Chapter 68: To London
Ethan didn't bother with the question of whether he was a human or not, but he didn't want to be a monster - just in terms of appearance.
From the moment he embarked on the path of a mage, he knew that he would gradually get out of the category of 'human' in the future, and he was not sure what would become of him in the end, but on the outside he still hoped to be 'normal', if the price was to become a monster, even if the benefits were great, he might choose to give up, and then choose another path that might be more troublesome.
"Side effects and conflicts need to be avoided as much as possible, even if the effect is reduced, it is not unacceptable. ”
Ethan's goals are too many, too messy, and they come from different worlds, and he is not sure what will happen if these things are mixed together, some worlds he has not been to yet, and can only plan from the resources he has at hand.
After thinking about it all night, when he came back to his senses, the sun had already risen above the sea level, Ethan on the chaise longue quietly waited for the sky to become brighter, got up directly from the chair, went to wash up briefly, and then sat on the wooden chair outside, waiting for Diana's arrival.
He knew that Diana wouldn't be waiting long at all, and she had been looking forward to it from the day she learned about her mission.
Now that she can leave Paradise Island and have some clues to find Ares, every extra minute of waiting is a pain for her.
As Ethan expected, as soon as the sky became brighter, Diana appeared in front of Ethan.
Looking as if he was waiting for him on purpose, Diana wondered how long he had been sitting here?
"Your shirt is wet with dew. ”
The humidity on Paradise Island in the morning was very heavy, and Ethan didn't have a fire or anything, and many places on his clothes were soaked with dew.
"You're more observant. ”
Replaced by Diana a few years ago, I definitely didn't notice this, as I grew older, her character was calm and her ability improved, and now Diana can find many details that would have been ignored by herself before.
"So this so-called test didn't bother me at all. ”
She is convinced that she can find Ares, defeat Ares, and destroy Ares, the greatest enemy of the paradise island, and the difficulty she must solve in her fate.
Ethan was looking Diana up and down, Diana at this time was very different from her usual appearance, her hair that she liked to tie together was scattered, she was wearing the golden-red armor he was very familiar with, and she also wore the headdress on her forehead.
"You don't want to dress like this, do you?"
"What?" Diana looked down at herself, and then deliberately turned around in front of Ethan: "Is there anything wrong with wearing it like this?"
She thinks this armor is very good, has excellent defense, is comfortable to wear and does not affect her movements, and she doesn't understand what's wrong?
"There's a big difference between the outside world and Paradise Island, and if you walk in a crowd dressed like this, there's no other way than to get a crowd of onlookers. ”
Logan and Steve had also gotten up and were outside the house. Of course, there is Laura, she has already woken up, but she was caught by Logan and asked her to wash her face and brush her teeth obediently.
"Ethan is right, if you dress like this...... It's really striking. "Steve can now tell that the people of Paradise Island live in isolation, they are more like a group of 'uncivilized' indigenous people, while Ethan and Rogge are supposed to live in a normal environment, although they know magic and other magical methods, but they are relatively modern like themselves.
He didn't know that in Ethan's eyes, Steve was also an 'indigenous', and in his case, Steve was at most born in a modern era and lived in a bygone era, and wanted to be a modern man with him, unless Steve lived to a hundred years from now.
"So what should I wear?"
Diana didn't know what kind of clothes were more appropriate to wear in the outside world, and hoped that Ethan could give a suggestion, which turned out to be a headache for Ethan.
"I have a couple of changes in my hand, and I'm not sure if you're wearing the right fit. ”
Diana is tall, and she doesn't have to worry too much about the length of her pants, but the spare clothes in Ethan's hand are also a little different from this era, and they will also attract attention when she wears them.
"Let's try it first. ”
took out a few shirts and jeans, and found a set of clothes for training uniforms and other clothes, and asked Diana to try them on one by one, and finally found that Diana was very eye-catching no matter which set she wore. Especially if she is given another set of firearms if she is given a training uniform......
"It's a good set, it's comfortable to wear, and it's easy to move around. ”
She herself just thought the outfit was comfortable, but Ethan vetoed that choice. Because it was so attention-grabbing, Diana finally put on a relatively ordinary shirt and jeans, and at the same time put on a pair of black-rimmed glasses to hide her stunning appearance as much as possible.
