Chapter 41: A Peculiar Family of Three
Sitting at the table, a few people look at me, I look at you, Peggy, Steve, Sharon, the three newcomers have finished listening to David's explanation, knowing that they are no longer on Earth, and they are on an unknown planet...... Or I don't know which world, in a small village called Winter Village.
"Sounds ...... It's incredible. Steve kept his mouth shut as David explained, and waited until David finished speaking before asking a few questions, such as why David spoke English and how he seemed to be familiar with the Earth.
These things are easy for David to deal with. English was learned from Laura, who first came to Winter Village, and some knowledge of the earth was also learned through the books that Laura gave him during this time.
At the beginning, it was just to shape the character, but there were unexpected benefits.
Steve asked Mark a few more things, and through the previous introduction, he knew that Mark was an astronaut from the space agency, and later learned that Mark, like them, had come here from 'Earth'.
"You're really unlucky!" This is the evaluation given by Sharon after learning that Mark was left on Mars by accident and had to find a way to struggle to survive on his own.
"Alright, I was forgotten on Mars, but here I am, and I'm the best botanist on Earth!" I don't know about other Earths, at least in the world where Mark Watney lives, there is no botanist better than him, not only successfully planting potatoes on Mars, but even going to the other world to do so.
Later, after learning the way to leave Winter Village and return to his own world, Steve got up and tried it, leaving and returning without a hitch, confirming David's words.
"So amazing?" Sharon, who occasionally interjected throughout the explanation, also jumped, but strange things happened, no matter how Sharon walked outside the village or ran wildly, there was no tendency to turn into a phantom.
"Huh?"
This kind of situation, which has never happened before, made David and Mark very strange, and Mark immediately ran out of the village, he was worried that something was wrong, so that everyone could not leave at will?
As a result, Mark went to Mars without any problems, and then returned to Winter Village.
"Nothing is wrong, it's normal."
At this time, Peggy, who had always listened quietly to the crowd and had never opened her mouth, also tried it.
Similar to Sharon's situation, no matter how much Peggy tried back and forth on the edge of the village, there was no sign of disappearing.
"What's going on?"
David didn't know very well, after all, he didn't have the opportunity to experience this kind of crossing himself, in fact, he didn't know what it was like for everyone to cross over, even if Laura and others described it in detail, they lacked an intuitive impression.
Steve tried again, and he could still go back and forth smoothly, he frowned and thought for a while, and gave his own judgment: "If there is something wrong with this place itself, then the problem is with the two of you?" ”
Ruling out the possibility of Davy and others engaging in ghosts, we can only find problems in individuals.
Steve's mind was spinning fast, and he thought he might be able to understand each other's conditions and analyze what was causing them.
At the same time, he also knows how the world in which Peggy and Sharon live is different from his own.
Compared to the strange Mark, and Dave, who is completely otherworldly, Steve will naturally be closer to the familiar Peggy, and Sharon, who seems to be his own daughter.
And Peggy and Sharon, who know Steve well enough, also trust Steve enough, they not only told about their situation, but even told their experiences in that universe, so that Steve understood the differences in several parallel worlds.
Sharon Rogers lives in a world that is roughly similar to Steve's own experience, except that after foiling the Red Skull conspiracy, Steve Rogers, the American captain of that world, was not frozen for decades, and returned smoothly to welcome the glory that belonged to the hero, and married Peggy Carter and gave birth to a daughter, Sharon Rogers.
In the decades that followed, Captain America Steve continued to do things in line with his heroic identity, teaching his daughter who had perfectly inherited the virtues of his parents, and even began to consider passing on the title of Captain America to his daughter.
It was at this time that Sharon went out shopping and went to Winter Village.
Listening to Sharon's story, Steve already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't say it directly; Instead, he turned his head and asked Peggy about the situation.
The universe in which Peggy lives is very different from Steve's experience, the difference starts with an accident in the super soldier experiment, because Peggy accidentally replaced Steve in the super soldier transformation, and successfully completed the transformation into a super soldier.
Next, Peggy also had the title of Captain Carter, and embarked on a similar path to Captain America, fighting with the Red Skull's Hydra Army on the battlefield of World War II, and finally entered the 'other dimension' with the monster in order to stop the huge monster summoned by Hydra.
