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

Louis had just finished speaking when Cook looked completely puzzled.


This medical student from Heidelberg University, rubbing the back of his head, could not figure it out: "Potatoes? Electricity? How do these two things connect?"


Arthur just smiled, "The specific principle still needs to be researched, this is like electromagnetic induction. Perhaps someone will get inspiration from this phenomenon and come up with an invention like the telegraph machine."


Cook shook his head repeatedly, "Although I really don't want to admit it, sometimes science does require a bit of talent. Discoveries that geniuses like you and Mr. Faraday make in an afternoon might take a mediocrity like me months or even years to understand. The Royal Society just announced Faraday's discovery of waves this morning, and in the afternoon, you brought me a potato battery, this is really..."


Chapter 271: Politics and Science (4K4)_3