Age of Empires From Scratch - Chapter 387



[Chapter 387: The Embarrassed Newcomer]

Captain America Steve was one of the first people to come to Winter City. He had already established an inseparable connection with Winter City.

Then Iron Man Tony Stark also came to Winter City and became the chief consultant of Winter City. He also had his own research laboratory and a lot of production equipment in Winter City.

He is currently preparing to build several factories in the industrial zone. Stark has become one of the most important members of Winter City. He likes this place very much, even happier than on Earth.

Although Bruce Banner has no direct contact with David, Banner has actually been indirectly tied to Winter City.

Because Tony Stark would discuss many projects with Bruce Banner, Bruce Banner had actually been working for Winter City without knowing it clearly.

Of course, David and Tony are not bullying an honest man. Banner can come to Winter City at any time to collect his “deserved” compensation.

Not long ago, he had a cordial and friendly interaction with Thor. David also helped Odin heal his body. The relationship between Winter City and Asgard was instantly strengthened. The two sides are now very close allies.

Odin asked Thor to convey his gratitude not long ago and invited David to visit Asgard when he was free.

In addition, Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, who officially joined the Winter Intelligence Department, and Clint Barton, the Hawkeye, who was very excited and would most likely come to Winter City as an archery instructor soon.

The first generation of Avengers members have been caught by him!

As for the second batch…

Scarlet Witch is studying Holy Light in the Cathedral of Light, and her progress is amazingly fast. Moreover, Wanda Maximoff is not only learning Holy Light quickly, but also absorbing the arcane knowledge mastered by Jaina and Ronin very quickly.

In Jaina’s words, this child is simply a natural wizard. Learning Holy Light is a waste of talent. She should learn more advanced and mysterious magic knowledge and become a great wizard.

War Machine and Falcon are Iron Man’s good friends and Captain America’s most loyal followers, respectively. It’s not difficult for David to recruit them.

Except for Vision, who was not born due to the big change in the plot, and Ant-Man, who has not yet joined the Avengers, the Avengers are about to become a team belonging to Winter City.

“I wonder what Nick Fury’s expression will be when he knows this.”

The super team that he painstakingly built was picked up by others inexplicably. The king of agents will definitely use a passionate speech with a high content of mother to warmly greet David’s ancestors.

David and Steve took Natasha and Clint to visit the newly selected house, and then they will take the two to look around the city.

It’s normal for David to show a little more attention to people who come to join sincerely.

“Winter City has changed a lot.”

When I came last time, Winter City was just a prototype. Although several main roads had been repaired, the buildings were sparse. No matter where you stand in the city, you can see large areas of open space.

If you have better eyesight, you can see the large farmland in the agricultural area in the south of the city from the north of the city.

But that won’t happen now. The densely packed houses around block your view. No matter which direction you look, your view will be blocked by the houses.

There are many pedestrians coming and going on the streets, which is completely different from the sparsely populated streets that made people feel like they were in a ghost town at night.

“I heard that you have started to develop the entire northern plains?” Steve was also very curious about the surrounding scene. He now spends most of his time in the Marvel Universe and hasn’t visited Winter City for a long time.

Taking this opportunity, he can just take a look at the changes in Winter City.

“Yes, the eastern seaport city has completed the construction of infrastructure and named it Tilan Port.” It was the first seaport city in the Kingdom of Tilan. It would take some time to completely complete all the construction work: “The highway from Winter City to Snowfield Castle and then to Tilan Port has also begun to be built. This highway will be completed soon.”

After the completion of this highway across the northern plains, it can be considered to have initially covered the entire northern plains.

The next step is to continuously develop the unused wasteland. Whether to cultivate it into farmland or build factories depends on the specific needs at the time.

“Your territory is getting bigger and bigger, and it is developing better and better.” Steve looked at the various pedestrians on the street. He could not see happiness on everyone’s face, but he could tell from their complexion and clothes that they all had a good life.

And looking around, there were no ragged homeless people or beggars in Winter City.

Natasha and Clint also discovered this. The two of them were a little suspicious. Did the Duke of Winter do something secretly? For example, there were intelligence personnel or secret agents in the dark who expelled the homeless people in advance?

