【British and American】My miserable life studying abroad

"Obviously, we are not in a familiar world now. This world is also full of superheroes, and many people are born with superpowers. However, unlike mutants, people here highly respect people who are born with superpowers."

Sherlock spoke with a pure British accent and at an extremely fast speed. Wei Shengling, whose native language was Chinese, found it difficult to understand him, so she always needed time to digest what Sherlock said.

"I took a look at the news reports of this world. All superheroes belong to Vought Corporation. Among them, there are seven most famous superheroes, known as the Big Seven..." He mentioned the code names of these people. "All this is just on the surface. People here believe whatever they are told. Their IQ is even lower than Andrew from Scotland Yard."

"I presume you mean Anderson," Watson corrected.

"It doesn't matter what their names are." Sherlock waved his hand and looked at Wei Shengling who seemed to be thinking about something. He showed an obvious fake smile on his face and asked, "What do you know?"

Just like her inexplicable familiarity with herself and John?

Suki's attitude toward Severus Snape was very similar to her attitude toward herself and John: familiar but wary.

So, does it mean that, to her, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are also characters in a book?

Wei Shengling didn't know that Sherlock already had an idea. She was unfamiliar with everything in this world, and her thinking was just a reaction to what Sherlock said. What foreigners said was already difficult to understand, and what he said was even more difficult to understand.

There are also some strange problems.

"No, can you speak slower? I can't react." She said sincerely, "You speak like that male voice that was so hard to hear in English listening classes at school, but three or four times faster."

"..." The fake smile on Sherlock's face disappeared instantly.

So, why did he have such expectations for this girl?

They are all a group of goldfish.

The world is a giant goldfish bowl.

Wei Shengling was still struggling with other things. Every time she heard English, she would subconsciously convert it into Chinese to make it easier for herself to understand.

But this time, facing the seven heroes of this world's Vought Company, she felt that these people's names were difficult to understand.

The Homelander. How to translate it? Transliterate Homelander? Or translate it as Homelander? The Master of Homeland? Homelander? (Actually, it’s Homelander. I don’t know why I use this translation. It doesn’t seem to fit.)

Black Noir, both words mean black, what kind of meaningless repetition is this?

Translucent, how do you translate this? (Invisible Man)

She felt awkward because she couldn't translate these accurately, just like when you meet someone on the street and suddenly forget their name and how to address them, and can only address them vaguely.

(I haven't watched The Boys, the translation of this drama is really weird. The original title is The boys, which has nothing to do with the translation)

Embarrassed and helpless.

"So, how do we get back?" Wei Sheng Ling tried his best to put aside these thoughts and get the topic back on track.

"First, there is the magic circle that was used to send us here. I've remembered it," Sherlock took out a piece of paper from his pocket, on which was clearly drawn a magic circle.

"There is also the silver ore in the center of the magic circle and the sacrifice's physique or a related substitute."

"This is the only way at the moment," Watson said, "and we have no other channels to learn about other methods."

"What this means is that we may stay here for a long time, right?" Wei Shengling concluded.

Watson nodded.

"Then let's discuss some more realistic issues, such as whether we are considered illegal immigrants now, whether the money we have can be used in this world, and whether a long time will pass in the original world after we return?"

Don't be fooled by the saying that flowers don't know the shortness of the day and the moon, but they didn't expect that the world has been a thousand years.

"Maybe I can give you some answers to this question." Snape said. He mainly studied Potions, but he was also excellent in Occlumency, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Charms.

He also has some knowledge of ancient magic runes and alchemy.

“Even if we stay in this world for a few years, time over there won’t change much, because our anchor point is not in this world,” he said. “The bad news is that even if we stay in this world for a few years, time for us is still fluid.”

In other words, if I stay here for two or three years, I will look like someone in my 20s, and I won't look the same when I go back, right?

If I go back decades later, then in their eyes, I have grown from nearly twenty to an old lady in just a short period of time?

"...It's better to find what you need to go back as soon as possible." Wei Shengling was frightened by his own imagination. "Regarding the money issue, have you tried it before?"

"No, we just arrived in this world and appeared here. We were tied up and taken to the basement by the owner of the house. You were still unconscious at that time. Sherlock guessed that your situation was different from ours." Watson sighed.

"Then, I used the Imperius Curse to control that man, and used Legilimency to roughly search through his memory, so that the police and the people around us would think that we were the residents of this house." Snape interjected.

"Magic has been a great help..." Wei Shengling breathed a sigh of relief. She touched the space bracelet on her right hand. Because people in the United States are used to using credit cards and cash, she had a lot of cash in her space.

"I'll go out for a while and see if this money can still be used in this world." Wei Shengling took out a few US dollars from her pocket. In fact, she took them out from the space, but she was a little cautious and didn't want to reveal too much.

Whether it is Sherlock Holmes, John Watson or Severus Snape, they are all familiar yet unfamiliar people to her.

When they are paper figures, you can feel free to like and admire them.

Becoming a real person... is another story.

"I'll go with you. If that doesn't work, we'll just have to use magic to temporarily confuse these Muggles afterwards."

Snape didn't want to go out either, but reality didn't allow it.

"Okay." Wei Shengling nodded.

"Let's go together and collect some information about this world separately." Sherlock stood up, "... and buy some clothes."

When several of them came over, they had one thing in common.

They all wore thicker winter clothes.

Wei Shengling had space to change clothes, but the others didn't.

After getting ready and opening the door, Snape's Ignore Charm fell on several people. They walked into a bank and carefully observed the coins of this world.

"No," Sherlock shook his head. "The celebrities in the two worlds are different, and the people printed on the US dollar are naturally different. If you insist on using these, they may be regarded as counterfeit."

The worst happened.

Do they have to rely on magic all the time? This is definitely not possible. First of all, it is inconvenient. Secondly, spells can deceive people but not cameras. Even if the technology in this world is much more backward than their world, they still have cameras.

Life in this world is really difficult at every turn.