Chapter 43 All the way to the north (final chapters in one)

   "I feel at ease seeing you as usual. These years, the external and internal hatred and dissatisfaction with me, and the transfer of hatred after the civil war. If it weren't for your people to make me trust, I really don't know how many times I would die."

  Abraham Lincoln has retired from the presidency for several years. Although the Civil War ended and the South announced its surrender, he escaped an assassination with the protection of Jack, the family guard captain sent by James, but there were still turmoil in the next four years.

If President Lincoln died under the assassination of the South after the war, all the negative emotions and contradictions of the war would be eliminated to the greatest extent, and the hatred of the plantation slave owners in the South for the Union would also subside a lot, and the country would be divided after the Civil War. It will also be bridged 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 and killed after victory.

  The surviving President Lincoln has to bear the boundless hatred of the old bourgeoisie outside, and the resistance of the top federal officials to his promotion of the rights and interests of slaves after emancipation. White people don't like him, and black people are still struggling to survive.

  During his four-year tenure, Lincoln continued to face assassinations and accidents. It was all thanks to James who arranged for the Howlett family's private armed forces to protect Lincoln and his family.

"You have a high safety factor during your presidency. 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 you become a former president, hey, only you can't think of it, there is nothing they dare not do. .”

James sank into the sofa wantonly, holding a cigar in one hand and gently shaking an empty wine glass in the other. Daniel beside him added some whiskey to him. You hit it off right away, the age difference between the two is not too big, and they can chat together very well on weekdays.

Lincoln looked at James with great interest, scratched his white beard, and said with a smile: "So you write to me and invite me to come to your family's old house for a 'stay' for a few days, and immediately take it with you. Mary and the children are here, and if something happens to me, it will be hard for them."

   "It's you, James, you have changed a little bit." The former president said with a little curiosity.

   "Shorter?"

  After re-entering Huajin, James changed his bone again. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he controlled his body to compress the bones and body shape, maintaining a state of over 1.9 meters.

This state needs to suppress a certain amount of strength. After being completely liberated, he will still become a little giant over 2.3 meters, but at least it is much more convenient in daily life. Although his body is still burly, he looks natural and beautiful. His hair is longer. , with rough temperament but exquisite features, slightly sharp canine teeth, handsome and masculine face, but with a bit of strange beauty.

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

"No."

  Daniel took up the conversation while drinking juniper berries, and said solemnly: "Your temperament and even your personality are different. You seem to be not so heavy now."

   James smiled.

   "Sounds like a good thing."

After more than five years, James finally solved the hidden danger of the vampire power in his body. He repelled all the vampire origin blood, and his body was transparent. However, some passive improvements to his physical speed and nerve response still existed. It is the result of James' physical adaptation and evolution.

   Fortunately, five years is not too long, and he can still spend some years with his friends. O'Hara has been with him all the time. After returning to normal, the two lived together until she was old.

Butler Wayne is getting old, and he is slowly just staying in the old house to take care of him, not getting involved in the affairs of the Howlett family's various industries, and his son Casper Foss will take over more. Esper is a few years younger than James, but looks much more mature.

  Mr. Casper will take over the errand again after Mr. Wayne has completely lost energy, puts on his monocle and puts on a tuxedo to serve James breakfast.

  Mr. Daniel didn't concentrate on the affairs of the Howlett family for too long. He was a restless person and his heart was always restless.

  But he will never go to any barren and savage place bitterly again. He has been traveling in Europe for several years, and the Howlett family has paid for him for the rest of his life.

  Including members of the expedition who did or did not return, their families received a substantial fortune.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Daniel was old enough to have a son. He brought back a charming and considerate wife and a pair of children from France. They settled down in New York and lived a comfortable life. He also completely lost the energy to toss and write An autobiographical adventure travelogue.

Abraham Lincoln lived in Howlett Manor for several years. He has been writing works on civil rights and civil law. Law is his old profession. James' legal cognition of some modern concepts also gave him a lot of inspiration. His Under James' suggestion and operation, the two younger sons changed their names and went to college in New York one after another.

