[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

The emerald snake body flew towards Gilgamesh, and the snake head aimed at the white umbrella mushroom in his hand.

Gilgamesh let the green snake knock down the white umbrella mushroom in his hand.The little snake quickly swam towards the corner of the house with the highly poisonous mushroom in its mouth, and disappeared from the wooden house in the blink of an eye.

When Gilgamesh reacted and chased after him, there were no shadows of snakes and mushrooms.

"Damn snake, dare to take away the king's elixir."

Gilgamesh's heart was on fire, and his face was gloomy, as if he really wanted to grab the snake and tear it apart with his bare hands.

"The king will go find it now and retrieve the elixir."

He got up like a whirlwind and opened the door of the wooden house.

This time it was Sister Shahat's turn to be anxious: if Gilgamesh was allowed to go out, he would probably find many of these white umbrella mushrooms in the dense forest behind the cabin.

So she jumped to the door of the wooden house with a tense face, blocking Gilgamesh, with a little panic in her voice: "My lord, why don't you eat this one first..."

She also has a white umbrella mushroom in her hand - if this is really an elixir, then this one should have been given to Yi Nan.

Gilgamesh stared sternly at the old woman standing in front of him, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you think... the king is this kind of person?"

"Would the king be so selfish that he would deprive his lover of the opportunity to bring his lover back to life, just for himself to live forever?"

"If there is only this one left, the king will of course leave it to Duo, so that she can come back to life and return to Wang's side."

Aunt Shahat was a little shocked when she heard the words—but she was deeply preoccupied, and she still tried to confuse: "The king will take this elixir first—as for Duo... Also, this medicine can still be found."

Unexpectedly, these words completely aroused Gilgamesh's suspicion. He calmed down, thought for a while, and asked, "Is it really so many and easy to find the elixir of immortality?"

"Of course—" Sister Shahat replied with a forced smile, "otherwise, how did the ancient ancestors who lived in the forest survive to this day?"

Gilgamesh stared at Shahat silently, as if trying to discern whether her words were true or not.

This lie is actually easy to expose. If the ancient ancestors of the Great Flood Era could really live forever, and the elixir was so easy to find, then the cedar forest, the Amori region, and even the entire Mesopotamian Plain should be covered with They and their offspring are right.

But people always tend to believe what they want most.

Gilgamesh hesitated for a moment, took another white umbrella mushroom from Shahat, and held it in his hand.

"Eat it, eat it—"

"Swallow this one, and you will no longer be afraid of any risks in life. You have an immortal life, and you will truly become a god who dominates the world..." Shahat's voice was full of temptation.

Gilgamesh looked down at this jade-white fungus, and suddenly raised his head—he almost forgot his original intention, he came here for his lover!

Almost the moment he raised his head, Gilgamesh's eyes widened.The fungus in his hand fell casually on the ground, Shahat saw it, frowned, and was about to go into a fit.

Unexpectedly, Gilgamesh opened his mouth and called out tremblingly: "Do——"

Shocked, Shahat looked back.

If it was Yi Nan, the image of Yi Nan appeared in the air out of thin air.

At the beginning, there seemed to be snowflakes flying around her constantly, so that she was blurred and couldn't see clearly.But little by little, as time went on, her image became clearer and clearer.

She is like a painting, flat, her facial features are not three-dimensional, not even as sharp as the reliefs in the temple - but she is still her, bright and beautiful as before, but her eyes are full of worry.

She yelled at Gilgamesh, "Don't eat that fungus—have you forgotten what happened in the cedar forest?"

This sentence immediately made Gilgamesh believe that the person in front of him was his all-too-familiar lover.With ecstasy in his heart, he stretched out his hand to her and asked loudly, "Duo, so you haven't... haven't left Wang!"

Inan was a little sad.

This wooden house is relatively close to the Big Magnetic Mountain in the cedar forest, which will affect the space-time tunnel used in the experiment to a certain extent.Here, the BUG of the space-time tunnel may be temporarily fixed, and of course it may be that the BUG has been affected to create a new BUG.

