The king on the Great Wall

Turning his head to look, another thing confirmed his guess: the ghoul horse that the White Walker was riding had also fallen to the ground and turned back into a dead horse.Now that I think about it, this change probably happened at the same time as the alien's weapon lost its magic blessing, that is, the moment the obsidian dagger stabbed the alien. It's just that I was in a desperate state of concentration and didn't notice it at the first time.

After a lot of effort, he stood up again, and his intuition told him that there would be no second White Walker nearby, but his reason told him that intuition was the most unreliable, so he decided to leave as soon as possible.Holding a broken sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, Iger cautiously approached Gary.

The old soldier was pale, his lips were purple with cold, but his eyes were bright, and he was obviously alive.

"cold……"

Iger looked around and saw that his horse had already run away. Fortunately, when Gary was about to kill the horse just now, he unloaded all the luggage and equipment, and the blankets and clothes were not taken away.He quickly set up a simple floor to keep his teammates warm.

Fortunately, after checking the wound, Iger found that Gary's chest injury was not serious because of the abnormal sharpness of the ghost's weapon and his timely rescue so that he had no time to make up the knife.The area of ​​the wound was very small and the location was far from the heart, so it did not cause irreparable bleeding.What's even more amazing is that the bleeding on the surface of the wound has clotted into a lump, and the surrounding skin shows clear symptoms of frostbite...

Although the low temperature brought by the ice magic on the White Walker's weapon makes Gary's life not dangerous for the time being, it will seriously affect his healing and recovery later. He must get good treatment as soon as possible.

Iger looked up at the Great Wall of Desperation, whose gray-blue outline was blurred in the distance, and knew that he might not be able to escape this time.

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Chapter 10 Interrogation and Self-Defense

"So, you brought back two broken swords to prove that you and Gary are not deserters, but heroes who killed the White Walkers?" After listening to Iger's narration of the whole process of the patrol going north, Commander Mormont looked Staring at Iger seriously, as if to find evidence of lying from the face and eyes of the traverser.

Iger took a breath: "I will not declare myself a hero, because I did flee from the place where the battle took place ten days ago, and neither rescued Sir Waymar Royce nor brought back his body. But I think, compared to It is more important and more meaningful to fight the White Walkers and be killed, and return to the Great Wall to pass the important warning of their presence."

"Obsidian can indeed kill the White Walkers. It is recorded in many legends." Aemon, who has been invisible, tremblingly fiddled with the self-made obsidian dagger handed in by Iger, obviously very interested in what he said: " If I remember correctly, you are a foreigner, and you have only recently learned the script of Westeros, how do you know these legends so well?"

"There are also related legends circulating in my hometown. In the past, I always regarded it as a fairy tale, until I came here by chance and saw the Great Wall of Desperation..."

***

The ghoul that the White Walker rode was still hung with oats that served as horse food. After killing the White Walker, Iger found his frightened and escaped horse a few hundred meters away.After feeding him all the oats and resting for a while, Iger returned to the Great Wall with the seriously injured Gary on his horse.

Now, sitting in the conference room warmed by the fire, he communicated face-to-face with so many leaders of the Night Watch Legion for the first time.For a whole year after he was forced to join the Great Wall defenders, he tried his best to attract the attention of these high-level night watchmen, but now he finally got his wish, but he was tried as a deserter suspect: "Maester Aemon, you are a learned man. You understand, man—that if legends everywhere have similar accounts of a long-ago event, it is likely to be true. The White Walker did exist, and it is now returning."

The blind old man nodded. Although he didn't know exactly what happened, at least the second half of what the night watchman soldier said made sense.

"Hmph, in my opinion, it's just to avoid punishment, I made a wound on purpose, and then I found something to break the sword, so as to give the illusion of going through a hard fight." Alliser Thorne, who stood aside, The recruit instructor of the Night Watchman snorted coldly, "This guy is slippery during training, and lazy whenever he gets the chance, can he kill a different ghost? Even if this thing really exists?"

Iger did not refute. Of course, the recruit instructor did not deliberately target him. As a testing engineer engaged in technical work before crossing, although he is not powerless, he is probably more "coddled" than many nobles in this world. Not to mention those night watchman minions who were born at the bottom.When he first came to the Great Wall of Despair, it was really difficult for him to accept such high-intensity training, and he stole a lot of laziness. Although he still passed the training in the end, he undoubtedly left a bad impression on Alliser Thorne.

