Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

Crunch, crunch, crunch. Zhu Ling was still chewing on the steamed buns.

"Don't be pretentious, I don't know what you are thinking? You have never chewed this stuff before."

"Hmm~~This is quite delicious, especially delicious~~"

"So, what's going on with Longlong? Do you know that this is related to a major national event? The emperor told me personally that Longlong is his spy. Now Shangluo is still busy looking for Longlong's location. You should know that, right? "

"Huh? Oh"

"What are you doing? If you don't say it now, you might not have the chance to say it in the future!"

"Didn't you say before that he didn't want help?"

"That's because he is being polite. Jin Yiwei's selection team has already been dispatched. Regardless of whether he wants it or not, I will send him the reinforcements first. If he really needs help, I can escalate the operation. If necessary, Can use doomsday weapons."

"Is it that serious?"

"It seems so serious, why don't you explain it quickly!"

"But..." Zhu Ling put down the bag, "I really don't know how I know everything about Brother Longlong."

"Brother Longlong? Ah, that eldest brother can indeed be called Brother Longlong. Does he have any special skills?"

"Yes. Brother Longlong is very knowledgeable about eating. The recipe I usually make for my steamed buns was developed by Brother Longlong and me. Brother Longlong said there is no need to add sugar, and it will be delicious if you add more cornmeal."

"." Zhu Xianfen covered his forehead, "Your odd job is quite rewarding, and you can actually raise an innate spiritual beast. Why don't you make progress in your studies? Shang Gong gives you every time I come back from the parent-teacher conference with a dark face.”

"Didn't the Emperor say that the people in our family are very talented in developing hobbies? You see, the Emperor is very good at settling accounts."

"Don't change the subject, we're talking about you. Do you really have nothing to say?"

"If I really know something, why don't I tell it!" Zhu Ling muttered, "Anyway, the matter has been exposed. You can kill or behead him as you wish. I really don't know any other news."

"Okay." Zhu Xianfen shook his head and said, "Then at least ask you, what does Longlong like to eat?"

"cactus."

"what?"

"Yes, Longlong likes to eat cactus. It is the kind of edible cactus that is used to feed camels in the imperial garden, but Brother Longlong also likes to eat it. Brother Longlong likes the sticky texture, and he also likes okra and yam. like to eat."

"Then eat meat?"

"I don't really like eating. However, Brother Longlong does like eggs."

Meanwhile, New Antioch.

In a skyscraper covered by glass curtain walls, migrant workers are busy working in front of rows of ant nest-like workstations.

This is Wall Street, home of the old New York clan. After the disintegration of "Golden Eye" and the disintegration of the headquarters city of Vardengis, all werewolves walking in the world were organized together according to more realistic principles-the nature of wolves is selfish.

Although in many stories and rumors, wolves are tightly organized, and at the command of the wolf king, a group of wolves will rush up to bite the enemy like ants. But in fact, wolves are also afraid of death.

Wolves are not people, and wolves are not united by some abstract concept. The only thing that can unite the wolves is the living space itself. Whether you can eat enough, whether you can reproduce, whether you can be respected, etc., these are what wolves value most.

The extinct "City of Wadengis" is considered a mistake by many werewolves, and now companies such as Wall Street and Krupp are bringing the wolves' lives back to normal order.

"Eggs! I want eggs!" In the conference room, Longlong lay on his back on the conference table and clapped his hands.

"Yes! Yes! Right now!"

The humble working wolf ran away with his tail between his legs. It couldn't see how powerful the "sage" in front of him was, but he knew that as long as he offended this sage, he would be expelled. After leaving Wall Street, other large companies such as Krupp would not accept him. He could only go back to the wild and be the kind of lone wolf who would be treated as a wild beast if he bent down.

And he was not the only wolf in the conference room. The whole room was actually filled with wolves, and a group of wolves in hunting attire—or, from Shangluo's perspective, should be called "suits"—were growling at each other.

"So, acting general manager, so what's going on now? Why did it suddenly come in and lie on the conference table? Where did this bear come from?"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm looking through the prophet. Oh no, I'm looking through the founder's notes." The young alpha wolf sat on the main seat, its ears not yet standing up. Young - alpha wolf, which in the wild state does not appear in the scene. After all, what makes a wolf a Wolf King is strength, and strength cannot be inherited. And here, on Wall Street, the meaning of "power" is expanded.

That kind-hearted drachma can all be inherited.

"Ah! Yes, yes! According to the prophet's prediction, the person in front of us is - Longlong! Uncle Longlong!"

"Well, I finally have someone who understands." Longlong glanced at him, "Where is your old man? He had a good chat with me and asked me to be my guest. Why is he missing?"

"Longlong. Uncle? Can you get down from the table before discussing this issue?"

"Sir, I can go wherever I want. Your table is nice, just like my bed at home. I want to sleep here today."

"But..." The alpha wolf tilted his head, and his ears that had not yet stood up swayed with his head.

"Stop it." Longlong looked at him, "If the old man really left you any written materials while he was awake, just turn over a page. You will know after turning it over that you may ask me to stay. it's here."

