[Chapter 44: Fording’s Iron Ambition]
Steve’s specialness is far more than what David said, but some things are not convenient to talk about now.
Fortunately, Steve himself did not dwell on whether he was too special, but talked to David about other things.
After sleeping for seventy years, Steve felt that it was difficult to adapt to the various changes in the world, so he was very curious about one thing about David: “When you find that this world is completely different from the world you know, do you have any special feelings?”
In his eyes, David’s situation is somewhat similar to his own. In the blink of an eye, the world suddenly changed.
Steve has been sleeping for seventy years. During these seventy years, the world has been constantly developing and changing; David is because there are several people from other worlds around him. These people brought unfamiliar knowledge, unfamiliar items, and cultures that David has never been exposed to.
In Steve’s observation, David has adapted to these unfamiliar knowledge very well, and it can be confirmed by seeing that he has begun to think about building various public facilities for the village.
“No special feelings.” David certainly didn’t have any special feelings. Things that seemed strange to him in the eyes of outsiders were things he was very familiar with. It was just that he couldn’t explain this to others directly, so he had to use his brain to think of some appropriate words to deal with this situation: “After all, for me, there are many things in this world that I don’t understand.”
“Oh?” Steve was stunned. He had never thought about it in this way.
“I’m just a civilian hunter in Iron Tree Castle. Let alone the whole world, even what is the inner city of Iron Tree Castle that is close at hand? I don’t know at all.” David’s words were not made up, and they seemed very convincing: “What kind of life do the nobles live? What kind of magical power do the legendary wizards have? I don’t know these.”
For David, this world is very huge, and there are many things he doesn’t understand. Even if you add the things brought by Laura and Fording, what does it count for?
Then he used Laura as an example: “Besides me, Laura is the same. Before she encountered Himiko in the shipwreck, she also didn’t know that there was such a magical power in the world she lived in.”
Compared with the many unknown secrets in the huge world, what he knew was nothing. If it wasn’t difficult to say it directly, David really wanted to use the Marvel Universe where Captain America Steve lived as an example. After all, his world had a lot of messy things.
So Steve didn’t need to worry about the world becoming strange. He was never really familiar with it: “Maybe the world you live in is completely different from what you think.”
“You make sense.” Listening to David’s words, Steve also figured out a lot.
Yes, did he really understand the world he originally lived in? Was that world really like he thought? Maybe his understanding was just what he thought.
Apart from anything else, through contact with Peggy and Sharon in the past few days, he had vaguely noticed some situations: his world might hide many secrets.
Because Peggy saw Hydra summon a huge monster with her own eyes; Sharon also vaguely mentioned that even after the war, she, as Captain America, did not have time to rest, and still solved various problems as Captain America.
“The world is big, and we always need to explore it, and new discoveries are not necessarily bad things, just like the bedding Laura sent, lying on it is much more comfortable than lying directly on the ground or on a wooden board.”
David’s words made Steve feel much better, especially the last few sentences, which seemed to poke a certain place in Steve’s heart, and listening to his new things again might not be a bad thing.
“To be honest, I’m not really used to the soft bed. I’m more used to the wooden bed here.”
“Is that why you come here every day? Do you like the hard wooden bed?”
“For now, I guess so!” Steve’s expression became much better, and his spirit and energy became different from when he first came: “Nice to talk to you, David! I’m going to help over there, call me if you have anything!” “
If you need anything, you can talk to me anytime!” David stood up and shook hands with Steve. Looking at the gratitude on his face, he knew that after a few days in Winter Village, the Captain America Steve Rogers recognized him and regarded him as a friend. Just
as Steve turned and left to help the villagers build houses, David felt that something seemed to have changed in his body? Especially the holy light in his body, which suddenly increased a lot.
“What’s going on?”
The holy light in his body increased sharply but there was no abnormality. David only had a thought to make the huge holy light in his body calm down again. At the same time, he felt that his mind became much clearer.
David had already reacted to what was going on at this time. Because he had established a preliminary friendship with Steve, he received a reward from him.
What was a little surprising was that the reward he received was not a physical one, but a spiritual one. Because it was a spiritual enhancement, David immediately figured out the details.
