Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"Colombia is the place where all practices gather. Whatever new things we have are here. However, new things may not be easy to use. No matter how new the thing is, it can't hit our submarines-but it has to go out and show up. "

He looked back: "Your Majesty Victoria, do you want to go out together?"

"No." Victoria shook her head, "I didn't come here just to see Pompeo. Besides, people in Colombia can't see me looking like this."

【She is scared.】

"why?"

[You have been exposed to the occult side of the empire and have never seen the other side. The imperial flag is a double-headed eagle with two heads. Here is another head. The two kings did not meet each other, and she did not want to meet people from Colombia directly. 】

"Okay." Shangluo sighed, "Then, leave it to me."

He looked at Victoria: "Keep in touch with me, I will help with the outside affairs."

"Thank you. I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble every time."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk." Phaethon pressed his cell phone from behind and sent a string of text.

"???" Shangluo replied with a series of question marks.

Phaethon shook his head and put the phone away.

"Well, Your Majesty the King of Rome, now I have a question. Are you going out wearing the same uniform as us, or are you wearing your own clothes?"

"Wear the same thing as you. I'll go change for a while."

"Okay, please go this way to the locker room."

【I want to change clothes too! ] Apollonia shouted.

"Um" Marcus was stunned for a moment, "You mean, your alchemist needs to be disguised? But you can just put it on."

【I want the locker room! 】

"But now you are obviously not wearing anything, why do you want to put on clothes and ask for a changing room? You..." Halfway through, he quickly stopped himself, "Understood! I will arrange a changing room for you. You also go this way. .Everyone deserves their own dressing room, and you are certainly no exception."

Chapter 719 Slave Statue

[Hmm~~You performed well, I’ll give you a little bonus. 】

"Thank you for your grace!" Marcus immediately bowed in greeting, "The Lord God's gratification is our supreme glory."

[Ah ha ha ha~ tell me more. 】

"Would you like some more milkshake? I see you just ate a lot."

[Okay, okay. Wait until I finish changing my clothes and come out. ] With that said, Apollonia drove the Alchemist and left.

"Good guy" Shangluo looked at Marcus, then looked at the direction Apollonia left.

"Ms. Apollonia is like this." Marcus lowered his voice, "You need to coax her more. If she gets angry, big trouble will really happen."

"understand."

"As long as you understand, I think Lady Apollonia seems to be angry recently? Has she split from your divinity?"

"From a mystical perspective, it can indeed be understood this way."

"I see that Lady Apollonia is pursuing her own independence. Please stop her from all aspects. It is recommended that you establish a connection with Lady Apollonia as soon as possible and complete the perfection of divinity again."

"Eh??? You..."

"I'm not joking." Marcus said sternly, "Ms. Apollonia is not an ordinary little girl, you should also know. Once you complete it independently, the consequences will be disastrous. So in every sense, please hurry up Merge with her.”

"What kind of words are you talking about?"

"I am giving you advice from the perspective of mysticism. As for how to operate and how to understand it, it is entirely based on your own knowledge. Therefore, please consider it carefully."

"I'll remember that."

"Please. Your Majesty the King of Rome." He looked at Shangluo, "Although this King of Rome is mystical, you do not rule us in the world. But someone must be the king. If you must choose someone, you must Not bad. I would gladly accept you as king of Rome in this world as well."

The black fish-like submarine surfaced intact. Marcus, who was wearing a heavy-duty extravehicular stealth suit, walked out of the control tower first, followed by a dozen others who also wore heavy-duty action suits. They were not empty-handed, but each carried a large shield. Then there were more than fifty other crew members, wearing close-fitting environmental pressure stealth suits with submachine guns hanging on their waists. Everyone was either wearing a helmet or a mask, and golden lights flickered on them. They all ignited phlogiston, giving themselves weight so that they could move normally.

It is much easier to light yourself up in the moonlight than in the sun. Because the lights don't need to compete with the sun, they just need to be brighter than the moon.

