[Chapter 284 Ownership of Intellectual Property]

When Hood came back to his senses, the blue cube had been held in David’s hand for careful observation. Seeing that David and Eva were curiously looking at the thing, Hood briefly introduced the item to the two.

“This is the Mind Cube, the key prop for building a ship like mine.”

According to Hood’s description, it was because of this technology that her world was able to build a humanoid warship like hers. The Mind Cube would be constructed into two parts: ‘people’ and ‘ship equipment’. Only ‘people’ created by the Mind Cube could use the ship equipment, and ordinary humans could not use it.

“So, this thing can build a ship like yours? How should it be used?” David tried it after getting it, but there was no prompt or inquiry from the thing, no response at all, and it was still a blue cube.

“This… I don’t know either.” Hood shook her head. She just knew that this thing was the most core prop for building a ship like hers, but she was not very clear about how to use it.

“…”

David was not disappointed because of this. He would study it slowly. Anyway, he was relatively free recently.

Eva took Hood to the guest room and toured the entire Glamorgan Castle. In addition to David and several women’s bedrooms, there were several guest rooms in Glamorgan Castle to entertain guests when needed.

However, it was impossible to bring ordinary people into Glamorgan Castle for entertainment, so they were sent directly to the Winter Hotel. Even Princess Sophia and Earl Sutton-Stewart stayed in the hotel when they came to Winter City.

But Eva wanted to take care of this fellow countryman, so she left her in Glamorgan Castle.

She no longer bothered whether Hood was a person or a ship, and directly took care of her as a fellow countryman from another world. Moreover, as a soldier, Eva had some special feelings for the glory of the former Royal Navy. More

importantly, Eva felt that Hood was very important to Winter City, which was about to vigorously develop the navy, so she wanted to win him over.

After the two left, David continued to fiddle with the blue Rubik’s Cube in his hand. He began to wonder if he had to prepare a bunch of gold coins to trigger the card drawing mechanism? He

took out some gold coins and tried it. Unfortunately, even when it was placed together with the gold coins, there was still no reaction.

After still having no clue, David was too lazy to continue tinkering, and threw the Rubik’s Cube into the drawer, leaving it to accompany the Mind Stone!

After closing the drawer and picking up the game controller again, David was just about to continue playing the game when Laura came again.

“Is that beautiful girl named Hood new?”

“Yeah!”

“What kind of world did she come from?”

David gave Laura some popular science again. After listening, Laura and Eva had similar reactions, but Eva would pretend to know nothing, while Laura would complain to David very straightforwardly: “It sounds like some kind of strange game.”

“It’s just a simple anthropomorphic weapon collection card game! This kind of game is not uncommon.”

In addition to battleships, guns, airplanes, etc., cannot escape this fate. Even people who have never played this kind of game will more or less come into contact with related information.

“The arrival of Hood may help the navy of Winter City to form combat effectiveness faster.”

“Not so optimistic.”

Laura thought that if David and Hood had a good relationship, he could recruit a group of “battleships” from her world to Winter City through Hood. In this way, the navy strength of Winter City would be greatly improved, and there would be no need to worry about the enemy invading Winter City from the water.

Even because of the special situation of these human-shaped battleships, the combat effectiveness of the army of the Winter Army would also be improved.

Because these human-shaped battleships can move on land, even if they are not as flexible on land as on the water, as long as they can fire, they are very terrifying combat power – that is the main gun of the battleship, and if several such battleships fire a round, the destructive power is quite amazing.

However, David said that Hood had no way to return to her own world for some reason, and she seemed to be trapped in Winter City.

“Is that so?” Laura shook her head regretfully, feeling a little pity: “What a pity, I thought there was a chance to establish a royal navy in Winter City!”

“…” I almost forgot that this person is also a fellow villager of Hood.

“Even if we can’t recruit more ships, Hood is still a rare talent, right?”

“Oh?”

“Although James has worked hard to learn modern naval warfare knowledge, he lacks practical experience after all.” James Norrington lived in the era of sailing ships. Even if he had learned enough knowledge, he still lacked practical experience in modern warships and naval warfare.

In comparison, Hood has more “modern” combat experience, such as radar, anti-submarine, air defense, beyond-visual-range combat, etc. She not only understands but also has practical experience.

“Hood staying in Winter City will definitely speed up your naval construction.” So far, Laura was still analyzing seriously, but the next sentence suddenly went off track: “What’s more, she is such a beautiful girl!”

