There are many people here, and there are people everywhere. In front of the bookshelves and bookshelves, Roman students in school uniforms sit quietly reading books. It's not the middle of the night, they don't have nightcaps, they just sit there. Their names are all on their heads, but there is no health bar because they are in the safe zone of the rules.

Shang Luo looked up at his blood bar—it was gone. This is an area protected by the Palace of the Muses, and is not counted by the rules of the health bar.

"Forget it, let's say hello to someone."

Shang Luo noticed that there was also a circular service desk at the front end. Surrounding the desk was a circle of glass light boxes, advertised for new books, which were apparently added later.

"Excuse me." Shang Luo stood outside the service desk and called out to the nearest librarian. He knew it was the librarian because the librarian had librarian written on his head.

"Hello, what is there. Eh??? ”

"Eh???"

Both men were stunned.

"Karin, why are you here?"

Walking down the hallway on the second floor of the library, Karin led the way with her notepad in front of her. She wears a school uniform but has a library staff badge on her chest. It features a portrait of her, bearing Karin Kesso's name, and the title is "Librarian (Intern)"

I heard that Aurora had sent a messenger to inquire, and I wondered if it was you. I didn't expect it to be you! "Karin looks much happier than last time.

"So Mr. Titus introduced you to work? How has he been? ”

"Yes. After you left, Sister Lin went home for the night and then set off, and when she came back for the weekend, I went to walk in the woods. I happened to run into Mr. Titus, who had come back to clean up the scene, and when he heard about my situation, he recommended me a job in the library. But this time it's part-time, not full-time, I come three days a week, after class. As for his recent situation. He used to come to see me occasionally, but he hasn't been here lately. They are working in Upper Egypt to the south, and they have been busy lately. ”

"Lynn, alright?"

"Ah, it's exactly like us. I would sometimes try to help with the housework, and when she came home, she would lie motionless in bed and sleep most of the day. Mom also wondered why she suddenly became lazy, and when she was sleeping at home, I came to the staff lounge here for tea. Now I'm doing everything and every day is fulfilling. ”

"Oh~~ Then you must have learned mushroom soup, right?"

“.” Karin fell silent, "I don't think it's a matter of taste, it's just a matter of not knowing the heat. Aha, ahahaha. That's what. Oh yes, look ahead, there's a conference room in front of you~"

Karin digressed the subject. Shang Luo didn't intend to ask: after all, people are always good at something, this is people, not some machines that can run by themselves by entering a program.

Between one door after another, Karin chose an unmarked door and pushed it open to enter.

Like the outside, the conference room in the hallway is much larger than it looks. However, the fact that the conference room has a window facing the outside indicates that at least this meeting room is not a specially treated space, but a real area that corresponds to the façade of the building.

There are very few furnishings in the conference room, only rectangular wooden tables. Two rows of chairs are placed at opposite ends of the long table.

Karin pulled open the center of the chair on the east side: "Come, you sit here, wait a minute." ”

"What about Emperor Augustus?"

"Her Majesty Victoria is on the line."

"Being. Being, what? ”

"It's going online. Ah, I forgot to say it. Her Majesty Victoria's body is still in Constantinople, and her mission there is not yet complete. She won't be here until the relocation of the capital is completed. ”

"What about you?"

"I'm actually an elf, don't you remember? In fact, the elves are indeed more comfortable here. Most of the staff here are elves, as only elves provide guided tours in the infinitely sprawling library. That's why Mr. Titus recommended me to work here. The salary here is very good, 9,000 drachmas a month. ”

"How much? 9000？ What's going on here? ”

"The price has increased. The price of the ice cream stand at the door has also increased, and now it costs 5 yuan a piece. ”

"It's only been a month, why is this happening?"

"Well, I don't know, it's been like this when I came. Oh wait, Your Majesty is already online. ”

The space on the opposite side suddenly "trembled". A blue phantom slowly appeared from the void, and the first thing that appeared was not the emperor himself, but the Roman double-headed eagle banner, which was also a blue phantom.

Emperor Victoria walked in from "off the screen". The blue phantom has only a monotonous color, outlining the figure of the emperor. She did not wear a toga, which symbolized the emperor, nor did she wear a crown, but a narrow gown.

Her gaze lingered on Shang Luo's face for a moment, then shifted away. Walking to the window, she looked out.

The sky of the bell stretched into the distance, and the edge of the sky seemed to be expanding. Soon, the entire skyline will be covered.

"Distant friend, do you see that? The unfinished work. ”

"I've seen it at Lake Nemi."

"You were the first to see it, because the first launch of the Cyber Space was in the sacred grove of Lake Nemi. It was there, at that time, that it was disguised by the codename "Project Lighthouse". It's just that since then, nothing can be hidden. ”

After saying that, she walked back quickly, pulled out the non-existent stool, and sat down opposite Shang Luo. It seems that there is an identical conference room on her side, and she meets in her own conference room. After she "went live", her projection appeared in the conference room here.

In contrast, Karin also seems to be "online", after all, her family lives in the town of Alikia. But Karin's state is clearly far more complete than Victoria in front of her.

"So, introduce yourself. I am Victoria III of the Valleologo-Isuria dynasty and I speak on behalf of Rome. ”

"I am, Shang Luo. I speak on behalf of Dao Ancestor. Shang Luo did not say that he represented the "Ming Empire", because it was a matter of heaven and earth combined.

Victoria nodded: "I know you, it's not the first time we've met, well, sorry, I didn't take the initiative to greet you last time." I also know why you're coming. Mingzun wanted to ask what was going on in Rome. So, let me start by asking a question: how is the water dragon going? ”

"It's going to be launched in the near future, and everything is going well. We have enabled the torch in the new rocket, and this flight is not foolproof, at least it has a much greater success rate than the previous one. ”

"I wish you success first of all - it's just that everything is not going well on the Roman side. We have also looked up at the starry sky, but the depth of the starry sky is prohibitive. Even New Antioch, which left us behind and practiced alone in the New World, did not succeed. This time, New Antioch didn't share anything with us, and I learned all about it on the news. It seems that a civil war is inevitable"

(End of chapter)