Chapter 651 The Head of State’s Call

Several months later, in the Garden of Eden, early morning.

As the host, Ai Lei crouched down with a strong sense of stealth, stuck to the wall, and slipped towards the door step by step.

However, as soon as he approached the door, a clear but majestic scolding voice came from behind:

"stop!"

Ai Lei's body froze and she turned around helplessly.

In the hazy morning mist, a small figure with a pair of emerald green earth touches on his head, less than 1.4 meters tall, straightened his chest, put his hands on his waist, and his tender face revealed an aura that did not match his age. His eyes, like red stars, examined the "fugitive" in front of him:

"Want to run away again?"

"I couldn't sleep, so I got up and walked around."

Ai Lei answered with a light cough, lowered her head, her eyes flickering, and she was somewhat afraid to look directly at the small figure.

After all, this is Tiamat, the demon that represents death and terror in Babylonian mythology, and the mother of origin that the gods are said to tremble in fear of.

And obviously, Ai Lei's poor disguise could not hide from the sharp eyes in front of her.

"You're lying! You obviously want to leave!"

Tiamat frowned, looking displeased.

Seeing that her true purpose was exposed, Ai Lei had no choice but to honestly explain the whole story:

"The last war with Ishtar left a lot of trouble. Recently, a lot of undead have flooded into the underworld. I want to deal with these trivial matters as soon as possible and restore the order of the underworld to normal."

In order to avoid angering the terrifying existence in front of her, Ai Lei hastily assured:

"Please don't worry, there's only some finishing work left. It won't take too long. I'll be back as soon as I'm done!"

"Squat down."

"oh……"

Ai Lei's self-defense came to an abrupt end. She squatted on the ground with a bitter face and her hands on her head, looking like an outlaw waiting to be arrested.

However, a warm little hand fell on her head and gently stroked it:

"You are so good. Mother is a little worried, Ailei. You can be a little more decadent. I will help you."

Ai Lei was stunned, and a warm feeling surged in her heart.

Although she was very touched, she shook her head firmly:

"No, just stay here. I can handle that little thing myself!"

Compared with the person in front of her, what was the trouble outside? If she didn't run away, she would really go crazy.

Upon hearing this rejection, the originally dignified Mother of Babylonian Origin immediately lowered her head, revealing a look as if she was about to cry:

"Woo, Ailei doesn't like mommy anymore. Mommy is hated."

As soon as this move came out, Ai Lei couldn't resist it and quickly vowed:

"That's not the case!"

“Then will you let me, your mother, help you?” Tiamat stopped crying, looked up at her “daughter” in front of her with hope on her face.

"There are too many undead spirits out there, and they are very fierce. I think you should stay in the Garden of Eden..."

"Wow, Ailei doesn't like mommy anymore. Mommy is..."

"Stop! I promise! Isn't it enough that I promise?"

This time, Ailei felt like crying.

Ever since she accidentally let the wolf into the house, the legendary exiled Mother of Origin has officially moved into the Garden of Eden.

If the other party is really as terrifying and vicious as the rumors say, Ailei can attract the Babylonian gods without any psychological burden and eliminate this potential threat to the entire world of the gods.

But the opposite is true.

Even though she was betrayed by her children and her mind and body regressed to that of a little girl, she was still full of love for the world and life in her bones.

Even after a brief contact, she regarded Elei, Ishtar, and Siduri as her "daughters" and continued to give them various forms of care.

At first, Eledu enjoyed it a little.

She was born from the bones of the ancestor god Apsu, without a father or a mother. The appearance and care of Tiamat well made up for the maternal love that she had always lacked and longed for.

But after a long time, Ai Lei discovered a serious problem.

This "mother" was too clingy. She had to eat and sleep with her, which greatly squeezed her private space. She couldn't even work normally or spend time alone with a close friend.

For this reason, Ai Lei had to harden her heart and plan this "prison break".

But in the end, the plan failed.

"I told you, you can't run away, so just accept your fate."

With gloating taunts, Ishtar yawned and walked out of the chamber, followed by Siduri who was also sleep-deprived.

As daughters, the two of them naturally could not escape the goddess Tiamat's overwhelming "motherly love".

