"I'm relieved to see that you're doing as usual... Over the years, the external and internal hatred and dissatisfaction with me, the transfer of hatred after the civil war, if it weren't for your people who could make me trust, I really don't know how many times I would have died. ”

Abraham Lincoln had been out of presidency for several years, and although he escaped an assassination attempt at the end of the Civil War and the surrender of the South, he escaped an assassination attempt under the protection of Jack, the captain of the family guard sent by James, but the next four years continued to be turbulent.

If President Lincoln had died under the assassination of the South after the war, all the negative emotions and contradictions of the war would have been eliminated to the greatest extent, the hatred of the plantation slave owners in the South against the Union would have subsided a lot, and the division of the country after the Civil War would have been healed to a certain extent.

Lincoln will also become the most legendary president and great man in American history because of the grief of being assassinated immediately after the victory.

But the surviving President Lincoln had to endure the boundless hatred of the old bourgeoisie outside, and the resistance of the internal federal top brass to his promotion of the rights and interests of slaves after the emancipation. Whites don't have a good opinion of him, and blacks are still struggling to survive.

During his four-year tenure, Lincoln faced assassinations and accidents, and it was all thanks to James's arrangement of the Howlett family's private armed forces to protect Lincoln and his family.

"Your safety factor during your presidency is quite high, after all, you are the president of the United States of America, even if some people want to do it, they can't go too far, once they become former presidents, hey, only you can't think of it, there is nothing they dare not do."

James slumped into the sofa arbitrarily, holding a cigar in one hand, holding an empty wine glass in the other hand and shaking it gently, Danielle next to him added some whiskey to him, Lincoln came to the Howlett old house and Danielle at first sight, the two are not much different in age, and they can talk together very much on weekdays.

Lincoln looked at James with great interest, scratched his gray beard, and said with a smile: "So you sent me a letter inviting me to your family's old house to 'stay' for a few days, and immediately brought Mary and the children over, thinking that if something really happened to me, their lives must not be easy......"

"It's you, James, you've changed a little differently." Mr. Former President said with a little curiosity.

"Getting shorter?"

After James regained his strength, he changed bones again, and took advantage of this opportunity to control his body to compress his bones and body shape, and remained in a state of early ninety meters.

This state needs to suppress a certain amount of strength, and after being completely liberated, it will still become a little giant of more than two meters and three, but at least it is much more convenient for daily life, although the body is still burly, but it looks like a lot of natural beauty, his hair is longer, his temperament is rough but his facial features are exquisite, his canine teeth are slightly sharp, and his face is handsome and masculine, but with a bit of strange beauty.

After further cultivation and improvement of the fist technique, James should be able to truly control the changes and growth of his body structure, and there is no need to self-seal a part of his strength in this way.

"Nope."

Daniel, who was on the side, took over the conversation while drinking juniper berries, and said seriously: "Your whole temperament and even personality are not the same, you are now... Like, it's not so heavy anymore. ”

James smiled.

"Sounds like a good thing."

...........................

After more than five years, James finally solved the hidden danger of the blood power in his body, he rejected all the blood source blood, and his body was transparent, but some passive improvements in his physical speed and nerve reflexes still existed, which was the result of James' body adaptation and evolution.

Fortunately, five years is not too long, and he can still spend some time with his friends.

Vane's butler was already old, and he slowly just stayed in the old mansion to take care of it, not to be involved in the various affairs of the Howlett family's estate, and more to be taken over by his son Casper Foss, who was a few years younger than James, but looked much more mature, and when Mr. Vane was completely out of energy to put on his monocle and put on a tuxedo to serve breakfast to James, Mr. Casper would take over the errand again.

Mr. Danielle did not spend too long on the affairs of the Howlett family, he was an idle man, and his heart was always restless.

But he will never go to any barren and barbaric places again, he has been in Europe for a few years, and the Howlett family has paid for him for the rest of his life.

Including those who came back or didn't, their families were able to get a considerable amount of wealth.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Danielle was so old that he brought back from France a charming and considerate lady and a pair of children, and they settled in New York, where they lived comfortably, and he completely lost the energy to toss anymore, and focused on writing an autobiographical adventure book.

Abraham Lincoln lived at Howlett Manor for several years, and he had been writing books on civil rights and civil law, and the law was his old profession, and he was inspired by some of James's modern ideas of the law, and his two younger sons changed their names and went to college in New York under James's suggestion and operation.

In his later years, Lincoln wanted to see his hometown, Harding County, Kentucky, where he was born, Indiana, where he grew up, and Illinois, where he met and fell in love with Mary and worked for a long time.

