Chapter 470
"Your Majesty, be careful, there are three ships with ten Greyscale-infected stone men in their cargo holds.
Stone men from Rhoyne Sorrows.
Allied spies want to smuggle stone men to the three cities of Slaver's Bay, intending to trigger Grey Plague, which is a hundred times more terrifying than Greyscale.
This Mermaid is just one of them, please block the docks of Meereen and Astapor immediately, Don't let foreign ships enter the port."
The sturdy black-haired youth that day has been tortured and deformed by the epidemic.
The eyes are no longer black and bright, the black hair mixed with a few silver threads has become dry and gray, the once short and stocky body is thin and hunched, and the bright and vibrant skin is sallow with small gray spots.
Also, even two meters away, Dany could smell the rancidity of the other person's vomit, and the rancid stench of incontinent excrement on his clothes.
However, Dragon Queen just increased the density of the fire fog around her body, isolating the air and the virus from her body, and the expression on her face was still so kind and kind.
Even though Dragon Queen didn't show any discriminatory expression, Quentyn felt extremely ashamed to see Dany so glamorous.
——He came to propose a marriage, and now he has become this embarrassed look of life and death, and the other party is not only a "monster with a height of ten feet and a waist of ten feet" in the mouth of the slave-master, but is exquisitely carved. Impressive, fully in line with the fantasy of a beautiful princess and Queen in all legends.
The young man's expression dimmed a bit, and he also quietly took a few steps back, farther away from the Queen, the oil lamp in his hand hung down, hiding the face of oneself and the lost expression on his face in the darkness.
"Your Majesty, please keep your distance from us, I...me and the people on the ship are infected with Grey Plague, please don't get too close," he said dryly.
Dany sees this, but in his heart he has a good impression of this young man.
Well, it's not the love between men and women, but I think that Quentyn, who looks simple and honest, has a good personality.
In terms of the senses of first meeting, he is much better than her eldest nephew who always sticks his eyes on Iron Throne thousands of miles away.
Dragon Queen comforted: "Don't worry, the two Yi Ti big Mages have researched Greyscale's antidote, you will not be in trouble."
"What, Greyscale has an antidote ?" Quentyn wondered.
His two companions and a few sailors also looked incredulous and expectant at the same time.
The extinguished eyes shine like stars again, shining with the rays of light of extreme nostalgia and longing for life.
Dany nod, affirmed: The two ships destined for Astapor have been seized, and by interrogating the spies, I learned about the Allied plot.
And the spies going to Meereen have completed their mission , put stone men in the wells of the commercial street, and also caused a small-scale infection of Greyscale.
So, starting more than half a month ago, I led people to develop the antidote for Greyscale, and the drug is almost the same now. Success."
"Your Majesty, are you sure?"
A tall young man with sandy golden hair staggered behind Quentyn.
Queen took a careful look at him and recognized that this was also a half-acquaintance who had met once, and said, "What's so certain about this, your ship should have sailed to Yunkai?
My Royal Fleet has been searching the sea off Yunkai, didn't expect you to come to Astapor."
"Put through!" The tall youth with yellow hair knelt on the ground.
"Very good, we are saved." He covered his face and weeping bitter tears.
"What's the matter with you, how did you become spies for transporting stone men?" Dany said curiously.
"oh!" Quentyn sighed, "Remember that meeting at Volantis Merchant's House where we sat in the courtyard waiting for the 'Widow of the Waterfront' call?"
"Well, Widow of the Waterfront possesses great magical power, you asked her about the merchant ship going to Slaver's Bay?" Dany was stunned.
“Yes, we asked her for help and brought a hairpin with sapphire, but she accepted the gift and refused to help us,” says the bald robust man with barrel belly, trunk legs.
The bald robust man was at Merchant's House that day.
"Why? Besides me and you, Tyrion was there that day. In fact, Tyrion was in front of me."
