Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

Chapter 1108 The Female CEO's Male Secretary

"." Shangluo blinked, "Why do I feel like you treat me as the bartender who mixes drinks for you after get off work, or some tree hole in your yard."

"Ah, did you find out? It's because I can rest without any defense in front of you that I act more casually. Actually, I'm not like this usually."

"So why?" Shang Luo asked in surprise, "Is there something on my face?"

"Because you are strong! That's enough. My pressure comes entirely from the secrets I carry. I cannot rest in front of anyone whose confidentiality level is lower than mine, even if it is Aunt Agatha who grew up with me. No, Ms. Agatha, even if it is her, I cannot completely let my guard down in front of her. Because the confidentiality level between her and me is too different. You are different. Your confidentiality level is the same as mine, so it doesn't matter if you know it."

Then she asked, "If I get drunk one day and reveal the location of Shepherd Stephen, and someone goes to kill him, then Hagia Sophia and even the entire Constantinople will be burned to ashes by the wrath of the angels. In such a situation, even if it is the tutor who has been with me day and night and grown up with me, I can't say a word. But you are different, your confidentiality level is high enough, you can know."

【You are the King of Rome. Theoretically, just like she intends to play you, you can also directly replace her in any occasion. Because Victoria's most important mission is to keep secrets - Victoria's contradiction lies here. The feudal system is hierarchical and ruthless. Personal feelings cannot cross the gap of class, even if you have been a half-teacher and half-friend for more than ten years. But for you of the same level, even if there is no affection, you can slowly cultivate it. This is the so-called political marriage.】

"Oh, of course." Victoria added, "Although we met through this opportunity. But if I didn't want to, I wouldn't be so relaxed. I could just do it in a businesslike manner. After all, I am quite willing."

[I understand. What is this called? A female CEO's male secretary, first married, then fell in love? ]

“????” Shangluo’s whole body trembled. “What on earth are you looking at?”

[How come I, who is well-read and well-informed, can't draw more inspiration from various literary works? I surf the Internet every day, and this was posted by someone in the forum. I want to see what's wrong? ]

"You seem to be quite free. Okay, let's do this. Then we'll get married first. What do you mean by female CEO? Anyway, Victoria, I'll ask you to make an appearance for me today. If there's a similar situation later, please make an appearance as well."

"Where are you going?" Victoria asked.

"Where can I go? I'm not going anywhere. I'm following you. I just asked you to be there for me. Of course I have to be present at such an important event. I can't just hang around, can I?"

"Oh, I understand." Victoria replied, "So are you going to do this from now on? Play a double act with me? I'll help you maintain your king's appearance, and then you can just hint at anything?"

[Emperor Wu of Han and his halberd bearer Dongfang Shuo, what the emperor and his close ministers had to say]

"You shouldn't be too broad-minded! Emperor Wu of Han might still have a role to play in our time. Can this thing be posted on the Internet?"

[Why not? It could also be "Cao Mengde and the man behind him."]

"It's over, it's over now. When everyone opens their eyes, they will think, 'Let me see what kind of elegant arts activities our descendants are doing', and then they will open their phones and browse the forums in the subway."

"Ahem," Victoria added, "So, the wise men in the Palace of Muses who have the same problem usually don't look at these social media. They also don't participate in activities that are not related to the matters they should perform. After all, modern pop culture has a great impact on those old guys - of course, except Socrates, he is the one who can make up these jokes himself. I have dealt with them a lot, and I have learned a lot of 'Greek drama'."

"So, Mr. Victoria," Shangluo asked, "which image in Greek drama are you going to assign to me later?"

"As for you, you're probably the image of Dionysus, the god of wine. I'm planning to play you according to this script later."

"Huh? Why?"

"Dionysus, the god of wine, is the secret king of gods. His counterpart is Apollo, the god of the sun, but Apollo often appears to be radiant, which is unlike you. Dionysus, the god of wine, is often associated with tricks and mysteries, and will inadvertently show the remnant brutality of the ancient gods and the power of the future king of gods. This image is very complicated, but with Dionysus as a template, it is not difficult to play - don't you think this is very similar to you? The unicorn who was born twice. 'Dionysus' means born twice. You came to this world, which means you were indeed born twice."

"Ah, now that you mention it, it's true."

"Of course the most important thing is the party! Since it's a ceremony, it would be best if the image of the god of wine were present."

"So what do you need?"

"As for the black round-necked robe with dark patterns that you are wearing, it is perfect - but it needs a little modification. Do you want to try it now? And take a look at the social image I designed for you?"

"Wait a moment. Let me change your shape first—"

[So besides the public restroom, do you have any other places to transform? Yesterday it was here, and today it is still here.]

"I can't go to a public phone booth, can I?"

[One person comes in, two people go out, you are amazing at coming up with this idea]

"Oh, Phaethon is just taking a walk outside, that's nothing."

Shangluo "took" Victoria out.

"Ah~~ Although it's still a place like this, it's good to come out and get some fresh air. Come on, transform. How do you want me to transform?"

"Have you read Journey to the West?"

"I've seen it, of course." Victoria was suddenly stunned, "Ahhh!"