James accompanied him to a number of places to see the reality of various states in the United States, and finally Lincoln returned to Washington with Mary, saying that he wanted to die a dignified death as a former president, even if it was an assassination.

Finally, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, President Abraham Lincoln, who ended the American Civil War and liberated the slaves, died peacefully at home.

Since the return of the head of the house, Jade, it did not take long for the Howlett family to break through the last technical difficulties of the gasoline internal combustion engine, and in the late nineteenth century, the world of human industrial capital began to collapse and collapse......

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As he sailed across the Mediterranean Sea on a new steamship with an internal combustion engine from Athens, James suddenly felt a sudden moment as if he was infinitely close to the modern life he had experienced.

The port of Piraeus is only three days away from the port of Alexandria in Cairo, and these three days also offer a unique view of the Mediterranean.

He has long been tired of the school atmosphere of the so-called historical schools in Europe over the years, which reminds him of the martial arts school that he cherishes himself.

Oxford, the oldest of them, looked down on all other emerging universities and schools, and the selection of admissions was outrageously complicated, and it took a lot of effort for James to get a suitable English aristocratic admission.

For example, Cambridge, Munich, Germany, Karolinska in Stockholm, and the youngest Zurich Royal Institute of Technology all hold strong disciplines, and they are on the fence against other colleges, while fighting academic scolding all day long.

As a result, he had to change his identity every two or three years to get into the new house, which really annoyed James, and sometimes he would mess with the name he was hiding his identity.

Fortunately, the academic journey in Europe for more than ten years has finally come to an end, and he is now itching all over his body and urgently needs to relax his muscles and bones.

Wait until you get to Cairo and head south to see Egypt, study some myths or history that may be real, and then go all the way to a place halfway between Kenya and Uganda to find an indigenous tribe that has been sneaking around for thousands of years and expect them to do well......

Helwan is very close to Ro, known as the second largest city in Egypt, but James already has not much hope for this ancient country that once had one of the most magnificent civilizations of mankind, except for various historical monuments, the pyramids and tombs of the pharaohs, there is nothing to be of interest to James. The dilapidated houses everywhere and the numb eyes made him only sigh about this country that had been reduced to a colony.

He did not stop in Helwando, looked at the map, and planned to rush to Sudan in one go. At his current speed, it would take him three or two days to get all the way south, much faster than the fastest means of transportation he could find here.

Not long after he came out, just running for about 100 kilometers, James suddenly felt his thoughts jump.

Over the years, his beast perception has never had an idea, after all, this ability is more sensitive to things that he is in crisis, but the feeling at this moment is also a little strange. Not a sense of crisis, but a kind of curiosity.

James wandered around the town called Vasithai, which would be very lively, and a roving troupe of vaudeville had arrived, except that there were not many animals and beasts like the circus, but more of a strange skill and a curious "sight." ”

Sword swallowing, fire-eating, cartilage, gnomes, giants, four-legged...

He bobbed his head a little boringly, all old-fashioned and low-level juggling and deformity.

"The devil from hell! O living devil! This must be a scene you will never forget for the rest of your life......"

The boss of the acrobatic troupe shouted hard at the end, as if he sensed that if he didn't release some "hard goods", it might be difficult for this small town to get any copper plates, and he pushed out a cage with many iron balls wrapped underneath, and a curtain painted with a red-skinned long-tailed demon with a hideous face, sharp teeth and long tongue.

"It's a good drawing." James muttered in his heart.

Swish!

Seeing that the suspense was brewing, the boss lifted the curtain, and for a while, a burst of mocking laughter rose and fell in the crowd, and the cage was empty, except for a few shackles shaking tremblingly.

James turned to leave, and the troupe owner behind him hurriedly shouted to the other actors and men, as if to grab something, and he grinned, thinking that maybe it was just an animal like a mandrill, and put on the so-called devil's gimmick.

When he was about to reach the entrance of the town, James looked left and right, took out the map again, compared it, and fixed the direction.

The cold hair on his neck exploded abruptly, and he squinted his eyes, and quickly locked onto a half-hidden barn that looked like it had been abandoned for a long time.

Burst...

James clearly heard a strange muffled sound outside the barn door, he slowly pushed the door in, the barn was empty, only a few broken pockets and rakes leaning crookedly in the corner, he suddenly looked up, and caught a glimpse of a dark red shadow "poof", which was fleeting.

His consciousness sensed the landing of the figure, and his gaze quickly chased after it, and the small red figure seemed to not understand why he was always being stared at, flashing and changing directions one after another, each time with a slight muffled sound and wisps of black smoke.

James shook his body and jumped onto the roof beam on his right, which was a few points faster than the red figure, he lightly rested on the roof beam with his left hand, and grabbed a dry slender arm with his right hand, and fell.