Even if she breaks free and appears in front of Gilgamesh now, she will disappear in the future.

But before she could answer, Sister Shahat said excitedly: "Duo, leave this man. He is a tyrant without humanity, he is not worthy of your protecting him like this..."

Gilgamesh is inexplicable: ...are you talking about me?

Sister Shahat rushed forward, trying to grab Inan's hand and drag her away from Gilgamesh.

Her hand directly passed through Yi Nan's body, she staggered, the whole body passed through Yi Nan's body, and fell on the floor of the wooden house.After the old man fell down, he was stunned for a long time before he realized that she just saw Duo's image.

When Gilgamesh saw this scene, tears fell again.

He looked at Yi Nan sadly and asked, "Duo, are you really... dead?"

He pointed behind Yi Nan and asked, "Are you already in the underworld, are you still trying to find a way to warn and rescue the king?"

- Hades?

Inan was puzzled, but still looked back as Gilgamesh pointed.

A light screen appeared behind her, and what was projected on the light screen was not elsewhere but Daniel's laboratory.Not long ago, she was talking to Daniel in front of this laboratory.

Now that Daniel is not where he usually sits, most of the lights in the laboratory are turned off. There is only a single lamp in the corner, which just shines on a human skeleton specimen collected by Daniel.The two deep round holes on the skull's face are like deep eyes, staring intently at the opposite side.

Yi Nan had never paid attention to this "collection" of Daniel, and if it wasn't for the light that happened to be turned on in the laboratory, she might not have noticed it in her entire life.

In addition to this skeleton, there are many instruments, books piled up like bricks, and servers supporting the operation of the main computer in the laboratory. Small lights of various colors are constantly flashing in the dark laboratory.

This scene is indeed a bit scary.

Yi Nan also didn't expect that the BUG produced by the space-time tunnel would actually open up a bridge between ancient times and modern times - but in Gilgamesh's view, that must be the scene of the underworld.

Gilgamesh's side is the world, and Inan's back is the underworld.One is life, the other is death.

"The underworld, is this really the underworld? Do you suffer in the underworld?" Gilgamesh asked with tears.He looked like he wouldn't want to see what he saw.

After Sister Shahat got up from the ground, she returned to the original place and saw the same scene beside Gilgamesh. With a cry of surprise, she crawled to the corner of the room with hands and feet together, huddled in the corner, shook her hands together, and shouted loudly. Said: "Duo, Duo... I haven't sorry for you, don't come here!"

"I don't want to die..."

Yi Nan looked at Shahat and said calmly, "But you want others to die."

Shahat lowered his head and admitted his conspiracy against Gilgamesh: "Yes, yes... I hope that the king of Uruk will die as soon as possible."

Gilgamesh was originally infinitely sad, but now he was laughed angrily by the old lady in front of him. He picked up the poisonous mushroom from the ground, weighed it lightly, with a complex expression on his face——

Inan looked at him, wondering what he would do with Shahat.But Gilgamesh tossed the mushroom lightly and threw it into the embers of the fire.

"With your character and intelligence, you are not worthy of the king's revenge on you." The young Wang said proudly.

Inan thought: This is very Gilgamesh.

But she still decided to say a few words for Gilgamesh: "Nurse, I am very grateful for your care and concern for me, but I want to remind you that prejudice has already blinded your mind, and you have locked yourself in In this uninhabited forest...you don't know the truth at all, you don't know what kind of person the king of Uruk is."

"The bottom line is that you have no right to punish people for your prejudices—"

"If you have hurt Gilgamesh just now, you have committed an unforgivable crime."

"And now, you have lost all my respect for you." Yinan said calmly.

Shahat huddled in the corner, with a look of not daring to open her eyes. It seemed that she had long since dared not think about seeking revenge on Gilgamesh. The only thing she was afraid of now was the scene of the "underworld" behind Inan.

"After I leave, I hope you can go to Amori or Sipar, take a look, ask questions, and really understand what kind of person Gilgamesh is."

"Mum, it's time to open your heart."

