Chapter 51: Heaven and Earth Eat the Greatest
After taking Bruce around and touring the entire village, Myron arranged a place for Bruce to live.
There weren't many suitable accommodations in the village, so in order to make it easier for the brave to discuss things, Bruce would live with Louie: a bed was added to the second floor where Louis lived.
Louis didn't object to this, anyway, the space on the second floor was spacious enough to fit two more beds.
However, he didn't expect that the first thing Bruce did after moving in was to adjust the layout of the entire second floor, and by the way, he also helped Louie organize his equipment and convert several wooden cabinets into weapon racks, which were used to place guns and cold weapons respectively.
“......”
Watching Bruce go about his business, Louie didn't say anything, what was he to object to someone willing to do such a thing?
When he finished his daily practice, Bruce also sorted out all the weapons in Louie's hand, and by the way, he also observed other things that Louie brought back.
This time, Louie has lived in the Fast and Furious world for more than a year, and has plenty of time to buy what he needs.
In addition to the large number of weapons and equipment obtained through Hobbes, he also bought many household items: such as shower gel, shampoo, soap, scissors, knives, and various food spices.
Looking at these things, Bruce felt very speechless: when he was wandering around the world, he was not as prepared as Louie, he was not like a brave man who was ready to save the world, but more like he had come out to play and go on vacation.
This confirmed his previous judgment that Louis had never thought of returning to his own world, he preferred this world, his current identity.
Perhaps in Bruce's view, Louie was blinded by the light of the brave and the so-called increase in strength, and fell into a state of disorientation.
But he didn't say what he thought, it was just his own speculation, after going through so many things, he knew that what he guessed was not necessarily correct, after all, he had just come to this world, maybe he guessed wrong?
Turning his head to look, Louie, who had been sitting cross-legged, had already stood up, the coins that had been shuttling between his fingertips just now were gone, and Louie was doing simple stretching exercises.
"You were cultivating just now?"
"Yes!" Ever since Louis didn't shy away from Bruce's cultivation, he was destined not to hide these abilities of his. Artoria is capable of using magic, and it's no surprise that he wields some strange powers.
"What is the power you use called? The so-called power of mind is to accomplish many incredible things with the mind, which is a relatively well-known extraordinary ability, and this ability has been mentioned in many comics, films, and novels.
"No, it's the Force!"
Louie's answer stunned Bruce's expression for a moment, and he suspected that he might have misunderstood, after all, the word had multiple meanings: "The Force?"
"May the Force be with you!"
When Louie said this, Bruce was sure that Louie was talking about the kind of power he understood, and his expression became very funny, and he was stunned for a few seconds before returning to normal. At that moment, he didn't know how many thoughts had turned in his mind, and how many new information had been sorted out or overturned.
"Have you been to a Star Wars world before?"
"No, it's just that through the quest reward, I learned some about the Force with Quigang Kim. Seeing that Bruce showed some doubts, Louie realized that the timeline of the other party's life, the Star Wars prequel should not have been launched yet - considering that in the plot of Batman vs. Superman, Batman is already an old bat with gray temples, so the young Bruce in front of him lives relatively early.
"A very powerful Jedi Master. ”
"I understand!" So Louie was taught by the Jedi Master because of his status as a brave, and Bruce suddenly understood a little why Louie preferred his current life: he was dying in his previous life, although he didn't ask carefully, but Louie didn't talk about or even revealed his reluctance to his previous life, either he was unhappy in his previous life, or he had nothing to be nostalgic about.
It's an experience to come here to start a new life, to be able to gain strength beyond ordinary people, and even to be taught by a Jedi Master...... If it weren't for the dream of saving Gotham, Bruce felt that he would be happy to stay.
While chatting, Louie finished his morning workout and went downstairs for a simple breakfast, after which Bruce proposed to compete with Louie and Artoria.
"I want to determine the gap between my current strength and yours!"
"And then how to judge the situation of the world in the fog, and the difficulty of the mission?" was easy to guess, not to mention that Bruce didn't hide his true thoughts at all.
