I, Son of Tiamat

"Yes." Jusudela seemed to recall the Great Flood at that time, and his expression showed a look of fear, "On the day of the Great Flood, the sky was blue... It was tilted from the sky. flood."

"The flood and the tsunami surged together, setting off a mountain-like wave. No matter how strong the house was, it was smashed by the wave, and then the world-destroying flood submerged the entire earth."

However, with the launch of the Great Flood, the gods regretted it, because except for Zhusudra and others, all other human beings have been wiped out by the Great Flood, because without human beings, the gods have returned to their needs again. To the point of working with one's own hands.

Then, the great flood receded after seven days, and the gods found the only surviving Zhusudra and the others, and made a "rainbow" agreement with them.

Guarantee that as long as the rainbow exists for one day, then they will never be hit by a major flood.

"Because I made Noah's Ark and preserved some of the human beings, the gods convened a meeting specifically for us and gave us human beings eternal life. This is the origin of our eternal life."

Zhusudra told all of his experiences, and he looked at Gilgamesh, "You came to me with all your hardships, but it's useless. I can't provide you with the mystery of immortality."

"Unless the gods specially convene a meeting of the gods for you, and then grant you eternal life."

"So, the gods did hold a meeting of the gods for us." Gilgamesh grinned, and then he continued under the gaze of Zhusudra, "It's just that the content of the meeting was to punish the three of us. It's just the anti-god who killed the bull of the sky."

"It seems that the plan to find immortality has failed." Nanye said with a shrug.

Seeing that Qiye accepted the fact that he could not get immortality so lightly, Zhusudra and Urshanabi nodded gratified. In their eyes, immortality... is really not a good thing.

Because they are tired of this immortality.

"No, there is still half a month before that event. We have to continue to find a way to live forever in this half month." Gilgamesh said to Qiye.

Distance from that event? ?

The 'that thing' that Gilgamesh said is worth is the thing that divides the gods and humans.

"That's true, so let's wait for half a month." Qiye looked at Zhusudra, "Don't you have a way to achieve immortality without the need for the gods to hold a meeting?"

"That is to say, if you have anything, grandpa, say it." Decade said with blinking eyes.

Originally, Zhusudra wanted to refuse, but he seemed to like Decade's appearance, so he hesitated.

Seeing Zhusudra's hesitant expression, Qiye raised his eyebrows strangely. He just said that casually, but looking at Zhusudra's expression now, it seems that he really has other ways to make others live forever.

"You pursue immortality so much, then I will give you a chance to see if you are qualified for immortality." Zhusudra said.

"Oh? Eligibility for immortality? What is the test? Let's hear it." Gilgamesh said with great interest.

"Sleep is a symbol of death. If you want to have eternal life like gods, then you should be as strong as gods. If gods can stay awake for seven days and seven nights, then if you can persist without sleep for seven days and seven nights, I will live forever. I'll tell you the way." Zhusudra said in a deep voice.

[In Mesopotamia, the two numbers 'seven' and 'twelve' are very special. If you go back and read what I have written carefully, you will find that when there are some important things, they will The number seven or twelve appears. 】

"It's simple, isn't it that I don't sleep for seven days and seven nights, this king can hold on." Gilgamesh assured, and Qiye glanced at this guy.

Gilgamesh was tired to death because of cutting down 120 poles. He then slept on the boat for three hours, and now he is surrounded by fatigue and sleepiness... Qiye doesn't believe in Gilgame. In this state, Mish was able to survive for seven days.

Unless there is an outside force to help him.

Qiye handed his water bag to Gilgamesh. Before giving the water bag to Gilgamesh, Qiye put a drop of the water of life into the water bag.

"Come on, Jill, drink some water first and then start without sleep for seven days and seven nights."

"Oh." Gilgamesh drank the water of Qiye with the water of life, and he instantly refreshed, and the exhaustion and sleepiness in his body disappeared instantly.

Afterwards, Zhusudra took Qiye and his party into the house where he lived and spent the next seven days.

Zhusudra said, "I will use bread to remember the number of days you have passed. Every day, I will keep a bread by your side to record the number of days you have survived. I hope the three of you can last for seven days. ."

"Of course." The spirited Gilgamesh nodded and said, and Qiye looked at Decade, "Don't participate, children, just go to sleep when you're sleepy."

"No, I must persevere for seven days, and I will also become an immortal with the father and king. In this way, we will always be together."

Zhusudra looked at Decade who was sticking to Qiye's side, and his heart was touched. Once upon a time... He and his family got along so intimately, but after a thousand years, he is the only one left here.

"Grandpa, are you crying?"

"Really? I cried? Hehehe...I haven't shed tears for thousands of years, and I have forgotten the feeling of tears." Zhusudra left the room with a wry smile, and then he brought it to the three of them for Qiye A plate of bread.

Now is the first day of Qiye's persistence.

the next day……

The third day...

