Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 982 Waiter

"So that's how it is. So that's how it is." Shangluo and many other Jinyiwei surrounded Vulcan Core.

This machine is so exquisite that it is hard to imagine how many structures can be created. For example, many rigid ball joints cannot be nested by machines. From a technical point of view, the probe needs to be inserted deep into the interior for processing, which is indeed a technical difficulty.

Considering the number of these automata, this is indeed quite interesting craftsmanship.

The parts of the automaton were soon recovered.

When he returned to the ground, it was almost dark. Shangluo walked out of the gate of the imperial prison with a non-woven bag in his hand.

He was carrying the bag as if he had just gone to the supermarket to buy something, but inside was a broken Vulcan core.

[Why do you want this broken thing when you actually have something better? Even if this thing is fixed, it's just a mass-produced commodity.]

"You mean the state gift sent by Victoria's father, right? Indeed. That is the real Vulcan core."

Not long ago, Zhu Xianxun gave the "national gift" to Shangluo. Although it was indeed a very valuable national gift, it was no big deal to give it to Shangluo. The reason was that, first, Shangluo was a guest of the family, and his rank was high enough; second, and most importantly, this thing was of no use to Zhu Xianxun. Like everyone else, he thought it was very interesting when he was a child, but when he grew up, he felt that it was just an unreliable Roman thing that might explode at any time, and Shangluo was particularly good at dealing with these explosive things.

So although it was quite valuable, Zhu Xianxun still chose to make the best use of it, and gave the Vulcan core in the clock to Shangluo. Because Zhu Xianxun had a lot of good things in his hands, after all, he was the emperor, and he had no shortage of treasures. Even though Shangluo had collected a lot of good things along the way, his treasures were not so many that he couldn't fit them in.

Zhu Xianxun's palace was filled with the best of the world, with so many good things that he didn't even know what to do with them. It was appropriate in every sense for him to hand over this piece of "unpolished jade" of high quality but not suitable for him to Shangluo.

"But I've always wanted to ask, what exactly is this?" Shangluo asked Apollonia.

[A movement that can run for a whole day with just one winding, that's it. 】

"I want to ask what the Vulcan Core is. In the past, the Vulcan Core was a dead object that would not appear if we didn't take care of it. So when I was dealing with my own cultivation, I didn't have time to deal with the Vulcan Core. But now they have escaped. They leaked out from New Antioch. They have become a wildfire that cannot be contained. Although this flame now expresses goodwill to me - perhaps because of the chef - fire is fire after all. The flame has a myriad of changes and is constantly leaping. Who knows if the direction of the flame will change that day."

[Hmm] Apollonia thought for a moment, [If that's the case, it does make sense. But if you insist on asking 'what is this', it's actually not easy to answer. Let me tell you a story, which is also the origin of these automata and Vulcan cores in mythology.

[Automaton comes from Vulcan, the god of fire on Mount Olympus in mythology. There are many types of these automatons, each with different functions. [One is the waiter, which is also the first automaton created by Vulcan. The waiter has a perfect face forged from gold and has the same body shape as the servants of the gods. However, they are not known for their strength, but for their "heart of understanding". In particular, most of the waiters are maids, all of whom have faces comparable to Venus, showing Vulcan's excellent aesthetics. ]

"Why were the servants created first?"

[Have you forgotten that Vulcan is a lame god, so he usually needs help to get around. I guess this paragraph means that Vulcan usually walks with the help of a maid, or has a maid push his wheelchair. As for why he must look good, Homer's epic mentioned that this is because Vulcan is the only one with defects among the gods. He is born unable to walk freely and does not have the perfect face of other gods. So Vulcan created these perfect automaton servants as his foil, so that he can shine like other gods in the temple of the gods. ]

"Is this what the Romans use now?"

Shangluo remembered that all the automata he had seen were like this without exception. They all had human-like faces, covered by masks of gold and silver. It was not difficult for a creature to make a pleasing face, just as it was easy to draw a good-looking character in a cartoon. To make a painting not good-looking, one needed to add some memorable points.

[The automata that the Romans are using now are indeed all waiters. However, there are far more automata than these. The next most common automata created after waiters are the tripods. ]

"TRIPOD? Why does this name sound familiar?"

[Because you should have seen it in a movie. From your side, it should be a movie called "War of the Worlds" shot in 2005. In the movie, aliens invaded the earth in a huge tripod that used three octopus tentacles to walk. These tripods were indestructible and could not be broken by human weapons. They let out a majestic roar, showed a huge shadow in the night, chased the protagonist with a terrible spotlight, and swept him away with their tripod tentacles. ]

"Ah! I remember now! That was a sci-fi disaster horror movie?! Is that what a tripod is?"

[Yes. That is also a type of automaton. So you said before that these automatons have the possibility of turning into "wildfire", so I mentioned this to you. However, there is no clear record in the myth that the tripod can turn into a disaster, but]

Apollonia paused:
[The tripod really has this potential. Because the tripod was developed as Vulcan's assistant, not as a waiter. Compared to a waiter, the tripod takes on most of the actual work beside Vulcan, assisting him in forging. And in fact, when Vulcan is outside Mount Olympus, he does not let the maids support him, but lets 20 tripods support his palanquin and march across the land. ]

“???” Shangluo imagined the scene - 20 tripod machines and 60 tentacles carrying gods walking on the earth.

It was like a scene from a disaster movie.

"Is there such a scene? What else is there?"

(End of this chapter)