Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"My heart hasn't been cured yet, right?"

"I think this may be caused by some supernatural reasons, so the rejuvenation pill that can only treat mortal diseases cannot cure your illness."

"Then doctor, what can I do to regain my health?"

"Actually, I have this idea." Shangluo put away the silver thread. "If we calculate it according to birth, aging, sickness and death, is it possible that Victoria's heart turned into stone, not because of the disease. It's the other three of birth, aging, sickness and death."

"You mean, I'm getting old?!"

"No I mean, you're dying."

"Eh!" Victoria was shocked. "Is that so?"

"Because this explains why your heart needs phlogiston to move. Those objects you mentioned before that needed phlogiston to move were not all living things. They were basically dead. Either they were already dead, or they had never been alive."

"Oh, this." Victoria pressed her forehead. "It makes sense. Or what you said makes sense. So this means that a part of me is dead?"

"I'm afraid this is not an ordinary death. Did your heart turn into stone? And it became stronger. This is not a human way to die. What is this?"

"Ah! It's an angel!" Victoria slapped her head. "That's what angels look like! Am I turning into an angel? My heart is turning into stone, just like the angels carved in stone."

"Wait." Shangluo asked, "When did you start to get sick?"

"What happened after he inherited the throne?"

"Ah! Does your father have such a disease?"

"Hmm???" Shangluo asked this, and Victoria suddenly fell into thought.

Phaethon, who was standing by, suddenly grabbed Shangluo's arm and said, "You seem to have asked some very important questions."

“Is it not allowed to ask this?”

"I vaguely know something. Although it's not the details, it's something I can't ask. It seems to be related to the throne. But you are the King of Rome, you have no taboos, so you are free to ask anything."

"Ah!" Victoria exclaimed, "Indeed! I remember now! My father also had many illnesses. But as soon as he abdicated, he immediately became healthy, and I started to get sick instead. I had been wondering if this curse came from the throne. Now that I have ruled out the cause of 'illness', I have completely understood - this is not an illness! It is a curse! A curse leads to death."

As expected of a professional, he seemed to have grasped the key point immediately. Indeed, medicines that treat illnesses cannot cure curses.

"Then who is cursing you?" Shangluo asked.

"I don't know," Victoria shook her head. "But it seems that I really need to talk to my father. Why did he do this to me? Why did he give me all these curses!"

Victoria was so angry that she ate two more pieces of braised pig's face.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. In a fit of rage, she ate three more pieces.

Victoria is now in a very positive mood - if it was not long ago, she would have been depressed because of such a blow. But now, Victoria, who has recovered, will not be so easily depressed. She plans to eat a full meal and then go to her father to settle the score.

The midnight snack ended after eating the braised pig face. Yanqiu was on her year-end vacation and would stay here. Before leaving, she said that her parents would also come to Beijing to celebrate the New Year, so she would not go home.

Zhu Ling also had a smile on her face when she returned - this was her first time providing treatment to someone, and it was a great success.

Victoria was not so depressed. She sat in the back seat, looking out the window, watching the street lights pass by one by one.

Back home, in the attic.

"No need to look for His Majesty." When Victoria was about to make a call, Ms. Agatha stopped her and said, "I can answer this question."

"So, Sister Agatha, have you actually known this all along?"

"That's why I didn't want you to leave alone because I was afraid you'd get hurt."

"So, why is this? Is this some kind of curse?"

"It's not really a curse," Ms. Agatha replied. "In fact, you have just guessed the answer - yes, you are turning into an angel. Although the process is indeed very similar to a disease and the final result is not entirely positive, it is generally neutral. In the end, you will have a perfect body like an angel, as powerful as an angel, and as wise as an angel. In short, it is the body of a demigod."

"Then I have no objection." Victoria said, "I'm not saying I can accept it. In fact, I can't accept it. Although not long ago, I might still be happy to become a demigod. Phaethon is a demigod."

"I'm not a stone statue," Phaethon reminded. "Although there are many restrictions on me, such as not being able to enter the house and only being able to drink wine, etc., I am still basically a human being. It's different when I become an angel."

