Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"I do know about it," Gao Qingyu replied. "It seems to be a model that can be loaded, but I don't play it, so I didn't ask in detail."

"Then why not give it a try? Come on, let's form a discussion group."

After adding two people's Fetion, he pulled them into a discussion group and also pulled Han Xingzhi in.

[There are only six or seven of you, why do you want to form two groups? It takes up a lot of space.]

"Because they are not from the Thunder Department, they are guests."

"What high school girls? I think you'll be forming ten groups of five sooner or later. Okay, let's get started."

In the discussion group, Han Xingzhi was the first to ask:

"Brother? What's the matter?"

"Pass the Tetris."

"Oh, pass it to these two? Wait a moment."

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Gao Shiyu stood up all of a sudden. "I saw it again! I saw it again!"

He took off his blindfold and stared at the empty space in front of him. "Oh!!! How do you play this thing? Teach me, how do you play it? Just fill the falling blocks into a line? Oh oh oh!"

His whole body suddenly started to move as if the accelerator had been stepped on, and he came back to life. His sluggish spirit was instantly revived.

You guessed it right! Internet addiction can indeed be cured by surfing the Internet.

"Shangluo. Oh no, big brother!"

"I'm the one who calls him Big Brother! I'm the only one who can call him Big Brother! Have you sworn brotherhood with him? So you call him Big Brother?"

"Then can I call you Big Brother? Han. Han or something, Big Brother? I call you Big Brother? Or give me some more?"

"Well, that's great. Since my eldest brother asked me to distribute them to you, then I will. Come on, here are more than 200, take your pick."

"Want them all!"

"You want all of them? Can you fit them all in?"

"No problem at all. We can fit another 400 of these."

Han Xingzhi sent out a string of ellipsis, "Why do I feel like I should call you Big Brother?"

"Okay, okay, you call me Big Brother, and I call you Big Brother, and we can talk about our own affairs."

"That won't work. I only have Shangluo as my big brother, so you should be my second brother. I'll pass it on to you. Oh, did big brother tell you? These can be played online. Since you are so good, why not just play offline? I'll hang up first. We are still debugging the car here."

"Online?" He put down the Fetion card and asked Shangluo, "Can this game be linked to each other? For example, can I see yours?"

"Yeah." Shangluo nodded, "Do you want to try it?"

Sinisterly, he pulled Apollonia into the game room.

【I’m so awesome!!!】

"How powerful?"

[Don't talk, let me concentrate! ]

Shangluo could only see the screen spinning rapidly like a kaleidoscope, with the Tetris blocks on both sides rising high and then collapsing at the same speed.

[Ahhh! I'm serious! I now possess the power of the Spear of the Apollo, and I make the rules! Phlogiston Infusion: Spear of the Apollo, cut!]

Shangluo watched as the pool on Gao Shiyu's side changed, from horizontal strips to squares, and then squares again, squares all the time, and they couldn't be squeezed into the last crack at all.

2 seconds later, he lost.

[Hey, fight me. Boy, have you witnessed the power of Helios?]

Chapter 351 Ethernet

"Hey, hey, hey, are you going a little too far?"

[If I speed up just to win, I'll consume even more phlogiston. I might as well just intercept him.]

"Then why do you have to beat him?"

If I, an internet native, lose even a game, where will my dignity be?

"But he's almost a native. He can't see anything except spiritual energy."

[He only gets angry because he lost in a competition. My realm is clearly several levels higher than his. This guy doesn't even seem like a Qigong practitioner.]

"It seems that it is true."

Shangluo had asked him before, and the answer was that Gao Shiyu was indeed not a Qigong practitioner. The reason was that Qigong practitioners were different from celestial beings. Celestial beings didn't have a foundation if they hadn't established it, but Qigong practitioners were a concept that was artificially categorized. If one wanted, one could divide them into one, two, three, four, or five levels. And Gao Shiyu, aside from his spiritual consciousness, hadn't really trained anything else.

There was no other way around it, because many exercises were simply impossible for him, a congenitally blind person, to perform, such as hitting the wooden man.

"That's why I told you not to take him too seriously. He's so powerful because he's been trying to use his spiritual senses to replace his vision since he was a child. For example, many blind people become more sensitive to hearing or touch after going blind, and their brains compensate with sensory functions. For example, their feet compensate with motor functions. So he's practicing all the time."

"Yeah, I know that too. But I suddenly realized that I'm a little too lazy. I'm actually on the same level as a little kid."

"Hey, look on the bright side, he's the same age as you. I asked, he's a sophomore in high school, the same age as you."

[Wuwuwu~~ Can you help me ask if there are any classic books on esoteric cultivation that I can read?]

"Just play more games."

"No, I refuse." Apollonia flatly refused. "Games are games. Treating them as a form of spiritual practice will ruin the fun of the game. Games are a sacred pure land, and I will not let reality pollute it!"

"Tsk, why are all the people in your family so stubborn? Okay, okay, I'll ask for you."

This matter was added to the agenda. However, its importance had to be put on the back burner. After all, she herself seemed too lazy to practice. Even if it was brought to her, she probably wouldn't even look at it. Living with Shangluo was still too comfortable for her.

"Um, Shangluo, another plate?"

"Come again? Didn't you feel something was wrong just now?"

When that huge pile of blocks fell, the people of Shangluo were stunned. Was it going to happen again?

"Well, let's do it again."

[Ha! If you still don't give up, then let me wake you up!]

The same trick was used again, but this time, not a single long strip fell from Gao Shiyu's side from beginning to end. In just a dozen seconds, Gao Shiyu had piled up a "slit in the sky" and was only a few long strips away from disappearing, but none came.