Shangluo and Phaethon came out in the penultimate group. To look less obtrusive, they also wore breathing masks—their masks illuminated not by the light of phlogiston but by the skyscrapers of New Antioch.

Just like what he had seen in the periscope, the concrete forest of New Antioch appeared in front of him. The skyscrapers with all the lights illuminated the night sky like daylight, and even the moon was eclipsed. Only in the middle of the Hudson River could you look up and see the clear moonlight.

But there was also another light coming from not far away—it was the island known as the Forbidden Zone. The lighthouse on the island emits a blazing light. The lighthouse does not flicker like an ordinary lighthouse, but searchlights are lit in all directions, as if to illuminate all the darkness around it.

"The reflection of the Black Iron Age has appeared again." Marcus murmured, "No wonder there is martial law here tonight."

"Reflection? What is it?" Shangluo asked.

"It's very close. See for yourself. Look at the water, the reflection near the restricted area."

Shangluo looked at the place pointed by Marcus——

The light of the lighthouse was reflected on the calm water. But under the light, if you look closely, you can vaguely see an outline. A blue-grey one standing on a pedestal, holding a torch and a stone slab, wearing seven rays of light on his head, with statues of broken shackles piled at his feet.

"statue of Liberty???"

"You saw it, too. The slave statue."

"How come it's here???"

"It's just a reflection. Sometimes, mirrors are more honest than people. No matter how we hide it, the mirror honestly tells us that time is coming. However, basic work still needs to be done. We have designated this island as a restricted area , a huge lighthouse was built on it. Because the reflection will glow by itself, it is very conspicuous in a dark environment and needs brighter light to cover it. But recently."

He hesitated for a moment: "I don't know if you have noticed that the skyscrapers reflected in the water are also a little different - the difference is very small, but we have tried our best. We can't repair the statue of the slave, but it is almost the same. The building can still be repaired. Even if someone occasionally spots the image in the water, we can shut them up immediately."

"You guys have worked really hard."

"Maybe this is the price of strength." He looked at his hands, "After dying once, I will never die again. Although I need to be infused with phlogiston to feel the world again, I can easily break through now The original upper limit. This phlogiston body is more powerful than ever. Although it is just a mirror, this power is real."

"Will you always follow me?"

"Of course." Marcus nodded, "Although I haven't had time to say it yet, the entire ship is now assigned to you, the King of Rome. This is the rule of Rome. The consul can command the legion. You are more mysterious than the consul. Higher, you should also have your own legion. Our rule is that once assigned, it is permanently assigned. This ship will always be at your disposal, and the Senate no longer has the right to mobilize us."

"Ah, so you will come back to the capital with me, right? Then where do you usually live?"

"Just about enough room for us to put the snorkel out."

"Water glass?"

"Well, it's a snorkel, not a straw. There are so many of us who can't hold a straw and suck out the phlogiston outside."

"What about a water tank?"

"That's okay, that's okay. Anyway, I don't have any objections. You don't have to take us too seriously, just treat it as a potted plant. We will have our own fun in the ship, and we will play the board game "Heroes Parade" to pass the time. Time. You don’t need anything else, just bask in the sun like a potted plant. If you need us, you can call us out as long as there is water - because this is a ship after all, and you also saw that we ran aground last time Looks like it."

"That's not a problem. We have quite a lot of water."

"In addition," he suggested, "for your safety, please stand here." He opened his shield and motioned Shangluo to stand in the middle, "We have an obligation to protect your safety. So please stand here. ——We can’t be beaten to death. As long as we can’t be beaten to death, you can’t die either. It’s just that safe.”

Chapter 720 Little Pompeo

After releasing the sympathetic shield, the submarine started the ordinary engine - Shangluo felt that this engine thing would only start at this time, and it would act in other ways at other times. So rather than an engine, the diesel engine is more like an auxiliary engine.