Having said that, this noble who was forced to join the Night Watch because of the fall of the Targaryen dynasty he supported was a cynical, mean and sympathetic person. A soldier likes it, even if Iger honestly and even desperately participates in training, it is impossible to get his favor.

"Ser Alliser, have you ever seen a broken sword?"

"More swords than you've ever seen."

"Then please take a look at the gaps of the two broken swords I brought back." Although the recruit instructor is regarded as a superior, but now he is a ranger, the fate is not up to Allisa, Iger does not intend to be polite to him: " The night watchman's sword is made of steel, and the characteristic of steel is toughness. It is not as brittle as glass or ice. No matter how hard you break the steel sword and how fast you break it, the crack where it breaks Both are bound to be deformed, but the gaps of these two broken swords are not like this. I deliberately brought back all the fragments and the upper and lower parts. It is difficult to reconstitute a complete steel sword, and if you don't observe carefully, you won't be able to see where the breaks are."

Commander Mormont raised his eyebrows, acted as he said, and put the broken sword back together. As Iger said, except for a few small gaps on the broken blade that could not be retrieved, the whole sword was still straight It's so sharp that it can hardly be seen that it has been broken into two pieces and a pile of fragments.

"How could this be?" 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 able it is to withstand stress and deformation... Of course, these words cannot be compared with the group of "ancients" who have never studied physics. Explain, and, in this bloody magical world, who can guarantee that what they know is everything?

"It is said that the White Walker used ice magic, and the steel sword was cracked by freezing." Iger used the explanation of doing as the Romans do, "I don't know the specific reason, but I can guarantee that no matter who the adults look for or what method they use, Even the same steel sword can't be broken into such a shape... Your Lord Commander can show the broken sword to the chief craftsman, the chief affairs officer, or the blacksmith Donner of Castle Black. If anyone can restore a similar broken steel sword , although treat me as a deserter."

***

Donna Noye: The one-armed blacksmith of Castle Black, who was once a private blacksmith and soldier of the Baratheon family, joined the Blackshirt Army after losing an arm in the siege of Storm's End.Before that, he followed Stannis Baratheon to war in the north and south, traveled all over the Seven Kingdoms, ate delicacies from mountains and seas, tasted women from all over the world, and fought hundreds of battles.It is said that he forged the warhammer that Robert killed Rhaegar Targaryen on the Trident.In the battle of the wildlings attacking Castle Black in the original plot, he died in battle with the giant king "Mighty Mag" in the tunnel under the Great Wall, which can be regarded as a legendary figure.

Not counting the killing of a White Walker just now, Iger’s past is not worth mentioning at all, but he was engaged in material testing before crossing, and there are 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 flattering as the blacksmith Donald, but compared to the theoretical knowledge of metal materials, all the blacksmiths in this world combined are not his opponents.

To make the steel sword look like this, at least a low temperature environment of minus [-] degrees Celsius is required. Even in the modern world before Iger crossed over, such conditions can only be provided by quite expensive equipment, allowing a medieval-level blacksmith to manufacture The temperature of two hundred or even two thousand degrees above zero is easy, and below zero?It would be easier to catch a White Walker and bring it back to perform a sword-splitting show...

Iger's firm expression and confident speech infected the chief of the Night Watch who sat behind the long table. The master 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 instrument, but it showed typical symptoms of severe frostbite, and it was 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 Donald can break the steel sword like this, but I know that I can't make such a wound."

Among the three people who have the right to speak, one is the first to believe in himself.Iger didn't show any emotion on his face, but he was greatly relieved in his heart: no matter what era or place he went to, it was always easier to communicate with knowledgeable and insightful people. Most of his life was saved.

The commander-in-chief glanced at the silent chief ranger beside him: "Benyan, this is your man, what do you think?"

The leader of all the rangers, the only Stark member of the Night's Watch, looked up.This thin but vigorous man has been studying the evidence brought back by Iger from the beginning to the end. When asked by the commander-in-chief at this moment, he understands that it is time for him to express his opinion.

"We are the night watchmen, guarding the northernmost part of the kingdom." The younger brother of the guardian of the north said, "But we don't know much more than the southerners about the vast unknown area north of the Great Wall... I haven't seen a strange ghost. , but I don’t dare to assert that this thing doesn’t exist. Seeing is believing. In a few days, I will personally lead the elite rangers to go north to find the White Walker that Sir Waymar Royce and Iger mentioned. As for the moment... ..."

