[Chapter 383 The most familiar strange city]

David was also very happy to see Mark Watney suddenly appear in front of him.

After all, he was one of the first people to come to Winter City. Like Laura and Fording, he played a very important role in promoting the development of Winter City.

“Welcome back.”

David stood up and walked around the desk, hugged Mark Watney, and did not look for a seat. He stood here and chatted with Mark, asking Mark about his experience in the past year.

“You know, it’s flying to the earth on a spaceship. In addition to exercising every day, it’s a physical examination.”

Before boarding the return spaceship, Mark deliberately used drugs to make his body very thin, so as to meet the severe malnutrition state caused by only eating potatoes to survive on Mars.

So after boarding the spaceship, Mark Watney was arranged to undergo a series of examinations to ensure that there would be no hidden dangers in his body: to avoid the tragic incident of spending a lot of effort and money to finally rescue the astronaut on the spaceship back home, but he died suddenly on the way.

After undergoing the examination and confirming that there were no serious hidden dangers in his body, Mark Watney began his “hard” recovery life.

He must replenish food and various nutritional medicines on time and in a certain amount, and perform appropriate rehabilitation exercises under the supervision of professionals.

Don’t think this is an interesting experience, because Mark Watney must maintain his state of not eating for a long time, poor nutrition, severe weight loss, and muscle atrophy. He can only eat a small amount of food every day, and the amount of exercise cannot be too much to avoid hurting the body.

This made Mark, who actually had no serious condition at all, very uncomfortable. He wanted to use water spells to immediately remove all abnormal conditions on his body and directly announce that he had recovered.

“It sounds like you have had a painful year.”

“It was quite painful!”

After more than ten months of space flight, he finally returned to Earth. Next is a series of examinations and follow-up observations.

Make sure that Mark Watney will not have any sequelae.

“Even now, I have to go for a comprehensive physical examination regularly.” Mark now looks much thinner than when he was in Winter City.

But at that time, Mark Watney exercised every day, obtained the knowledge of the shaman priest, and was recognized by the elemental spirit.

The power of the elements strengthened his body to a certain extent, and with the help of David’s holy light to break through the limit of training, Mark was actually very strong at that time.

At present, Mark is about the same as when he first came to Winter City, a little thinner, and basically has returned to normal.

“But, finally I am free.”

According to the arrangement of the space agency for him, the interval between physical examinations will gradually lengthen, and he will not continue to be supervised by the authorities every day, and will gradually return to normal life.

However, as the only astronaut and botanist who can live alone on Mars for so long and successfully grow potatoes on Mars, he will have a lot of social activities and communication work in the future.

If it were an ordinary person, he could even consider taking advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money, and after all the fame and money are in hand, he would start to enjoy retirement life in advance.

But Mark is not an ordinary person. He does not care about or worry about the money and fame in his world. He wants to return to Winter City to learn more mysterious knowledge and become an extraordinary existence.

“After talking so much about myself, let’s talk about Winter City!” After telling his own situation, Mark curiously asked about the development and changes of Winter City in the past year: “I see that the number of residents in Winter City has increased a lot, and houses are built everywhere. A lot of things must have happened, right?”

“A lot of things have indeed happened.”

David did not continue to stand here and chat with Mark endlessly. While introducing the situation, he took Mark to the tea room and briefly introduced Mark to what happened in the past year.

Listening to David’s introduction, Mark lamented that a lot of things really happened in the year he was away.

“Why do I feel that it is so much more exciting than when I was here?”

Mark was a little speechless. He felt that after he left, all kinds of exciting things continued to appear in Winter City, and he missed them all. It was a pity that he could not witness the moment when Winter City became the Principality of Winter.

“Don’t worry, the most exciting part has not been missed.”

David himself will inherit the throne of the Kingdom of Tilan, and he did not hide the fact that the Kingdom of Tilan would become the Kingdom of Winter from Mark. The succession ceremony is scheduled for next autumn, which is the most important moment for David and the entire Winter City.

“Oh, so you are not only the Duke of Winter now, but you will also become the King of the Kingdom of Winter in more than half a year?”

“Hmm!”

David took a sip of tea and did not feel that he had become superior. When he chatted with Mark, his tone and attitude were no different from the past.

