Chapter 042 London

Now, whenever Wang Bo tried to recall the knowledge recorded in the Book of the Dead, his mind went blank and he could remember nothing. This was the price he paid for rejecting Anubis.

Anubis stripped Wang Bo of his understanding of the Book of the Dead.

What was even more remarkable was that when Wang Bo opened the Book of the Dead once more, attempting to study it again, what he saw was no longer neat rows of Chinese characters.

Instead, it was line after line of unrelated garbled code.

“So that's how it was.” Wang Bo couldn't help but laugh.

"What's wrong?" Evelyn asked curiously.

Wang Bo replied, "Anubis deprived me of the memory of having read the Book of the Dead, and even placed a curse on me. Now when I look at the Book of the Dead, it's like looking at a line of gibberish."

Evelyn said, her face full of shock, "How could this be?"

"That's exactly it." Wang Bo couldn't help but laugh. "It seems that person is even more petty than I imagined."

Wang Bo dared not speak ill of Anubis while also using the other's name.

Evelyn said regretfully, "You missed a very good opportunity."

"Then let's just say it is."

Wang Bo quickly adjusted his mindset. Losing the knowledge of the Book of the Dead was certainly regrettable, but Wang Bo was not too disappointed.

There are countless esoteric knowledges under heaven, and the Necronomicon is merely one of them.

Without the Book of the Dead, Wang Bo might still find other knowledge.

Moreover, it was precisely because he had lost the knowledge of the Book of the Dead that Wang Bo was able to step back and look back at his experiences over these past days, finding them truly miraculous.

He did not understand why he was so obsessed with the Book of the Dead.

To be honest, at first Wang Bo read the Book of the Dead merely to pass the time, but little by little he fell into a frenzy, staying indoors every day to study the Book of the Dead.

He even brought Evelyn into it.

Now it seemed, this simply did not match his character.

He didn't even care for superhuman strength, so how could he become so obsessed with the Book of the Dead?

But in reality, he was indeed obsessed with the Book of the Dead, unable to extricate himself from it each day, as if bewitched.

After Evelyn joined, her state was almost exactly the same as his own.

This was clearly abnormal. Wang Bo suspected that the Book of the Dead possessed a powerful magic that could addict its readers.

And all who finish reading the Book of the Dead, upon reaching a certain level of understanding of death, will be summoned by Anubis, and may even become his followers.

Take Evelyn, for example: she is the reincarnation of Pharaoh Seti I's daughter. In the past, the Pharaoh claimed to be the son of the sun god Amun—the god's agent and incarnation on earth—and commanded his subjects to worship him as a god.

In other words, the pharaoh's faith was in the sun god.

So Evelyn's past life was, naturally, a follower of the sun god.

Even after reincarnation, Evelyn remained fascinated by Egyptian culture and yearned greatly for the Golden Sun Scripture.

It was especially evident that in her heart, she still considered herself a follower of the sun god.

But ever since reading the Book of the Dead, Evelyn had become increasingly obsessed, even agreeing to Anubis, offering up her faith, and becoming a priestess of Anubis.

This shows that the magic of the Book of the Dead is so great that it is beyond imagination, and this magic can even affect the soul.

And Wang Bo believed that the reason he could refuse Anubis and remain rational was likely because he came from another world and his soul was special.

Otherwise, he would definitely be bewitched by the Book of the Dead and offer up his faith.

Now that Anubis has deprived himself of his memories of the Book of the Dead, it might not be a bad thing after all.

Although being unable to continue using the Book of the Dead left Wang Bo somewhat regretful, as his superhuman physique gradually strengthened, he did not value the Book of the Dead as much as one might imagine.

Even the reason he wanted to take the Book of the Dead was merely to prevent Imhotep from being resurrected.

In Wang Bo's heart, as long as Imhotep was not resurrected, it didn't matter who held the Book of the Dead.

But for now, the Book of the Dead is safest in his own hands. At least Wang Bo would not use it to resurrect Imhotep. As for others, Wang Bo could not guarantee that.

……

Local time, one o'clock in the afternoon.

After a long journey, the steamship finally arrived at the capital of England... London!

This ancient city, up to the present day, has a history of more than two thousand years.

More than two thousand years ago, the Romans founded this city. For centuries, London has wielded tremendous influence around the world. From the early nineteenth century into the twentieth, as the capital of the British Empire—a global empire—London became the world's largest city, thanks to its outstanding achievements in politics, economy, culture, science, technology, and other fields.

It is also the largest city in Europe and the world's largest economic center.

Although after the beginning of the twenty-first century, New York replaced London as the world's largest city.

But the world's premier financial center still belonged to London.

In 1926, New York surpassed London in population, but in other respects it was far inferior to this ancient city that had stood tall in the world for over two thousand years.

Wang Bo was visiting this bustling city for the first time. Walking along the streets, the most common thing he could see was people!

A sea of people.

Before the time travel, the city where Wang Bo lived had only a few hundred thousand people.

But what about London?

Even in 1926, London's population must have been in the millions.

This also meant that wherever Wang Bo went, all he saw were people.

To be honest, Wang Bo had never seen so many people before, except on television.

Evelyn and Jonathan had not returned to London for a long time. On this visit, as they saw the buildings and shops along the streets, they kept marveling at how much London had changed.

As for Laura, her face was full of astonishment.

She was a person from the twenty-first century, having grown up in London, and knew exactly what the city would look like in the future. However, she had never seen London in 1926, so encountering the city of that era filled her with wonder.

Some buildings that in the future would have long since disappeared made her linger, unable to tear herself away.

Of course, in many places, Laura could see the shadow of future London.

For instance, the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum, New Scotland Yard, and so on.

These buildings were already famous in this era.

It remained preserved into the future.

After a day of sightseeing in New York, the group spent the night at a hotel.

The next day, the group went together to a real estate company to buy a house. After all, starting today, they would be living in London.

After some selection, the group bought two estates in the suburbs of London.

One estate was bought by Wang Bo, and the other by Evelyn and her brother.