Under the staring gaze of the traverser, Bunyan paused and then made a verdict: "The most important thing right now is to inform the family of Weymar Royce's disappearance first, and try to give them an explanation. As for Iger, stay in confinement first, and I will let you lead the way next time I go north on a patrol, and you have to work hard to prove whether what I said is true or not."

……

Sure enough, he was going to lead the way, and Gary guessed it right.

Iger secretly admired the veteran's divine prediction, and was lifted up by two brothers in black and taken out of the meeting room. Before going out, he heard the last words spoken by Maester Aemon and Benjen Stark: "Before you lead people north Before now, there is something that needs to be done. The raven brought news that the prime minister is dead, and the king is on his way to the north, Lord Ed asks you to take time to return to Winterfell and meet him with him."

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Chapter 11

Such a coincidence?

Of course Iger knew what Maester Aemon was talking about—the death of the Prime Minister represented the beginning of the main plot.This is an important point in time, but he is really not in the mood to think about it right now. The escape for nearly ten days and nights has exhausted his physical and mental strength, and he just managed to face the fluent conversations of several senior night watchmen, although it is useless. No matter how much energy, it made him feel as if the last drop of his brain had been evaporated by thinking. He was almost escorted to the confinement room by two rangers, and immediately fell asleep when he touched the bed.

The so-called confinement was actually a half-imprisonment that lasted for a few days. The extremely painful prison life for ordinary people made the traveler happy. He ate, slept, slept and ate enough every day, and didn't even participate in the exercises, so he was happy and comfortable. After dozens of hours, he finally regained his vitality.

After enough rest, it's time to worry about your personal future and destiny.

***

Littlefinger has killed the former Prime Minister, and in the next king's northern tour, Robert will invite Ed Stark, the guardian of the north, to take over this position... Immediately after that, the Game of Thrones will begin.

All of this has little to do with himself as the night watchman. The only relevant part is: the dead Jon Arryn is the guardian of the east mirror, the ruler of the valley, the Duke of the Eagle's Nest, Waymar Royce and his family. Allegiance to the lord. It is unknown how "Bronze Jon" will feel when he receives the news of Feng Jun's death and his son's disappearance at the same time, but if he is lucky enough to be too busy, maybe he will give up pursuing himself, the deserter who "killed" his son?

Iger laughed at himself, pinning his hopes on other people's sloppiness or kindness is a gamble, and it seems extremely stupid in this cruel world.

The anger of Royce's family is far away, so don't think about it for now, he has to face another burning problem now: Benyan Stark was recalled by his elder brother to Winterfell to welcome the king's banquet, and when this guy returns The day of the Great Wall was the time when he personally led the rangers to go north to find the White Walkers and Waymar Royce... At that time, he, who was named by the chief ranger as a guide, would be like the ranger squad in the original plot The group was destroyed as well, or was he turned into a living dead by the children of the forest like Bunyan?

No matter which one, it is not a fate he is willing to accept.

Something must be done.

From the mouth of the brother in black who delivered the meal, Iger learned that Gary had woken up from a coma, so he decided to go to him in the name of visiting after lunch.If there is a chance to be alone, maybe he can ask about the way to cross the Grand Canyon. Although his freedom is restricted, he cannot go to the stables to lead the horses or leave the camp, but there is no problem in walking around Castle Black.

But before he made his decision and put it into practice, he was summoned again by the top of the night watchman.

(Could it be time to leave now?) Iger walked into the meeting room anxiously, and found that the scene was like the reenactment of the day when he was interrogated. The only difference was that there was an unexpected person sitting on the interrogation seat.

"Will, you're not dead!?"

"Egg!" The other party turned around and shouted in surprise, the speaker looked rather haggard - Iger and Gary rode the only two remaining horses, and the war horse that Weimar escaped was actually earlier than the first two. Returned to Castle Black, which means that the poacher fled back to the Wall without horses and without any supplies, and it took him longer and more difficult, if it weren't for the richer life of the hunter in the past With his experience in the wild and not being discovered by the White Walkers, he will never return to Castle Black alive.

Will, who was not fat before, looked almost skinny at the moment, and there was even half a bowl of hot porridge on the table in front of him... He was interrogated while drinking the porridge: "Bless the Seven Gods, without you, I am absolutely dead!"

……

"What?" Iger didn't understand. The other party's survival depends entirely on his ability, and he has half a dime to do with him?

