Chapter 647: Fire Prevention, Theft Prevention, and Girlfriend Prevention
Two hours later.
Led by several galula spirits, Siduri entered the great temple of the underworld.
As the hostess, Ai Lei took the initiative to greet them. Her face, which was always filled with gloom, was now full of smiles.
Seems friendly but... twisted?
Xiduli's heart suddenly skipped a beat. She couldn't help but stop and showed a puzzled expression:
"What happened to you today? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Well, nothing, I just thought of something happy."
Having failed to get close to her, Ai Lei coughed slightly and had to suppress her unnatural smile.
Then, she changed the subject and asked:
"By the way, Siduri, what are you doing here?"
Siduri was slightly stunned, and a look of surprise appeared on her face:
"Have you forgotten? Of course, I came to you to bring you this year's newly brewed beer as agreed, and to pick up my friend at the same time."
As she spoke, she took out two jars of beer from the magic circle and handed them to the Queen of the Underworld.
However, Ai Lei on the other side did not accept the gift, but instead frowned:
"Promise? What promise?"
Xiduli looked surprised and couldn't help but remind:
"We have agreed that you will help me rescue my friend Dumuzi from your sister Ishtar. After that, I will treat you to a glass of newly brewed beer and I will owe you a favor."
"Really? How come I don't know?"
Ailei blinked and showed a puzzled expression.
Seeing the Queen of the Underworld react like this, Siduri couldn't help but doubt her own memory.
After searching through it again and again in her mind, she frowned and said:
"I remember that it was in this temple that you promised to help."
“Who can prove it?”
“…”
Siduri opened her mouth, speechless.
How could there be outsiders present for such a secret matter?
But at this moment, she finally understood the true intention of the Queen of the Underworld, and her face darkened:
"So, you are not going to return my friend?"
"I don't even know who your friend is, what does it have to do with me?"
Ai Lei continued to play deaf and dumb, acting as if it had nothing to do with her.
However, the poor acting made Siduri laugh:
"Shepherd God Dumuzi, the marriage partner I introduced to the goddess Ishtar was abducted by you from Mount Ebifu and brought to the underworld! He is in your bedroom. The galula spirits told me on the way. Do you still want to deny it?"
Ailei glared at the chattering Garula spirits, then tore off her disguise and said frankly:
"He is indeed here with me, but I invited him here as a guest of the underworld, not because of the agreement with you."
"Then can you let me take him away?"
Siduri held on to the last glimmer of hope and tried to persuade him.
"He is a living being and deserves to return to the world. If you have any requests, please feel free to ask."
"I'm afraid not. He has already drunk the water and eaten the food of the underworld. He will live here permanently in the future."
Ai Lei shook her head and refused, looking very serious.
Seeing this, Siduri, who was usually good-tempered, got angry for the first time.
No, sister.
We have been friends for thousands of years. How have I ever done anything to let you two down?
One would be fine, but why are there two of them trying to snatch the person I value?
Do you think I'm easy to bully?
Although she was indignant, as a goddess with wisdom and authority, Siduri certainly understood that the matter was done.
Right now, even if she vented her anger on the spot, it would be of no help, and she would not be able to get her good friend out of the underworld.
Siduri suppressed her emotions, bowed slightly, and her usual gentle expression appeared on her face:
"In that case, I won't bother you any more, Master Ailei."
"Well, if you have nothing to do, you can come to the underworld often. If you are just a guest, I will still welcome you."
Ai Lei felt a little guilty and tried hard to repair the rift in her best friend relationship.
To be fair, she did act somewhat unkindly in this matter.
But there is no way, because her underworld needs that person.
Therefore, I have to inconvenience this good friend.
Siduri seemed to have accepted this established fact and nodded with a smile:
"Yes, I will come."
The voice was gentle and peaceful as usual, but there was a hint of profound meaning between the lines.
Then, with Ailei watching, the Lady of Ale formally said her farewell and turned to leave the underworld.
~~
When the golden sunlight unique to this world shone on her again, Siduri's face suddenly turned cold, and her clenched silver teeth creaked.
If you have one or two, you want to snatch them from me, right?
I don't like to argue.
But this doesn't mean that I won't fight!
Siduri snorted coldly at the closing crack in the ground behind her, turned her head and looked at the pillar of heaven in front of her - Mount Abifu, from which a roar continued to be heard, her eyes flickering faintly.
