Great Flood That Destroyed the World

"Seven days. God created all things in merely seven days!"

Gilgamesh stared in disbelief, then collapsed into laughter, laughing until tears streamed down his face, laughing hysterically.

In that instant, he seemed to hear something shatter within his heart.

It was the sound of heartbreak. His pride and arrogance were crushed to pieces before his death.

No sorrow was greater than a dead heart.

"Seven days..." Amid his laughter, his consciousness completely blurred. Faced with those three questions, he vaguely recalled the first question he had asked this giant while standing in his palm as a child.

"What is civilization?"

"Civilization is fire, civilization is knowledge, civilization is order, and civilization is also the greatest power intelligent species use to protect themselves."

"Civilization... is the power we intelligent species use to protect ourselves?"

"Hahaha!!" He laughed, louder and louder. His voice crossed the breeze and the hills, crossed steep mountains, rushing rivers, distant emerald forests swaying in the wind, lush rice fields, and endless broad grasslands.

Rustle!

In the grassland tribes, the royal city, and the mountain forests, people silently raised their heads.

In their daze, they looked toward the sky with complicated expressions, as though they had all heard the twilight of this Sumerian king. Countless people wept, wailed, and sang nameless Sumerian Lament folk songs, mourning the fall of a great king.

That day, at the edge of Uruk Royal City, the great epic Hero King of a generation, Gilgamesh, reached the end of his life and became dust in history.

Xu Zhi sighed and watched the Hero King depart. "I never intended to fight over anything. I answered every question you wanted to ask truthfully, but I truly have no treasure that can grant you immortality. Even I am nearing death myself. Why put yourself through this?"

"The king is dead!"

"Our king, the strongest Hero King in history, Gilgamesh, drew his sword against the God of Creation and died!!"

"We have been defeated!"

Countless troops wailed and fled in madness.

Xu Zhi did not choose to pursue them. After all, where could they escape to? The edge of the world?

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable..."

The historian Akad stood atop Uruk City's towering walls. Watching his great Hero King fall in defeat and hearing such a terrifying truth, he was drenched in cold sweat. "I must... I must record everything before I die and leave the truth of this world for future generations."

The historian trembled all over, dense sweat soaking his arms.

He had just recorded the words about Gilgamesh challenging the Wisdom Giant Beast. Then, with trembling hands, he flipped to the next page and swiftly began recording a new chapter.

Genesis, Sumerian Downfall Chapter, recorded: The Wisdom Giant Beast was in truth the Creator. In his later years, Gilgamesh became arrogant and conceited, attempting to raise his sword against the Lord and gain immortality through divine blood. In the end, he enraged the gods. Seeing that the people on earth were steeped in wickedness, God resolved to destroy Sumerian Civilization, sending down a Great Flood to destroy all living beings.

The sky trembled.

The earth wailed.

In Uruk Royal City, people across the land screamed miserably. Some who had collapsed into despair finally began to laugh wildly, turning into fanatics as they knelt on the ground in silent prayer.

"God says all mortals are guilty!"

"Repent!!! God shall punish our arms and crush our spines!"

"The Great Flood will destroy our world!"

Amid the anxious atmosphere, people were uneasy, trembling, panicking, boiling over with fear. Every one of them was frantic.

At that moment, a young man in a black headscarf came to Xu Zhi's feet, carrying a blood-soaked bundle. He opened it and spread out a head. "Great Wisdom Giant Beast, Forest King Enkidu begs forgiveness."

Xu Zhi was slightly startled.

He had wondered before why only two of the three kings had come. The Forest King had not appeared.

Utanapishtim knelt and pleaded, pressing himself tightly against the ground as he trembled. "We Sumerians are not merely savages. Our teacher Enkidu already proved this through his own death. Rather than obey the order and raise his sword against the benefactor who gave us civilization, he chose death. We are not all evil. When you send down divine punishment, please leave the Sumerians one final chance at survival."

Hearing of the Forest King's righteous deed, Xu Zhi sighed. In truth, he had never expected Gilgamesh to be so insane.

Nor had he ever intended to exterminate them. They had merely been too presumptuous and self-important. Yet such mad defiance and disrespect, brutality and savagery, would ultimately have to pay a price for their actions. "Take people and use the enormous Divine Tree to build Noah's Ark. Preserve at least one pair of every creature and every seed in the world. Use the remaining space to bring the righteous people of Enkidu Forest Giant City aboard. I will immediately send down a Great Flood to destroy the world."

Xu Zhi turned and left.

The surroundings erupted with trembling, excited voices.

"We were defeated, but our nation and people will not be entirely wiped out. A spark of hope will remain."

"Thank the Creator for his mercy."

"It was all because Forest King Enkidu showed the Lord our goodwill. We are not savages. We can still be redeemed."

"Praise Enkidu!"

"Praise the great Forest King!"

Akad too wept with joy. Looking at the giant's departing back, he grew excited and waved his pen. Genesis, Sumerian Downfall Chapter, recorded: Forest King Enkidu's kindness moved the gods, who had prepared to destroy the world, and left a chance of survival for the Sumerians who had sought to defy God. God commanded Utanapishtim to build Noah's Ark and escape the world-destroying Great Flood.

Xu Zhi returned to the yard and made some preparations.

He found the High-Pressure Water Gun in the corner of the garden, which he had bought while shopping with Chen Xi some time ago. He had not expected it to come in handy so soon.

While Xu Zhi had spent just over ten minutes preparing the water gun, one hundred and twenty days had already passed in the Sand Table. Countless people turned into accelerated afterimages, cutting down the large banyan bonsai tree left there years ago and building a massive ark.

Then they loaded it with the seeds of every living thing, books, the young of every giant beast, everything and anything. The species of the entire world were condensed within the enormous Noah's Ark.

"Good thing there aren't many places, and everyone lives fairly close together. Time to wash it clean." He entered the Sand Table, raised the High-Pressure Water Gun from over ten meters away, and swept it forward in a straight line.

Boom! A snow-white high-pressure stream blasted toward the city-state civilization in the orchard.

Thud, thud, thud!! Vast swathes of trees fell, giant cities collapsed in an instant, and countless beasts fled from the forest, trying to outrun the towering white flood behind them, only to be swallowed by the Great Flood in the end.

Heaven and earth seemed to change color in an instant.

Snow-white and boundless.

"God saw that man's wickedness on earth was great, and so a Great Flood descended from heaven. God destroyed all living beings."

Utanapishtim led everyone aboard the ark, staring in shock at the sky. It was a horrifying sight, as though the fountains of the great deep had burst open and the windows of heaven had been thrown wide.

Countless torrents of snow-white water surged down from the white clouds in the sky, washing across the entire land.

Apart from the ark, which still floated upon the sea, the entire world had already sunk into vast white waves.