Chapter 547: London

The sky was filled with gray clouds, and the banks were crowded with people, and this was the center of the world, London, the capital of the empire.

The smoke of the war and the rising columns of ash from the Industrial Revolution still stained the sky with clouds so dense that the sun's rays could not be heard.

During World War I, London was Germany's favorite bombing target, not only because London was the political and cultural center of the empire, but also because it was an important center of gravity for the armed forces.

Fortunately, the war here has reached an advanced stage, the German bombing has become a thing of the past, and they are close to signing an armistice contract with the German army, Lin Li and Diana are fortunate to see that Dunlun is preparing for a new round of vitality, and the industrial revolution is beginning rapidly.

The importance of the Industrial Revolution to Britain cannot be overstated. Without the Industrial Revolution, Britain's vast empire would not have been able to sustain itself. As the capital, London naturally plays the role of the decision-making center in the process of the transformation of the productive forces, the social change and the world system, and naturally the role of London at this time is far more important than other cities in the world, and everyone is looking at London, which is the center of the world.

At the same time, it was also because of the victory in this World War I that the grand, majestic, and arrogant empire of the sun never set was pulled down from the altar, and Dunlun, the center of the world, was transferred to New York, USA.

Although Britain won the war and gained new colonies from it, the huge cost of the war made it impossible for Britain to continue to bear the huge financial expenses needed to sustain an empire.

Millions of people died and countless assets were destroyed in Britain, with the result of high levels of debt, chaos in capital markets, and a lack of British officials in the overseas colonies. At the same time, nationalist sentiment was growing in both the old and new colonies, fueled by the Empire's entry into the war and the intense racial discrimination felt by non-white soldiers during the war.

Economically, the pre-war creditor countries became post-war debtor countries, and the post-war economy was sluggish and sluggish for a long time, and the international financial center was also shifted from London, England, to New York, USA.

The victory in World War I can be said to have placed a heavy burden on the Sunset Empire, making it no longer able to maintain the prestige of the Sunset Empire.

But these are things to come, and now in front of them are wisps of gray smoke rising, vigorous, victorious London, gentlemen, humorous Englishmen.

"Welcome to London!" Steve smiled, leaving him relieved to return to the base camp to welcome the two strange visitors.

The bird gull chirped along the river with his voice.

Behind him is the River Thames, and Tower Bridge, which is a symbol of London and the whole of Britain, with its unique shape, harmonious structure and majestic momentum.

The most famous on the Thames is the Tower Bridge built in 1894, the two ends of the Tower Bridge are connected by 4 stone towers, the 2 main towers are 40 meters high, it is a granite and steel structure of 5-storey square towers, the top of the marble rises to form a 4-sided minaret, and there is a small white minaret at each of the 4 corners, and the top of the whole tower is like a crown. The base of the river tower is 7.6 meters high, solid and thick. The span between the two towers is more than 60 meters, and there are two passages in the middle, the sports car below, and the pedestrian above. When a large ship passes, the machinery of the main tower pulls up the bridge deck, and the two movable bridge decks weighing 1,000 tons each are erected 40 meters high, forming a wide waterway with a width of 60 meters in the middle. The upper passage is accessible by an elevator and there are 300 steps to climb if interested.

With glass on both sides of the passage, it is really interesting to look down on the rushing Thames River or the beautiful scenery of London from such a high level of water.

The boats paddled under the magnificent Tower Bridge, looking at the historical buildings of a hundred years ago with great interest, and couldn't help but marvel at the creativity of human beings, which often amazed everyone.

All these houses, the characters, the huge ships, all bring freshness to Lin Li and Diana, and they are frequently noticed.

Lin Li felt a kind of ambition at the beginning of the industrial revolution, who would have thought that Wantel from the invention of a steam engine, changed the traditional handicraft, replaced by a steam engine, in just a hundred years, the progress of science and technology is so great, airplanes, cannons, not far away World War II and even the atomic bomb have been invented.

After looking at it for a while, Diana retracted her thoughts, the gray layer in the sky caused by the industrial revolution here, and the black smoke rising from the ship's 'sudden' chimney, all made her a little uncomfortable, and the environment here was destroyed.

She still remembers that the mission of going out to Paradise Island was to fight Ares, not to play and see the scenery.

"Let's go find Ares when we get on land!" Diana raised her god-killing sword with great interest, her eyes shining, she wanted to kill Ares, stop the war, stop the war of humanity, and stop Ares from bringing war to Paradise Island.

"Where are you going to find Ares?" Lin Li asked.

"Where is the war at its most intense?" Diana asked back, frowning her eyebrows.

She also doubted that Ares would be in the place where the war was most intense, not to mention that there were hundreds of thousands of people large and small in the places where the war was most intense, this is what she heard Steve say, how to find it among the hundreds of thousands?

Lin Li tapped his head with his finger, signaling her to use her brain, wisdom can make people come up with a way, this is what Lin Li has always taught her, pure force has no matching wisdom, it will only be a stupid brute bull, reduced to farming.

Diana was silent for a while, her beautiful eyes began to think, Lin Li's teaching for several years has achieved excellent results, Diana fully understands that they want to find Ares like this in the vast sea of people is simply looking for a needle in a haystack, and now the most important thing is to understand human society first, understand the war, and find out the list of suspicions from it, and confirm it.

Ares is the god of war, and if he wants to grow stronger, he must start war.

Then if he provokes a war, he may be a certain high class of human society, with a figure who determines the war and influences the direction of the war, and will definitely not be a nameless soldier.

Diana's beautiful eyes gradually brightened, looked at Lin Li, turned her eyes to Steve, and said, "Let's follow Steve to understand the situation first, and we are investigating." ”

Lin Li nodded, he finally lived up to his teachings, he knew how to use his brain, if he rushed to the fiercest place of the war like a blind man, I am afraid he would not know how to find Ares, unless he was really lucky to the sky, or Ares ran out by himself, otherwise trying to find the hidden Ares is as big as looking for a needle in a haystack.

Steve glanced at Diana, looked away from her beautiful face with difficulty, and looked at Lin Li, for whom he was a little concerned.

After all, Lin Li flew over on the sea, which really scared him, this man can fly.

And from a few words, he always said that God, Ares, these things have no scientific basis, they are either crazy or sick, but ...... He can fly! That made Steve waver.

He had also asked Lin Li why he could fly, and it didn't look like he was carrying a thruster or something.

Lin Li also answered him sincerely, saying a lot of things about traveling through the world, speed force, superheroes, Olympus, Ares, etc......

If it weren't for Lin Li's very sincere appearance, Steve would have thought he was sick, and if it weren't for him, he would have flown !!

In short, in the end, Steve still treated Lin Li and Diana with suspicion and doubt.

"Yes, but I need to deliver this notebook to stop this before I can show you the world. Steve patted the bag on his waist and said.

"It's okay, you do your thing, and we'll naturally act according to the situation. Lin Li said lightly.