Ever since the forbidden delicacy of the family disappeared, the goddess of heaven has been sailing the heavenly boat Maanna to search almost the entire world, but in the end she found nothing.
Now, she has no appetite and is feeling depressed.
As a "good girlfriend", how can you bear to let the other person suffer from this pain of missing each other?
So, I have to take action...
Siduri sighed quietly, lifted her skirt, and headed straight for the top of Mount Ebifu, where storms and magic tides were raging.
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In the underworld, it was another peaceful day.
As usual, Ailei used her divine power to weave a hundred gun cages to improve the living environment for a hundred kind-hearted souls.
With her daily work completed, she could not wait to open the magic circle map, take out the lantern inside, and walk into the lowest level of the underworld.
In the eyes of outsiders, the underworld has only seven levels, separated by seven cursed stone doors.
In fact, there is an eighth level in the underworld.
The reason why this place is unknown is that the remains of the ancestor god Apsu are buried there. It is covered with highly corrosive black mud and filled with the most intense deathly aura. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most dangerous place.
There was a soft touch under my feet, and endless yellow-green plants swayed in the dim light. There was no sun here, and it was always like dusk or night, and there were no lights. The small white flowers sensed the visitors passing by and danced in the wind, appearing and disappearing like ghosts, emitting a faint light.
Golden spike flower, this is the unique plant that the shepherd god said can grow in the underworld and bring vitality to the underworld.
He said it and he did it.
In fact, it's more perfect than expected.
Ailei held a lantern and walked through a layer of gray mist. The deepest part of the underworld, once known as a terrifying forbidden area, presented a completely different scenery before her eyes.
The woods with golden roots and branches stood like a row of sturdy sentinels on the periphery, forming a perfect circle. A layer of light golden mist sprinkled into the circle - it was a pure land of life.
The winding streams were crystal clear, reflecting the drooping fig leaves on both sides. Dewdrops rolled on rose petals, reflecting the rainbow halos. Pomegranate and olive trees intertwined in the shade, and the branches were bent with the weight of fruits. Lilies and crocuses trembled in the breeze on the emerald grass, and their fragrance blended with the woody scent of distant cedars. Colorful birds flew across the blue sky, and the air was sweetened as honey where their wings passed.
Walking through it is like walking in God’s garden.
At the core of the garden, four springs gushed out continuously, which were the source of the streams in the garden. The riverbed was covered with rubies, carnelian, diamonds, beryl, carnelian, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carnelian, gold and other precious metals and jewels.
If you look down from a high place, you will find that the entire garden seems to be built on a huge dragon skeleton.
The living spring is his blood, the plants are his scales, the gems are his bones...
There is no doubt that these lives born from death are the divine legacy of the ancestor god Apsu.
Light comes from darkness, and death gives birth to new life.
Just as the land becomes more fertile when plants decay.
Next year, there will be green grass and shady trees here.
Similarly, the bones and remaining divinity of this ancestor god after his death also created this miraculous garden of life at the bottom of the underworld.
Of course, all the changes are attributed to the shepherd god who brought the seeds.
Without the blooming of golden spike flowers, the dead air here cannot be absorbed and purified;
Without his design, this garden could not have come into being in Hell;
Without his efforts, the garden would not have been able to nurture so much life...
At this moment, the great hero who heard the voice looked behind him with a smile:
"Aile, you're here?"
The Queen of the Underworld nodded slightly, and cast an admiring look at the scenery and the man in front of her:
"Although I have been here many times, every time I come here, I feel incredible. Dumuzi, you are really amazing!"
"It's just a coincidence."
Lorne smiled modestly, his words half true and half false.
As a god who has stepped into the origin, [Creation] is not difficult for him.
But he did not use this power to cheat. Instead, he used the golden spike flowers and seeds and the remains of Apsu as raw materials, and took the example of Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, who opened the Golden Bough Garden in the Greek underworld as inspiration. He transformed the environment of this area according to local conditions and created a paradise of gods suitable for life to inhabit.
After a brief chat with Ai Lei who came to visit the studio, Luo En finally couldn't help but ask:
"By the way, it's been so long, why haven't I seen Siduri? Didn't you say she would come to pick me up?"
Several months have passed since I accepted the commission from the Queen of the Underworld to cultivate life for the Underworld.
During this period, there was no news from his drinking buddy, as if he had forgotten about him.
