Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"It doesn't matter." Zhu Xianfen waved his hand, "You are my elder, so you should come out to greet me. Besides, this is the last time, so there is no need to talk about many etiquette."

"Yeah" Agathocles looked inside the car. As soon as he entered, he saw two familiar figures - Shangluo, whom he had seen last time. There is another one, the alchemist.

After a brief greeting, Agathocles spoke:

"Actually, before coming this time, I informed His Majesty the Emperor about something. This matter may require some assistance from you."

"Huh? What's the matter?" Shangluo asked.

"Do you like pandas?" asked Agathocles.

"Eh? Ah" the same question made Shangluo stunned for a moment, "Yes, I like it."

"We all love it. Pandas are a symbol of peace in the world and a treasure of this world. None of the other animals in the world are as kind as pandas. But we can no longer raise pandas. We have to get the panda back."

"Ah! So that's what happened! How many are there?"

"Not too many. There are 12 in Constantinople, and they are all national gifts given to us by Cathay. Pandas are also very popular in Constantinople, and they have to be sent back this time. This really makes us... I can't bear it - but pandas can't sink with us after all. Pandas should live well in the sun. So before Rome falls, we have to send pandas back. But..."

"Huh?" Shangluo realized something was wrong, "But, something happened?"

"The trouble happened not here. It was in New Antioch - we were loading all the pandas on the plane and sent them back to Cathay, but there was a big problem in New Antioch: the pandas were stolen."

"what?"

【ha? ? ? 】

Both of them were stunned.

Who is so wicked? What good is there in stealing pandas?

"I don't understand this matter." Agathocles shook his head. "This inexplicable thing happened is really distressing and makes it difficult for me to explain. I have ordered it to be forwarded to Colombia in advance. The pandas over there are just afraid of something like this happening. Unexpectedly, they still failed to guard against it - Your Excellency Apollonia is also surprised, right? We all thought the same."

【But why? I still can't figure it out. Why would someone steal a panda? 】

"If I could think about it, I would be a criminal. We think the panda thing is very important, it is not our own business. The panda is a treasure of the whole world, and it is a precious gift given to us by China. We don't want to At such a critical moment, let the world's elves be harmed. Otherwise, we will never rest in peace even after we die."

"So this is what you want me to do?"

"Yes." Agathocles nodded, "Although I feel a little guilty for having to trouble you to deal with these things. But the matter is so important that I can only let you take action. We have already contacted you. The Governor of Colombia, Mr. Pompeo, also expressed that he will fully cooperate with your actions. Although we and Pompeo have many differences in views, we both believe that pandas should be excluded from the dispute. Any behavior that harms pandas is Intolerable. So in this matter, Colombia will grant you the highest authority and you will have unimpeded access in Colombia."

"Ah" Shangluo nodded, "I understand. This is indeed very important. But since it is related to pandas, do we have to let Zhu Ling come with us?"

"No, no, no, no, no." Zhu Xianfen shook his head repeatedly, "This won't work. Zhu Ling has been too busy recently, she"

[I think it is still necessary to let her come. ] Apollonia said, [She is the expert on pandas. Since it has something to do with pandas, of course she has to be called. 】

"Her mobility is not good and she will hold you back. I think this matter can only be done by the two of you."

[How can there be only two. Everyone needs to be called. We also need to call Miss Karin from Lake Nemi. 】

"Miss Karin? Who is that? The Karin who was Alexandria's librarian? Yes, she is indeed traveling with you."

【? ? ? ] The Alchemist's screen flickered for a moment, but quickly returned to normal, [Why? 】

"Official business. Some materials in the Great Library need to be transferred from New Antioch, but Pompey is not very cooperative in this regard, so Alexander's action team will arrive at the same time as you to negotiate with Pompey. Apollonia Pavilion hopes that Ka Will Lin also join your operation? If you need it, you can bring her here."

"It's not necessary." Shangluo whispered, "Just a few people can go."

【want! Call them all! 】

"Yes." Agathocles nodded, "Actually, I think it is necessary. Shangluo - or His Majesty the King of Rome, previously said that he would assign a guard to you, and now it has been decided. In this operation, we A mixed force will be assigned to you for your use. After the mission is over, they will be directly assigned to your command for deployment. The location of the joint will be given to you before the action, because they themselves do not know where to go before the action begins. Where to connect.”

"Ah, no need, right?" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "Although it's very important, it's just a kidnapping case, so there doesn't seem to be any need to be so grand? I still think the two of us can go. Isn't this lineup too luxurious?"