Not only did the holy light in his body increase dramatically, but its quality also improved significantly. At the same time, his spiritual enhancement made it easier for David to mobilize the holy light. In
addition, his memory seemed to have improved, and he could more easily recall the details of many things in his previous life.
“Captain America is most commendable for his strong mental will. It doesn’t seem strange to get rewards in this regard.”
As for not getting rewards for physical fitness? This is not a loss for David at all.
Not to mention that there are two captains in the village waiting for him to conquer. For him now, as long as the Holy Light continues to improve, his physical fitness will continue to improve. In addition to the physical fitness being improved under the “flushing” of the Holy Light, he can also squeeze his physical potential more unscrupulously.
Just when David wanted to find a place to exercise well and make his physical fitness more explosive, Laura had already returned from home.
“What are you doing?” Standing next to David and watching him stupidly pose in various bodybuilding poses, Laura finally couldn’t help but say: “Are you not satisfied with your figure after seeing Steve?”
“How is it possible!” David looked back at Laura and retracted his raised arms: “I just wonder, if I continue to exercise, will I become like Tirion?”
“…”
Fording’s figure should be the most exaggerated in the entire Winter Village. Compared with Captain America Steve, he can be called thin, and his strong muscles make Fording look like a cube sometimes.
Imagining that David also had the same exaggerated muscles as Fording, Laura suddenly felt that the picture was not good-looking: “I think it’s better for you not to train like that. Tirion’s muscles are too exaggerated.”
“Exaggerated? This is a symbol of strength. I think David is still too thin. He can’t be a qualified paladin in Azeroth like this. He can only continue to be a priest.” Pushing open the door, Fording walked out of his wooden house and commented on David’s figure by the way: “Without enough strength, even if you have mastered the skills of using various weapons, it will not be of much use. You can only use it to bully the weak.”
In Fording’s view, if you can’t swing a sledgehammer with one hand like a propeller, you don’t deserve to be called a warrior. Without enough strength, how can you fight enemies like orcs and trolls?
David couldn’t refute this. He knew that the human warriors of Azeroth were able to fight with orcs and trolls on the battlefield with their own strength. Even in the initial war, human warriors had an absolute advantage with their equipment. Unlike the plot in the movie, when the first war between humans and orcs broke out in the game world, humans were not at a disadvantage in terms of physical fitness.
Thinking of the scene of himself lifting an orc above his head with one hand and throwing it more than ten meters away, David felt the urge to work hard again.
Fortunately, Fording took the initiative to change the topic and asked Laura: “By the way, please help me bring a few more war movies next time.”
“No problem!”
Listening to the conversation between the two, David realized that Fording got up so late today because he watched a movie too late last night: “War movie?”
“After watching Band of Brothers with Mark, I became interested in this type of movie, so I asked Laura to help me find a few.” In addition to movies, there are also TV series. In addition to chopping trees, Fording watched these movies during his rest time: “By the way, if possible, please help me find these books too.” He took
out another note and handed it to Laura. David took a curious look and saw that the names written on it were “The Art of War”, “On War”, “Strategy”, “Sea Power”, “Air Power” and so on.
“These are easy to deal with. Do you want the English version?”
Fording thought about it and finally said that he wanted the original version. As for the corresponding language textbooks, he remembered that David had them.
“In this case, it may take a few more days.”
“It doesn’t matter, I’m not in a hurry.”
David, who was standing nearby and witnessing all this, had endless images of Scourge soldiers being bombarded by planes and artillery, and being burned by soldiers with flamethrowers after being pushed down by tanks. Although he knew that this image was ridiculous, after all, Fording couldn’t bring a base vehicle back to Azeroth. Even if he understood this way of fighting, there was no corresponding industrial system.
“Why do I feel a little bit of a pity? If possible, I really want to see this scene with my own eyes.”
Suddenly realizing that something was wrong, David remembered that the technological level of Azeroth was actually not low. The gnomes, goblins, and dwarves had a lot of black technology in their hands.
“So… this scene is really possible?”
(End of this chapter)