Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1098 Crab General
"Wow, they are really authentic phlogiston submarines. There are so many of them. There are more than 400 of them just randomly called. It's amazing, don't you think Shangluo?" Phaethon looked to the side:
"Eh? Where are the people from Shangluo?"

[Did you just realize that he has been abducted for 3 minutes?]

"Hijack? He has turned into a dragon now. He could smash the gate of Constantinople with a thunder ball dunk. Who could hijack him?"

[Of course. He intends to investigate the enemy situation. Don't you think so, Shangluo?]

"Don't talk to me for now, these Ninja Turtles are giving me a headache."

"So where are you? Have Apollonia send me the coordinates. I have to go pick you up."

"Okay, I sent it to you." After briefly syncing the message, Shangluo turned his attention back to the thing in front of him.

"Hey ha! Drive faster! Drive faster! That old dragon is catching up!"

"Go left ahead!"

"Boss, you can't go right here. Go right, right!"

"It's clearly to the left on the map!"

"Look ahead! It's going to crash! It's going to crash! Go right! Right!"

The whole car is a mess - because it's an invisible car.

Like these four invisible turtles, their cars are also invisible.

The whole car was lying on the ground like a turtle, and the five of them were sitting in the turtle shell. The four legs were not wheels, but four wide suspended sleds. The whole car was suspended 5 centimeters above the ground, moving silently on the light rainy street.

Purely black objects reflect almost no light. To be invisible, in addition to "not reflecting light", it must also "not absorb light" to allow light to pass through unimpeded. This car has done it. It really absorbs almost no light. Every ray of light that hits its case passes through unimpeded - the cost is that the driver can't see anything, because all the light passes through, and the eye is an organ that at least needs to receive light to see things.

But it's not completely invisible. The driver and co-driver seats of this car have two small observation holes - this also makes the car look like there are two small black holes from the front, floating in the middle of the eyes or nostrils, which is one of the few flaws of the whole car.

Shangluo was sitting in the back seat. He saw that the two turtles in the front and rear seats had almost put their entire flat faces against the observation hole, but the field of vision still seemed incredibly narrow. Neither of them could recognize the road conditions clearly, and both of them could only see the road conditions on their own half, so a third person was needed to sit in the back and look at the map.

There is a fourth turtle watching from behind. Probably at the buttocks of the turtle car, a turtle is lying on the ground and looking back to confirm whether there are any pursuers behind.

Shangluo could hardly imagine that under such poor observation conditions, this mindless car could still run wildly on the streets of Naha at a high speed as if flying close to the ground. This hovering sled was not stable at all, and it had to sway several times before it could return to its original position every time it turned. Shangluo got off the "sandbag" early, otherwise he would have vomited it out long ago.

"I'm sorry! Princess Xiaoyi! This happened suddenly. We were only here for reconnaissance. We didn't expect you to be here. I didn't even see you. It was the third brother who was looking out in front who saw you."

"Aha! Princess Xiaoyi, you have to let Princess Gui give me some credit!" The second co-pilot turned around and shouted.

[Interesting, the clan system seems to be still in place in the Dragon Palace. Is the Turtle Clan managed by Turtle Princess? What does the Turtle Prime Minister do? I remember there is also Mirage Princess. Is it possible that the Mirage Clan is also managed by Mirage Princess? After all this time, it seems that it is not just these few people who are rebelling against the Dragon King, but the Turtle Clan, the Mirage Clan, and maybe even his own Dragon Clan who are rebelling against the Dragon King. What on earth did he do?]

"Then this is different from the previous ones. Has Rome ever encountered such a thing? I mean the clan system."

[In theory, the Senate was prepared for the clan system, and the names of Phaethon and Victoria were also in the order of birth name, clan name, and genealogical name. However, the Roman clan system has collapsed in modern times, mainly because the size of the Romans has expanded to a point that the clan system cannot accommodate - because the clan leader simply cannot recognize so many people. ]

"Then we can recognize them all here in Dragon Palace?"

[Maybe there aren't many people in the Dragon Palace that need to be recognized. But I thought these Otohime, Kamehime, and Mizuhime just meant princesses. It seems that they are not only princesses, but also clan leaders? So it seems that "Mong-hime" is more appropriate than calling them "princesses." ]

"What does the Dragon King do?"

[It's hard to say. But we can infer that the organizational structure of the Dragon Palace should be not far from ancient times. The Dragon Palace can't actually manage too many things of the various clans. Then the question comes back to the Dragon King: where did the 80,000 naval forces come from? This looks like a standing army, using cutting-edge technology, which has nothing to do with the tradition of the clan system. ]

Apollonia read about this in Roman history.

As we all know, the Roman Legion is very famous. Rome in its golden age relied on its legions to conquer the world, and at that time the clan system had already disintegrated.

After the dissolution of the Curia clan assembly founded by the first Roman king Romulus, the clan system in Rome existed in name only. When the sixth Roman king, and the last "good king" Tullius, was in office, a real citizen assembly was convened, marking the true transformation of Rome into a monarchy. The purpose of King Tullius convening the citizen assembly was to allocate conscription obligations. Because if the clan system continued to be implemented, it would be impossible for the king to separate soldiers from the clan to form a separate national army.

This was a drastic change, which directly led to Tullius being overthrown by the last Roman king, Tarquinius, and directly led to the collapse of the Roman monarchy, which brought the Senate to the fore. The overthrown Tarquin Superbus was exiled to the wilderness, but he continued to call himself the King of Rome, brewing the "Tarquin conspiracy", ready to take back his throne at any time. According to legend, his shadow still lingers in the sacred forest of Lake Nemi, waiting for the day when the monarchy will return.

The Dragon Palace now seems to be facing a turbulent change. These shrimp soldiers and crab generals are obviously not something that the Turtle Clan or the Mirage Clan can form, and even the Dragon Clan can't put them together. The only one who can do this is King Ao Zang and his "invisible big hand".

"It seems that our King Ao Zang is really not simple. He seems to have hatched a new court inside the Dragon Palace, one that does not rely on the clan system, but purely on the power of the people. No wonder so many people are against him. This old dragon is quite interesting. Although this old dragon is a bit stingy, he seems to be able to get things done. I like it."

(End of this chapter)