Chapter 360: What Year Is It Now?

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After a long time, Wesley recovered and slowly digested the information provided by Apple. Then he said, “Let’s say this first. Today’s news is shocking enough. Let’s go to London and see the specific time and then look for evidence to prove which universe we are in.” Although there are only two known parallel universes, he still goes to London with hope.

Wesley did not draw attention to himself. Wesley put on a formal suit, but his suits were all slim-fit. Wesley looked around and felt bad, so he put the suit away again.

“What clothes do I have?” Wesley had prepared too many things. Anyway, there was enough space in his body.

“It’s difficult to fit the clothes of this era. The closest thing is a work suit, which you need when you work in the laboratory,” Apple said.

“Then wear this.” Wesley changed into work clothes, wide overalls with a gray shirt underneath. Without a hat, Wesley set off for London.

Wesley used the Iron Man Armor to fly to the suburbs at night. Then, he went to the city and observed it carefully after entering the city. At this time, there was no trace of asphalt roads on it. It was all flat dirt roads, but they were very suitable for carriages coming and going, and the earliest Model T cars would care about these roads.

There were street lamps on both sides of the road, but the workers needed to light them by hand every day. These were gas street lamps, but Wesley had made a mistake by choosing to come to London at night in order to conceal himself. He did not know where to find the time. He did not want to be regarded as a madman. He could not just grab someone and ask them directly. Moreover, he could not rent an inn because Wesley had discovered an awkward problem. He had no money!

Yes, he had a check and a credit card, but he didn’t have cash. Even if he had cash, he probably wouldn’t be able to use it in this era. “Apple, do we have any precious metals?”

“You don’t like to wear accessories. You only have some watches, but they have time and place of origin on them and limited coding. But you have a few pairs of cuffs with platinum inlaid diamonds.”

“So we still need to find a pawn shop?”

“Yes, but that’s tomorrow morning. What are we going to do tonight?” Apple asked.

Wesley frowned as he thought about it. “Let’s take a walk around and admire London in this era. Foggy City really lives up to its name. It was gray when I saw it in the morning, and it’s still gray now. Aren’t the people here short-lived?”

“If the time is determined, where are you going to develop?” Apple asked.

“Of course I’m going to the United States. It’s more convenient to determine the specific time. If it’s just a time travel, I might be able to see Captain America in advance, and Peggy Carter, one of the founders of SHIELD.”

“Your actions may have caused them not to appear. Mind you, this could have been before World War I.”

“I’ll leave it to fate. I’ll take it one step at a time.” Wesley sighed and then he wandered around the cold streets, not caring about the night patrol officers.

After walking around for a while, Wesley took out a cigar, found a place to sit down, and slowly tasted it. He had wanted to smoke a cigarette, and the cigar was ready, but he usually didn’t smoke at all. But this time, after taking out the cigarette, he looked at the filter, and then put it away. There was no such thing now, and it was better to be hidden, so he smoked the cigar directly.

“Apple, do you think there will be Sherlock Holmes here?” Wesley asked.

“I don’t know. If you want to confirm it, you can go and take a look. But… now that there is a Model T, even if this person exists, he may be very old. He may have entered retirement and may not live here.”

“Then forget it.”

Wesley sat where he was until the next morning. The sky was still gray, and the factories in London seemed to have started working. Black smoke blended into the air in large quantities, and Wesley could only breathe in the heavily polluted air helplessly. Then he looked around for pawn shops around the streets.

Regent Street. The atmosphere of business was already very strong. Wesley came here and found a pawnshop, which seemed to be on a good scale, so he went straight in. He took out a pair of cufflinks, a pair of platinum cufflinks inlaid with diamonds, and put them directly on the front desk.

An elderly white man picked up a pair of monocles and placed them directly in front of his left eye. He closed his eyelids and took a closer look at the cufflinks. Then he raised them and looked at Sunshine. Then he looked at Wesley. “This is not something you can have. You stole it, right?”

Wesley smiled and said, “Of course not. I’m from abroad and I don’t have any money left. I can only sell a few things. Such diamonds. The metal is platinum, especially the workmanship. Have you seen it before?”

“Indeed I haven’t seen it before. How about this, you know the rules of pawning, how about I give you 150 pounds?” The old man asked.

“Sure.” Wesley did not bargain. He really did not care about this small amount of money. The knowledge he had was a vast wealth, especially with Apple here and leaving the pawnshop with a hundred and fifty pounds. Now he had to think about how to get to the United States.

Of course, the first problem was buying a newspaper. There was a date in the newspaper, and that was very important. London was very cold in the spring, and although the temperature was not a problem for Wesley, he was wearing a little thin. If it were not for the fact that the clothes he wore were very new and looked very imposing, many people would have thought he was an unemployed worker.

There were a lot of paperboys hawking their wares along the street, and I took out a shilling from the purse that was delivered by the pawnshop. The paperboy made change, all of it pennies. Wesley picked up the newspaper and stood on the side of the street to read it. The time was April 1, 1912. April Fool’s Day?

“April Fool? How ironic.” Wesley smiled bitterly.

“It’s easy to know the time. Just take a boat to the United States. I don’t know if the war here will break out on time.” Apple said.

“It doesn’t matter to us whether it erupts or not. Let’s go directly to the pier and take a look. I hope there will be a cruise ship to the United States in the near future. When we arrive in the United States, we can get some patents directly and then think about other things. If we travel through time and space, it will be difficult for us to go back. We need technology and money. Moreover, the space gem is necessary. We don’t know when it will be full of energy!” Wesley took the newspaper to the pier. He had shopped for a long time last night. At the same time, Apple had a map of London in this period.

The two were actually the same, and Wesley was happy about it for a while. But according to Apple, parallel worlds are extremely similar in some things, and there will be differences in certain directions, just like the Marvel Universe and the original universe are basically the same, except that there is an extra superhero.