After Inan finished speaking, she ignored Shahat and turned to Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh was still looking at the "underworld" behind Inan, but his mood had gradually stabilized.He stretched out his hand to Yinan and asked, "Duo, is it true that the king can't touch you as well?"

Yi Nan stretched out his hand to him: "You'll know if you try it?"

Her outstretched hand had an unnatural light, but it finally became three-dimensional, and it was no longer a projection.

Hearing her words, Gilgamesh seemed to be inspired, and he also stretched out his hand, but he hesitated after reaching out, as if he was more afraid of disappointment after he had hope in his heart.

Yi Nan smiled, with encouragement in his eyes.The fingers of the two slowly approached until they were close enough that neither of them moved anymore, but the hands seemed to be attracted by nature, and with a "click", they were gently pressed together.

magnetic field--

Because of the existence of the magnetic field, she will not be just a transparent person in front of him.

She was still real, with him.

Gilgamesh was overjoyed, and opened his arms to embrace her. The joy filled his eyes with tears, but he smiled and said, "Duo, you are back!"

I don't know how long he stayed in Gilgamesh's arms, Inan gently broke out, looked him in the eyes, and gently wiped away the tears on his face with her slender fingers.

"Yes, I'm back...to see you."

Is it true that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment?

After she said this, Gilgamesh's knees gave way, and he almost knelt down on the floor again.

"So, you did leave and went to that hideous underworld, right?" Gilgamesh's tears welled up again, "It's the king's fault, it's the king who didn't take good care of you and didn't bring you by his side ..."

"What will the king do to get you back?"

Although he hugged Yi Nan and hugged the tangible body tightly, the terrifying scene of the "underworld" behind Yi Nan still lay before his eyes.

"The king...does not want you to suffer in the underworld."

Yi Nan stretched out his hand to help him up: "Don't bother with this, just treat it as an illusion—it's like seeing villains after eating poisonous mushrooms... Those are not real. After people die..."

She stopped suddenly at this point, and then continued after a long pause: "It just disappeared, it doesn't exist anymore."

Unexpectedly, Gilgamesh got up suddenly, pulled Inan away, quickly walked out of the hut at the fork, and walked resolutely towards the left side of the fork.

"No, you won't disappear, you won't cease to exist." He held Yi Nan's hand tightly, refusing to let go for a moment, as if he was afraid that if he let go again, he would never find her again. Go to the ancient ancestors, and ask them the secret of bringing the dead back to life, so that you can return to the king's side, and the king and you will walk side by side forever in this long world."

Gilgamesh walked very fast, Inan looked back, and Sister Shahat's cabin quickly went away behind her—and the light screen of the laboratory that once appeared in the cabin also disappeared temporarily, without "following her" ".

Surprisingly, the closer the two of them moved forward, the more "porcelain" Yi Nan's image became, and she became more and more like a real person.

Every time Gilgamesh looked back at her, he would beam with joy, seeing hope clearly in his eyes.

Yi Nan knew that this should be the reason for being close to Cishan, but wait - is this road also the way close to Cishan?

An ominous premonition arose in her heart: If they walked along this road, could they really meet the ancestors left by the flood era?

Originally, she also had a strong curiosity about this group of people, but fear first arose in her heart: could those so-called ancient ancestors be those...

Gilgamesh didn't know what she was thinking, he just walked along the road excitedly.

Soon a canyon appeared in front of them.Gilgamesh was slightly stunned: This canyon seems to be familiar.

"We're not going, Gilgamesh," Yi Nan called out the other party's name directly, "here, we may still get along well together for a few days."—Spend the last few days together until he surveyed Break life and death for it.

Gilgamesh's face darkened: "Do you not believe that the king can find the medicine to bring you back to life? Are you questioning the king's ability and courage?"

Yinan: ...?

This is very Gilgamesh.

The two followed the road, crossed the canyon, and climbed to a high mountain in front of them.The mountain is covered with tall cedars.The further they walked, the stronger the premonition in Yi Nan's heart.

