"How do I feel that you guys always like to make weird things over there? And one is more scary than the other. ”

"It's not something we 'like' to do. Rome was founded on 'knowledge', and Rome divided itself into six to explore six areas of knowledge, but these are the fruits of knowledge - of course, knowledge has its price. Rome has only 10 million people, and we can't build a heavenly kingdom within the Great Wall like Aurora, so we can only find a way to harness as much 'knowledge' as possible with as little manpower as possible. Such problems have only recently been gradually exposed. Look at that alarm clock. ”

She pointed to this national gift:

"It actually has very terrifying power, but it has been sitting in the warehouse for more than ten years without any incident, and it doesn't need to be taken care of at all. Because the Muses have a very tight ethical lock for them, these Vulcan engines are limited by their own performance, and once they move, they will be limited by overcooling. Even if it runs at low power, it will automatically stop because no one is winding. He's usually not going to have an accident. ”

"What about the dragon tooth soldiers from before?"

"Dragontooth soldiers, they didn't run around before—until Thebes appeared. You can see that we weren't so careful with the use of the Dragon's Tooth Soldiers before, and if we didn't pick up the Dragon's Tooth when we went to Neimi Lake before, it doesn't matter if we throw it away. But since Thebes came to life, the Dragontooth Soldiers will find ways to get to Thebes as soon as they get out of control. ”

"Thebes, when did it appear?"

"I don't know. Because we don't know where Thebes is, we don't have any reliable information, so we don't know exactly when it happened. You can only lock in one point in time – probably no more than 50 years. ”

[I also want to know where Thebes is, so I made a deal with those dragon tooth soldiers before.] But they were lost after that. The trail of Amon-Zeus is really elusive. 】

"By the way, why is your population so small? So much so that it is necessary to rely on mitosis to grow the population? ”

"What does mitosis mean?"

"It's still broken when it's cut off, isn't it mitosis? The ripper hasn't been caught yet, because he didn't commit a crime. ”

"Well, do you want to know why? I guess it's because of the spirit world. Since the Romans began to indulge in the spirit world, the fertility rate has gradually decreased as they spent more time at night. It doesn't even have anything to do with the mystery, it's simply that there is less reproduction. After all, you won't gain weight by eating an ice cream at night, and it's even more impossible to have a baby. ”

"Is it because of this? How does it resemble something that happened in the past? ”

"You mean, lead sugar? Definitely."

Lead sugar, the iconic poison of Rome's first debilitation. Although the decline of Rome at that time was largely due to external factors, the widespread symptoms of lead poisoning among the Romans were also an important factor.

Lead is an easily moldable and stable material. The Romans used lead in a variety of places, but it was not a big problem to use lead to make water pipes, because the Romans had no way to purify water at that time, and the calcium carbonate deposited in the water pipes could be used as a coating.

However, the Romans preferred to use the same durable lead jug for wine, and even liked this lead-added flavor. Such a large intake of lead caused the Romans, especially the drunken Roman senators, to suffer from lead poisoning and alcoholism, and severely affected their reproductive abilities.

If you think about it, there seems to be no difference between the current Rome and the original Rome.

"Ahh Ahh Phaethon covered his forehead, "It seems like it's really the same."

"Didn't the Romans find out for themselves?"

"Someone had already figured it out at the time, but the problem was more complicated. The Latin and Greek Romans behaved differently on this issue. In fact, there have been a number of doctors in Greece who have suggested that lead is poisonous, because it is very obvious. The Greeks also put a lot of barbarian hard labor into the lead mines every year, and these hard laborers died one by one like the consumables, and whoever looked at it knew that the lead must be poisonous. ”

"Then why didn't the Greeks remind them?"

"Because. Lead was one of the pillar industries of Greece and was an extremely important industry throughout the empire. It is precisely because there are profits that the Greek side does not take it too seriously. Ahh The oracle, the palace of the muses, and the senate are all on the Greek side, and they are doing exactly the same thing as before. The history of the Romans is all about repeating the tragedies of the past. The current decline may have been predicted by people of insight for a long time. Thankfully, though."

She breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, this time we had a history lesson, and this time it was a planned and phased decline, just like a tree in autumn resists a harsh winter by shedding its leaves." Rome should be able to handle its own problems and not cause too much trouble for Aurora. ”

"Needless to say, it's not troublesome, you've paid for it."

According to the deal he negotiated with Victoria last time, the Ming would help in Rome's decline, but it was a separate deal from the Pure Land.

The Romans were responsible for establishing the Pure Land and helping the people on the Ming side to enter, and the Ming reincarnated them with spirit stones at the right time, which was a deal between the two Qings.

The other is that the Ming Dynasty helped Rome retreat, and the reward was the other half of the world, which is reasonable on the whole. Of course, neither side wants to make this deal if they can. The Romans also wanted to live well in the sun, and the Ming Dynasty had not bothered to take care of such a far territory since ancient times, and the administrative cost was too high. It's just that the situation is forced to do so.

"Okay." Shang Luo looked at his watch, "I won't bother you with your part-time job, I'll look for you when I go back to Alexander to unlock the lock—by the way, I haven't asked yet, are you going?" ”

Shang Luo didn't know if Faetong was willing to go back at this time. Because she said before that it's not the time to go back. Her hair, and the power she had lost, made her less inclined to face the past.

"I'd better go back, I still haven't picked up anything."

"Oh? Need help with it? ”

"It's not anything concrete, but the character card for my Hero Parade is still there, and I'm going to switch to Aurora's side to play. It would take several months to handle it by mail, so I simply went back and went to the branch office in Alexandria to do the offline processing. Going today? ”

"Tomorrow, tomorrow at noon, I'll go after school."

(End of chapter)