Chapter 0040 - The Bar of the Broken Pot

Anne was now standing on a street in London, England, looking at the outdated clothes, hairstyles and decorations of the passing crowd, and the old cars that were roaring and spewing black smoke as they drove down the road! She knew that after she passed through that misty portal, she didn't return to Valoran as she had hoped! Instead, she came to a place that felt strange to her! But luckily, the only thing she knows for sure is that it's still on Earth! Because you can see it from the English letters on those storefronts and billboards!

Originally, at the beginning, when Anne first saw the various signs on the street, she naively thought that she was just teleporting from New York in the United States to London in the United Kingdom!

But who would have thought that when she was annoyed and took out the special contact phone of senior agents produced by S.H.I.E.L.D. from the small schoolbag that she had been carrying behind her back, and planned to secretly contact Uncle Coulson and Aunt Melinda, she was shocked to find that what was displayed on the mobile phone screen would be: No identification signal?

Blinking, looking at the conspicuous unidentified signal prompt on the screen, Anne was also a little confused! This has never happened before! Uncle Coulson, didn't they seem to have said that this kind of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s special advanced mobile phone contact uses signals provided by military satellites? He also promised at the time that there would be a signal wherever Anne went! can be located by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s satellites!

Check it out now! She is now standing on the empty street, saying good signals? How could there be no signal? It's all liars! Or are S.H.I.E.L.D. satellites fakes? Or maybe it ran to the other side of the globe and was blocked by the earth?

Anne thought about it for a while, and then she angrily went to find a public telephone booth and dialed the numbers she had written down! To her surprise, the tone from the antique microphone reminded her that the numbers she had just dialed were all empty? How is this possible!

Until inadvertently, when the confused Anne happened to see an outdated newspaper discarded by someone in a tin bin on the other side of the phone booth, when she saw that the date on the newspaper showed August 1, 1992! She finally came to her senses!

It turned out that Anne found that after passing through that unreliable fog portal, she came to this place, which should actually be a different earth! And it's very likely to be Earth in a different timeline!

Anne wasn't too unfamiliar with terms like timeline, space-time, and heteroplane! In their Valoran continent, in various magic books, this information is described in detail! And there are some specialized mages who study these weird sorting spells! It is said that there is also an old man named Kieran, who has the most research time! Because he was able to lose himself in the timeline and gain eternal life! I don't know how many people died of envy!

Although Anne had never been very interested in these things before, she had read quite a few similar books! Therefore, now it is relatively easy for her to accept that she will come to a different earth with a different timeline! And no fuss!

Now Anne can only know that the timeline she is in should be the year 1992 on Earth! The current location must be on a street in London, England! And the most important piece of information is: there doesn't seem to be any S.H.I.E.L.D. in this timeline!

"Hey~! It's so annoying! Tibbs! We seem to have run to a strange place again! Anne sighed in frustration! It seems that it will not be so easy for her to find her way home! There is still a long way to go! However, Anne will never give up anyway!

But! Thankfully, Anne had foresight! At that time, at the moment when she was about to fully enter the portal, she subconsciously used the fastest speed to secretly take away the space gem! Thinking about it now, she felt that the decision at that time was really too wise! So decisive! Anne felt that she could give her behavior a perfect score! Plus a hundred likes!

Now that she still has the Space Gem, there is still a great chance of going home! At most, it's just a few more attempts! It's a big deal, open the door a few more times! There will always be a time when she will be blinded! This is not a problem at all for Anne!

It's just that what makes Anne angry the most now is: the space gem that claims to have infinite energy! It's running out of energy now! What about the infinite energy that is good? Really! Anne thinks that the most things in the world are liars! According to what she knows about the conservation of magical energy, the principle of equivalent exchange! Infinite energy is simply not supposed to exist!

Even her little bear Tiebs had just said that the Infinity Stones might have lost the power to draw energy directly from the world because of the different worlds and different rules! That's why the infinite energy is lost! But it can still slowly absorb the free power in the space, and when it reaches a certain level of charging, it can still continue to be used! Of course! It may take a little time! Well, it's actually quite a short period of time!

After realizing that the Infinity Stones no longer have infinite energy, Anne, knowing that she could not go home for the time being, could only start wandering aimlessly around this new and novel city of London, England! Anyway, it's not the first time I've been to an unfamiliar place! Then stay here for a while!

Anyway, Anne thinks she should have gotten used to it! Let's play for a while! Just find a place to stay before it gets dark, after she's tired of playing! Anyway, she has money in her pocket! I'm not afraid that someone will come to grab it! Now Anne is holding back her anger! Someone is so bold that he dares to provoke her?