"Although it's just a kidnapping case, the one kidnapped is a panda. Not to mention, the lion and the rabbit have to do their best. Only by using thunderous means can the safety of the panda be protected. If you encounter those robbers, you don't need to make any declaration. Just shoot them dead on the spot. I think they would want to be killed on the spot, because we Romans also have our own views on torture. They touched the untouchable elves with their dirty hands, and they should be punished for their actions Pay the price for eternity.”

Chapter 707 Doomsday Weapon [Aotearoa]

The Silver Dragon is now running on the Beijing-Shanghai line as a royal special train. Like the golden chariots of the past, the Silver Dragon's front was first hung with the Taichang flag, indicating that the emperor himself was on board.

Most of the carriages are empty, with special troop carriages at the head and tail, and the middle carriage is replaced by a rolling stock carriage. The carriage was originally a palace, with a living area almost the same as that of Zhu Xianfen's Changchun Palace, but it ran on the Beijing-Shanghai main line at a speed of 223 kilometers per hour.

The high-speed railway is independent of the existing lines. It takes less than two hours from Guomen to the capital. Zhu Xianfen came on this car in the morning. The three-meter giant wide track and the entire elevated route made the entire train run smoothly, and the water in the teacup did not slosh.

"It turns out that this is what the World Island Railway should have been like. It's a pity that Rome has missed such a great cause."

Agathocles held the tea cup with his right hand, while his left hand held the cuff of his toga flat. Anyone could see that his left hand could no longer move, and his posture was as stiff as a stone. But Zhu Xianwen didn't ask.

"You want to ask about this arm." Agathocles put down the teacup. "Your Majesty, you are very perceptive. I remember that you discovered it when you were a child."

"Yeah." Zhu Xianfen nodded.

"I am here to tell you these secrets. Victoria, you are still too reckless. She has other matters to deal with now. But before I tell you, I have a small problem. I heard before that the king of Rome and the end of Rome The gods and machines are one body, but today it seems that they have been separated? Is there any contradiction? "

"I'm trying to bridge their differences."

"Your efforts are in vain. This is the division of the divinity, and it is also the fate of Apollonia - she has always longed for one thing: she longed for the true birth. She tried all methods, independent Personality - she started talking nonsense and making prophecies at the age of 8; independent actions - she ran away; independent avatar - I found that she has used her own seeds; and now, she uses alchemy People. She has always wanted to be truly born as an independent person. This is her long-cherished wish."

"Should we grant her wish?"

"If it was supposed to happen, she shouldn't have been sealed off in the first place. Because."

He paused. The following topic was too heavy even for him:

"Because the perfect sun god has the ability to see all the future - but she has no way to change it. A prophecy that cannot be changed is no different from a curse. We try to disrupt the future, and she talks nonsense about disrupting the future. We would rather The whole Oracle and the whole empire are with her in circles. We just."

"You just don't want to wake up from your dream. We call this ghost beating the wall."

"Rome should never have existed. The arrival of Amon Zeus revealed our secret and false past. It turned out that Rome should have perished at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Europe belongs to the Germans, to England, France, and Germany. The Western Hemisphere does not belong to us, but to the United States of America. The whole world will fall into the hands of the evil barbarians! When we know all this, we can no longer pretend to sleep. We already know the past, and we don’t want to know the future. I once thought that instead of doing this, I might as well blow up half the other world.”

"Really?"

"We are indeed prepared, but it is not a literal explosion. However, it is a better idea to hand it over to Cathay - our inheritance would rather be given to friendly countries than to domestic slaves."

"Ah, I would rather be a friend than a domestic slave." Zhu Xianxian shook his head, "Speaking of it, this sentence is also one of many prophecies. It is still from our side. But I am not worried."

"Of course you don't have to worry, because you can still control your own destiny in that future. And knowing that you are on the right path makes your confidence even stronger. You can see the "Nantianmen Project" when you open your eyes. We When I open my eyes, I can only see Sodom rising up one after another - thank you so much! This barbarian saying is really appropriate at this time. The most intolerable thing is that they actually filed all the paint off the statue ! Just taking a glance at it, I can’t imagine what it will be like to actually see that future.”

"So." Zhu Xianfen put down the tea cup, "Knowing the future is not necessarily a bad thing. We have never believed in that kind of fate, and we would not rely on imprisoning a girl to save the world. That would be too humble. No matter how the situation changes, we all have our own power of action - there is a saying: the left eye will make money, and the right eye will be silent. No matter how much Rome does, it will not be immune to the twilight of the gods. Coming, isn’t it?”

“.” I was speechless.

