Chapter 26
Dothraki likes to say "it is known", and when they say that, they don't mean that everyone in the room knows something, but it's expressing a well-established tradition.
In fact, horse people's "it is known" is still very wise for survival. For example, now, Dany's maid and Bloodrider persuade her to avoid the dead city that can save her life because she is afraid of devil.
Jhiqui said, "Once the Spiritual God is gone, the evil spirits will go out at night to hunt for food." Is there any truth to it?
This makes perfect sense for herders who chase grasslands and rivers.
Why does a city die?
In this world in this era, there are often only two reasons: first, plague; second, war.
It goes without saying that the plague must be avoided. The massacre caused by the war will leave a city full of dead bodies, and the accumulated dead bodies will also cause plagues.
horse people are not afraid of war, but in the face of almost irresistible plague... The germs that cause the plague are the "evil ghosts" in the mouth of horse people.
The ignorant Dothraki, through the bloody experience and lessons of their ancestors over the past thousand years, summed up a set of survival principles to adapt to this land.
"I have a dragon, any evil spirit will take the initiative to avoid it if it sees a dragon." Dany can only comfort the horse people like this.
The "fresh" dead city doesn't need to remind her that "it is known", Dany oneself will vigilantly avoid it, but the ruins don't know how many years have passed. No matter what caused their destruction back then, they could no longer hurt them today.
Without delay, Dany immediately ordered: recall the Knight who was looking for water in front of him, Khalasar changed his direction, and the first 20 Warriors set off at this moment and went to the white city to find food and water.
In order to appease the worried horse people, Dany also sent Black Dragon to follow them all the way this time.
Well, she will enter the Dragon Dream state, commanding the little dragon action.
Things went more smoothly than she expected. An hour later, Black Dragon came to white city with the advance army.
It is a white city as bright as the bright moon and beautiful as Maiden, with a white city wall and a white tower, shining rays of light in the misty air curtain in the afternoon, so beautiful that people think it is Mirage.
Arriving outside the white city, at Dany's request, Black Dragon struggled to fly into the sky from the bamboo basket on Aggo's back.
With just one glance, Dany saw the green in the city through Big Black's line of sight.
After getting closer, Dany was so excited that he got out of Dreki state.
"There are orchards, figs, grapes, and I also see peach trees." She stood up and took Doreah's hand, exhibiting one's feelings in one's speech, "Our team is saved, we You can settle down there, farm until the little dragon grows into a dragon, hahaha..."
In the afternoon, Sun was still hanging in the sky at a forty-five degree angle, and Dany urged impatiently. Khalasar pulls camp set off.
“This time, don’t begrudge your physical strength, it’s only two or three hours away. Aggo and the others have already prepared fresh fruit and sweet well water. Let’s work harder and hope is just around the corner.” Dany can’t wait to fight Horses run wild.
When she was 5 kilometers away from the white city, Big Black flew over and landed on her shoulders. The sky fell into the yellow of the sunset. Dany and her Khalasar finally came to the white city wall.
"I didn't expect to see such a majestic building in the barren red plain." Ser Jorah sighed to Dany in an incredible tone: "Even in our Westeros, such a city is not common."
That is your Westeros, this is my white city.
Dany Violet's big eyes smiled with a crescent moon, "I announce that this city is occupied by me!"
Seeing Dany so happy, Jorah also played easily said with a smile: "Then ask Her Highness the Princess to name your city."
She tilted her head for a while, giggled and said a word, "Whitecloud", and rode on a small The silver horse ran quickly into the city gate.
From a distance, this is a beautiful pure white stone city, and the city wall three feet high blocks all the dross. Entering it, I found a broken wall in front of me, Devilgrass growing between the cracks in the floor tiles, and vines spreading in the collapsed house. Dany even saw a thigh-thick jujube tree growing in what was supposed to be the center of the street, with sparse green and shriveled jujubes hanging on it.
Maybe it came from a date pit several decades ago?
"How long have you said this city has been abandoned?" she asked the people around her.
"Looking at how well-preserved it is, it should be twenty or thirty years." Jorah said uncertainly.
Dany shook the head, "Absolutely more than that."
She turned her head and shouted to the old man who was holding the branches and pulling dates on the saddle, "Effendi, come here. ."
"Oh, Khaleesi, I'm horse men here."
"Boom..." The horse made a crisp sound on the gray-white stone floor, After a while, Kung Fu came to Dany.
"How old are you? Can you hear about this city all these years?"
"Khaleesi, you eat dates." Effendi flattered, holding a belly the size of seven or eight pinkies of green dates handed to Dany.
"You oneself eat it." Dany shook his head.
Effendi then put the jujube baby in the shackle on the horse's back, thinking and said: "Khaleesi, I don't know how long oneself has lived, there are many times on the Great Grass Sea for several years in a row. I can't tell the seasons in a daze, but I only remember seeing the winter snow about eight or nine times."