Anne was wandering around, she thought this world was just an ordinary Earth world without S.H.I.E.L.D.! But as she swayed back to an old street that was a little more remote, she saw that she had made a new discovery: a small house standing on the side of the street, which seemed so out of place with the surrounding buildings!

If it's just an alternative style, that's fine! But what made Anne feel more strange was that there was a faint magic fluctuation on the body of this building! And what surprised her even more: apart from her, none of the other pedestrians and tourists passing by on the street seemed to notice the old house! To them, the house seemed to be like it didn't exist!

Even if someone is traveling too close to it, that person will unconsciously go around a little farther distance before going to the other side! Intrigued, Anne tried to use the traceability magic to analyze it briefly for a while, only to find that this fluctuation was very much like some kind of hybrid magic of expulsion and concealment, although the application was relatively simple, but it was surprisingly effective! And it still uses the least amount of magic to achieve the most perfect effect!

After observing for a while, Anne realized: this kind of magic seems to be only for ordinary people who do not have any magic on them? The Earth of this timeline also has mages? And they also deliberately avoid ordinary people? They even hide their magical world in the city of ordinary people?

After discovering this problem, Anne closed her eyes and quickly scanned the entire city of London, England with her huge magical sense! Not surprisingly, she found a lot of places that resembled this building! It's really here! It's interesting!

Anne suddenly felt that perhaps, she might not be lonely in the time she waited in this world for the space gem to recover? Because here, under the skin of the ordinary world, there is even a medium-sized magical world hidden! It's a lot more fun than when she fought aliens with S.H.I.E.L.D.!

"Huh? A bar with a broken pot? Or is it... Leaky Cauldron Bar? How does it look dirty! Anne tilted her head to look at the tattered sign hanging on the building's door! The words on it are very obscure, making her so difficult to spell! But now that you've found something interesting, of course you have to go inside and check it out!

With her decision ready, Anne walked to the door of this building that ordinary people couldn't see! The magic of expulsion certainly had no effect on her! Standing in front of the wooden door, looking at this thing that doesn't look too sturdy! After thinking about it again and again, Anne still raised her leg and kicked it away! Who made its knocker that high? She can't reach it! And it looks dirty and smelly! There are also some disgusting sticks of unknown origin on it, so she shouldn't push it with her hands!

"Oh! O Merlin's beard! I've said this countless times before! Don't kick my door! Don't kick my door! Can you afford to kick it off, you poor devils? That's an antique! Uh......" Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron Bar, saw someone kicking in again, and just wanted to lose his temper, but he didn't expect that it would be a cute and well-behaved blonde girl who walked in! This stopped the vicious invective he had intended to utter immediately!

This situation surprised him slightly! Because generally speaking, most wizards come to the Cauldron Bar directly by the fireplace, which is convenient and fast! Very few people will come in through the gate in a proper manner! After all, it's too much trouble to take a detour to the street and come back in! Perhaps, only Muggle wizards who don't have a fireplace would do that?

Frowning suspiciously, he looked at the little girl who walked in, and then looked behind her, as if she was not accompanied by her family! This made Tom, who is the owner of the bar, a little puzzled! When will the little ones be able to come to the bar to play freely?

And, most importantly! Look at her! Don't seem to have a parent with you? A person sneaking here to play? Merlin! This is not a place for good men and women! Is it really good to let such a young girl come to such a place? Aren't her parents worried that some dark wizard has abducted the little girl?

"Wow! There are so many magicians... Apprentice~! After Anne entered the door, she casually glanced at the slightly shabby bar, and found that in addition to being a little dark, there were many mages drinking and chatting! Although many of them don't have strong magic fluctuations, and some of them can only be regarded as Valoran's apprentice level, they can also be said to be magicians!

They look so dirty, though! Bah! It's disgusting! As Anne's gaze swept over a shabby-haired wizard, the man smiled at Anne, revealing his yellow teeth covered in tartar! So disgusting that Anne almost couldn't help but want to burn him on the spot!

Anne frowned, warily looking at those in the dim corner! Could they be the dark wizards that my mother used to talk about? It looks really disgusting! How long has it been since they've all showered? What a strange smell! I really want to burn them right away!

"Hello! Distinguished little guest! Do you need something? Tom bowed slightly, leaned half out of the bar, and smiled at Anne as she walked into the store. It's all guests! Anyway, this little girl is here, so he'd better do a business first!

Looking at the neatly dressed little girl in front of him, the human-like old Tom could see at a glance that the other party was not an ordinary person! Look at the fabric workmanship of the other person's clothes! Look at the delicate little leather shoes on her feet, are they what ordinary wizard families can afford? How many gold gallons do you get?

