Chapter 239: Steve
After testing the Storm Axe and the Time-Stop Sword, Fang Mo also planned to go back.
With a slight thought in his mind.
He directly used Brown magic to teleport back into the villa.
Testing these weapons took up quite a bit of his time, and it was already completely dark outside. As he had mentioned before, the current year was 1868, and nightlife in Europe at that time was far less rich than it is now. Many people were already resting at this time.
But Fang Mo couldn't sleep at all.
In fact, after his body was digitized, he had lost the ability to dream.
Except for the time he spent with the X-Men.
After all, the ability of the White Queen Emma was quite useful.
"Sigh..."
Bored, he sighed and summoned Ah Xue back.
"Master?"
Ah Xue, dressed in a white kimono, slowly appeared. She quickly noticed Fang Mo's expression and asked with slight confusion, "Master... what's wrong?"
"Do you know the three great miseries of life?"
Fang Mo asked.
"The three great miseries of life?" Ah Xue tilted her head and asked, "What is that?"Read latest chapters at nov(e)lbin.com Only
"Toothache, constipation, insomnia,"
Fang Mo rubbed his temples and explained, "Of course, there are now new three great miseries, which are working 996, being cyberbullied to social death, and having your gaming skills nerfed... And right now, I am experiencing one of them: insomnia."
"Insomnia? What should we do?"
Upon hearing this, Ah Xue also began to think of solutions. She lowered her head to think for a moment and said, "Then... should I help you warm the bed?"
"Let's not."
Fang Mo with a sad face said, "This really isn't what I had in mind..."
"Sorry, Master."
Ah Xue lowered her head, feeling somewhat guilty.
"It's alright, I'm not blaming you." Fang Mo smiled and then waved his hand at her, "Alright, don't think too much. Go make me a cup of tea."
"Okay, sure."
Ah Xue nodded and then walked toward the kitchen.
She had already been exposed to modern appliances when she was in the world of Bleach, so making a pot of tea wasn't difficult for her.
Very quickly, Ah Xue boiled a pot of spring water.
However, because Tony Stark didn't like tea, he hadn't prepared any tea for the villa. There were only two packs of portable black tea in the cabinet. Ah Xue didn't overthink it and just brewed a pot.
After a moment, she also took some pastries from the refrigerator, put them on a plate, and carried them over.
"Master, is black tea alright?"
Ah Xue said as she placed the tray on the coffee table.
"..."
The corner of Fang Mo's eye twitched slightly, but looking at Ah Xue's hopeful eyes, he didn't refuse. "Well... it's fine. Drinking this will help me sleep well."
After saying that, Fang Mo picked up the teacup and took a sip.
The light aroma of the tea, accompanied by a hint of refreshing astringency, gradually spread throughout his mouth.
Actually, Fang Mo wasn't very good at appreciating tea.
However, having a hot drink late at night felt pretty good.
So he squinted his eyes.
Taking sips of black tea intermittently.
His thoughts gradually dispersed and drifted away.
Since awakening his Stand until now, upon careful thought, it seemed like quite a lot of time had passed.
During this period, Fang Mo was indeed learning and growing. Initially, he was even too lazy to study his workbench, frequently losing his temper. However, at some point, his restless heart began to settle down. He became more patient and even started using exhaustive methods to experiment, creating some machinery and crystal matrix ingots by hand.
Even in terms of his mental state, Fang Mo was constantly trying to change himself.
For this reason, he created his servant Ah Xue, as well as a pet ender dragon he raised like a daughter. With their companionship, Fang Mo found that his mental state had indeed changed somewhat.
But that doesn't mean he no longer misses home.
He still occasionally thinks about the past.
Perhaps it's when he sees a certain scene, or perhaps it's on a quiet night, Fang Mo feels that those long-dead memories are beginning to attack him.
However, Fang Mo doesn't dislike this.
On the contrary, he enjoys recalling those yesterdays that seem like a lifetime ago.
The best times are always particularly short, as if everything should be like that, but he still remembers all those touching moments.
Although Fang Mo is aware that returning to his original world and reuniting with his family would be very difficult, he still wants to try. Collecting wish machines from every world has become his primary motivation; who knows, one might actually work?
"By the way, Ah Xue,"
Fang Mo opened his eyes and began observing the surrounding environment.
This place looked like a coal mine. Looking around, it was pitch-black coal everywhere. Sporadic oil lamps and wooden frames. Besides, there were many people with similar colors to coal, half-naked, holding burlap bags and tattered baskets, looking at him in astonishment as if they had seen a ghost.
Not far behind them was a fat white man holding a whip.
"What the hell?"
Seeing the scene before him, Fang Mo was instantly dumbfounded.