Driven by auxiliary engines, the submarine slowly docked at the new Antioch military port at a safe speed. Even though I visited unexpectedly late at night, there were many people standing on the pier. They were wearing various military uniforms, casual clothes, and the like. Those who were not wearing formal clothes had obviously just gathered here.

Pompeii the Younger was no exception. He was wearing a military uniform. The Roman military uniform was based on a hunting jacket and was a woolen jacket with two pockets on the chest. Instead of military ranks, the collar wears the double-headed eagle and SPQR logos. SPQR stands for "The Senate and the People of Rome". All senators wear the SPQR emblem, but only the consuls wear the double-headed eagle, as the double-headed eagle is the symbol of the Legion.

Although he is called Little Pompeo, the opponent looks at least one round older than him. Romans traditionally did not shave their heads. Everyone had to keep their hair long and manage it neatly. However, soldiers are an exception. Consuls also have military power. Consuls always need to remind others that they have "military power."

Little Pompeo also had no hair under his hat and no beard on his face, making him look at least 10 years younger than his actual age.

[Speaking of which, your senior brother doesn’t seem to have a beard either. 】

"It's probably a form of image building. Although he has reached the age where he should grow a beard, I think he actually doesn't want to portray himself as too mature. A mature person has to be responsible for everything, but he has never been formal except for court meetings. He attends any meeting and goes to court as frequently as Emperor Wanli. In his current state, he has maintained the image of a young man in the court and will not take the blame even if there are problems."

[Ah, your rules are really complicated. It was much more convenient for the Romans. If they didn't like it, they would bring their soldiers and horses to a tournament. 】

"Do you still have this habit? People will die in war."

[The life of the barbarians is not life - this is what many Romans thought. After all, mysticism does not recognize their existence. Because leaving aside those barbarians, the angels of the Golden Age, the elves of the Silver Age, and the Shadowless Army of the Black Iron Age are no longer human. They have all been taken away. The only friends of the Romans are you. Well, although Colombia has some problems with the mainland, they are still very polite to Cathay. 】

"Indeed." Little Pompeo over there came to pick him up in person in the middle of the night. This was already quite a favor. Because it could be heard from the conversation between the two sides on the ship that Pompeo seemed to be performing official duties and sealing off the restricted area.

"Nice to meet you. You are the Roman king chosen by the local people - oh, sorry, I have never learned the greetings of Cathay, I only know how to replace 'you' with 'you'. So what I said before may be a bit rude. "

Pompey the Younger asked in standard Sinian. Like other Romans, they learned Cathay as a tool so everyone could learn it. But respectful words other than tools are not within the scope of learning.

"Oh, it's nothing. You can do whatever you want." It happened to be that he didn't know how to do it himself, so it saved trouble.

The two shook hands, and Shangluo asked, "But you don't seem to be surprised at all?"

"Logically speaking, it should be a surprise. There are too many strange things done in the mainland, so I don't find it strange. I even think it is better for the Cathayans to be the kings of Rome than the Romans. Because at least the Cathayans are alive. In our world, we don’t always have the big dream of getting into a box and dreaming of immortality.”

He looked behind him and said: "Your Excellency Phaethon is also here. I heard that you were missing some time ago. It seems that you have obtained a new mission. I wonder if you have any special mission when you come together this time?"

"She came to check the 'Aotearoa'." Shangluo replied.

"That Night God bomb? It's already been dismantled. Besides, you, King of Rome, shouldn't need to worry about this."

"Let me explain." Marcus walked forward. "Logically, I should be the one talking to you, so..."

"Your level is not high enough. I only speak to the King of Rome." Little Pompey did not mean to be polite at all. After all, only Shangluo was the guest, not him. He was just a "ferra Greek".

"Then, please listen to my additional opinion." Marcus insisted, "Our first priority is to find the stolen panda. But His Majesty the Roman King is also very important in Cathay, and he cannot We risk being threatened by the Night God bomb by operating here. So before we investigate the case, we must check whether the bomb is normal."

Hearing the key word "panda", Pompeo paused for a moment.

