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

In the boxes at Astley Circular Theatre, celebrities bustled like clouds.


Among the officials and nobles, identities like former members of Parliament or Westminster magistrates, which could be flaunted before the middle class, had now become mere pawns.


Former MP Bernie Harrison and Magistrate George Norton squeezed into this six-square-foot box, peering out at the window to watch the dazzling performance onstage—where the protagonist Edmond Dantes of "The Count of Monte Cristo" was being framed and arrested on his wedding day.


Seeing this scene, Norton simply wrinkled his nose and muttered under his breath, "Dantes' fiancée Maze Tess is nothing but a bitch. I don't believe she was oblivious to the plot against Dantes. After Dantes was framed, this whore didn't even harbor a doubt; instead, she turned around and married her cousin, Fernand, one of Dantes' framing culprits, and had no psychological pressure marrying such a fisherman!"


Chapter 262: Core Technology (4K8)