Just as towns and villages all over Shijie like to be built on the water's edge, there are countless English villages and towns scattered along the more than 100 kilometers of the Thames from Oxford to London, ranging from small cities with tens of thousands of people to small estates with a few dozen families, churches and monasteries full of European classical style, and of course towering minarets and domed mosques - all of which are satellite towns of London.

Some of the more unfortunate villages and towns have been affected by the riots, and even though the rain has extinguished the flames, you can still hear people firing guns and shouting some kind of gimbled radical slogans.

However, the small estates, which were far from the main lines of communication, were generally in good condition, except for some young men armed with pitchforks or shotguns, guarding behind the fences of their homes, watching vigilantly as Wang Qiu and his small fleet cleaved the waves over the Thames.

In the distant days of the Industrial Revolution, boating on the Thames can be a test of endurance, especially the chore of smell. At that time, factories were being built everywhere in the United Kingdom, which pioneered the Industrial Revolution, and the upper reaches of the Thames naturally sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, with many highly polluting paper mills, chemical factories, printing and dyeing factories and tanneries, coupled with the daily sewage discharge of millions of people in the city of London, the Thames became stinky day by day, especially in the scorching summer, the air along the river was simply stinky.

Therefore, the London high society of that era generally wore clothes and sideburns in a staggered social season. Arranged in London for the winter. When the Thames stinks badly in the summer, London's gentlemen, ladies and ladies take refuge in country estates to escape the summer or travel abroad. (Pride and Prejudice.) The reason why the two male protagonists, Darcy and Bingley, go to the countryside in the summer and autumn is to follow this custom. ）

-- The stinking River Thames, like the soot-laden "London fog", was the most famous feature of Victorian London.

However, in the era in which Wang Qiu lived, the Thames River had long since changed from what it used to be, and it had become clear and beautiful again. It is already considered the cleanest of the famous urban rivers. The UK government has come at great cost – decades of basin-wide remediation projects, more than £2 billion in expensive remediation costs. And the heavy cost of the "deindustrialization" of Britain as a whole......

If you think about it carefully, this world is really strange - the dirty and smelly Thames River in the past has witnessed the most magnificent and magnificent era in British history. And when the river is clear, beautiful and clean again, all the glory, greatness and majesty that the rice flag represents. The magnificent crown of the "sun never sets" empire. They are all gone with the wind along with the pollutants in the water...... What a dramatic scene.

At this time, although the wind is strong, the rain has stopped. The wind dispersed a dark cloud and allowed the sun to pour down. The wind is mixed with the smell of water vapor and grass, which makes people feel refreshed. And the idyllic scenery on both sides of the Thames is also truly intoxicating.

Even the people on the ship, who were in high tension for the fierce battle that was about to break out, couldn't help but feel relaxed and refreshed.

“…… Do you know? Every time you see the fields of spring in England. will arouse the longing for life in my heart......"

Harry. Gordon stood beside Wang Qiu and stretched out his hand to the sky. As if touching the sunset in the sky through his fingertips, his bright eyes sparkled, "...... Imagine standing alone under the iron-gray sky of winter, hearing the sound of ice cracking in the river, watching the silent and cold fog as if death, driven by the east wind and drifting over the black and purple peaks; The rushing brook unstoppably washes away its silver cloak, nature washes away the lead of winter, and makes everything sprout with life, the branches of the trees sprout their shy heads and stretch towards the clear sky, the low branches of the shrubs creep in the mud, and the majestic peaks surround the wooded plains.

Then, the bright midsummer sun shone down on the land, and the fields of England were filled with fresh green, and the heather bloomed in the shrub of the green moor, red, pink, purple, and white, swaying in the wind, and the flowers were small but beautiful. Countless thriving beings, such as pheasants, turtledoves, hares, foxes, flocks, small fish in the water, and even the people of England all over England, were born from this magnificent world!

Can you imagine that when my father and I fled from the race riots in South Africa and saw it for the first time, we were deeply moved by it, and the feeling was indescribable! Our ancestors of the Anglo-Saxon nation have lived here for generations, and almost from the first glance of this land, the surging heartbeat has already told me that this is our home! ”

In a melancholy tone that seemed like an aria, he said with a melancholy expression, "...... However, all this beautiful haode thing is about to disappear! ”

“…… You mean the current rebellion? Wang Qiu raised his eyebrows and said deliberately, "...... In any case, please have enough faith, otherwise how are we going to fight? Rest assured, as long as you win this battle, everything will be fine......"

