[Chapter 157 Extraordinary Gwen]
He had not thought about the city wall until he found Squirtle and asked Squirtle to help him find some orb-silk spiders, and then turned back with Mark to the interior of Winter Town.
Build or not build?
Building a city wall will make the town safer.
In this era, the function of the city wall is still very important. Even the newly built Frost Town in the northeast has a simple wall made of wood.
After a year of development this year, this wall may be upgraded.
Not building it is simply because David does not want to waste that time and energy, because even if the city wall is built, it will most likely be demolished.
According to his current plan, only the Winter Fortress (palace?) where he lives will be surrounded by a circle of high walls, but the meaning of this high wall is different from that of the city wall. It is more to ensure that David, as the lord, has a private space that is not disturbed.
As for the entire Winter Town, it is still in an open state.
The residents of the town did not wonder why there was no city wall in a town located on the border of the kingdom. Because the construction site kept reminding the people here that the town was still under construction.
“Are you still struggling?”
“Yes!”
“I think if you are struggling, it means you have a clear answer in your mind.”
Mark hit the nail on the head. If David had not resisted building the wall in his heart, he would not have needed to struggle with such a thing.
“You are right, I do have a clear answer in my mind.” David nodded. The city in his dream did not have any shadow of the wall at all, and he was confident in the development speed of his territory.
The most important thing was that he was confident in the defense of his territory.
When necessary, David could perform the Great Summoning Spell, and the summoning targets included but were not limited to: members of the Avengers; the Autobots currently on Earth; the Knights of the Silver Hand and the army of the Kingdom of Lordaeron; the ranger troops of Quel’Thalas.
With this lineup, he really didn’t believe that anyone could take down Winter Town.
Instead of spending time, energy and resources to build the wall, it would be better to build more houses and then rent them out at low prices to attract more civilians to settle in Winter Town…
After the various infrastructures of Winter Town are built and the current residents in the town have their own homes, he will no longer provide free food and accommodation to people.
Winter Town will officially end the current model from that time and turn to a more normal state.
Craftsmen will receive reasonable remuneration for their work in the future, including David, the lord. When recruiting craftsmen in non-emergency situations, he will also give reasonable remuneration.
The trading of various commodities must also be normalized, and the canteen will naturally be gone. In the future, villagers will cook at home. If they want to improve their lives, they can go to the restaurant that they have promised to Jonah, or to restaurants opened by others.
Of course, normalization means that David will start collecting taxes. In addition to the basic agricultural tax, David also needs to set a relatively reasonable commercial tax standard.
All kinds of messy thoughts popped up in his head, turning his thoughts away, until Mark patted himself gently and he came back to his senses.
“What?” Without waiting for Mark to answer, David saw the phantom not far away and knew why Mark suddenly interrupted his random thoughts: “Is anyone coming?”
David looked and saw that they were now in the position of entering the west side of Winter Town. Going forward was the farmland that Mark often used to test new crops, and further ahead was Jonah’s canteen.
Mark and I walked a few steps forward and stood in front of the shadow. Soon, we saw the appearance of the person.
He was a young man, who seemed to be less than 20 years old.
The two looked at each other and nodded: Well, I know this person!
Looking back at the young man, the young man was looking around strangely, wondering how he suddenly walked from the city to the wild?
“Hello!”
“Hello, welcome to Winter Town. I am the mayor David, and this is Mark.”
“My name is Peter Parker. May I ask where this place is?”
Peter Parker asked, causing David and Mark to look at each other again. Mark even asked, “Do you want to come or should I?”
After seeing David make a “please” gesture to him, he began to popularize the current situation for the famous person in front of him.
David stood quietly aside, admiring the various interesting reactions of this “acquaintance”.
When Peter heard that he was not only far away from Queens, but also not on the Earth he was familiar with, the unbelievable reaction looked particularly interesting.
After Mark finished explaining the situation, Peter Parker pressed his head with both hands, still looking incredulous: “You are actually kidding me, right?”
“You can try walking backwards and thinking about returning to your own world in your mind.” David pointed in the direction of the Winter River: “Then you will know that we are not kidding.”
