[Comprehensive] Why am I not dead yet?

[The king asked the proprietress of the tavern: Now, please tell me, where should I go to find the prophet who once gained eternal life?

The proprietress of the tavern replied, go to the sea of ​​death and look for the boatman guarding the stone statue; go, cut a cedar tree and bring beautiful ornaments made of lapis lazuli.

If she will, she will carry you across the sea of ​​death,

If she throws down the pole in anger, please come back here.

The king crossed the emerald pine forest to the sea of ​​death. Their rhizomes were like gems, and there were crystal-clear gem flowers blooming nearby, and the sandy beach paved with turquoise was covered with small crystal-clear shells.

The boatman in white saw him from a distance and waited there. On her wrist was a delicate bracelet inlaid with white jade and rubies, and her golden hair was like the warm sunshine.

The king boarded the boat, bound the boatman's wrist with a lapis lazuli bracelet, and sailed the boat into the sea of ​​death.

Gilgamesh said to the boatman, I was afraid that you would be angry and drive me off the boat, so I bound your wrists with lapis lazuli.

The boatman replied, "My lord, please release my hands. You smashed the stone statue and lost the chance to swim. Please stop the boat and go back to the shore. Go to the forest and cut down [-] trees. Two feet long are used as the poles of the boat. You have to trim them and then carve them in relief.

They prepared cedar poles and sailed for a month and three days, and finally came to the sea of ​​death. The boatman told Gilgamesh: Take the first pole and don't let your hands get water. Your hands will be crippled, if you run out of poles before reaching the end, please cut open my flesh with a dagger, and use my bones and pine wood to make new poles.

After traveling to 8000 meters, they used up the last pole, and the boatman lost most of his bones. Wang took off his robe and made a sail with his own hands.

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Gilgamesh traveled to the end and asked the prophet how to obtain the law of eternal life.But the prophet asked the king in turn: mortals surrounded you on the throne and said please sit down, they ate spoiled beer, they chewed wheat bran and coarse grains, they wore sackcloth clothes, and tied straw ropes around their waists, all because there were no wise men Boot on.

Have you not considered them, Gilgamesh?

Who is their king, who is their leader?

Come on, don't fall asleep for seven days and six nights, and I will help you fulfill this wish.

The king sat down on his knees and waited here for seven days and six nights.

On the last night, the boatman dripped blood from his fingertips on the king's chest to drive him away from drowsiness.

The prophet shook his head and sighed, and said to the boatman, most of your bones have already sunk in the sea of ​​death, most of your blood flowed on this man's body, and your mutilated soul is attached to your current body. You are neither a living person nor a living person. Don't die, if you leave with this man on this trip, you will have nowhere to go, no one to rely on,

Look at this man you brought again, take him to bathe and wash, get rid of such absurd and slovenly appearance, adorn him with royal clothes, and restore his handsome appearance.

The boatman took the king into the bathing place and put on gorgeous clothes again. Gilgamesh and the boatman returned to the boat and took the bone oars for rowing by themselves.

The boatman dripped the last of his blood into the water, and under the surface of the water, mermaids with wings rowed across the water to guide them in the direction of the strait.

Gilgamesh took off his robe and jumped into the water. Mermaids surrounded him and pulled the king into the deepest water.

He found the black coral, picked it and resurfaced, and said happily to the boatman, "Look, I found the black coral that the prophet said, and its name will be [Eternal Life and Immortality], I want Take it back to Uruk to see if it has the ability to go back in time.

On their way back, the king and the boatman came across the first pool of clear water.

Gilgamesh stopped and went into the water to take a bath. A snake smelled the magic medicine and swallowed it, leaving a layer of slough and then fled.

The boatman lost the bones of his limbs and could not stop the departing snake.

The king fell to the ground, with tears streaming down his cheeks, and cried to the boatman, "My arms are weak, and my blood has dried up. The mermaid who took me to the dive drank your blood and retreated, and I didn't stay behind." How can I find the coordinates of the dive, even if I turn around now?

