Judgment Day [Unlimited]

It was already dusk when the three of them came to the tower, and the queue to enter the tower could be seen at a glance.

Entering the tower for the second time, Xie Xingyin got used to it much better than when he first arrived.

However, when the boundless darkness and the sense of space-time distortion invaded one after another, he still subconsciously reached out to grab something.

In the darkness, his fingertips seemed to touch someone's arm...

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【The special task "Finding the Garden of Eden" is about to start—】

[In the 26th century BC, the warriors of the Uruk city-state were ordered by the king to go to the "land of the sunset" to find the legendary elixir of immortality...]

There was a little light in front of him.The light of the lamp became brighter and brighter, and quickly enveloped Xie Xingyin's whole body.

In the main hall on the top floor of the King's Pagoda Temple, melodious and lively singing and dancing sounds, as well as the sound of wine glasses and tableware colliding, are just the scene of a noisy banquet.

The table in front of them was full of wine and food, and the king was giving a generous meal to his warriors.

Xie Xingyin's eyes couldn't adapt to the light all of a sudden, so he narrowed his eyes.

When his eyes refocused, he found himself standing in the middle of the extravagant hall.

Xie Xingyin lowered his head, and suddenly realized that he had grabbed Lu Fen's wrist at some point.

Several people were already sitting on the long tables on the left and right sides. When those people saw them appearing hand in hand, someone booed and whistled.

Xie Xingyin coughed lightly in embarrassment, quickly let go, and sat down obediently, following the example of other climbers.

Lu Fen and Lao Liang sat on the left and right sides of him respectively.As soon as Lao Liang sat down, he winked at Xie Xingyin: "Old Xie, which province is Uruk in? How come I haven't heard of it for so many years?"

Xie Xingyin carefully reached out and picked up a beautifully shaped container in front of him to look at it.

"...Uruk was a city-state in the Mesopotamia region more than 5000 years ago, which is now the Arabian region of the Middle East. These city-states can be regarded as one of the four ancient civilizations—the predecessor of Babylon."

The background of this mission is a bit interesting. He prefers this kind of mission with a bit of cultural background to the underworld mission of Wangchuan Apartment.

On the other side, Young Master Lu was sitting on the mat, his two long legs had no place to rest, so he had to bend one knee at will.

He lowered his eyes and did not rush to move the food on the table. Instead, he propped his chin with his hand and stared at Xie Xingyin.Old Liang didn't have such a high level of political awareness, and he was very happy to see the table full of dishes and snacks.

Above the magnificent hall, under the eyes of the king, there was a sudden "sucking, sucking" sound.

The veins on Xie Xingyin's forehead couldn't help twitching, and he glanced to the side: "Old Liang, haven't you eaten lunch?"

Lao Liang was slurring his words at the moment, but his words were convincing: "Brother Xie, you have never experienced the days of not being able to eat for three days in the tower... Now you have something to eat, and you don't eat for nothing..."

Xie Xingyin didn't want to care about him, but was worried that if Lao Liang was so rude in front of the king, the guards behind him would fork him out and throw him into the Euphrates River to feed the fish.

The decoration in the resplendent hall is full of exotic styles, and a row of guards standing behind them are in strange costumes, with Kaulakas loincloths wrapped around their waists.

Xie Xingyin recognized that this was a typical Sumerian costume, and couldn't help but take a few more glances.These are things that can only be seen in museums.

After a while, a row of maids came in with clay pots containing fruits.They wear cumbersome and beautiful headdresses, covered with leaves made of gold leaf, colorful tassel strings on their bodies, and a very thin circle of golden rings around their waists.

The tower climbers sitting below are all in modern attire, colorful, and seem out of place in this hall.

Ten maids each carried a bowl of fruit and placed it in front of the guests.

The exotic and coquettish beauty twisted her slender waist, and enthusiastically placed the fruit plate in front of them, and Lao Liang laughed so hard that his saliva almost flowed down.

Since we are going to go on a treasure hunt, we must eat and sleep in the open air. Everyone at the banquet tonight is free to eat.