After the fourth day, Gilgamesh fell asleep. Even though he was two-thirds god, one-third human, and full of energy, he was still human. do not sleep.

In order to prevent Qiye from reminding them not to fall asleep, the three of them were tested separately, so Qiye and Deketo could not remind Gilgamesh not to fall asleep...

Section 303 Chapter 196 People die because of lifespan, and snakes live forever because of shedding [End + Conclusion]

On the fourth day, Gilgamesh fell asleep, while Qiye and Decade were still in good spirits and had no sleepiness.

The fifth day...

On the sixth day... Deketo yawned. Although she was the daughter of the son of Tiamat, she was just a child with a weak will, and her mother was an ordinary demigod with human blood.

so……

In the early morning of the seventh day, Decade fell asleep with her feet off the ground and sitting on the bed.

On the night of the seventh day, Zhusudra entered Qiye's room. With a complicated expression, he said to Qiye, "I didn't expect you to be able to last until the seventh night..."

"So I have conquered sleep?" The sleepless Qiye turned his head to Zhusudra with a slight smile.

"Yes, you conquered sleep, but your daughter and companions are all asleep."

"What does it matter." The smiling Qiye shrugged, "As long as I know how to live forever, then I can tell them how to live forever."

"It's useless." Zhusudra said slowly, shaking his head, "because there is only one person who can get immortality. In the sea of ​​death behind, there is immortality grass that I cultivated with my body. It can make Humans live forever, but only one tree."

"..." Qiye looked at Zhusudra in amazement, "Is this why your right hand and right foot turned into plants?"

Zhusudra nodded, "Well, after living too long, I have to find something to do, so I use my body to cultivate the divine grass that can bring eternal life to others."

"You conquered sleep, then that grass belongs to you. I hope you don't let your daughter eat it, because immortality is a kind of torture." After leaving this sentence for Qiye, Zhusudra turned and left. .

"Is immortality a kind of torture...?" Qiye sighed softly, he is an immortal, but he has only lived in this world for more than 20 years, and he has not yet realized what Zhusudra said. The realm of 'immortality is a torture'.

But Qiye felt that as long as he was with his family all the time, he wouldn't feel that immortality was torture.

After the test of seven days and seven nights was over, Qiye left the room where he was staying. He came to Deketo's room, and this little girl was sleeping sweetly.

After covering Decade with a quilt with a chuckle, Qiye left her room and came to Gilgamesh's room.

Gilgamesh had already woken up, and he was sitting on his clothes and nibbling on the bread that Jusudra had placed. After seeing the seven nights that came in, Gilgamesh smiled and said, "Just now Jusudra said that you succeeded in carrying it. You have passed the test of seven days and seven nights, congratulations."

"Congratulations, what kind of existence I am, you don't know, isn't it normal to not sleep for seven days and seven nights?" Qiye rolled his eyes at Gilgamesh, and he said, "Jusudra told me just now. , At the back of the island, there is the immortal grass he planted, and if you eat it, you can live forever."

Gilgamesh, who was eating bread, had a meal, and then he looked at Qiye in surprise, "Why did you tell me this news."

"Of course I let you pick it and then eat it." Qiye shrugged and said, "I don't need immortality grass, and neither does Deketo, the three of us need you the most. "

"But this is your thing..." Gilgamesh hesitated. Because of the seven nights, he had a chance to gain immortality, but he did not explain immediately with ecstasy, but hesitated.

Obviously, Gilgamesh doesn't really want to live forever.

"What is my thing, half of Uruk is mine, and half of Babylon is yours, so half of the eternal grass that I don't need is yours."

"Furthermore, I am an immortal, and Enkidu is also an immortal, and you are not. After rescuing Enkidu, do you want us to watch you age step by step?" Qiye said.

Since Qiye had mentioned this for his sake, Gilgamesh hugged Qiye and accepted the immortal grass.

"Let's go, let's find the eternal grass, and then start to return to Mesopotamia. By the time we almost return to Mesopotamia, the last time of the gods should have come." Qiye took a shot. Gilgamesh's shoulder said.

"it is good."

Then Qiye and Gilgamesh set off. After getting the detailed address of the eternal grass from Zhusudra, they went to pick the grass.

There were no terrifying monsters in the place surrounded by the sea of ​​death, so Seven Nights and Gilgamesh easily found the Immortal Grass.

The immortal grass is like a fetish, exuding the prestige of the gods, and has a strange fragrance, and its shape is similar to a blooming flower, and it has some thorns on its body.

Gilgamesh pulled out this immortal grass with his bare hands, and then returned to Zhusudra's residence with Qiye.

When he returned, Qiye looked sideways at Gilgamesh, who was holding the Immortal Grass. He asked, "Why don't you eat it right away?"

"Because Decade, she really wants to get immortality, don't you ask her opinion before deciding the ownership of this immortal grass." Gilgamesh replied.