Suddenly, she remembered something horrible: "I remember! Sun Wukong asked Tang Seng to change into his shape, and he peed and mixed mud!"

"What did you see? There's no need to pee. That's because Sun Wukong has hair on his face. He looks very different from Tang Seng. And the pig urine was prepared by Zhu Bajie. The difference between our two bodies is not that big, so it's easier to transform. But there's a problem. If you use the 72 transformations, you need to leave a personal mark to distinguish between us. What mark do you plan to leave? What are your personal characteristics? Show me?"

"Ah, this. Personal characteristics, can you say this? Do you have to see it before you can add personal characteristics?"

Chapter 1109 Victoria's Characteristics

At Shangluo's request, Victoria showed her characteristics that distinguished herself from others -

"Ah, so that's how it is. So this is Victoria's characteristic."

【So this is ah. 】

Shangluo and Apollonia exclaimed in unison.

"Okay! Have you seen enough?" Victoria's face flushed as she lifted up her shirt.

"Wait a minute." Shangluo took out his cell phone -

"Are you done?! Do you want to take pictures?" Victoria was anxious.

"No, I want Phaethon to come in and see."

——"Eh???" Phaethon looked at his phone, "So Victoria's belly button is protruding! Oh, no wonder."

"Would you like to come in and take a look?"

"No. Although I'm curious, it's still too rude to go into the men's restroom. I just know it. Hey, thank you for telling me."

"Oh." Shangluo put away his phone. "She didn't come to see me. Oh, what a pity."

"Ah!! You're so annoying!" Victoria put her clothes back, "So does this feature work?"

"No." Shangluo shook his head.

"Then why are you looking at it for so long?"

"Well, I just find it very strange. Let's skip this part for now."

"I won't jump over it! Why? You were the first one who asked to see it, so I showed it to you. My belly button is very special! Why can't I use it!"

At this point, Victoria had already given it her all. Shangluo needed her to find a unique "feature" of hers, and she really showed off her most unique feature since she was a child, which she didn't really want to show. But after she had "shown" it, Shangluo actually said it couldn't be used.

[Yes, I remember that this is indeed her characteristic - although I don't know what it means specifically. But it is indeed very important.]

"That's the problem. Tell me, why is this your characteristic?"

[Let me tell you. When Victoria was born, she was wrapped in a complete amniotic membrane, which was a good omen of victory, so she was named Victoria after the goddess of victory. In the mystery, a complete amniotic membrane also means "never drowning", which is very suitable for carrying the huge secrets of the Roman emperor. So she was born with the good omen of becoming an emperor, and her father gave up the throne to her early. But this belly button.]

"Ah," Victoria said helplessly, "So it must be because I didn't handle the amniotic membrane and umbilical cord properly, which caused my belly button to bulge out. But this is a good sign."

"Wait, Miss Victoria, there is actually a problem - the shape of the belly button does not seem to have anything to do with the treatment of the umbilical cord during childbirth, because the umbilical cord will eventually fall off. Your belly button may be a little protruding because your body fat percentage is relatively low."

“Is that what it is???”

"Haven't you discussed this with anyone before?"

"Why should I discuss this with anyone? Only Ms. Agatha, who bathed me since I was a child, knows. That's what she told me when I asked her."

"That's the second question - everyone knows the auspicious signs when you were born, right? But no one knows the shape of your belly button. So even if you have this mark, there is no way for people to recognize you. Unless you meet people later and say: Victoria's belly button is..."

"Okay!" Victoria covered his lips, "Stop talking! Stop talking! It's enough for you to know, Phaethon can know it, Apollonia can know it, don't let anyone else know it."

"Look. If you don't want others to see it, there's nothing I can do. The essence of this feature is to make some distinction between you and me, so that others can identify the difference between you and me through certain means. Because if you become exactly the same as me, so that the cause and effect can't be identified, it may bring you danger."

"Then there is only one way left. My unique characteristics that are known to others and that I hope to be known."

After a while, "Shangluo" walked out of the bathroom.

Phaethon, who was standing at the door watching, glanced at "him" and asked, "Has it been changed?"

"You can tell them apart so easily? The features I chose are clearly invisible to the naked eye."

"Because the look in your eyes is different. Your eyes are too sharp. Is this how Shangluo looks in your eyes? Your filter is too heavy."

"What should his expression be then?"

"Be more curious."

"Is this how I look to you?" Shangluo followed behind with a changed appearance, in the form of a dragon girl. After letting Victoria transform into himself, he planned to change into the form of Yiji and follow behind. Because all the pressure was on Victoria, he could relax a little.

"Hey, look. That's it." Phaethon pointed at his eyes. "That innocent look of his that's curious about everything. That's it. I can recognize him even if it's someone else."

"If I had known it would be so troublesome, why would I have made so many arrangements?" Victoria shook her head.

"That's different. It's something only I can see because it's the same face I see all the time. It would be bad if other people saw it the same way I do - what about you? What did you choose?"

"Guess? If you can guess it, it means I chose successfully."

Victoria reached out and lifted her clothes to look at her belly button: "Wow, it's real. The belly button is really this shape."