"Oh, that's not important." Victoria waved her hand. "The main thing is that I have made many friends now, and I still want to communicate with them in a human body. However, I don't object to the decision you and my father made before. After all, this is for the Roman Empire and the Isaurian family. But..."

Victoria looked at her. "I still want to ask, why? Although I will not refuse to make sacrifices for the family. But why not my father?"

"Because it's completely different for him. Your father has a very dark mentality. If it were him, he would become a demonic fallen angel. Only the bright Majesty Victoria can become a holy angel and obtain a demigod body. If it were your father, he would probably become a demon."

"Tsk, entrusting this kind of work to his only daughter, this is indeed quite insane. Anyway, don't worry that I will protest. I can accept the existence of this 'curse', but I won't let it develop. I will fight it. As for my father, I think he may need Shangluo's medicine to cure his black heart. He is a bad guy, I hope he can become a good guy."

Chapter 1266 Early Morning

In the morning, Shangluo was half asleep and half awake.

"Good morning! Shangluo!"

Shangluo shuddered and became completely awake.

He turned his head and saw a familiar face he had seen last night. That person could only be at the head of his bed——

He turned over and went back to sleep: "My Lord Princess, what are you doing so early in the morning?"

"Of course I'm here for a return visit. After I treated Victoria, of course I have to come back to visit my patient! She's one of my patients!"

"So how did you get in?"

"Take the stairs."

"There are no stairs in this house! You have to carry the ladder yourself to get to the attic."

"Well, it was actually Phaethon who opened the door and let me in."

"Victoria is upstairs, go find her. I need to get some sleep."

"Eh? That's weird." Zhu Ling sat on Shangluo's bed and touched Shangluo's forehead. "You're not sick."

"You are the one who is ill. What is the matter?"

"A celestial being should be able to control his sleep. My brother has been sleeping very little recently. He only needs to sleep for a short while and is busy the rest of the time. Not to mention that he is a celestial being, my sister-in-law also only sleeps for a short while."

"Let me tell you, that kind of thing consumes different amounts of energy depending on the character."

"Oh, I know that. I've seen pandas making bear cubs. Pandas are much better than humans. They can do it for two hours at a time. My brother is still not as good as a panda."

"Does he know that you woke me up early in the morning just to tell me 'not as good as a panda'?"

"I want to ask, don't celestial beings need little sleep? Then why do you sleep so long?"

"When you have been a celestial being for a long time, you will find that sometimes sleeping is also a form of entertainment."

"Entertainment?" Zhu Ling was stunned for a moment, "What entertainment?"

"When every dream you have is lucid and you can control your dreams, dream whatever you want and do whatever you want, then you will understand why sleeping is a pastime for me."

"Wow," Zhu Ling exclaimed, "That's so cool! So what were you dreaming about just now?"

"I'm eating a pig's face! Why are you asking this? You disturbed my sleep, don't you have any sense of shame?"

"Then how do you want me to compensate you? You were eating braised pig's face just now, so how about I treat you to another meal?"

"Okay, I'll make a note of it. I'll come find you when I want to eat later. Now, please go out and let me go back to sleep."

"Oh." Zhu Ling stood up, covered Shangluo with the quilt, and folded the corners of the quilt in.

Quietly, she closed the door.

[She is so worried as if she had just entered the animal enclosure! She is worried that you will be cold, right? Then her next step will probably be to collect your feces for testing! Just like she collects panda feces! ]

Shangluo jumped up with a somersault: "So breeders without a sense of boundaries are really scary!"

He opened the door suddenly and looked out. Zhu Ling was sitting on the sofa, watching TV.

"Are you awake?" Zhu Ling looked over. "Aren't you going to sleep for a while? Don't worry about me."

"You, what are you doing sitting there?"

"I always feel uneasy if I don't sit here."

"You're on duty there, right?"

Zhu Ling thought about it and nodded: "Yes. I'm always worried about you when you are sleeping. If you don't sleep, Shangluo, I have already prepared breakfast. It's hot steamed bread, do you want to eat some?"

Shangluo was no longer sleepy. He went back to change out of his pajamas, put on his school uniform, and sat down at the table.

