【Shine】Vital

Chapter 18

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The phone in the office rang suddenly, and Gilgamesh picked up the phone irritably while clutching the document without looking at it.

"No matter who you are, you'd better have something important to report."

"Is this how you talk to your dear mother?" The end of the charming female voice rose dangerously.

"..." Gilgamesh frowned patiently, "What's the matter?"

Ning Sun laughed on the other end of the phone, "Aren't you worried about you and your guide? How are you getting along with that child? Well, what's that child's name...?"

"Water plants."

"...Enkidu." Ningsun helplessly corrected him, "For the sake of him being your guide, can you remember his name?"

"Let's gossip," Gilgamesh interrupted impatiently. "What's the matter? If you say that man is finally going to die, I'll begrudgingly forgive you for interrupting my work time."

"'That man' is your father, how about some respect for him?"

"Impossible. Are you asking me to forgive a guy who tried to kill me?"

Ning Sun just said it casually.Hearing Gilgamesh's irreversible tough tone, he didn't have any delusions about easing the relationship between father and son.

"Come back to business, I've heard some interesting rumors about your guide."

"...Oh?" Gilgamesh finally became interested. He put down the document, stood up and walked to the window, looking down at the direction Enkidu left.

"It should have been reported by your subordinates. That woman is as insane as ever," Ning Sun sneered. "The action is too big, and it is inevitable to be discovered. But thanks to her, many of your guides were exposed. What about the inside story?"

Gilgamesh raised his eyebrows, but said nothing.

There was the sound of pages turning over the phone.

"The child, the past experience before entering the tower, the school he attended, his relatives and friends, are all false... The only person who can find contact with him is the holy priestess Shamut. Looking at those two faces, no matter Anyway, it would be too far-fetched to say that there is no connection."

The empire is a country governed by the unity of politics and religion. As a saint, Shamut's status is beyond doubt.

"That woman... is dead, isn't she?"

"That's right," Ning Sun admitted, "at first when I looked at that child's face, I felt like I'd seen it somewhere, but after more than ten years, it's normal for my memory to be fuzzy, but Ishtar made me dig out the child's face. A few pieces came out. Guess what I found?"

"I'm not interested in playing guessing games with you." Gilgamesh refused coldly, "Don't waste my time."

"Tsk tsk, it's not fun when a child grows up. I think you were a baby who couldn't walk and could only crawl over and hug my leg and smile at me. Now think about it, you who don't know how you are when you see you as a toddler?" What do you think?"

"That guy will probably give up on growing up—say it quickly."

"Yes, yes." The sound of Ning Sun tapping the table with her fingers lightly came, which showed that she was thinking about something, "You may not know that the God Cult secretly planned an experiment...all the guides of my time were killed. Ordered to draw blood, and finally declared failure and gave up...Look at Shamut, and then look at your guide, the God Cult finally succeeded, but I don’t know how they would allow the child to be released and let him return to normal life."

Gilgamesh frowned unconsciously, and he himself didn't notice the tension in his voice.

"what's the plan?"

"'God-created man' uses blood as genetic information to create a soul, a weapon to end this long war. It is said that the professor who presided over this project murmured before his death, 'You are my last Proud, the best finished product, perfect, as created by God...so...' and then passed away like this." Ning Sun sneered, "The idea above is really clear at a glance, how big is the inexhaustible guide Huge use of resources, if the only professor who mastered the core technology went crazy, my dear child, it is impossible for you to have guides, they will become crazy weapons at the moment of birth, and they will be sent to the front line continuously to become tools and weapons."

"..." Gilgamesh held the phone tightly, "Then, why was that aquatic plant released?"

"...This is beyond what I can know." Ning Sun's voice returned to calm, "But since they have decided so, it means that there will be a follow-up, I just remind you, think on the bright side, my dear, um Qidu is dead, maybe there will be a second one who can be your guide."

"...I don't need extra guides."

"You need it," Ningsun said forcefully, "because it's you, the child won't live long. Sooner or later, you will have to accept another guide."

Gilgamesh kicked the table in front of him, and a loud bang pierced into the other end of the phone.

He said word by word, "I don't need any extra guides."

"..." Ning Sun sighed, and admitted defeat as if giving up, "I see, you decide..."

Gilgamesh hung up the phone, his blond hair fell down on his forehead, and he pushed it up, revealing cold and fierce eyes in the shadows.

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Ishtar's smile was charming and sweet, not counting Shamut, she was the most beautiful woman Enkidu had ever seen.

"It's not convenient to do it here, let's go for a walk together?"

Enkidu had no objection, "Madam decides."

Ishtar bent down and touched the top of the girl's head, and said softly, "Now my sister is going on a date with this brother, thank you for helping me bring this brother here, go back quickly."

The girl nodded ignorantly, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and smiled shyly at Enkidu, "Bye bye brother, bye sister."

She turned around and ran up the narrow residential building next to the alley.

Ishtar straightened up, and turned back to a domineering posture facing Enkidu.

They walked through the narrow alleys and gradually moved towards the sparsely populated wilderness. Enki was not good at speaking, and followed Ishtar quietly. The sunlight shone on the tips of his green hair like young leaves that were jumping with light.

Ishtar is very confident in his beauty, but when facing Enkidu, he always feels subtly that he has lost.

Enkidu's facial features are so perfect and delicate that they are too deliberate, just like you would compete with a beauty in secret, but you would not compete with a god for beauty.

It is difficult for human beings to love the inorganic, cold and rigid beauty from the bottom of their hearts.

But it is also natural.

Ishtar smiled sarcastically, "Does your lord know your identity?"

Enkidu's footsteps paused for a moment, and then continued to walk as if nothing had happened, "I don't know."

"If your lord finds out, do you think he will be angry?" Ishtar provoked maliciously.

He thought for a while, "...Maybe I will be angry because I concealed him? I don't know. I have to meet him to understand what he is thinking."

Ishtar spun around proudly, her long curly hair floating gently with the hem of the skirt.

"I don't need to meet an adult, I know what he thinks."

"..." Enkidu politely did not point out that "everything you know is wrong".

"You know, I like you very much." Ishtar squinted his eyes, and the longing and admiration on his face were shining in the sun, "I can die for him without hesitation——can you ?”

Enkidu was stunned.

Seeing this, the woman giggled.

"You really don't know, if you stay with the adults all the time, you will die."

"..."

"But it doesn't matter, if I can die for adults, I'm very happy!"

"Why?" Enkidu looked at her quietly.

"Why?" Ishtar was surprised and proud, "It really is an artificial human without emotion. Isn't it normal to die for someone you like?"

"...I think this is extreme." Enkidu thought about it seriously. "Life is very important and unique. For someone to lose it, can it really be done without any scruples?"

Ishtar said to him with condescending pity, "I found out, you are supposed to exist as the strongest weapon, man-made life form, and the file records your false past... such an emotionless How can you understand human emotions, how can you be allowed to appear beside that adult."

During the conversation, they came to a large open space.

In the middle stood a man with short curly black hair and profound facial features.

Ishtar walked towards the man step by step.

She lifted up her skirt gracefully, "Let me introduce to you, this is my brother, Sentinel Utu."

Enkidu had heard his name for a long time.

"General Wutu, hello."

"As a guide, I challenge you, the strongest guide, to be overwhelmed..." Ishtar raised his chin, "You think so, so you dare to accept my challenge alone."

She took Wutu's arm.

"But against my brother, who is the best in battle even among the Sentinels... Enkidu, you are dead."

Ishtar curled her red lips.

"Go to hell, and then, the lord will be mine."

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Utu: brother of the goddess Inanna in mythology, the sun god

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