"Deketo is similar to me. She inherited the power of my bloodline. It is estimated that as long as the earth and the sea are fine, she will live forever, so you can just eat it." Qiye gestured.

"Then you have to ask her, after all, I'm an uncle."

"Ha~ It's up to you, but don't give Deketo immortality, she really doesn't need it." Qiye said with a smile.

"It's up to you whether you need to wake her up, and then ask her. I'll take a bath first. I haven't had a comfortable bath for a few days." Gilgamesh handed the immortal grass to her. After seven nights, I went to take a bath in the clear river of the island.

Although it is surrounded by the sea of ​​death, it still has clear water.

As for Qiye, he took the eternal grass back to Jusudra's house, he placed the eternal grass on the wooden table, and then pushed Decade, who was sleeping sweetly.

Orpheus, who was resting on the snake's body, suddenly revealed the snake letter, and then it seemed to sense something, and opened its closed snake pupils.

Orpheus... stared straight at the immortal grass that Qiye had placed on the wooden table, then it moved towards the wooden table, gently opened the snake's mouth, and caught the immortal grass.

As for Qiye, he didn't notice Orpheus's actions. He was teasing his lovely daughter Decade, who had just woken up.

The snake... finally ate the immortal grass.

When Orpheus ate the fragrant immortal grass, a wave of magical power spread out from its body, and this sudden wave of magical power attracted Qiye's attention.

Qiye saw that Orpheus was emitting a golden light, which was the light of a god... Then it began to shed its skin under Qiye's astonished gaze.

This is the first molt of a snake.

After Orpheus shed its skin, it was no longer pitch-black, but golden like a god. Looking at Orpheus, who shone with golden light like the sun, Qiye was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes widened. .

"Isn't this the golden snake that bit me?! It's you!!!!"

After completing the transformation, Orpheus looked at the shocked Qiye, and with a swish, it wrapped around Qiye, and rubbed his snake head on his cheek affectionately.

Orpheus sometimes competes with Miramis and Decade and likes to stick to Seven Nights.

Qiye was afraid that the little guy would bite him again inexplicably, so he quickly took down Orpheus, which was wrapped around his neck.

"You're Orpheus, right?" Qiye looked at the little golden snake he was holding, and there was indeed the mark on its head. Orpheus was right.

After confirming the identity of the snake, Qiye teased it with peace of mind.

"But how did you turn from black to gold? Is it because of a layer of skin?" Qiye, who teased Orpheus, looked at the wooden table, and there was only the black snake skin that Orpheus took off.

Ok? Just snake skin?

"Where's the immortal grass that I put on the wooden table just now?" Qiye finally realized what was important. He looked at the wooden table with only snakeskin, and then lowered his head to look at Orpheus, who was cradling his palm.

"Did you just... did you eat the immortal grass on the wooden table?"

Orpheus, who could understand Qiye's words, nodded his head honestly, and the corner of Qiye's mouth twitched fiercely.

"How can you steal it? That's Jill's stuff, can you still spit it out?" Qiye scratched Orpheus' jaw, and it shook his body, telling Qiye that he couldn't spit it out.

"Qiye, what did you just say? What did you steal from me?"

Gilgamesh's voice suddenly came, and Qiye's eyebrows twitched, and he looked at Gilgamesh, who returned to here with a cry of water vapor.

"Uh, hahaha~ Jill, you take a shower really fast." Said Qiye with a dry smile.

"It's already slow, eh?" Gilgamesh looked at the golden snake in Qiye's hands in surprise, "Why does this snake look familiar, and its breath is so strange, although it is a little weak, but it seems Possesses...the same breath as the gods."

"This is Orpheus, the little black snake I adopted before."

"Huh? That black snake? It will change color. That's not right. The mother snake that gave birth to it is still a black snake. Why did it change color? And the breath is so strange."

Qiye, who had no plans to hide it any longer, said tangled, "Jill, I'm telling you something, don't be angry."

"If you have anything, just tell me. What does this king have to do with you? How could I be angry with you." Gilgamesh shrugged and said.

"It's the eternal grass. I accidentally fed Orpheus... Then it peeled off and turned into what it is now." Qiye revised the fact that Orpheus stole the eternal grass. .

Then...the air fell silent.

Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes and looked at the golden snake in Qiye's hands, "You didn't feed it to it, it stole it. Didn't you just say it stole my stuff?"

Orpheus seemed to know what he had done wrong, so he raised his snake head uneasy and looked at Qiye, like that... just like Decade who made a mistake.

Exactly the same!

I don't know if it's because Orpheus has been with Decade for a long time, and he has learned what Deketo will look like when he makes a mistake.

"This... well, Orpheus stole your immortality grass." Qiye said helplessly, who touched the head of Orpheus' snake, "I hope you don't care about it for my sake."

"Even if you care about it, you won't be able to get back the eternal grass..."