Chapter 186
The next morning, the Great Pyramid Gardens platform.
Barristan worriedly said while checking the items in the travel bag: "I heard that Faceless Men will never give up as long as they accept the mission."
"There are always exceptions."
Dany strapped on Big Black's back for Whitebeard's ride, and today they're continuing their previously suspended Westeros tour.
Old Knight is always just a passenger, but Dany can reach the realm of "person and dragon unite" with any dragon - if there is no strong wind, Big Black can fly at the highest speed, and she can dance ballet on his back .
"We can't pose a threat to the House of Black and White," said the old Knight dejectedly.
"I have dragons, and the Battle of Slaver's Bay Faceless Men wouldn't be unaware that dragons have thrown fuel bombs at sea ships, doesn't that make them alert?"
"Well, there are Maybe..."
Jorah chimed in: "Your Majesty, you forgot? Braavos is shrouded in mist all year round, and you can barely see the buildings on the ground from high altitude.
Braavos was established 900 years ago, only hidden for a hundred years, and took the initiative to announce the existence of oneself to the world. At that time, there are still three hundred years before the destruction of Valyria!
But the Valyria Dragonlord is afraid of being lost in the thick fog , after taking a compensation from Iron Bank, he gave up the punishment for the descendants of the fugitive slaves.”
Dany shrugged and said indifferently: “Even if the negotiation fails, there is no loss, Faceless Men did not imagine that Then terrifying, didn't Ironhead's Little Ding-dong discover her identity?"
Thinking of the dozens of patrol dogs in the pyramid today, the two White Cloaks also fell silent.
This time Dany changed his flight path, instead of crossing the Lands of Long Summer, he crossed Slaver's Bay to Tolos on the opposite side of the bay, then followed Valyrian road, Northwest to Mantarys, and then straight west. Volantis.
The whole process will be flying along the Valyrian road.
Because of the Allied offensive routes from Windblown, one of them is the Old Valyria called "Demon Road".
In less than two hours, Dany saw the Old Valyria Freehold, Tolos, on the cape where they were established.
Smaller and more dilapidated than Astapor, it was almost abandoned.
There are only a few barges with their sails lowered at the harbour, and seven or eight crew members are carrying items such as wine barrels and flour from the ox carts parked at the pier.
Sparse pedestrians walk along the empty and old grey-slate streets, vendors in sunhats push carts full of multi-colored fruits to sell along the wharf, and merchants in silk shirts come and go In a hurry, sailors in short-sleeved shorts joke around with street gaudy prostitute.
There is also a blue clothed servant holding a one-story white elephant and shouting loudly to let the person in front make way.
The breeze blew, the light yellow gauze curtain was lifted, and you could see the pink-clad Maiden looking out from the Golden Peak Luan sedan on the elephant's back.
The residents here wear loose robes in the style of Old Valyria, with fair and smooth skin, mostly silver hair, or pale blond hair, typical Valyrian, with a few Ghis wearing Tokar robes among them.
Leaving the marina, the number of passers-by on the streets decreases rapidly, and some squares are not even empty. The whole Tolos has a gloomy, old-fashioned tone, dull and lacking in passion.
The one-kilometer-wide city quickly passed by. There were manors on the outskirts, forests covered with red apples, verdant vineyards, golden wheat fields, and sporadic vegetable fields.
More land is deserted, and a dozen sheep and a few buffaloes walk leisurely on the spacious Valyrian road.
“Tolos has a population of no more than 50,000 people, so their attitude is nothing to worry about.” Dany said with a smile.
"It's not a threat to us, but it could be an Allied outpost, or even a Legion stronghold," Barristan said.
"Hahaha, that's right!" Dany laughed. "The Allies are really showing signs of moving towards Tolos, and I'll take the city first and keep the battlefield out of my domain."
Tolos also has slaves, of course, but across the seven or eight hundred kilometers wide Slaver's Bay, it is just an enclave, which will become a burden for Dany.
After two or three years, the results of Meereen and Yunkai's victory were completely digested, and the next target was Tolos.
Tolos flew 200 kilometers northeast and came to a fork, Mantarys to the east and Bhorash to the west.
Tolos on the peninsula could barely survive, but Bhorash on the Great Plains was destroyed at the hands of the Dothraki in Years of Blood (ps).
Starting from the three forks, and heading east to the Demon Road area, the two and two dragons once again entered the area of high level magic energy radiation.
What's interesting is that this Big Black Consciousness Sea doesn't have the slightest sense of crisis fluctuations.
This proves to Dany that Big Black's sense of crisis not only stems from his own safety, but Dany's safety can also trigger his sense of crisis.
Lands of Long Summer's ancient Valyrian road is empty and uninhabited, but the stone road to Mantarys can see thin caravans.
Dozens of people, more than 100 horses, 30 or 40 bullock carts, stretching for four or five hundred meters.
Through Big Black's field of vision, Dany saw four double-headed monsters, eight dwarfs, and many more deformed children with hands and feet, crooked noses and eyes.
She guessed that the caravan belonged to the Mantarys.
After one hundred kilometers of gray-green wasteland, an endless black sea suddenly appeared on the earth, the inland sea of Lands of Long Summer, Sea of Sighs.
