David's approach is straightforward, and it doesn't have to worry about the mess of all kinds of situations, and it doesn't conflict with what he's going to do next.

You only need to develop step by step to find out who your enemies really are.

"Whoever stops you from upgrading Winter Village to Winter Town is your worst enemy." Mark turned his head to look at David, this method seems to be fine, but it is difficult to really test the enemy: "The Forrester family seems to be very powerful in Irontree Castle. ”

"If it's just the Forrester family, then the application for Winter Village to be upgraded to Winter Town won't be denied, and the other families won't watch the Forrester family continue to grow." Only the Forrester family was not enough for David's application to be denied.

"If many nobles join forces to resist, won't it be possible to upgrade the village?" Mark looked at David, he had long wanted to ask David, what kind of plans did he have for his village and his own future? Is it simply that you want to be a little lord on the remote border of the Kingdom of Tiran? Is there a bigger picture?

He didn't think that a person like David would keep himself in the lower reaches of the aristocratic class, and this conclusion could be drawn from David's previous unwillingness to be an ordinary commoner.

So the question is, where does David want to stand in order to be satisfied? Great Lord? Divide one side? Or to become a king in the truest sense of the word?

Perhaps, through this 'crisis', Mark will be able to get an accurate answer.

"If the situation in Irontree Fort is really so bad, then I will have to go to the royal capital of Tilan."

At that point, David can only choose to serve His Majesty the current King - because the King and the nobles of the royal capital do not have any direct contact with Winter Village, and David believes that they will not care about the upgrade application of a small remote village, as long as everything is carried out according to the regular process, even if it is the most rigorous review, it is more reliable than the 'enemy of all' Iron Tree Fort.

"Does this mean that you owe allegiance to His Majesty?"

"Originally, it was also loyal to His Majesty the King." David didn't care about this kind of thing, and even had to choose, it was much better to choose allegiance to the king than to the nobles of Irontree Castle, at least His Majesty was far enough away, and His Majesty generally did not have the time and energy to manage a small remote territory, and he could get the most freedom.

If you are loyal to the nobles of Irontree Castle, you will run into all kinds of troubles.

Now that there is a follow-up plan of action, everyone will no longer discuss this matter, and whether David's plan succeeds or fails, it will always be known until it has been done.

If you want to find out who is behind the assassins, you will have to wait until you get more accurate information after this operation.

For now, what they have to do is to protect themselves and let the village continue to grow.

Everyone disperses and goes about their business, and Steve has to build a new cabin with Peggy and Sharon, ready to meet the many craftsmen who may arrive.

Mark and Laura didn't walk away, they sat at the table and watched David, and when there were only three people left plus a turtle, Mark finally asked the question he had wanted to ask a long time ago: "David." ”

"Huh?"

"Have you ever thought about doing something in this world?" Mark raised his eyebrows as he spoke, with a 'you know' expression: "You're not satisfied with just being an ordinary lord, are you?" ”

David looked at Mark's funny expression and casually said what he really thought: "Of course I thought about it, I want to build my territory into an incomparably advanced city." ”

"How advanced is it? Is it the same as the earth? The conversation between Mark and David intrigued Laura, who suddenly wondered what David wanted to do with Winter Village: "A big modern city? London? Paris? ”

"It's much more advanced than that." It's not a mockery, David really doesn't think those two cities are anything advanced, not to mention that his ultimate goal is far more than the level of the Earth civilization he lived in in his previous life: "The level of being able to carry out extraterrestrial colonization." ”

"......" Mark Watney opened his mouth, wondering if this goal was too? Let's not forget that they still live in a world similar to the European Middle Ages, and even a running water device needs Laura to transport from the other side of the world, and even then it is only a public water intake facility, which is far from the real water network.

In this case, David actually longed for something's going out of the earth and into space! Mark suspects David is joking with himself.

But you want to open your mouth to refute it, right? He found that he couldn't seem to refute it, and the clever Mark immediately thought of the crux of the matter: the speed of development of David's village has nothing to do with what stage of civilization the world is in, and it mainly depends on which world new occupants will appear in David's village.

People like himself and Laura who are ordinary earth civilizations can help David's village achieve a huge facility upgrade, and if a few newcomers to the higher civilization world come to live, it is not impossible to achieve leapfrog development.

