Chapter 37: The Little Blacksmith
David turned his head to look at where the phantom was, then at Attis and happened to look at Attis who was looking at him.
"Is it an enemy?" Ardis didn't ask David if he had seen it, and in the old hunter's opinion, David, who he had cultivated with his own hands, could not have worse eyesight than himself.
"I don't know." David tried to test a few words, and found that in the eyes of Ardis and Alfie, what they saw was not a phantom, but a shadow that was still far away, because it was too far away to see the specific appearance.
As this person 'gradually got closer', the phantom in David's eyes gradually became solidified - he already understood that the process of gradually turning the phantom in the eyes of himself and Laura and others into real people was that in the eyes of locals like Ardis, it was a person walking from a distance.
Not only did David realize this, but Laura, Fording and others realized this, which meant that in the future, they would travel back and forth to their respective worlds without avoiding the rest of the village, in the eyes of those people, they would just walk out of the village to the outside, or walk back from the outside.
"It saves a lot of trouble." David, who thought so in his heart, also breathed a sigh of relief, at least he didn't have to bother to explain to Ardis what this magical phenomenon was all about.
Turning his head to look at the phantom, now he was only curious about who it would be this time.
As the phantom gradually solidified, David finally saw the face of the person who came - it was a male human, and it was a 'familiar' face, I don't know which identity it corresponded to?
Got up and stood not far from the long table, quietly waiting for the man who came from 'far away'.
After the young man realized that he had suddenly arrived in a strange place, he stopped in place with a stunned face, looked at the surrounding environment suspiciously, and then looked at David who was standing not far in front of him, and then stepped forward and politely asked what kind of place this is?
"This is Winter Village, and I'm David, the village chief." The other party spoke in English, so David also replied in English: "Look at your appearance, you should be lost?" ”
"It seems so, can I ask which direction I should go to Port Royal?" The young man looked at a few wooden houses not far away, and the long table not far in front of him, there were old people and children sitting at the table, and it looked like a very ordinary small village: "By the way, my name is Will Turner, and the village chief can call me Will." ”
When the name of Port Royal is revealed, David knows who he is: Will Turner, one of the male protagonists in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Will has a lot of scenes in the first three movies, he was the son of a pirate, he was rescued by the Royal Navy by accident, became a blacksmith apprentice in Port Royal, and then went to the sea in order to save his sweetheart, and Elizabeth Swan, the daughter of the governor of Port Royal, was a couple, and after the big battle in the third part, he was seriously injured and had to use special methods to save his life, becoming the captain of the flying Dutchman, responsible for extraditing the undead at sea.
Later, Will Turner lifted the curse through the Sea Emperor's trident, freed himself from the fate of luring the undead and not being able to reunite with his family.
As for this Will Turner in front of him, looking at his still very young appearance, maybe the things he knows have not happened to this young man?
But that's not the focus of David's attention, he's focused on Will Turner's identity: the extraditer of the undead on the sea, the offspring of pirates, none of which makes sense to David, but his blacksmith status makes him more concerned.
"This is because you know that there is a shortage of blacksmiths in my village, so you sent me one?"
Thinking like this in his heart, he showed much more enthusiasm on the outside: "It's not early, why don't you rest in the village for one night?" ”
Will looked at the already dark sky and knew that it was not a good time to travel, but he still wondered how he had come from the streets of Port Royal to this place, and he was wary of the people in front of him.
"Will it disturb you?"
"No, it won't." David led Will to the table and beckoned him to sit down and have a bite to eat.
Laura got up and gave up her seat, and at the same time greeted Alfie, who had finished eating: "Alfie, I'll take you to see something interesting." ”
Alfie was originally sitting at the table honestly, even if he had eaten a long time ago but was still waiting for Attis, the old hunter was not young but his appetite did not drop much, and even because he ran around Winter Village every day during this time, teaching Alfie various hunter skills, he would consume a lot of physical strength every day, resulting in an increase in the amount of food.
He was very concerned about Alfie, and when he saw Laura call Alfie away, even though he knew that Laura would not have any ill will towards Alfie, he still habitually followed.
With the relinquishment of his seat and the fact that Ardis was led away by Laura, the rest was much simpler.
