[Chapter 41 A Strange Family of Three]

Sitting at the table, several people looked at each other. Peggy, Steve, and Sharon, the three newcomers, had already listened to David’s explanation and knew that they were no longer on Earth. They were on some unknown planet… or in some unknown world, in a small village called Winter Village. “It sounds… incredible

.” Steve kept his mouth shut while David explained. He waited until David finished speaking before asking a few questions, such as why David could speak English, and he seemed to be very familiar with the Earth. David easily

dealt with these things. He learned English from Laura, who was the first to come to Winter Village. He also learned some knowledge about the Earth through the books Laura gave him during this period. It

was just for the purpose of shaping the character at the beginning, but there were unexpected benefits.

Steve asked Mark some more questions. Through the previous introduction, he knew that Mark was an astronaut of the space agency. Later, he learned that Mark, like them, came here from “Earth”.

“You are really unlucky!” This was the evaluation given by Sharon after learning that Mark was left on Mars due to an accident and had to find a way to struggle to survive.

“It’s okay. Although I was forgotten on Mars, I came here and became the most powerful botanist on Earth!” I don’t know about other Earths, but at least in the world where Mark Watney lives, there is no botanist better than him. Not only did he successfully grow potatoes on Mars, he even went to another world to grow them.

After learning the method of leaving Winter Village and returning to his own world, Steve stood up and tried it. He left and returned smoothly, confirming David’s words.

“So magical?” Sharon, who occasionally interrupted during the whole explanation, also jumped up, but a strange thing happened. No matter how Sharon walked or ran outside the village, she didn’t show any tendency to become a phantom.

“Huh?”

This situation, which had never happened before, made David and Mark very strange. Mark immediately ran out of the village. He was worried that something went wrong, causing everyone to be unable to leave at will?

As a result, Mark went to Mars smoothly and then returned to Winter Village.

“No problem, it’s normal.”

At this time, Peggy, who had always listened to everyone quietly and had never spoken, also tried it. It

was similar to Sharon’s situation. No matter how Peggy tried to go back and forth on the edge of the village, there was no sign of disappearing.

“What’s going on?”

David was not very clear. After all, he had no chance to experience this kind of time travel. In fact, he didn’t know what it felt like when traveling through time. Even if Laura and others described it in detail, he still lacked an intuitive impression.

Steve tried again and could still go back and forth smoothly. He frowned and thought for a while, and gave his own judgment: “If there is no problem with this place itself, then the problem is with you two?”

Excluding the possibility that David and others were playing tricks, the only way to find the problem is on the individual.

Steve’s brain turned quickly. He thought that maybe he could understand their respective situations and analyze what caused it.

At the same time, he also knew the world where Peggy and Sharon lived and what was different from his own world.

Compared with the unfamiliar Mark and David who was completely from another world, Steve would naturally be closer to the familiar Peggy and Sharon who seemed to be his daughter.

Peggy and Sharon, who knew Steve well enough, also trusted Steve enough. They not only told him about their own situations, but also told him about their experiences in that universe, so that Steve understood the differences between several parallel worlds.

The world in which Sharon Rogers lives is roughly the same as Steve’s own experience, except that after defeating the Red Skull’s conspiracy, the American Captain Steve Rogers in that world was not frozen for decades. He returned smoothly to welcome the glory of the hero, married Peggy Carter, and gave birth to his daughter Sharon Rogers.

In the following decades, Captain America Steve has been doing things that are in line with his heroic identity, teaching his daughter who perfectly inherited the advantages of his parents, and even began to consider passing the title of Captain America to his daughter.

It was at this time that Sharon went shopping and visited Winter Village.

Listening to Sharon’s story, Steve already had the answer in his heart, but he didn’t say it directly; instead, he turned his head to ask about Peggy’s situation.

The universe in which Peggy lives is very different from Steve’s experience. The difference started with an accident in the super soldier experiment. Because of the accident, Peggy replaced Steve in the super soldier transformation and successfully completed the transformation into a super soldier.

Next, Peggy also had the title of Captain Carter, and embarked on a similar path to Captain America. She fought repeatedly with the Red Skull’s Hydra Legion on the battlefield of World War II. In the end, in order to stop the huge monster summoned by Hydra, she entered the “different space” with the monster.