After Xie Xingyin finished his dinner, when he looked up again, a luxuriously dressed man was sitting on the golden throne at the top of the hall at some point - presumably that was the king of the city-state of Uruk.

Beside the king, there stood a wise man with gray beard and hair, wearing a long robe that swept the floor, holding a clay tablet in his hand.

As the dinner draws to a close, two people in modern attire hurried in from outside.Those two people looked confused, and they must have been filled by Tara.

After the two sat down at the table, the wise man standing next to the city lord spoke as soon as everyone arrived.

"Everyone, you are the ten smartest warriors in the city-state of Uruk. Please find the elixir of immortality for Gilgamesh, the lord of our great city-state..."

"If only one warrior brings back the elixir, that warrior will be rewarded with 100 days of survival time;"

"If two warriors bring back the elixir, each of them will be rewarded with 40 days of survival time;"

"If three warriors bring back the elixir, each of them will be rewarded with 30 days of survival time;"

……

"If all ten warriors bring back the elixir, each of them will be rewarded with 1 day of survival time."

"Good luck."

When a wise man speaks, every time he says a sentence, everyone's face changes by three points.

After he finished speaking, someone even patted the table angrily: "Isn't it more difficult for ten people to succeed! Why do they all succeed and only give one day to survive!"

"That's right, what does this mean?!"

The atmosphere of drinking, eating, singing and dancing just now froze in an instant, as if someone had been pulled out of the stove in winter and thrown into the ice cave.

The more people who complete the task, the less the task reward.If all ten people complete the task, it is equivalent to a waste of time.

No one expected that the conditions would be so harsh.

Lao Liang paused while eating. The sunglasses he just repaired yesterday slipped off the bridge of his nose and almost fell into the soup bowl.

In the hall, some people frowned, while others secretly swallowed.

One day's survival time is too little, but 1 days' survival time is extremely tempting. I'm afraid even advanced tasks don't have such a high reward.

If I could swallow the elixir alone...

Except for those two top-ups, those who can get special tickets are by no means ordinary people.Unlike the situation when Xie Xingyin entered the mission for the first time, most of the people participating in the mission this time were veterans.

Xie Xingyin turned his head and glanced at Lu Fen, who had been silent all this time. The latter's handsome features were hidden in the flickering lights, and his expression was indifferent.

Although this little young master Lu always had such a foolish expression, it was inexplicably reassuring.

Under the peaceful atmosphere in the hall, dark waves were surging.

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Early the next morning, the wise man came outside the city gate with all the people who were ready to go.

At the gate of the city, there were crowds of people who were seeing off, and there was a huge crowd.The whole city came to see off their hero's expedition.

It was rare to be so popular, and Lao Liang was elated at the beginning.But after walking in, Lao Liang jumped up and almost bumped into Xie Xingyin!

"Damn it—Old Xie! Then, what are those!"

Xie Xingyin looked in the direction he pointed, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body.

The maids, the king, and the wise man I saw last night all looked like real people, and even their eyelashes were clearly visible.

But it was different for those crowds of people who saw him off.

They have only a human-like appearance, but they do not have the vitality of a living creature.The smile was rigidly fixed on the lips, as lifeless as a wax figure, at first glance it looked more like a paper doll for a funeral.

The sight of these smiling dummies waving enthusiastically to them was too creepy.

"Is this fucking to see you off or to attend the funeral!"

Everyone was terrified when they saw it, as if they had strayed into the horror wax museum, and they ran out of the city gate with the wise man.

Thankfully, after running out of the city, those people did not follow.

There are five tall camels outside the city gate, each of which has several cloth bags hanging on its body, and dry food, water, and hay for the camels are piled under their feet.

The wise man handed them clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters and introduced the leader who led the camels.

"The leader will lead the way for you to the land of sunset. Immortal medicine grows there."

The land of the sunset?

Xie Xingyin looked up to the west.That direction is far away from the river, and at a glance, it is desolate, and the distant mountains are faint.

After sharing the water and dry food equally, the ten tower climbers present rode camels in twos.

The leader taught them to kick the camel once to go, kick it again to stop, and kick it three times to speed up.

