Chapter 1204 – Idol Practitioner?
A few big men dragged the wooden cart and slowly advanced across the desert.
Rough jovial scolding sounds echoed in the air, and this ancient language passed into Lin Qiye’s ears, automatically turning into Chinese that he could understand.
”What do you guys say, how much wine can we pray for today?”
”It must be at least 40 kilograms, right? Last time, we brought back too little, and Lord City Lord was not happy.”
”Last time it wasn’t because Old Seven secretly drank several kilograms on the way, otherwise it wouldn’t have been so bad that when we brought it back, there were only 20 kilograms left, right?”
”Old Six, Old Six? Say something, you’re always like a bottle of oil, if you’re like this, how are we going to make the Wine God happy later?”
”Ugh forget it, he’s been like this since he was a kid, today let’s a few of us be louder and work harder.”
”……”
Following them all the way out of the city and towards the desert in the east, the color of doubt in Lin Qiye’s heart grew stronger.
The God of Wine?
What was that thing?
After about half an hour of walking, the group of big men finally stopped in front of a dry oasis.
They put down the wooden cart behind them and gathered in front of the empty depression, piling up the nearby branches, and one of the big men leaned down next to the pile of branches and drilled hard for flames.
”All ready, this time, with the new dance we rehearsed last night!”
The remaining few big men scattered in various corners as if they were on the verge of an enemy, staring intently at the pitch-black cave in the center of the depression as they spoke solemnly.
”Understood!”
Prick-la-!
The big man who had drilled for the flame managed to ignite the pile of branches, and a wisp of flame flared up from the edge of the puddle, curling smoke rising into the sky.
The moment this flame appeared, the tiny stones scattered amongst the puddles trembled slightly.
Lin Qiye, who was hiding behind a sand dune, let out a soft eep and fixed his eyes towards the black cave in the center of the puddle.
After a few seconds of trembling, a golden wine pot suddenly flew out of the cave and hovered over the puddle, seemingly searching for a source of fire.
At the same time, the big men surrounding the puddle simultaneously crouched down like sumo wrestlers and heaved their hands above their heads!
”Hey–!!!”
The crisp sound of the clapping and the roar of the dahan instantly attracted the attention of the golden wine pot.
Afterwards, these big men surrounded the perimeter of the puddle and danced their bodies powerfully, beginning a masculine and aesthetically pleasing dance.
Accompanied by the whistling and windy body movements, they opened their mouths wide and shouted out some kind of obscure tone forcefully, like an ancient prayer song that echoed over the dry oasis.
They sang and danced at the same time, all of their gazes fixed on the golden wine pot over the puddle, bean-sized beads of sweat sliding down from their cheeks, looking like they were working very hard.
Lin Qiye opened his mouth wide in shock ……
What is this?
An ancient idol trainee?
What shocked Lin Qiye the most was that as these big men sang and danced, the golden wine pot in the air seemed to get agitated as it excitedly swayed its body, seemingly cheering on the big men.
Wow-!
As the wine pot’s movements became more and more intense, rosy-colored wine spilled madly from the top of the pot, pouring into the dry puddle and gradually converging into a pool of wine.
The refreshing fragrance of the wine filled the air, and the big men singing and dancing by the puddle kept swallowing their saliva, joyful colors appearing on their faces.
As the last beat fell, the big men stopped at the same time, panting heavily.
The golden wine pots jumped excitedly, as if applauding them, and with each jump, a larger amount of wine splashed out.
”Greetings to the God of Wine!”
The big men bowed in unison to the golden wine pot, and Old Six, who had been maintaining the flames burning, quickly stepped on the fire extinguishing seeds, and the wine pot moodily circled halfway through the air before returning to its cave.
When the jug disappeared, the big men immediately broke out into cheers, lifted the empty barrels from the wooden cart, and quickly filled the pools with wine.
”The wine pot that pours wine outward when excited …… This is also a divine artifact that Gilgamesh collected back then?”
Lin Qiye witnessed the entire process, his eyes filled with shock.
The big men finished pouring the wine from the puddle and filled up the wooden cart completely, the smiles on their faces simply couldn’t stop.
”Good fellow, this one must be at least sixty kilograms, right?”
”It seems that the dance we rehearsed all night last night was still effective.”
”This time when we go back, the city lord should reward us vigorously!”
”Hahahahaha …… Go, go back to the city!”
”I, I want to go pee.” Old Six spoke with some urgency.
”Tsk …… go go go, let’s set off after peeing!”
Amidst the joyful chatter of the crowd of big men, Old Six quickly left the oasis and began to look for a suitable place to facilitate.
Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed, knowing that the time had come, he immediately turned into a flash of night color and followed.
Old Six rolled over a sand dune, and seeing no one in the four directions, he began to undo the waistband of his pants.
Right at this moment, a heavy blow slammed into the back of his head, and with both eyes rolled back, his entire body was knocked out and fell in the middle of the sand.
Lin Qiye, clad in a black cloak, stood calmly behind him as a brilliant magical glow blossomed from beneath his feet.
When the glow dissipated, his appearance had completely transformed into the fallen Old Six.
He opened his mouth and simply mimicked his voice for a few moments before turning around and walking towards the large group.
”Old Six is back, let’s go!”
”Go go go, go back and find a place to have a drink!”
The crowd didn’t notice the difference in “Old Six” and pulled up the loaded wooden cart in unison, heading towards the city.
Following these big men, Lin Qiye smoothly entered the back of the dark city wall.
This city didn’t know how many years it had existed in the King’s Treasure Trove, and because it was isolated from the world, there were no foreign unfamiliar faces at all, and if one didn’t change the natives that existed in the city, it was highly probable that they would be discovered straight away.
And this always silent “old six”, is undoubtedly his best choice.
After passing through the city walls, a large number of old masonry buildings appeared in front of him, and in a trance, Lin Qiye thought that he had traveled back thousands of years to an ancient period and entered a certain magnificent city-state full of history.
”The wine-seeking brothers are back!”
”Yo, it’s you guys? How was the harvest today?”
”Harm harm harm, see these several carts full of wine barrels in the back? There were a full sixty kilograms today!”
”Sixty kilograms? That much?”
”……”
The wooden carts traveled on the uneven stone brick road with a dull sound, and some of the city’s residents gathered around and curiously chatted with the other dudes, shock surfacing on their faces.
Perhaps he knew that Lin Qiye, the “Old Six”, didn’t like to talk, or perhaps it was because he wasn’t well-liked, and no one came to talk to him, which was exactly what Lin Qiye wanted.
His gaze calmly swept over the surroundings and suddenly landed on the eaves of the doors of these houses, and he frowned slightly.
On the door of almost every house, there was a rustic copper badge with a mysterious and complex pattern intertwined on its surface.
Lin Qiye recognized these badges.
At that time, when Gilgamesh had just stepped out of his hospital room, Merlin had given him a similar fragment.
It was the badge of the Uruk Kingdom.