However, at this moment, Ai Lei also realized the reason why her jailbreak failed from the other party's words, and she was immediately furious:

"Okay, you guys are the ones who told the secret, despicable!"

"Don't say that, we just don't want to make our mother sad."

Ishtar argued back confidently, looking like she was worried sick about this family.

Although Siduri did not speak, the look she gave Tiamat was full of tenderness and intimacy.

Similar to Elle's origin, she is an elf born from wine, with no parents or brothers.

The appearance of the goddess Tiamat allowed her to experience the family warmth she had never felt before.

However, compared to Ere and Ishtar, whom she respected and feared, her feelings towards the Mother of Origin were more like a mother's feelings towards her daughter.

At this moment, seeing the other two daughters arrive, Tiamat couldn't help but be excited:

"Ishtar, Siduri, you've come just in time. Let's help Elle and repair the damage to the underworld. I'm very strong, a super mother, let's go!"

With childish cries, the "mother" whose mind and body had regressed to that of a little girl pulled her three "daughters" who were much taller than her out of the Garden of Eden and began her busy and interesting work.

——Now, there is really no way for me to take time out of my busy schedule to go meet that guy.

Ai Lei, feeling depressed, followed everyone to the workplace.

A day passed quickly, and the mother, having accomplished her mission, led her daughter back to the familiar Garden of Eden.

As soon as I entered the door, the aroma of food and a gentle voice came from the hall:

"Are you back? Wash your hands and have dinner."

Loen put down the clay tablet in his hand, smiled and invited the four people to sit down.

"Jin Gu!"

Tiamat took the lead, rushing to the dining table at whirlwind speed and sitting down next to the right side of her beloved son.

Ishtar followed closely behind, occupying the left side.

Siduri, who was slower, and Ailei, who was more shy, could only sit opposite them in frustration.

As usual, the five gods tasted the delicious food and drinks on the table and enjoyed the rare warm time.

Looking at the happy scene in front of him, Loen couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth and felt happy.

Just as he expected.

Although he and Tiamat revealed their identities, the three local goddesses Ishtar, Elei, and Siduri did not choose to inform the Babylonian gods, but concealed the news together.

On the one hand, the three goddesses all have something to ask of him:

Ishtar hoped to obtain more advanced farming techniques and mana to feed more people, and she made contact with the Assyrians and became the patron goddess of Nineveh.

Siduri hopes to obtain better brewing technology, improve and develop more delicious drinks, and expand her faith;

Ailei hopes to establish and improve the judgment mechanism of the underworld and make the Garden of Eden a true paradise for God...

All of the above would be in vain without him, the core figure.

On the other hand, after spending time together before, the three goddesses gradually got to know him better, and they had a great affection for each other. Their relationship was very solid, and had long surpassed the boundaries of "friends".

No matter from the perspective of reason or emotion, they could not turn against each other on the spot and do things like informing on others and betraying them.

Of course, with the abilities of Lorne and Tiamat, they would not give the other party this opportunity.

As time went by, the three goddesses fell one after another under the maternal love of Tiamat and unknowingly got on the pirate ship.

This is an open conspiracy.

After all, no one forced them to make a choice.

Going against the Babylonian gods and getting involved with two former rebel leaders was almost tantamount to surrendering to the enemy.

When the truth comes to light, these three goddesses will not be able to wash off the label of "accomplices".

If they don't want to be liquidated, they can only follow the rebels to the end.

Lorne shook his wine glass with a wicked smile on his face.

I really want to see what expressions the Babylonian gods will have when they find out that the underworld has been stolen and the three goddesses have turned against them.

At the same time, the three goddesses, who were well fed and drunk, couldn't help but ask about things that concerned them.

Lorne patiently answered them one by one.

First, on the Assyrian side, the queen Semiramis had rebuilt a temple for Ishtar in the capital Nineveh, and officially worshipped her as the city's patron saint. And Loen added some personal opinions to it, dividing the belief in Ishtar into three aspects: divinity, demonism, and humanity:

The divinity is Ishtar herself, the devil is Tiamat, and the humanity is naturally the Queen Semiramis herself.