"Since your methods have failed, let us take charge. Daozu knows what to do. Shangluo is guiding her, and she is also guiding Shangluo. We have also accepted the inheritance of our allies. We will fight the lawsuit over the inheritance dispute. As for those barbarians, we have already prepared bombs."

"bomb?"

"Gathering the power of creation to your fingertips - well, saying fingertips is a bit exaggerated, but the 500 tons carried by the Water Dragon are just fingertips relative to the earth. With just one finger, the heaven and earth will change color. It The principle of. Well, I can tell you. The principle of [Great Harmony between Heaven and Earth] is——"

Before speaking, Zhu Xianfen snapped his fingers, the glass windows dimmed, and the air became stagnant.

"So that's it! That's it. It's really similar to ours!" Agathocles exclaimed, "Sure enough, not only do we have the same aesthetics as wide-sleeved deep clothes, but we also have similar ways of dealing with problems."

"Huh???" Zhu Xianfen was just about to untie himself and look at the scenery outside the window, when his hand stopped in mid-air, "You also have a bomb? What's its name?"

"This is also one of the reasons why I came here. The Roman bomb, the Roman doomsday weapon, is called [Aotearoa], which literally means the land of white clouds."

"This name is really cute, why does it sound a little weird?" It sounded like the name of some kind of gummy candy or a fairy tale. It didn't look like the name a "doomsday weapon" should have.

"It comes from the eureka (inspiration) shared with us by the Maori indigenous people. It is a very important inspiration. To commemorate this inspiration, we named the doomsday weapon after Aotearoa in Maori."

"So what is the principle of this 'Mianmian Baiyun Township'?"

"It's similar to you guys. It can also be said that the power of creation is gathered at the fingertips. The specific principle is."

Agathocles explained the principle.

"Wait, there's something wrong! It's completely different! It's better to say it's the complete opposite! You are even more of a (Jinling Yayan)! This stretch of white clouds sounds like a pink rabbit, but it's really terrifying! We also It's just a plan to physically blow the barbarian into ashes, but you are going to erase his past, present and future! I feel chills running down my back after hearing this."

"Well, it does seem different. After all, we originally planned to use those bombs to destroy the Western Hemisphere, so as not to cause you any trouble."

"Lord Agathocles, where are those bombs?"

"All our practices are in Colombia, so the bomb is also in Colombia. However, we plan to detonate it on the spot, not to deliver it. After all, there is no way to deliver it. After all, the original purpose of the design is to kill oneself. Now those [Ott Yalova] is being dismantled in an orderly manner because it is planned to transfer the heritage to Cathay. Although Pompeo does not agree to end it like this, he does not want those bombs to stay on his territory."

"Is there a place where Shangluo went?"

"Of course there is. As the capital of Colombia, Nuovo Antioch is the primary target of [Aotearoa], and we are the ones we are bombing. That Aotearoa is deployed under the central area of ​​Manhattan so that it can be destroyed after the explosion. Covering the whole of New Antioch. But don't worry, that one has been dismantled. It's completely safe. A non-existent bomb won't explode."

Chapter 708: The endless white cloud countryside

"New Antioch?" Phaethon raised his head from behind the newspaper, "No, you can't go - I originally wanted to say that I don't recommend you go, but I think it's better to just say it directly. You can't go."

"why?"

"Because there is an [Aotearoa] right under the Manhattan metropolis of Antioch."

"Otea what?"

[Aotearoa, Rome’s ultimate weapon. Aotearoa is Maori, literally translated as the land of rolling white clouds. This is a bit of a bad name, but very appropriate. But out of respect for this ultimate weapon, we generally call it Nyx, or 'Bomb N'. 】

"Um, what is that? A nuclear bomb?"

【no. Quite the opposite - have you ever seen a puffball that explodes with spores when you step on it? If a nuclear bomb could explode a mushroom cloud, Aotearoa would be a giant puffball. 】

"So, what exactly is Aotearoa?"

[Let me tell you a story. When our anthropologists visited Maori tribes for inspection, they once asked the local chiefs: Why don't you leave the tribes and go to the city? The chief's answer was: Because we want to live in Aotearoa. 】

"Uh what do you mean?"

[The anthropologist asked the same question: What exactly is Aotearoa. The chief told him a story: the leopard and the shrike. 】

The little shrike lamented to his father why the shrike would hide in the trees whenever lions and leopards appeared. My father said that this is how birds live. The little shrike retorted: "But ostriches are also birds. If lions and leopards attack ostriches, ostriches will kick them to death."

"But you are not an ostrich." The father replied.

"But I am a bird, and an ostrich is also an ostrich. I have to learn to kick away lions and leopards like an ostrich."