  In his later years, Lincoln hoped to visit his hometown, Hardin 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 some places and saw the reality of many states in the United States. Finally, Lincoln took Mary back to Washington. He said that he would die decently as a former president, even if he died by assassination.

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

  The Howlett family broke through the final technical difficulty of the gasoline internal combustion engine not long after the return of the owner James. In the late nineteenth century, the world of human industrial capital began a catastrophic change.

  When sailing from Athens on a new internal combustion engine ship on the Mediterranean Sea, James suddenly had a sudden realization, it seemed that this moment was infinitely close to the modern life he had experienced.

  It only takes three days from Piraeus Port to Alexandria Port in Cairo. During these three days, you can also enjoy the unique scenery of the Mediterranean Sea.

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

  The oldest Oxford looked down on all other emerging universities and schools, and the identity screening for admission was so complicated that it was outrageous. It took James a lot of work to operate a suitable British aristocratic identity for admission.

Karolinska from Cambridge, Munich, Stockholm, and the youngest Royal Institute of Technology in Zurich all hold strong disciplines, guard against other colleges, and do not hesitate to slobber all day long. Academic scolding.

   So he has to change his identity every two or three years to get into the new academy, which really annoys James, and sometimes he messes up his cover-up names.

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

  Wait until Cairo goes all the way south, enjoy the scenery of Egypt, study some myths or history that may actually exist, and then go to a place between Kenya and Uganda, find an indigenous tribe that has been sneaking for thousands of years, and expect them to perform well.

  Helwan is very close to Luo, known as the second largest city in Egypt, but James already has too much hope for this ancient country that once had one of the most magnificent civilizations of mankind.

   Except for various historical sites and Pharaoh's pyramid mausoleum, there is nothing worthy of James' interest. The dilapidated houses and the numb eyes left him with nothing but sighs for the country that had been reduced to a colony.

  He didn't stay in Helvanduo, he looked at the map and planned to rush to Sudan first. At his current speed, it only takes three or two days to go all the way south, which is much faster than the fastest means of transportation that can be found here.

  Not long after he came out, he just ran about a hundred kilometers, and James suddenly felt his thoughts jump.

  In these years, his beast perception has never had an idea. After all, this ability is more sensitive to things that are in danger to him, but the feeling at this moment is also a bit strange. It's not a sense of crisis, but a kind of curiosity.

James wandered around in this town called Vasilee. The town will be very lively. It is a parade circus troupe who came here. Except that there are not many animals and beasts like the circus troupe, there are more strange skills and novelty hunting. "Landscape."

  Sword swallowing, fire eating, cartilage, dwarf, giant, four legs

  He shook his head a little bored, it was all old-fashioned low-level juggling and freak shows.

   "The devil from hell! The living devil! This must be a scene you will never forget in your life."

The owner of the circus troupe shouted hard at the end. He seemed to realize that if some "hard goods" were not released, it might be difficult for this small town, which is not rich, to get any copper coins. Outside the cage, there is a curtain with a red-skinned long-tailed demon. The demon has a ferocious face, sharp teeth and a long tongue.

   "The painting is not bad." James murmured in his heart.

   Shua!

  The boss saw that there was enough suspense brewing, and lifted the curtain. After a long while, a burst of mocking laughter echoed in the crowd. The cage was empty, except for a few chains shaking tremblingly.

  James turned and left. Behind him, the troupe owner hurriedly shouted at the other actors and guys, as if he was going to catch something. He grinned, thinking that it might be an animal like a mandrill, which had put on a so-called devil's gimmick.

   It was about to reach the town entrance. James looked around, took out a map and compared it, and fixed the direction.

  The hair on the stalk of his neck exploded suddenly, he squinted his eyes, and quickly locked on a half-covered barn that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

   poof.

James clearly heard a strange muffled sound outside the barn door. He slowly pushed the door open and entered. The barn was empty, only a few broken pockets and plows leaning crookedly in the corner. Raising his head suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a dark red shadow with a "poof", and it disappeared in a flash.

His awareness sensed the landing point of the figure, and his eyes quickly chased after it. The little red figure seemed to not understand why he was always being stared at, and it flashed and changed directions one after another, with a slight dullness every time. Loud noises and wisps of black smoke.