It was recorded on a certain stele unearthed in the Mesopotamian region that Ishtar of Nineveh was an aspect of the dark goddess Tiamat, and had a close connection with the Mother of Origin;

In some Babylonian documents, Empress Semiramis is also called the incarnation of the goddess Ishtar, which corresponds exactly to it...

The three combined complement each other.

It was only fitting that the three of them should take advantage of Assyria's expansion to collect faith together.

Secondly, in the underworld, after Gilgamesh, the two judges of the underworld, Ur-Nammu and Hammurabi, took office one after another and jointly took on the task of judging the dead and establishing a just system in the underworld.

The moon god Xin and the sun god Wutu behind them also sensed the opportunities contained in this advanced concept of retribution of life and death.

With the guarantees of two acquaintances, Ishtar and Lorne, the father-in-law and the elder brother-in-law did not suspect anything and decisively invested in the underworld, assisting the Queen of the Underworld, Elle, to increase the number of the three judges of the underworld to seven, and strengthen the restrictions and judgment power of the seven classes of the underworld over the dead.

By the way, the mortal cities of Uruk, Ur, Babylon, Nineveh, and Kusa were also quietly linked together under the deliberate promotion of several gods, secretly forming an alliance of interests, using faith in one hand and code in the other to reshape the new order of the Mesopotamian civilization.

The last arrangement was for Siduri. She successfully opened a tavern in the underworld, where she was responsible for offering sacrifices to the gods and humans in the world, as well as for extraditing the souls and monsters of the underworld.

Therefore, she was given the title of "Chief Priest" and became an important bridge of communication between the living and the dead, and between gods and humans.

After listening to Loen's story, the three goddesses were completely relieved.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

It seems that their previous choice was correct. If everyone works together, they can indeed make the world a better place.

“Boom!”

Just when the goddesses were about to celebrate, a dull roar suddenly came from the sky above the underworld.

Densely packed dark blue spots of light gathered into a huge river of light, which rushed open the gate to the kingdom of death and poured down towards the underworld.

Souls! Tens of thousands of souls!

Moreover, most of them are human!

Looking at the faces in the river of light that were either painful, distorted, confused, or grief-stricken, the three goddesses were startled and stood up suddenly. They quickly activated their powers, communicated with the souls, and learned the reasons for their deaths.

Soon, they learned the truth from the dead.

——The city of Ur was destroyed!

The one who took action was Enlil, one of the three pillars of gods, the lord of spirit and air.

At the same time, he is also the patron saint of the city of Ur and the father of the moon god Sin.

He was the first to take action? And he chose the city of Ur?

He is just as inhuman as the legend says.

In a corner where the three goddesses didn't notice, Loen sneered and shook his head with sarcasm in his eyes.

According to ancient records, the worship of the moon wind was once very popular in the Mesopotamian region, especially in the city of Ur. Therefore, the moon god Sin became the most worshipped god in the area and the patron saint of the city-state of Ur.

In terms of blood relationship, Enlil, one of the three pillars of gods, is his biological father.

However, the birth of the moon god Sin was not glorious. His mother Ninlil was walking by the River Styx when she was raped by Enlil and then abandoned by Enlil before giving birth to him.

Because what he did was so inhumane, Enlil was criticized and punished by the gods and went to the underworld to serve a period of time.

He was a narrow-minded person to begin with, and he was very upset about this and hated his son, Yueshen Xin, very much.

The Moon God Xin also knew that he was not liked, so he always kept a low profile and did not like to show off. His life was like the moon covered by layers of clouds.

But the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. The moon god Sin does not want to be enemies with Enlil, but he has many followers, and the city of Ur is close to the city of Nippur, so the conflict between faiths is inevitable.

Now that Nippur was declining and Ur was rising, Enlil felt threatened and his position as the father god was challenged, so he brought down divine punishment and brutally destroyed the city-state of Ur and his followers guarded by the moon god Sin.

Such was the whole story, and it is one of the great events clearly recorded in Babylonian mythology.

Even if Enlil restrained his temper and did not take action, the old Babylonian gods such as Anu, the god of the sky, Enki, the god of the earth, Marduk, the king of gods, and others whose status had been shaken might not be able to bear it.