“…… No, even without this military coup, many things would have been predestined. "Harry. Gordon continued to sigh wistfully, "...... Even if this rebellion is quelled, it will be impossible for the country to go back to the past. Britain's demographics have long since changed, and it is no longer an Anglo-Saxon and Celtic divide the world. Blacks, Indians, Arabs, and East Asian immigrants all take advantage of the opportunity to fight for political power...... On the one hand, the new government is forced by international pressure, and on the other hand, it is committed to 'political correctness', and it has to continue to implement the 'multicultural policy' of absorbing immigrants and rewarding childbearing, so as to further inflate the shili of immigrants......" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head and raised an eyebrow at Wang Qiu, "...... Don't tell me. You have no intention of cultivating agents from the Chinese population in Britain in this operation! ”

"......" Wang Qiu was speechless for a while, he is not a lawyer or a professional diplomat. In a hurry, I can't tell a lie so beautifully.

“…… Alas, there is no way, the world is always so impermanent. Speaking of which, it seems that there has been more than one change of ethnicity on the island of Great Britain: the Celts wiped out the British ancestors who built Stonehenge, and then the Anglo-Saxons defeated the Celts and drove them to Wales and Scotland. Only one Arthurian legend remains. Then there were the repeated invasions of the Vikings and the conquests of the Norman dukes...... Now it's a massive influx of people of color, with mosques replacing churches. Just as the Christian missionaries of the day defeated the early druids......"

Facing the damp and cold wind blowing from the river. Harry. Gordon continued, but the meaning contained in it made Wang Qiu frown.

“…… Oh? Listening to the meaning of your words, your opinion is actually more inclined to the ultra-radicals of the 'Nelson Knights'? ”

“…… Your understanding seems to be a bit biased. Little guy from China. And. Regardless of my inner thoughts, my personal identity and basic stance alone determined that I could not get together with the extreme radicals of the 'Nelson Knights', but could only be their enemy. ”

Harry. Gordon shrugged his shoulders and explained, "...... Although my ancestors migrated from Liverpool, England to Cape Town, South Africa, it was only a century ago, and the family moved back decades ago. During this period, he was not mixed with the blood of other peoples at all. But the problem is that in the eyes of the ultra-nationalists of the 'Order of Nelson'. I, a 'South African', am still a foreign immigrant! ”

- Well, that's another typical example of a butt deciding a head......

In the process of continuing to drive downstream, in order to pass through an automated lock that was no longer guarded and locked, Wang Qiu and others had to abandon the ship and land, stuff the assault boat and the motorboat back into the wormhole, and then walk to the downstream of the lock, take out the assault boat again, get on the boat and set off.

However, unlike the more empty rivers around Oxford, there are many boats moored along the Thames in the suburbs of London. Many riverside villas have private docks in their backyards and luxury yachts have been purchased...... The crowd who was choked by the assault boat was very envious.

Therefore, relying on the automatic rifle in his hand and the appearance of a civil official in Whitehall, London. His Excellency Gordon personally issued an IOU, and they could easily have "expropriated" a more comfortable 80-ton yacht from a tearful tycoon, but it was not long before they were stopped by the next lock, which was also unmanaged...... However, the tonnage of this yacht was too large, and Wang Qiu couldn't fit it into a wormhole - so everyone had to abandon the large yacht that had just been recruited on the spot, pinched their noses and replaced it with a lighter assault boat.

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While the tranquil beauty of the English countryside is soothing, the further you get to London, the smell of fireworks gets stronger in the air, and the voices of people in the villages and towns on both sides of the river get louder and louder, with gunfire and explosions intensifying, and even people firing on the river.

In the evening twilight, when the vague figures of the skyscrapers could be seen faintly at the end of the horizon, the houses on both sides of the Thames became denser, but the fire in the sky was brighter. I saw clusters of leaping flames rushing up from the rooftops, shining red all around, while bursts of smoke drifted in all directions like countless sails about to sink on the rough and furious sea. At this moment, the whole of Greater London seemed to be plunged into the tyrannical madness before death, and it was like a strange purgatory to everyone, with fire, smoke, and shouts in every direction around it, and an apocalyptic madness filled the air.

With the advent of chaos and riots, not only did they cut off water, electricity and communications, but they also reduced all law and order to mere decorations, and the whole city fell completely into the hands of thugs and hooligans, who stoned shops, looted goods, killed people in the streets, raped houses, set fires, and destroyed corpses, but no one controlled and suppressed them. Victims who lie in pools of blood are also denied any medical treatment.

