Chapter 168
2021-01-06
Chapter 168 Sword Slash ExaminationThe Night's Watches are all disarmed and are reporting that name for them The gray robe guards led into the Red Keep. But instead of heading to the Tower of the Hand as Igor had expected, the entire group stopped in a small square on the road to Maegor's Holdfast - where Eddard Stark was waiting for them.
As Prime Minister, Ed has many major events to do today, and to save time, it's nothing to condescend to leave the office. I hope these Night's Watch who claim to bring a "ghoul" to oneself are not joking, otherwise, Eddard Stark is very willing to tell them with actions that oneself also has a temper.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister." The Night's Watch greeted the Hand of the King who came out to meet in person.
Ed nodded, instead of responding to the greeting, walked directly to the reinforced wooden cage on the carriage and observed the objects contained within.
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The ghoul doesn't know what exhaustion is, and without the command of Others, it doesn't understand strategy at all... It will always cooperate to the extreme and rush towards the closest, warm living creature. The roaring, relentless movements made the entire carriage tremble. Fortunately, the cage was fastened with ropes, and the cart was pulled by an old horse...otherwise, the curtain would be lifted from Linhemen. On the way to Red Keep, they don't know how many times they have to roll over.
"Is this a ghoul?" Eddard Stark is also a human, or is he born a high-ranking noble, educated and critical and skeptical person in the world of ice and fire, he soon had a relationship with Tyrion The same question as before: "I think this is like a madman who has a disease."
This question is easy to solve, as long as someone randomly plays the scene of the "ghoul examination" before entering the door That's fine, but now the Night's Watch's weapons have been confiscated.
Fortunately, the guard who watched the play outside the door was still there: "Sir, the black clothed brothers demonstrated it outside the door just now. This person... can't be killed."
Ed is a man of action. He didn't talk nonsense. He reached out for the guard's steel sword, held it in his hand and stared at several Night's Watches: "If I stab this person with one sword, this person will die..."
"Let the adults handle it."
(If the thing in front of him is still alive, it would be a kind of mercy to kill him.) Eddard Stark thought so, without hesitation, The cage found the location of the ghoul's heart and stabbed it precisely.
The white knife went in and the white knife came out, just and quickly. There was only some grease-like translucent viscous liquid on the blade, with an unpleasant odor. I didn't know what it was.
Eddard Stark looked at the steel sword in his hand, and then looked at the human figure still in the cage with a lively dragon and animated tiger. After waiting for half a minute, he didn't see any sign of "Death", and he was suffering all day. Da Choushen's face became more and more gloomy, standing motionless in place, wondering what he was thinking about.
"Maybe there is some disease in the world that can keep a man from being killed by a sword, but a ghoul also has an impossible characteristic of a living person." Alliser chased and added: "The grown-up can cut his arm off. ."
"Cut off an arm?"
"Cut off anything, even the head, which can continue to move away from the body until it rots away." Alliser said: "But the most convenient way to cut the arm is to stick it out of the cage...one for the Prime Minister and one for King Robert."
Ed didn't say much, raised the steel sword and stretched it out towards the ghoul beside the cage His arms were chopped off. The North people, who claim to be descendants of the First Men, believe that the person sentenced to death must do it himself. As the guardian of North, Ed is quite skilled at cutting people... He raised his sword and fell, and swung a blow like an executioner's execution, the ghoul One of the two arms fell, and fell to the ground with a clatter.
He handed the sword back to his guard, bent over and took the broken arm that fell to the ground in his hand. The amputated limb doesn't seem to know that oneself has left the main body, and still bends his fingers to grasp the air, the scene is extremely strange.
Ed has been on the battlefield, and he has seen a lot of stumps and broken arms. The limbs that can move after leaving the torso do exist, but they are generally only weak reflexes like twitching, at least not like the current ones. The hand is the same, making a reciprocating, powerful and complete...even a grasp that feels as if it has a clear purpose.
He had never grasped a "living creature" like this before. He accidentally let the palm of his severed arm grab the arm, and he threw it a few times, but he didn't get rid of it, scaring another guard. He quickly pulled out the dagger and pryed open the five fingers of the corpse's hand, and pulled the broken arm away from Ed.
It wasn't thrilling, but Eddard Stark's face had turned horribly ugly.
"This is the ghoul, north of the Wall, thousands?" Eddard turned blue, and immediately thought of the same thing that his soldiers thought - North is the Seven Kingdoms beyond The wall recently, is facing a direct threat from this shit. "Why have the Night's Watch Rangers been patrolling for so many years and have not been found?"
"They have only begun to emerge in the past year, following the appearance of Others." Alliser solemnly replied, "The most troublesome. Yes, large animals can also become ghouls. Now, as long as every additional person, wolf, and bear dies north of the Wall...the number of these ghouls will increase by one."
