[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

"Why are you laughing?"

Inan asked the Roman consul and the Egyptian queen sitting in front of him with a smile.

With annoyance in her eyes, Cleopatra glanced at Caesar, her red lips parted, but there were only two words: "Don't say it!"

Caesar ignored the Egyptian Queen's request: "Mark is a military engineer, and he only sees engineering. The Queen and I once bet that the Queen's charm will definitely impress him, who knows—"

The Egyptian queen bit her lower lip lightly, leaving a deep red tooth mark on her white teeth.Her pretty face was flushed red, her eyes were full of embarrassment, and she gently pushed Caesar with her elbow, and said coquettishly, "You still say..."

The answer is self-evident. As a stunner in the world, the queen of Egypt couldn't even impress this little engineer.

"Is this still a man?" Cleopatra concluded despondently.

Caesar laughed proudly from the sidelines: "This proves that the soldiers under my command will always be loyal to me."

It is also because of this that Caesar was not angry with Vitruvius who just "rejected" his order, but admired him very much.

He continued to praise Vitruvius with a smile: "Miss Inan, you just asked about Alexander's library—it was indeed the fire that he risked his life to save that day..."

Caesar briefly introduced the process of the Battle of Alexandria to Inan.

The Library of Alexandria was built by the Macedonian warlord Ptolemy, who later became the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy I.Legend has it that Ptolemy built this library to "collect books from all over the world".

This library has indeed become the greatest library in the world. It contains all the epic manuscripts of the blind poet Homer, the original copy of Euclid's "Elements of Geometry", and the "Father of Medicine" Hippocrates. All the autographed manuscripts at the bottom... There are also various papyrus documents accumulated by the Egyptians for thousands of years, as many as hundreds of thousands of volumes.

As early as when Caesar had just arrived in Egypt and the Roman legions had not turned against the Egyptians, Vitruvius had already applied to enter the Great Library to check books; before the war started, Vitruvius began to propose to the Egyptian side that the arson work needed to be strengthened , and led people to design two fire separation belts running through the east, west, north and south in the museum.

When Caesar's Roman legions arrived and fought against the Egyptians by road and sea at the same time, the unfortunate thing did happen: a rocket fired by a Roman soldier landed in the Great Library and caused a raging fire.

At that time, the war was at a stalemate, and who could take care of this civil building that had no strategic significance.Neither the Egyptians nor the Romans had time for this.

Only Vitruvius still remembers the astonishing collections in the library. He led a dozen merchants, together with the Egyptian civilians, rushed into the library, blocked the fire passage, quickly organized firefighting, and prevented the flames from spreading—in the end they succeeded , keeping the library.

After the war, Vitruvius was rewarded by Caesar for this, but he suffered some minor injuries from smoke inhalation and was unable to speak for a month.

The Queen of Egypt resentfully said: Vitruvius didn't express anything to her, probably because his voice was damaged, and he had something in his heart that he couldn't express.

Caesar smiled and shook his head: "No, you don't know, Marco, he has always been like this. All his energy is spent on studying. I asked him once, and he said that he would study architecture and machinery every day. , military technology, but the fields of knowledge involved will involve geometry, physics, meteorology, astronomy...even music and art."

"I'm sorry, he doesn't have time to look at you beautiful women." Caesar turned his admiring eyes to the two in front of him, one was his new favorite, the other was mysterious and unattainable Old knowledge.

"Miss Yi Nan, do you want to try it?" The Egyptian queen suddenly began to encourage Yinan.

"He can't see your face clearly from such a distance, maybe if you meet him face to face, maybe he will change your opinion?"

Cleopatra had a bad idea: she was mostly upset.On the one hand, Caesar praised Inan, but on the other hand, Vitruvius did ignore her charm directly, which made her very annoyed.

She thinks that Vitruvius is not born to appreciate the beauty of women. If Inan is rejected by Vitruvius, she will feel a lot more comfortable in her heart; better than her.

Therefore, Cleopatra was already secretly looking forward to it, and Inan was persuaded to leave indifferently and politely just like she was at the beginning.

