Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

Chapter 1021 God’s Domain

After entering the space presented by Apollonia, Shangluo suddenly felt a little dizzy: "Why do I feel like vomiting? The delay of your picture is quite high."

[That's why I've already said it. It's just a visual signal for you, but for me it's like my mind is separated from my soul, and my dizziness is probably the square of yours.]

“Then you’re actually pretty amazing.”

【Hey, thanks. 】

"Well, can you help me mark it?" Shangluo asked, "I want to see where that lady has been with us and where she has been in the past month."

[It's a small matter. You can actually do it yourself. Ha, there used to be a spear of the sun god, and blood had to be sacrificed? That was the witchcraft of the Titans! The real magic of the sun god only needs a little seasoning.]

"Hmm? How do I do it if I can do it myself?"

[It's very simple. We are now at the gate of the Imperial Prison. Miss Teng was taken into the Imperial Prison here. So you can rewind the timeline to when she was there, mark it, and then you will know her next move. ]

"So it's the mark-and-recapture method, right?"

[I've said it before, this isn't Titan witchcraft, this is the power of science. Chanting and then sacrificing blood is really too backward! ]

Phaethon, who had been standing not far away and leaning against the car door, suddenly tilted his head: "I seem to hear someone's skin itching."

"Can you still beat her?" Shangluo asked, "I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, is there any way to punish her?"

"Can't you hit her with a small hammer?"

"I feel like that's too harsh. I'm afraid I'll make her stupid. Is there any way to teach her a lesson without hurting her?"

"That's easy. I'll show you some Titan witchcraft right now! You look down on magic that uses blood as a medium, right? Then Miss Apollonia, do you want to experience the feeling of being nailed to the spot and unable to go home with Shangluo?"

[Ah? Ah! No! Don't ground me! Are you a Spartan tutor?! I heard that Victoria was often grounded in the corner of her room by Ms. Agatha when she was a child.]

"The itchy little brat needs a lesson. Do you want to try?"

[No, no, no, forget it. Shangluo is on your side, you have the final say.]

"Tsk." Shang Luo pressed his forehead, "So what does it have to do with me? It's a family conflict between you. I didn't say I would ground you. I just want to ask if there is any way to beat your drum."

[Eh?! Eh!! I'm already this old, I'm not a child! How can you hit the drum just because you want to? Just hit my head! If you have any objections, just hit my head. If you are cruel enough, just hit my head with a small hammer! My head is harder than you think.]

"Okay, okay." Shangluo waved his hand, "Sooner or later, I will find a way to deal with you."

[Why do I suddenly feel a little regretful? I shouldn't have shared this magic with you. 】

"why?"

[You will know if you move yourself. You will know if you change your coordinates in this scene.]

Although he felt dizzy, Shangluo still took a step to the left. As soon as he left the spot, he saw a ball of light remaining there. The light gradually became clear, revealing a figure holding up a toga with half of the shoulder exposed: Apollonia appeared.

"So you can come out?!" Shangluo saw the familiar figure. Before this, she had only manifested a fictional form within the cave. But that wasn't her true self; it was merely an avatar used to enjoy the hot springs and boiled eggs. Compared to the previous one, the figure here, while identical, was, in principle, closer to her true self.

"Because, in theory, this is my divine domain, my territory. Although only those who have access here can see me, it's almost like living in a memory." She took two steps and looked at her clothes.

[Not bad, seems to have grown a little taller.] She looked down at her feet, and could see them from top to bottom, with no part of them blocked.

[Alas.] She sighed, [I still fantasize that one day I will not be able to see my toes when I lower my head.]

“What on earth are you thinking about?”

[That's what adults do. ]

"Do you have any misunderstanding about 'adults'? Do you think all adults can't see their toes when they look down? Then I suggest you train your chest muscles. It's more reliable than relying on your age to improve."

[Not that kind. Forget it. I think I'm still pretty cute.] She held up the hem of her toga and trotted to the side of the road next to the vending machine, aiming the camera at it like a mirror. [Well, it would be better if there were more faces. It's a pity that the computing power is not enough, so there's no way to get my perfect look. Why are the edges of this dress still jagged? Why is it piercing the model?]

As she said this, she covered her head again: [Ah, I feel dizzy. I really shouldn’t move around. Why do I feel like I’m getting more and more exposed, and I’m about to get exposed from my head.]

Speaking of penetration, she suddenly turned around and looked at Shangluo: [No way! Did I penetrate the model just now? You didn't see it, did you? ]

"No."

[I don’t believe it.] She jumped up and pressed the pause button in mid-air, pausing the timeline of everything around her, including her own image.

She left her paused self, carried the toga and walked to Shangluo's side. The time she was standing next to Shangluo began to play backwards - it played backwards to show her walking over with the toga just now.