Will sat down and looked at the two men across the table, one was a young man, plain-looking but kind-looking; The other man was a very dignified strong man, and what made Will find it most strange was that he felt in this strong man the sense of oppression given by the Governor of Port Royal.
"What is this?" Just as Will was looking at Mark and Ferdin, he suddenly noticed a blue thing popping out of the table, although it looked round and cute, but a creature that he had never seen before suddenly appeared, which still startled Will.
"This is Jenny Turtle." Mark was looking at Will curiously, and when he saw that Will was scared by Jenny Turtle, he thought it was interesting and introduced the other party: "Don't worry, this creature doesn't hurt people." ”
Hearing that it wouldn't hurt people, Will relaxed slightly, and then looked at it curiously: "Very cute turtle." He felt that he was not far from Port Royal, and that it was supposed to be a turtle here.
David fetched some food for Will and placed it in front of Will, thinking about how he should start.
Will ate the stew, chatted briefly with the two people in front of him, and learned each other's names: Mark Watney and Tirio Fortin.
"What is this place? I mean, in which direction is Port Royal here? While eating, Will kept looking at his surroundings, but it seemed that he couldn't figure out where he was, and the environment here was very unfamiliar.
Mark and Fording glanced at each other, and finally looked at David together, and Will saw the reaction of the two of them, and also turned his head to look at David, who was sitting next to him.
"Actually, it's very, very far away from the Port Royal you mentioned."
"How is that possible?" Will didn't believe it very much, even if something happened to his head and he walked out of Port Royal in a daze, he couldn't go far, right? However, David's next words made him feel even more outrageous.
"You're no longer in your original world."
Will was so surprised that he didn't even want to eat the hot stew: "You mean I'm dead?" ”
"Oh, that's not what it meant." Davy saw that Will had misunderstood his words, so he immediately explained, and by the way, he also used Mark and Furding in front of him as examples.
It took a while for Will to figure out what David meant.
The stew in front of him couldn't arouse his interest at all, even if he hadn't eaten much today and had done a day's physical work, but what happened at this time made him completely unable to get into the mood to eat, and he still had some suspicions that what was happening now was just an absurd dream.
Looking at Will's reaction, David found that what he had thought before was too simple, and that not everyone could accept this kind of thing about inexplicably traveling to another world so quickly.
Laura was able to accept it so quickly because she saw the appearance of Fordin.
Fording was able to accept it so quickly because there was a mysterious power in the world of Azeroth, and even there were practical examples of such things for Azeroth.
As for Mark Watney, the environments of Mars and Winterfall are so different that it's hard to believe it.
But for Will Turner, who lived in 'ancient times' and didn't know so much about the mess, and he hadn't been exposed to mystical powers himself, and his surroundings weren't so big as to make people immediately distinguish between them and Port Royal, it would take some time to accept it.
Realizing this, David realized that the quickest way to convince Will that he was telling him was to tell him how to 'go back' between the two worlds.
That's what David did, and while it was possible that Will, the 'blacksmith' he had been thinking about for a long time, would never return, he wasn't prepared to rely on lies and deception to force someone to stay - a twisted melon is not sweet, and even if it can quench his thirst for a while, it may cause backlash in the future.
Hearing that there was a way to go back, even though Will still couldn't believe that such a miraculous thing had happened to him, he still got up and tried it, turning into a virtual shadow in the eyes of several people and gradually disappearing.
"Do you think he'll ever come back?" After watching Will's figure disappear, Mark turned his head and asked Fordin, "I don't think he's coming back." ”
"It's normal, after all, he has a life of his own." Fording also felt that the young man named Will would not return, because the young man, unlike himself, wanted to find a place where no one knew him to live in seclusion; Nor is it like Mark, who lives alone on a desolate planet, relying on Winter Village to make sure he can hold out until help arrives.
"I think he'll be back." David disagrees with the two, and he thinks Will will come back, because the little blacksmith has inherited his father's pirate genes, which has imbued him with an adventurous spirit.
What's more, he was only an apprentice blacksmith in Port Royal, and he needed some special opportunities to marry Elizabeth, the daughter of the Governor.
"He'll realize that this is a life-changing opportunity."