As soon as he sat down, he felt something was wrong. The chair seemed a little higher than before.

When I looked down, I saw a pressure scale under the chair.

"My weight is 125 pounds. You need to work harder. I'm a little thin."

"What on earth are you going to do!"

"Hey, if I don't put the scale where you usually sit, how can you get on the scale obediently? I can't hold you on the scale, right? Don't weigh yourself like this if you're an older child."

"I" Shangluo has accepted the reality. Zhu Ling's strong intervention is so pervasive that she has turned the surroundings into her home ground after just a short while, making Shangluo feel like a guest even when sitting at her own dining table. He can even vaguely see tourists taking pictures outside.

He stood up and tried to take the scale from under the seat.

"Hey, wait, there are still people who haven't been weighed yet. I'm mainly here to weigh Victoria. I want to see if she's healthy and if her food intake is normal."

"Food intake? Do you mean food intake?"

“Yes, there is such a saying.”

"Then can't you just ask her?! Why don't you just ask her if she has an appetite? And why did you weigh me unexpectedly? Ask me, it's not like I don't want to get on the scale."

"Yes!" Zhu Ling clapped her hands suddenly, "She can talk! I'm sorry, I've dealt with so many patients who can't talk that I can't get used to seeing a talking patient all of a sudden."

She walked to the dining table and put the scale next to it.

"Please eat it. I wonder if it suits your taste."

"Alas, only this steamed bread can make me feel at ease."

Although Phaethon also knew how to make steamed bread, he made it himself. But for some reason, he thought Zhu Ling's steamed bread tasted the best. Maybe she put more love into making the steamed bread - although it was a twisted love, inhuman love, but the ingredients were really strong.

He wiped his hands and took a bite of the steamed bread.

"Ah!" Zhu Ling suddenly remembered something and reached out to persuade him, but when he saw that Shangluo had already started eating, he had to stay where he was.

"What's wrong?" Shangluo asked in confusion - and then he immediately understood.

He bit off a piece of steamed bread and used his tongue to pick out the strange foreign object in the bread. When his tongue touched the foreign object, there was still a bitter taste on the tip of his tongue. He twisted the foreign object out with his fingers - it was a vitamin tablet.

“This is it again”

"I'm sorry! I thought that if you only eat steamed bread in the morning, it might not be nutritious enough, so I put the vitamin tablets in it. I'm sorry! I should have told you directly to eat it. I just didn't react at once, and I forgot you could speak."

"Alas." Shang Luo sighed, poured himself a glass of water, and swallowed the vitamins with the water in front of Zhu Ling. "Is this okay?"

"Wow, wow, wow -- thank you!" Zhu Ling bowed deeply, "Except for my grandma, my brother, my sister-in-law, my mother, my father, and Auntie Song, the palace lady, no one has ever been so kind to me!"

"Any more?"

"Yes, there is still a lot in the pot."

"Okay. I'll eat it all."

Chapter 1267 Victoria's First Day

[So heavy. So twisted. Shangluo, why can you accept even this? ]

"Well, I can tell who treats me well. She is indeed a lovely girl, she just doesn't know how to express it. Although her behavior is a bit strange, it is indeed for my own good. So of course I can't let her down."

But despite what he said, Shangluo still used his inspiration to pick out all the vitamin tablets, then put them in a small plate and placed them aside, waiting to give them to Victoria later.

Pick out the vitamin tablets and take them to a specialist for consultation later. Because Victoria already has her own keeper.

Suddenly, the flap of the attic opened from the inside, and Ms. Agatha climbed down the ladder.

She immediately saw Zhu Ling sitting on the sofa - after making eye contact, she knew they were traveling together.

"This is Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

"Eh? You recognize me?"

"As Lady Victoria's attendant, it is my duty to remember the people she wants to meet. I just didn't know that Her Royal Highness the Princess actually has such an interest?"

"Yes, yes, I like taking care of other lives the most. It gives people a feeling of vitality and thriving of all things."

"." Agatha realized that something was wrong, but couldn't put it into words, "Your Highness is here today."