"That day I hid in the tree and saw Sir Waymar was hacked to death by those ghosts. It took me a long time before they all left the tree." Will picked up the bowl with trembling hands and drank again. Mouth porridge, let out a hissing sound of being scalded: "I was about to find something to bring back as physical evidence... He... Sir Waymar stood up from the ground, his body was cut horribly, but there was blue light in his eyes , stretched out his hand to strangle me, his... is terrible, if you hadn't reminded me to be careful of dead people at the end, I would never be able to react!"

So it is!Unexpectedly, when I was extremely nervous and acted like a living horse doctor with a casual sentence, I actually saved a comrade who was about to die.But why call yourself here now?

He glanced around and saw something on the table in front of several legion high-ranking officers.

Judging from the hilt, this is Waymar Royce's sword. It was made of better fine steel and it lasted more in the confrontation with the other ghost's weapon, but the result was that it was broken more thoroughly: except about The palm-long sword tip, hilt, and the root of the blade remained intact, but the middle of the sword body was broken into an unknown number of petals like a tree struck by lightning. It was really embarrassing for Will——after seeing the ghosts killing people And after the horrible scene of the resurrection of the dead, he was able to calm down and collect most of the broken sword fragments, and traveled through mountains and rivers for more than ten days to bring them back to the Great Wall.

Now, Weimar's broken sword... To be precise, it is a broken sword, which has been put together and "assembled" by Commander Mormont or someone. As I said a few days ago, the broken pieces can be neatly They are neatly connected to each other, like broken glass, and there is almost no deformation after they are put back together.

This is an extremely powerful piece of evidence for what I said!Iger's heart moved, and he suddenly realized that there might be a turning point that would benefit him.

"You guys, take Will down." Benyan Stark, who was sitting quietly on the side, said, "Don't give him too much food at once, people who are extremely hungry will not realize that they are full, rest Good comes first."

Will was carried out of the meeting room by two night watchmen. When he left, he was still asking Iger how he knew that the dead would get up. When the room became quiet, Bunyan signaled the traverser to sit down.

"What Will said is not very different from what you and Gary said. Judging by his appearance, I don't think the three of you colluded to make him come back a few days on purpose." Commander Mormont said seriously, "I now have reason to believe that some kind of strange enemy has indeed appeared north of the Great Wall... Maybe it's the White Walkers, maybe it's something else."

Will's words are certainly not the only factor that changed the thinking of the night watchman's high-level executives. In fact, during the past few days when Iger ate and slept, they asked the blacksmith of the night watchman army and conducted a series of experiments. The results proved that: indeed No one can make the standard steel sword issued by the Legion look like the White Walker.And the broken sword brought back by the poachers this morning was even more exaggerated. Anyway, Mormont really felt strange.

"I'm going back to Winterfell soon, so make preparations and go on the road with me." Bunyan took over the commander-in-chief's words, "I want you to report your experience to the Duke of Winterfell in order to apply for support... and bring you along The broken sword of the three men, drafted in the stomach, narrated with the fastest speed and the most concise language, King Robert is about to arrive in the north, and my brotherhood is very busy."

Maester Aemon nodded, and added: "You don't need to be too deliberate, just like when you reported to us a few days ago, you performed well that day."

"Understood." Iger suppressed the excitement in his heart: "I...I will prepare now."

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Chapter 12

Whatever Benjen Stark's reason for joining the Night's Watch in the first place, Iger has to admit: he was a dedicated Chief Ranger.This thin and strong man learned through the raven that the king should arrive in the north in three weeks, and it would take no more than two weeks to return to Winterfell from Castle Black, so he busily dealt with a few more at the night watchman base. The Heavenly Defense Patrol Arrangement was just about to set off—fortunately, he was able to wait until Will escaped back to the Great Wall and provided the same testimony as Iger, so he changed his mind and temporarily decided to take himself to Winterfell to report to the Guardians of the North.

Travelers are a little fortunate, not everyone is trying their best to pursue comfort like myself.If you were the Chief Ranger and received a call from your brother, the Duke of Winterfell, you might have packed your luggage and headed south that day. Compared with the Great Wall of Despair, even Winterfell, which is recognized by the southerners as cold and gloomy , is definitely a paradise on earth.