Of course, Yinan understood the intention of the Egyptian queen, but she was really interested in this young man named Vitruvius: not only because he left behind the handed down work "Ten Books on Architecture", but also because of the Alexandria library.

In the history she knows, the library of Alexandria was burned in this war, losing more than 60 volumes.She tried to rush to rescue this shocking loss in the history of human civilization, but only after she arrived did she find that someone was one step ahead of her and extinguished the flames.

It took Inan a while to figure out that the men leading the fire were connected to the Roman army.That's why Caesar was found.

She really wanted to see Vitruvius, and since Cleopatra offered her a suggestion, she accepted it gladly, stood up, turned to Caesar, and said, "Then I'd like to fight you too, out of my control." Such a bet—"

Caesar was completely amused: "Why is it that the more beautiful a woman is, the more difficult it is for a fool who doesn't understand her style?"

"Since this is the case, I promise you - if Marco is touched by your beauty, I will give Marco to you and let you dispose of it!" Caesar said jokingly.

Yi Nan smiled suddenly: "Master Consul, you really know how to joke. How could he agree with you to do this?"

Caesar nodded: "It all depends on your ability. If you can really impress him, I think he will be at your disposal without my order."

Yi Nan rolled his eyes, caught a glimpse of the Egyptian queen's smile, and was immediately agitated, nodded: "That's good! It's a deal."

She turned and got off the boat, like a light blade, floated gently over the gangplank of the luxury cruise ship, leaped onto the ground, and walked towards the place where Vitruvius was incomparably nimble.

The Queen of Egypt looked at the Roman Consul with a sad face, and wanted to ask about Rhode Island's experience.But Caesar raised his index finger and shook it gently, indicating that he should not ask.He raised his head, pointed to the shore with his chin, and said, "Look!"

I saw that Yi Nan was already approaching Vitruvius.

Vitruvius was taking people to measure the banks of the Nile River, planning to build a fortification here that can also satisfy civilian purposes.Except when Caesar greeted him, the young man kept his head buried in his work, ignoring all interruptions—until Inan came before Vitruvius.

Inan spoke to him, but it was obvious that the engineer was not interested and looked away.

Seeing that Yi Nan was going through what she had experienced, the Queen of Egypt felt proud and couldn't help smiling.

The next moment, her smile froze on her face.

The engineer suddenly raised his head and looked up and down at the girl beside him.

He suddenly strode forward, said something, then stretched out his hands, supported the girl's small waist, lowered his head, and faced the girl's beautiful face——

Both Cleopatra and Caesar were stunned.They all admitted that Yinan's complexion was perfect, as was her figure.But Cleopatra was also a stunner.

Why did Vitruvius treat the extraordinarily glamorous Egyptian queen as nothing, but immediately "hands-on" the Chaldeans who came from afar when they met?

On the bank of the Nile, Inan seemed to have a brief conversation with the engineer.She did not express any objection to Vitruvius's "hands and feet", but obediently stretched out her arms and made a lateral raise on both sides of her body.

Vitruvius supported her waist, raised her arms, then took a few steps back, looked at her open arms, rested her chin, nodded with great appreciation, and said something.

He looked at it seriously for a while, then suddenly reached out and slapped his head, calling loudly to the Egyptian militia who worked with him.Someone immediately handed him a soft tape measure, and then began to measure Yi Nan's arm length, her height, her leg length, her slender waist...

Caesar, who was sitting on the cruise ship, suddenly burst out laughing, while Cleopatra was still dazed and unable to recover.

Who would have thought that this silly boy who didn't understand the style would actually measure his body shape by hand?

The Egyptian queen finally felt jealous: Is that woman really that perfect?

Why didn't she, Cleopatra, get this honor?

Vitruvius, however, was like a measuring machine with no emotions, measuring all the data of Yinan's body one by one.But when measuring the bust, the young man suddenly got stuck.

His face was as red as an apple, and his mouth seemed to be stuck with glue, and he didn't know how to speak.In the end, Yi Nan took the tape measure very generously, and wrapped it around his armpit, barely buckling it on his chest.

