According to some of the texts, the ancestors of the Amorites came from the realm of the gods, which is a true paradise. They called it Bijeramesu, which means pure land floating on the sea.

At some point, the people living in the realm of the gods somehow violated the taboo of the gods. In a fit of rage, God sank Bieramesu into the sea and drowned all mortals who had committed their sins. For the innocent victims who have not made a mistake, the divine net opens up and permanently expells them from the divine realm as a warning, so that mortals can struggle and introspect in the sea of suffering in the nether world for eternity.

Sinking into the sea with Biramisu was an artifact called Eternal Light. Unfortunately, the angry god believed that all mortals had original sin, did not deserve the light of eternal tenderness, and had to endure the torments of day and night, cold and heat, so he crushed the artifact, divided it into nine parts, and scattered it in the sea, and then disappeared.

These nine fragments of eternal light are collectively referred to as the fragments of light by those in the know.

The ancestors of the Amorites could not bear to destroy the artifact like this, and risked their lives to dive into the deep sea, sacrificing countless people, and snatching a fragment of light from the collapse of the sky and the earth, hurricanes and tsunamis.

This fragment of light is the artifact enshrined in this temple: the stairway to eternity. Also known as the Infinite Staircase!

At this point, by deciphering and interpreting the divine scriptures, Dongfang Chen no longer had the slightest doubt. All the evidence, countless subtleties, all kinds of things, going around and around always can't get around Atlantis, the so-called fate is unpredictable, who does heaven spare?

Finally, we have a clear goal. Because it is clear in the canon that the legendary eternal light, which is also the eternal light of the Phoenicians in the golden plate, is indeed broken. Its fragments are indeed called Fragments of Light, and the fragments of Light are all artifacts with mysterious powers.

The most important thing is that Dongfang Chen knows the specific number of fragments of light: nine!

At the beginning, he had already learned from Atiea that the thing on the lighthouse in the center of Artedonias, that is, the eternal light in countless people's mouths, was a translucent crystal similar to crystal, but ordinary people couldn't see its true face because it was always glowing. However, this is not the case with the Wardens, including Atiea, so the Warden's internal discussion and description of it is tacitly referred to by the word crystal.

It was precisely because of such preconceived notions that Dongfang Chen subconsciously regarded it as a crystal to reason about the next step. Think about it, if a piece of crystal is broken by an external force, how many parts does it have to be split into?

Dongfang Chen felt a headache when he thought about this question. So he took it for granted that there should be many fragments of light, at least dozens. But the sacred text unearthed from the tombs of ancient Babylonian kings told him categorically: There are only nine fragments of light!

All the intelligence clues that have been worked hard before this are not as important as this simple number.

Moreover, by deciphering and deciphering the Underworld, Dongfang Chen got another clue to the fragment of light.

The events described in the canon are more bloody and cruel, and are mostly related to words such as torture, punishment, living sacrifice, and sacrifice.

But of all the tortures depicted in the canon, there is one that is the most severe of all punishments, and it is said that even death will not use it lightly. Only those who have committed the five unpardonable sins of blasphemy, murder, betrayal, poisoning, and surrender are eligible for this punishment.

This torture was to make the prisoner die of thirst or to die of dehydration in the scorching sun. In the canon, it is called exposure punishment.

Think about it, who will commit the unforgivable sin that can bring exposure to punishment for himself? Blasphemy, murder, betrayal, and poisoning, as long as you don't die, no one will force you to do these things. There is only one thing that will not work, the battle will be surrendered.

The so-called surrender in battle covers a lot, which refers to not obeying commands on the battlefield, being cowardly afraid of the enemy, not courageously going forward to send them to death, or even directly turning around and fleeing, or simply surrendering.

The original intention of this crime and its corresponding punishment was to make it better for slaves to die on the battlefield. You must know that the combat effectiveness of the slave army is very worrying, there is no military pay and no military merits, so the mother is in charge of the food that happens to starve to death, are you doing it?

Therefore, the morale of the slave troops is extremely unstable, and they are especially keen on desertion and surrender, and there is no need to frighten them with torture with strong religious superstitions such as exposure and punishment.

Therefore, when the punishment is used as an example, it is basically a description of the war scene.

At that time, the main enemy of the ancient Babylonian kingdom was the Elamates in the lower Tigris. The two most powerful city-state civilizations in the two river basins have loved and killed each other for thousands of years, and it is common for them to invade and attack each other, and both countries even have a disgraceful record of a dynasty being destroyed by the other.

But it doesn't matter, someone can do it, and after the development and growth, they will continue to fight and continue to grab territory and feudal states, and continue to repeat the things of mutual attrition, until one day the two countries have to join forces to deal with a more powerful enemy: the Assyrian Empire.

In the middle dynasties of the two civilizations, Elamite had an overwhelming advantage, Babylon was directly destroyed, and even the Code of Hammurabi was robbed. Modern archaeologists have excavated the world-famous stone pillar in the ruins of the ancient city of Susa, the capital of Elam, and now it is in the Louvre.

In a description of the war with Elamite in the Underworld, it is mentioned that in one battle, the Babylonian warriors fought to the death to protect their homeland, fighting to the death against the enemy who invaded the country for a day and night.

At the critical moment, a general on the Babylonian side had a whimsical idea to lead more than 1,000 people to hide in the Eastern Mountains (now Zagros Mountain), relying on the high mountains and dense forests as a cover, bypassing the defense line of the Elama side, and suddenly appeared in the rear of the enemy.

This is a classic battle situation of elite surprise attack, front and back attack, in the thousands of years since the history of human war, this trick has been tried and tested, but then something that puzzled Dongfang Chen happened.

The Canon records the outcome of the battle in just two sentences: Elam threw a thousand dried corpses dressed in our army before the battle. In the evening, the king ordered the army to withdraw and sent messengers to negotiate peace.

In the subsequent account, the Underworld gives a miraculous answer to the reasons for the fiasco. But this is the answer, Dongfang Chen is convinced, because it is the direct clue of another fragment of light!

The war was obviously won, but it was inexplicably lost, and the king of Babylon at that time was in a state of fire.

Unable to figure it out, the king went to the temple privately to consult with the high priest. Ask the high priest to communicate with God and ask Him what is going on?

Eat and drink well every day to worship you, why don't you bless me?

The results of the divination soon came out, and the high priest possessed by the gods said these words to the king:

Elamite worships fire, and God gives Elam wrath.

Water can extinguish fire, fire can boil water, and it is called the shadow quicksand.

Exposing and punishing thousands of people, not saving their water, is an unjust crime.

Isn't the light of God unique?

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Aha......

It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. Good luck comes, and you can't stop it!

Dongfang Chen was extremely excited, and he laughed wildly in the empty and quiet temple.

Who would have thought that at the beginning, I just tried to find the legendary Tower of Babel in Babylon, which was purely a chance of a blind cat touching a dead mouse, but I didn't expect to find it.

What I didn't expect was that not to mention finding and confirming the true existence of the Tower of Babel in Babylon, there was also a fragment of light sealed in the temple under the Tower of Babel.

What's even better is that the stone pillar unearthed from the temple and the three canons directly lead to the clue of another fragment of light.

What else can Dongfang Chen say about the succession of good news? It can only be said that there are gods in the dark!