There are always some people in the world who are too noble to be imagined by ordinary people. Iger never dares to judge the heart of a gentleman with a villain's heart just because he can't understand.He admired Benyan Stark's sense of honor and devotion to duty, but he was neither born here nor grew up here, nor did he have an older brother who served as the guardian of the North.Just like a soldier who was captured by a certain party as a strong man during the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. He has no sense of belonging to this world or this kingdom-threatening to cut off his hands to force himself to make an oath, and then he will die here?I'm sorry, Iger is not a noble and selfless ordinary person, even if this oath is ten times more magnificent and inspiring, he still refuses to be accepted such a fate.

Even if it is not selfish, Iger also believes that with the amount of knowledge he has and his understanding of the world, wherever he is in this world, he can definitely make a greater contribution to the world than defending the Great Wall against the ghosts.

Opportunities are only reserved for those who are prepared. For this trip to Winterfell, Wilben, who hid in a tree and watched the whole process of Waymar Royce being killed by the White Walker, was a more suitable candidate, but Bunyan did not. After thinking about it, he chose himself—the reason, firstly, was that Will's condition was not suitable for traveling, and secondly, it was probably because the former could not make it to the stage at all.Like a poacher who is always timid, with an accent and stutters from time to time, the fluent articulate self is obviously more suitable to report the situation to the Duke of Winterfell.

Moreover, he vaguely heard that Will seemed to have been frightened by the ghosts, and he was a little nervous.

***

He and Benjen set off in the afternoon, and to save time they would travel along the Kingsroad, through the Wolfwood, to Winterfell.They neither passed through Last Hearth City nor visited Deepwood Castle, so they brought enough food and drink just like the patrol outside the wall. The only difference was that each of them brought two horses for the convenience of the journey.

There was fine snow in the sky, and in the silence, the two rode out of the gate of Castle Black.Although the road under the feet is called the King's Road, it is indeed a part of the King's Road, but it is not much wider than the forest path. The real road starts from King's Landing and ends at Winterfell. The part further north, It's just an extension of form.

Heading south in silence, they soon approached Mole Village.Turning up a gentle slope, Iger couldn't help but glanced back.

Castle Black is located on the south side of the Great Wall, and the light received is basically not affected by the high wall, and the color of the ice itself is not conspicuous.It's not difficult for the Night's Watch to ignore the Wall in their daily lives.In order to protect the cervical spine, it is not surprising that after living in Castle Black for a few months, Iger learned to ignore the towering ice wall beside him.

But the Great Wall will not disappear just because you don't look at it, it will stand there as if it has existed since the beginning of the world, and will guard the North until the end of the world.

At this moment, after a few miles away, the entire outline of the Great Wall appeared, and the huge monster that filled the entire field of vision gradually turned into a gray-blue screen across the northern horizon, extending to both ends without interruption, east to west. It extends to the end of the field of vision until it disappears into the gray-white cold mist in the distance.

Only after a distance can you feel its greatness more intuitively—this is the largest building built by humans in the world of ice and fire, and it is definitely the tallest man-made object in at least Westeros.From here, the towers and huts of the night watchman's stronghold look like toy building blocks scattered in the snow at the foot of the wall; while the men in black walking are like busy ants among the building blocks.

If it were in the world where Eiger came from, it would definitely become the top tourist attraction - take a vacation, bring your loved ones, leave the impetuous and fast-paced city, and come to the northernmost tip of the world to enjoy the cold wind and play in the snow. Go to the top of the Great Wall overlooking the endless ghost forest, "feel the baptism of nature", "purify the dusty soul"... not only full of gimmicks, but also add a bragging item.

But the existence of the White Ghost changed the style of the Great Wall in an instant. This is a military building for human beings to resist extinction. This is the front line of the war of life and death. There are few places in the world more dangerous than this place.If nothing else happened, this trip to Winterfell would be his last chance to escape before participating in the next patrol. If possible, he hoped that he would never return to this place in his life.

***

"Egger." While thinking wildly, Benyan Stark beside him said, "You are a stranger, I know you are dissatisfied with being forced to serve on the Great Wall for no reason, but I must remind you kindly, do Don't plan to run away, countless people have already proved with their lives that the price of being a deserter is quite heavy."

"I understand, I have no intention of running away." The traverser's mind was suddenly pierced, and he was terrified, and hurriedly turned around to confess: "I have made a sacred oath, and I will definitely watch to the end of my life. The customs and culture of the place I come from Very different from Westeros, but equally serious about commitment."