But Vitruvius turned around and took out a wooden board and chalk that had been placed on the side of the road—this wooden board was also painted with chalk in advance, so people can use chalk made of plaster to write and record on it, which is more convenient than parchment .

Vitruvius quickly wrote down all the measured data, then turned around, blushed and glanced at the numbers on the tape measure, then turned around quickly, muttering words, rubbing chalk on the whiteboard, and finally collected all all data.

When everything was finished, Vitruvius bowed to Yinan with a satisfied expression on his face, expressing that the data he collected was very important and meaningful.

Yinan also took a small half step back, bowed his head and saluted Vitruvius.

That was the end of the first meeting between the two.Yi Nan gently lifted her Chaldean-style skirt, and briskly ran towards the cruise ship.

Of the two people in power on the cruise ship, one gritted his teeth and was angry, while the other clasped his hands and laughed out of joy.

"What did you say to him to make him look up at you?" Caesar was puzzled by this.

Yinan replied: "I told him that the research he is focusing on is closely related to 'beauty'①. If he spends some time looking at me, it will be of great benefit to his future career."

"He just looked up and was shocked and said I was in the most perfect shape he had ever seen and asked if I would let him measure it. I said yes."

"Master Consul, tell me, does this count as being moved by me?"

Yi Nan asked Caesar with a smile.The latter was looking at the Egyptian queen with a playful smile on his face, and nodded casually—it seemed that the pair of year-end lovers were busy flirting, and Caesar didn't care much about the result of the bet.

Thus, the fate of Vitruvius was thus decided.He was immediately summoned to the cruise ship—this time the Roman guards around Caesar personally invited him, and he couldn't help but not come.

Caesar pretended to be casual and asked about what happened just now.In front of the Queen of Egypt, Vitruvius reiterated his previous conclusion: Inan was the most perfectly proportioned woman he had ever seen in his life.

"This lady is a gift from creation."

The assertion made by Vitruvius made the queen of Egypt very angry, but she had to control herself and refused to show her jealous side in front of Caesar.

Yi Nan knew that this was an inevitable result: her body had undergone slight adjustments when she passed through the magnetic field, and now her body is a standard figure that fully conforms to the golden ratio——

It’s actually a bit boring to say this: Vitruvius, a man, is completely rational in his judgment of the so-called “perfect body”, or in other words, he is only judging the data and proportions, rather than the beauty of the woman in front of him.

"Marco, I made a bet with Miss Yi Nan just now, and what you did to her just now made her win the bet."

Caesar explained to Vitruvius what had just happened on the cruise ship in a few words, and told Vitruvius that he had been regarded as a "bet" and lost to Miss Inan.

Vitruvius shook his hand in surprise: No, it won't work, I can't—

"My lord, I am a citizen of the Roman Republic, you cannot..." he protested loudly.

Caesar feigned anger: "You can't help being unhappy, you are still a soldier, this is an order!"

"Miss Yinan, I'm handing over Marco to you, you have to treat him better." About Caesar is usually used to Vitruvius who is "unmoved by women", but today he finally saw him being "tricked" ", although the surface is serious, but I feel extremely funny in my heart.

But Vitruvius is an important military engineer under his command. Caesar has participated in several important battles recently. This young man is ingenious and has designed several military machinery and improved the catapults used for siege. , is one of the young talents Caesar relies on most.

So Caesar was just talking casually, and he didn't expect Yi Nan to really accept it—the Yi Nan in his impression had always been a loner, and she had nothing to do with an incomprehensible, wooden engineer who only knew how to work?

Unexpectedly, Yi Nan accepted it smoothly, nodded and said, "Thank you, Consul, I will take him away."

Caesar: ...?

"I will borrow him from you for a month, and he will accompany me to Alexandria. I want someone who is familiar with the big library to accompany me to see it."

Caesar and Vitruvius breathed a sigh of relief at the same time: It's only one month, which is okay.

Yinan smiled and nodded to confirm: "Yes, as long as one month, one month will be fine!"

With a sly smile on her face, she looked at the young and handsome face of Vitruvius, looked at his pair of clear amber eyes, and never wanted to move her eyes away:

Although it's only a month, but I don't believe——