CHAPTER 152: CHAPTER 97: TEMPLE WITHOUT A GOD

Yijie would rather face a hundred and eighty bandits at once than encounter a female bandit like Apoli.

"Having gained the favor of the Goddess, you still aren’t satisfied. This is the Babylon Temple, and since we have come, we should explore it thoroughly before leaving." After a sneer, Number Zero earnestly began to speak, including the matters that Ziyu had previously helped her mention.

"This is getting into murkier waters," Yijie was unwilling to stay in this gloomy place.

"It’s murky waters with profit," Number Zero knew that in the temple, it was impossible to find so-called documents. Slapping the army bag containing ten thousand military coins, she saw Yijie hesitate to accept the coins rewarded by Apoli, so she unceremoniously swallowed the money.

"Go look if you want to, but I’m not staying here," Yijie walked out.

Number Zero was not in a hurry, but shook out the bag of hemostatic herb from her army bag.

Hemostatic herb was obviously simpler than the God Revitalizing Pill, appearing to be just some processed, wilting dried flowers. She had noticed this dry flower scattered all around in the temple earlier, so picked some, washed and dried them slightly, and that should do the trick. As for the Concentration Pills, it seemed that they would require experimentation.

Number Zero’s knowledge of medicine was limited to the basics of plants, and to clearly distinguish between a medicinal and Poisonous Herb would not be a quick task.

"Back already." Number Zero watched calmly as Yijie turned around and came back.

She didn’t believe someone with Yijie’s terrible sense of direction could find his way out of the temple. Yijie glared at Number Zero; it was her mischief again. The maid who led them earlier pointed out several residences, all of which were rejected by Number Zero. After countless detours and corridors, she chose this lodging at the deepest part of the temple, apparently knowing beforehand that he would disapprove of this mission.

"The next few days, we both have work to do." Number Zero yawned and made a gesture to show someone out.

Yijie had no choice but to return to his lodging.

The next morning, as soon as Yijie got up, he heard Number Zero stealthily knocking on his door.

So early in the morning, she looked somewhat tired, "The remaining matters, I’ll leave to you to handle." Number Zero stepped aside, and behind her was a piece of black basalt.

"For me?" Yijie still didn’t understand what Number Zero meant, and he already had a chisel in his hand.

"It is said that the complete Hammurabi Code is inscribed on a Xuanwu stone pillar, anyway you won’t go out, so in the next few days, you might as well engrave the law code on it." Number Zero thought it through; the original text of the code was on Ziyu, even if they turned the whole temple upside down in the next few days, they couldn’t find the code. But they still had to deliver results, so taking advantage of Yijie’s absence, she hurriedly went down the Military Road overnight, and found the oldest copy of the code currently displayed in the British Museum.

Since the physical copy couldn’t be brought into the Military Road, she simply memorized the cuneiform characters overnight.

"..." Yijie had nothing to say, and simply moved the basalt stone into his room. Compared to being outside and getting pointed at by the temple women, he indeed preferred to do hard labor in his room—women, whether in reality or the Military Road, always gave him endless headaches.

For the next few days, Number Zero mingled with the maids in the temple. That night, Apoli did not bother Yijie anymore, and spiritual healing in the temple was temporarily halted, it was heard that Apoli had gone to the inner city.

Number Zero also relaxed, as she quickly got familiar with the temple maids through her acquaintance with the new maid.

After getting familiar, Number Zero found that most of the maids in the temple were new, according to the new maid, they had been newly selected and sent here a month ago. The name of the Goddess was Apoli, and none of them knew the person called "Ziyu."

The temple not only had many inner halls, but also densely distributed springs and plants. Listening to the new maids, Number Zero also knew that to learn the secrets of the temple, one must go through the older maids.

"Fu Li is the oldest maid in the temple, it is said she watched Goddess Apoli grow up," the new maid inadvertently revealed.

"What are you all discussing, taking advantage of the Goddess’s absence to slack off? Whoever slacks off again, watch me whip you with a rattan," the new maid had just finished speaking when Fu Li, the old maid, appeared, hands on her hips.