Chapter 323
The diamond-shaped array is placed across the Haunted Forest. The hunting points at the north and south ends are more than 600 meters away, and the east and west ends are about 2.5 kilometers away. A total of 20 hunting teams are located in this long and narrow area.
The sky also has Little White circling back and forth at a low altitude of 300 meters, and it takes less than two minutes to make a full circle.
Jon's garrisoned hunting point is at the northernmost point, and there is a small dirt bag at the back of the stream about 300 meters, which belongs to the garrison of the Barristan cavalry squad.
Top of the mound, with a bonfire burning, five men and one woman sitting around, four rangers, plus Barristan and Dany.
This place is almost in the center of the diamond-shaped queue, so Dany is also guarding here with Big Black. If there is a slight change in any place, she can rush over to support at the fastest speed.
Well, Dany is the real Queen at this time. There were five Knights who acted as meat shields around, and Others sneaked over, and she was not at all worried.
Two of the four Rangers were Dany's acquaintances, Ulmer, the former Kingswood bandit, Ser Mallister, the Shadow Tower commander, and the remaining two black clothed men were about forty years old.
They are all seasoned Rangers with over a decade of patrolling the Haunted Forest.
In the terminology of modern fiction, all four of them are kings of soldiers.
"I was born to belong to the forest. When I was young, I was a robber who robbed the rich and helped the poor in Kingswood. I was assigned to the Wall in middle age and spent the rest of my life in this forest. I dare say, in Others I can find him before I smell me." Ulmer picked up the leather bag, took a sip of wine, and bragged to the Queen with a bared mouth.
Ser Mallister frowned and said with a heavy expression: "Be careful, this operation is a bit rushed, we should be here at noon, the terrain is not reconnaissance, and the traps are not perfect."
"There's nothing we can do about it. The Others are nocturnal, and after tonight, the bodies are all resurrected, and we don't have time to make arrangements." Ser Barristan said.
Ulmer bit the sausage in half, his gray beard twitched up and down with the sound of chewing, and asked vaguely: "Queen Your Majesty, where have you been in the afternoon? Listen to that Red Woman say, Are you fighting Other's minions?"
The old Ranger regretted the question.
Sure enough, the surrounding atmosphere became stagnant for a moment, and the four companions all looked at him strangely, and glanced at Queen Dany curiously...
Ulmer hurriedly poured He took a sip of wine, swallowed the meat in his mouth, squeezed a chrysanthemum out of his old face, and said with a smile: "Drinking too much, I'm confused, how can I ask the secret of Your Majesty?"
Dany rolled his eyes at him angrily, "What was supposed to be a just and honourable battle, when you say so, has turned into a shameful scandal."
"Uh... ." The old ranger blushed and was at a loss.
"I met Three-Eyed Crow." Dany wasn't going to hide it, the Riverlands witch -- Ghost of High Heart knew it, and so did Melisandre.
Red Woman knew, which meant that the Stag Party executives knew—she couldn't believe Second Stag didn't have the same curiosity as Ulmer.
"Three-Eyed Crow?"
"Haven't you heard of it? There's no 'Three-Eyed Crow' in the North lore?" Dany wondered too.
"No, I'm from White Harbor and I've never heard of Three-Eyed Crow." Dustin Snow, a grey golden-haired Night's Watch, shook his head.
"So, have you heard the Greenseer story?" Dany asked again.
"I do know that. Ninety of the 100 North legends involve Greenseer." Dustin said in surprise.
"The characters in fairy tales, like Snarks and Grumkins, Children of the Forest, Others, sane people will not believe in their existence. I didn't believe in them for several decades, but now.. ...." Ser Mallister's determined face showed a wry smile.
"Could it be that Three-Eyed Crow is Greenseer, and he found Your Majesty?" Barristan asked with concern.
"Yes, Others are real, Greenseer is real, and Three-Eyed Crow is the Greenseer of this generation."
Dany turned to White Cloak seriously and asked, "We are in When Sunspear had lunch, he saw a few crows in the pub, remember?
I had a slight feeling of being watched, you checked all around and found nothing until you left Sunspear and entered Dorne The big desert, the discomfort of being watched disappears."
"Could it be that the Three-Eyed Crow came to us then?" Barristan was shocked.
"It's nothing to do with me."
Ulmer was fascinated and couldn't help: "Three-Eyed Crow has been watching you? I know Skinchanger, Also know Orell (the first generation owner of the goshawk) and Sixskins. Greenseer is a more high level Skinchanger, does he have a three-eyed crow partner who follows you with crow and monitors your every move?"
"You know a lot!" Dany gave the old bandit a surprised look.
Ulmer grinned triumphantly, then said in disgust, "After dealing with Wildlings for several decades, I've been watched and tracked countless times by Skinchanger's animal companions.
Extremely tough. , several times near death. Those Skinchangers are monsters, and they can enter the body of wild beast with Soul, as if they are covered with animal skins."
Dany stared at the flaming flames and said slowly: " Skinchanger is not a monster, the monster is derived from the heart of the shadow and the twisted human nature.
Just as someone uses a sword to kill and mutilate the people, and someone uses a sword to guard the frontier and protect the peace of the Seven Kingdoms. The sword itself has no division Of evil or just, the key is whether the sword bearer is bright."
Ulmer looked thoughtful nodded, "Your Majesty, your mood is really open-minded. Greenseer treats you like that, you can still say something for Skinchanger Fair words."
"The truth is the truth, and the facts should not be distorted by personal feelings."
Queen's words caused several Night's Watch to nodded again and again.