At twenty bayers they dine,

At thirty bayers they camped.

They finally returned to Uruk, King Gilgamesh said to the boatman, come, walk on the wall of my building, sleep and rest in my palace, you see, this mile is the city and the date palm grove , half a mile away is the temple of the goddess Ishtar, and in the distance that you can't see, is the frontier of my rule. 】

"—This is the story of King Gilgamesh."

In the rare leisure time, Siduri, the chief priest, sat among a group of children and told the story of King Gilgamesh who had just returned. He said: "And then what? Is there any other story after the return of the king? What happened to the boatman who lost his bones and blood? It's not explained in the story, Mrs. Siduri?"

"And then there is what is happening now, the king who is working hard for the future of Uruk, and the adult who is doing his best to assist the king now." The chief priest answered the children's questions gently, she After stroking the child's head, several children saw the figure in white clothes coming towards him from a distance, cheered and rushed over, hugged the man's leg and shouted crisply: "Lord Lian Su!"

"Lord Lian Su!"

"Lord Lian Su!"

The beautiful chief priest with a veil bent his eyes beyond the veil, stood up and walked forward to take what the woman in white was holding: "It's still very popular among children, even Su grown ups."

"Siduri, stop teasing me."

The woman in white is Lian Su. On one side of her two wrists is a lapis lazuli bracelet. The king of Uruk forcibly puts it on and cannot take it off. Not even a strand of hair could fit in.

Siduri looked at the two heavy bracelets attached to her slender wrists, and couldn't tell whether she was worried or teasing for a moment: "King Gilgamesh is really too, can't you just watch it?" Would you like to use some lighter decorations for the sake of your newly recovered body?"

"That's why, Siduri, stop teasing. This thing is very heavy. It's better to give it to the soldiers." Lian Su replied casually. She bent down to take the red fruit handed over by a child. The little guy Immediately, her face flushed and she ran behind her mother who was not far away.

Siduli looked at her interaction with the children with crooked eyebrows, and sighed: "But the things used by Mr. Lian Su and those soldiers are different, right?"

Lian Su's expression seemed a little incomprehensible: "So, Siduri... your divergent thinking can be gathered up a little bit, okay? The people in the city are just talking nonsense, why are you, the chief priest, messing around?" Say? King Gilgamesh and I don't have the kind of relationship you think at all."

"Yes, the two don't have that kind of relationship—it's just that in the story, the king and the boatman, one gave the story of trust, and the other handed over the story of bone and blood." Siduri nodded with a smile, and took advantage of the situation to tuck her into her arms. There was a fruit: "Then this trip is work, or is Wang finally caring for you and letting you rest for a while?"

"...That's not true." Lian Su said calmly under Siduri's suddenly disappointed eyes: "The original king said, 'You woman, don't hang out in front of me all the time, if you like children so much, go to the city. Akira then caught up with the soldiers and reported that the seven-headed snake Mushumaf appeared outside the city. The scholars' opinion on this is that the possibility of this disaster being the awakening of Tiamat increased again, so I temporarily changed Idea, ready to go and have a look.

Of course, I just want to find out if there are small monsters nearby that can be eaten by ordinary people. Even if the taste is mediocre, I can’t help it. Now I can’t taste the taste, I can’t find suitable raw materials, and I don’t have extra resources to make seasonings. It is expected, and this is also explained to the king. All in all, it is enough to maintain the most basic physical energy supply. "

Siduri's smile froze on her face: "..."

But she quickly realized, "So, the experimental dish made from monster meat..."

"Ah?" Lian Su blinked: "Anyway, the king's order can't be wasted, right? Then it would be nice to transform the poison control into a nutritional product that can improve the magician's physique—if it can't be eaten by ordinary people, then Leave it to the king to deal with it."

Siduri quietly stuffed two more fruits into her arms: "...the taste of this red fruit is very good, take it to the king."

