So, you brought back two broken swords to prove that you and Gary were not deserters, but heroes who killed the White Walkers?" After listening to Egger's account of the entire patrol northward, Narrating, Commander Mormont stared at Egg seriously, as if to find evidence of lying from his face and eyes.
Egger took a breath: "I won't claim to be a hero, because I did escape from the site of the battle ten days ago and neither rescued Sir Waymar Royce nor brought back his body. But I think, compared to It is more important and meaningful to fight against the White Walkers and then be killed. It is more important and meaningful to return to the Great Wall to deliver important warnings about their appearance." "
Obsidian can indeed kill White Walkers. This is recorded in many legends." Already viewed The missing Maester Aemon was tremblingly playing with the homemade obsidian dagger handed over by Egger, and was obviously very interested in what he said: "If I remember correctly, you are a foreigner, and you have only recently been learning about Westeros. How could these legends be so clear in the text?"
"There are also related legends circulating in my hometown. I used to regard them as fairy tales, until I came here by chance and saw the Great Wall of Despair..."
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Strange Oats that served as horse food were still hung on the horses of the ghost-riding corpses. After killing the White Walkers, Egger retrieved his frightened and escaped horse a few hundred meters away. After feeding it all the oats and taking a short rest, Egger led the horse and carried the seriously injured Gary back to the Great Wall.
Now, he was sitting in a conference room warmed by the fire, communicating face-to-face with so many big men of the Night's Watch for the first time. For a whole year after he was forced to join the Great Wall Guards, he tried every means to attract the attention of these senior Night Watchmen. Now he finally got his wish, but he was tried as a suspected deserter: "Maester Aemon, you are a learned man. Man, then you should understand the truth - if legends and stories from all over the world have similar records of an event long ago, then it is very likely that it is true. The White Walker does exist, and it is back now."
The blind old man nodded. Although he didn't know exactly what happened, at least the second half of what the night watchman soldier in front of him said made sense.
"Huh, in my opinion, it's just to avoid punishment. I deliberately made a wound and then found something to break the sword in order to make it look like I had gone through a hard battle." Alliser Thorne, standing aside, The recruit instructor of the Night Watch snorted coldly, "This guy was naughty during training and was lazy whenever he got the chance. Can he kill a White Walker? Even if this thing really exists?"
Egg didn't refute, the recruit instructor said Of course, I didn't mean to target him. As a testing engineer who was engaged in technical work before time travel, although he is not incompetent, he is probably more "pampered" than many nobles in this world, let alone those who were born at the bottom of the vigil. The soldiers are gone. When he first came to the Great Wall, it was really difficult for him to accept such high-intensity training and he was lazy a lot. Although he still passed the training in the end, there was no doubt that he left a bad impression on Alliser Thorne.
Having said that, this nobleman who was forced to join the Night's Watch because of the fall of the Targaryen dynasty he supported is a cynical, mean and unsympathetic man. His tone of voice and contemptuous tone of voice are rare among the ranks of the Night's Watch. A soldier likes him, and even if Egger is honest and even participates in training desperately, it is impossible to win his favor.
"Ser Alliser, have you ever seen broken swords?"
"There are more good swords than you have ever seen."
"Then please take a look at the flaws in the two broken swords I brought back." Although the recruit instructor He is considered a superior, but now he is a ranger, and his fate is not decided by Alliser. Egger does not intend to be polite to him: "The sword of the Night Watch is made of steel, and the characteristic of steel is that it is strong. It is not like glass or ice. It is so brittle that no matter how strong or how fast you break the steel sword, the crack will inevitably be deformed. But this is not the case for these two broken swords. I deliberately broke all the Bring back the fragments and the upper and lower parts. If a few adults put them together, you can find that these fragments can be reassembled into a complete steel sword without any deviation. If you don't look carefully, you can't see the discontinuity. ."
Commander Mormont raised his eyebrows, followed his instructions, and put the broken sword back together. As Egg said, except for a few small gaps on the broken surface of the blade, which collapsed and could not be recovered, the entire sword It was still straight and sharp, and it was almost impossible to tell that it had been broken into two pieces and a pile of fragments.
"How could this happen?" the commander-in-chief asked politely.
Low temperature will reduce the bonding force between metal atoms and increase the rigidity or brittleness. Simply put, the colder it is, the less it can withstand stress and deformation... Of course, these words cannot be compared with the "ancients" in front of me who have never studied physics. Explain, and in this damn magical world, who can guarantee that what they know is everything?