Even so, it was not easy to do what David said.

"Wouldn't it be too far away?" Mark originally thought that David could establish a more advanced civilization in this world than the backward countries on the continent, which was a very grand ideal, but David's goal was even farther than he thought: "Even if it is really possible, I don't know how many years it will take." ”

From the European medieval civilization all the way to the interstellar civilization, even if it is opened, it is not easy, Mark feels that there is no one who can't even touch the edge for decades, even if David can firmly work towards the goal, everything is going well, but how to solve the problem of lifespan?

"Lifespan?" David doesn't think it's a problem: "I didn't worry about it. ”

Since the appearance of Fordin, lifespan is no longer a concern for David, and the appearance of supernatural power has basically made it clear to David, and he will definitely have many ways to extend his life in the future.

Even if there are no related people in the next few decades, David doesn't have to worry and worry, even if he only relies on the Holy Light, he can live for many, many years.

"Even if there is no other choice, the Holy Light alone can greatly extend the lifespan."

Tulayan has lived for a thousand years with the power of the Holy Light, and as long as David steadily improves the Holy Light, even if he has no other choice, his lifespan will not be as difficult as ordinary people to live past a hundred years.

"Does that mean I'll live a long time?" Although Laura has searched for relevant information, she has not yet studied these details, and her initial learning and use of the Holy Light was purely out of curiosity about the mysterious power, and she did not expect that there would be unexpected surprises.

Mark next to him reacted even more exaggeratedly, and immediately grabbed David's arm: "I think I can hold more holy light in my body, why don't you pour more into it?" ”

“……”

David looked at the reactions of these two people with tears and laughter, in his previous life, he always saw the protagonists in various film and television themes, and he looked down on longevity and immortality, but in fact, human beings' pursuit of immortality ran through the entire history of human civilization, and various related legends and actual examples emerged in endlessly.

At the same time, the vast majority of normal people, when they learn that they can live longer, as long as they are not repeatedly tortured by any illness, they will only feel happy and will not feel that this is a curse - it can only be said that the screenwriters of those film and television dramas are not normal people.

"There is no need to rush for a while, and if you want to get a longer lifespan with the Holy Light, you still have to really master the Holy Light, Mark Ling's current situation will extend his life for a few decades at most, and it is impossible to be longer."

"I think it's a lot to live a few more decades." Mark was first overjoyed, and then looked helpless: "I may lack the talent of holy light, and I have never been able to truly control the energy in my body. ”

"Maybe you're really not fit for the Light? Otherwise, if I ask Fording to gather some other knowledge, there will always be something for you. "Azeroth has many mystical powers, and many classes have spawned to use mystical powers, even if Mark can't be a priest or a paladin, he can try other paths.

Considering Mark's status as a scientist, maybe he's better suited to be a mage who studies arcane energy?

Or a druid who studied the way of nature? A shaman who communicates with elemental spirits? After all, Mark is a botanist, and his profession is probably more compatible with the two professions.

"Hearing you say that, I'm not in a hurry." Mark now thinks that when he returns to Earth, he may have to slowly move his family to Winter Village, and he really can't resist the temptation to learn all kinds of mysterious knowledge. Considering that his life expectancy may increase significantly, he had to make some preparations in advance to avoid being caught and sliced for study.

Just as Mark began to wonder if he could become a powerful archmage, an illusion appeared in the clearing not far away.

"It's Tirio back!"

David sat here to see if Tirio would come back. While Tirio waits long in the Mines of Death for Van Clive's reply, he occasionally returns to Winter Village to check on the situation and replace his laptop's battery.

However, the figure revealed was not Tirio, but a blonde woman in a blue slim-fitting military uniform, the woman in the miniskirt military uniform seemed to be hiding from something, and was still looking back as she ran, but the sudden change in terrain and the untimely pair of iron-gray stiletto heeled leather shoes made the blonde female officer unable to maintain her balance and fell firmly to the ground.

The tragic chest brake scene made David and the others stunned for two seconds before they reacted, and hurriedly got up and prepared to help this unlucky newcomer up.

"Are you alright?" Laura was closest to the blonde woman, so she moved the fastest, and after noticing the panic on the other party's face, she immediately said that she was not a bad person: "Although I don't know what trouble you have, you are safe now." ”