"Are you done yet? That's not it! Shangluo said this can't be my personal characteristic. I just brought it along with the main body."

"That's it." She reached out and touched Victoria's chest, "You really have no heartbeat."

"Because the heart of stone doesn't beat. As expected, you can identify it, and it looks good."

"But not everyone can see that, right?" Phaethon confirmed to Shangluo.

"It doesn't need to be so obvious. She doesn't transform every day. Yang Jian and Sun Wukong make a living from this. The 72 transformations are their specialty, so they are well prepared. She just needs to transform once, it's fine, it doesn't need to be so perfect. Besides, although the absence of a heartbeat cannot be seen, it is quite obvious to the eyes of a Qigong practitioner. If you don't believe me, just look at it."

At the entrance of the Lan Fang Club, Zheng Shijie was waiting next to Grani's car door, holding a paper cup with a straw in his hand.

"Shangluo? Why don't you have a heartbeat?" Zheng Shijie saw it at a glance, "Wait, you are not Shangluo?"

"Wow! This is another one with piercing eyes! How did you see that?" Victoria was a little unsure. She subconsciously looked down at her surroundings, wondering if this transformation was not working well. How could anyone see that?

Chapter 1110 Victoria's Heartbeat

"At first glance, I noticed that you had no heartbeat, which was very strange. At second glance, I saw the look in your eyes, and then I realized that you were not him - but Phaethon was standing next to you? Eh? Shangluo, how did you become Yiji standing behind? Then who is this person?"

"This is the stuntman I invited." Shangluo walked up and opened the car door. "Guoxing, why don't you go in by yourself? I asked Grani to hold the door open for you."

"I know, but your car can run on its own. I always feel uneasy if I don't sit in it with you. I know the origin of this car."

The demon god [Grani, a six-legged warhorse] was sealed in this car, and the well-informed Zheng Shijie had also heard about it. Although the demon god acted docile to Shangluo, like a real good warhorse, Zheng Shijie could feel the unruly soul roaring in the engine.

Grani would only show obedience to the truly strong, and he would recognize his master. Although Shangluo did give instructions in advance, Zheng Shijie still didn't dare to sit in it, and at most he could just lean against it like he was doing now.

Shangluo opened the car door for him and made the invitation clear in front of Grani before he dared to get on board this metal demon.

"So who is this..." After getting into the car and sitting in the passenger seat, Zheng Shijie turned around and asked, "I'm afraid this 'stuntman' has a background that is not simple either."

"How did you know that?" Shangluo asked.

"I don't know why, but the first time I saw him I remembered the look in my 'Brother Ye's' eyes. He was like that when we were still new. He thought no one knew him and went to school like a normal person, but unexpectedly, everything about him was wrong, from the clothes he wore to the way he spoke. People like this, they say they are just 'playing' normal people, and their acting skills are pretty poor, no matter who they play, they are themselves."

Victoria looked out the window.

"Ah, of course, my dear brother, I'm not saying that your acting is bad - acting sometimes requires exaggeration. You will meet many people that Shangluo has never met. Well, when Cao Cao wanted to meet outsiders, he was not very confident about his appearance, so he asked a tall and straight counselor to wear his own clothes and sit there to meet them for him. Here's the words."

Zheng Shijie thought for a moment and said, "It's definitely not the external appearance. The external appearance is the same. Shangluo, you feel that it's too troublesome, so you find someone to replace yourself?"

Shangluo nodded.

"Oh! Genius! It would be great if I could find a double like this. Outsiders can't see clearly, but people who are familiar with it can see it at a glance. This is so much easier! There are many things that don't need me to go in person, and I would just sit there. If I also have a double like this, then my annual vacation can be doubled! So, brother, what's your name? Do you have other actors there?"

"Yes, there is." Victoria nodded. "If you want a substitute, there is actually a more permanent solution. For example, let you drink the blood of Hydra, so that you can split into 6."

"He can't drink it." Shangluo replied, "He is already a Qigong practitioner, which is equivalent to having a real-name registration in the spirit world. If there are multiple people, it means multiple logins. If they are identified as cheating, their accounts will be blocked. That's why I said before that there should be some differences between the two of us."

"Ah, that's a pity." Zheng Shijie sighed, "But this person must be no ordinary person, right? You are the 'Blood of Hydra'. Either you are a very powerful friend that Shangluo knows in Rome, or you are a very powerful actor that Shangluo knows in Rome."

"she is my friend."

"Yes, female?"

"How do you know that?" Victoria asked.

"Nothing, I just guessed, because Shangluo sat too close to you. As far as I can remember, the only person who could sit so close to Shangluo, besides his female friends, was a panda. You can't be a panda."

"This guy is really good at judging people." Victoria didn't expect to be seen through after just a few words. "Is my acting so obvious?"

"Oh, it's not a big deal." Shangluo waved his hand. "It's a ceremony, so we need some ritualized Greek drama. You can't lose face when you meet the King of Ryukyu later. You need to be as spirited as you are now."

"That's easy. My 'spirit' doesn't need to be played out. It's always there."