relief: “So, all the blood on you is the enemy’s blood? How many bandits did you kill?”

“I don’t know either. There are so many guys on the island that I can’t count them.” Laura seemed a little tired, not physically, but more mentally.

Since she was stranded on the island, the things she experienced directly knocked her years of accumulated knowledge into pieces. Many unreasonable things happened in front of her, and unreasonable enemies kept popping up. Laura had no choice but to face them. After

two or three consecutive days, she was exhausted. If she hadn’t been able to rest, replenish food and water in David’s absolutely safe place, she would have collapsed.

Listening to Laura’s story, David not only encouraged her “You can do it!”, but also helped her analyze what to do next. According

to Laura’s description, she had successfully sent a distress signal to the outside world, and even a plane came to rescue them.

But something strange happened, as if some mysterious force wanted to stop them from leaving, and the rescue plane crashed strangely.

At the same time, the group of people who called themselves the Brotherhood of the Sun seemed to want to sacrifice their good friend Samantha. She now urgently needed to rescue her friend. If she delayed for a long time, something terrible might happen.

“So, I can’t stay too long. I’ll leave after a short rest.”

David expressed his understanding of Laura’s urgency. In this generation of plot, Laura really didn’t have much time to breathe. The few rests in the story were more like fainting due to exhaustion. After

eating a few bites of meat, Laura wiped off the stains on her face and hands, and then stood in front of David: “Fortunately I met you.”

“Don’t be so polite, it’s just a little effort.” David released the holy light again and provided shelter for Laura: “If you really want to thank me, after you rescue your friends and escape from that terrible place, just bring some delicious food here often.” “

That’s settled!” Laura watched the golden light on her body gradually disappear. She knew that this magical power was hidden in her body, protecting herself from harm. In countless battles, if it weren’t for this magical power, she didn’t know how many times she would have died.

Not only bullets and fragments splashed by explosions, but also countless falls from heights, all because of the protection of this power, Laura was not injured and always maintained the best condition to fight the enemy.

If she hadn’t met David, she suspected that she would have died on the island, so she was very grateful to David in her heart, and decided in her heart that after she left the island and returned to her home, she would do her best to help David.

With the financial resources and connections of the Crawford family, it is not difficult to develop and build a remote village, but I don’t know how to quickly bring all kinds of materials to this world.

“It would be convenient if I could drive here.”

David, who didn’t know that someone was willing to contract the infrastructure work of his village, was about to take his bow and arrow to the north to find some more prey.

Mark suddenly called David, and then ran back to Mars to get some food.

“Come and try the food from my world, this is called sweet and sour chicken!”

(End of this chapter)