At the fork in the road earlier, although the road forked in two, they must have returned to the same direction after that—so those legendary ancient ancestors were actually... barbarians who had been slaughtered by Gilgamesh.

They may have really settled in this mountain since the flood era, and because they never communicated with outsiders, they have always maintained the living habits and cultural characteristics of the flood era.When people outside the mountain saw them occasionally, they always saw that they wore the same clothes and looked similar, so they spread rumors and said that they were the ancestors of the flood era and had immortal life.

Gilgamesh has such a good memory, there's no way he wasn't aware of it.

Sure enough, Gilgamesh's complexion was quite bad, and he looked around the deep forest extremely nervously, fearing that something would appear in front of him, which would test the terrible deduction in his heart.

Suddenly, a small village appeared in front of him—finally seeing people. Gilgamesh looked happy, looked back at Inan, squeezed her hand, and walked forward quickly.

However, when they walked into the village, they found that it was an empty village.Every house in the village had its door open, and there was no one in it.

"Maybe, maybe..." Gilgamesh tried to comfort Inan and himself, but his lips trembled when he spoke.

Even if he guessed that every "ancient ancestor" living in this village had something to go out, he still couldn't explain the sense of panic in his heart.

If these "ancient ancestors" never existed at all, does it mean that he and this important person around him are destined to be separated?Humans will eventually usher in death?

Inan carefully observed Gilgamesh's face, and she finally pointed to something next to her feet, and asked in a low voice, "What is this?"

Gilgamesh bent down and picked up the item.He was so dumbfounded that he couldn't utter a word.

It was a feathered arrow with a copper arrow tuft attached to it—this arrow tuft was made in a bronze workshop in Uruk, so there was a small mark on the arrow tuft.

This is the feathered arrow that the Uruk warriors carried with them when they entered the mountain to exterminate those barbarians last time.

Going around and entering the mountain by another road, who knows, they still returned to the cedar forest, and returned to the village where those barbarians once lived.

Here, they have killed every barbarian who has lost their humanity, and let those lives hijacked by bloodthirsty and wildness come to an end and rest in peace.

Gilgamesh suddenly threw the cluster of copper arrows in his hand, he raised his head and roared loudly, the roof of the whole thatched hut trembled slightly, and the weeds and dust fell down on his head and face on, body.

He strode out of the house, came to the middle of the village, summoned up his courage, and asked loudly, "Is anyone there?"

The whole village was extremely quiet, and it took a long time before a thin echo came back from afar.

Gilgamesh didn't say anything, he just lay down on the ground in the middle of the village.Thin pine needles fell from the surrounding cedars and landed on his face and eyelashes, but he didn't respond at all——

This cedar forest seemed to have dealt him a heavy blow, knocking him into a daze.

Yi Nan sat down beside him. During the past period of time, her hand has been clasped with his, never separated.

Now that her disappointment had come to a conclusion, she relaxed instead and simply sat cross-legged beside Gilgamesh. Seeing that he was really sad, she stretched out her hand and playfully ruffled his chestnut hair.

"Is it so easy to be defeated? Gilgamesh, this doesn't look like you?" She deliberately asked, "Is death really that terrible?"

Gilgamesh closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he seemed much better, much stronger—the king was never frightened by anything, not even death.

He let out a breath, rolled his eyes, turned to Yinan, looked at her and said, "The king is not afraid of death, the king is only afraid, life is meaningless."

Inan's heart twitched, and a thought flashed through him: As expected of Gilgamesh, he is so brave and transparent—the type she likes.

But when she thought of this, her heart suddenly ached faintly: the love that she knew she couldn't be together was the real hopeless regret.

But Gilgamesh suddenly took her hand, turned over and sat up, pulled her to his side, stroked her hair gently, and asked in turn: "Duo, are the things the king saw earlier really the underworld? Hell? Are you there, have you ever suffered?"

Inan thought for a while, and finally decided to tell Gilgamesh the truth: "No, it's not Hades or hell, it's another time and space... do you understand time and space? It's another world."

"The people there can stay in the big iron bird and fly high in the sky, and they can run from one end of the world to the other in half a day; talk to each other..."

