[Chapter 14 Red Cape]

handed a bag to David who was sitting next to her, her face full of expectation. But David always felt that Laura’s expression was abnormal, as if there was something fun waiting to be seen.

He didn’t think too much about it, anyway, Laura couldn’t give him a bomb or something, at most it was just a prank.

He took the bag in his hand and saw a ball of red as soon as he opened the bag: “What is this?”

He reached out to pull the things out of the bag. David stood up and just shook it slightly to see clearly what he was holding: “A cloak?”

A cloak with a hood. This is not a strange thing. It can even be said to be a very practical thing. It’s just that the color…

“Yes, a cloak, try it on.” For fear that David would refuse, Laura stood up and helped David put the cloak on, and even put the hood on David’s head: “Isn’t it nice?”

David looked at the red cloak with white fur edges, and he wanted to complain in his heart: “It feels good, but the color…”

“Oh, in my world, only the best hunters can wear red cloaks.” Laura explained seriously, without a smile on her face: “This is an honor.”

“Is that so?” David looked at Laura, then at Mark… Mark, who was covering his mouth, nodded seriously – now David and Fording both knew that Laura and Mark were from a place called Earth, and lived in a similar era, but there was no Mars exploration program in Laura’s world, which confirmed that the two were not from the same Earth.

“Well, thank you very much for your gift!” He said to himself: I’ll remember this! David took off the cloak and carefully put it back into the bag: “Such an important gift, I will keep it well!”

“Well, now that the weather has become warmer, it can’t be used. You can wait until it gets cold to take it out.” As time passed, the temperature was gradually getting warmer, and there was no need to light a fire to keep warm when sleeping at night.

The real meaning of Laura’s words was not that the cloak could not be used for the time being, but that David should wear it when it got cold: “It’s a pity. In my world, the legendary hunter killed the evil gray wolf wearing a red cloak. Considering what you are going to do, this is a good meaning.”

David could only express his gratitude again: “Thank you for your trouble.”

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

“This is really great.” During this period, Mark only complained to Laura about his captain’s bad taste, because he felt that it was difficult for both Fording and David to understand his pain. Unexpectedly, Laura really saved him.

Finally, Laura gave Fording a finely crafted two-handed heavy sword. Although she had sent some cold weapons made with modern technology some time ago, they were basically one-handed swords, short knives, daggers and other weapons. After using them, Fording felt that these weapons were of good quality, but they were too light to use.

At this time, he was very happy to get a handy weapon. After expressing his gratitude to Laura, he began to think about what gift he could give in return?

After thinking about it, it seemed that he had nothing to show except the knowledge related to the Holy Light. Maybe he could consider returning to Azeroth and get some other knowledge? I just don’t know what Laura is interested in?

The meal lasted until the moon rose high. For the few people who were used to going to bed early and getting up early, it was already very late today.

After quickly cleaning up the table and properly storing the remaining food, they returned to their own wooden houses to rest.

Maybe it was because of the new bed that was many times more comfortable than in previous years, or maybe it was because he drank a lot of wine, David fell asleep soon after lying down, and even had all kinds of beautiful dreams, such as Laura wearing only a red cloak…

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

Since he came to this backward world, this was the first time he had the idea of staying in bed. It was really too comfortable for the new bed, and the sealing effect of the quilt was enhanced many times, and he almost couldn’t break free.

“Fortunately, my mental will is strong enough.”

Get up and wash up!

When David walked out of his wooden house, he found that everyone had gotten up, and Mark had already prepared breakfast: “Hi, David! It’s rare that you got up so late today.”

“Yeah, the new bed is so comfortable that I almost didn’t want to get up.”

“Hahaha! I thought it was because you drank too much last night.” In Mark’s eyes, David was a young man living in a backward world. His living conditions were difficult and he had no chance to come into contact with modern alcoholic beverages. It was normal for his body to not adapt.

“How can such a small amount of wine defeat me?”

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

According to the plan David and several others had discussed, after the residences of several people were completed, the temporary wooden houses would be dismantled one after another, and the kitchens and warehouses would be rebuilt to be more sturdy and durable. These tasks were not urgent and would be completed slowly in the following days.

After checking the potato fields, Mark would go to the Mars base to start his Mars potato project – without any resources from Winter Village, he would rely entirely on the resources from the Mars base. It was a research project that Mark, a botanist, arranged for himself.

This project was quite troublesome at the beginning, so Mark would stay on Mars most of the time these days, only coming back to eat and sleep.

“Let’s go to the forest in the north and kill 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 will appear in the forest besides wolves.”

“Understood!”

“If you get into trouble, send a signal flare!” Fording finally reminded David and Laura to notify him when they encounter danger that cannot be solved, and he will rush over to support as quickly as possible.

David nodded. With Fording’s strength, he felt that there should be no enemies near Winter Village that he could not solve!

After changing into new clothes that were convenient for movement (the training clothes bought by Laura), and making sure that first aid medicines, ropes, clean water, and ammunition were all available, he put the backpack on his back. David also inserted a violent hunter revolver and a hand axe on both sides of his waist, picked up the brand new hunting bow, and hung the quiver on his back.

After confirming that he could draw an arrow as long as he reached his hand to the back of his waist, David turned his head and looked at Laura.

Laura was also fully armed, similar to her own situation. In addition to a bow and arrow, a pistol, she also brought a shotgun. She had a pair of mountaineering picks on her waist, but less of a hatchet than David.

Looking at their attire, it was impossible to tell whether they were going on an adventure, hunting, or going to war—Mark Watney’s words.

David and Laura waved to Mark, and they headed toward 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 cool feeling invaded the body from all directions, as if the entire forest was greeting the two outsiders.

“It’s quite cool here…”

After moving forward quietly for a while, they could no longer see the Winter Village in the distance when they looked back. All they could see were huge trees that had turned green.

“Have you been here before?”

“No.” David answered Laura’s question quickly: “I used to be active on the edge of the forest, and even went around the forest to look for prey, and I would not go deep into the forest.”

The last time he was attacked by wolves was the deepest he had ever been in the forest. That experience proved that David’s previous caution was correct.

“I didn’t expect you to be such a cautious person.” Although they had known each other for a while, Laura felt that her understanding of David was not detailed enough, and even less than her understanding of Fording – yes, Laura searched for Tirion Fording after returning, and gained a lot!

But searching for David did not find any useful information. The name David was too common, and she had no way of determining which of the search results corresponded to the young man next to her.

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

“If a hunter is not cautious, he would have died in the mouth of a beast long ago.” This was not David’s perception, but a sentence that the old hunter who raised and taught him kept repeating, and he also recognized.

“So, you are now the mayor of Winter Village, a hunter, and a priest of Holy Light.” Laura thought this combination of professions was quite novel: “You learn fighting skills from Tirion every day, and you want to be a part-time warrior?”

“Anyway, there are no restrictions. It is always good to have more things, so that I can calmly deal with various situations.” David carefully observed the surroundings, but never saw any traces of wild beasts, let alone any signs of wolf activities.

But there was an unexpected gain: “These should be ores?”

Looking at the hill in front of him, which was not as high as the surrounding trees, David carefully looked at the stones on the ground with various metallic lusters.

Laura squatted down and identified them for a while before giving the answer: “It is 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.”

After walking around the hillside for a while, David and Laura found a naturally formed cave. Just as David was about to light a torch and go in to take a look, he glanced at Laura next to him with a tangled look.

“?”

(End of this chapter)