Chasing Time

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”
Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”
The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”
Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”
“Oh!!!!”
The audience erupted into thunderous applause.
“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.
The applause grew even more fervent...
(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)

The Shadow of Great Britain

Robert Owen saw the surging crowd pouring out and was startled by their noise.


He shouted repeatedly, "Friends, calm down! Calm down!"


But his pleas were already drowned out by the noisy clamor of the crowd; the agitated people couldn't hear what he was saying.


Tom, seeing the crowd that had lost control, was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He turned to Arthur next to him and asked, "What do we do now? There are already hundreds of people here. If it escalates to thousands, it's going to turn into serious chaos."


Arthur, without saying much, grabbed Tom and Tony beside him and hurriedly hailed two public carriages on the roadside and stuffed them in.


"Tom, return to the Greenwich Police Station immediately, tell them, Police Superintendent Arthur Hastings from the Greater London Police Department, Greenwich District, urgently orders, to immediately mobilize all district forces to head to the Royal Arsenal and Royal Dockyard in Woolwich.


Chapter 110 Humanized Devil