Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

The heavy silver ball was handed into the hands of little Pompey.

"No wonder the silver one can carry such strong passion. It is more than enough to cast an angel. It seems that not only is it talented, but it also has the hardware to support it."

"Your Excellency!" the automaton asked, "Do you want this body to be destroyed?"

"."

"Your Excellency?" After waiting for a few seconds, the automaton asked again.

"Throw it out." Little Pompeo stood up and walked to his room. The moment the door closed, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was also heard from the garbage passage in the secret room.

Ten minutes later, when little Pompeo walked out of the room, the silver ball in his hand had disappeared. He was the only one who came out.

"I see. On Thursday, we are going to eat alkaline water balls at home, right?"

Without saying anything, he went straight to the kitchen, took out flour and alkali from the cupboard, and took out ice milk and butter from the refrigerator. He worked alone in the kitchen for 15 minutes——

15 minutes later, the oven made a "ding" sound, and the alkaline water balls came out of the oven.

He put the lye water balls into the silver plate one by one with his hands, and put the last one that was not on the plate into his mouth.

"." He looked at the baking pan silently——

"Bang!" A heavy punch hit the kitchen workbench, "Still... still no smell!"

"Second Commander?" The soldier from outside came in, "Do you need help?"

"No need to take this plate of alkaline water balls upstairs to the marshal. Today is Thursday, it's time to eat alkaline water balls."

"Your Majesty, King of Rome, the elevator is ready." The guard stood at the entrance of the elevator and called the elevator door with the key. Shangluo noticed that the key was handed over to the guard by Pompeo himself. It seemed that he had no choice but to open the door. In addition, it can also be opened by granting tokens.

"Yeah." He said nothing and walked into the elevator. Inside the elevator, the elevator lady wearing an opera mask from last time was still standing there, even standing in the same position as before.

It wasn't until my second look at Shangluo that I noticed the carpet beneath her feet had sunk deeply, like the tiles in the Shaolin Temple training room that sag when you're doing horse stance. It looked like her feet hadn't left their spot for ages. Since our last meeting, or even before, she seemed to have been standing there, like an appendage of this elevator.

"Go to the -1 floor." The guard ordered her and guided the Shangluo people into the elevator.

After everyone stood still, the elevator moved.

Slowly, the elevator went all the way down, and the pointer on the elevator also changed down layer by layer - just like the symmetrical structure of the entire building, the pointer on the elevator was also a dial. Start from 1, and after turning around, it will return to the original "1" position, which is the "-1" layer. When it rises, it will turn back counterclockwise.

"By the way." Shangluo asked the guard next to him, "What's your name?"

"My name is Titus."

"Oh, so your name is Titus? Where are you from?"

"I am an Athenian serving in Neo-Antioch."

【? ? ? Have you met Li Gui? 】

"Call me back and I'll ask."

Shangluo can make a phone call without opening his mouth. This point happened to be daytime in Kinai, almost breakfast time.

"Hello? Shangluo? Why do you have time to call me?" Over there, Titus had something in his mouth and answered the phone vaguely.

"Mr. Titus, you are in Yujing, right?"

"I was eating cold noodles with two of your friends at the Pine Forest Hall. After eating it once that day, I thought it tasted great, so I ate it again this morning. This Korean food is inexplicably very suitable to my taste, and it's also delicious. Warm rice is also delicious, have you tried it?”

"Um, I haven't eaten."

"I'm telling you, it's delicious. Just stack the rice, shredded chicken and mung bean pancakes from bottom to top, then pour the matsutake chicken soup on the top layer of mung bean pancakes, and let the chicken soup submerge the steamed bowl of rice little by little. . Ah, it’s all about the aroma of matsutake. You must try it if you have the chance. This is a dish that the Romans liked to eat.”

"No, Mr. Titus, I have something very important to ask you. Here's the thing."

The two had a brief reconciliation.

"There is no such thing. You know, although I am a member of the Hydra Army, I have many clones, but none of my clones are in New Antioch. There must be an impostor next to you, but I don't know why I have to pretend to be here. On my head. Are you not going to do it?"

"I haven't found Rumble yet. At least until I find Rumble, I want to wait and see what tricks they can play."

"You must ensure your own safety. Her Majesty Victoria is still waiting for you."

【Tsk. I'm going to look through my little notebook, and there's no room for this guy's black beans. I'm going to put a note for him. 】

"Well, don't worry. At least one thing I can be sure of is that there is a place that is the safest. But the specifics must be kept secret from you."

Chapter 750 Metropolis

Of course, there is only one so-called safest place: the place where Long Long is. After his own investigation and Zhu Xianxen's confirmation, Shangluo was able to confirm that Longlong must have run away for some reason. And if the place where Longlong is now is safe based on the panda's sensitivity, then it must be the safest place.

In other words, no matter what dangers there are here, as long as you find the place where Rumble is, it will be like entering a safe zone. After all, it is beyond the reach of even heavenly beings and comes from the intuition of innate spiritual beasts. And even if there are innate spiritual beasts, nothing is more suitable for discovering safe zones than a panda like Long Long.

