New York a Century Ago!

The journey that followed was far from peaceful, with several groups of robbers and bandits attempting to rob them, but Victor and James managed to take them all down.

Although the two are still young, they are very fierce in battle, and with each battle, their combat experience becomes richer and richer, and they suffer less and less damage in battle.

At the beginning of the battle, in addition to destroying the weapons that were aimed at them and posed a threat, Chen Mo also had to pay attention at all times during the battle and often had to step in to help eliminate some potentially fatal threats.

However, later on, the two became more adept at handling general situations, trying to dodge enemy attacks in battle and not giving them the opportunity to launch a fatal attack. Chen Mo also gradually reduced the number of times he took action during battle.

In these battles, the two demonstrated exceptional combat talent, their fighting skills becoming increasingly refined. However, this was only relative to their original state. In terms of actual combat skills, they were essentially just street thugs who frequently got into fights. Relying on their superior stamina, endurance, and powerful self-healing abilities that ignored ordinary damage, they could bully ordinary robbers. But if they encountered an enemy with excellent fighting skills, they would still be forced to their knees.

However, there is still a long time ahead. With their extraordinary talent and powerful abilities born for battle, Chen Mo is confident that he can train them into the strongest warriors!

They traveled at a stop-and-go pace, and it took them nearly half a month to cross the Canada border and enter the United States.

However, Chen Mo did not stop there. Instead, he continued eastward, crossing plains and mountains, passing through wilderness, villages, and towns. After nearly ten more days, they finally arrived at their destination, New York, the largest city in the United States.

Early 19th-century New York was both familiar and unfamiliar to Chen Mo.

Back in Captain America's world, he lived in New York for quite some time, but that was in the first half of the 20th century, almost a hundred years ago.

The majestic Trinity Church has stood in Manhattan for over a century, the Metropolitan Museum with its strong medieval Gothic style has been built for over thirty years, and many buildings on Wall Street, the financial center of the United States, have not changed much in the past century.

However, the Statue of Statue of Liberty is not yet standing on the small island at the mouth of the Hudson River, and the Brooklyn Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan Island has not yet begun construction. At this time, the locations of many iconic buildings that Chen Mo will be very familiar with in the future are just low bungalows, small buildings, or even undeveloped wasteland. Only in the southern part of Manhattan Island can one see more of the shadow of the future metropolis.

Although New York at this time was already the largest city and economic center in the United States, with highly developed finance and industry, it was far inferior to later generations in terms of both development level and urban scale. However, it also had a more retro 19th-century charm, with many old buildings that were demolished in later generations still visible everywhere, giving this future modern metropolis a strong historical atmosphere.

At that time, New York City was far smaller than it would be in later years. Not to mention that the four major boroughs of New York in the future —the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island— were still just farmland and ranches. Even Manhattan, the core of New York and the earliest developed Manhattan, had only been partially developed at this time.

New York's current central urban area is actually quite small compared to the large international cities that will follow. It consists of only a small area at the southernmost part of Manhattan Island, centered around Wall Street, covering an area of only a dozen square kilometers. Further north, the northern part of Manhattan Island is still considered a suburb, mainly consisting of residential areas, factories, and farms.

However, New York is developing rapidly, and the urban area is quickly expanding northward.

Although the southern central urban area was not as large as it would be in later times, and did not have as many towering skyscrapers, it was still full of high-rise buildings. One after another, luxurious and magnificent buildings, tens of meters high, stood on both sides of the street, giving it a bustling atmosphere of a metropolis.

Although only 1.5 kilometers long, Wall Street was already as prosperous and bustling as it is today. As the financial and commercial center of the United States, it is home to dozens of large banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges, the headquarters of hundreds of large companies, and hundreds of thousands of employees.

Business, trade, finance, and insurance professionals in suits hurried among the skyscrapers, creating a bustling scene.

As the carriage traveled along, Chen Mo was fine, merely glancing casually at the scenery outside the window with a sense of scrutiny and reminiscence. However, Victor and James had always lived in the countryside and had never traveled far from home, much less seen so many tall and magnificent buildings and wide, orderly yet exceptionally busy streets. For a moment, they felt incredibly novel, their eyes taking in the sights around them with rapt attention.

No wonder Mr. wanted to develop his career in the United States. Only such a developed and beautiful city is worthy of his abilities. Compared to this place, their original manor was simply the most backward and remote village.

The two naive little ones were either peeking out of the car or restless inside. One was peering out the window, while the other couldn't sit still at all. He would sometimes lean against the left window and look up at the towering buildings on the street, and other times he would run to the right window and watch the groups of neatly dressed people in suits on the street.

Chen Mo didn't say anything to them, letting them look around curiously. He only occasionally called out to direct Victor, who was driving in front, towards a hotel that he remembered should already be built and open for business.

Turning a corner, a familiar building appeared in front of Chen Mo. Compared to the World War II era a century later, the building had not changed much, only appearing newer.

After a journey of nearly a month, the dusty carriage finally came to a slow stop in front of a luxury hotel on Fifth Avenue.

Chen Mo led Victor and James into the hotel lobby amidst the doorman's greetings.

The two people who had been curiously looking around in the car just moments before now kept their eyes fixed straight ahead. They no longer looked at the hotel's magnificent lobby with the same curiosity as before, but instead appeared very composed.

James was born into a wealthy family. Although the place he grew up in was not as bustling as New York, his manor was not much less luxurious than this hotel. The only difference was that it was larger and had more floors. The impact it had on him was far less than the "huge" city he saw from the outside.