[Comprehensive] Science and Magic

: "My stomach is so hungry."

The man lying next to him said lazily, "Go and roast that rabbit."

The third man took a puff from his pipe and said, "Go and chop wood! How can you roast things without fire."

A fourth man in a cloak said, "Don't underestimate yourself, cook. You can make food out of any situation."

A fifth man sat on a rock with one leg outstretched.He said: "I set up the tent, I don't want to chop firewood."

The sixth man flicked the fork in his hand boredly, without saying a word.

The man in the cloak stood up and shouted at the lying man: "You lie there like a whore, quickly pick up the ax and chop wood!"

The lying man was still lazily, and he refused, "I can't use an axe."

Laura and Steve stared blankly.The ax is obviously right next to them, so why can't he use the ax?

But they do look like normal camping No-Majs.Just as Steve and Laura were about to stand up, they heard the man sitting next to him wearing a cowboy hat say in English with a strange accent: "I'm so hungry."

The man lying next to him continued lazily, "Go roast that rabbit."

The third man took a puff from his pipe and said, "Go and chop wood! How can you roast things without fire."

A fourth man in a cloak said, "Don't underestimate yourself, cook. You can make food out of any situation."

A fifth man sat on a rock with one leg outstretched.He said: "I set up the tent, I don't want to chop firewood."

The sixth man flicked the fork in his hand boredly, without saying a word.

The man in the cloak stood up and shouted at the lying man: "You lie there like a whore, quickly pick up the ax and chop wood!"

The lying man was still lazy, he refused:

"I can't use an ax."

The author has something to say: I'm sorry, because I'm going out with my relatives and I have to help take care of two children, the update time will be relatively abnormal these days...

I will write as soon as I have time, and try to keep updated, after all, I still have the National Day list, crying~

This incident told me that before the next article, I must have a manuscript! ! !

Chapter 46

This weird situation gave Laura goose bumps all over her body.She and Steve looked at each other, then lay down silently on the ground, watching the No-Majs repeating the same words over and over again, as if caught in a time loop.

"Did you know? There's a story—" whispered Laura, "that a wizard stuck his head into the hourglass of time, and his head kept looping from baby to adult state..."

Steve said seriously, "You mean there's an 'hourglass of time' too?"

"...No, that's just a story." Laura was silent for a moment, and then said: "Time is a great magic. The wizards in England created a time converter, but after the last wizarding war, basically all of them disappeared. Destroyed. I can't figure out what's going on with these people, I've never seen any records of it - after all, people stuck in a time loop won't have a chance to come back and tell us what happened to them something."

After a while, Steve said: "It's not an option to go on like this. I'll check the situation first." He gestured to Laura, then stood up, and walked towards the No-Majs alone.

Still lying on her stomach, Laura pointed the tip of her wand at Steve.She heard Steve asking the No-Majs for directions, which finally temporarily rescued them from their endless loop—the silent No-Maj with the fork was their guide, This time he spoke, and rather enthusiastically gave Steve a map.

Everything seemed to be going well, except they started the "who's going to cut the wood" cycle after Steve left.

But Laura always felt that there was a sense of disobedience.

"He said we have to go to Sweetwater Town, where there is a train station." Steve stretched out his hand and pulled Laura up from the ground, unfolded the map and said, "From here to the east, we have to cross another hill."

Laura looked down at the map.The map showed a very small area, which seemed to be smaller than New York City. Laura noticed that the desert they were in last night was not included in the map.

"Did they say what state this was in?"

"That's the weird thing," Steve replied. "He doesn't understand the concept of 'state' at all. It seems that his scope of operation is only on this map."

"Is there such a primitive place in the United States? There is no network signal, anti-apparition spell, sparsely populated... If they can't take out the wand, I would think this is some kind of wizard gathering place." Laura said with a frown .

"Maybe it's a Native American settlement," Steve said. "Anyway, we've got to check out this Sweetwater town."