"...I still have work, Siduri."

"It's okay to take a break once in a while! You are different from the king. Even the king of Gilgamesh would take a nap occasionally, but you have been working without sleep for five days and four nights until today, right? Even This body can't take it anymore, even if you don't feel it yourself, we will feel very tired seeing you so busy."

A few children also came up to chirp, and whispered to her in a crisp and clear childish voice: "Yes, yes, take a break?"

Lian Su: "..."

So when he couldn't react at all, he was pushed back to the palace by several children and Siduri. Gilgamesh, who was surrounded by a group of soldiers and priests, turned his head and saw several children The shadow that ran away quickly left Lian Su standing there in white clothes holding a bunch of round and plump red fruits in his arms and turned his head to look around. On the delicate skin, it is very dazzling.

"You guys wait first." After saying this to the people around him, the king walked towards the woman standing there. When the soldiers and priests saw who was coming, they retreated outside thoughtfully.

Gilgamesh walked up to Lian Su, first took away the fruit she was holding in her arms, then pulled her aside to sit down, and skillfully stretched out her hands to untie her upper body clothes. "What's the matter? The speed of processing work is so fast and you can't react when you encounter personal trivial matters? Logically speaking, it has been so long, no matter how slow you are, it should be integrated?"

Lian Su's golden eyes looked at him blankly, allowing Gilgamesh to unbutton his clothes, put his fingers under her bruised ribs, and use magic power to check whether the lost bones had regrown in her body. come out.

This action should have been extremely ambiguous, but it's a pity that one of these two people has to check this scarred body three or five times a day, and the other is more of a half-puppet state, and they don't feel that Gilgamesh did it to him at all. Something is not right.

—— Liansu and Gilgamesh, who had bled dry near the sea of ​​death and used up their bones, had almost no life left after returning to Uruk, and were completely carried back to the palace by Gilgamesh.

Although the king is in the age of gods and bears the blood of the gods, he does not have the power to bring the dead back to life, otherwise he would not seek the elixir of life—so Gilgamesh performed the heroic spirit on her body at the suggestion of Lian Su. Summoning, brutally and forcefully crucified the spirit base on Lian Su's heroic seat to this body, trying to repair her body and force her life to continue.

This method is very similar to resurrecting the soul by borrowing a corpse, but fortunately, no matter which side can be regarded as Lian Su's own thing, if it is just a spirit base in a normal state, then Lian Su will not be like this, but it is better to say that Gilgamesh used too much force. It doesn't matter if the influence of it has not completely dissipated, in short, he directly pulled down the highest-level spirit base—he was also dazed for a while when he pulled it down.

Grandsaber, the crown-level spirit base is attached to a dying body, and most of its power is used to repair it... This also caused certain sequelae.

Gilgamesh finished checking the bones of her upper body, and appointed her to fasten her clothes. The blond woman was obedient and quiet from beginning to end, letting the other party press and poke her body, and then rolled up her sleeves carefully Gently pinching her arm, she only opened her mouth softly after the last step in her memory was done.

"Can I go out to work now?"

"...What is it that is deeply embedded in your spirit foundation? Could it be that you are a workaholic at heart?"

And even in this situation, he didn't forget to make the horrible-tasting monster meat dishes for himself... Is this guy's essence a demon worse than Ishtar?

Gilgamesh sighed invisible to the naked eye, and squeezed a red fruit that she had just brought from the side and put it in her palm. "Eat this."

The fruit is not big, just enough to finish eating in two or three bites. Gilgamesh watched her finish eating with his chin, and asked quietly, "Has your sense of taste recovered today?"

Lian Su stretched out the tip of her tongue to lick off the red juice stained on her fingertips, and shook her head.

Gilgamesh watched her tongue lick her fingers like a cat, and tried to hold back for a while but couldn't hold back.

——After 3 minutes, he was taken away by Wang and washed his hands.