With the help of the twilight of the sunset, Wang Qiu looked through the telescope at the markets on both sides of the river, and almost all of them were hideous and distorted faces. Bombing, swearing, gunfire and fighting, and the loud noise of houses collapsing in flames. Especially when the gas station was ignited and detonated, not to mention the terrible concussions that pierced the eardrums and the huge fireballs that lit up the sky. The scorching heat generated by the explosion alone was enough to lift the roof of a country cottage into the sky! By the way, the living people and vehicles will be pushed into the river in one go......

In this regard, Wang Qiu couldn't help but sigh with infinite sadness - this was not the first time he had walked in a burning city that was about to be destroyed, nor was it the first time he had personally experienced a military coup in modern society. But because the former happened in a different shijie, although it was deeply touched at the time, but after returning to the modern shijie, there was no sense of scene and substitution; As for the latter...... I have to admit it. The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, after so many years of spiritual castration by the American boss's unremitting spirit, has long since become a bunch of outright cute, and even the Tokyo coup d'état is cute.

And. Unlike the previous scenes that witnessed the successive destruction of those ancient cities, this time the turmoil and destruction happened in this shijie where Wang Qiu lived in the past. Every time he heard a gunshot nearby, he couldn't help but get nervous. A red heart is about to jump out of my chest!

“…… Ay. The thugs are really rampant right now, and it seems that they don't want to miss any opportunity to fill their pockets. ”

Next, Wang Qiu, who was bathed in the red light of hellish flames and was about to be broken, sighed and gave the order to continue the attack.

-- Further down the Thames, not only was there a purgatory on both sides, but even the river began to become unsafe. There was a lot of mess floating on the murky water, and if it collided with a light assault boat. But it's almost ironclad enough to capsize a boatload of people into the water.

What's worse is that there is a bridge across the River Thames ahead. Three tanker trucks abandoned on the bridge were suddenly detonated by stray bullets, and just before Wang Qiu and their small fleet passed, they burst into flames, with extremely bright and dazzling flames, pouring out like flamethrowers! And, at the same time, some of the fuel that caught fire slowly flowed and dripped under the bridge, like a waterfall of flames hanging over the river!

“…… Really to rush from such a place ?! Are we the lions in the circus who drill into the fire ring? ”

Looking at the hellish fire in front of him and feeling the scorching heat coming from the air, Wang Qiu couldn't help but cringe a little. At this time, not only the fire on the bridge deck, but also the wooden houses on both sides of the river have been burned into wooden frames, and the flames like hunting flags have jumped into the sky in one breath, and the tongues of fire are licking the doors and windows wantonly. As soon as the wind blew, several beams and columns shook, and it was clear that the houses were on the verge of falling apart

Against the backdrop of billowing black smoke, fireballs and sparks rained down one after another, and everyone on the river had nowhere to hide but hurriedly raised their arms to cover it. As soon as the sparks hit the bare skin, they immediately burned into purple and red spots the size of a coin, and the choking smoke was carried by the wind, straight to the eyes, and smoked people's tears. Even more terrifying was the fact that between the houses on both sides of the river, there were still a few howling fire men from the shore and falling into the water, and then they could not float - and now they had to cross the burning bridge!

- Oh my God! We really don't like the lions jumping in the cosplay circus!

However, no matter how much Wang Qiu's heart wailed, Harry, who was in a hurry. Despite Gordon's strong insistence, their small fleet of small motorboats and assault boats still bravely rushed all the way into the "Flaming Falls". As soon as they entered the shili range of the fire, the tongues of fire immediately approached them. The sun-like glare pierced their eyes, the scorching heat scorched their skins at the same time, and the sound of ping-pong rattling vibrated their ears...... Despite Harry's fire-repelling spell with his wand, it still hurt everyone.

It was as if they had struggled for an unknown amount of time inside the burning furnace before they managed to escape the fire and re-enter the turbid air with the stench and smoke. Then, the heat of the flames gradually subsided, and everyone finally let out a sigh for the rest of their lives.

The next moment, in the midst of the raging fire, when Zuihou an assault boat had just passed through the bridge and came to the river on the other side of the downstream of the bridge, Wang Qiu had not yet taken a breath and continued to drive forward, when he suddenly heard a loud bang from behind.

He covered his buzzing ears and looked back in horror, only to see a shocking flame rushing into the sky from the bridge deck, which seemed to ignite some flammable and explosive materials piled up on the bridge. And this devastated bridge, which was really unable to support it at this time, finally fell apart completely under the torture of fire and explosions, and collapsed with a clamour, blocking their previous path......

At the same time, a wooden street sign was lifted into the air in the explosion, and then fell crookedly on the river surface in front of Wang Qiu and others. (To be continued......)