Chapter 186: The Great Fire of London
London docklands slums,
A hundred-meter-high stone pillar stands tall, looking like a dark monster in the night.
Higher in the sky above the stone pillars, three thick pillars of energy of different colors twisted and entangled, while farther above were cosmic stars that were rapidly spinning at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This unimaginable phenomenon has long attracted the attention of many people, and the residents of London have come out of their homes, snuggling up to each other, looking at the sky in horror.
The mother held the shivering child in her arms and covered her eyes tightly. There are also people who keep drawing crosses on their chests, "God, is this the end of the world..."
A large number of military personnel had already gathered under the stone pillar, but they were all frightened, and their eyes were full of confusion.
Sir Thomas Bradworth, Lord Mayor of London, looked at the sky and muttered, "Perhaps... I should also find a faith..."
What they didn't notice was that in the center of the energy entanglement, a black dot the size of a sesame seed was standing in the sky.
After returning from the dream, Li Mo did not hesitate, and immediately flew to the monument of life and time, and after activating the rune code with energy, he used the reality gem to continuously modify the energy circuit inside the monument.
"Will he succeed?" On the altar below, Lao Wang asked expectantly.
"There's only one way." Strange smiled wryly, "If not, we'll all be gone." β
After a pause, Strange said, "Wang, I want to confess one thing to you, I used the money you saved to buy your favorite dessert and drank it. β
"I know." The old king said without replying, "So the food I cooked for those two days was particularly unpalatable." β
Strange opened his mouth, "Actually, eating sweets all the time is not good for your health..."
At this time, Li Mo also carried out the last step, as long as he modified the last energy circuit, the success or failure would be known immediately.
This thing is a time bomb right now. If it fails, time and space will be beaten into a pot of porridge.
The time bubble of the entire earth will form a singular zone of the universe, where time and space are distorted with each other, and there is no past, no present, and no future...
Even Li Mo, who has always had a big heart, was extremely nervous at this time, a drop of cold sweat unconsciously flowed from his forehead, gritted his teeth, and twisted hard at the energy circuit.
Subsequently, Li Mo's eyes went dark...
Failed?
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In a blur, Li Mo felt a strange scene, colorful and space-like like the most complex maze in the universe, a huge and tall figure stood in the void.
Space forms his outline, and everything in the universe is like his clothes.
A pair of eyes looked over, and Li Mo suddenly lost his mind when he saw it...
He saw an indescribable orb, resembling an egg, with a massive explosion from within.
The area affected by the explosion swelled, and as time increased, the temperature and density quickly decreased. Everything began to form, atoms, nuclei, molecules, recombined into the usual gas.
The gas gradually condensed into nebulae, which further formed a variety of stars and galaxies, and eventually formed everything in the universe...
"Hey! Lee, tentacle monster, are you alright, wake up! β
Li Mo suddenly felt that someone was shaking his shoulder, and then his eyes lit up, and his vision gradually recovered.
He turned his head slowly, and first saw Strange, who looked anxious.
Then he looked around and saw that they had arrived at the docks, where the Ancient One and the Scarlet Witch were sitting and resting.
The huge stone pillars, the visions that filled the sky, everything disappeared, as if it had never happened.
"What happened?" Li Mo muttered.
"I don't know what's going on." Strange also looked confused, "It seems that what happened just now never happened, but I think you succeeded!" β
"It's time to restart, and that incident was erased by some great being." The Ancient One Master on the side said suddenly.
"What is the great being?" Li Mo hurriedly asked.
The Ancient One Master opened his mouth, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, the universe is infinite, the universe is eternal, who knows..."
At that moment, the Scarlet Witch suddenly sniffled, then stood up and suddenly said, "Look, what's over there?" β
Everyone looked back.
From the beneath the slums, a faint, green smoke gradually emanated, and the stench of rotting corpses emanated.
Subsequently, the area continued to expand, and the whole of London began to be covered with a green mist.
The Ancient One Master stretched out his hand, and a puff of smoke was condensed in the palm of his hand, and he observed it carefully.
"It's the plague!" The Ancient One's eyes were full of solemnity, "The Black Death, affected by some strange witchcraft, seems to have just mutated, and if it is not dealt with immediately, the whole of London will become a dead city." β
"Looks like this fire has to be set off." Strange smiled wryly.
"It's okay, control it a little bit and minimize the casualties." Li Mo patted Strange on the shoulder and said.
Strange nodded, his face full of helplessness.
"We're not familiar with this place, you need a helper." After Li Mo said with a smile, he immediately flew into the night sky.
