"Live for a while?" David knew why Mark Watney said that. In the plot, after he was forgotten on Mars due to an accident, he could only live alone on this planet with nothing.
His motivation for survival is to wait for the next manned mission to Mars in four years.
How to spend these four years is the biggest problem he has to solve at present - not to mention whether the residential camp can sustain for four years without damage, whether the oxygen equipment and water production equipment can work normally for four years, at this time
For Mark Watney, the biggest problem is food.
The base stores enough food for six astronauts for sixty-eight days. Even if there is only Mark Watney now, the food can only support him for three hundred days. With appropriate limits, it can last up to four hundred days.
This is still a long way from four years ago.
It was at this time that Mark, who was thinking hard about how to grow enough food for him for three years on Mars, came to David's winter village in confusion.
At this moment, Mark Watney saw new hope - if what David said was true and he could travel freely between the two worlds, then he could live here and find a way to communicate with the next batch of ex-comers.
The astronauts who came to Mars meet up and return to Earth together.
So, for David, is there anything wrong with taking in Mark Watney?
Of course not!
So David directly expressed his welcome: "This is no trouble, welcome to Winter Village." Apart from anything else, Mark Watney is a botanist, maybe he can help him solve the land problem?
Or allow yourself to gain some botany skills from him?
David stretched out his hand to hold Mark's hand and welcomed him. David didn't feel like he suddenly learned anything. I wonder if his favorability level wasn't high enough?
David is not in a hurry. If his judgment is correct, Mark Watney will stay with him for at least a few years. Whether it is botanical knowledge or anything else, he is not in a hurry.
"..."
David knew why Mark reacted this way, but he still acted very 'innocent', watching the fun as if he didn't know anything.
In David's plan, after Laura helps him obtain seeds of high-yielding crops and solves the most basic farmland and food problems, he will go to Iron Tree Fort to recruit a group of villagers. If there are already people living in the village before that
, will undoubtedly be more convincing and convince more people to stay.
Because the surrounding environment was not safe, David would keep his weapons close at hand even when he was resting, let alone during normal activities.
"Holy Light!"
The hand preparing to hold the bow paused in mid-air, and he watched in amazement as Mark Watney squatted down in the open space behind the wooden house so carefully, carefully observed for a moment, and finally raised his head and said: "I saw that right, this
They are indeed potato sprouts."
"Of course." David had no reason to refuse, and Fording said he wanted to go to the forest to the north.
Laura also realized something, but as she already had some experience, she didn't rush to ask. At this time, she had more important things to deal with first. She asked for some food and water, and then asked David to fill it up for herself.
After various buffs, he left in a hurry.
Mark Watney originally planned to grow potatoes inside the Mars base, but there are too many troubles to be solved in planting on Mars, and the probability of success is very low.
Soon he discovered that he was not hallucinating because he was hungry, but that there really was a pot of broth waiting for him.
Looking at Mark Watney mumbling, David did not interrupt the man's thoughts, but turned to look at the potato seedlings at his feet.
Hearing David's welcome, Mark was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth. He just didn't know if he was hungry, but he seemed to smell the aroma of meat.
David wanted to reply to him, "No way." He had lived here for two years, how could he not notice the wild potatoes under his nose?
Just as he was about to speak, after looking at Mark Watney for a second, he suddenly realized something, and the retort he blurted out became: "What is that?"
The name was so familiar that Mark Watney suddenly felt that the possibility that he was actually dreaming became a little bigger.
No matter how hard he tried, the pain in his body did not wake him up, and if he was really dreaming, the details would be too detailed and real.
"illusion?"
But one thing is certain, there were absolutely no wild potatoes in this place before - after living here for two years, he could eat and dig wild vegetables on the surrounding land, and he even didn't let go of the berries. It was impossible for him to use crops like this under his nose.
Ignore it. Besides, it’s not like he doesn’t know Tudou.
"What?" David was stunned for a moment after being called. He turned around and saw Mark rushing towards the back of a wooden house: "Is it a beast?"
After looking at it a few more times, he couldn't tell whether he had seen it wrong; or whether he hadn't noticed such a small difference before.
