"We still welcome him back." From beginning to end, Pompey talked to Shang Luo with thoughtful courtesy, "Is the alkaline water ball he made to your taste?" ”

"I'm not really a fan of bread, but the lye balloon he made is very interesting and good for snack. He seems to be very passionate about making bread. ”

"He still loves bread so much," Pompey shook his head, "he was only instilled with the knowledge of making bread at first, and his movements were quite stiff, and he had to add water to the milliliter, and it was hardly interesting to make." But he kept practicing, kept improving, and eventually became an indispensable member of our family.

"All the creatures in this world are trying to disguise themselves as they want to be. But they may have already surpassed the object of their imitation - my 'baking assistant IV', whose skills are already comparable to those of the best chefs in Constantinople. So."

He looked at Shang Luo: "If you have time, you might as well convey my invitation." I knew all along that the mutinies had nothing to do with him. I can understand his escape, I can understand it very well. If it were me, I would have run. After all, you only have one life, and the same is true for automata. ”

"Isn't there anything you can convey yourself?"

"Ah, of course." Little Pompey laughed, "Smell this, and I'll have a way to find him." Then I'll just contact him myself. So, can you talk to him about it? ”

"I won't talk about it." Shang Luo shook his head and said, "Whether I convey it or talk about it, it's all from my side that I am influencing him." Whether or not to come back should be entirely up to him. ”

"Ah, then I'd like to go and be there first, because I want to see my chef as soon as possible. Please go up from the elevator over there and go up to the 'Ruling Palace' on the top floor, which is my house. My father is not in New Antioch tonight, and I will entertain you tonight. Let's go and sit down first. ”

The elevator was running upwards, and there were Shang Luo, Faetong, and Apollonia who had been in the alchemists. As for the other guards, they took the elevator next to them and went upstairs.

Although there were no cameras or any other surveillance equipment around, Faethon remained vigilant.

She said in the channel, "Very well, it seems that you learned a lot from the last Operation Broken Branches, and from Karin. You didn't promise him to persuade or relay the message, which is a wise choice. Indeed, there is such a thing as a smell that is a very definite sign of touch, and they don't need your notice to find our 'chef' at all. As you can see, his motives don't seem to be so simple. ”

"Nope." Shang Luo denied, "Actually, at first glance, this first layer is indeed a different plan. But I could vaguely see that little Pompey seemed to have some sincere expectations for the one he called 'the bread machine'. I can't say what it is, but I guess I really want to eat bread. But it seems that it is not just 'impure motives', he may have some deep considerations. ”

"Interesting. You might indeed be able to see something that I can't see? ”

"If something happens, I'd suggest a test." Shang Luo proposed, "Why don't you find a place to investigate?"

"It's useless here. The Spear of the Sun God can be used to detect the threads of fate and to investigate cause and effect - this is mainly used to determine relative positions. But the person is already in front of you, you have seen it with your eyes, and it is useless to determine the location. ”

"Tsk, then I'll take care of it myself. I'm still pretty confident in my eyesight. ”

"It's true that this guy is sometimes slow to react and completely out of tune, but his eyesight has always been good."

[This guy has always been running with a single core, and one core is difficult and eight cores are watching. Now there are many Tianyi nobles who have paralleled the processes of other cores for him, but they have made up for many shortcomings. In the end, there is still a problem with the drive, this guy has not been tested by blood and fire, and he has not received systematic warrior education. However, I don't really want him to be as startled as a Spartan. 】

"I don't think you're insinuating something."

[No, no, no. Don't dare, don't dare 】

"You, good. You know that you have to obey military orders, and you still have the minimum civic qualities. ”

【Cut.】 】

The elevator runs to the top of the Empire State Building. When I got out of the elevator door, I was faced by a floor-to-ceiling picture window. The sun was set over the Hudson River in New Antioch, and helicopters were on alert at night as they were yesterday.

But even if there are barricades and machine guns outside, it has nothing to do with the hanging garden at the top of the Empire State Building.

The terrace outside the viewing window allows the laurel trees to sway gently in the wind, which is a landscape transplanted from the homeland. In order to adapt to the storms that sometimes come suddenly, the entire laurel tree is enclosed in a glass enclosure to protect it from the outside climate.

"I've kept you waiting." Pompey Jr. stepped out of another elevator after him.

"What do you say over there?" Shang Luo asked.

"No problem. After I personally initiated the invitation, he happily accepted the offer. He will be back in the palace in a moment. Let's have dinner first. He made a gesture of please and led the way ahead. The ballroom is just in front.

Shangluo had eaten a feast from the Romans, at Karin's house next to Lake Nemi. Although Karin's family was only the mayor of the town, as a proper Roman nobleman, her family still presented a sumptuous dish - the hierarchy of Roman banquets was usually distinguished by the richness of ingredients and spices.

At that time, Karin's family provided a "family portrait of the phylum Chordates". As the name suggests, this dish contains seven main dishes of amphibians, birds, beasts, bony fishes, reptiles, cartilaginous fishes and roundmouths, such as lampreys on behalf of roundmouths, sharks on behalf of cartilaginous fishes, and beef on behalf of animal meat.

Legend has it that the highest Roman feast should not only have the chordate gate on the table - all the water in the sky must be gathered, and the representatives of the arthropod phylum and mollusc phylum can be put together to make a whole table of Noah's Ark to pay homage. Select the most representative ingredients from all over the world and condense the flavors of the whole world into one table.

In this case, how to cook is not very important. Based on the method of controlling variables, the Romans generally roasted the ingredients so that they could taste the difference between roasted Florida sea beef and roasted Atlantic nudibranch.

But what was placed on the banquet table was completely different from what he imagined - it was no longer sumptuous, it was simply outrageous. A long table, stretched from one end of the ballroom to the other, was filled with food.

In the first row from left, there is bacon, cheese and tomato pasta, pesto pasta, and cuttlefish juice pasta

In the second row from the left, there is baked rice with milk, seafood and tomato cheese.

Third row from left, mozzarella cheese pizza, margarita pizza, new Antioch pineapple pizza.

In the fourth row from the left, there is a full row of soup bowls. It is also tomato soup, corn soup, mushroom soup and the like.

The whole table was as neatly arranged as an assembly line, but it was impossible to find where anyone should sit. Because it looks like ordering all the ingredients on a restaurant's menu, and then placing them in a row in the order on the menu.

"The Romans eat like this?" He asked Phaethon next to him, "This is Noah's Ark?" ”

"If you don't say it's a meal, it's neatly laid out and I thought it was a tribute god. Anyway, there are only three of us who open our mouths to eat, why are there more than 20 noodles and rice combined? ”

Little Pompey was walking in from outside: "Lord of Rome, are you satisfied with this sumptuous dinner?" ”

(End of chapter)