"???" The young alpha wolf turned back a page and took a look.

"Wow!!!" It stood up in fear, "It says here that New Antioch will be destroyed! The only place where Master Longlong is is safe!"

"Wrong~" Longlong crossed his short legs, "I will only stay in a safe place. Whether it is safe or not is not decided by me. It is because it is safe that I will stop here. If nothing happens now , you can go out, I want to sleep for a while."

"." The wolves looked at each other. You look at me, I look at you. They all stood up and adjusted their seats so that they were closer to Rumble.

Chapter 764 Hidden History

"Troublesome." It looked around, "But I am not opposed to having an audience. The more audiences there are, the more soundly I sleep. So, good night, I'm going to sleep."

"Wait a minute!" The young wolf climbed onto the table and came next to Rumble, "What on earth happened?"

"Tsk." Longlong smacked his lips, "You wolf monsters, don't you have noses? Where are your wolf noses?"

"We." The young wolf replied, "A long time ago, before I was born, after the disintegration of the Naaru Council in Vardengis, we were relieved of our mission to protect the world, but at the same time we also lost the power of the wilderness. We must Living alone in the world, so now. Now we have no way to detect danger. "

"Trash, trash. What does the next page of the note say?"

"The next page starts talking about something else! It's about mixing corn flour and millet flour together."

"That's nothing else. Just make it for me according to the recipe. If you can't do it well, make it again. I am the Ouchi secret agent! Does the Ouchi secret agent know? If you offend me, you will all be sent to prison!"

He didn't understand it before, but he understood this sentence.

"You mean, you are the Jin Yiwei of Cathay!"

"Tsk." Longlong clicked his tongue again, "You wolf demons really can't hear any movement. But you can just think of me as an enhanced version of Jin Yiwei. I came with a mission. The specific details are kept confidential. But if you can find my existence in that note, it means that the old man's prediction has been fulfilled. What about the old man? He said that he should still be alive at this point."

"You said it should be the shaman - one of the last few shamans in the world, the Linenberg Shaman. He is also our founder and my grandfather. My grandfather is meditating. There is no way to respond to your request, but maybe I can help you. You also call me Linn Berg." The young wolf stretched out his hand, but Rumble did not respond.

He turned his head and looked at the young wolf: "Useless things, what's the difference between you and ordinary mortals now? It's just that you have an extra layer of skin."

"We. We are still protecting Gaia in our own way. Although the city of Vardengis has been destroyed by the elves, we have lost our power in the world, and are even gradually losing our wisdom. However, we are still alive. The war is still It continues, but as creatures of Gaia, we just need to survive.”

"Okay." Longlong shook his head, "Let me test how good these guys are. Tell me, what happened today? Who came from Cathay? Has the princess come?"

"No." The self-proclaimed Linnberg wolf cub answered, "We learned from the Governor's Office that there is no princess from Zhendan who came to us this time. The leader is Chishi Jun."

"Oh~~It's him."

"Do you know?"

"I've heard of it, but I've never seen it. If I still have my mobile phone, I can contact you by myself at this time. However, I still trouble you to invite them over now. If your old man is right, they should ask for it right away. Come out of the Metropolis subway station. Tell them that there is going to be a disaster here, and it is too late to run. They should come to me immediately to be safe."

He looked at the wolves below: "Now, I'm hungry, and I want to have a midnight snack. Quickly make the nest according to the recipe on the next page, and prepare a few eggs for me before that."

"Oh, good, he is eating eggs now. You can eat the steamed buns later." The old wolf walked in front of Shangluo and led the way.

Shangluo said in surprise: "Old sir, are you next to him now? If you were next to him, could you bring him a message?"

The old wolf just shook his head: "The time is wrong. I don't have that ability now - I am just a broken clock that can only set it twice a day. Just like the ancient ancestors, My spirit is wandering around, and the time when I see you is not now. The time when I feel 'today' is not now, but I am still alive, and this can be known."

Shangluo shook his head: "So, your time is messed up?"

"You can understand it this way. All I know is that, at least at your time, I should still be alive—after all, I can't predict the future. My time is just disrupted; I don't have control over non-existent time. The past me is talking to people in the future, and the future me is talking to people in the past. All of this is due to the destruction of the city of Vardengis."

"What?!" Schneider was shocked, "Is the city of Wadengis destroyed?"

He showed an expression like "The Qing Dynasty is dead".

"So what exactly is the city of Vardengis?" Shangluo asked, "Why haven't I heard of this name?"

"It's not important to you." Old Wolf shook his head and said, "My time is running out. Maybe you can still see my body on Wall Street. As for the unknown name, since you don't know it, then you don't have it." You need to know. Hidden history doesn’t need to be in the light – when you know about it, you’re involved in it, and that’s not a good thing.”

[Let me explain. This old wolf wouldn't say that. This is the usual style of the werewolf prophet. Because it was quite difficult for them to clear their sights, and they couldn't care about anything else - but when he mentioned Wadengis City, I knew that was what happened. 】

"What is that place?"