Xie Xingyin picked out a camel, and Lu Fen also came up to ride with him on the same one.Helpless, Lao Liang had no choice but to share a horse with a tall and strong man, who was pitifully thin in comparison.

Lao Liang kicked the camel's belly three times to speed up, and the camel flew out like a wild dog, and the danger that hit his face almost made his face fly away.

The camel team set off in a single line, and the city wall behind them was crowded with dummies at some point, waving goodbye to them with stiff fake smiles.

A fat boss looked back and saw that his 200-jin body almost fell off the camel's back in fright.

As the camel caravan drifted away, they walked into the desert, and the distant city-state quickly became a blurred dot.

The camel swayed, Lu Fen closed his eyes and rested, as if he didn't care much about the outside world.Xie Xingyin held a clay tablet in his hand to study - it was given to them by a wise man before he left, and some symbols were carved on it, which was extremely abstract.

There are also some simple cuneiform scripts around the symbol, which serve as callouts.

It took Xie Xingyin a while to understand, this is a topographic map.

The curved lines in the lower right corner represent the river, the triangles represent the city-states along the river, and the sun is drawn in the upper left corner.

There is a big tree with its teeth and claws under the sun, presumably that is where they are going.

Judging from the map, they had to climb several mountains along the way from the city-state to the land of the sunset.The farther and farther away from the river, the symbols representing vegetation are becoming more and more sparse, and finally turned into countless small dots representing the desert.

To cross the mountains and cross the desert, this sunset place is really hard to find.

The task this time was special. Although everyone would not tear their faces apart on the first day, they all walked in silence, and no one planned to take the lead in sharing their thoughts.

Xie Xingyin could only talk to Lu Fen and told him what he had discovered.

Lu Fen opened his eyes, took a look at the clay tablet, and quickly returned it to him.Xie Xingyin put away the clay tablet carefully, and said in a low voice after deliberation:

"I don't enter the tower too many times. I only know that the first mission has a time limit. But this time it didn't. Is it because of the special mission?"

"It is said that there is no limit, but in fact there is, but the time limit is not so clear." Lu Fen pointed to the bag containing dry food, "We don't have much food and water, and I don't think water can be found in the desert."

Xie Xingyin nodded.

That's right, their material reserves are indeed not optimistic. If you save some water, they can last for three or four days at most.

Lu Fen said: "However, the sunset place we are looking for should be something like a desert oasis. Maybe we can find water resources there."

Most of the city-states in the Mesopotamia Valley were built along the water, and they rode camels away from the river and headed for the gray desert in the distance.

According to myths and legends, Gilgamesh once climbed seven mountains, and they were also walking towards the mountains at this time.

At the beginning, there were scattered turf and gravel on the ground.As they walked further and further away, there were more and more cracks on the dry land, and many bushes of different colors interspersed among them, which looked a bit like a hairy human head from a distance.

Xie Xingyin heard someone ask in front: "Hey, there are so many bushes on the ground, why do we have to carry such a big bag of hay for the camels to eat?"

The guide shook his head and said, "The bushes in the desert are all poisonous. Camels will die if they eat them. You can't eat them either."

Xie Xingyin and Lu Fen exchanged glances.It is true that they are not given any extra food, not even grass.

The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is large, and the afternoon is the hottest time of the day.

Although everyone was riding on the back of a camel and did not need to walk on two legs, they were soon drenched in sweat.

After marching for a whole morning, just when the guide was going to let everyone stop and rest, several white stone pillars appeared in disorder not far from the front.

The shape of the stone pillars is simple and ancient. I don’t know how long they have been stacked here. They have been tilted by the wind in the desert, and the shade under them can just shade the sun.

Everyone agreed to rest here for a while and drink some water.

Old Liang staggered off the camel and slapped his old waist: "Oh, I've ridden the camel all morning, and my butt is numb."

Lu Fen lowered his head and took out the water bottle from the cloth bag, and handed it to Xie Xingyin.Xie Xingyin took it and only took a sip.

They don't have much water, so they have to save some water.

Just when Xie Xingyin turned his head to ask Lao Liang to drink water, he suddenly found that he had a strange expression, staring at those stone pillars.His eyes were fixed, as if he was stuck.