"If it's bitter there, it's hard. You'll often hear them say they're 'moving bricks', but don't think they're building walls like the Uruk people...they're just doing and laying bricks. It's just as repetitive and boring as a wall..."

While Inan was talking, Gilgamesh listened intently, he listened to every word, and finally asked: "Duo, so what they said is true, you are a human being created by God, you The world you came from is actually a world created by gods?"

Yinan shook his head in denial: "No, no, I'm just like you, a human being, an ordinary person."

Gilgamesh was taken aback.

He didn't believe it, but there was a kind of sincerity in Yinan's words, so he couldn't help but not believe it.

"Then, Duo, you said before that after death, consciousness will dissipate. Is that true?"

Gilgamesh thought about it, and sadness once again filled the brows.This hero king who has always been fearless in the world, did not know when, but tears gradually climbed up his cheeks.

"No underworld? No hell?" he asked sadly.

Yi Nan replied decisively: "There is no underworld, and there is no hell."

Gilgamesh thought of the Egyptians who came to Uruk, and asked in a trembling voice: "Then, is there no afterlife?"

Yi Nan answered cruelly: "There is no afterlife either."

"So when you die, I will never see you again?" Gilgamesh raised his head, his eyes were full of sorrow, but he still looked at Inan calmly—in his opinion, feeling for the one he loves Sadness is nothing to be ashamed of.

If Yi Nan was a vain girl, she should be very proud at this moment. The famous hero king in this world would be afraid of death because of her.

But there is probably no other person in this world who understands Gilgamesh, his heart, and his fear as a mortal like she does.

He had already made it clear just now: the king is not afraid of death, the only thing he fears is being born meaningless.

Gilgamesh is the same as the people who have lived on the Two Rivers Plain for generations. He is the same as the boy Dan and the shepherd king Dumuzi. War, turmoil... Life is bitter. If there is no hope for the afterlife, where do they, human beings like Gilgamesh, get the courage to live hard?

Inan thought for a while, then stretched out his hand to stroke Gilgamesh's hair, making his short chestnut hair tangle into small curls one after another between her snow-white fingers.

"Well, let me tell you a story."

She made Gilgamesh lie on her knees, and Gilgamesh looked up at the little sky peeking out from the tops of the cedar trees.

It was getting late, and stars began to appear in the light blue sky.

"Once upon a time, there was a traveler who was walking alone in the desert. Suddenly, there was a roar in the distance, and a group of hungry wolves chased after him."

"The traveler ran away, but he lost his way and ran to a cliff. Seeing the hungry wolf chasing after him, the traveler had no choice but to jump off the cliff."

"But there is no unparalleled road. When the traveler was falling, he found a small tree sticking out of the cliff. He immediately hugged the trunk and temporarily saved his life. But when he looked at his feet, he immediately felt creepy again. ——It turns out that under the cliff is a deep pool with turbulent waves, and there are three evil dragons at the bottom of the pool, waiting for him to fall with their mouths wide open."

"What's even more frightening is that at this time, two mice appeared at the root of the small tree, one white and one black, and they were alternately nibbling at the root of the small tree."

"What is this traveler going to do?" Gilgamesh asked ecstatically, as if Inan's storytelling skills were so good that he had already assumed the role of this traveler.

Unexpectedly, Yinan changed the subject and said softly: "At this moment, the traveler saw a drop of honey on the leaf in front of him. So he forgot the hungry wolf in front of him, the dragon under his feet, Forget the little tree that was about to be bitten off by the mouse, and taste that drop of sweet honey with all his heart... At this moment of his life, there is only sweet honey."

After Inan finished speaking, Gilgamesh only thought for a while, then slowly closed his eyes.

Within a few minutes, I saw that he was breathing evenly and had already fallen into a deep sleep.He leaned on the lap of the person he trusted the most, and fell asleep without any troubles, leaving all his exhaustion, fear and pain to sleep and dreams.

Gilgamesh tasted his honey in the night of the snow-topped forest, in the starlight occasionally leaking from the top of the trees.