When I entered the door again, the car's suspension was pressed down again.
Phaethon returned to his original seat with the Spear of the Sun, and the white lion continued to lie down on the floor and sleep. After closing his eyes, the white lion yawned.
"What did you do to them?"
"What, you think I will kill them?" Phaethon asked him.
"I feel like you don't have empathy with humans."
"No, no, no, Mr. Shangluo." Phaethon said with a smile, "So you have underestimated the Lanfang Company. Their threat is even greater than the carrot fields in San Francisco. They don't have much regard for the local immortality in Cathay. Interested, but their exploration of the sun itself has reached a point where they need to intervene - they could destroy the earth in a few decades by the power of the artificial sun."
"You mean those bananas?"
"It's not just those bananas. We can reach some consensus with the mainland of Cathay, but with Lanfang in Nanyang, the only way is war. It's just that I haven't obtained the permission to start the war."
【You are too irritable. Phaethon. ] Helios's voice appeared again.
Shangluo found that Helios seemed to talk too much only when it came to Phaethon. Other times he doesn't even bother to say another word.
"They encountered the spear themselves, and I didn't take the initiative." Phaethon retorted while looking in the air.
[There is a price to pay for playing with the rules, and this price is 'karma'. Your karma is getting heavier and heavier, and sooner or later it will bring disaster to you. Do what you have to do and don't do more than is necessary or I will take back the spear. 】
"Yes..." Phaethon lowered his head, "I understand."
【I still have things to do. I'll leave the rest to you. Come to Alexandria and meet me immediately after you finish settling the matter here. After the union of Cathay and Rome, the big lighthouse is about to be completed, and we don't have much time. 】
"Yes, father. I will go back as soon as possible." Phaethon stood up and greeted the air.
Shangluo suddenly felt that the invisible pressure that had always existed disappeared, and he even felt that the car's suspension was floating upwards. The air starts to flow and everything becomes easier.
"Huh..." Phaethon breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally gone. You are so proud that he actually devoted 1 hour, 2 minutes and 29 seconds of his attention to you. He didn't even pay that much attention to me. Pass."
"Haha! That's such an honor for me! Miss Phaethon, should I be moved to tears?"
"There is no need to have tears in your eyes. He hopes that everything will run as it should, just like the rise and fall of the sun and the moon, and the flow of the four seasons, instead of the stars arranged into weird shapes on a certain day. If one day you truly understand the sun god Everything about Helios, it won’t be too late for you to have tears in your eyes.”
"Did he have something he didn't give me?" Shangluo suddenly thought about it, "Did he say he wanted to fulfill a wish of mine?"
"A promise of this level can be made with the Spear of the Sun, and he doesn't need to do it himself. Have you already thought about your wish?"
"Can I wish that you will immediately return to ashes and return to dust?"
"No." Phaethon replied, "I'm not a wishing machine. I have to think about it before I decide what reward to give you. And playing with the rules will accumulate karma. Didn't you hear just now?"
"Okay, Miss who is now studying and selling, can you please let me make some simple wishes? For example, help me practice?" Shangluo looked at her, "Is this wish okay?"
"You want me, who is against heaven, to help you go against heaven and practice cultivation? Are you going too far?"
"Who is going too far now? Didn't you knock on the door first?"
"Okay, okay." Phaethon waved his hand, "Then it's settled, I will help you practice, and I will help you to the best of my ability. The oath cannot be broken, and I have to try my best to help you even if I am not happy. But How to help specifically, I have to study the elixir method to know - Hey, is your elixir okay?"
"I don't know." Shangluo turned his head to the side, "I haven't eaten yet, and you guys are here."
"So, what do those pills look like? Are they the same as the ones in the legend?"
"You'll know when you see it."
...
Las Vegas, underground of the Empress Hotel.
In the small office, Phaethon was staring at the bronze tripod in front of him with his mouth open. The elixir inside the bronze tripod has cooled into a dark red ash, and there seems to be moist liquid flowing under the ash. There was glowing mercury, condensed sulfur, and a lot of things she couldn't understand at all.
"Is this a pill?" The spotlight shone clearly, and Phaethon still couldn't believe that this was what her father wanted. She looked into the sky - as a non-human demigod, she could also contact the divine machine: "Apolonia. Can you hear me?"
【what? ] Apollonia's lazy voice came from the air, and she was too lazy to pay attention to Phaethon.
"Is this really the elixir formula you calculated?"
[Tsk, if you don’t believe it, don’t come and grab it. This thing is only useful if people eat it. What’s the use of it if you eat it? 】
After getting ashes from Apollonia, she asked Shangluo: "Is this really an elixir? I remind you that the Spear of the Sun has witnessed the agreement between us. If you deceive me, then my promise will not be fulfilled." It will take effect.”
"Well, the Mediterranean grape juice tastes really good. Anyway, you just need to help me practice afterwards." Shangluo leaned on the sofa, shaking the grape juice in his hand. He didn't bother to care, because this thing didn't look like a pill at all, and it would be great to have someone test the medicine for him. And you can also get a more stable breakthrough plan, which is much more convenient.
"Stop drinking. You can drink as much as you want when you're done."
"Your business has nothing to do with me." Shangluo crossed his legs, "You said that I only need to cooperate, and the rest is none of my business. In other words, as long as I cooperate, it doesn't matter whether you can succeed or not. It's my business. And before you start, where is the person I want to meet? I won't agree until you meet me."
Phaethon winked at the door, and a Greek in a suit walked out. Not long after, he also brought Wen Yuan in.
"Come on, have a drink." Shangluo took the bottle and offered him a drink.
"Uh... I'm sorry, I can't drink. Drinking is harmful to the body and will cause a loss of cultivation." Wen Yuan declined, but took another look at the label, "Ah, it's grape juice. Come on, I'll drink some too."
He came close to Shangluo and said in a lowered voice: "I know everything - I won't thank you for your kindness. If you abandon me and walk away, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back."
"Let's not talk about this for now. What should we do with the elixir recipe?" Shangluo asked while helping him, "Will it be detrimental to the court if they analyze the elixir recipe?"
"No, just do your research and let them do it." Wen Yuan said with a half-smile, "With their skills, they still want to break the secret of Daozu. It's just a dream. If they can really break the secret laid down by Daozu, I would like to They share a piece of my pie, and the court will really thank their whole family."
