Chapter 33: The Fear of Death
In his later years, when his life was coming to an end, he began to fear death, he was afraid of the feeling that his body was weakening a little bit, he felt that death was constantly approaching him, thinking back on his glorious life, he was unwilling to end it.
He recalled the tall figure he met when he was a child, the archangel Pharos who held his hand and told him that he would become the king of men, the oracle who bestowed him with golden blood and the divine sword, the man who taught him the knowledge of the gods, and he hoped to see that man again, even if he died, he also hoped that after death, he could go to the kingdom of God and become an immortal existence like that man!
Akhnaton began to build a temple to Mary, the goddess of light, and like a devout believer, he knelt before the goddess's idol every day and prayed and prayed.
In the last two years of his life, he asked his most skilled craftsmen to cast a pure gold statue of the goddess of light, and with the strength of the whole country, he built a temple that was even more luxurious than his palace, and declared the Cult of Light the state religion, and he was also a believer in the goddess of light.
And behind each statue of the goddess of light, there is a masked oracle with a scepter in hand, it is the archangel Pharos under the seat of the goddess of light, and the man who gave the Divine Revelation and the blood of the King of Light!
There were a large number of white-robed sacrifices in the temple, and there were pure goddesses who served the existence of the gods, and the King of Gold, Ahnadon, prayed for years, spent all means, but did not see the gods until the night of his death!
Inside the large palace, where a fire burned in the fireplace and a bearskin carpet made of exotic white bears was laid on the floor, Ahnaton sat on a chaise longue with a gold crown encrusted with precious stones.
Akhnaton was full of white hair, his face was full of wrinkles, and his eyes were also borrowed with a layer of white hair, and he gently wiped the divine sword given to him by the divine envoy back then.
Ahnaton sighed, but in a trance, he saw a shadow walking towards him, and Ahnadon immediately raised his head, even a lion in the twilight has the power of a king.
"Akhnadon, why do you want to see me?"
Ahnaton saw a figure in a white robe and a mask standing in front of him, the white mask with the sun pattern, and the familiar body, which made Ahnaton's whole person feel excited.
"Is that you? Are you really here? Or am I hallucinating? Ahnaton's voice was hoarse, but he was extremely excited!
Lu Zhiyu stood in front of Akhnaton, his eyes were a little embarrassed, the young man of the year has now grown like this, and the soft knife of the years is the most terrifying: "Akhnaton, you have done a very good job, you are the first king of mankind, and it will eventually be recorded in the history books of mankind!" ”
Ahnaton exclaimed, "But that's not what I want!" ”
Lu Zhiyu said suspiciously: "You didn't say that back then, this fate was chosen by yourself, to become the king of mankind, power, status, reputation, beauty, money, etc., you have them all, what are you not satisfied with?" ”
Ahnaton looked at Lu Zhiyu, his body trembled and stood up, his eyes were fiery looking at Lu Zhiyu's young body, powerful palms, so many years have passed, and the years have not left a trace on Lu Zhiyu's body.
"But I will still die, and when I am old, I will understand that all this is just a passing cloud, and only you, only the gods, are eternal! I want to be like you, I want eternal life! ”
Lu Zhiyu smiled dumbly and said exactly the same thing as back then: "You are too greedy! ”
Ahnaton walked towards the land fish and said angrily, "No, I have completed the mission you gave me, and you should give me something in return!" ”
Lu Zhiyu shook his head: "We didn't give you any mission, the choice of fate is in your hands, it is you who choose your own destiny, I once told you, the gods have given you life, given you wisdom, given you great abilities, and also given you rich countryside and the whole world, do you still have to meet all your desires and requirements?" ”
Lu Zhiyu looked at Akhnaton's eyes: "The gods are not the slaves of your family, we have put the choice of fate in your own hands, since you are dissatisfied, you will find a way to change it yourself, to change your own fate, instead of blaming everything on the gods." ”
Lu Zhiyu sighed: "You have never done anything for us, everything you have done is just for yourself, but greed makes you dissatisfied, what you can't get is the best!" ”
Ahnaton immediately shouted, watching left and right, dancing with his hands, and his eyes showed a crazy look: "I can exchange things, anything, money, power, beauty, everything, anything, as long as you give me a young body!" ”
Lu Zhiyu chuckled and said: "Everything you have is given to you by us, and you exchange it with me for what I gave you?" ”
Lu Zhiyu didn't mean to talk to Ahnaton anymore, turned around, his body turned into a ripple, and disappeared in place, Ahnaton saw this, and immediately chased after him: "No, you can't go, I have completed your mission, you can't do this, this is what you owe me, you liars, liars!" ”
Ahnaton roared frantically in the hall, angrily destroying everything that could be seen in front of him, and finally threw himself on the ground like a child: "Don't go, don't ......"
At this time, the guards outside hurriedly rushed in, and saw Akhnaton lying on the ground, his eyes had lost his distance, dead in his palace, and he was still holding the sword that Lu Zhiyu gave him back then, and his eyes were looking at a mural on the wall, which was a man in the setting sun, giving a bag of grain seeds and a long sword to the young man!
"The king, the king is dead!"
The guards screamed in panic and ran out, and the news of the death of the Golden King Akhnadon immediately spread throughout the Golden City, and the alternation of royal power continued, and Akhnaton's son took his place, continuing the Golden Dynasty.
Lu Zhiyu suddenly decided to visit the former Ahnaton, I have to say that decades have changed too much, and the feeling of standing outside the world and inside the world is completely different.
The immortality that Ahnaton envied was only because the time flow speed of the land fish was different from his, and the land fish did not have the immortality he imagined.
But seeing that Akhnaton was so fragile in the face of time, Lu Zhiyu was also shocked and terrified of life and death: "Can I really live forever?" ”