Mantarys is located at the northernmost end of the Sea of Sighs, a five-kilometer-circle Blackstone giant city, with a topless Heavenspan Pagoda, a Sorcerer tower, a Sept black tower, a spacious "well"-shaped street, towering civic towers, squares with fountains, giant tops with empty gardens.
Like Oros, this Valyria city-state has no city wall.
Not right, the Fiend in Mantarys rebuilt a red brick city wall.
The red bricks made of red clay and the red walls built with red bricks are very incompatible with the black-based city.
"Ai, why so many people..." Dany was disappointed.
“And the roofless Heavenspan Pagoda in the middle of the city was so heavily guarded that it couldn't 'fall from the sky',” Whitebeard also said regretfully.
Well, Dany promises to give him the Valyria Armor if he finds it in Mantarys.
So the old Knight also began to lose his integrity.
Or, just get used to it?
The environment of Mantarys is no better than that of Oros. It is also covered by magic energy radiation, and the city is full of deformities, but the city connects Slaver's Bay and Volantis, with developed commerce, agriculture...
Dany found that there are crops outside the city, but not wheat and other grains, but mostly deep purple chrysanthemums with large and strange bowls and dark red long-leaf grasses taller than people.
"My God, that's Sourleaf, so, so... so many times bigger!" Whitebeard, who tilted his head to observe the ground with a telescope, cried out in surprise.
"Sourleaf?" Dany was startled, and when he took a closer look, he saw that it was similar to the Sourleaf he had seen in Slaver's Bay farmland. The azure-red Leaf was about three or four times smaller.
The function is probably similar to betel nut and chewing tobacco, chew it in your mouth, and spit out the dark red juice mixed with saliva while chewing, which is not only very unsanitary, but also stains your teeth blood red.
Dany hates Sourleaf chewers the most.
"It's mutated. The plants here have all mutated in magic energy radiation."
The Sourleaf in the field looks taller than the smoke leaf grass, and the color is a bit wrong. It's dark red, and the flavor is more intense.
"So..." Whitebeard pointed to the deep purple chrysanthemum below and asked, "Does it look like Tansy?"
"The color is not the same as the size, but look The stems and the flowers are really similar."
Tansy has very high medicinal value, plus mint, absinthe, honey and a small amount of peppermint oil, it can be made into Moon Tea - this world's unique abortion with contraceptives.
"So that's how it is, this ghost place can't grow food, but it can grow stronger medicine ingredients." Dany muttered.
Continuing to fly eastward, they also saw small fishing boats in the Sea of Sighs, and a large patch of poppy trees on the shore.
The stone road leading to Volantis is not empty either, with a caravan at an average of 50 kilometers.
"Hey, there's a Fiend attacking the caravan, so tragic!"
The two dragons couldn't help slowing down. Barristan picked up the telescope and looked at it, and immediately got goosebumps.
densely packed Fierce and unafraid of death like locust-like freaks attacked the convoy in a circle, Fiends were slashed every second, and then the nearby Fiends immediately gave up their opponents and swarmed He jumped on the body of his companion, grabbed a piece of meat, and squatted there to chew on it regardless.
After eating, continue to attack.
From time to time, caravan guards miss and are dragged out of the defensive circle by Fiend.
After the Fiends were almost full, they left the Great Way and burrowed into the nearby grass and woods, leaving behind a slaughterhouse...well, ignore the large bloodstains, more like Tables where guests have licked clean plates.
Dany looked pale and said: "It's no wonder that this place is called the road of the devil. After this catastrophe, those who survived are afraid that they will be devastated if they are not crazy."
"I don't know how many Fiends there are nearby. The Allies form an array. I'm afraid these more than a thousand Fiends are not enough to kill." The losses were heavy, and I still hope that the Allied forces can restore this area to a bright future.
Flying eastward for another two hours, the scenery in front of me suddenly became bright and vivid, the blue sky and white clouds, the scorching sun, the green grassland, the fresh air, and even the breath was more transparent.
At last they left the gloomy and grey Lands of Long Summer and entered the Great Plains of Rhoyne.
In order to pass through the Lands of Long Summer as soon as possible, the two dragons flew at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, and took off from the morning for almost seven hours, and they were already a little tired.
Dany let them down after seeing a herd of buffalo with their heads down to drink by a creek in the wilderness.
Big Black swooped down first, a bright red Dragonflame ignited a sturdy bull that couldn't dodge, and the shallow stream beside it also "gurgled" with boiling white steam, and it took a while to calm down.
Barristan took off his backpack, stepped over the stream, and slashed a large chunk of beef from the ox's hind leg with a sword that was charred on the outside and bloody on the inside.
Cut off the coke with a dagger, put the meat slices in the lunch box, sprinkle with Chinese pepper, fennel, dragon pepper, cumin, salt and pepper powder, stir well and hand it to Dany .
He oneself directly nibbled at the meat that was less than half-cooked, dripping with blood, without even adding salt.
"A primordial fragrance and sweetness," said old Knight intoxicated.
"As long as you like it," Dany mumbled, biting into a gang of beef.