Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"There is no limit. Just try to choose a writing method that is more recognizable. Writing is not the same as printing newspapers. Newspapers and other printed materials do need certain rules. When you write by yourself, just choose a writing method that is more popular. Don't The writing is too abrupt. Even we are not sure about some of the writing methods. The word "turtle" for turtle is a big mess, who can understand it. No one will say anything if it is written as turtle. If you write dragon, you can write dragon. It doesn’t matter, that’s how I wrote it, and no one typed it wrong for me.”

"Okay" Phaethon nodded, "In order to live up to my father, I will definitely learn it. But, I have a small request."

"Go ahead."

"Can you cover a shift for me?"

Chapter 568 Retreat and Practice

"Substitute? What substitute?"

"Over there at the Golden Arches. I can try to quit as many as possible, based on time, but some have a few classes that I really can't turn down. Can you help me take a class? Anyway, the Golden Arches are run by Jinyiwei, so they are all It’s your familiar face.”

"Not every Golden Arch is opened by Jin Yiwei! Only a few are, and most of them just have a phone there."

"The ones that can't be pushed away are all opened by Jinyiwei." Phaethon replied, "Specifically, it's the one under the Wutai Mountain Stadium. Because the Golden Arch Gate that actually has Jinyiwei stationed will not recruit people at will. After I asked for leave, they For a while, I couldn’t find anyone to replace me.”

"Okay, okay. Okay. What else?"

"As for Yanqiu, please take care of her. It's been quite busy these two days, so remember to remind her to eat."

"Okay, okay. What else?"

"No. It's like I'm going to give my last words."

"It depends on how long you have to go. A few years is too long for you, right? How long do you plan to go?"

"One day, one day at most, and then maybe a few months or something in between."

"Good guy, your study efficiency is quite high?"

"After all, it's not good to stay in there for too long - by the way, there won't be any problem if you stay in there for too long, right?"

"I don't know either. Isn't this the first time you go to hell?"

"So you are using me as a test subject, right?"

"Hey, if you don't go to hell, who will. But this is just using the phlogiston environment of that world and not directly contacting people in that world. It should be no problem. And you didn't stay in there the whole time, right? ?”

"Yeah. The real study time should be almost two months. Because I have to take a break every once in a while to calm down."

【This is indeed how it should be. Because we don't yet understand how this system works. If I stay in there for too long at a time, I think something might go wrong. Ask her to take out her phone and let's discuss the specific plan. 】

5 minute later.

[Well, that’s it. You come out every 21 days, and I will be there with you during this period. If you spend 21 minutes a day for 4 days, it means you have to go out and enjoy the sunshine once every hour. Repeating it twice should be enough, because after all, there is not that much to learn. 】

"Three times at most." Phaethon replied, "After all, this is from entry to burial. I have to finish it in sixty days. Then I can't waste a day, and I have to plan carefully every day. Okay. Don’t waste a day.”

"I feel like it's quite profitable. I want to go in for some retreat." If you think about it this way, it's really convenient to go in. Repeat three times for 21 days, which is 63 days. You can do a lot in 63 days, but the outside world only lasts a few hours.

You can really achieve "three days of farewell" in it, because three days is three years, and you can learn anything you want to learn in three years.

[Hmm] Apollonia added: [I suspect this may consume a considerable amount of phlogiston. When your senior went there for inspection, I saw the phlogiston indicator spinning in circles like flying. This is the first time it has been used for so long. After all, you accelerated it inside. There must be something to pay for the extra time you have. 】

"I understand." Phaethon nodded, "Because I am a test subject, you won't have to settle a score with me, right?"

"Hey, it's nothing." Shangluo waved his hand, "You go in and practice in seclusion, and leave the outside matters to me."

"Then you have to eat by yourself when I'm not around."

"If you don't mind, you can come out and make the steamed buns before going in."

"Huh? How to do this?"

"Look, after you make the noodles, you have to wake them up and steam them in a pot, right? It takes one and a half hours to wake up the noodles, and another one and a half hours to steam them. Isn't that good?"

"."

"Hey, I'm just kidding. Are you angry?"

"I'm not angry, this is what I should do. I'm just afraid that you will starve yourself to death when I'm not around. You look like this."

"You can only go there for one day."

"Ha, for you to go for one day, for me to go for four semesters of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and it is a retreat - this is really a retreat, you practice in a closed place, and I don't know if you will be able to achieve great success when you come out. "

"Ah~~ Then I wish you good luck?"

Phaethon nodded: "I will guide you when you come out. I am really afraid that you will starve yourself to death. Make the dough by yourself. After making the dough, I will take a look at you and then take it to wake up the dough. After you wake up, come out and watch again. Take one look and then steam it."