"Yes, it also makes it easier for me to make a judgment on how much preparation I should make!" Bruce decided to be prepared enough before officially entering the fog, and how far he could do it depended on the outcome of the battle between himself and Louie.
"Come on, then!"
I went back upstairs and retrieved two longswords, these two longswords were brought back by Artoria, they were the standard equipment of Stormwind City, they were not top-notch weapons, but they were certainly better than the weapons made by the blacksmiths of Redwood Village.
Then the two of them went to the clearing to the north of the village, the clearing next to the yellow fog that Louis had previously dispelled, which was undisturbed and suitable as a place for the competition.
Just when the two of them were looking for an open space to compete, Artoria and Myron found the village chief of Redwood Village, Pollard, and then recruited the young adults in the village through the village chief, ready to distribute weapons, and by the way, taught these people how to use muskets, so that the village could have a certain ability to protect itself.
This thing is not going well, even if the young people are a little excited, they are also pulled by the older people.
Their thoughts were similar to what Myron had guessed: fighting was the business of the brave and the brave, they were just ordinary people, so why should they take up arms? That was not their responsibility, and it was beyond their capabilities.
Artoria's idea had just begun, and it was bleeding, but in the face of ordinary villagers, she didn't know how to get them to take up arms - she had no experience in this area, and in the several wars she had experienced, civilians were at best to ensure logistics and help with transportation, and fighting was indeed not the job of civilians.
Eventually, she had to take all her weapons back to her quarters, and then walk around at Myron's suggestion to stop dwelling on what had just happened.
"Maybe you can see what Bruce and Louie are up to?"
The two went to the north of the village, and Myron knew where they were, and Artoria quickly found them.
There is no tragic scene to see, Louis and Bruce have good control of their weapons, and they can always stop at critical moments without causing substantial damage to each other.
After a while, Bruce saw that Louie had a lot of power to spare, although he didn't use all his strength, but he didn't think that his hole cards could be bigger than Louie, who had already cultivated the Force, Louie must have mastered a lot of magical abilities, and Louie didn't use similar power at all during the competition.
In short, Bruce Wayne came to the conclusion through a simple competition: his strength is not enough, it seems that he needs to make more preparations, and his current strength is likely to be sent to death if he enters the dense fog.
Just as he pondered what he should do to prepare, Artoria approached and told the two of them that his idea had failed, and that the villagers were reluctant to take up arms.
"It's nothing, for now, as long as the fog doesn't turn yellow, no monsters will kill it. "That time an orc rushed out of the fog, which was what happened when the fog turned yellow.
Louis guessed that there would be other changes in the fog, but for now, the fog around Redwood Village was stable, and it was only slowly approaching the village.
"As long as the fog is not large and turns yellow, there is no need to worry about the safety of Redwood Village for the time being. "Louis and Artoria made a similar decision: to clear the surrounding fog before it had time to change color.
If possible, it is best to disperse the fog completely.
Bruce then asks Artoria about the weapons she brought back, and if the villagers can use them if they don't use them?
"Of course!" Artoria didn't think there was anything wrong with that, or maybe she thought the weapons could be shared with everyone.
"Thank you!" Bruce already had a preliminary plan in mind, and the first step in his plan was to renovate the blacksmith shop!
Just do it, Bruce ate something at noon, and then ran to the blacksmith shop, which had become very quiet these days, suddenly became noisy, tinkling non-stop for most of the day, but the sound didn't look like iron?
Louie looked over curiously and found that Bruce Wayne was not in a hurry to build himself any equipment, but was busy upgrading the forging equipment in the blacksmith's shop.
The existing stove and bellows in the blacksmith's shop simply did not meet his requirements. So Bruce had to transform these things before he could use the upgraded stove and build what he wanted.
Louis didn't care about Bruce anymore, he knew that this was a famous blacksmith in the DC world, and he basically made himself in a black technology god costume, and his hands-on ability was definitely at the full level - it shouldn't be so tough now, but the environment of Redwood Village might allow Bruce to develop this ability to the extreme in advance.
In contrast, Louie is now more concerned about the pot of soup in front of him, although it is still a mess mixed up and stewed, but as long as he has the seasoning he brought back, this thing will not be so unpalatable.