Chapter 431: The Road to Survival
The bustle and prosperity of Uruk fascinated Enki, who had just set foot in the world, and Enkidu stayed at the gracious invitation of Gilgamesh. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In a vast forest about a month and a half of trekking from Uruk, there lives a very powerful divine beast, the Red Daddy...... Humbaba. It is the guardian of the forest, and anyone who enters the forest will be attacked. For humans who relied on the resources of the forest for their livelihood at that time, this guardian was not as amiable as an environmental protection organization.
So Gilgamesh and Enkidu went together to fight against Humbaba, but Gilgamesh and Enkidu were nowhere near as strong as they are now, and after some hard fighting, the two finally defeated Humbaba.
Humbaba's head was taken away by Gilgamesh as a trophy, as a divine beast, the strength is extraordinary, even after death, the body also contains huge power, it will not be resentful after death, the power is absorbed by the tree, forming a bloodthirsty and powerful demon tree, known as the first generation of Anasho.
That's another story, so let's not mention it for now.
And very coincidentally, Istal happened to be imprisoned by Humbaba at that time, so when Gilgamesh appeared in Istal's eyes in golden light, Istal was instantly conquered by Gilgamesh's heroic figure - tall, rich, and handsome!
At that time, no one in the whole world could surpass Gilgamesh in this regard.
The emotional Istal confesses to Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh has no feelings for Istal and is focused on Enkidu, decisively rejecting Istal.
Estal is like the kind of brain-dead daughter in thousands of works, since she was born, she has never suffered such a cold reception, and she is jealous for a while, and love gives birth to hatred.
"That abominable Gilgamesh dared to refuse me! I want to let him know the consequences of rejecting me! Like a little girl who had been bullied, Istal cried out to her father, Annu.
However, Anu hesitated, because the great power displayed by the man behind Enkidu made them feel very troubled.
Istal was arrogant and unreasonable. Five thousand years ago, he perfected the cultivation of "one crying, two troubles, and three hangings", threatened death, and finally said that his father, God Annu, sent a sacred cow to Uruk that brought drought.
In those days of extremely low productivity. Food is life, and it is not a dream to let the sacred cow continue to make such trouble, and Uruk is starving all over the wilderness.
Of course, Gilgamesh couldn't sit idly by and watch such a thing happen, so together with Enkidu, he held a huge roast of whole beef in Uruk. At the same time, I thank God for giving them delicious sacred cows.
Perhaps because of the cow being eaten, or perhaps because of the beaten "thanks" tones of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, the so-called "gods" felt that their divine might had been insulted, and Uruk and the "gods" broke out into war at the instigation of Istal for fear of chaos in the world.
It was a war without a winner, and Gilgamesh and Enkidu, as well as the whole of Uruk, were stronger than the "gods" expected, and there were not one "gods" in that area at that time, and Enkidu was also found to be weak (plucked out of the dull hair), seriously injured, and finally died.
For both sides. All were fiascos.
Istal had never wanted this to happen, and by the time she woke up to stop it, it was out of her control.
On that day, the sky in Uruk turned blood-red.
It is known as the "Twilight of the Gods".
If there is any meaning, although there is no winner in this battle, it is of great significance to the entire human race, in the era when the human race was basically an appendage of "gods", Uruk was the first country to dare to call out the gods, and survived, for mankind to see. God also dies, and God is not omnipotent, which has an indelible effect on the subsequent shaking of theocracy.
And Gilgamesh was also given the name of "Hero King" by the Terrans.
Gilgamesh, however, was miserable. Enkidu's death left him grief-stricken, and at the same time terrified of "death". But there is no living thing that is not afraid of death. Gilgamesh vowed to save Nkidu, but also to unravel the mystery of life, and buried Enkidu's body in the forest next to her home, Uruk, according to her will, which she feared would be buried elsewhere. Her parents couldn't find her.
Gilgamesh always spoke of Enkidu's parents, but he never saw him, and he stayed in front of Enkidu's spirit for 7 days in Enkidu's house, and still did not wait for Enkidu's parents.
He then kept the only relic left behind by Enkidu, the handful of dull hair, close to him, and then embarked on a journey to find the source of life.
He had traveled long distances, clothed in animal skins and fur and blood, through Mount Marsh, the road to the sun, when he was stopped by a dragon, Rose, who was greater than the walls of Uruk.
"No one will be able to come back from that road." Rose told him to go back.
"Even though there will be sorrow and pain, even if there will be dampness and dryness, even if there will be sighs and tears. I'm going too! Come, open the door to the mountain for me! ”
Ross was impressed by Gilgamesh's arrogance (fog) and got out of the way.
Through the boundless darkness, he saw the sun rise and came to Gensokyo.
A shrine maiden dressed in a baring armpit witch costume advised him: "It turns out that the carefree and debauched life is his destination, and don't try to understand the truth of life and death, because you can't understand it." ”
Gilgamesh was unmoved.
Onozuka Komachi on the banks of the Santu River is reluctant to ferry him: "The Santu River is impassable by mortals. ”
Gilgamesh insisted and smashed the stone statue of the boatman's patron saint to pieces.
Then a strange woman with a "stick of repentance" in her hand rushed out and lectured him. He wanted to resist, but he felt as if his strength was suppressed by something, and he couldn't exert it at all, and he couldn't beat it, so he could only obediently listen to the teachings, and he listened to them for seven days.
His mind was buzzing that the seven days were like the end of the world.
But fortunately, in the end, the woman named Shiki Yingji still grabbed him and threw him across the Santu River, and he hit his head on a boulder standing on the other side of the river.
Perhaps it was because of the fatigue of the journey, but after three days, he woke up, shook his head, stood up with the boulder, and looked up to see that the front of the boulder was engraved with three words "Flower Reflecting Mound", and the back was also engraved with three words "Santu River".
There was a house not far away, Gilgamesh had never seen such a style, he walked in, there was a man and two women in the house, the man's standard dragon routine face, and when he saw it, the two women looked almost identical, just a long hair and a short hair, and they seemed to look at each other unpleasantly.
Gilgamesh opened his mouth, but did not speak.
The two women interrupted her one after the other.
"Needless to say, we know what you're here for."
"It's okay to save Enki, but there's a very big price to pay."
Needless to say, he knew what he was coming from, and it also made Gilgamesh even more convinced that the other party did have the ability to bring people back to life.
"No problem, as long as I can resurrect Enkidu, no matter what the price, I am willing." Gilgamesh didn't even ask, and said it bluntly.
"Are you sure? Resurrect Enkidu and you will lose something very important! Of course, we won't take your life. ”
Gilgamesh laughed, if his life was safe, what price could he not afford?
Thereupon...... (To be continued.) )