[You can understand that it is the metropolis of werewolves, and the specific location is somewhere in the province of Gaul. The werewolves there secretly established this city underground, and all werewolves active in the world have seats there. In addition to these modern werewolves, there are also werewolves who have had contact with humans earlier. They operate in different regions of the world, carrying the missions they have received in history.

[Several important factions include the Order of Anubis, the Sons of Fenrir from Northern Europe, the Kingdom of Arcadia from Greece, the wandering Brotherhood of Corios, etc. Of course, all of this no longer exists. After the war, these werewolves began to find their own way of life - they were slowly getting weaker, but still quite powerful. 】

"So, are you dead? Everything is over?" After hearing Shangluo's story, Schneider collapsed. "Then where should I go for the rest of my life?"

Shangluo shook his head: "So, do you want us to go together next? Or do you think of a solution by yourself?"

"I don't know. But I feel that I still have to stay with you. My intuition tells me that I should do this. So Prophet...eh? Prophet, where is your prophet?"

"Alas." With a sigh, the old wolf in the meditation room opened his eyes and asked others, "What era is it now?"

"It's the Victorian era." replied the attendant.

"Is Vardengis destroyed?"

"Already perished."

"Is Uncle Longlong here?"

"arrive."

"Wrong. All wrong. These three things shouldn't be together, just like No. 1234 of the World Trade Center shouldn't be together." He closed his eyes and wanted to fall asleep again, but he opened them again. He had to face this reality, "In the correct story, we should not appear. This should be the story of automata, in my opinion. I just hope everything is as the sage said, A broken clock can be correct twice a day. Maybe that’s right.”

"Have you boiled the eggs? Give them to me and I will give them to him. Never, never make Uncle Longlong angry, he will put you all in jail. I have to... help me up quickly! I have to go in person. Ask him while I'm still awake. Shangluo is coming soon, and I won't be able to see Shangluo. Ask him about it while I'm still awake. "

Chapter 765 Secret Book

"Hey, you are back again? Is everything done?" Karin asked.

Shangluo nodded. He also saw Karin standing at the door holding a book: "You're done here too? Just one book?"

"It's quite impressive to have so many books. Alexandria used parchments to store these banned books. There were only so many maps, rolled up hastily, and then stacked on the X-shaped bookshelf in the library. This is also the first time I've seen this. It’s amazing that the content recorded in this secret book can be contained in a book. There are many incredible things on every page.”

"for example?"

"I would like to talk to you, but I can't. This can't be expressed in words. If one day you become an elf or a sage in the Palace of Muses, then you can look at it as you like."

[What she means is that you have to be on the list of gods before you can understand the heavenly book. As long as you are still a living person, this book is not yours to read. 】

"But since it looks like a book, it can be read, right?"

"???" Karin was stunned.

"???" Phaethon was stunned.

【? ? ? ] Apollonia was also at a loss for words for a moment, [Sure enough, the child has grown up and is no longer easy to fool. If you tell me that you 'picked it from the trash can', your child won't believe it. 】

"Isn't this what you said? Up is down, and down is up. There should indeed be some forbidden scriptures with destructive power, but it is now in the form of a book in front of me, that is, it can be opened Did you see it?”

"No! You really can't read it!" Karin bent down and hugged the book tightly, "Don't come over! You really don't come over!"

"No, no, I didn't really say I wanted to read it. I just wanted to ask, can I read this book?"

[Um] Apollonia looked around and let the alchemist touch Phaethon's shoulder, [Captain, it's you who have to say it. 】

"You can see it," Phaethon replied, "but it will explode if you look at it. This is true."

"Did I explode or did the book explode?"

"No difference, it's all the same anyway. Let me give you an example. I'll give you an example you already know - the Archangel Gabriel was bound by the shepherd's oath in Hagia Sophia, and the price of facing the Archangel's wrath Just burned to ashes. What page is this?"

"The second page of the text...," Karin replied.

"So," Phaethon explained, "actually if you turned the book to the second page and pointed it at some intelligent entity that could read it, the divine fire of the Archangel Gabriel would cause him to Burned down. Each page has its own use, and only two types of people can read it. The first type is those who know the situation through legal procedures under the mysterious feudal system of Rome. Elves, elves have no taboos, they are not affected by the Forbidden Code and cannot affect the Forbidden Code.”

"So, I can actually do it?"

"Yes, indeed, you can indeed read it. The prerequisite is that you understand it." Phaethon replied, "So I didn't deceive you before, because you really can't understand the Book of Heaven. When you can't understand it, , in fact, there is no problem in opening it - the book in front of you is the legendary "Codex Gigas". It should be called "Complete Codex" in Sinian language. This is a magic book based on magical powers. When these entries related to the devil are compiled, these texts themselves become a grimoire."

"Since it's so dangerous, why keep it here?"

"Because an archive is necessary. The function of this library is similar to the Golden Chamber in Aurora—you can choose not to read it, but you can't live without it. Texts that are frequently accessed from outside are managed using a different set of rules, but only here can the originals be properly preserved."

"Because there are angels guarding the door for you, right?"

"Theoretically, the library's protection is similar to that of Constantinople."