Facing Eddy did not dare to ignore the irrefutable evidence in front of oneself, but for the first time seriously: "Is this thing completely unkillable, and Night's Watch has not found a way to deal with it?"
"There is a way It may be due to the existence of this 'corpse oil' contaminated on the sword. The ghoul is very flammable. Once it is ignited, it will burn out in a very short time, and it will naturally die. Therefore, fire is a countermeasure. The best weapon for ghouls." Alliser replied sternly: "But the same method, ineffective against another enemy, Others, Igor had reported that he killed an Others with an obsidian dagger, which was later involved in the capture of ghouls. The Rangers attested - they also managed to kill an Others with a Dragonglass arrow. We later tried obsidian against ghouls and found it to work, but to a limited extent."
Ed's eyes Turning his head to look at Igor complicatedly: ever since the stranger followed Benjen to Winterfell, claiming that oneself had killed an Others, oneself had the impression that this was a slicker full of lies. Although with the follow-up understanding, I gradually found out that this is actually a talented person with a flexible mind and a good ability to work in the camp... But deep down, I still believe that this is a guy who can never be completely trusted.
Could it be that oneself from the very beginning made a mistake, this kid is really "Others killer"?
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"Limited effect? What does that mean?" Igor interjected, "Can obsidian kill ghouls at all?"
"Yes, but only if Only hit the key points... The problem is, we don't know exactly where the ghoul's key point is." Domi also took over the conversation. He had faced ghouls before and had the right to speak: "Only from the analysis of actual combat cases, attack The middle head and chest can generally be killed. But Castle Black's rangers have reported that after Giant or other large animals are ghouls, they can't kill quickly by hitting the head and chest. In addition, there are other ghouls led by Others than ghouls. Wandering ones are harder to kill...but rockets, which usually kill in one shot, are the most effective weapon against ghouls."
"But rockets, unlike Dragonglass arrows, cannot be prepared in advance. You have to wait for the torch arrow to heat up, otherwise it will be destroyed immediately... Defending the city doesn't matter, it's not realistic to fight outside the wall." Alliser shrugged and took out a letter from his body: "This is Mormont's own handwriting to adults and Your Majesty. letter, order me to hand it over after you have seen the ghouls, in case the ravens send the letter, because Maester does not believe in the reason why ghouls and Others exist."
Ed took it and opened it. Mormont's handwritten letter, frowned looks.
The Prime Minister begins to read the letter, Jaqen asks Ed's bodyguard for the still-moving amputated arm, looks in disbelief, and Igor ponders in the silence stand up.
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Obsidian is effective against ghouls, but the killing effect is not ideal? Igor frowned in confusion. Due to an incident last night, he came to the Red Keep directly after connecting with the ghoul escort team in the morning. He and Alliser had never communicated with each other, so he only knew this information... ...he tried to recall the information he had spoken to Melisandre about the Others at Dragonstone.
Others' bodies are almost completely shaped by magic power, which makes them immune to physical attacks, and the only solid body makes them immune to the weak flame Magic... What about ghouls? What's the matter?
Igor has long thought about this. The ghouls were not created by the Night King, but more like they were re-pulled by the undead Magic and turned into biochemical weapons. Their forms of existence are just at the two extremes of the Others - almost entirely composed of entities, or corpses, but Invaded and controlled by a trace of Ice Magic or Necro Magic, thus forming a bond with Others and becoming the latter's loyal subordinate.
The ghouls have no vital points, but Night's Watches have the feeling that "obsidian weapons can sometimes kill ghouls when they hit the vitals", unless the ghouls play dead, it is definitely not obsidian that works The damage itself... Igor thought about it, but only came up with a reasonable explanation: the Fire Demon power contained in the obsidian weapon that hit the so-called "vital" happened to neutralize or dispel the wisp that made the corpse a ghoul Evil devil law, destroying its connection with Cold God or Night King, resulting in the phenomenon of "obsidian weapons can kill ghouls"!
As for why the ghouls that are larger and led by Others are not easily killed by obsidian - it may be that the large ghouls contain more magic power, while the ghouls around Others can Continuously getting energy replenishment from the Others around him, the micro magic power contained in Dragonglass is simply not enough to look at.
The above is just speculation, what is going on, I'm afraid only Night King or even "Cold God" knows... But Igor thought about it but suddenly a shivered: If oneself's guess is right, then the two A new question has arisen - first, is this ghoul captive away from the Lands of Always Winter and Others facing the possibility that the ice magic power in the body is exhausted and turned into a corpse at any time? ? Second, can the ghouls that fell after being "killed" by obsidian north of the Wall be transformed into ghouls by Others?
Just as he was in shock, a full-bodied male voice approached from far and near, and Barristan came over anxiously: "Ed, I've been looking for you for a while, what are you doing here?"
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(end of this chapter)