If it is a herbivore like a deer or a fox, they will just run away when frightened; a top carnivore like a tiger will think about how to use force to solve the problem. The panda is somewhere in between. When a panda like Lenglong discovers a situation, its first reaction is not to run or fight, but to think. After thinking about it, Longlong decided to run, and ran into the metropolis in a planned and purposeful manner. This meant that there must be some safe zone here that attracted Longlong.

"Okay." Titus didn't say much. "If this is your judgment, then... I wish you good luck. After all, I can't help you." Io Triumphe (for victory)! "

"Lolo or something, I can't pronounce it. Anyway, you eat slowly, I'm dead."

"What did he say?" asked Phaethon. Although she knew it probably didn't matter, she still confirmed it.

Shangluo shook his head: "I'm eating noodles in the Songlin Pavilion, and the other parts are not here. Tsk, these 'dummy people' are really interesting. I thought they would all come out to rebel at once, but I didn't expect them to be so patient." What are they waiting for?"

"Maybe they're waiting for us to open the library door."

"Huh? Is it possible?"

"Why else would little Pompeo keep hinting to you that 'there are many mysteries in the Metropolis' and 'there are many powerful things in the Metropolis'. And until now, he has received you like a real Pompeo. The answer is only One—either, he has some big plan waiting for you, and he needs your help to open the door, because only we can open the door guarded by the Moon Angel."

"Either what?"

"It's hard to say." Phaethon shook his head and said, "Actually, I have met Pompey the Younger himself. He was a very principled person. Even though he, as the deputy commander of New Antioch, completely disagreed with the Senate's decision-making, at that time he He still cooperated with me throughout the installation of the [Aotearoa] device. He also said that orders are orders. He does not agree with the people in the Senate, but he respects the resolution of the Senate."

"So, he is pretty good?"

"Yes. What he meant was that he would not stop the actions of the Senate by disobeying orders. If he really disagreed, he would choose to rebel directly. Although there are many discords between Colombia and Constantinople, The institution and tradition of the Senate must be respected. This is a Roman tradition - if Pompey the Younger himself were here, we would probably be in a similar situation now. He would accompany us to investigate, treat us to a meal, and then send us all the way. mission location."

"If you put it that way, I think that guy is dangerous. There are too many elements that make him look too much like the real Pompeii. Gee, I don't know how many Pompeii I ate in one meal."

"???" Phaethon was stunned for a moment, "No way! This guy is quite good, and his wife is also very good-looking. I think you will get along well with him."

"What does his wife's beauty have to do with me? I'm not Cao Cao. But if I really eat a few in one meal, I will mourn for little Pompey. Although I just put aside a layer of imitations to deal with him, but If he is still alive, I like this friend very much and I will give him a fairy peach in the future."

Soon, the elevator's floor dial turned around and the elevator reached the -1 floor.

"We are here, Your Excellency." The guard who called himself Titus led the way, and Shangluo followed.

However, just as he was about to walk out, the corner of his clothes seemed to be hung up, and it seemed that the elevator lady next to him was hung up.

He looked back and saw that the elevator lady still maintained her original posture, but stared at him closely with her eyes.

"Huh? Is something wrong?"

Her mouth moved, and a pre-made mechanical sound came out of her throat:

"Welcome to take our elevator. I wish you a safe journey."

"?" Shangluo tilted his head and looked. Her lips moved again - her mouth almost opened to its limit, as if she wanted to say something:

"Welcome, you, you, you, you, you, take our company's elevator. I wish you a safe journey."

The guard in front also looked back: "Ah, I'm sorry for giving you a bad experience. The elevator is broken. We will deal with it right away."

"Um, is there any problem with the elevator? It's just that there seems to be something wrong with the elevator lady."

"That's just part of the elevator." He motioned to Shangluo to continue walking out.

"Okay." Shangluo turned back and nodded to the elevator lady, "Thanks."

"You still like saying hello to the furniture."

"Yes, this is my habit." Walking to the entrance of the subway station on the -1 floor, the guard who called himself Titus stopped here.

"Then, outside the door is the metropolis. I wish you good luck." He opened the door for Shangluo, and the scene outside suddenly became clear -

the light is on.

In the dark night, the streets are brightly lit. Exaggeratedly colored lights flashed alternately, and there were stalled cars parked on the street.

But no one.

It's quiet here, and you can't hear any human movement. It was as if suddenly some force snatched everyone away from the city.

"Look over there!" Phaethon pointed into the distance - Shangluo also saw it. At the end of the road, at the mouth of the Hudson River, on the island he had seen before, there stood a statue of a goddess with shackles piled at her feet and a torch in her hand. The torch lit up with a blazing light, which could be clearly seen from here.

"This is really a place not suitable for ordinary people to come." Shangluo has no doubt that the terrain here will further "evolve" in the future, and then emerge from somewhere on the ground. But now, it is very quiet here, and there is no human voice in my ears.

"Huh?" Shangluo was stunned for a moment - there was still a sound.