"It is said that the White Walkers use ice magic, and the steel swords are cracked by the frost." Egger used the explanation of "doing as the Romans do in the country." "I have no way of knowing the specific reason, but I can guarantee that no matter who the adults find and what method they use, There is no way the same steel sword could break like this... The Commander-in-Chief can show the broken sword to the chief craftsman, chief steward, or blacksmith Donner of Castle Black. If anyone can restore a similar broken steel sword, , just treat me as a deserter."
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Donal Noy: The one-armed blacksmith of Castle Black. He was once the personal blacksmith and soldier of the Baratheon family. After losing an arm during the siege of Storm's End, Just joined the Black Shirts. Before that, he had followed Stannis Baratheon in the north and south, traveling all over the Seven Kingdoms, eating delicacies, tasting women from all over the world, and fighting hundreds of battles, big and small. It is said that he forged the hammer that Robert killed Rhaegar Targaryen on the Trident. In the battle of the wildlings attacking Castle Black in the original plot, he died fighting the giant king "Morg the Strong" in the tunnel under the Great Wall. He is considered a legendary figure.
Not counting the fact that he just killed a White Walker, Egger's past was nothing commendable at all. However, before he traveled through time, he was engaged in material testing. There were a lot of metal properties including impact testing machines next door to his original office. Test Equipment. When it comes to blacksmithing, he is not as good as blacksmith Donner, but when it comes to theoretical knowledge of metal materials, all the blacksmiths in the world combined are no match for him.
To make a steel sword look like this, you need a low temperature environment of at least minus 200 degrees Celsius. Even in the modern world before Egg traveled, only very expensive equipment could provide such conditions, allowing a medieval-level blacksmith to make them. The temperature is easily two hundred degrees or even two thousand degrees above zero, below zero? It would be easier to catch a white ghost and bring it back to perform a performance of cutting steel swords...
Iger's firm expression and confident words infected the Night Watch chief sitting behind the long table. They all came from extraordinary backgrounds, but Iger was not. A country bumpkin from a corner... He is a soldier of the Night Watch. These noble men in front of him may decide his life or death, but don't try to scare him with the so-called "nobility".
"I sent someone to check the wound on Gary's chest." Maester Aemon broke the silence. "It's strange that the wound was caused by a sharp object, but it showed typical symptoms of severe frostbite, and it was only limited to a very small area inside and outside the wound. ... It took several people a long time to remove all the necrotic parts. I don't know if Tang Na can break the steel sword into this shape, but I know that I can't make such a wound."
Zai Youwu said Among the three people, one of them was the first to believe in himself. Egger showed no expression on his face, but he was greatly relieved in his heart: No matter which era or place he went to, it was always easier to communicate with knowledgeable and insightful people, and his life was probably saved.
The commander-in-chief glanced at the silent chief ranger beside him: "Benyan, this is your man, what do you think?" The
boss of all rangers and the only member of the Stark family in the Night's Watch raised his head. . This thin but energetic man had been studying the evidence brought back by Egger from beginning to end. At this moment, when he was asked by the Commander-in-Chief, he understood that it was time for him to take a stand.
"We are the Night Watch, guarding the northernmost point of the kingdom." The younger brother of the Northern Guard spoke up, "But about the vast unknown territory north of the Great Wall, we actually don't know much more than the people in the south... I have never seen a White Walker. , but I dare not rashly assert that this thing does not exist. Seeing is believing. In a few days, I will personally lead the elite rangers north to look for the White Walkers that Sir Waymar Royce and Egg talked about. As for now... ..."
Under Egger's intense gaze, Bunyan paused for a moment and then made his verdict: "The most important thing right now is to inform Weimar Royce's family about the disappearance and try to give them an explanation. As for Egg, he will be detained for now, and I will ask you to lead the way when I patrol north next time. You have to work hard to prove whether what he said is true or false."
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As expected, he wanted to lead the way, but Gary guessed it correctly.
Egg secretly admired the veteran's divine prediction. He was lifted up by two brothers in black and taken out of the conference room. Before leaving the door, he heard the last words spoken by Maester Aemon and Benjen Stark: "Before you lead people north, There is something you need to do beforehand. The messenger crow brought news that the Prime Minister is dead and the king is on his way to the north. Lord Eddard asks you to take time to return to Winterfell and welcome him with him."