David looked at Laura speechlessly, he knew there must be something else.

Sure enough, he heard Laura ask next: “Did you collect Hood in that collection game?”

“Hood is very easy to get in that game, almost like giving it away for free…”

“Oh~” Laura’s eyes turned, and she changed the question: “Which warship do you like? Maybe there will be a chance to really ‘collect’ it!”

Although Hood can’t go back now, maybe this problem can be solved in the future?

“I like all the warships that I can draw or get.” David raised his eyebrows and perfunctorily answered Laura’s question.

He would never tell Laura that Hood was one of the warships he swore at the beginning.

After chatting and talking nonsense for a while, Laura finally started to talk to David about business: “The population of Winter City is increasing.”

“Yes.”

“In the next period of time, there will be more people coming to Winter City, right?”

“Yes.”

“Have you considered the problem of food?”

David certainly considered it. At present, the food reserves of Winter City are still sufficient, but if the population increases quickly, it is hard to say whether there will be a gap.

“Do you want to reserve a batch of food in advance?”

“Winter City has a reserve of food. Before this batch of reserve food is consumed, there is no need to buy more food.” And the weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the new year’s farming is about to begin.

With the current fertility of the land in Winter City, by the time the population of Winter City increases significantly, the first round of grain this year will have been harvested.

In comparison, meat is the real issue to be concerned about.

Previously, the population of Winter City was not large enough, and only small-scale cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks were raised to ensure the supply of meat and eggs for the entire city.

But with the increase in population, this output is definitely not enough.

“Chicken farms and livestock farms have to be opened.” David looked at Laura and remembered that he had joked with her: “Do you want to invest in a chicken farm?”

“Okay!”

Laura had no interest at all at the beginning, but now she looks very excited, which makes David a little strange.

“Weren’t you not interested at the beginning?”

“It was different then.”

“What do you mean?”

Laura sat on the desk facing David and gently kicked David’s leg. “At that time, I just felt happy to be with you, and there were many new things in this world, so I was willing to stay here, but I’m not sure I will stay here forever.”

David blinked. This sentence was not difficult to understand, and Laura’s thoughts at the time were also normal: young men and women were together when they liked each other, and separated when they didn’t like each other. It was not difficult to understand.

But after thinking about it a little more, this sentence revealed another meaning, that is, Laura’s thoughts have changed now. Does this mean that she wants to stay here for a long time, or even forever?

“Are you sure now?”

Laura kicked David speechlessly: “It’s all because of you. After being tossed around by your weird tricks, how can I find someone else?”

“Hey, can you say the other way around? Weren’t those weird tricks all proposed by you first?” David looked like he had suffered an injustice for thousands of years, and even waved his hand to sprinkle holy light to pretend to be June Snow: “After being with you, I have learned a lot of weird knowledge.”

“You obviously also made a lot of weird suggestions!”

The two had a series of debates on the ownership of some intellectual property rights. As the two kept showing various extreme drifting skills, even Helen, who came in to serve tea to David, was dumbfounded and even felt a little bit overwhelmed, so she ran away in a hurry;

Gwen, who wanted to find David to be annoying, only listened for a short while, and the whole person had the tendency to turn into a hot pepper, and she also retreated neatly.

Until today, the two knew that David usually played so exaggeratedly with Laura. They realized that David was usually very gentle to them. If he treated them like Laura, they might have died, right?

By the way, the two of them also stopped Princess Sofia who came to look for David. They didn’t dare to let the little princess in at this time, or she would scare the princess of the Kingdom of Tiran.

“What’s wrong? Is David talking to someone about something important?”

Helen and Gwen looked at each other. Gwen, who had just recovered, nodded vigorously: “It’s a very serious matter!”

“Oh!” Sofia looked at Gwen, then at Helen, and her big round eyes turned around. She didn’t continue to dwell on this topic, but asked about the Hood she had just met: “Where is that Miss Hood from? Did she just come to Winter City?”

“She’s Eva’s fellow villager.”

In fact, Princess Sofia wanted to know more about where that Hood came from. She seemed to not understand the Brunnian Common Language? This made her very strange. Are there still humans on the continent who don’t understand the Brunnian Common Language? You know, the full name of the Brunnian Common Language is the Brunnian Human Common Language!

“Is she from another world? Or is that Miss Hood not a human?”

(End of this chapter)