Chapter 18
2020-11-02
Chapter 18 starts without a picture, the story is all made up"Fear." Igor concluded, " The largest fortifications and standing armies must be used to deal with the most terrifying enemies. It was fear that allowed the First Men thousands of years ago to build such a high wall, form and support a team of more than 10,000 people who did not produce or accept Moved troops. No other plausible explanation."
"Well, you're right," Tyrion admitted frankly, "but forgive my little insistence, in Before I saw it with my own eyes, I never believed in the existence of any legendary demons and ghosts."
"It's your power not to believe." Igor spread his hands, and it was not oneself's purpose to convince the other party that Others existed anyway: "Actually, I didn't really believe it until I fought one of the Others myself and watched it smash the steel sword in its hand like glass with the Ice Sword."
"I just I thought you were in charge of the accounts in Night's Watch Legion, why did you run out and fight Others again?" dwarf showed a curious expression: "Are you a clerk or a Ranger?"
"Ranger, Alas..." Igor looked towards Jon: "young man, want to know why your Uncle doesn't support you to join Night's Watch, come with me to see the steel sword that Others smashed. You'll understand soon, you think Proud sword technique and skill, in the face of that kind of enemy—unable to withstand a single blow."
illegitimate child followed Igor's pace without hesitation, while Tyrion, with a slight hesitation, stepped forward as well. The two short legs follow closely from behind. This makes the transmigrator relaxed: he's nominally trying to show Jon something, but he's actually trying to find a way to get closer to Tyrion in order to bring up the topics he wants to talk about.
Lannister and illegitimate child turned around and followed Igor to the room that Benjen Stark had arranged for him. Night's Watch took the evidence he had brought Winterfell from the Wall to show Eddard Stark to ask for help, and put it on a small wooden table in the room for the two guests to watch.
"Waymar Royce's broken one is more severe, but it was left to your father by Lord Benjen to be passed on to the victim's family, which is the Runestone count." Igor placed the Broken Sword on the side. introduced, "The two swords in front of me are the swords of my comrade Gary and I."
Tyrion raised his eyebrows: "The version I heard is that Waymar Royce disappeared on patrol, it has been confirmed Dead?"
"I saw him fight Others and get killed." Igor lied, he just heard, but Waymar Royce was dead anyway, and the two in front of him were dead. There's absolutely no way to dismantle him either: "Me and another Ranger would have died too, but the Dragonglass dagger saved our lives. It's that black thing, no genius, that I made with my own hands... If you are interested, you can put these Two Swords together to see, the steel sword that was frozen and cracked by Ice Magic, not everyone has a chance to see."
Jon young temperament, listening to him Then, he couldn't help but start his hands, and Tyrion didn't care about weapons... or broken weapons. He walked around the house with his hands behind his back, but didn't find the jug and glass, so he had to walk back to Igor and look up at him.
"Your name is Igor, what is Igor?"
Igor was overjoyed, but was worried that he didn't have the chance to continue his oneself performance, so dwarf gave him a step.
"My name is not Igor, Igor is just a name given to me by a few Westeros farmers, and I don't even know what it means." Igor smiled wryly, "I don't have what you usually mean. Last name, where I'm from, and the way you name people is a little different from yours..."
"I'll just say you look a little different, so you're not from Westeros. Where are you from, Erth Soth or Summer Islands? Not Sothoryos, right?"
"Neither, I come from what you call... a continent called China west of Sunset Sea, China means The land of the Central Plains, because my people in the past thousands of years have always believed that the place we are in is the center of the world, all around the boundless sea, and there is no other land except the islands.”
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"China?" Tyrion originally just had enough to drink and had nothing to do to come over to see something new, but when he had nothing to say, he asked the origin and identity of the Night's Watch in front of him. Unexpectedly answered, interest came immediately: "I've never heard of this place, how could you run to Westeros to be Night's Watch?"
"That's a long story." Igor didn't expect everything would go so smoothly, and in a few words successfully attracted the attention of the other party. But next, he had to try to grasp the victory: "After conducting a series of astronomical observations, calculations and conjectures, our academic community came to a conclusion: the world is a ball, and if a ship is sent out to sea to sail in one direction, It will return to the starting point after a circle around the world. In order to test this theory, the ruler of China decided to send fleet to sea for super ocean voyages. , North, and South sailing in four directions..."
"Building a ship out of steel? How is that possible."
"Will it sink if you put an iron bowl in water, The same is true for a ship made of steel. It is the displacement, not the material, that determines the floating and sinking of the ship. China's technology is much more advanced than that of Westeros. I can introduce it in detail in the future."
"Iron bowl ... water displacement." Tyrion, a smart man, figured this out with a little twist of his mind, but he soon had a new question: "But how do you make an iron bowl that can carry a person? As long as there is a leak in one place, It would sink faster than a stone."
"We use a process called 'welding' where we melt the joints between the steel plates to make them one... I'm not an expert in the details. , I really can't explain it in detail."
"It sounds very difficult to deal with, continue your story." Dwarf was thinking about the scene where the steel plates were connected into one and turned into a ship. For the first time, he felt oneself. With so little imagination, he stopped talking and motioned for Igor to continue.
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"As an adventurer with a small reputation, I certainly couldn't pass up such an interesting expedition. After a substantial funding for the project, I was given a class, and with the eastward fleet set off from China, after a few months of sailing, I arrived at Westeros."
"I have not heard of any foreigners landing on the Sunset Sea. , where's your ship."
"It sank, we discovered land, and encountered a storm while searching for a place to land. Originally, our steel ocean-going ships were designed to resist Stormy, but the waves threw the ship on a reef... As you suspected, steel ships are strong, but they sink faster than anything else in the event of an accident. Luckily, I wasn't taken into the seabed, and after a few days at sea holding the flotsam, I landed."
"And then," urged Tyrion, "are the North people crazy enough to see? Is it enough for people to take it to the Wall?"
"I drifted at sea for a few days, I was starving to death, of course the first thing I did when I landed was to find food, but unfortunately I finally found it along the way. In a place where people live, but cannot communicate due to language barriers, the villagers do not understand my words and refuse to help... A living person can't be suffocated by urine, so I decided to take it myself." Igor sighed: "Obviously, I'm not good at this, I got caught before I could fill my stomach, and my judge gave me a choice between cutting off a hand and putting on black clothed, so I became a Night's Watch."
"Uh..." Tyrion's eyes widened: "As the first Chinese person in history to arrive at Westeros, you were caught by Night's Watch like this?"
"That's okay. Say."
"This is the most bullshit story I've heard this year." dwarf looked odd, "If I had the choice, I'd rather believe the Others really existed."
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