"Yeah, we've got to go to Sweetwater...but why would someone have to send us here with a portkey?" Laura said strangely. "So far we haven't been in any real danger." , the other party didn't even show up...we're just stuck here, on our way..."

"Stuck here..." Steve repeated.

Laura came to her senses too.She said: "So whoever it is, he wants to trap me here. Why? Why trap me? What is he trying to do? If I'm not here, I'll be... will be..."

She and Steve looked at each other and called out at the same time: "Iron Man!"

That's right, the other party didn't want to hurt Laura for the time being, otherwise he should have caught her the moment the Portkey fell to the ground!From the desert to the woods, and now I have to cross a mountain to go to Sweetwater Town. Laura, who cannot disapparate, is completely relying on her feet to drive the road. From the beginning to the end, the other party is just delaying time——

They knew that once the news of Laura's disappearance spread, the stimulated Tony might behave irrationally, and there was no wizard around him to protect him...

iron Man.

They had written their purpose blatantly on the portkey from the start.

Laura was more anxious than ever.The odd No-Maj encounters in the woods had been forgotten, and she and Steve moved faster.They had to get to Sweetwater's train station as soon as possible to see if they could get a ride out of here.

They walked along the mountain path without meeting anyone else along the way.

"According to the map, we should meet the local residents soon." Steve spread out the map and glanced at it to determine the route. He said, "By going around this mountain, there is a farm ahead. The farmer It's... well, Abernathy."

"I guess this Abernathy's house doesn't have any telephones that can connect to the outside world." Laura took out her mobile phone and checked it, then frowned and put it back in her pocket.

Steve closed the map and said, "That's a farm, maybe we can borrow a horse from him."

Suddenly there was a burst of intense gunfire ahead, mixed with a woman's scream.Steve immediately took off the shield hanging from his back, ran two steps forward, stopped and looked back at Laura.

Laura knew what he was worried about.She said, "It's okay. You go first, and I will follow behind."

The gunfire continued.

"Hold on tight," Steve said, and ran quickly to where the gunshots were.

When Laura arrived at the scene of the incident following the sound, there were already several people lying on the ground, and a man who looked like a sheriff was holding Steve's hand, thanking him again and again.

"what happend?"

"Several bandits fled into the mountains, and the sheriff brought people to arrest them, and there was a gun battle here." Steve said briefly.

A man and a woman came out from behind the boulder.Laura noticed that they were all wearing very retro clothes, especially the woman's skirt and top hat. Even in the wizarding world, which was behind the No-Maj fashion, no one would wear such ancient dresses.

The woman let go of the man's arm and complained sharply, "I just said don't go this route!"

The man said angrily, "I didn't know there would be a gunfight!"

After speaking, he got closer, looked Steve up and down, and said, "Can you still come in dressed like this? Dude, where did you choose this suit? Is it specially customized? If I knew it could be like this, I should have customized it." All in Captain Jack's clothes."

Laura was bewildered by what he said.Steve asked seriously, "What do you mean?"

The man asked in surprise, "Aren't you a new resident?" His expression changed, and Laura wondered if she had read it wrong, because he looked at Steve as if he were looking at an inanimate object.He turned back to the woman and said, "Is this some new hidden plot? But this character doesn't belong to this era, right?"

"What the hell," said the woman, her eyes shining brightly on Steve's chest, "these people can't hurt us, can they?"

"That's what they said." The man said, looking lewdly at Laura's chest.

Laura lifted the zipper up, and Steve frowned, "Who are 'them'?"

The two ignored Steve's words.The woman took two steps closer and reached out to touch Steve's chest, but Steve pinched her wrist, screaming in pain.

"Let go!" she screamed, "Let go, liars, my hand is going to break!"

"Let her go!" The man pointed a gun at Steve, "Let her go!"

Strangely, the sheriff and the other two stood aside blankly, not reacting at all to the current situation.

Steve let go.

"You didn't open the safety." Steve said lightly, then snatched the gun from the man's hand and squeezed his throat. "Now,