[Chapter 66 Leonard Sleepwalking in Winter]

“How many people are there?” Steve was very curious about how many people Fording could bring back this time? The information revealed in David’s words seemed to indicate that there were a lot of people: “If there are a lot of people, should we start building a few wooden houses in advance?”

David wanted to wait until Van Cleef gave a clear answer before considering this matter. Now that he thought about it, it might not be impossible to build a few wooden houses similar to dormitories in advance. Even if Van Cleef finally rejected David’s invitation and the craftsmen of the Stonemasons’ Union did not come to Winter Village, there would be other people in the village in the future who would need additional accommodation.

“How about building it behind the canteen? Build two large houses first.” Behind the canteen, that is, to the north, are the farmers’ houses, one after another extending to the north.

But the canteen itself occupies a large area, and even with these farmers’ houses, there is still enough space to build two more large wooden houses.

“Just convert the canteen into a hotel?”

“Isn’t this good?”

David did not ignore Leonard when talking to Steve, and introduced the environment of the village to him, such as the canteen, the blacksmith shop, the public water supply area, etc.

“Is this tap water?” Leonard initially thought that this was a very ‘ancient’ village, but he saw a faucet after walking a few steps. In ancient times, there were similar tap water facilities or ‘faucets’, but they would never look like this. This is obviously a modern technology product.

“It can barely be considered tap water.” David introduced: “After pumping water from the Winter River and filtering and purifying it, it is transported to the water storage equipment here. People in the village can get water directly here.”

“Use pumps and water purification equipment? What about the power?” Leonard was very curious about this: “Is it using some magical power?”

“Solar and wind power generation.” David smiled and pointed to the distance. The wind power generation device was actually quite conspicuous: “In addition to there, there is also a diesel generator in the village.”

The generator was hidden on the ‘side’ of Laura’s house. There was nothing special about it from the outside. You had to open the ‘wooden door’ to see the generator, so Leonard didn’t notice it before.

“So… there are actually generators in this world?” Leonard looked around. He thought he had guessed wrong before. In fact, the level of civilization in this world was not low. It was just that the village was located in a remote area and sparsely populated, which made it seem backward.

“These machines and equipment were specially sent by a friend. She is from Earth like you.” David emphasized this point: “She thinks the environment here is good and wants to treat it as another home.”

“Oh!” Leonard nodded: “It is indeed beautiful here.”

Beautiful natural scenery and fresh air, forests, mountains, rivers, grasslands are all there. Living in this environment, he feels that his asthma is about to be cured. If possible, he also wants to settle down here and come here for vacation when he is free.

“Is there any condition for settling here?” Leonard did not ignore that David’s “friend” bought a lot of machines and equipment for the village chief: “For example, do you need to make some investment?”

“It’s not that troublesome. As long as you are willing, you can live here.” David told Leonard about the situation of Winter Village, including the development order of the Kingdom of Tilan, Winter Village evolved from a development camp, and it was only officially established for less than a year: “Winter Village currently welcomes everyone who wants to come and live here.”

There are no restrictions on admission or immigration. As long as you are willing, you can come.

“So good?” Leonard smiled. “As long as I’m willing, I can automatically get the residency qualification of Winter Village? Then I can become a villager of Winter Village now?”

“Yes!”

“Cool!” Leonard felt that the treatment was so good that people suspected it was a scam. But after thinking about it, he didn’t think he was worth being deceived. People from another world would not covet the rocket fuel information he was researching, right? It seemed that these people couldn’t use that thing.

Following David and walking forward, they arrived at the farmland area in a few steps. Leonard noticed the man who was observing back and forth in the field. The man’s appearance made him stunned again. It was just a moment of daze that he and the man opposite looked at each other.

“Mark, how is it?”

“It’s fine. As long as the temperature doesn’t suddenly drop in the past half month, these crops can be harvested smoothly.” Mark looked at Leonard for a few times: “Newcomer?” “

Yes, this is Leonard Hofstadter.”

“Mark Watney, just call me Mark.” Walking out of the farmland, Mark took off his gloves and shook hands with Leonard. As for the strange expression on the other’s face, he pretended not to see it: “Welcome to Winter Village.”

Leonard couldn’t help but feel strange, because there was another familiar face in front of him. Originally, this magical phenomenon of crossing had made him believe that he really came to another world, but seeing two familiar faces in a row made him doubt again whether he was tricked? This wouldn’t be the recording site of a variety show, right?

