According to Herodotus, there was a temple of the god Marduk above and below the tower, which was called the upper temple and the lower temple respectively. There are statues of gods in the lower temple. The upper temple is located at the top of the tower, which has no idol but is splendid, made of dark blue glazed bricks and decorated with gold. The Babylonians served their gods according to the ideals of secular life. There was only one large bed in the main hall, which was "lavishly furnished" (like the Greek and Roman nobles, the Mesopotamian nobles ate lying down), and beside the bed was a table decorated with gold.

The temple was inhabited only by a young and beautiful woman who had been specially selected to accompany Marduk in his amusement. The monks made people believe that the great god came to the temple from time to time and rested on this bed. Only kings and monks were allowed to enter the temple to serve and listen to Marduk's teachings; This kind of super sacred thing has nothing to do with the common people, and they can only worship the gods in their minds from a distance, because if they are close at hand, ordinary people cannot withstand the gaze of the gods.

And Sun Hui recalled the scene he had just seen under the effect of the "omniscient eye", and thought of the relevant information about the Tower of Babel in Babylon in history, and suddenly had a bold guess in his heart.

If those "gods" are actually ......

While they are basking in the joy of reunion and the conjecture of solving new puzzles, they don't know that in their original time and space, a tragicomedy about returning to the past is unfolding.

The sign on the wall seemed to vibrate behind a layer of fluctuating heat, and the handwriting on the sign flashed: Time Hunting Company hunted in any era in the past, as long as you say what you want to hunt, we will take you to hunt.

Swallow a mouthful of hot phlegm that wells up in your throat. The muscles on his lips squeezed a smile as he reached out and shook a check with a lot of zero to the man sitting behind the table.

"Will this hunt guarantee me coming back alive?"

"We don't guarantee anything," the clerk said, "except for dinosaurs." He turned his face away, "Your hunting guide from a bygone era, he would tell you what to shoot and where to shoot." If he says don't shoot, don't shoot. If you don't obey the order, you will be fined hefty when you come back, and the government may even prosecute you. ”

His gaze swept over the large office, at the messy, crooked, humming lines and alloy boxes, at the flickering bands of light that changed orange, silver, and blue. With just a touch of your hand, the burning thing turns up beautifully in no time. He remembered the words of the advertisement word for word: From the charcoal and the ash, from the dust and the coal, the ancient years, the green years will leap up like golden salamanders; The roses are fragrant in the wind, the gray hair becomes jet black, and the wrinkles disappear; Everything flew back to the buds, fleeing from death and rushing back to their starting point, the sun rising from the western sky and setting towards the brilliant east, and the moon completely reversed the direction of profit and loss. Everything is layered like a Chinese magic box, like a rabbit returning to a magic hat, everything returns to the vibrant, vibrant green nirvana state, to the moment before the beginning. You can do this with a single touch of your hand, just with a single touch of your hand.

"Oh my God," he muttered, the light of the machine shining on his skinny face, "a real time machine." ”

"Your prey is a Tyrannosaurus rex, the most fearsome behemoth of all time. Please sign this. We can't guarantee anything that happens to you. Those dinosaurs are hungry. ”

He blushed all of a sudden: "Do you want to scare me?" ”

"Honestly, yes, we don't want to let anyone who gets panicked at the first shot go. Last year, six hunting guides and a dozen hunters died. We'll give you the greatest encouragement a true hunter needs, and you'll go back 60 million years to hunt the biggest game ever seen. Your personal check is here, tear it up if you don't go. ”

He looked at the check for a long time, his fingers trembling.

"Good luck," said the man behind the table.

They walked silently through the room, guns in hand, towards the machine, to the silver metal and the shining ribbon of light.

First a day, a night, a day, a night, then a day-night-day-night rapid succession, a week, a month, a year, ten years!

Time flies! The machines are roaring.

They put on oxygen helmets and test intercom devices.

He swayed in the soft chair, his face pale and his teeth clenched. He felt his arm tremble, and when he looked down, he realized that he was clutching a brand-new shotgun. There were also four more people in the cabin, two hunting guides and two more hunters.

"Can these guns take down dinosaurs?" He asked.

"As long as you hit it right." The big guide said in the helmet microphone, "Some dinosaurs have two brains, one in the head and the other in the lower part of the spine. We have to avoid them, or we're too risky. The first two shots are shot in the eye, and if you can do it, you can blind them and then shoot through the brain. ”

The machine roared. Time is like a movie playing backwards.

The machine slows down, the scream turns to a murmur, and the machine stops.

The sun is scorching.

The fog that enveloped the machine lifted. Three hunters, two hunting guides, and their guns across their legs, they are in an ancient era, a very old age indeed.

"Christ has not yet been born," said the big guide, "and Moses has not yet gone up the mountain to talk with God." The stones on which the pyramids were built are still in the dirt, waiting to be cut and piled up. 'Remember', Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler – none of them did not exist yet. ”

People nodded.

He pointed to a metal path that jutted out into the wilderness above the steaming swamp between the giant ferns and palm trees.

"And here is the walkway, laid by the Time Hunting Company for your use. It floats above the ground without touching a blade of grass, a flower, or a tree. It is an anti-gravity metal whose purpose is to prevent you from coming into contact with this past world in any way. Stay in the aisle and don't leave. I repeat, don't leave, for whatever reason! If you jump, you will be punished. Don't shoot any animal without our consent. ”

"Why?" He asked, confused.

They sat in the ancient wilderness. The wind carried distant birdsong and the scent of salt seas, damp meadows, and blood-red flowers.

"We don't want to change the future, we didn't belong here in a bygone era. The government doesn't like us here, and we have to pay huge bribes to keep our licenses. The time machine can be a troublesome goddamn thing, and we can inadvertently kill an important animal, a small bird, a fish, or even trample a flower, thus destroying an important link in the development of a species. ”