"Okay. When will you go?"

"It's better to hurry up than to rush early." Phaethon glanced at the clock, "Tomorrow afternoon to evening, I will be in seclusion until I come out. Then at six o'clock, I will start to cover the Golden Arches for me. Night shift, you can cover until 12 o'clock."

"No problem." Shangluo said "OK" to her, "Do I still need to go to Yanqiu?"

"Yes, see if Yanqiu calls you before six o'clock. Just go if she calls you. If she doesn't call you, you don't have to go. I have to prepare, bring a change of clothes and luggage. Good guy, it seems like I need to purchase a lot of supplies. ? You have to purchase one year old, right?"

"After all!" Shangluo thought, "The key is here. In this year, the materials you consume will not change, because you can't use things from the 'lower realm' inside. So you have to prepare Food for a year of seclusion is in. Wait a minute. I’ll make a call.”

Shangluo dialed Lu Huaiyang's number——

Two minutes later, the phone hung up.

"No problem. One year's supplies will be placed in the basement tomorrow. One year's instant noodles, ingredients, etc. are all sent in. Anyway, Doudou is serving there, so it's not a big problem. Doudou's wages are also prepared. Okay. Then wait until tomorrow."

The next day, noon.

After a large amount of supplies were moved in, Phaethon also entered.

"Ah" Shangluo was sitting on the sofa in Leibu's lounge, suddenly feeling a little empty. Time inside is passing at 365 times speed. In other words, during the time he sat on the sofa just now, six minutes had passed. And he just turned over and an hour passed inside.

"Well, it's still some time before I go to work. I don't know how to work in Jin Gongmen, but just looking for jobs in the newspaper, it shouldn't be a problem. Even though Jinyiwei owns it, it shouldn't be a problem. But I still don't know how to make steamed bread. Do you want to stop studying? Oh, by the way, go to the Royal Garden and ask Zhu Ling. Ask her what to do."

Chapter 569 Bamboo

"Eh? You actually have time to come here to see me today?" He was bending down to chop bamboo in the forest. Seeing Shangluo coming, Zhu Ling stood up immediately and said, "You're here, help me break a bamboo. It's easier for you to break a bamboo than to break an eel."

"That's fine." Shangluo took out the hunting knife.

He vaguely felt that if the White Deer lady knew that she always used a hunting knife to peel fruits, she would probably be unhappy. But then again, she would be happier if she regarded the hunting knife as a convenient tool instead of a murder knife. Maybe.

As before, Shangluo began to prepare knives. The "sure-killing" sword given by Caesar, he used it to cut grass. Bamboo itself is a large-sized grass, so it is indeed no problem to mow the grass. A hunting knife is kept nearby to break the skin of the cut bamboo. After all, pandas don't eat bamboo skins. Let them slowly break the skin and lose teeth. It's better to peel it first and send it over.

With one stroke of the knife, the bamboos fell one by one. He finished cutting the 20 bamboos to be chopped today in less than a minute.

When he lowered his head to scratch the bamboo skin, Zhu Ling had already brought a glass of ice water.

"Wow, you drink ice water in the winter."

"No one can see you here, so it doesn't matter. In winter, you just need to drink ice water." She handed over the water glass and then asked, "By the way, what are you doing here? You didn't just come to me to chat. Bar?"

"Indeed, there is. But isn't your approach too procedural? Why did you suddenly go from instructing me to work, to giving me a glass of water, and then starting to ask what compensation I need? Did you learn it from your brother? Or is it from your family? Traditional project?”

"Hey, what is this called 'study'? If you usually interact with people, you will understand. Only by interacting with each other can you have friends. If you always ask for things and stretch out your hands to give things, you will not have friends. Look. I don’t like to go out much, and I don’t interact with many people. I interact with a lot of people. You see, I can’t wait for you in this pure mountain. Even though you are the only one who can find it here.”

"Okay. I have a question. I want to ask how to make Wotou."

After briefly explaining the reason, Zhu Ling was stunned for a moment.

"You should have said it earlier. You could have just said you were here for dinner. There are plenty here."

"Who do you think can afford to come to the zoo to eat?"

"It's okay, it's okay, the feed here is wrong, there are plenty of steamed buns here. You don't have to make it yourself, there are ready-made ones here, and they are still steaming on the pot."

"It feels more and more weird that you are greeting me to eat feed like this."

"Hey, this is panda feed. How many people want to eat it but haven't had the chance yet."

"Speak as if you are willing to eat it yourself."