He immediately thought of his first trip to the X-Men's first battle, the same startling beginning, and the same crowd of pitiable people looking at him in astonishment.
"What is this ominous premonition about..."
Fang Mo couldn't help but touch his forehead, for some reason a bad feeling suddenly appeared in his heart.
Without thinking too much, Fang Mo immediately activated the effect of Brown Magic. A flash of white light, and he was back in his villa.
"Phew, that's much better."
After returning to his own villa, Fang Mo finally took a deep breath.
After calming down a bit, Fang Mo stood up directly from the sofa and began observing the surrounding furniture and environment.
The villa that Stark had built for him was brand new.
However, at this moment, although the place is usually well-maintained, Fang Mo could still see a faint trace of the passage of time here.
"Hmm."
Fang Mo glanced at the wear and tear of the furniture and had a general idea in his mind: "I see, it seems like my time-skip has fast-forwarded another ten years. I am willing to call myself a benevolent 'Shit God'"
He mumbled to himself.
Fang Mo then slowly opened the door and walked out.
In the courtyard, the cherry blossom tree had already grown large enough to be embraced by several people. As for the lounge chairs and doghouse that were previously placed in the yard, they had all disappeared. Perhaps they were damaged from being too old.
Fang Mo walked out of the courtyard and stood on the cliff at the mountain top, looking down.
In the distance, the Joestar estate was still standing there.
"Hmm... The Joestar mansion is still there." Seeing this, Fang Mo was somewhat relieved.
In the original story, Dio Brando had quickly burned down this mansion after becoming a vampire. Since the mansion is still intact, it means the plot hasn't progressed too far.
He didn't rush to study the Sword of Time.
Fang Mo thought for a moment and decided to go directly to the Joestar mansion at the foot of the mountain.
It was probably morning now. The servants in the Joestar estate were busy working. Gardeners were tending to the lawn, maids were washing and drying clothes, and some were helping the chef transport ingredients. Overall, it looked pretty busy.
In the midst of this,
Fang Mo also found a familiar figure.
It was the Snow Queen Ah Xue he had summoned. At this moment, she was dressed in a traditional maid outfit, standing near a fountain, and was sternly criticizing a burly blue-haired young man.
Not wanting to waste words, Fang Mo teleported over.
"JoJo! How many times have I told you to keep your handkerchief properly in your pocket? I can't even remember how many times I've found it in a mud puddle. Do you have a grudge against it? If I find out you've lost it again next time, you'll be washing your mouth with muddy water"
However, Ah Xue had only gotten halfway through her sentence when she suddenly saw Fang Mo appear.
She was stunned on the spot, as if struck by lightning.
Unlike Ah Xue, the blue-haired young man beside her showed an incredulous expression upon seeing this. His eyes widened as he said, "How... how did this person suddenly appear here?!"
"Don't panic, kid."
Fang Mo gave the blue-haired young man a smile, "This is called teleportation. Your Joestar family has this ability too, but you can only use it once in a lifetime."
"What?"
The blue-haired young man was even more confused after hearing this, "Teleportation? Our family? What... what are you talking about?"
"Ah, the naive child of the landlord's family."
Fang Mo looked at the blue-haired young man, Jojo, Jonathan Joestar, and couldn't help but sigh, "Ah, what a straightforward and lovely gentleman's spirit. Too bad it went astray starting from the second Joestar..."
Just as he finished speaking, a figure suddenly rushed into his arms, tightly hugging Fang Mo.
"Hm?"
Fang Mo looked down and found that it was Ah Xue who was hugging him.
"Master..."
Ah Xue buried her head deep in Fang Mo's chest, her shoulders seemed to be slightly trembling. However, she soon took a deep breath, lifted her head, and her eyes, slightly red, smiled and curved up, forcing out a somewhat heartbreaking smile, "Ah Xue has learned everything now, next time... take Ah Xue with you?"
"You've worked hard."
Fang Mo patted Ah Xue's head and smiled, "Yes, I will next time."
Ah Xue has changed a lot, not just in temperament and knowledge, but even some of her inner qualities have changed. Fang Mo couldn't quite put his finger on what it was, but clearly, compared to the emotionless Snow Queen she was at the start, the Ah Xue now seemed more human.
In Fang Mo's view, it was just a moment, but Ah Xue had already grown for twelve years here.
To be honest, this strange sense of disjunction made Fang Mo a bit uncomfortable. It seemed that he should indeed take her with him next time.
However, before Fang Mo and Ah Xue could say much more,
Jonathan Joestar suddenly reacted. He looked at Fang Mo incredulously and exclaimed, "Wait! You are Ah Xue's master? Then... Could you be the mage that my father mentioned? Are you the Mr. Steve who performed the baptism in my /Bleam
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