It was when wrestling with the monster that Captain Carter came to Winter Village.

“In other words, if you can successfully go back, you should go back to that strange space to continue fighting the monster?” Steve felt that he had grasped the key point: “Is this the reason why you can’t leave here?”

“It’s possible.” Peggy thought carefully, and then recalled what David had just said. Thinking about “going back” in her heart, she could leave here and return to her own world.

The question is, does she really want to go back to that strange space and fight a big monster endlessly? Previously, it was to save her own world, but her world was safe. She saw with her own eyes that the portal connecting the different space and releasing the big monster was closed.

Her world has been saved, so of course she doesn’t want to go back to that strange place again. Maybe it is the resistance in her heart that makes her unable to travel back and forth between the two worlds as freely as Steve?

Thinking this in her heart, she also glanced at Sharon next to her, and then looked at Steve in front of her.

Although his figure was very different from the Steve she was familiar with, after talking for a while, she found that the man in front of her was indeed Steve Rogers, the smart and brave man. She believed that Steve had guessed the reason why Sharon could not leave, but he did not say it directly, probably because he wanted to take care of this strange daughter.

“Okay, we have finished talking about our situation, and now let’s talk about yours!” Since Sharon had doubts in her heart, she would put this matter aside and shift the topic to other places. Peggy was very curious about how Steve’s experience was different from her universe and Sharon’s universe?

“Me?” Steve looked at the two women staring at him with wide eyes, and the two men with expressions of eating melons and watching the show, and told his own experience with a bitter face: “Actually, it’s almost the same as me in Sharon’s world, but there are some differences.”

The biggest difference is that although he successfully prevented the Red Skull’s conspiracy and prevented those super bombs from blooming on the east coast of North America, he was also frozen and fell into a deep sleep because of the crash.

“When I woke up, someone told me that I had been sleeping for seventy years.” At this time, Steve was in a confused stage of life. He closed his eyes and opened them again. The war was over, most of the people he knew were dead, his lover got married but the groom was not him, and even his familiar hometown became extremely unfamiliar. Everything around him was so unreal that he didn’t know if there was any meaning for him to live.

Every day, in addition to venting excess energy in the gym, he wandered around like a ghost, and then came here.

Steve thought of this and couldn’t help but look at Peggy, and then looked at David. He couldn’t help but wonder if God saw that he was too pitiful, so he let him come here to enjoy his old age? He even sent Peggy to him… But this Peggy has a favorite Steve, so is he going to be a substitute? Oh, it seems that my situation is similar!

I looked at David again, wanting to ask more questions, and found that the head of the Winter Village was eating dried fruits (snacks bought by Laura) with the scientist named Mark, watching the excitement quietly.

“Mr. Village Chief.”

“Just call me David.” He swallowed the dried fruit and cleared his throat with two coughs: “Any questions?”

“I may bother you often in the coming days.”

“No, I welcome your arrival. After all, there are not many people in my village. I especially hope that the village can become more lively.”

When explaining the situation earlier, the three people all knew the situation of David’s village: a newly established village called Winter Village.

Except for a few farmers who just moved in and were building houses, and an old hunter named Adis who raised a child alone, the rest of the people all came here from other worlds like them.

Laura Croft, the British nobleman, has regarded Winter Village as her second home. She built a house here and often came here to play.

Mark, the unlucky guy who survived alone on Mars, regarded Winter Village as his life-saving straw and relied on Winter Village to survive!

As for the man named Tirion Fording, he simply settled down in Winter Village for a long time, only occasionally returning to his own world to see his wife and son.

With so many “partners” and Peggy not knowing how to return to her own world, it doesn’t seem difficult to accept the choice of settling here.

Since Peggy is going to live here, Steve often comes to see his old friend. It is only natural for him to help his old friend when he needs help.

Although he knows that this Captain Carter is not the Peggy he is familiar with, looking at this familiar face, he really can’t pretend that he has never seen this person and return to his own universe to continue his living dead life.

Seeing Steve staring at Peggy all the time, Sharon Rogers wanted to shout: “Did you forget something?”

(End of this chapter)