Soon, Mark Watney, heavily armed, dug two crystals out of the ground behind David's cabin under the protection of a full spacesuit.

David, who used the holy light to protect himself from the whole time, dug underneath and found that the two crystals were actually connected to a transparent crystal the size of a fist and a sphere, and at the same time, when Mark was cautiously trying to take out the crystal, he was embarrassed to find that he had pulled the pink crystal off the 'root' with a little force.

"......" Mark glanced at David next to him, "I didn't expect this thing to be so sturdy." ”

"It's okay, it's easy to store it separately." If you look at it this way, the crystal of what appears to be a mineral is divided into three parts: a slightly larger pink crystal, a blue-purple crystal with a long column shape and much smaller than the pink crystal, and a spherical part that has been dug out of the soil at the end.

Mark didn't push much effort then, but the long cylindrical blue-purple crystal was still 'pulled' off by him, shrugged his shoulders and put it in a separate storage box. According to Mark, this box is used to store samples in the Mars base, which can isolate radiation to a certain extent.

Until it is certain whether the crystals possess harmful radiation, storage seems to be the most reliable option.

"What if these crystals continue to grow here?" Putting the three parts into three boxes, Mark looked at the small pit in front of him, curious about what strange things would 'grow' here in the future?

"It doesn't matter as long as it's certain that there's no harmful radiation." David glanced at the last rounded part, which he felt was the key, and he could feel the energy inside.

The other two crystals also contain energy and give him a very pure feeling.

Even so, David did not make any contact recklessly before he was sure that it was safe, and it didn't take long to conduct the test anyway, so he was not in a hurry for such a moment.

From the short observation just now, he felt that these crystals should not be the Tiberium mine that he was most worried about.

Born from the Command and Conquer World, Tiberium Mine came to Earth through the fall of a meteorite, a strange substance that will absorb various minerals around it after coming into contact with the earth, condensing them into crystal clusters and bursting out of the surface.

Tiberium Mine has a green 'basic' and a blue 'upgrade', followed by a 'seagrass version' and various versions in other colors, but no matter what it is, Tiberium Mine contains various mineral elements at the same time, it also has strong radiation and toxicity, and touching this mineral without any protection is looking for death.

What made David a little fortunate was that Lieutenant Eva McKenna was not from the world line of Command & Conquer, and the red alert world line she lived in had various suspected Tiberium minerals that were skinned, but these minerals did not have those fatal side effects, maybe she got this improved version?

"However, even if it's an improved version, it doesn't seem to be of much use!" Tiberium Mine can absorb various minerals around it and grow its characteristics, which is a great convenience for humans to mine various minerals, but it requires special equipment to decompose various mineral elements in Tiberium crystals.

In addition, the so-called Epitai Ore also exists mainly in the Red Alert 1 and Red Alert 2 generations, but Eva came from the Red Alert 3 world, and the mines of that world were supposed to be dug out of the ground with special equipment.

"So...... What the hell did Eva reward me? ”

David, whose head was full of question marks, stopped his 'prayer' and washed himself back and forth with the holy light several times in a row, believing that even if there was really radiation, it was now 'purified'.

In this time, Mark has also returned, and has taken off the spacesuit.

"Looks like it's safe for now."

"Yes." Mark didn't have the three boxes with him, but stayed in the laboratory at the Martian base: "That spherical crystal has the most energy radiation, but it is harmless to the human body. ”

Any object with energy has radiation, but not all radiation will be harmful to humans, and this time the crystal ore growing behind David's house has not been found to be harmful to the human body.

"But it takes more time to really know if it's harmful." It has only been determined that this thing poses an immediate threat to the person, but whether it is safe for long-term contact will need to be further observed.

Mark's Mars base is a great place to be, with all kinds of equipment in it, as well as a special quarantine area, so you don't have to worry about someone stealing the crystals there.

"Continue to observe ...... for a while"

"If it doesn't hurt, how are you going to use it?"

"I don't know." David really didn't think about it: "You can look at the specific composition of these crystals next. ”

If Mark can find the composition of various minerals in it, it means that this thing is a pure version of Tiberium Mine, and how to use these special minerals is a headache.

