Ananu and Enkidu were walking hand in hand on the streets of Uruk, looking around with calm expressions.
This is Uruk's commercial street. Merchants barter here. The person in charge of the temple takes away the goods with pottery chips here. There are also rotating guards to supervise large transactions.
Be well organized.
Ananu and Enkidu observed for a while, and left before anyone noticed these two strange guys, and the guards who followed them also left.
Ananu and Enki both noticed someone following them, but they didn't care.
Their intelligence makes it clear to them why they are being followed, and it is unclear whether they are a nuisance or a friend to the city.
They entered the city simply in the name of observation and understanding.
Leaving the commercial street, they wandered into residential areas.
Here you can see the tavern and Jiyuan. Children are running barefoot on the road like them, but the adults are nowhere to be seen.
"At this time, the adults should be working." Ananu said expressionlessly as he walked.
"More or less, the adults should be grazing or managing their own fields." Enkidu had a smile on his face.
After the children playing saw the two strangers in strange clothes coming here, they all stopped what they were doing and stood far away from Ananu and Enkidu, looking at them with some fear.
"Are humans afraid of strangers?" Ananu was a little confused.
"Perhaps it doesn't matter, adults," Enkidu replied.
When they were in the commercial street, everyone was busy trading, and no one noticed them at all, let alone feared them.
Their truly terrifying appearance was only shown to King Gilgamesh and Shamhat, as well as the guards on the walls of Uruk.
They kept walking.
It was now past noon, and they walked to the farmland and pastures surrounding Uruk City.
What was destroyed by the natural disasters brought by Ananu was just a wasteland.
Fortunately it was just a wasteland.
There are no rivers extending far in that direction, making it impossible to farm, and it is difficult to grow pasture. Therefore, Gilgamesh and the previous kings of Uruk did not choose to develop in that direction. Uruk’s real food reserves are in other directions. .
Their feet stepped on the ridges of the fields. There were many farmers managing the wheat fields, and there were also idle people sitting on the edges of the fields wiping their sweat.
"Do humans need to work to obtain the resources necessary for survival?" Ananu observed, frowning slightly.
"...This is inevitable." Although Enkidu said this, he frowned slightly.
They walked on, across the pasture, and back again.
They flew up to the city wall, sat on the city wall, and watched the setting sun, without speaking.
The view on the city wall is extremely wide. Ananu and Enkidu can even see traces of the battles and natural disasters in the previous two days, and what happened there is shown on the other side.
"After seeing my king's subjects, don't you have any thoughts?"
A somewhat arrogant and highly recognizable voice came from behind the two of them. The clay men couldn't help but look back and found that it was the king in golden armor.
He no longer had his upper body naked, but put on armor, but he still couldn't hide the fact that his body was bandaged like a rice dumpling.
But the question he asked
"You really want us to stay here?"
Ananu turned around and looked at Gilgamesh curiously.
"I almost killed you."
The tone is very confident.
An obvious "well" character appeared on Gilgamesh's head.
"伱" He gritted his teeth, "Do you have to use this term?"
"What statement?"
Ananu tilted his head. His exquisite facial features, which were exactly the same as those of Enkidu and Shamhat, were a little puzzled and confused, and he looked quite cute.
But in Gilgamesh's eyes, this kind of cuteness is like a vicious dog in the underworld.
He took a step back with a look of disgust on his face: "I think this expression should not appear on someone like you."
Ananu tilted his head to the other side, continuing to wonder.
The corners of Gilgamesh's mouth twitched, and he could only try his best to ignore Ananu's expression.
He shook his head, crossed his chest and sighed: "Enkidu must have asked me before."
“The human race that God tells you about is completely different from the human race that you see with your own eyes.”
"Enkidu himself does not know the answer to this question, and hopes that I can answer it for you."
He raised his head. Although his body was still bandaged, the sense of majesty between his brows never dissipated.
"I am the king of Uruk."
"The king's words will never be taken back."
He was referring to his words to Enkidu: "See with your own eyes."
Ananu and Enkidu looked at each other.
During the exchange of souls, Ananu naturally knew what Gilgamesh had said to Enkidu.
"I see."
Ananu and Enkidu sat one high and one low, looking at Gilgamesh with the same facial features, and said in unison.
"I'm going to stay here until I get answers."
“We see with our eyes, hear with our ears, smell with our noses, and feel with our skins.”
The two people's voices rang in Gilgamesh's ears together, and accompanied by the light of the setting sun, Gilgamesh couldn't help but feel a little...
He didn't know what it felt like, but it was a little strange.
"During this time, if you need our help and your people need our help, we will help."
".You don't need to talk like this, it's quite scary."
Gilgamesh felt that his kingly demeanor could no longer be displayed in front of these two people. He held his forehead and sighed while saying.
"Forget it, that's it."
"You will live in my palace, and I will arrange the rooms for you."
"The king will arrange attendants, food and other things for you. Correspondingly, you must also work in exchange for your own rewards - this is the rule of Uruk, you must know it."
Gilgamesh looked at Ananu and Enkidu, as if he wanted to say something more, but finally shook his head and turned away.
But after taking two steps, he stopped again and turned his face sideways.
"By the way, there is one more thing I need to tell you."
"Don't go to the temple behind my palace. That is Ishtar's residence. I believe that you who want to understand human beings will not want to be associated with a goddess who likes to make trouble."
"That's it, you go back as soon as possible."
After saying that, he left without looking back.
"Then what should be done?"
Enkidu smiled, looked at Gilgamesh's back, and glanced at Ananu.
"Just settle down first." Ananu shook his head.
(End of chapter)
