Chapter 435: Subway, Fangcun Mountain, Newspaper
March 22 of the fifth year of Dewu.
6:10 a.m.
London Metropolitan Underground Station.
The weather in the UK is just as bad as the food in the UK, and it's no exaggeration to say it's notorious.
Although the unbearable wet winter is over, the recent gloomy and windy weather has once again shrouded London in a hazy and dreamy smog.
If a qualified public health expert had been here, he would have found that the number of people dying from respiratory diseases in London during this period had risen by three percentage points more than usual.
However, the British gentlemen who got up early to go to work in the City still waited for the arrival of the train without saying a word, carrying their briefcases as usual, wearing unmessed suits and shiny leather shoes pounding on the stone steps.
Only the occasional cough will break the oppression.
London was the center of the largest giant empire ever built on the territory of mankind.
As early as the middle of the nineteenth century, the population reached an incredible 5 million people.
Even Delhi in India or Beijing in the Qing Dynasty are far from populous as here.
When the world's wealth, resources, and manpower were gathered here, tens of millions of new houses, shops, office buildings, and factories were built, and all kinds of cars and horse-drawn carriages ran through the streets, and the city almost exploded.
As a result, a means of transportation that can bring more capacity and convenience than narrow ground connections - the subway was born.
In fact, London's metropolitan underground was designed 25 years ago, but due to various reasons, it was not officially opened until January 1863, only a few years ago.
However, in this short period of time, the Underground has become an indispensable part of the lives of middle-class citizens living and working in the heart of London.
And the homeless, the drunkards, and the gentlemen in a hurry have filled these subway stations made of brick, cement, and steel with the smell of excrement.
In fact, the whole city of London smells like this, but the Metropolitan Underground station is particularly strong.
It's a gentleman's and civilized taste.
James Bond was one of the gentlemen waiting for the subway, but he didn't agree with that and even wanted to vomit.
If you are a British in later generations, or anyone in the world who has been influenced by the mainstream culture of Britain and the United States, when you hear the name "James Bond", you will definitely raise your head in surprise and look twice at this childish big boy.
But now it's only the sixties of the nineteenth century, and James Bond is just a normal British name.
To say that he has something special......
If anyone has ever seen Bond's nude, they will see a tattoo of a mighty husky head on his chest.
That's right, Bond is a member of the White Hound, and is the most satisfying protégé of "That Mister".
There is a husky tattoo on the chest, which was the sign of the first batch of [White Retrievers].
Because Jin Yiwei soon discovered that it was a very stupid thing to tattoo a tattoo on his chest that could be identified.
This will greatly increase the risk of agent exposure.
Therefore, the later [White Hound] generally tattooed the indescribable place between the two strands.
It must be broken open to be seen.
It is used as a marker to confirm friendly forces, but it is not easy to be detected by the enemy.
At least the British of this era don't have the nickname of Ying Gailan, so it shouldn't be so easy to spot.
Second, it is also a bittersweet memory, reminding the [White Hounds] not to forget the violations infringed on them by priests and priests, and to remember the numerous crimes committed by their enemies in their childhood.
James Bond didn't have a tattoo in that great location, he was one of the first ** that Ming rescued from Bremerton, the basement of Xinjin Church.
He was only 12 years old at the time and quickly stood out from the crowd.
The Son of Heaven personally gave him the name Chen Yongren.
However, he must wait until he completes the tasks assigned by the organization and retires after he has completed his work before he can restore this Han name and have the legal status of a citizen of the Ming Dynasty.
Before that, his name was Bond, James Bond.
After four years of rigorous training, Bond has become a seemingly immature, but in fact calm young man, who travels to England to carry out intelligence work for the revival of the Ming Dynasty and also for revenge on Yahweh.
Jin Yiwei gave Bond the identity of a North American factory owner's orphan, who lost his parents due to the war, and had to come to London with a fortune of 700 pounds.
Bond also did not live up to the expectations and cultivation of Daming.
Relying on the knowledge he learned in the orphanage, with his own ingenuity, and most importantly, using the legacy left by his "father", Bond successfully obtained a job as a civil servant at the London Patent Office, which can be regarded as breaking into the system of the British Empire.
Of course, he was just a small staff member and had no access to any core secrets.
