The Last Three Questions

Xu Zhi sighed softly as he looked at this outstanding man.

He had already lost, yet from beginning to end, he had never shown fear, not even before such invincible power.

Gilgamesh was a complex and powerful man. His kingly charisma was overwhelming—supreme, domineering, savage, and proud. Xu Zhi could not help feeling that a hero had reached the twilight of his years, and he felt both pity and regret.

But Xu Zhi truly could not change the end of his lifespan.

He had failed to break through and merge with the Third Gene, so he could only die of old age. Xu Zhi had come to see him off, yet he had not expected him to attack.

Pfft! Ishtar also coughed up mouthfuls of blood.

Her chest heaved violently as she looked at the giant in the sky, yet she had never been afraid.

She had been prepared for death from the very beginning. Sumerian warriors had never feared death.

She merely laughed bitterly. "So... so the gap was this great. What exactly were we waging war against?"

"Do you regret it now?"

Xu Zhi sighed. His entire body was shrouded in golden light, vast and towering into the clouds like an ancient giant spanning eternity. A layer of golden divine radiance enveloped him, mysterious and majestic.

"Regret? It was merely a choice."

Gilgamesh spat out blood, smiled faintly, and said nothing more.

The Sumerian Civilization had been defeated.

Before the Wisdom Giant Beast, they had suffered utter defeat.

They had failed to challenge such a vast giant. They knew what that meant—a world-ending calamity was about to descend.

Xu Zhi turned to look at the fleeing army. They screamed madly, destruction, annihilation, extinction. They kept wailing those words, terrified, laughing desperately as they descended into madness.

"I never wanted to decide the fates of so many people, the rise and fall of an entire civilization."

Xu Zhi looked down at the aging Hero King. He seemed to recall those Insect Apes who had once cheered "Bald! Bald!" and dared to mock their Creator from the moment they were born.

Back then, he had joked that they were surely a barbaric, violent, selfish race.

Who would have thought it would come true?

"Will we be destroyed?"

Gilgamesh's bones were shattered throughout his body, yet he suddenly forced himself into a seated position. Looking at the giant in the sky, he asked with a bitter smile, "Just as we destroyed countless Giant Beast Species, will you destroy us to avenge them?"

He seemed never to have known fear.

Back when he had been a young Insect Ape, he had dared to raise his voice and question the Ten Thousand Zhang Giant that had terrified countless clansmen into fleeing. Today, the Hero King still possessed not the slightest fear.

Even on the brink of death, his pride had never made him beg for mercy.

Xu Zhi thought for a moment. "Since you refused to heed the warning, I will destroy you. After all, you have damaged the ecology of this entire world and driven far too many species to extinction. I cannot allow you to continue multiplying without limit."

Their uncontrolled breeding had caused far too great a disaster.

Gilgamesh laughed bitterly, then suddenly asked, "Back then, you answered my question about what civilization was. Now, can you answer a few more questions for me one last time?"

The king wanted the Wisdom Giant Beast to answer his questions? Everyone held their breath and looked up at the Ten Thousand Zhang Giant. The air fell silent for several seconds.

This Giant Beast was silent as well.

Dense brilliance obscured his face. Pure, holy light faintly shone through the Cloud Layer, concealing his majesty. Then, an incomparably profound voice suddenly pierced the vast clouds and descended upon the shattered Uruk Royal City below.

"Ask."

Whoosh—

The world seemed to fall into dead silence.

The blood-covered earth fell quiet.

Countless elite soldiers who had fled in defeat stood packed tightly together, having discarded their helmets and armor. They stopped, turned back, and looked up at the giant in the sky.

Ishtar also spat out blood, a miserable smile appearing on her face as she looked at the giant in the sky.

"Will you answer my questions again?"

Gilgamesh fell silent, still smiling bitterly as he slowly asked his first question. "How will you destroy us?"

Xu Zhi thought about it. They were everywhere, and it truly would be difficult to clean them all up. Yet he had no choice but to eliminate so many people.

Their excessive reproduction had inflicted horrifying damage upon the entire ecosystem. They had eaten countless species into extinction, sweeping through like locusts and leaving nothing behind. The entire Sand Table had collapsed because of them.

"I will use water." After thinking for a moment, Xu Zhi added calmly, "I will use a vast Great Flood to scour and drown your entire civilization, destroying every trace you have left behind."

The earth held its breath, silent as cicadas in winter.

The ground was too filthy, filled with sinners. The Wisdom Giant Beast would use a great flood to cleanse this land of sinful people?

But no matter how powerful the Wisdom Giant Beast was, how could it possibly summon a massive flood that covered the entire world?

This was no longer the power of a Giant Beast. Everyone's breathing began to quicken, their faces gradually filling with horror.

"My second question: this world is flat and round beneath the heavens, yet there are no traces of you."

Gilgamesh spoke hoarsely, asking again, "Where exactly did you come from? What kind of existence is the Wisdom Giant Beast? Why did you give us the flame of civilization? Why did you stop us from slaughtering other races? You say that all living beings are equal, that barbaric species, intelligent species, and plants are all equal. What exactly is this land to you?"

Xu Zhi lowered his head slightly and looked at the Hero King before him, who had reached the end of his road.

The giant overlooked all of Uruk City.

"This land is a world I created. You are all my people. Barbaric species, intelligent species, plants—all species are my people. Therefore, you are all equal."

Dead silence!

The air was silent as death.

The people on the ground could only be heard breathing rapidly.

Their breaths gradually grew louder, then increasingly violent, turning into heavy gasps that rose and fell in succession.

Gilgamesh was instantly struck speechless. His face was full of disbelief, utterly unable to accept it.

He suddenly began to laugh softly. It gradually grew louder before finally becoming wild and arrogant laughter. "Hahahaha!! Interesting, truly too interesting! We... what exactly have we been fighting against?"

".So the Wisdom Giant Beast of legend, the Giant Beast we called it, was not truly a Giant Beast. He is the omnipotent lord who created all things, the Creator who made us. Such an existence should be called... a god!"

The tribal people of this land had never possessed the concept of gods, but now they did. "I was once arrogant enough to create the history of our civilization and name it Genesis, believing that I had created a civilized world. Yet the true Genesis belonged to the Wisdom Giant Beast. All living things are his people. What immense and majestic power... and I actually tried to..."

Gilgamesh laughed louder and louder, his surging laughter rushing in every direction.

Hahahahaha!

The more he laughed, the more unrestrained he became.

Xu Zhi remained silent within. The Ten Thousand Zhang Giant towered into the clouds at the edge of the royal city, quietly watching the dying Hero King laugh. He had always been mild-tempered and had never wanted to pursue anything.

Naturally, he tolerated this man's insolence and final madness.

"One final question. How many days did you use to create our world?" Gilgamesh suddenly asked.

Xu Zhi thought about it.

At the time, his body had been too weak. Chemotherapy had just ended. Although he had hired people to clear the weeds and build the ponds, he had personally taken up a hoe and tools to shape the land and mold mountains and rivers. Even for one hundred mu of land, it had taken a full week.

So he chose to answer the third question truthfully:

"I spent a full seven days creating this land."