"However, you guessed wrong, Greenseer's methods are far from the Skinchanger's."
sighed, Dany stretched out his right hand, and the bonfire flames danced like cows, Horses, snakes, dragons and other forms, with noses and eyes, fur and scales are also faintly visible, galloping and roaring, and vivid, causing several people present to be amazed.
Then, she indifferently said: "Just like Firemage is proficient in the magic of flame control, Greenseer is extraordinary natural talent in Soul.
When being crow by Greenseer, being crow by Skinchanger When the animal companions are watching, I can detect something strange. Sending a crow to watch me will definitely beat the grass to scare the snake, and it's not worth the loss."
Dany turned to Barristan and explained, "Three-Eyed Crow will take a trace of the snake. Soul resides in my Consciousness Sea, and my battle with him belongs to the contest of the divine soul level, so I didn't inform you."
White Cloak's small pimples in his heart disappeared immediately, and his anxiety reappeared, saying: "Does Greenseer want to control you like he controls an animal companion?"
"Too hateful!" Several of Mallister's Night's Watches suddenly changed color and yelled.
"Humans are not animals, and I am not an ordinary person, Greenseer really dares to enter my Soul just and honourable, it is completely courting death. His methods are softer and more cunning, similar to eloquent A traitor, using words to confuse a confused King."
Seeing a few people, the more they listened, the more at a loss, Dany simply recounted "Evil God's Whispers" and the deeds of Evil God in Jade Sea Leng Earth Palace .
"So terrifying just by talking in my ear?" Ulmer was a little skeptical. "If it were me, I would take the whispers of Evil God as in one ear and out the other, and see what he can do for me."
"Neither Evil God nor Greenseer speak to your ears, whispers from Soul you can't resist. Soul-level whispers are to Soul what cold winds are to the body. When you're naked Standing in the snow, how can I resist the attack from the cold wind?"
"I wear clothes and furs." The old ranger said.
"The key is here, you are an ordinary person, you don't know witchcraft, you don't know Magic, in the face of Soul attack, your Soul is like a commoner soldier without leather armor and chain mail on the battlefield. As helpless.
And I, I know Magic, and dragons as partners, my Soul fully armed.
Even so, I was affected. Like you now , wearing a thick fur coat, still being attacked by the cold, must be heated by a fire."
"so that's how it is." Terrifying.
"If Greenseer targets me, I'm finished?" Ulmer worriedly said.
"Hahaha..." Several black clothed men laughed, "Ulmer, if Greenseer targets you, you can blow it for the rest of your life!"
"Your Majesty, are you still bothered by Greenseer's whispers?" Barristan asked worriedly, tightening his goat-skin cape.
"Hehe, you saw the dead crow too. Now no Evil God can affect me with Soul Whispering, because my Soul has a layer of Valyria steel armor on it." Dany said proudly with a smile.
"Something's wrong," Ulmer was about to ask 'what happened to the battle of the gods', when his face suddenly froze, he stood up, and took seven or eight steps outside the bonfire. Walk the old ranger body with a lot of heat.
Ulmer shivered, spitting out a large cloud of thick white mist: "Damn, why is it so cold? Dustin, Denys, do you feel anything unusual? The temperature is abnormally low right now, It's never been so cold."
"It's late at night, maybe..." Ser Mallister also got up from the campfire, walked over to the old Ranger, and looked up at the sky hanging in the west The cold Silver Moon on top, uncertain: "It's almost three o'clock in the morning, maybe winter is here, maybe...Others? This time should also come, but..."
He turned to Dany, facial expression grave and said: "Your Majesty, are you sure that dragon will not ignore the gong in the cold wind?"
"The old woods in the dead of night, don't talk about dragons, I can hear it within 300 meters!" Dany said.
Ulmer took a few breaths of cold air, and then let out a string of white air, hesitantly said, "It doesn't taste right, it's very wrong. Your Majesty, you'd better go check it out for yourself."
>Dany has always been in Dreki state, and has always had a faint sense of crisis since entering Haunted Forest.
Although she did not clearly perceive the violent crisis fluctuations at this time, she also trusted the old Ranger's intuition.
After all, she oneself also knows that dragon is really not as good as a dog (Stark's Direwolf) in predicting crisis.
Dany climbed onto Big Black's back, and in a matter of seconds, he was up in the air.
In order to avoid missing the sound of the gong, she lowered her height and whizzed past a hundred meters above the treetops. Even the corpse guards on the branches below could hear the dragon flapping wings overhead.
About five minutes later, Big Black fell back down the hill, but Dany didn't go down, saying on the dragon's back, "Everything is normal, no gong. But it's still a few hours before dawn, I won't chat with you anymore, two dragons patrolling alone is better than one dragon."
After finishing speaking, she didn't wait for a few people to answer, and she rode the dragon into the sky again.
"Sigh--" But this time, when flying to the southernmost point of the patrol circle, Big Black suddenly let out a low muffled roar, and then continued to the south without getting Dany's instructions. Fly fast.
"Big Black, how are you—" Dany just screamed in surprise, then stopped abruptly and listened.
"Woo-woo-woo--" A biting cold wind blew across my face, vaguely mixed with a low horn sound, and it was almost impossible to tell whether it was a wind whistle or a long trumpet sound.
Dany face changed, on the Wall a few kilometers away, Night's Watch is blowing the horn, three horns.
One for the return of the Night's Watch brother, two for the Wildlings, three... For thousands of years, Night's Watch has never blown three horns in a row.
Because, three tones mean...Others are coming! ! !