Cape Town, 30 November 1899.

As in the previous two days, as soon as it was light, Roque came to the front of the corridor and sat down, looking at the distant sky in silence.

Cape Town was not the second largest city in South Africa at this time, and even at this time there was no concept of South Africa, Cape Town was only the capital of the British Cape Colony, which was in the midst of a war with the Boer Republic of the Transvaal and the Republic of Orange.

In other words, it was during the Second Boer War, because of the discovery of the Rand gold mine, the British launched a war against the Boers, and the tenacious Boers refused to give in, and with the support of almost all European countries, they waged an indomitable war with the British.

Just last month, the British were completely defeated at the Battle of Ladysmith, with 1,139 British soldiers killed and about 250 missing, and British troops also lost 10 cannons on the battlefield, while the Boer army suffered only 8 killed and 30 wounded.

Around the same time, the British also suffered defeats at Kimberley on the Western Front and Stormberg on the Central Front, with a total loss of more than 2,800 men, which led directly to the resignation of the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, Admiral Redforth Buller, who had suppressed local uprisings in Ireland.

After the news of the defeat of the British army on the front reached Cape Town, there was turmoil in Cape Town, which was already restless, Roque was a police officer in Cape Town, a week ago Roque was attacked on patrol, although his companions reinforced him in time, Roque survived, but Roque has been unconscious because of brain trauma, and when he woke up again, Roque in the nineteenth century became Roque in the twenty-first century.

It's not a prank, it's a legendary crossover.

After determining this, it took Roque two days to convince himself to accept it all.

What if you don't accept it?

Roque didn't know why he was able to cross, so Roque had no way to cross back, since there was no way to change this fact, then he had to actively adapt, at least he had to return to work in the police station as soon as possible, otherwise the British might really send Roque back to Hong Kong to recuperate.

Don't think this is a good thing, according to Roque's understanding of the British, most of the British will not be so kind, if Roque gets on the boat, then there is an eighty percent chance that he will be thrown into the sea by the British to feed the fish halfway, anyway, Roque has no relatives in this world, and the British don't even have to pay a pension.

What's more, Roque didn't want to go back to Hong Kong, let alone go back to the Qing Dynasty, before coming to Cape Town again, Roque was a member of the Huayong Battalion, ordinary people may not know about the Huayong Battalion, but as a half-baked history lover, Roque just knew about the Huayong Battalion, this unit is known as the most elite traitor army in history, and their most glorious moment was in the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, because they fought bravely in the battle to break through the Qing capital, and appeared at the Forbidden City parade as a member of the British army.

Although the British claimed that this was a reward for the Huayong battalion, but if you think about it carefully, you will know how vicious the British hand is, if no one has noticed the Huayong battalion in the previous war, the fact that the Huayong battalion participated in the military parade ceremony has firmly nailed the Huayong battalion to the pillar of historical shame at the same time, it has also completely solved the problem of loyalty of the Huayong battalion, no matter what reason they joined the Huayong battalion, they have become traitors to their own ethnic group, and they will never be accepted by their own ethnic group.

So don't think about it when you go back to the Qing Dynasty, let's honestly be a policeman in Cape Town and a dog leg of the British.

"Luo, how do you feel? Are you going to be discharged from the hospital today? A gentle voice woke Roque up, this was Melody, the nurse in charge of Roque's care, she was a descendant of the Dutch, that is, what the British called Boer farmers, in fact, the Boers were also white, and not the same thing as the native of Cape Town.

After more than 200 years of colonization, the Boers can actually be regarded as the indigenous people of Cape Town, but after the British seized the Cape colony from the Boers, they stubbornly classified the Boers and local blacks as natives, even if the Boers are not much different from the British in appearance.

"I feel good, thank you Melody, I want to get back to work as soon as possible, my colleagues have complained to me several times because I'm not there and the dogs on that street have been a lot more arrogant lately." Thanks to his many years of foreign trade, Roque's English is not bad, although he can't speak the standard London accent, but he has no problem communicating with the vast majority of British people.

This is enough to surprise Melody, few Chinese in this era understand English, and even if they do, most of them have a similar level of English to Indians, with strange accents and grammatical errors everywhere, even if it is an official translator of the Huayong Battalion, many times when communicating with British officers, they have to assist in gestures, even so, they are often confused.

Luo Ke can experience this feeling, when he used to do foreign trade, many foreigners thought that their Chinese was good, and insisted on communicating with Luo Ke in Chinese, which was often the most painful moment for Luo Ke.

"Luo, your English is very good, where did you learn it?" Melody instantly turned into a curious baby, it's really good, in terms of simple accent, Roque's English is more standard than Melody, and the difference between this is probably as big as that between Mandarin and Guangpu.

"My former commanders, you know, they were pure English." Roque dared to swear that he used "pure", not "purebred", but it was obviously a good word, and the taste of "purebred" came out of Roque's mouth, which immediately made Melody tremble.

As a Boer, although Melody now works for the British, don't expect Melody to have much affection for the British, Roque's situation is the same as Melody's, it's like two colleagues complaining about the boss when they have a private meal, quickly closing the distance between each other.

Of course, Melody would not ask why the British officers of the Huayong battalion would teach Roque a Chinese to learn English, although this does not sound reasonable, but who can not have a secret.

Moreover, even if Melody asked, Roque had something to say, after all, Roque was not an ordinary soldier when he was in the Huayong Battalion, but an ordinary corporal, although it still sounds very "ordinary", but this is already the highest military rank that a Chinese can get in the Huayong Battalion.

"Well, then then there will be a pure English doctor to examine you next, and as long as he approves it, then you can go back to work, otherwise you may be sent back to the Far East." Melody's words immediately lifted Roque's heart.

Melody may not have known what it meant to Roque to be sent back to the Qing Kingdom, but Roque did.