This also made Mark secretly relieved. It seemed that the change in status and position did not change the personality of this “friend”.

Then he asked again, who came to Winter City during the time he was away?

When he heard about Ethan Hunt, Mark was scalded by the hot tea; when he heard about Sansa Stark, he was stunned for a few seconds and looked at David with an expression of watching the fun; as for Miss Hood, he had a question mark on his face, and he could not understand what kind of existence a humanoid battleship was – at this time he did not realize that Belfast, who was pouring tea next to him, was also a battleship.

When David mentioned Clark Kent and Clarice Ferguson, Mark’s face suddenly changed.

“Wait, you were talking about Clark Kent?”

“Yes.”

“The Clark Kent I know?”

“I don’t know if he is the same as the Clark you remember, but if you want to ask if it is Superman, I can answer you with certainty: Yes! It is the Superman from Krypton.”

“Thank you so much~”

Mark held the cup and stared with his eyes wide open, exclaimed loudly from the bottom of his heart, and realized something else.

“What abilities did you get from Superman?”

“Biofield.”

“…” Mark put on a question mark face, and when he saw David nod, he smiled and patted his shoulder: “Keep working hard!”

The rewards David received would upgrade, evolve or gain other abilities. Mark, who had been in contact with him for a long time, already knew these things.

Although he only got the biofield, not all the abilities of the Kryptonians, it does not mean that David will never get those abilities.

What the future will be like depends on David’s next actions.

After taking another sip of tea, Mark suddenly wanted to go out and take a look.

Staying here and listening to David’s story could no longer satisfy his curiosity. He not only wanted to see the current situation in Winter City, but also to meet Clark.

“It’s probably hard to see Clark. Too many people have been going to watch him recently. Plus, it’s winter now, and he doesn’t need to run to the fields often, so he stays in his own world most of the time, just coming over to watch.”

Although the number of people watching Superman has decreased, it still remains, and even some local people from Brunnia have begun to go to watch: because Superman is very handsome.

It is said…it’s just said…some people have started to ask if Clark is married? If not, they are willing to introduce Clark to an excellent girl.

Among them are some nobles from the capital of Tiran.

“It’s okay to go and see the mutants.”

Superman can’t be seen, but mutants can be seen, right? Wolverine, Professor X, and Magneto are also very popular. They can’t go on a mission together, right?

According to David’s description, the mutant world is already in a doomsday state. At present, Clarisse, nicknamed Flash, has to frequently travel back and forth between the two worlds with her mutant companions, constantly saving ordinary people in that world: bringing these people to Winter City.

“I’m not sure either.”

Mutants have indeed settled in Winter City, but the frequent travel between the two worlds has caused David to be unsure which mutant is at home today and which is not.

In fact, the mutants can travel relatively freely between the two worlds thanks to the superpowers of Blink. When the

mutants come to Winter City, they don’t need to “touch” a specific object like other people do and be “led” to Winter City.

Instead, Blink opens a portal directly to Winter City, which makes it a relatively simple task for mutants to quickly transfer a large number of ordinary people.

Unfortunately, Blink’s ability is only for his own world. David doesn’t know whether the teleportation ability he got from Blink will evolve into this in the future.

In that case, it will be much more convenient to take multiple people to and from the multiverse in the future.

A portal opens, and an army follows him to another world. What a shocking scene!

Just thinking about this, David was about to take Mark to the garage and then to the neighborhood where the mutants live. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he turned around and took Mark to the warehouse first.

“I almost forgot.”

“What?”

“Here you go.” When they arrived at the warehouse, David took out a watch and handed it to Mark: “If you don’t like the style of the watch, there are also rings and other designs for you to choose from.”

“What is this?”

“A new device that integrates some functions such as communication equipment, microcomputers, and storage devices.” After seeing Mark put the watch on his wrist, David began to introduce the function and use of this multifunctional tool to Mark in detail: “By the way, fill out this form and give it to Eva.”

“What is this?” Mark was still marveling at the fact that Winter City had already created such a sci-fi product tool, when he turned his head and saw a form involving personal information: “Personal Identity Information Registration Form?”

“So that we can make an identity document for you, you are currently an illegal resident in Winter City.”

“…”

(End of this chapter)