But in most cases, the so-called spies are engaged in insignificant and inconspicuous positions.
Such people can often play a huge role for decades.
Bond wanders around Platform Six.
The pungent smell combined with the smell of low-quality tobacco made him slightly gaged.
Although he has been in London for almost three months, Bond is still not used to the bad smell here.
He misses the fresh air of Fengdu and the cheap big Mexican cigars......
Oh, and it should be called an Aztec cigar now.
It's so cheap, it's like a prostitute snatching it.
Bond looked up and glanced at Platform Nine in the distance.
As expected, another group of young people in strange costumes took pictures with shoddy cameras here.
The Harry Wave series has been popular for several years now, and it is still being updated, and its popularity has not faded, but it has conquered more and more young Britons.
According to the story, after passing through the platform of the Metropolitan subway station, you will travel to the far east, to the legendary magical holy place of Cunshan.
There is one of the best magic schools in the world, and the head, the head of the school, Turtle Immortal, is a highly respected and great magician who can teach 72 types of magic and kung fu called Turtle School Qigong.
Whether it's the world's No. 1 Magician Conference, which brings together magicians from all over the world, or the protagonist and his friends who smash the lizardmen's plans to destroy the world again and again, the wonderful stories have captured the hearts of countless young people, and are like a breath of fresh wind in this culturally barren era.
Bond shook his head, the story clearly stated that only the purest children could pass through the walls of the platform of nine and three-quarters.
Can you demons and monsters go to Fangcun Mountain and ask?
Bond had seen the Chinese version of "Harry Porta", and naturally knew how low-level the name "magician" was used to adapt to the low level of culture of Westerners.
But it doesn't matter, I definitely won't be able to wear it anyway.
After all, the moment the priest stabbed him five years ago, Bond knew that he was no longer clean, and that he had no connection with the word purity.
Just as Bond was coming to his senses, a loud rumbling sound came from the end of the tunnel.
The subway is finally here.
Easily squeezing a white man away, Bond sat down in his chair.
There is no ticket for the elderly on the London Underground in the early morning, and naturally there will be no elderly people who exercise in the morning and buy groceries.
Everyone is a gentleman, and everything is based on strength.
The carriage shook violently, but Bond, like the others, opened the newspaper in his hand.
His destination was less than 7 kilometers away, but the steam locomotive could only drive the subway at 12 kilometers per hour.
With stops along the way, it's going to be a long journey.
Reading the newspaper is the best, way to pass the time.
The newspaper in Bond's hand was a copy of The Times that he had bought from a newsboy on the platform.
The Times has been published for more than 80 years.
His founder, John Walter, was once jailed for a year and a half for defamation.
The Times has clearly inherited the will of its founder, and has been committed to slandering other peoples and regions around the world.
But it is precisely because of this that it is loved by Londoners and its influence is growing.
At present, the Times has a circulation of more than 200,000 copies, which is about the same as the total number of hairstyles in other major London newspapers.
Before President Lincoln was brain-dead, he said, "I don't know of any other than the Mississippi River that has the power of the Times." ”
With such enormous influence, The Times' foreign correspondent is often even considered Britain's second ambassador.
In short, this is a must-read newspaper for London's middle class and high society.
It's no exaggeration to say that if you don't know what's going on in The Times today, you risk being isolated among your colleagues.
As a Bond who spent money to enter through the back door, he naturally also needed to read The Times to further integrate into British life and seek the convenience of espionage work.
The Times sold for as much as one shilling, far from being comparable to cheap penny newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, and naturally had more pages and content.
Today's "Times" is not only about the peachy news about the old prime minister's night party with the three daughters, but also devotes a lot of space to pointing out the world.
First of all, it is still the most popular breastfeeding moment in the UK.
[The civil strife in France continues. Empress Eugénie and Dauphin Eugène disappeared, and the Conservative government in Paris accused the incident of being a kidnapping planned by foreign forces. But the citizens of Paris still shouted slogans of tyranny, burned the flag of the French Third Republic, and stormed government buildings. 】
After all, France is the real center of Europe, and in the face of the French, the British always reveal a little bit of self-confidence in their self-confidence, so France has a lot of pages.
Next to the French page is the news of the second Richmond Fashion Week.