Watching David put away the pots and dishes skillfully, Mark, who was following behind, observed everything carefully, and from time to time secretly twisted his arms and thighs.
No one present is an idiot, and Fording is the best among people. Although he does not understand English at the moment, after these two days, he already knows that Laura's words are a simple greeting and self-introduction, and are just a simple greeting and self-introduction.
It's very interesting that Mark Watney reacted like this to such a simple greeting.
The green and tender branches and leaves grew on the black soil. After observing carefully for a moment, David found that there seemed to be a slight difference between the land under his feet and the land in the distance.
In his opinion, although he does not know how he came to this world and does not know much about this world, judging from the current observed situation, the civilization of this world seems to be at a relatively backward stage, and he should be able to take advantage of it.
Some advanced knowledge makes this village better.
"A food that is easy to survive and has high yield." Mark didn't think much about it. He just thought that people in this world didn't know the edible value of potatoes. This was not surprising. After all, in his world, humans didn't know about it for a long time.
This thing is edible... and delicious: "Since wild potatoes can be found, it proves that potatoes can be grown here."
The worst thing is that Mark Watney is a big man. If he wants to become the official village chief, he needs a certain number of villagers.
"Wait a minute." While following David around the village, Mark seemed to have discovered something and stopped David, who was about to take him to the river: "I seem to have discovered something."
"ah?"
David knew that Fording was worried about the wolves that had attacked David before and wanted to go there to see if the hidden danger could be completely eliminated. Of course he would not object to this.
When Laura introduced herself to Mark Watney, the botanist from Mars had a strange expression on her face. He held it back for a few seconds before introducing himself to Laura: "Hi, my name is Mark Watney."
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Looking at the golden light falling from David's hand, Mark suddenly found that he had not only arrived in another world, but also witnessed with his own eyes the mysterious power that once only existed in various magical works.
Therefore, even if we ignore the gains brought by Goldfinger, Mark Watney is very welcome to leave after only staying for a few years.
Mark Watney doesn't know these things at the moment. In fact, even if he knew, he wouldn't care. As long as his existential crisis can be urgently solved, everything else is trivial.
When Mark Watney held the wooden bowl and saw a person appear in front of him from scratch, most of the last doubt in his heart disappeared, and the last trace of doubt was left to "This may just be
A bizarre dream!' option.
Looking at the steaming broth that David brought in front of him, Mark smiled even brighter: "How is that possible? Thank you very much for your hospitality. If possible, I hope to be able to help."
While eating breakfast, Mark expressed that he wanted to visit Winter Village later. Not only the "inside" of this village with only four wooden houses, he wanted to see the surroundings as well.
Mark doesn't want to become a freeloader and has already begun to think about what he can do?
Just as a few people were eating breakfast and deciding what to do next, Laura ran over again.
"Our Winter Village is located in the northernmost part of the kingdom. It is a newly established village. There is nothing good about it. I hope you don't dislike it!"
"Hello, my name is Lara Croft!"
He reached out to take off the hunting bow he was carrying, but he heard Mark say: "No, I think I found potato seedlings."
Mark Watney, who was in a state of excitement, was not ready to continue the visit. He couldn't wait to start his potato field development plan immediately. In his mind, he had already begun to calculate how much land he needed to open up and how much land he should cultivate.
Where is Tian Kaikai located?
In comparison, bringing those live potatoes here, then opening up a potato field in this world, and continuously growing a large number of potatoes can not only ensure one's own food, but also contribute to the village. It is simply perfect.
"What's this?"
Since it didn't exist before, there is no reason for it to suddenly appear out of thin air.
The most reliable explanation is that Mark Watney next to him is talking and calculating.
"Could it be that the rewards are not just for the skills or talents of people like me, but also for actual items like potatoes?" David pondered: the rewards for such actual objects should also be related to the person who 'distributes the rewards'
There is a special connection, just like Mark Watney and potatoes - in the plot, Mark relied on potatoes to survive on Mars until rescue arrived at Mars, and successfully returned to Earth.
"However, it's easy to find potatoes growing behind the house. If there are other strange things, how do you find or collect them?"