After all, it was the lord who personally took people around to visit, so it was not surprising to do some superficial work.

Just as they were speculating, David seemed to see through their thoughts and directly revealed the mystery: “Winter City does not support idle people.”

This is not the beacon of America. There are not so many headache-inducing taxes and fees that can make the middle class go bankrupt in an instant. The entire Winter City provides various conveniences for civilians. There is no reason why they cannot even guarantee their basic lives.

Those who insist on being homeless despite so many benefits are either pure lazy people or criminals or spies with bad intentions.

No matter which one it is, David has no reason to indulge them: Therefore, the patrol department of Winter City after the reorganization has a special task to arrest such “vagrants”.

That’s right, not expulsion but arrest.

The arrested homeless people will receive the “kind education” of Winter City, so that lazy people can learn to work hard to get rich and criminals can understand what it means to be a good person.

If they don’t want to be human beings, then Winter City does not recommend continuing the advanced courses, so that they can’t be human beings.

“Fortunately, whether it is the locals of Brunnia or people from other worlds, such people are always very few. After this order was carried out, only a few spies learned the last lesson.”

Ordinary lazy people were soon educated to cry and vow to change themselves;

gangsters and ruffians, after being forced to work for a period of time, also said that they would be honest and be good people. These guys are actually easy to deal with, especially in this world where the words of the lord are the highest law.

“So, the public security in Winter City is very good?”

“It’s okay at present. At most, there are some civil disputes, and there are no serious criminal cases.” David does not guarantee that it will always be so good. The public security is easy to manage now because most of the residents of Winter City are newcomers. At this time, most people’s ideas are to ensure basic living.

Winter City can provide this condition, and most people’s demands are met, so there are no major conflicts.

When Winter City develops to a certain stage, the population continues to grow, and when the needs of more and more people cannot be met, major conflicts will arise.

However, it will take a long time to develop to that stage, and David does not need to worry about problems that may erupt decades later.

If we consider that David also dreams of extending the development of Winter City to other worlds and space, perhaps Winter City can guarantee a long period of rapid development. In

that case, the huge internal conflicts can be transferred out. David may be tired of being the king, and no major conflicts will be seen until the day of his abdication.

After talking about the security and law of Winter City for a while, several people came to the house selected by Natasha.

This is a detached house located in the north of Castle Glamorgan. Compared with the south of Winter City, the houses in the north are relatively “loose”, the distance between the houses is wider, and each house has a large enough front and back yard.

In addition, the Winter Forest not far away makes the environment and air in this area very good. Relatively speaking, the price of such a house is also higher, which is not the first choice for ordinary civilians.

“This house is really good. If I come to be an instructor, can I get such a house?” Clint looked around. The environment here is beautiful and the air is fresh. Although it is a bit cold in winter, it is also another kind of style. Shoveling snow is also a good activity. He wondered whether to choose a house near Natasha’s new home?

“The houses around here are all new houses that are uninhabited. If you like, you can choose one now.”

“Really? Then I’m welcome.”

David made a gesture of inviting her to come. After Natasha saw her new home and thought about how to decorate it, everyone began to return.

She had plenty of time to visit every corner of Winter City slowly, so there was no need to rush.

Besides, the current Winter City was no longer a small town that could be visited in a short time.

Next, she would keep going back and forth between the two worlds, handling her personal affairs in the Marvel world while buying some daily necessities she needed.

Then, when she waited for the right time, she could completely abandon the past and start her new life in Winter City.

“I’m really looking forward to it.”

Clint was looking forward to it just like Natasha, but he found that there seemed to be a shadow in front of him, and then the shadow quickly turned into a person, and fell to the ground neatly.

This person looked very embarrassed, wearing an old white robe, and his exposed hands and back were so thin that there was almost no flesh. Even if you couldn’t see this person’s face, everyone could see how bad his condition was at the moment.

David and Steve were stunned for half a second. They both saw the appearance of this person. It was obvious that this was a “newcomer”.

However, it was rare to see a newcomer in such an embarrassing state!

(End of this chapter)


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