[Chapter 42 The Disappearing Stone Tablet]
Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Sharon Rogers, there are three new residents in Winter Village. The most important thing is that these three people all have physical fitness beyond ordinary people. Even if there is no one to help them, they can easily build a new house, not to mention there are many people to help.
After learning that there are new people in the village, Fording, Laura and Addis, who did not know the truth, all expressed their welcome and helped a lot in building the new house.
So Steve, Peggy and Sharon’s house was built very quickly. It took only two days to complete the main construction. As for the internal arrangement and layout, no one is needed to help, they can handle it according to their own preferences.
After completing the construction of his own house, Steve ran back and forth several times, and Laura also went to buy some to help Peggy and Sharon prepare enough daily necessities.
In this way, in addition to Steve who would often return to his own world to take a look, Peggy and Sharon officially lived in Winter Village.
After building their own houses, Steve and Peggy would help ordinary villagers build houses, help Fording cut wood, and help Addis hunt – mainly to carry the prey back.
Although they had just arrived in Winter Village, both Steve and Peggy quickly got to know everyone and gained everyone’s favor. This talent of being able to gain everyone’s favor was too powerful.
In comparison, Sharon Rogers seemed less conspicuous, and even stayed in the corner from time to time, quietly watching Steve and Peggy, and happily chatting with the people in the village.
“Not used to life here?”
“No.” Sharon turned her head and looked at the British girl named Laura: “I just found more shortcomings.”
“Oh~ I understand.” Laura looked at the tall, beautiful girl with blonde hair in front of her, and suddenly understood why she appeared here and always quietly observed her parents’ parallel universe isotopes.
Everyone already knew the identities of several people. Except for Fording from the world of Azeroth, both Mark and Laura knew Captain America.
As for Captain Carter and Sharon, who was suspected to be Captain America’s daughter, although the two did not know each other very well, they roughly understood what was going on when they thought of Marvel’s numerous parallel universe settings.
“If you need any help, just come to me.” After Laura and Sharon chatted for a few more words, they waved goodbye and went straight to find David.
In fact, Laura wanted to find David at first. Halfway through, she saw Sharon standing there, so she came over to say hello and chatted for a few words. Now that she had finished chatting, she naturally had to do what she was supposed to do.
“Does it look good?”
Walking in front of David, Laura deliberately made way and raised her eyebrows at David.
“What?” David looked up and glanced into the distance, then looked at Laura in front of him: “It looks good.”
“I won’t be in the village often in a while, your chance is here!” Laura’s face was full of smiles, as if reminding David that “new tea has arrived!”
“…” David glanced at Laura, but did not pick up the conversation. Instead, he wondered why Laura didn’t learn how to use the holy light with Fording today? He did not go back to his manor to exercise his physical fitness: “Have you used up your holy light?”
“No, I can now clearly feel the situation of the holy light in my body. There is still a lot of holy light you have infused into my body.” After saying this, Laura always felt that this sentence seemed a bit strange, but after thinking about it, there was nothing wrong: “According to the current situation, unless I practice the few holy light spells I just learned all day long, the holy light will not be exhausted in one or two months.”
If Laura exercises desperately, the holy light in her body will be consumed faster in order to repair the damage to her body. According to Laura’s idea, she wants to consume the holy light in her body until it is almost gone, and then come to David to replenish it.
At that time, she will have learned almost all the holy light spells, and her physical fitness will also improve a lot. It will be much safer to set out on an adventure at that time.
“Speaking of which, is it really okay to put this thing there?” Laura glanced at Steve’s house not far away. Although Steve did not live here permanently, after all, he could travel freely between the two worlds.
But he still moved a lot of daily items and decorated his house. One of them was a heavy motorcycle, which was parked next to Steve’s wooden house. There was a shed on the side of the wooden house just for parking.
“No problem, anyway, the people in the village don’t know what it is.”
A heavy motorcycle weighing more than 200 kilograms is nothing to a super soldier like Steve, and it was brought here easily.
Even Steve, who had just completed the transformation, had not received more combat training, and could not maximize his potential, could easily lift a heavy motorcycle and three plump beauties. His ease was no different from lifting a foam board.