"Is it a panda?" He confirmed to Shangluo.

"Yeah, mostly for the pandas."

"If it's for the pandas, there's nothing wrong with it. But I don't mind if you take these Greeks with you, they can't even see a golden branch. We can assist you in your investigation throughout the entire process."

[Tsk, Latin natives, talking arrogantly, ridiculous. 】

"Um" Shangluo hesitated a little. This was a regional dispute among the Romans, and he really had no position to take care of it.

"King, nothing good can happen if you are with the Greeks. As long as you agree, Colombia will fully cooperate with your work."

"This is how we will handle this matter." Shangluo thought for a while, "After the emperor handed over this matter to me, my staff will handle it. Some of my staff are indeed sponsored by Constantinople. Greek operators, but they are now under my command."

"It turns out that's the case, I don't have any objection." He nodded, "If you need it, we can arrange for you to go to the site to investigate immediately. Of course, that one has indeed been demolished. If you don't believe it, I can accompany you myself. go."

"You have nothing else to do here?"

"Of course. But..." He looked at Shangluo, "Nothing is more important than pandas."

New Antioch was different from Constantinople in many ways. But one thing they have in common is that everyone in Rome drives six-wheeled vehicles. The six wheels are explosion-proof, and the explosion of a tire on any side will not affect the movement of the vehicle.

Sitting in a heavy carriage, the surrounding armor is thick enough to block the cannon of the helicopter overhead. However, in such a large car, the front compartment of the driver and co-pilot was very cramped, while the space in the back seat was enough for a lion to lie down in the middle - this was the same model as Phaethon's stretch sedan at the time, just to fit in. New Antioch road conditions without lengthening.

Chapter 721 Official Business

In addition to being six-wheeled and armored, another typical feature of this vehicle is its "tallness". In a way, it's as tall as a hearse, and you barely need to bend down to get in. If you are less than 1.75 meters tall, you may even have to stand on tiptoe slightly to fully poke your head out when standing under the skylight.

There were only two people in the back seat of the huge carriage, Shangluo and little Pompeo. Phaethon and the others were sent to the back.

But it doesn't matter, Shangluo still keeps in touch with her on the phone.

"Come to think of it." Pompeo asked, "Last time we launched a rocket in Virginia without notifying Cathay, I'm really sorry. We did it to demonstrate against the Greeks, and we had no intention of entering into a space race with Cathay. Meaning. Everything in Colombia is still in its infancy, we have no strength and no intention to compete with Aurora."

"Ah" Shangluo nodded, "I remember you actually reported it last time?"

"The notification was too late. We didn't report it until before the launch. It's my fault and my father's fault - and, I have an idea. The Greeks want to sink, and we can't control it. But Colombia will not sink with them. . After those Greeks sought their own death, Colombia hopes to continue to maintain relations with Cathay. If possible, we hope to go further. For example, our previous rocket launches should be notified to Cathay one month in advance."

In the back car, Phaethon was sitting alone, and there were three people in the chat room: her, Shangluo, and Apollonia. The audio and video signals from the car in front were transmitted to her in real time.

[Speaking of which, is this little Pompeo too polite? He is so polite. I'm embarrassed to scold this Latin guy. ] Apollonia asked, [Has he been like this before? 】

"When I came to install bombs last time, I did contact him. He was so polite at the time. This guy is not bad, and he is extremely polite to beings of the same strength as him. But he is not soft-hearted at all towards the barbarians. He uses helicopters to shoot It’s not the first time the crowd has done this.”

[Tsk, a typical Latin man, showing his force unabashedly. 】

"Hello?" Suddenly, a message came from Shangluo on the other end of the phone. "I had a call coming in. I didn't see who it was. Phaethon, please pick it up for me. He was so polite that I was embarrassed to be in front of him. Answer the phone."

"Okay." Phaethon turned on the phone and saw the caller ID - Karin Valesia Kelso.

"Hello? Is this Shangluo? It's me! I'm Karin."