"That's the best." Bunyan nodded and did not continue the topic: "My brother Ed Stark is a typical northerner who doesn't stick to red tape. But anyway, he is the Guardian of the North and Winterfell after all." Duke. In addition, the blood of the ancestors flows in the body of our Stark family, and the inheritance is quite long... Therefore, I will take the time to briefly talk to you about some basic etiquette and taboos. You must remember them well, even if you forget them It’s not going to lose your head, but it’s still a bit impolite.”

"Yeah." Iger nodded solemnly, took a last look at the Great Wall with complicated eyes, turned his head and temporarily put it out of his mind, and prepared to listen carefully.

……

The two traveled during the day and rested at night, passing Mole Village and Houguan Town away from the night watchman's sphere of influence, the road under the horseshoe gradually widened, and people along the way became more and more common.The ruler of the northern border donated a large piece of land north of the wolf forest to the night watchman army, allowing the latter to collect taxes and food from these lands to maintain their operations, but as the black shirt army weakened and shrank, the wildlings crossed the Great Wall to plunder the land. The increasing frequency of incidents among the residents has led to a southward exodus of large numbers of land-grant residents fleeing the inability to protect them from the Night's Watch and settling down within the protection of other nobles in the north.Today, apart from the small area close to the three major strongholds of the night watchmen where there are still villagers living and living, the "gifted land" has almost become a no-man's land.

But what is dramatic is that the formation of no man's land has made the northern border safer. This area and the Great Wall of Impassion have formed a double insurance. Few savages are willing to cross the large area hungry after taking the risk to cross the Great Wall. Uninhabited land grants to plunder villagers under the protection of powerful Umber, Karstark and other families.The income from plundering over the Great Wall became lower, and naturally there would be no savages to do this thankless task... The most intuitive feeling this brought to the northern princes was that the intrusion of savages became less.Most of the nobles attributed this to the Night's Watch Legion, so they volunteered to provide food, clothing and food, and finally both parties were happy.

Egger and Benjen Stark's trip to the south of Winterfell went very smoothly, except that they encountered a group of sneaky people suspected of being wildlings fleeing south on the way without any accidents.And this group of people also quickly disappeared into the dense forest after seeing the black cloaks of Bunyan and Iger. The chief ranger was not as young and energetic as Waymar Royce, and he chose to let the other party go without wanting to cause trouble. .

The road continued to widen, the stone bridge crossed the torrent, and the farms formed settlements around stone walls and wooden beams. Other travelers and businessmen began to come and go on the road. After sunset, they finally no longer had to sleep in the wilderness. At the time predicted by Yang, he arrived at the destination on time.

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Chapter 13 Winterfell and the Call for Help

Winterfell is not a city, but a castle.Its purpose of existence is like the Red Castle in King's Landing City, it only provides shelter and protection for the lord, it does not undertake miscellaneous city functions, and there is no such creature as "citizen".According to legend, it was built by "City Builder" Brandon with the help of giants. As a noble castle, Winterfell can be regarded as magnificent, but compared with another building built by the same person - the Great Wall of Impossible, no matter from Neither the scale nor the majesty is worth mentioning.

Not counting the surrounding villages and the temporarily abandoned winter shelter towns in summer, the area of ​​Winterfell surrounded by high walls is less than a hundred acres, and a small half of it is the godswood forest.Apart from the entourage, subordinates, servants and family members of these people who often live inside the wall, there is only a standing army of several hundred, which is the largest standing army in the north except for the night watchman.

As a Ranger who has stood guard on the Great Wall and killed White Walkers in the Ghost Forest, there are really not many things in this world that can scare Iger.His inner thoughts when he saw Winterfell for the first time were not shock or admiration, but a little bit of surprise: the political center of the north, the home of many important people in Binghuo, is actually so small.No wonder connecting to a king can make a fuss!

But thinking about it later, I subconsciously compared what I saw with the Great Wall of Despair. I am afraid that there is no such thing as a "big" building in this world.

It was getting late, and full of thoughts, Iger followed Bunyan through the gate of Winterfell and entered it.

"Welcome home, Lord Bunyan." The guard who has followed the Stark family for many years certainly knows his lord's younger brother, and he graciously took the reins of the chief ranger's horse, "I will immediately ask someone to arrange your accommodation and bathing. "

"No need, where are my brothers?"

"My lord has just received the king, and he is probably busy in the main castle now...I don't know."

"The king has arrived?" Bunyan frowned. "Damn it, I'm already two days ahead of schedule...Fortunately, I didn't miss the dinner. Go ahead, I'll go see him myself."

"Yes, my lord."