"You lost again." Shangluo didn't even act this time, his hands didn't even press any buttons.

"Amazing! Shangluo, how did you do that? Did you intercept the message sent to me by the spiritual network? I looked at it twice and still couldn't understand it."

[This is called 'interception', you get it, haha. Go back and study for another ten years, little brat!]

"Forehead"

"I understand. Is this the magical power of Chishijun? Then I won't ask any more questions. I will come back to ask for your advice when I have learned more."

I suddenly felt a little threatened. How on earth could I sleep?

"You're so good at self-criticism! It's like the sun is rising from the west! Do you really want to practice? Are you just saying it casually?"

Wait until I come out. I mean it. Once a stable Ethernet network is established and the network has continuity, I will start.

"What is Ethernet? Is it the Romans' cyberspace?"

"Ethernet is a more formal term, not often used in daily life. It's mainly used to refer to the virtual world-building part of Phlogiston Undercover. Theoretically, your cave is a form of Ethernet, but it's not always occupied. It only operates when you're inside observing."

"Well, it's running locally after all."

Therefore, server stability is extremely important to me. My torrents, like my childhood self, can only grow up once, never again. If something goes wrong with the server and the files are lost, I'll be devastated. So I have to wait until the Ethernet environment stabilizes, when people can access the network anytime, anywhere. Only then can I get it out.

"Hey, are you sure you won't pinch your face?"

There's no need to tweak my face! Just look at Faertong's looks, and you'll see that the average appearance in our family is pretty high! There's no need to tweak my face. It's what it was before, and it's what it is now. And in principle, it has to be 'myself' for me to fit in perfectly.

"But it's soon."

According to the schedule, he would be able to go to Alexandria tomorrow afternoon to start the process of activating Blackstone. Originally, he was only going there to do this business, but now, for the sake of the car, he still had to go get a key.

[Do you want to make a key? How many keys do you want?]

"What the hell have you been watching? Eating random things will give you freckles."

The next day was the same as the next.

"Making keys, huh? How many keys do you want?"

At the front desk of the Library of Alexandria, Karin asked him in standard Aurora.

【Tsk. 】

"."

"Are you worthy?" Seeing him stunned, Karin asked again.

"I have one. One is enough."

"Then please wait for a moment with you and your two friends. I will contact the logistics department." After saying that, Karin walked out of the service desk and went upstairs with the service form.

"Hey, Karin, wait, where's that ice cream stand at the door?"

"That ice cream stand? Look back, it's in the lounge area next door. They made a lot of money and now have a shop inside the library. But they still sell the same three kinds of ice cream."

Shangluo blinked: "Those silhouettes actually made such a choice?"

"That surprised me, too. Maybe it's because I don't have enough money, after all, selling ice cream doesn't bring in much. But it could also be that something went wrong. I felt something strange when I went to buy ice cream. Well, if it's all right, I'll go first." She took two steps, then suddenly turned around and smiled:

"I almost forgot to mention that I was a little excited to see you at first. Welcome to Cyberlania, my friends."

"Wow~~" Gao Shiyu had been staring around with his mouth hanging open since he emerged from the lighthouse. Compared to the teapot, Cyberlania was closer to the real world. This was a city, and it had people in it. Lots of people.

“It turns out there are so many people in this world~~”

"Of course, what do you think?"

"I thought it would be at least an order of magnitude less, because normally we can only feel it at hand."

Gao Qingyu, who was standing by, kept looking at Karin. She watched Karin go up to the second floor and disappear around the corner of the stairs.

Chapter 352 Drachma

"Are you familiar with her?" she asked Shangluo.

"Well, we are destined to be together."

His fate with Karin was truly remarkable. If it weren't for Karin's suffering, and the mayor of Lake Nemi hadn't revealed the whole story, he would have missed out on the ultimate reward—perhaps even missed out on the opportunity to connect with the highest levels of Rome, and any subsequent collaborations would have been difficult to achieve.

Although it is possible to get in touch through other channels, it is more interesting and natural to meet naturally because of fate.

"Fate? Well, she's not human."

"How did you know?"

"Eh?" Gao Shiyu was stunned for a moment, "It really isn't that? Could it be a female ghost?"

Shangluo quickly glanced upwards and saw that Karin was indeed not there. "Luckily, she didn't hear it. That wasn't a female ghost, it was an elf."

"Sure enough." Gao Qingyu was still looking in the direction Karin had left. "Just now, I heard the sound. She wasn't speaking with her throat, but was vibrating the space. She didn't walk into the corridor normally just now. She turned around and disappeared."

"Elves don't seem to have fixed forms, so that's why. In the mortal world, they're bound by the bodies they inhabit, but here, they just rely on habit."

"Eh?" Gao Shiyu wondered, "Isn't that still a female ghost?"

A slap came from the sky, and it was his sister who did it.

"You little blind man, can you please stop talking! No one will think you're dumb if you don't speak! Why are you so excited?"

"Because I can see! You can also take off your headphones. Aren't you excited?"

"No matter how excited I am, I won't look around like you. Don't think you can stare around with your glass beads open just because you don't have pupils!" Even when scolding her, Gao Qingyu kept her voice down. She was very sensitive to sound and kept her voice at the appropriate volume for a library.

"Ah, you two." Before Gao Shiyu got beaten, Shangluo pulled him aside. "Want some ice cream?"

"Eat! I heard ice cream comes in many shapes, right? I've eaten it before, but I've never seen it before. It's hard to feel the shape when you lick it. Sometimes I even want to drop a drop of torch on the ice cream to see the shape, but I stop in the end."

"Those two tourists, please come this way."

As a local who has been here twice, Shangluo is already very familiar with the situation here——

"How many???"