"But you just mentioned that you can speed up? Phaethon is planning to go into seclusion because he needs tutoring."

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

"Can you add someone else?"

"you want to go?"

"Yeah, yeah." Zhu Ling nodded, "The university I'm applying to has stricter examinations on biology, so I want to go in and take some tutoring."

"This is indeed a serious purpose. But are you sure you are ready? If you want to retreat, it will be in vain if you don't retreat for ten days and a half, right?"

"Well, I suddenly feel like I don't have that much perseverance."

"That's right." Shangluo replied, "I quite admire Phaethon's behavior. He went in as he was told, without even looking back. As soon as he entered, he prepared himself to be in seclusion for several months. That's true. It’s amazing. I don’t think I can do it, and I really can’t.”

"I need some mental preparation. But I also think I do need to buy some time. After all, there's always time."

"So you just want to earn some time, right?"

"Hey, as I said, no one thinks that they have too much time. I think it's good to take a break from the busy work and give yourself a vacation. Right! You can go in for a vacation. If you stay there for 10 days, isn't it a 10-day vacation? ?”

"Good guy, you can think about it. But the inside is completely different from the outside."

"Why is it different?"

"Because the speed difference is 365 times, no meaningful information exchange can be carried out between the inside and the outside. One second passes here, and six minutes passes there. This means that you have to send a message that sounds like For one second of sound, you have to keep pronouncing it for six minutes. So..."

He emphasized: "If you go in, you have to go into seclusion or retreat, because it is essentially the same as seclusion. After you go in, all communication with the outside world will be interrupted. You can only communicate with Phaethon next door. Talk, or read the books you brought in."

"Eh? Can't I join the forum?"

"Yes, but bringing a forum in is no different from bringing a book in - or, in other words, it is no different from bringing a newspaper in. Because if you stay inside for a whole day, only four minutes will pass outside, and even four minutes may not be enough. There’s a new post coming out. It’s updated less frequently than a newspaper.”

"." Zhu Ling touched his forehead, "I often wonder what is the fastest way to transmit information. If it is calculated based on songs, the speed of using wireless signals to transmit a piece of audio is probably far behind that of carrying a magnetic disk. A large truck speeding on the highway. The communication speed of the forum should be faster here. But in this case, it would be faster to directly send the physical objects in."

"That's true. So are you ready?"

"Do you want to charge money?" Zhu Ling asked.

"There is no charge for the trial period. It is a free public beta. After all, you need to go in and test the effects of use."

After careful calculation, the cost is actually quite a lot. But now we really need a few testers to go in and test the effect to see if there will be any problems.

"Then, should I prepare? I'll probably give you an answer tomorrow."

"Phaethon will come out tomorrow. You can only stay alone in there."

"Ah, can I find someone to come in with me? I have several classmates who want to make up classes."

"How many exactly?"

"Two other girls."

"Yes, yes." Shangluo nodded, "This multi-person interaction also needs to be tested. After all, one more person will have a different perspective. Then prepare your own food and grass."

"forage?"

"This is indeed similar to the food and fodder you need to prepare for a march. After all, you can't eat food from the 'lower realm'. You can prepare daily necessities for as long as you want to stay. That's fine. If you are sure you want to come, I will give you something Get ready and pick you up at the entrance tomorrow."

"Wait. Wait!" Zhu Ling raised her hand, "I want to communicate with them."

"No problem, feel free. Just reply to me before tonight."

Chapter 570 Meal

"Okay, okay, what's that? Shang Tianjun, come in quickly, come in quickly, the hot steamed buns are ready, I'll serve them to you right now!"

"Why do I feel like you are still teasing me? Tsk, but in fact it tastes really good. You will know how delicious it is after you have been promoted to a heavenly being."

Inside the house, in front of the panda Fufu.

Fufu looks a lot fluffier than last time, and seems to have gained weight again.

Sitting behind the railing, it ate steamed buns. Shangluo sat outside and ate with it. Watching the pandas eat very well, each bite looks very delicious. It was expected that the panda looked at him the same way, because Fufu also kept staring at him.

"Speaking of which," Zhu Ling suddenly asked, "Have you ever eaten steamed buns from other families?"

"no, what happened?"

"Actually, there is this problem - compared with those in Sichuan, the pandas here don't seem to like eating steamed buns."

"Is it possible that I am acclimated? After all, Sichuan is my hometown."

"No, after all, Wotou is a substitute for bamboo. Pandas eating bamboo all day long will reduce their activity time, so they only maintain a small amount of highly processed food like Wotou to supplement the panda's own consumption. If you want to put it that way, is it a matter of taste?"