Not to mention the horse people who didn't invent the calendar at all, even the aristocrats of Westeros, they couldn't do it The seasons and years of the Qing Dynasty are all thanks to the annual Raven Reminders issued by Maester of Citadel.
The world of Ice and Fire has no fixed seasons, such as Dany, who only saw snow when she was very young in her memory. Like many teenagers of this generation, she is Summer's child.
"When was the last winter? What season is it now?" She turned to the most knowledgeable Knight.
Well, it's a bit embarrassing, under Dany's hands, the Bear Island reckless has become a wise man.
Jorah Mormont scratched his tanned scalp, thought hard for a moment, and said, "When I was Earl of Bear Island, I seem to have heard Maester say that this summer is very long. At that time... About six years ago, counting...it should still be summer now, it's been 10 years."
He looked at the sultry dark red sky, and couldn't deny that it was still Summer.
"You need a Maester," he sighed then said, reluctantly suggested.
"If a Maester does come to me, it won't be long before every Westeros noble's desk will have a detailed report on me and my dragon." Dany is noncommittal said softly.
"It's not that bad, Maester swears allegiance to oneself's clientele..." Jorah murmurs sullenly.
He suddenly thought of oneself...
Perceiving Khaleesi's questioning eyes, Effendi was stunned before saying: "In my impression, Red Waste It has always been a taboo place that cannot be stepped into."
"Khaleesi, look!" While talking, everyone walked towards the palace in the center of the city, passing through a place where six alleys meet, Aggo suddenly With an exclamation, he pointed to an empty marble pedestal and said: "The Spiritual God of the white city was removed by the horse people. A Khalasar must have come here, and it is likely that a certain Khal plundered the city."
"Huh..." The old Effendi rode forward and circled the marble pedestal in the center of the street twice, and said in surprise, "There are really horse men here, what is that? What happened?"
"How did you know that?" Dany wondered.
"Khaleesi, have you noticed?" Effendi held the whip and pointed to the surrounding blocks, "This is the intersection of six streets, but it is the city center, so it should be placed on a marble plinth. The Spiritual God believed in by the white city."
This statement was recognized by Dany, she nodded, "Then what?"
"You forgot? Only the Dothraki snatch the Divine Idol from other nations. Get used to it," Jorah chimed in.
As soon as he reminded Dany, a memory popped up in Dany's brain. After the Dothraki destroyed the city, he liked to steal their Spiritual God or hero statue.
The Holy Land of Dothraki, starting from Horse Gate, has a main road through Vaes Dothrak - Godsway.
The road is lined with countless statues, stone, bronze, cast iron, carved wood, and even Valyria steel.
There are statues of Spiritual God, statues of King and heroes, and even statues of Evil God and the Devil in Shadow Lands.
"It seems that the history here is longer than we thought, at least more than a hundred years. The Dothraki army was able to come here, it must be because the river was not dry at that time. Just a few hundred horse people warriors , this fortified city will never be beaten."
Speaking, Dany and her Khalasar had crossed the block to the palace ruins in the center of the city.
horse people are reluctant to live in stone houses with ghosts wandering around. Dany has no choice but to let them build tents against the walls of the tall palace.
There is a fence to block the sun.
After everything was settled, Khalasar sat around the square in front of the palace, and the Warrior, sent first, collected a lot of fruit, including figs, grapes, peaches, apples...
Although the fruit is generally stunted, small in size and poor in taste, all her people greedily reach out to grab it, push each other, stuff the fruit into their mouths, and make a satisfying chewing sound.
"The city walls are white, the towers are white, the buildings on the streets are also white, the palaces are still monotonous white, and there are white skeletons on the streets. It's the City of Bones." Jorah said in a weird tone, rubbing her furry arms.
In fact, there are traces of burning everywhere in the city, but the blackness of Huofen City has also become mottled with time.
In the dark night, under the light of the red comet's bloody rays of light, the only sound of the wind resounding in the city alley is the sound of ghost crying, which is indeed a bit infiltrating.
Dany's two horse men maids were already a little uneasy, and when they heard Knight's words, they trembled with fear.
Jhiqui cried out: "Khaleesi, we can't stay here, this is the domain of evil spirits, listen, they curse us in the corner!"
"What? City of Bones? Nonsense!" Dany glared at Big Bear and said firmly: "This is Whitecloud, I am Whitecloud City Lord, and this is my place."
"Sigh!" Big Black Upon receiving her message, he opened his mouth at the right time and sprayed out a bright red Dragonflame 30cm long and about the thickness of a thumb.
Dragonflame also contains a puff of black smoke, which looks terrifying.
The two maids stopped talking.