Thinking of some people in his previous life who always said that Steve’s physical fitness was just the limit of human beings, David felt particularly speechless: whether it was in the comics, the data given by Marvel, or the various performances of Captain America in the movie universe, Steve’s physical fitness belonged to the extraordinary level, even if it was a lower level of the extraordinary level, but it was not the same as the so-called human limit.
And there are three such captains in Winter Village now!
Captain Carter, like Captain America Steve, had undergone super soldier transformation and gained strong physical fitness; as for Sharon Rogers, she inherited the super quality from her father and was born a superhuman.
Together with the first generation of Azeroth Paladin Tirion Fording, the Tomb Destroyer, Paladin Apprentice Laura Croft and David himself, the military strength of Winter Village seemed a bit too high.
“I always feel that it is not a good sign.”
“Don’t set up flags casually!” Laura heard David’s mumbling and reminded him not to say such things casually: “Especially at this time.”
“What do you mean?” David realized that there was something else in Laura’s words, and remembered that Laura seemed to be looking for him specifically: “Is there something going on?”
“Well, do you remember the ancient altar that we accidentally discovered before?” After the small talk, it was time to talk about business. Laura lowered her voice and mentioned the discovery when she and David explored the northern forest: “I went to see it again today.”
“Is there anything unusual?”
David certainly remembered the altar. At that time, he also thought about taking the harvested potatoes to the altar when he was free and offering them according to the words on the altar.
But after discovering that the trolls used similar altars to gain strange powers, he decided not to do so. He was worried about attracting some strange power or attention, and even thought about destroying the altar.
But after that, he went back and forth to Iron Tree Castle, and when he came back, he was busy arranging new farmers, and then he became a blacksmith and various captains. He almost forgot about it.
“The stone tablet is gone.”
“Huh?” David suspected that he might have misunderstood what Laura meant by this sentence: “The stone tablet is gone? In the literal sense?”
“Yes, the stone tablet is gone in the literal sense, and the entire altar has been destroyed.” Laura described her discovery in detail.
According to Laura, the altar located under the mine can no longer be considered an altar. Only some remains of the altar base are left. The entire base has collapsed into tiny pieces, and it is almost impossible to put it back together.
In addition, the stone tablet at the core of the altar has disappeared.
“I have carefully checked the rubble, and the stele is definitely not included.” Laura is confident in her professional ability. She can be 100% sure that the rubble does not include any part of the stele.
“Earthquake?” David denied this guess as soon as he said it. The mine is not far from Winter Village. If such a strong earthquake occurs, it is impossible for this side not to notice it; and how can the earthquake destroy the stele? Shake it directly into powder? “Someone took the stele away and destroyed the remaining part of the altar.”
This is the biggest possibility. David first thought of creatures such as trolls, but he doubted whether such trolls have such intelligence.
“Marloni Mansfield?” After thinking about it, the biggest suspicion fell on Marloni Mansfield. This noble official of Iron Tree Castle was the only “outsider” who came to Winter Village and stayed for a long time during this period.
Although Marloni spent most of his time “visiting” the village with David after coming to Winter Village, and rarely went to the surrounding areas of the village, this kind of thing did not require people of his status to do it personally. What Marloni’s men did should naturally be attributed to this noble official.
Of course, David did not rule out that it was done by one of Maloney’s men, and Maloney himself was not aware of it.
“No matter who did it, what is the purpose of doing it? Will it threaten us?”
Compared to who did it, this is the most critical question!
David thought for a long time and found that he could not think of an answer at all, because many things could not be figured out by him sitting here and thinking. There was a lack of sufficient intelligence information, and he didn’t know where to start analyzing.
In this case, the only way is to make ourselves stronger in order to deal with various crises that may arise.
“As long as we are strong enough, then any conspiracy will be helpless against us.”
Hearing David’s solution that was not a solution, Laura felt that this way of dealing with it was too passive, but she couldn’t think of a good way other than that. But soon Laura found that David’s “self-strengthening” was a little different from what she thought.
“Laura, can you get some heavy machine guns, mortars and other weapons?”
“…”
(End of this chapter)