The Winter of Ice and Fire Is Coming

(It's late, sorry!)

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From Valantis to Pantos, first to Mill, then take a boat from Mill, and walk hundreds of miles by sea to reach Pantos.

Pantos City is the closest free trade city-state to Junlin City, and the two cities face each other across a narrow sea.

But Will and Daenerys did not go by land or sea, but by air.

What they rode was Will's Griffin hidden in the primeval forest.

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Pantos City.

The festive atmosphere is getting stronger.

The annual festival of choosing virgins for the prince to sacrifice the sea, sky and earth is coming.

The four gates have also strengthened their guard.

Since the city of Pantos was killed by the governor Illyrio with the help of Zogo Cao and other disobedient governors and the political system changed, Illyrio has become the true power of Pantos.

Recently, however, he felt uneasy.

Zogo Cao owns the highest stone tower palace in the city in Pantos, as well as several castles. In normal times, these places are managed by Illyrio.

The cause of the incident began with the disappearance of a maid in the stone tower palace.

This is a trivial matter.

Although Pantos was nominally pressured by the city of Braavos to lift the slavery system, in fact the servants and maids were real slaves. They just changed their terms to maintain peace with Braavos.

The former slave market naturally closed long ago and became a free trade market, but if you walk into any store, you can buy the servants, workers, women, or samurai you like.

This is the slave market in disguise.

Change the soup without changing the medicine!

So the most likely reason for a maid's disappearance is that the slave has escaped.

Run away. For a governor in charge of Pantos City, running away ten slaves and maids will have no effect on him. He can fill in any shortage of people at any time.

The problem is that the two horses in the stables also disappeared the next night, and the owner of the horses was also missing: two slave soldiers who were in charge of patrolling the streets near the palace.

This caused Illyrio's vigilance.

Because recently the city has to choose a virgin to sacrifice the sky, the sea and the earth. The four gates of the city have been under martial law. The city’s thousands of garrisons are Illyrio’s confidants. They did not find anyone riding out of the city at night.

Illyrio ordered a close investigation!

Illyrio was a mercenary before starting his life. He and Varys jointly established the secret intelligence organization Little Mouse and made a fortune. Spying on intelligence to discover secrets is his strong suit. However, after his order was issued, there was still no news about the missing person and horse, and the palace and stone tower of Zogo Kao, which he was in charge of, continued to disappear every night.

This makes Illyrio very disturbed.

As a person who secretly controls the little mouse of the underground secret intelligence organization, he can't find the secret of what happened around him.

This is absolutely impossible, but in fact, in his own red stone fort, people have also started to disappear.

In just a few days, the trend of this situation did not weaken but only became stronger.

Illyrio is a man with many secrets. He also started by selling other people's secrets, but in his heavily guarded red stone fort, slaves began to disappear.

There is no doubt that someone is eyeing him.

But the problem is, in Pantos, in Mill, in Telosi, in Braavos, in Rees, in Valantis, in Kohor, in Novos, in Rollas these nine freedoms In the trading city-state, his little mice are all active. Even in cities far east, there are his little birds flying, where and what happened, and who needs to find out the details, no one can beat Illyrio.

Illyrio thought about it, and thought of a person: Varys.

When it comes to the establishment and management of intelligence organizations, and the cultivation of little birds, Varys is above him.

After Varys went to the other side of the narrow sea to be Elis Targaryen's intelligence director, the management and operation of these little mice and little birds were in his hands, but the real owner was Varys.

When the two people worked together, Varys was responsible for digging up the intelligence, and Illyrio was responsible for selling it. Therefore, the establishment and control of the real intelligence system is still Varys.

Since Varys returned from escaping from King's Landing Red Fort, Varys has once again joined hands with him to run this huge game of little mice and little birds.

But if it was Varys, he had no reason to do so.

Since Zogo Cao was poisoned and Varys was forced to flee Daenerys, the connection between Illyrio and Varys was only interrupted for half a month, and the time was very short.

Assuming it is not Varys, then there is only one possibility left for those who can make his people disappear without knowing it: the faceless people of Braavos Black and White House.

Pantos and the Neptune of Braavos signed the abolition of slavery. Although it is a violation of the Yin and Yang, the Neptune has turned a blind eye for so many years and has not launched a war. Could it be that the Neptune hired a faceless person to persecute him deliberately? Amend Pantos's servant market? In Braavos, besides the Faceless, there are also the Wind Spirit. The wind spirit only kills people directly. People who destroy the corpses like this are in line with the style of the faceless.

At the front and back gates of Illyrio’s castle, four new unsullied captains wearing bronze helmets have been added. Inside and outside the courtyard, the guards with swords patrolled everywhere, as if they were facing an enemy.

Despite this, Illyrio still feels danger around him, and it is getting stronger.

But he still had to get in a carriage to the city hall to discuss matters early this morning: He is the person in charge of choosing virgins to sacrifice to the gods.

In order to pay tribute to the gods, the virgin must be selected from the noble families of the nobles in the city. This is also the reason for the day and night martial law in the city. Some noble young and unmarried women cannot be allowed to slip out of the city gate.

Every year comes this season, when Pantos city aristocrats get married most often.

But no matter how tossing these nobles, the pure virgins that should be selected still have to be selected from these families.

Before Varys went out, there was a shadow in his heart. When his carriage drove him down the street, he breathed a sigh of relief. He felt the ease of escaping from the cage.

The front and back of the carriage were his guards, among them the guards from Astabo Unsullied.

The Unsullied has no fear, will not be afraid, is Illyrio's favorite guard of the dead.

Illyrio has not asked his captain of the guard if he counted the number of people this morning and found that the number of missing persons has decreased. He decided not to ask, in order to relieve his psychological pressure of hearing bad news every morning.

The carriage is luxurious, wide and comfortable, and can sleep and lie down. There are wine and food in the carriage. Looking at Illyrio's size, you know that he can't live without food at any time.

In the slight sway of the carriage, Illyrio's hand stretched out to the snack bag habitually. He took out the snack and brought it to his mouth. Then, he saw the words engraved on the snack: Lord Illyrio, I will bring the money. Up.

The warm snacks are freshly baked, baked by the maid before getting on the train and just put on the wagon.

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