There are many people here, people everywhere. In front of the bookshelves and bookshelves, Roman students in school uniforms sat and read quietly. It wasn't the middle of the night and they were just sitting there without their nightcaps on. Their names are on their heads, but there are no health bars marked because they are in a safe zone according to the rules.
Shangluo looked up and looked at his health bar - it was gone too. This is an area protected by the Palace of Muses, and is not calculated according to the rules of the health bar.
"Forget it, find someone to ask."
Shangluo noticed that a circular service desk was set up at the front. Surrounding the service desk is a circle of glass light boxes advertising new books. Apparently the service desk was added later.
"Excuse me," Shangluo stood outside the service desk and called the librarian nearest him. He knew it was the librarian because it said librarian above his head.
"Hello, what can I ask for?"
"Eh???"
Both of them were stunned.
"Karin, why are you here?"
Walking down the corridor on the second floor of the library, Karin held her notepad and led the way. She was wearing her school uniform, but she had a library staff badge on her chest. There is her portrait on it, with the name Karin Kelso and the title "Librarian (Internship)"
".I heard that Cathay sent an envoy to inquire, and I was wondering if it was you. I didn't expect it was really you!" Compared with last time, Karin looked much happier.
"So it was Mr. Titus who introduced you to work? How is he doing?"
"Yes. After you left, Sister Lin went home for one night and then set off. When she came back on the weekend, I went for a walk in the woods. I happened to meet Mr. Titus who came back to clean up the scene. He heard After talking about my situation, he recommended me a job in the library. But this time it was part-time, not full-time. I came three days a week, after class. As for his current situation, he occasionally visited me before. , haven’t been here recently. They are working in Upper Egypt in the south, and they have been very busy recently.”
"Lin, how are you lately?"
"Ah, it's exactly the same as us. Sometimes I will work up the energy to help with housework. After she comes home, she lies in bed motionless and can sleep for most of the day. Mom also wonders why she suddenly becomes lazy at home. When I was sleeping, I would come here to drink tea in the staff lounge. Now everything is normal and I am very fulfilled every day.”
"Oh~~ Then you must have learned mushroom soup, right?"
"..." Karin fell into silence, "I found that it's not a problem with the taste, it seems that it's just a matter of not being sure of the heat. Haha, ahhahaha. Then what... Oh, by the way, look forward, there is a conference room in front of you. ~"
Karin changed the subject. Shangluo didn't intend to ask further: after all, there are always things that people are not good at. This is a person, not a machine that can run by itself after inputting a program.
Among the doors that were close together, Karin chose an unmarked door, opened it and entered.
Just like outside, the conference room in the corridor is much larger than it looks. However, the conference room has a window facing the outside, indicating that at least this conference room is not a specially processed space, but a real area that corresponds one-to-one with the facade of the building.
There were almost no furnishings in the conference room, just a rectangular wooden table. Two rows of chairs were placed at either end of the long table.
Karin pulled out the centermost chair on the east side: "Come, sit here and wait a moment."
"Where is Emperor Augustus?"
"Her Majesty Victoria is online."
"What are you doing?"
"It's coming online. Ah, I forgot to mention it. Her Majesty Victoria's body is still in Constantinople, and her mission there has not yet been completed. She will not enter here until the transfer of the capital is completed."
"how about you?"
"I am actually an elf, do you remember? In fact, elves do feel more comfortable here. Most of the staff here are elves, because only elves provide guidance in the infinitely extended library. So at that time, I mentioned that Mr. Si recommended me to work here. The salary here is very good, 9,000 drachmas every month."
"How much? 9,000? What's going on here?"
"The price has increased. The ice cream stall at the door has also increased its price. Now it costs 5 yuan each."
"It's only been a month, why has it become like this?"
"Well, I don't know. It was already like this when I came here. Oh, wait a moment, His Majesty is already online."
The space opposite suddenly "trembled". A blue shadow slowly appeared from the void. The first thing that appeared was not the emperor himself, but the double-headed eagle flag of Rome, which was also a blue shadow.
Emperor Victoria walks in from "offscreen." The blue shadow has only a monotonous color, outlining the emperor's figure. She did not wear the toga that symbolized the emperor, nor did she wear a crown, but only a narrow dress.
Her eyes stayed on Shangluo's face for a while, then moved away. Walking to the window, she looked out the window.
The sky above the bell structure extends into the distance, and the edge of the sky seems to be expanding. Soon, the entire skyline will be covered.
"My friend from afar, have you seen it? That unfinished great work."
"I've seen it in Lake Nemi."
"You are the first person to see it, because the first launch of Cyberspace was in the sacred grove of Lake Nemi. It was also there that it was codenamed "Lighthouse Project" at that time. To cover it up. But from then on, nothing could be hidden."
After saying that, she walked back quickly, pulled out the non-existent stool, and sat down opposite Shangluo. It seems that there is an identical conference room over there, and she holds meetings in her own conference room. After she "went online", her projection appeared in the conference room here.
In comparison, Karin seems to have come "online" as well. After all, her family lives in Alicia Town. But Karin's state is obviously far more complete than Victoria in front of her.
"Well, please introduce yourself. I am Victoria III of the Palaiolo-Isaurian dynasty, and I speak on behalf of Rome."
"I am Shangluo. I speak on behalf of the Taoist ancestors." Shangluo did not say that he represented the "Ming Empire", because that was the sum total of heaven and earth.
Victoria nodded: "I know you, this is not the first time we have met. Well, I'm sorry, I didn't take the initiative to say hello to you last time. I also know why you came. Mingzun wanted to ask what happened in Rome. So, please allow me to ask a question first: How is the progress of the Water Dragon?"
"It will be launched in the near future, and everything is going well with the plan. We have enabled Jus in the new rocket. This flight is not to say foolproof, but at least the success rate is much higher than before."
"I wish you success in advance - it's just that everything in Rome is not going well. We have also looked up at the starry sky, but the depth of the starry sky is daunting. Even if we leave us behind and practice the new rules alone in the New World They also failed to succeed. This time, New Antioch did not share any information with us, and I only learned about it from the news. It seems that civil war is inevitable."
(End of chapter)