It was while wrestling with the monsters that Captain Carter came to Winter Village.
"In other words, if you can successfully go back, you should return to that strange space and continue to fight monsters?" Steve felt like he had caught the point: "Is this what keeps you from getting out of here?" ”
"It's possible." Peggy thought about it for a moment, and then thought about what David had just said, and thought in her heart, 'Go back', and then she could leave here and go back to her own world.
The question is, does she really want to go back to that strange space and fight a big monster endlessly? Before, she was trying to save her own world, but her own world was safe, and she watched the portal connecting to another dimension and releasing big monsters being closed.
Her world had been saved, and she certainly didn't want to go back to that strange place. Maybe it's the resistance in her heart that makes it impossible for her to go back and forth between the two worlds as freely as Steve?
Thinking so in her heart, she also looked at Sharon next to her, and then at Steve in front of her.
Although the figure was very different from the familiar Steve, after talking for a while, she found that the person in front of her was indeed Steve Rogers, the smart and brave man, she believed that Steve had guessed the reason why Sharon couldn't leave, but he didn't say it directly, it should be to take care of this strange daughter's thoughts.
"Okay, we're done with the situation, let's talk about it!" Since Sharon has doubts in her heart, she puts this matter aside and shifts the topic to another place, Peggy is curious about how this Steve's experience is different from her own universe and Sharon's universe?
"Me?" Steve looked at the two women staring at him with wide eyes, and the two men with melon-eating expressions on their faces, and recounted his experience with a bitter face: "Actually, it's similar to me in Sharon's world, but it's a little different." ”
The biggest difference is that although he managed to stop the Red Skull's plot and didn't let those super bombs bloom on the east coast of North America, he himself was frozen and fell into a deep sleep because of the crash.
"When I woke up, I was told that I had been asleep for 70 years." At this time, Steve is in the confused stage of his life, his eyes are closed and his eyes are open, the war is over, the familiar people are basically dead, the lover is married but the groom is not me, even the familiar hometown has become extremely strange, everything around him is so unreal, he doesn't know if he still has the meaning of living.
Every day, in addition to venting excess energy in the gym, he just wanders around like a ghost, and then he comes here.
Thinking of this, Steve couldn't help but look at Peggy, and then at David, and he couldn't help but wonder if God was too pitiful for him, so he let him come here to enjoy his old age? Peggy was even sent to the front...... It's just that this Peggy has a favorite Steve, can she let herself be a replacement? Oh, it seems like I'm in a similar situation!
He glanced at David again, wanting to ask more about it, and found that the head of Winter Village was eating dried fruits (snacks bought by Laura) with the scientist named Mark, quietly watching the excitement.
"Mr. Village Chief."
"Just call me David." Swallow the dried fruit, cough lightly twice and clear your throat: "Is there anything wrong?" ”
"The days to come may be a constant disturbance for you."
"Don't bother, I'm very welcome to you, after all, there are not many people in my village, and I especially hope that the village will become more lively."
When explaining the situation earlier, the three of them all knew about the situation in David's village: a newly established village called Winter Village.
Except for a few farmers who have just moved in and are building houses; Except for Ardis, an old hunter who raised his children alone, the rest of the people all came here from other worlds like them.
Laura Crawford, the British nobleman, has made Winter Village his other home, building a house here and often running over to play.
Mark, the unlucky guy who survived alone on Mars, even regarded Winter Village as his lifeline, and counted on Winter Village to survive!
As for the man named Tirio Ferdin, he simply settled in Winter Village for a long time, only occasionally returning to his own world to see his wife and son.
With so many 'companions', and Peggy not knowing how to return to her own world, it doesn't seem unacceptable to choose to settle here.
Since Peggy is going to live here, Steve often comes over to see old friends, and it is only natural that old friends help out when they need help.
Although he knew that this Captain Carter was not the Peggy he was familiar with, looking at this familiar face, he really couldn't pretend that he hadn't seen him, and returned to his universe to continue his life like the living dead.
Seeing that Steve was always staring at Peggy, Sharon Rogers wanted to shout, "Did you guys forget something?" ”