“Leonard, nice to meet you, Mark.” Leonard was struggling with whether he should question it? The next second, he saw Squirtle following Mark: “Pokemon? Oh my god, is this Squirtle?” Leonard’s

exaggerated reaction scared Squirtle. If there weren’t a bunch of familiar people standing around, Squirtle would have opened his mouth and sprayed Leonard in the face.

“Calm down, Leonard, this is indeed a Squirtle. It comes from another world just like you.”

David’s explanation did not calm Leonard. The Caltech physicist was so excited that he took out the sprayer he carried with him, took two puffs and replied to David in a tight voice: “I didn’t tell you that you had a Squirtle from the Pokémon world here.”

“Relax, follow me, breathe in~exhale~” Steve was standing next to them, looking at Leonard’s overly excited reaction, and immediately asked him to follow him and take a deep breath to relax.

Mark looked at Leonard’s reaction and immediately understood the key. He turned his head and looked at David: “Didn’t you explain the situation here to him?”

“I’m explaining it.” David pointed at Mark: “Introduce you to him by the way.”

“Then you didn’t introduce Steve to him?”

“What? Me? There shouldn’t be any need for introduction, right? Leonard knows my full name.” Steve obviously hasn’t figured out what’s going on: “I don’t think David knew my full name before today.”

“Wait.” Although Leonard was in an excited state, he did not miss the conversations of the people around him. His smart brain immediately made him realize that his previous guess seemed to be the truth: “You mean, you are really Steven Grant Rogers? That is, Captain America?”

“See, I said he knows me.”

Mark: “…”

David: “…”

Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Mark didn’t know that Captain America had such a natural side before: “I think you may have made some mistakes.”

Ignoring Steve’s question marks, Mark and Leonard explained the situation briefly: “David may not have had time to explain to you before. We all actually come from different worlds. Even if we are all from Earth, we are not the same Earth.”

“Parallel world theory?”

“Yes.” Seeing that Leonard was beginning to understand the situation, Mark introduced himself in more detail: “Mark Watney, a botanist, was trapped in the Mars base because of the Mars exploration program. He then came to Winter Village. Now he is considered a farmer in the village, farming in the village while waiting for rescue on Mars.”

“Mars exploration program? Mars base?” Leonard looked at Mark Watney in front of him, and he gradually understood what was going on: “Dr. Leonard Hofstadter, an experimental physicist at Caltech… Are you really on Mars? Can I go and see?”

“What a pity, it seems that I can’t do it at the moment.” Mark glanced at David, his eyes full of questions: “I can’t do it yet, right?”

“No.” David hasn’t figured out how to go to these people’s worlds yet, but he also wants to go to Mars.

Looking at Mark and David, although Leonard didn’t understand why he had to ask a question specifically, he still understood the sentence ‘I can’t go to Mars’ and was a little disappointed.

But it doesn’t matter, there are still many surprises today, such as Captain America next to him.

“So, you are really Captain Steve Rogers?”

He turned his head and looked at the Captain America again. Leonard’s expression of looking at his idol made Steve feel very familiar, as if he had returned to the time when he had just joined the army seventy years ago.

“I am indeed Steve Rogers, and I do have the title of Captain America.”

“Wow!”

Leonard wanted to reach out and shake hands with Rogers again, but he immediately retracted his hand as soon as he raised it, and rubbed it on his clothes a few times before reaching out. Steve did not show any disgust, and still maintained a friendly smile and shook hands with Leonard again.

“Wow, I shook hands with Captain America.” Leonard thought of the Squirtle next to him, but the Squirtle seemed to be avoiding him a little, so he had to give up unwillingly and turned to look at David next to him: “Who else is in the village?”

He was now full of expectations, and he really wanted to know what other familiar people he could meet in this magical village.

“Laura.” Before David could speak, Mark, who knew what Leonard wanted to know, had already said a name: “Lura Crawford.”

“Really?”

“Really, the equipment I just told you about was sent by Laura.” David nodded to Leonard, whose eyes were shining: “She is in the village now, but she is resting. Maybe you can see her in a while.”

“It’s incredible!” Leonard laughed like an eight-year-old child who fell into a pile of toys: “Who else?”

“Tirion Fording…”

“Walter?”

(End of this chapter)