  James swayed and jumped onto the roof beam on the right. His speed was a little faster than that of 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 down.

It was a "child" with blood-red skin, a big head, in exaggerated proportions to a thin body with no flesh, black eyes and black hair, dark yellow and long pointed nails, a brown-black linen rag wrapped around his crotch, There is also a thin tail flicking behind.

   "Hiss! Ha!"

  The "child" howled unceasingly, and his body trembled constantly, as if he was about to disappear from James' hands in the next moment, but he was held back by something. Black smoke was crazily emitting from his body, and he was so tired that he stopped struggling after a short while, his face was pitiful, his big eyes were full of tears, and they couldn't stop turning around.

"Hey, don't be afraid, it's okay, I won't 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 Open, it's okay, are you hungry, do you want to eat?"

I don't know if it was James' reassurance that had an effect, or the child had exhausted his strength just now, he didn't flicker to escape, but quickly crawled to the broken pocket in the corner of the room with his big head exposed, blinking. He squinted, staring at an oiled paper package that James took out from his arms.

"This is for food. Smell it. It's delicious." James took out the wrapped pie and opened it. The tangy meat aroma made the child sniff his nose. He looked at it in disbelief. James handed the food in front of him, and tentatively stretched out his little dirty red hands.

   "Uh blah blah"

  Seeing him burying 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?"

   "Assazo, Assazo."

"Azazel." James frowned as if he was thinking about something, and said softly to himself: "It sounds like Hebrew, it should be Azazel, Azazel, a way of speaking for the devil , it's not a good name, eh, but it fits."

  In these years, James has mastered many languages ​​in order to read the historical records of various nations or civilizations.

  The kid who called himself Asazo had already eaten the whole pie in a short time. His slender neck seemed to be choking, he stretched his head, patted his chest indiscriminately, and hummed.

James wiped his back naturally with his hands, and most of the food that the little guy was choking on went down. He took out another water bag and handed it to him. He only felt that the child felt like a skeleton covered with dry skin. of human skin.

  He carefully looked at the dense black and blue welts on Asazo's body, his eyes became unkind.

   Asazo, who was full of food and drink, suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, like a panicked little animal, subconsciously grabbing some tattered braids in his pocket to cover his small body.

  James understood inexplicably, understood what the child was afraid of, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't be afraid, look."

  He stretched out his right arm, pulled the cuff higher, and slowly released three ferocious long bone claws and arm shields. Asazuo stared at the bones growing on his arm as if his eyes were shining brightly, without blinking for a moment.

  He stretched out his hand tentatively with some fear, lightly touched the sharp claw with his fingertips, and stroked the bone shield boldly, his tail was shaking excitedly, and he couldn't help but let out a suppressed cry.

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

   "Go here and have a look, quick! Do what you can't do and eat what you don't have!"

   "Boss! Here, look at this man, he." A circus troupe boy looked at the tall man who came out of the barn. He wrapped something in a cloak in his arms, and a slender red streak slipped into it.

  The owner of the juggling troupe looked at the baby-like man in his arms, and shouted in a bad tone: "What are you holding, come out and see!"

  James didn't seem to hear the shout of the boss on the opposite side and the crowd of circus troupe gradually approaching. Asazo in his arms was trembling non-stop, and his small hands were tightly clutching his chest.

   "Is that them?" James whispered easily.

   "Hit, Azazzo, them."

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

  Asazuo covered his ears obediently, and arched his head inward.

  James walked forward at a leisurely pace, casually pushed a few palms in mid-air, and nodded his fingers, and everyone in the circus troupe collapsed to the ground with their heads and chests exploding.

After re-entering Huajin, James has the ability to volley out. He didn't comprehend the mystery of this kind of movement, but relied on the vast and abundant Qi and blood to forcefully pile it up. Within ten steps, the energy-like put out.

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

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

   "Your surname will be Howlett from now on, Azazzo Howlett."

  Egypt's wind and sand blows up and soon disappears from sight, James' back is hidden, on the way to the north.

   At the end of the first volume, the next volume, the war years

  

  

  (end of this chapter)