In the wasteland, beside a stream, the three of Gilgamesh were taking a rest.
Gilgamesh took out the bread and beer and handed them to Ananu and Enkidu.
"How did you carry these things? I didn't see you have a bag or anything like that?"
Enkidu took a bite of dry bread and drank a sip of beer.
He and Ananu actually have no needs such as eating and sleeping. Although they are living in human society, they are not human in nature.
They have no human feelings, no human thinking, no human reasons.
They are just imitating humans.
It's like imitating humans.
Whatever humans do, we do.
This is the reason why Ananu rejected Nanshe's love.
He is not a human being, so Nanshe's emotions are "useless" in his cognition, and are even harmful to his observation of human beings.
That's all.
To Ananu and Enkidu, only each other is important.
"There is everything in this king's treasury, please remember this." Gilgamesh said arrogantly as if to show off, even if he was sitting on the floor now, he would not restrain his bad attitude.
"Do you really have everything?" Ananu came over.
Gilgamesh was keenly aware of something and glared at Ananu: "It's not what you think."
Ananu:?
There was a bit of grievance on his face: "But I haven't said what I want to say, and you already have it?"
Gilgamesh smiled softly.
"Stop fucking this with me."
"Tsk, I didn't take the bait." The aggrieved expression on Ananu's face disappeared instantly, and he fell into thinking, "I see that when you Uruk people show such expressions, the other party will agree, why do you Won’t you agree?”
"What have you learned from my king's people? Can't you learn something good?" Gilgamesh looked awkward.
"I've learned it, I'm pretty good at farming!" Ananu looked proud.
Gilgamesh almost breathed his last.
He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then moved a little closer to Enkidu.
Enkidu just smiled, really softly, and didn't say anything, just looked at the bread seriously.
Gilgamesh drew closer to Enkidu and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he glanced at Ananu with contempt.
A "well" appeared on Ananu's head.
Although Gilgamesh said nothing, he felt that he had been severely offended.
He had already taken the keys out from under his white clothes.
"Ahem..." Gilgamesh quickly stood up, his hand already inserted into the golden ripples.
"Nothing else, I just want to have a friendly exchange with you." Ananu had a kind expression on his face.
"What a waste of communication! You took out your entire body!" Gilgamesh roared.
"Hey." Ananu took the key back with some displeasure and regret.
"By the way, how far are we from the cedar forest?" Gilgamesh also pulled his hand out of the golden ripples and asked Ananu and Enkidu.
He knew that the cedar forest was his territory, but he did not know the distance between Uruk and the cedar forest.
"Based on our current speed, we'll arrive in about two days." Enkidu replied calmly.
"Two days..." Gilgamesh rubbed his fingers with a solemn look in his eyes.
His warriors are powerful and fearless. Nothing can make them lose their confidence on the battlefield, not even the opponent is a god. Gilgamesh firmly believes in this.
But that kind of performance, combined with the "natural disasters" and "diseases" they call...
Gilgamesh glanced at Ananu and Enkidu imperceptibly, and pursed his lips.
He didn't fully believe in Ananu and Enkidu, or rather, as the king of mankind, it would be strange for him to really believe in Ananu and Enkidu in such a short period of time.
But one thing was true - he couldn't beat them both.
After packing up and getting back on the road, the three of them wanted to continue walking for some distance before dark.
but......
boom--
The thunder struck the barren ground, leaving scorched black marks.
The storm, calling for thunder and air-conditioning, descended upon the city.
"The weather is not right. What Adkart and the others said is true." Gilgamesh said seriously while hiding in the mud hut built by Ananu and Enkidu.
The weather was clearly abnormal.
It was still daytime, but the sky was shrouded in thick black clouds, which was so oppressive that it made people breathless.
Ananu and Enkidu looked at the sky together, both falling into silence.
Gilgamesh seemed to see something.
"What did you notice?"
He asked the two of them.
Ananu and Enkidu looked at each other, and then looked at Gilgamesh together.
Ananu opened his mouth, but nothing came out.
Enkidu looked away without saying a word.
Gilgamesh didn't ask any more questions.
They were not his subjects, and he did not fully trust them.
But the attitudes of the two men had already let Gilgamesh know a fact.
They must know something about this.
At night, the wind and rain subsided a little. Gilgamesh was lying on the mud floor and had fallen asleep. Ananu and Enkidu were sitting back to back, holding their hands together with their fingers intertwined.
They were going to communicate like this, there was something... they didn't really want Gilgamesh to hear.
"It's Humbaba."
Ananu's voice was filled with a hint of certainty, and...
Inexplicable meaning.
"But why?"
Enki was puzzled.
They were suddenly thrown out of Enliel's forest by Enki, and they have never seen Humbaba again since then.
At that time, they did not have intellectual existence, so they did not care about these things, but lived in the cedar forest until Shamhat took Enkidu away.
Humbaba…
What the gods call "complete human beings".
Is it you, appearing in the cedar forest?
What is your purpose in the cedar forest?
Why did you use your ability to release natural disasters?
Has the deception of the gods still not stopped?
Ananu and Enki don't know, and they won't know.
Because the gods would not answer them, and Humbaba had forgotten them.
At that last moment.
Humbaba's question.
"Who are you...?"
Ananu and Enki were reminiscing, recalling Humbaba's words.
A sense of loss and bitterness floated around the key and the lock.
Together with...
That pure white garland intertwined with the key and the lock.
Very beautiful wreath.