"If Van Cleef and the others come over, there are quite a few miners and blacksmiths among them, and they might be able to figure out how to use this strange mineral." There are also a lot of strange minerals in the world of Azeroth, and the miners and blacksmiths in that world should have a lot of experience in this area, even if the stonemasons of Van Cleeff don't have such talents, Fording can go to Ironforge to ask the dwarves for help.

The two stood here and talked for a while, and saw Laura lead Eva back from a distance, along with Peggy and Sharon.

Peggy and Eva had a great conversation, both from England and both soldiers, and the two women had more than enough topics in common.

In addition, because Laura's figure is very different from Eva's, but Captain Carter, a woman with long legs and a broad heart, is closer to Eva's figure, so Eva's new clothes should be Peggy's.

The four women lined up and walked to David and Mark all the way talking and laughing, Eva's face was much better than it looked just now: "Village Chief David, Winter Village is a very beautiful place, I am very happy to be here." ”

By the way, I thanked David who agreed to let her stay, after all, David and Winter Village made her completely away from the threat of the Rising Sun Empire, and this is not a 'backward country village' as she originally thought, and after learning more information from Laura while visiting, Eva has realized what the situation is in Winter Village.

Although it may seem backward, there are residents from all over the world, and Winter Village can get advanced machinery and equipment, and all kinds of daily necessities that she is used to using can also be seen here.

She doesn't have to worry about food, at present, the winter village is still a centralized supply system, as long as you go to the cafeteria when the time comes, you can eat delicious meals.

As for the rest, everyone does what they are good at according to their own abilities, and Eva has now begun to think about what she is good at - as if she used to do clerical work?

Looking around, Eva felt that this small village didn't seem to have so much paperwork, maybe she should do some manual work as much as she could, like Sharon and Peggy, who she just met—she had a similar body shape to Peggy, and she should be able to do those jobs herself?

Coming from a world like Red Alert, which is completely different from ordinary Earth, Eva doesn't know what Peggy is all about, doesn't know what Captain Carter is, and treats both Carter and Sharon as ordinary people.

So, the next day, when she saw Captain Carter and Sharon Rogers easily lifting, lifting, and tossing the huge logs aside, she had doubts about the level of military training she had had.

Did the instructor release water for himself? Why is there such a big gap between herself and Peggy, who are also British female soldiers?

"No, this is obviously not something that ordinary humans can do!"

Fortunately, Eva just looked cute and not really stupid, and quickly realized that the two in front of her were not normal people at all, and it was at this time that Eva knew what a super soldier was.

While Eva is revising on new knowledge, David meets Edwin Van Cleef again.

The head of the Stonemasons' Guild and the current founder of the Brotherhood of Defia had a very unpleasant face, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in low pressure, as if he was ready to pick up a cruel barb and chop people into pulp.

"What's wrong with him?" David could sense that Van Cleef's anger was not directed at him, and turned his head to ask Fording beside him.

"When Edwin returned, he gathered his friends from the Stonemasons' Guild to discuss a plan to move to Winter Village together, and it was at this time that he discovered that the Brotherhood of Defia was not under his control at all."

According to Fordin, Van Cleef sensed that something was wrong with the Brotherhood of Defia when he was recruiting his 'brothers' back - when the leadership was all called back to the Mines of Death to discuss major decisions, the Brotherhood of Defia did not follow his orders and continued to act on its own.

Sensing the anomaly, Van Cleef sent several cronies to investigate, only to discover that the lower echelons of the Brotherhood of Defia had not received his orders at all, and were also receiving various orders from unknown sources to launch wanton destruction and attacks across the Stormwind Kingdom.

It wasn't until this moment that Van Cleef believed what David had told him in the first place: the Brotherhood of Defia wasn't really monolithic.

"So, he's willing to get rid of all the crumbs now?"

"Yes, after all, no one wants to be used as a pawn." Fording and David looked at each other and deliberately blinked a few times.

When David saw Ferdin's expression, he knew that the other party had pushed in this matter.

"So, how many artisans and their families are willing to come to Winter Village?"

"About four hundred."