Peter looked back at the wide river not far away and decided to try it according to what David said.
Whether it is true or not, we will know it after trying it. There is no need to dwell on it.
But before he could move, he was startled by the translucent shadow that suddenly appeared in front of him: “What is this?”
“Oh, it seems that another person has arrived.” Mark looked at the new shadow in surprise, and then said to Peter next to him: “If you are not in a hurry, you can wait here for a while… By the way, you just appeared like this.”
“You said I just appeared like this?” Peter began to believe that he really traveled to another world, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the scene in front of him.
What kind of high technology is used? He didn’t think that someone would go to such great lengths to fool an ordinary high school student like himself: “What is the principle of this? Quantum transmission? Or wormhole?”
“It should be a special ability exerted by a mysterious existence.” When he said this, Mark also glanced at David, but David continued to look at the shadow as if he didn’t hear anything.
Not long after, the shadow gradually became clear and soon turned into a real person.
It was a young girl with long platinum hair and a black hairpin on her head.
Unlike Peter Parker’s behavior just now, the girl took a few steps back when she found herself in a strange place with three strange men standing in front of her.
“Who are you?” The girl looked around again, feeling strange that she suddenly came to such a desolate place, but she was very calm and did not do anything radical: “Where is this place?”
This time, Mark made a “please” gesture to David first. Peter, who was standing next to him, looked at the two people and realized that the two had seen many people from other worlds, otherwise they would not be so familiar with them.
“Hello, this is Winter Town, I am Mayor David.” Seeing that the other party was a young girl, David comforted her appropriately: “Don’t worry, we have no ill intentions, you are here because of a mysterious power…”
After briefly introducing the situation in Winter Town, David also told how to leave here, and never approached the other party from beginning to end, which made the girl on the other side let down her guard a little.
Finally, David pointed to Peter next to him: “This Peter Parker, just arrived here like you, and he is about to try to leave.”
“What? Me? Oh, actually I already believed what you said before.” Peter pointed to the girl in front of him. Seeing that strange scene, he was a little convinced that he had really come to another world.
The young girl opposite looked around again and asked David uncertainly: “I just need to go in this direction, thinking about going home, and I can leave here?”
“Yes!”
“If I want to come here, I can come back anytime?”
“That’s right!”
The young girl did not hesitate, and turned around and walked away. Her figure quickly turned into a phantom and disappeared.
“Wow!” Peter exclaimed. Seeing the magical scene again, he really believed what Mark said to him before: “It’s amazing!”
Then he asked David, the mayor: “Are there many people like me from other worlds in this town?”
David nodded and pointed directly to Mark next to him.
Mark coughed twice and solemnly introduced himself again: “Formally introduce, Mark Watney, a member of the Mars Exploration Program, an unlucky guy who was left alone on Mars because of an accident.”
“No way…” Peter stretched out his hand in disbelief and shook Mark’s hand: “You are an astronaut who landed on Mars? And you are trapped on Mars?”
“Hmm!”
“So, if you take the initiative to return to your own world now, you will return to Mars?”
“Yes.” Mark remembered that he could take people to his own world now: “How about it? Are you interested in visiting Mars?”
“Are you serious?” Peter was surprised and happy, and still didn’t quite believe that he would encounter such a lucky thing: “Can you really take me to visit Mars? We just met, don’t you worry about causing any bad influence?”
“I am very confident in you.” Mark looked at his right hand that had not been released: “Peter Parker, the famous Spider-Man… or call you the Amazing Spider-Man?”
When Mark and David saw this face, coupled with the name Peter Parker, they confirmed his identity.
In addition, the Peter Parker in front of them was not wearing glasses, which meant that the Peter in front of them had acquired superpowers.
Peter, whose secret identity was suddenly exposed, showed a little panic and didn’t know how to respond for a moment.
Fortunately, the young girl who had left earlier appeared again and helped him out.
“It’s incredible that I can actually go to another world freely!”
After being amazed, the girl looked at the three men who were looking at her, and introduced herself with a smile: “I was a little rude just now, after all, this kind of thing is too unbelievable. I’m very happy to come to this place and meet you, I am Gwen Stacy.”
(End of this chapter)