"What?"
"What!"
Two voices sounded at the same time, one with doubts and the other with shock.
Master Royce glanced at Egger, who looked like he had seen a ghost, strangely: "What did you see? Tell me carefully, don't miss any details." "
The camp is two miles away, over a small snow slope, next to a "The campfire has been extinguished, leaving only a pile of smoldering embers. The savages were lying in an irregular shape beside it. I counted eight people in total, which was about the same as I originally estimated. But no children were seen... Everyone was motionless, including the one on the tree. I sneaked as close as possible and observed carefully for a long time. No blood was seen, but a living person would never lie so quietly." "A
living person would never lie so quietly. The campfire will not be extinguished at all." Gary said, "The temperature has dropped sharply in the past two days. Maybe he was frozen to death because he was not prepared?" "
Maybe," Will shivered cooperatively, " Sir, what should we do now?"
"Wear more clothes if it's cold." Little Royce breathed, "When we set out nine days ago, the Great Wall was dripping. There was a bit of frost this past week, and occasionally it rained. It's a little snowy, but it's definitely not cold enough to freeze a whole bunch of savages to death. What's more, they're wearing warm furs to keep out the cold, and the terrain they're in is enough to protect them from the wind and snow, and they have a fire."
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Listening to the conversation between the three Night Watch teammates . During the discussions and conversations, Iger felt the chill seep into his bones inch by inch - how could this happen? In his heart, ten thousand grass and mud horses were running through him, secretly greeting all the eighteen generations of the Royce family.
No matter how poor his memory was, this scene with a strong sense of déjà vu made him realize: what he was facing was the very beginning of the Ice and Fire story. This damn Wilma Royce led the team on patrol for the first time. As the brothers run into the White Walkers. The only difference from the original is that this time there is an extra one of my own!
"Now that the savage is dead," Gary frowned and spoke uneasily, "let's go back." "
Do dead people scare you?" Weimar turned around, with a slight smile of contempt, and continued. A line that seems to have been heard before.
"The dead are not scary," Egger realized that he could no longer remain silent without any sense of existence. Now he was facing a problem related to life and death: if Wilma Royce was allowed to lead a group of people to investigate the scene where the savages were massacred , they will meet the White Walkers head-on, and he has no idea that the lineup of three people in the original plot plus one of himself can deal with the terrifying existence that almost exterminated mankind thousands of years ago: "What I'm afraid of is killing. Kill those savages."
"It can kill the savages, but it may not kill the night watchman." The young knight said confidently, but he was a little surprised in his heart. In his impression, Egg rarely expressed his opinions in public. "Besides, are you sure they are really dead? Where is the evidence."
"Will may not be a warrior, but he won't lie. Now that he has seen it, I believe it." Gary looked at the few people with a stern face, "The orders from above We investigated the whereabouts of the savages, and we obeyed, and now they will not harass us anymore..."
"Don't you think the commander will not ask us about the cause of death?" Weimar interrupted the veteran unceremoniously, "Get on your horse and take me to see Look."
Gary showed an angry expression, but in the end he said nothing and turned towards his horse.
"I'm not going." Iger could no longer follow the crowd this time. This was a life-or-death moment. "You don't care if you call me a coward or a coward, I'm just scared. In the past few days, I've been feeling something terrible. Something with malicious intent is staring at us all around... The savages must have been killed by that thing, we can't be opponents." "I
feel the same way." Will has always had no opinion, but someone took the lead and stammered quickly support Egger.
"The sky is getting dark." Gary looked at Egger with some confusion. He could occasionally challenge the airborne captain based on his veteran qualifications, but who was this young man in the same room with him who rarely had conflicts with others? Are you confident enough to openly disobey orders? "We can investigate again tomorrow."
"Interesting, night watchman, you are actually afraid of the dark?" Weimar's expression was slightly distorted. He was used to Gary contradicting him, but for the first time, the three soldiers unanimously opposed him, but This completely aroused his rebellious psychology: "I have made up my mind, now - get on the horse and go to the scene immediately, I will not say it a third time." "
No." Egger intuitively said that no matter how eloquent he was at this moment, he would never be able to convince the person in front of him. The stubborn young knight made his final struggle in despair. He looked to Gary, hoping for support from the Night's Watch veteran. Unfortunately, the other party looked at him in confusion for a while, then gently shook his head to signal him not to be stubborn with the officer. "I have a strong premonition that there is a high probability that I will die this time."
"I don't believe your premonition." Weimar narrowed his eyes and said, "If you insist not to go, then run away, but Hand over your weapons before leaving, and you are not allowed to ride a horse. If you are confident that you can run back, I won't stop you. Are you going?"
Iger looked at him, watching the other person put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, their eyes collided, and finally he asked Reality bows.
Leaving and directly turning into a deserter, there is no place in Westeros. Moreover, this place is a hundred miles away from the Great Wall. Although the ranger training program includes wilderness survival, theory and practice are two different things after all, even if the beast If he didn't embarrass himself with the White Walkers, hunger, cold, and being lost would be enough to swallow up a little mortal like him. And resistance... Even assuming that Will and Gary were watching, with little actual combat experience, there was no way that I could be the opponent of this aristocratic child who was a few years younger than me, but had been taught by the family's swordsmanship coach since he was a child.
He had no choice. It seemed that he could only hope that the little life-saving preparations he had made before would come in handy.
"Get on the horse, you and Will go to the front." Weimar breathed a sigh of relief at Iger's submission, and he pursed his lips in pretended disdain: "Don't try any tricks, I will keep an eye on you from behind."
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The four of them mounted their horses and set off. Will led Egger in the vanguard, and both of them rode their horses nervously and carefully. There was a light snowfall last night, and now there were many rocks, tree roots and puddles under the thin and soft snow layer, which could cause the horse to fall if not careful. Egg suppressed the fear in his heart, grabbed the reins with one hand and reached into the bag with the other, groping for and grabbing the obsidian dagger that took a lot of effort to get.
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Obsidian, also known as dragon crystal, is called frozen fire in ancient Valyrian. This thing is actually a kind of natural glass formed during geological movements... There is nothing special about this thing in the world where Egg originally came from, but he guessed: Maybe in this world where magic exists, this kind of crystal is similar to Some unknown energy has a special effect, giving it unique abilities.
The White Walkers have disappeared for thousands of years. This thing that claims to be able to kill White Walkers is usually sold as an ordinary low-grade gem in the market. Due to its fragility and dark color, it is not like corundum gems. Popular - not precious, naturally it cannot be sold at a good price, so few people do business in this area.
This leads to the following: Although obsidian is neither expensive nor rare, it is not easy to get your hands on it. It took a lot of time for Egg to ask a fellow Night's Watch recruit who was assigned to Eastwatch after completing training to buy it from an overseas businessman who was doing business with the Black Shirts. It cost him several months of stipends.
When he first got it, it was just a strip of ore about the thickness of his forearm. It took Egger a few more weeks of training to slowly carve and polish it into a rough dagger shape, and wrap the lower half with a piece of cloth as an amulet. Keep it close by.
Because of this thing, for a long time he couldn't even afford to add extra dishes to his meal, and he was laughed at by other brothers around him for a long time.
If this thing can finally save his life today, then at least this hard life of eating dirt will be worth it.
Everyone is destined to die, and it may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. Egger is not a coward who is so afraid of death that he goes crazy, but he will never accept it: in an unknown corner of the far north of this alien world, with a code name given to him by a few farmers, he died in obscurity in a situation that the world does not believe exists. of something in hand.