[Well, the clothes are indeed not on the model. 】

“What on earth are you thinking about?”

She stood on tiptoe and leaned close to Shangluo's ear: "I don't want to be like someone else, being in the same jar with you and being seen naked."

"Hey, hey, hey, can you say this here? She won't hear it?"

[This is my territory. I haven't invited her in yet, how could she see it? Should I invite her now? I'm going to investigate a case later, so it would be better if there are more people around to watch over me.]

"Okay." Shangluo nodded.

[Okay, wait a moment.] Apollonia stood aside, jumped up and tapped the screen in mid-air.

“So why don’t you adjust the height of the UI according to your height.”

[Because I always hint that I should be taller, so UI became taller. Tsk, I can't do anything about it. Even I can't freely control my own heart. I'm not Wang Yangming.]

She operated the operating interface that was obviously a head taller than her and invited Phaethon in.

"Ah." Phaethon's shadow appeared halfway, "We are here again. It feels so familiar."

Chapter 1022 Mark and Recapture

"Have you been here before?"

"Very rarely. She used to be very withdrawn and rarely let me in to see her. I could only chat with her from the outside. Now she is much more cheerful than before."

She looked at Apollonia next to her and nodded, "It's not bad to come out like this now. Although only we can see it."

"Why are you talking like a cyber ghost?"

"She can only appear in your heart, which is almost the same as a female ghost. As for when to let her come back to life, it depends on your luck."

[You need to work harder.] Apollonia muttered beside him, [You need to find a way to get me out as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will pester you every day. I also know a little bit about night walking. As long as I stay up late, you can forget about having a good dream!]

"Hey, hey, hey, you two, don't drag me into this again - I was wondering why you two would start to express your conflict with each other? It's true... If we are not from the same family, we will not enter the same door."

"Tsk, indeed. I always feel that sometimes, she and I get along pretty well. If we were a normal family, it wouldn't be bad for me to grow up holding the hand of this aunt who is younger than me. Now, holding the hand of Cyber ​​Apollonia in the virtual space is also possible."

She walked all the way to Shangluo and touched Apollonia's head.

"Huh?" Apollonia asked in surprise, "Aren't you dizzy? Shangluo and I get dizzy whenever we move. I just walked more than ten meters and I feel like vomiting now."

"People's physiques are different." Phaethon shook his head, "So are their spirits. Your spirits are still lacking in training, so you are affected by this physical discomfort. When you have a spirit as well-trained as mine, you won't have to worry about this sensory disharmony."

[Ah, forget it. I feel like it would be painful to become like you.] She looked around, [Okay, everyone is here, we can investigate the case. Come to think of it, there's no need to call Victoria to come and see.]

As she spoke, she jumped up and pulled a box, in which operation interfaces such as fast forward, rewind and pause appeared. Then she pulled the "operating console" of this world in front of Shangluo.

[You do the operation.] She said to Shangluo, [You are taller than me, you do the operation. Miss Teng should have been sent here earlier yesterday, you can just look at the sun in the sky and do the operation.]

"Well, let me try." He tried to touch the UI floating in front of him. It felt a little cold, but also crisp.

[Wow! What are you doing? That's disgusting!]

"Eh? You have a feeling?" Shangluo realized that he seemed to have caught something on her. Thinking carefully, indeed, this UI looks like just some buttons, but it is indeed a part of Apollonia.

[No, no, what on earth are you thinking about? How can you have strange thoughts about a few buttons? As expected, Victoria.]

Before he finished speaking, Shangluo had already placed his hand on the edge of the operating interface and gently swiped his finger across it.

Apollonia, who was standing next to him, shuddered all over, and when she looked at Shangluo, there was a hint of anger in her eyes: [What are you doing? Where are you touching?!]

"Ah? Sorry, sorry." Not sure if it was because his XP was too advanced or because he found a strange button that made him feel guilty, Shangluo immediately withdrew his hand.

[You're smart.] She stared at Shangluo's hand, watching him press the button.

Shangluo reached out his hand and pressed the "rewind button" on the left in a casual manner. The surrounding scenes began to rewind as time went backwards.

First, Phaethon's shadow returned to the roadside and then disappeared.

Then, the voices of Shangluo and Apollonia talking could be heard from the surroundings:

"I don't want to be like someone else, hanging out with you and seeing you naked."

"???" Phaethon beside her suddenly looked up. From the fragmented voice, she seemed to hear something extraordinary.

"Ah!!!" Shangluo suddenly tapped the rewind button twice to skip this part.

Apollonia covered her head with her hands after being slapped, but thinking back to what she had just said, she did not raise any opinions - although Phaethon probably knew it, it would be terrible if Phaethon really heard these words coming from her mouth in person.