"It looks like this...... At least it's not so glaring. ”
Logan and Steve also think so, jeans are not a rare thing in this era, and no one will think that Diana's dress looks special.
Diana tidied up her clothes and pants, she was tall and not the kind of skeleton-like slender figure, but she still felt loose when she wore men's clothes, she had never worn glasses before, and many things on her face felt weird.
"Can I leave this without it?"
"Wear it, this thing has some other functions that you may need from time to time. ”
"What's the function?"
Of course, this pair of glasses is from Tony Stark, one of the black technology props in that box, Ethan wants more than one pair of glasses, although the function is similar, but there are still some differences in appearance, which is convenient for choosing and using on different occasions.
In addition to being able to detect various energies and reactions, it can also communicate over short distances, and Ethan, who also uses glasses, can also 'share data' with Diana, and see everything Diana sees through his glasses.
"It's very convenient. ”
Ethan didn't shy away from Steve when he introduced it, so the captain was immediately shocked when he learned that this inconspicuous-looking glasses had such a powerful function.
"Is this also a product of magic?"
Ethan looked back at Steve and gave an answer that he couldn't accept at all: "No, it's a tech product." "Although there are some magical ideas in it, Tony Stark uses a lot of black technology that is more magical than magic, but it is indeed a pure technology product.
"This ...... Technology has become so powerful?"
After all, Steve didn't specialize in these things, but he was shocked by the development of technology, and Ethan wouldn't explain it to him.
Solving the problem of clothes, Steve's main concern is not high-tech, but the way to get to London.
When the group packed their things and came to the dock of Paradise Island, Steve looked a little confused when he looked at the small sailboat in front of him.
"That's it?"
Diana didn't understand what was wrong and looked at Steve with a strange expression.
Logan, who was on the side, pressed his eyebrows and complained to Ethan: "Why do you have to take a sailboat when you get here? And it's such a small sailboat." ”
Ethan's Dawn Goddess is also a sailing ship, but the displacement is there, it is relatively stable at sea, and the space on board is spacious enough, and it will not feel aggrieved and uncomfortable to live.
What is this? The front and back are less than ten meters long, a mast, and some food and water are piled up on the ship, and the whole ship can give them very little space to move, and it would be nice to barely have a place to lie down, let alone move around.
"It's a boat like this to get to London...... It seems that we have to suffer a lot. ”
Ethan also felt his cheeks twitching, it wasn't that he couldn't endure hardship, that's how he endured hardship in the first place. But he worked hard to improve his strength and accumulate enough family funds, in order to keep himself from suffering.
As a result, I was busy for a while, and I found that I was going to suffer again, and I was inevitably a little irritable.
"Bear with me!"
Ethan glanced back into the distance, and although he couldn't see anything strange from here, he knew that Hippolyta was hiding in a corner, keeping an eye on Diana, who was busy.
By the time the ropes were untied and the sails were unfurled, and the boat slowly began to leave the small dock, Diana, who was standing at the stern, looked in the same direction, and Ethan knew that she had also found out that her mother had come to see her off.
Logan has enough experience that he won't show it even if he notices it, not to mention that he and Diana are not too familiar. Laura and Xiao Ou honestly found a corner and sat there. Ethan, on the other hand, knew that Diana didn't need comfort, and that Wonder Woman was much stronger than many people.
Steve was the busiest, using the compass and the map to locate his location, but he didn't get anything out of his busy day.
Looking at Steve, who was getting more and more impatient, Ethan had to remind him: "You can't locate yourself until you leave the enchantment range around Paradise Island." ”
"Enchantment?"
Ethan pointed into the distance: "Didn't you notice anything strange when you crashed?"
"What's weird?"
"Soon you will be able to see it. ”
It didn't take long for Steve to realize something strange. As they sailed to a distance of about a thousand meters or so from Paradise Island, it was as if they had passed through some transparent wall.
If this feeling may have been his own delusion, when Steve found that the originally sunny sky suddenly became much more gloomy, even the dullest person could realize that something was wrong.
Especially when he looked back at Paradise Island, he found that there was no trace of Paradise Island in his sight, and there was nothing where it should have been on the island.