There was a loud ringing in his ears. Shangluo followed the sound and looked around. There was a row of rats going in and out of the sewer entrance next to him. Seeing someone looking over, the mouse ran away quickly.

[Then there aren’t three turtles in the sewers. Which metropolis is this?]

Chapter 751 The safest place

"So this is New York, isn't it? It's not an ordinary New York. New York shouldn't be so small. How can you see the Statue of Liberty from this position?"

"Ah, that's it." Phaethon also saw it, and looked like he suddenly realized, "It turns out that the thing looks like this. The carving craftsmanship is a bit rough, but the artistic conception is quite good, as a slave should. Like Bardax - holding a torch and wanting to break the shackles. Where is the author from?

"If anything, it should be the Franks. The Germanic tribe that invaded the Gaul region after the fall of Gaul was called the Franks."

"It turns out that they can also have such a future." Phaethon looked at the lighthouse in the distance. "Sure enough, as long as you give time, even the technological barbarians can have their own golden age."

"So you think so too?"

"I can only think of this step. Thoughts such as 'Would the world be better if it were them'? This kind of thought will not appear in my mind at all. The reason why Rome did not destroy them is because of lack of power, because Rome The conquest will lead to an increase in the relative strength of the wilderness side, because no matter how powerful they are, they will be driven into the wilderness. I personally do not have any sympathy for these alien races other than "basic humanity". After all, it’s the other way around.”

"Well" Shangluo thought for a while, "We didn't want to ask more about those technological barbarians. But after this, the problem will be dealt with by us, right? I thought it was quite far away, but I didn't expect you to be able to do it. Such a big thing just stays under the city? "

"Let me explain it first. First of all, it is not easy to enter the spiritual world. It is only recently with the development of [Aotearoa] and the rapid advancement of 'drilling well' technology that we can drill between the spiritual world and the earthly world. Drilled holes. And holes drilled in most places are as dangerous as craters, with the exception of the metropolis in front of you."

"why?"

"Because of the mirror image. The Metropolis is a perfect scene because the 'Metropolitan Train Station' above and below are exactly the same, right down to the name. And actually that could be very important. What's important is: this could be about the future vision of Colombia."

"for example?"

"For example, how do they want to live? We know that Colombia is not willing to participate in the lighthouse project, and they are not willing to enter the spiritual world of Cybernia with us. On the surface, it seems that they want to draw a clear line with the mysterious power. But in reality, they naturally have the opportunity to control this metropolis, because 'because the stars in the sky are as high as they are below'."

"The stars in the sky follow the same rules as the apples on the ground, right?" Shangluo nodded, "So you are guessing that Columbia's real purpose is to start from the earth and use the metropolis as a medium to conquer the spiritual world?"

"That's right. Because in theory, the spirit world is now a no-man's land. Either of us can decide the path of the spirit world through war. Colombia may not want to start a war with us under the sun - instead, they can launch a war in the spirit world. World war to determine what the spiritual world should be shaped into."

"Then what we are now" Shangluo looked around, "is it possible that we are now at the origin of the world war?"

"That's what I guessed. But it's much quieter here than I thought."

Not only was it silent, there was not even a human figure here, and there were only a few rats crawling into the sewers as far as the eye could see.

Phaethon said: "What I think is that if they want to start a world war, they must at least start construction first. Not only is there no one here, they also let us come in and walk around as we please. It doesn't look like they are going to start a war at all. What do you think?"

"I don't think you should let your guard down even for a moment. Those who truly intend to rebel will do everything in their power to stall for time, delaying the exposure of their plot until the opportunity is ripe. King Wen, despite controlling two-thirds of the empire, remained loyal to the Shang Dynasty as a minister, a virtue known in history as supreme."

"Let me warn you, Mr. Shangluo, that you seem to be caught up in the conflict between the Shang Dynasty and the Western Qi. You might be attacked by King Wu on both sides at the same time."

"???" Shangluo trembled, "This is too unlucky."

【A sign of great misfortune, eh, a sign of great misfortune. Tsk tsk tsk. 】

"Eh? You guys came really on time." Karin arrived. Although it didn't exceed the agreed time, it was a step later than them.

Along with Karin came her guards, sent by the Muses Palace.

"Hey, Shangluo." The visitor waved to Shangluo.

"Mr. Titus? Aren't you at the noodle shop in Yujing?"

"So he went to Yujing for a vacation? What did I think? He said that Her Majesty Victoria gave him an important task alone, and then he disappeared. He went to eat noodles after a long time."

"Eh? Then he is"

"He is a lion, responsible for protecting safety. I am a crow, and I am the identity of No. 1. I have always been the one talking to you before."

"So that's it? But he didn't say you were coming to New Antioch."

"Because I am the only one who knows everyone's affairs." Titus replied, "I have to say that this is not a beautiful experience, but as the center of this team, I have to accept everyone's life at the same time. It's just that He is within the Great Wall and I can’t contact him. We are here to protect Karin, and the Muse Palace has asked us to protect Karin’s safety.”