It was a blood-red "child", with a large head and exaggerated proportions to a small, fleshless body, with dark eyes and black hair, long dark yellow nails, a brown linen rag around his crotch, and a thin tail flicking behind him.

"Shhh Ha! ”

The "child" howled incessantly, and his body kept shaking, as if he was about to disappear from James's grasp in the next moment, but he was held back by something. There was black smoke frantically emitting from his body, and it didn't take long for him to be tired and not struggling, his face was pitiful, and his big eyes were full of tears, and he kept spinning.

"Hey... Hey, don't be afraid, it's okay, I'm not going to do anything to you. James comforted the little poor man softly, he slowly let go of his hand, and said softly: "Look, I let go of my hand, it doesn't matter, are you hungry, do you want to eat?" ”

I don't know if it was James's reassurance that worked, or if the kid had just exhausted his strength, he didn't flicker and escape, but quickly crawled on the ground hand and foot into the broken pocket in the corner of the house, bare his big head, blinked, and stared at a package of oiled paper that James took out of his arms.

"It's food, you smell it, it's delicious." James took out the wrapped pie and broke it open, the pungent aroma of meat caused the child to sniff uncontrollably, he looked at the food James handed in front of him in disbelief, and tentatively stretched out his little dirty red hand.

"Hmm... Bah... Bah."

Seeing him bury his head in eating, James smiled happily, he handed over the remaining half, and asked softly, "Can you speak?" Can you understand me? What's your name? ”

"Asazzo, Asazzozo."

"Asazzo... Hmmm..."James frowned as if thinking of something, and whispered to himself, "It sounds Hebrew, it should be Azasser, Asazzo, a word for the devil, it's not a good name, well, but it's appropriate." ”

Over the years, James has mastered many languages in order to read the historical records of various peoples or civilizations.

The kid who called himself Asazzo had eaten an entire pie in a matter of moments, and his tiny neck seemed to be choking, and he was rubbing his head and squeaking and humming on his chest.

James naturally wiped his back with his hand, and the little guy choked on most of the food went down, and he took out a water bladder and handed it to him, only to feel that the child felt like a skeleton covered with dry human skin.

He looked carefully at the dense blue and black whip marks on Asazzo's body, and his eyes became unkind.

Eating and drinking, Asazzo was suddenly a little overwhelmed, like a panicked and frightened little beast, subconsciously grabbing some tattered braids in his pocket to cover his little body.

James inexplicably understood what the kid was afraid of, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't be afraid, you see." ”

He stretched out his right arm, pulled the cuff up a little, and slowly released three hideous long bone claws and arm shields, and Asazzo's eyes lit up as if they were staring at the bones growing in his arm for a moment.

He stretched out his hand tentatively in fear, his fingertips lightly touched his claws, and he stroked the bone shield more boldly, his tail shook excitedly, and his mouth couldn't help but let out a suppressed cry.

James stretched out his left hand again, spread his palm to Asazzo, and watched as the red, ugly and ugly child slowly put his hand up...

"Go over here, quick! What to do, what not to eat, what not to eat! ”

"Boss! Here, look at this man, he—" A man from the acrobatic troupe looked at the tall man who came out of the barn, and with something wrapped in his cloak in his arms, he slipped into it with a thin red slight.

The boss of the acrobatic troupe looked at the man who was holding a baby in his arms, and yelled in an unkind tone: "What are you holding, show it out and see!" ”

James didn't seem to hear the shouts of the boss on the other side and the crowd of the acrobatic troupe gradually approaching, Asazzo in his arms kept trembling, and his little hands clutched his chest.

"Is that them?" James whispered lightly.

"Hit, Asazzo, them."

James tugged at the corners of his mouth, smiled and said to Asazzo, "Close your eyes, cover your ears, and be obedient." ”

Asazo obediently covered his ears and arched his head inward.

James walked forward, casually pushed a few palms in the air, nodded his fingers, and everyone in the acrobatic troupe crackled and collapsed to the ground.

After re-entering the strength, James had the ability to volley out the strength, he did not comprehend the mystery of this kind of luck, but just relied on the vast and abundant qi and blood strength to pile it out, and within ten steps, the energy was released.

He walked out of the town with Asazo in his arms and asked suspiciously, "Is there only a name, Asazzo, what is your last name?" ”

"Last name?" Asazzo hesitated, he didn't know what it was, was it food? He habitually called Asazzo twice.

"You'll be called Howlett from now on, Asazzo Howlett."

The wind and sand of Egypt soon faded from sight, and James's back was hidden on the way to the north.