In a few moments, he landed in front of everyone with Sir Thomas Bradworth, the mayor of London, who was still wearing pajamas with a panicked face on his face.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want to do?" Sir Thomas was so frightened that he was about to pee his pants.
"We need a fire to burn London." Strange said solemnly.
"What?!" Sir Thomas's eyes widened, "Why?" β
The ancient master was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly pressed his hands on his head, Sir Thomas instantly understood the cause and effect, and muttered with a pale face: "It's over, it's over, what should I do..."
"There's no time, we need to do it right away." Strange grabbed Sir Thomas and flew into the sky at once, and asked anxiously, "We need to kill as few people as possible, where is the best place to start setting fires?" β
"I, I don't know." Sir Thomas was about to cry, "The king will tear me alive..."
Just then, a bakery not far from their feet suddenly caught fire.
"Start here." Strange gritted his teeth and handed Sir Thomas to Li Mo, who was flying up with him, and his hands danced.
The fire in the bakery suddenly became huge, like a torch burning, but it just didn't spread to the side.
"It's on fire!" Nearby residents soon found out, and ran out one by one in pajamas, holding pots and pans to keep filling water to extinguish the fire.
However, they soon became a little desperate, and the fire burned so much that it could not be extinguished.
Strange saw that the nearby residents had already come out, and immediately spread his hands, and the fire spread to the empty building next to it.
Soon the whole ghetto gradually burned, and the fire drove all the inhabitants out of the slum like a rabbit.
They looked at their homes without tears, but what no one noticed was that a large number of rats with green eyes were screaming in the fire and being reduced to ashes.
The fire gradually spread outward, and the residents of the whole of London began a great exodus.
After all, in order to control the fire and minimize casualties, Strange gradually became a little struggling, and the Ancient One and the Scarlet Witch joined in.
Sir Thomas in Li Mo's hand was already blinded at this time, "Why, why..."
Li Mo looked at him a little pitiful, shrugged his shoulders and said: "This is also a matter of no way, or all people have to die, relax, a better city will be reborn in the flames." β
Sir Thomas nodded, looked into the distance, and said with a little pleading: "Can you spare St. Paul's Cathedral, he spent almost 1/3 of the navy's money." β
"I'm here to help, too." Johnny Blazer on the ground suddenly laughed and spoke, and immediately turned into a ghost rider burning with hellfire.
He looked at St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance and tilted his neck, "I hate this place!" β
With that, a stream of hellfire erupted from his right hand, setting St. Paul's Cathedral on fire.
Sir Thomas burst into tears, "It's over, it's over, it's over." β
"You can think of it another way." Li Mo said with a smile, "After this fire, there will be a lot of opportunities to rebuild the city, and there are countless opportunities to make money." β
"Then I'll have to survive." Sir Thomas laughed miserably.
"Stupid!" Li Mo snorted, "Won't you find a scapegoat?" β
Sir Thomas's eyes lit up, "Yes, I need it, the British people need a scapegoat." Who is to blame? Catholicism is a good choice, they also launched a gunpowder plot 60 years ago... yes, that's what they did... Damn the stick..."
Sir Thomas kept muttering to himself, hypnotizing himself.
Li Mo shook his head with a smile and didn't speak.
The whole of London burned, the flames lit up the sky, and in the aftermath of the fact, only five people died in the fire, which destroyed the entire city.
Strange looked at the green plague smoke and the mass of dead rats that gradually dissipated from the fire, sat down on the ground, gasped, and said, "It's finally over." β
"yes, it's finally over." Master Gu Yi sighed, then looked at Li Mo and Strange with a smile, "You guys did a good job, my future disciples. β
Strange opened his mouth and asked in silence, "Why are you leaving?" β
A faint smile appeared on the face of the Ancient One, "Because the future is yours after all." β
At this moment, Crutu, who was lying on the ground on the side, suddenly woke up, his mind seemed to be a little confused, and muttered: "Is this Posedonia, why is it burning?" β
Suddenly, he rushed to the fire like crazy, crying loudly, "No, no, Alia, you can't die..."
Looking at Crutu, who burned into a burning man, Wanda the Scarlet Witch seemed a little unbearable, and reached out to cast her magic.
Li Mo stopped her, shook his head and said, "Let him go, his heart was dead tens of thousands of years ago." β
Li Mo looked at the raging fire, thought of the beautiful Atlantis in Crutu's dream, thought of the sorrow of the witch Keith who followed the mage Crutus, and thought of the future that had been changed in timeline, and couldn't help but feel a little confused.
"Time, what is it?"