Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 708: The endless white cloud countryside

"New Antioch?" Phaethon raised his head from behind the newspaper, "No, you can't go - I originally wanted to say that I don't recommend you go, but I think it's better to just say it directly. You can't go."

"why?"

"Because there is an [Aotearoa] right under the Manhattan metropolis of Antioch."

"Otea what?"

[Aotearoa, Rome’s ultimate weapon. Aotearoa is Maori, literally translated as the land of rolling white clouds. This is a bit of a bad name, but very appropriate. But out of respect for this ultimate weapon, we generally call it Nyx, or 'Bomb N'. 】

"Um, what is that? A nuclear bomb?"

【no. Quite the opposite - have you ever seen a puffball that explodes with spores when you step on it? If a nuclear bomb could explode a mushroom cloud, Aotearoa would be a giant puffball. 】

"So, what exactly is Aotearoa?"

[Let me tell you a story. When our anthropologists visited Maori tribes for inspection, they once asked the local chiefs: Why don't you leave the tribes and go to the city? The chief's answer was: Because we want to live in Aotearoa. 】

[The anthropologist asked the same question: What exactly is Aotearoa. The chief told him a story: the leopard and the shrike. 】

"But you are not an ostrich." The father replied.

"I'm a smart bird! I've learned to kick like an ostrich. If you come any closer, I'll kick you to death!"

"But I am a bird, and an ostrich is also an ostrich. I have to learn to kick away lions and leopards like an ostrich."

The little shrike lamented to his father why the shrike would hide in the trees whenever lions and leopards appeared. My father said that this is how birds live. The little shrike retorted: "But ostriches are also birds. If lions and leopards attack ostriches, ostriches will kick them to death."

"Uh what do you mean?"

So the little shrike practiced kicking insects and tree branches for a week. A week later, the little shrike met the leopard.

The leopard opened its mouth and swallowed the kicking shrike in one gulp: "This stupid bird actually wants to be another animal. If it flies away like other birds, my old leopard will have to die today." It's starving. If it wants to be something it can never be, it has to feed me."

[This is what the Maori chief told the Roman anthropologist. Then, the Roman anthropologist asked two questions - first, I don't know about the shrike, but do we have lions, leopards and ostriches here? Second, what does the story mean? 】

"How did the chief answer?" Shangluo asked. [First, I heard this story. There were big ships coming in with stories, so we knew what was going on in the world. We know that once you go back, there will be a Roman fleet coming to colonize. So the moral of the story is: everything in Aoteyorua has its own rules. You intruders want to break the tranquility of the land of white clouds, we will eat you! Then the anthropologist was eaten by the Maori. When we arrived at the scene, this notebook was all that was left. 】

"." Shangluo covered his forehead, "I almost forgot that the Maori who came up with the name Mianmian Baiyun Township are cannibals."

[So our explanation for this is: Maori know everything. In fact, through various cargo shipments, they at least know about major events in the outside world. But they chose to maintain their eternal lifestyle and deliberately used cannibalism to reject the intervention of outsiders. In addition, Maori people are very poor, so there are no boring adventurers who go to Maori to cause trouble. This closed eternity ensured that Māori remained undisturbed and stable in pre-modern society - that is, Aotearoa. Aotearoa is the Maori name for the world in which they live. 】

“So that’s how it is”

"That's it. I have nothing to add." Phaethon looked at him, "So, you should know what this stretch of white clouds is. Then, you should also be able to guess that it is now called [ What are the bombs in Aotearoa used for?"

"Yeah." Shangluo nodded, "Since time is the enemy of eternity, then as long as we screen out new experiences and let time stand still in some way, eternity will naturally be established. So, [Otearo Watt] is a memetic bomb capable of establishing absolute closure?”

"You tell me. Let me add something." Phaethon handed the words to Apollonia.

[The guess is basically correct. 'Aotearoa' as a doomsday weapon is a memetic bomb. It is said to be a bomb, but it requires a complicated process to activate. When it explodes, it will not produce the shock wave of a normal bomb, and you will not even notice that anything has exploded within the explosion range. But once started, the time in the blast zone will fall irresistibly into the end-to-end Mobius cycle. There is no past, no future, just cycles over and over again. 】

"And it will keep falling." Phaethon added, "The cycle may be longer at the beginning, and finally it will stabilize at about 24 hours a day and night, and then slowly lose it like a lag, until it starts and ends, 0 and ∞ , all fit together.”

"??????" Shangluo was stunned, "Why are you doing this?"

[Let me ask you another question: If Rome perishes, what will happen to the archangel in Saint Sophia? 】

"Shall I go talk to him? At least for now."

[That is now when you are here, you can handle it this way now. The Romans had no idea you existed - and there were many more unstoppable disasters. So in order to solve all the mysteries once and for all after the fall of the Roman Empire and not cause trouble to Cathay, we used the story of the Maori people as inspiration and made 999 Aotearoa and scattered them around the world, preparing to bring the entire Western Hemisphere to the world. All important targets are detonated simultaneously. For example, if we detonate Aotearoa in Hagia Sophia, we can fix Aetna's present into a semi-eternal dream. 】

"So. How strong is this kind of isolation from the outside world?"

[So strong that even minimal observation can only be done once a year - just like a key and a lock cylinder match each other, only the stars on the sky turn to the 'locked' position, 'Aotearoa Big Dream' will loosen up. 】

"Also." Phaethon suppressed his voice, "Considering the precession caused by the precession of the earth's axis, the earth's stars will change slightly with a cycle of 26000. In other words, the true perfect coincidence is not once a year, but It is once every 26000 years, which means that the 'decisive correction' may not be carried out a second time on the scale of human history. Because if one [Aotearoa] is detonated today, it may have to wait for the human The history of civilization cannot completely eliminate its influence until it enters the 30th millennium."

(End of this chapter)