Old Tom, who has been in bars for many years, talks to people and talks nonsense, is better than anyone else! If it was some dirty old wizard who came in, he would have just said, "What do you want to drink?" Then at the same time, he stretched out his hand and motioned for the other party to give money immediately! No money? If you don't have any money, get out! Heading to Diagon Alley? Then bypass the bar and turn right yourself! Don't come to him to look annoying!

"Just have some delicious food!" Expecting to observe the situation for a moment, Anne tossed a gold Valoran coin to the bar and walked over to an empty table. She felt like she was a little hungry too, and maybe it would be a good idea to eat something first! I just don't know if it's good or not!

Old Tom's eyes lit up when he saw a golden flash flying towards him! Hurriedly stretched out his hands and caught the coins thrown by the little girl in time! He took a closer look: it turned out to be a gold coin! Although it wasn't a gold galleon, and he couldn't read what was written on it, it was a lot of weight! Say no, you can exchange it for two or three gold Galleons! If it's an ancient gold coin, it's even more! Looks like he's going to make a big fortune today!

After collecting the gold coins, Tom was about to pick up a glass of butterbeer and put it on his plate, but he was stunned for a moment and immediately took it back! He's also stupid! I would even want to give a little girl a drink!

So, he immediately dropped the beer, replaced it with a glass of juice and milk, added a large amount of cream cake, took out a large plate with a glass cover, and carefully threw a few chocolate frogs into it! Finally, it was respectfully brought to Anne's table!

"Your stuff is here, please enjoy it slowly! Distinguished guests! As he spoke, and after wiping the table twice with his dirty rag, old Tom nodded and walked back to his bar.

"Huh? It's fun! How many moving frogs are there?! And, it looks like it's still made of chocolate? It's a moving chocolate frog! ”

Anne's eyes widened, and she stepped forward almost to the glass cover, looking at the brown frogs that were still jumping around! These frogs not only croak, but also breathe with their gills bulging? The skin is still lifelike, and the lines are very different? Hey? And each one is different? Wow! They even jump up and hit the cover to escape? What an amazing thing! What a novel magic app! What a wonderful Transfiguration idea!

At a glance, Anne saw the essence of the chocolate frog! Only now did she realize that the magical world here was really interesting! It looks like it's fun! Is it so interesting that they even make what they eat? And she just noticed that the photos of the people posted on the wall are also moving! It seems that the application of magic in life here is very popular!

After the observation, Anne was ready to go! She had just opened the glass cover of the plate, reached out and grabbed a struggling chocolate frog and brought it to her eyes, wanting to think about how to eat it! Is it to bite off its head directly? Looking at the frog that was still struggling and screaming in her hand, Anne hesitated for a while, not knowing how to speak! It made her feel like she was eating frogs alive! Do you want to bake it over the fire for a while?

At this moment, the other frogs left on the plate finally seized the opportunity and immediately burst out of the crack in the glass cover that Anne had opened! They scattered as soon as they escaped, and before Anne could react, they jumped out of the table and jumped high into the air, looking like they were about to hit the ground!

"Humph!" Anne had already noticed the small movements of those frogs and wanted to escape? Don't even think about it! She hasn't had enough of it! How could they just run away like that? Besides! How dirty is that when you jump on the ground? Is she going to eat it or not?

After Anne snorted, all the frogs that had escaped were instantly frozen in the air, as if they were being grasped by an invisible hand, and froze rigidly, for a moment, Anne's magic made their limbs unable to move, only croaking, and then slowly floating back to the plate on Anne's desk.

The wizards who had been paying attention to Anne all around, seeing the frog fleeing, and were about to see Anne's embarrassed appearance, were speechless one by one! If they weren't mistaken, it was a wandless spell, right? And it seems that it is still silent, no spell, no wand, instantaneous multiple floating spells?! That "hum" isn't a spell at all, is it? O Merlin's beard! Where did this little girl come from? Such a wickedness? Could it be that some old monster who has lived for hundreds of years was transformed with a compound decoction?

Seeing Anne's inadvertently revealing hand, some other dark wizards who originally saw the little girl's generous moves, with small calculations, and with ghosts in their hearts, and wanted to find an opportunity to do a black hand to the little girl, also immediately dispelled their original unrealistic ideas! While secretly rejoicing in their hearts, they didn't even have the courage to look at the little girl more! Still want to rob? Their legs and stomachs are still a little shaky! Fortunately, they didn't make a move, otherwise it might not have been known who would have robbed whom!

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Update Notice: Every night before going to bed, I will copy the previous manuscript to complete the first revision, and then save it! The second revision will be carried out in the second free time the next day, and it will be sent out at the end! Because I found that there were a lot of typos that were sent out in a hurry before! And I'm not a professional writer either~ so I can only do my best to do this for the time being