After the rewind button was pressed, the sun, moon, light and shadow in the sky changed to yesterday's scene in an instant. This was the real scene recorded by all the Tianyi nobles.

"Look! Miss Teng has appeared!" Shangluo suddenly raised his hand, and several fully armed armored vehicles appeared at the gate of the imperial prison. "Miss Teng" was put in a heavy shackle, with only her head and hands exposed from the shackle. Her neck, hands exposed from the shackle, and feet used for walking were all tied up with golden ropes. There was also a yellow talisman paper on the shackle.

It's not like catching a person, but more like catching a monster.

The escorted "Miss Teng" struggled like a catfish. Every time she struggled, the ropes and talisman paper would emit golden light. The ropes would tighten, strangling her hands, feet and neck, and the shackles became heavier under the effect of the talisman paper.

"Click——" With a scream that was not like a human voice, the rope directly blocked the breathing passage at her neck, and the weight of the shackles directly crushed her body.

"Don't resist. I told you not to resist." Lu Huaiyang got out of the car and followed behind. "You're tied up with a demon rope and you still want to run. How come you're like a stressed Chihuahua?"

The Jinyiwei were all watching, watching her struggling on the ground alone. No one hit her, but no one helped her either, just letting her slowly recover from the suffocation, and the weight of the shackles also recovered to the point where she could walk.

"Let's go." Lu Huaiyang shook his head. "I told you not to resist, otherwise I wouldn't have put you in heavy shackles. You still have one chance. Tell everything you need to tell before Shangluo comes, then you should still have a chance to survive."

"I don't really know why. I just had one drink and that's it."

"You just drank it secretly? That's so easy to say. Who told you that drinking from that red bottle would make you immortal? And who opened the door for you?"

"I don't know, I really don't know!"

"Take him in." Lu Huaiyang didn't plan to say anything else to her at the door. The Imperial Prison only wanted answers, not the process. Anyway, once the memory recovery technique was used, everything would be clear.

"Let me take a look. Let's start from here." Shangluo pressed the pause button for the time being, then took out a red arrow from the operation interface and handed it to Phaethon next to him:

"Put it on her head for me. I don't want to move. I'll get dizzy if I move."

"Oh, it's so fake." Phaethon shook his head and placed the arrow on "Miss Vine's" head.

Shangluo immediately pressed the rewind button. The arrow flew backwards, and Apollonia looked in the direction the arrow left. She knew everything here very well, and she could easily distinguish it as long as there was an arrow mark.

[I saw it. She was there yesterday. Huh? Huh? ! ! !] Apollonia blinked violently. [What's going on?]

"What did you see?"

[What the hell! How come there are 3? No, 5? How come there are so many! How come I marked one and more than a dozen appeared! ]

Chapter 1023 Interrogation

"I have a bad feeling. Will all the Japanese turn into orange juice?"

[What is orange juice? I'll search it. Wow, that's too bad. Although Beans can also enter this state, they can choose to enter and exit freely. If they are forced to enter, it would be too much.]

"Even from a Roman perspective, this is too much."

"You also think this is too tragic?"

"Whether it's tragic or not is secondary. This is essentially a kind of ascension - the essence of ascension is the extinction of species. They exterminated themselves so easily in such a brilliant and correct way. This is really too much."

[Yes, yes, this is too much. It doesn't matter whether it's tragic or not. How can the barbarians be exterminated in this way?]

“???” Shangluo felt that sometimes he could not keep up with the thought processes of these two Romans.

"Ah?" Phaethon noticed that Shangluo was stunned by what he heard, and then he realized something was wrong. "Ah, well, strictly speaking, it's indeed not very humane. After all, they didn't say whether they agreed or not, right? But from the perspective of Greek drama, this way of dying is a bit presumptuous. Hey, Apollonia, explain it, Shangluo doesn't quite understand my metaphor."

[Ah] Apollonia also felt that what she had said just now was a bit outrageous, so she racked her brains to find some excuse:

[Shangluo, look: Most of the barbarians in this world were killed by Xiali. And they were killed by Bentley! Don’t you think this is too much? Many people want to be killed by Bentley, but they don’t have this blessing. ]

"So that's what you think." Shang Luo pressed his forehead. "It's not hard to understand. Have I been infected by you two? I actually think it's worth it even if they die? This is obviously a big deal."

[They are not my neighbors.]

"Indeed." Phaethon nodded. "We are not familiar with Japan. It sounds like your neighbor died. But the death was so spectacular and fancy."

"Wait, wait, he's not dead yet." Shang Luo asked her to stop, "It's okay for you to just watch the fun after he really dies."

[I think it's a big deal. This one individual split into a large group, which means that there may be something wrong with the structure of the entire civilization. From the Roman point of view, this is probably equivalent to a Class IV leak.]

"What do you mean?"