Because Babylonian mythology has a feature that no other mythology can match: the gods are ruthless and cruel to humans.

In the Mesopotamian region, the doctrine of original sin prevailed, and humans were just slaves created by the gods to replace gods of lower status. As early as the beginning of creation, the gods had already set that humans could only have a limited and short lifespan. Simply put, for the gods of Babylon, humans were just their tools or laborers.

According to records, Enlil, one of the three pillars of gods, ordered a flood to destroy all mankind for a simple reason: humans were noisy. Fortunately, Enki, the god of the earth and all waters, took pity on a family of mortals named "Zusudra" and taught them to build an ark, so they luckily escaped the catastrophe.

But even if they survived, Jusuddra and his family did not dare to return to the surface and bring bad luck to Enlil.

Or was it that Ai Lei was soft-hearted and concealed the existence of this family, leaving them to live on the edge of the dead water of the underworld, and giving them the ability to resist death.

When Gilgamesh went to the underworld, he learned about the existence of the immortal herb from the long-lived Jusudhra.

After the flood, humans reproduced again, and in order to make it easier for the gods to descend to the earth and for humans to reach the sky, they began to build a giant tower, the Tower of Dingilra. However, the Babylonian gods mistakenly believed that humans were attempting to rebel, so they destroyed the tower, causing countless deaths and injuries.

Even after the investigation revealed the truth, no god came forward to take responsibility.

From this we can see that in the eyes of the Sumerians, gods were not only cruel, but they simply could not trust anything humans did.

With such a group of living devils as their masters, the human race can be said to be unlucky for eight generations and lives in dire straits all day long.

Not to mention actual blasphemy and disrespect, even if they were walking on the road and met a bad-tempered god, they might be treated as a roadside animal and kicked a few times, or even crushed to death like an ant.

Unfortunately, the city of Ur became a living example of this.

Loen was not surprised by this result and had even expected it.

With his deliberate promotion, Babylon, protected by the god king Marduk, fell to the sun god Utu, Uruk, protected by the god of sky Anu, became disloyal, Eli, protected by the god of earth Enki, gradually declined, and the city of Nippur, valued by Enlil, the lord of spirit and atmosphere, also lost its power and became worse than a roadside street.

On the contrary, the city of Ur of the moon god Sin, the city of Nineveh of Ishtar, and the city of Kusa protected by Elei gradually rose up, showing signs of uniting and sweeping across the entire city-states in the Mesopotamian region.

Ordinary things like ants, even if they crawl past your feet, may arouse the disdain and disgust of the gods.

But now they have turned against them one by one and set up their own factions. How could the proud and arrogant Babylonian gods tolerate this?

Therefore, a divine punishment that demonstrates authority is bound to come.

The only difference is where it falls and when it happens.

This was Loen’s plan, to make himself invincible first, and then wait for the enemy to be defeated.

He only needs to maintain the anthropomorphic moral level and give some guidance to the development of Babylon, and then he does not need to do anything else. The old gods of Babylon, who regard oppression and domination as habits, will make mistakes on their own and divide themselves internally.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance

Where there is comparison, there is superiority and inferiority.

After humans and the Babylonian gods who attempted to reform have suffered the iron fist of the conservatives, they will once again miss their abandoned "old mother" - Tiamat.

At least, as long as the old mother was around, they could still live their lives without being beaten every other day.

After all, there is a difference between non-human and anthropomorphic.

As expected, I had overestimated their moral integrity. After only a few months, they could no longer sit still and started to attack mortals.

But it's okay this way.

Next is the best time to welcome the return of the most benevolent and kind Great Mother Goddess Tiamat, to reshape her body and let her put things right!

Luo En tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that were harder to suppress than AK, and showed a look of deep pain to the three goddesses:

"As descendants of the Mother Goddess, how could they do this? Everyone, the world shouldn't be like this!"

"That's right! That's too much!"

The three goddesses were filled with righteous indignation. They stood up at the same time and cast their angry gazes towards the kingdom of God that was looming in the sky.

(End of this chapter)