So the little shrike practiced kicking insects and tree branches for a week. A week later, the little shrike met the leopard.

"I'm a smart bird! I've learned to kick like an ostrich. If you come any closer, I'll kick you to death!"

The leopard opened its mouth and swallowed the kicking shrike in one gulp: "This stupid bird actually wants to be another animal. If it flies away like other birds, my old leopard will have to die today." It's starving. If it wants to be something it can never be, it has to feed me."

[This is what the Maori chief told the Roman anthropologist. Then, the Roman anthropologist asked two questions - first, I don't know about the shrike, but do we have lions, leopards and ostriches here? Second, what does the story mean? 】

"What did the chief say?" Shangluo asked.

First, I heard this story. A large ship docked, bearing tales, so we knew what was happening in the world. We knew that once you returned, a Roman fleet would arrive to colonize. So the point is: everything in Aotearoa has its own rules. You interlopers who seek to disrupt the peace of the land of the white clouds, we will eat you! And then, the anthropologists were eaten by the Maori. When we arrived, all we had left was this notebook.

"." Shangluo covered his forehead, "I almost forgot that the Maori who came up with the name Mianmian Baiyun Township are cannibals."

[So our explanation for this is: Maori know everything. In fact, through various cargo shipments, they at least know about major events in the outside world. But they chose to maintain their eternal lifestyle and deliberately used cannibalism to reject the intervention of outsiders. In addition, Maori people are very poor, so there are no boring adventurers who go to Maori to cause trouble. This closed eternity ensured that Māori remained undisturbed and stable in pre-modern society - that is, Aotearoa. Aotearoa is the Maori name for the world in which they live. 】

“So that’s how it is”

"That's it. I have nothing to add." Phaethon looked at him, "So, you should know what this stretch of white clouds is. Then, you should also be able to guess that it is now called [ What are the bombs in Aotearoa used for?"

"Yeah." Shangluo nodded, "Since time is the enemy of eternity, then as long as we screen out new experiences and let time stand still in some way, eternity will naturally be established. So, [Otearo Watt] is a memetic bomb capable of establishing absolute closure?”

"You tell me. Let me add something." Phaethon handed the words to Apollonia.

[The guess is basically correct. 'Aotearoa' as a doomsday weapon is a memetic bomb. It is said to be a bomb, but it requires a complicated process to activate. When it explodes, it will not produce the shock wave of a normal bomb, and you will not even notice that anything has exploded within the explosion range. But once started, the time in the blast zone will fall irresistibly into the end-to-end Mobius cycle. There is no past, no future, just cycles over and over again. 】

"And it will keep falling." Phaethon added, "The cycle may be longer at the beginning, and finally it will stabilize at about 24 hours a day and night, and then slowly lose it like a lag, until it starts and ends, 0 and ∞ , all fit together.”

"??????" Shangluo was stunned, "Why are you doing this?"

[Let me ask you another question: If Rome perishes, what will happen to the archangel in Saint Sophia? 】

"Shall I go talk to him? At least for now."

[That is now when you are here, you can handle it this way now. The Romans had no idea you existed - and there were many more unstoppable disasters. So in order to solve all the mysteries once and for all after the fall of the Roman Empire and not cause trouble to Cathay, we used the story of the Maori people as inspiration and made 999 Aotearoa and scattered them around the world, preparing to bring the entire Western Hemisphere to the world. All important targets are detonated simultaneously. For example, if we detonate Aotearoa in Hagia Sophia, we can fix Aetna's present into a semi-eternal dream. 】

"So. How strong is this kind of isolation from the outside world?"

[So strong that even minimal observation can only be done once a year - just like a key and a lock cylinder match each other, only the stars on the sky turn to the 'locked' position, 'Aotearoa Big Dream' will loosen up. 】

"Also." Phaethon suppressed his voice, "Considering the precession caused by the precession of the earth's axis, the earth's stars will change slightly with a cycle of 26000. In other words, the true perfect coincidence is not once a year, but It is once every 26000 years, which means that the 'decisive correction' may not be carried out a second time on the scale of human history. Because if one [Aotearoa] is detonated today, it may have to wait for the human The history of civilization cannot completely eliminate its influence until it enters the 30th millennium."

Chapter 709 Bomb N

"So." Phaethon concluded, "To the outside world, Aotearoa is no deterrent. But if you get inside, Aotearoa will eat people, literally. You can eat people without spitting out their bones. So, I think it’s very dangerous and you’d better not go.”

[Actually, my opinion is the same. I was the boss and shouldn't have agreed to it before. It's not too late to regret it now. 】