"Maybe he was delayed by other things?" Ai Lei answered casually, her eyes wandering.
"Really?" Lorne looked skeptical.
"You don't know that Ishtar went to various city-states to capture you and almost turned the world upside down. And Siduri is your best friend, so she is naturally the most suspicious. She must have been entangled by Ishtar and couldn't get away for a while."
After saying this, Ai Lei vowed again,
"Don't worry, she will definitely come to pick you up after the storm has passed."
Of course, she accepted the call, but I didn't say I would let her go.
A goddess of the underworld muttered to herself, and then used the Garden of Life in front of her to change the subject:
"Speaking of which, the ecology here is almost stable. Should we give it a name?"
"Since this is your territory, why don't you give it a name?"
"How is [Eden]?"
"puff!"
The wine that Loen had not yet swallowed suddenly sprayed out of his mouth, and he looked at the Queen of the Underworld in front of him with a strange expression.
Garden of Eden?
Could it be the one in the legend?
As his thoughts turned, Loen gradually got a positive answer from his memory.
According to the Bible, the Garden of Eden was in the east, and four rivers flowed out of the land of Eden and nourished the garden. These four rivers were the Euphrates, Tigris, Gihon, and Pishon.
Therefore, most theologians in the past believed that the original site of the Garden of Eden was in Babylon because of the “East”, because Babylon was “east” of Israel. Also, because there were two rivers in Babylon with the same names as the rivers in the Garden of Eden.
In the Babylonian Age of Gods, the ancestor god Apsu was the source of all water on earth. In theory, freshwater rivers such as the Euphrates, Tigris, Gihon, and Pishon all originated from his blood.
This is exactly in line with the current scene.
Therefore, this garden transformed by Loen himself is very likely the paradise given by God recorded in the Bible.
"Why? You don't like this name? How about we change it?"
Ai Lei stepped forward to ask, her eyes full of concern.
She patted Lorne's back with both hands and helped him sit down.
Everything seems to be so natural.
"No, I just choked accidentally. Let's call it Eden, it's a very suitable name and sounds nice."
Lorne answered casually, confirming the name's significance.
The original text of the Bible means paradise, and it is a veritable paradise of God. Since he intends to bring the Babylonian gods under his command, he must have left his faith and deeds here, and this name just corresponds to the content of the Bible.
But this alone is far from enough.
God's paradise needs to be colorful and embellished with life.
Especially the pure and holy soul.
Luo En's eyes flashed, and he looked at the Queen of the Underworld beside him:
"Earlier, I suggested to you that we establish a correction mechanism for judging the dead in the underworld. What do you think about it?"
"I thought about executing him, but I couldn't find the right person to serve as the judge of Hades."
Ai Lei scratched her head, feeling a little embarrassed.
She is used to living alone and is not very good at getting along with others, so naturally she is not very good at identifying and employing people.
Faced with this difficult problem, Ailei almost subconsciously looked at the omnipotent being in front of her:
"How about you come?"
"I am a living person, and I have to take care of this garden for you. I am afraid I can't do that."
Lorne declined.
What he wanted was the entire Babylonian Age of Gods, but he had no time to be the judge of the underworld and bring justice to the dead souls.
However, as someone who always likes to worry and think three steps ahead, Loen already had alternative answers in his mind when he asked the question.
His eyes flashed, and he said with a smile:
"I have a candidate to recommend to you."
"Who?" Ai Lei asked curiously.
"You know a wise king who once went to the underworld and gained enlightenment in life and death."
Loen answered with a smile, looking in a certain direction with malicious eyes through the dark strata.
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Meanwhile, Uruk.
A burly figure sat on a throne inlaid with gems and gold, motionless, and the pile of government tablets on the table in front of him almost submerged him.
Darkness, chaos, emptiness, vagueness...
All kinds of indescribable feelings invaded from all directions, peeling off an invisible consciousness from a visible body.
The inexplicable pulling feeling continued to intensify, and the spirit continued to fall like a puppet.
Through the soil, through the rocks, through the darkness.
After breaking through a vague barrier, the invisible consciousness gathered into a golden human-shaped shadow.
As if just waking up from a dream, the figure opened his eyes and looked at Na Zhou.
The inexplicable familiarity made his expression change instantly:
"The Underworld? The King is dead?!"
(End of this chapter)
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