"Tyrion, which Tyrion?" Quentyn was a little at a loss .
"Imp, Tywin's dwarf son," Dany said.
"He's also in Volantis... ah!" the yellow-haired youth suddenly exclaimed, "I remember, the one who fought with the female dwarf in the hall... the man dwarf with no nose. didn't expect him to be Tyrion, he's even uglier than devil."
"Damn, we didn't recognize him that day." He thumped the deck and cursed angrily.
"Tyrion's purpose was the same as yours, and Widow of the Waterfront hardly hesitated to arrange a sea boat for them in no time," Dany said.
"This..." Quentyn thought for a moment, then hesitated: "The widow said that we concealed our purpose, that our attitude was not sincere, and we did not respect her."
"And then ? I seem to see you joined the mercenary group, Windblown by Tattered Prince."
"Ah, did you see that?" Quentyn was surprised, nodded said with a bitter smile: "Yes, we are with Windblown. A pact was signed. In fact, there are more than a dozen Windblown mercenaries on this 'Mermaid'!
We were going to go to Slaver's Bay with the mercenary group, and then slip away halfway through.
As a result, half a month after you set fire to Black Wall, Denzo ... Windblown Deputy Head Denzo came to me with a few Volantis nobles.
Ask me if I would like to be Allied spy, disguised as a Dorne wine merchant and entered Yunkai - I claimed to be the son of the Dorne wine merchant at the time.
I heard that they would arrange a sea ship to send me to Slaver's Bay before the war broke out. Of course I can't.
I then became the master of Mermaid, leading a group of Allied sailors to Slaver's Bay."
Dany's eyes flashed a cold color, said solemnly : "Does Windblown know the secret of stone men?"
Yellow hair sitting on the ground said with a bitter smile: "Then you have to ask who, we are also Windblown people, but we are not at all I know there are stone men on the boat.
If I knew earlier, we threw them into the sea long ago, how could it be so tragic?
Denzo, the Old Tortoise only said let us inquire about Yunkai Military intelligence, and then secretly set a fire to burn the wheat fields while the wheat was ripe outside the city.
Well, the Allies knew you were making a big leap, and they wanted to disrupt your food production. "
"They think too beautifully, not to mention that there are farmers guarding the wheat fields. Under the strict household registration system, it is impossible for foreign businessmen to leave the city without a sound." Dany said with a sneer.
The countryside under Queen's rule included village elders, village chiefs, and horse men patrols and postmen.
As I said before, the Early-Stage of Astapor, in order to avoid conflicts between the nomadic horsemen and the farming villagers, even the horsemen cavalry patrol could not get in without the permission of the village chief. to enter the village.
This system has continued to this day, and this is the case in the three cities of Slaver's Bay: a manor chooses a village elder, several manors are combined into a village, and the village elders take turns serving as the village chief; Militia, there are horse men light cavalry outside the village, and the village and the city are connected by a post.
Not to mention foreign spies, Meereen farmers who want to go to Yunkai to visit relatives have to show the identification issued by the village elders.
Quentyn shook his head and said, "We don't know what the household registration system is. Volantene told me that I'm from Dorne and I might be given preferential treatment.
In order to match my identity, Windblown also prepared More than a dozen Westeros mercenaries serve as my subordinates."
Speaking of this, Quentyn glanced back at the sailors on the deck, and said in a complicated tone: "It's also fortunate that they are there."
“How did you get the disease?” Dany asked.
"While rounding the Valyrian Peninsula, we encountered the fast-moving Wall of Storms. The ships in the storm were like rattles in the hands of a naughty child, and most of the cargo in the cargo hold was dumped, and then a sailor found it. The stone men in the linoleum."
"The stone men are alive and moving!" Quentyn emphasized, pale.
Stone men of course have to live, and living stone men are the source of infection.
Dead stone men will slowly become real stone men, and Greyscale virus cannot survive on stones.
"And then, you threw the stone men into the sea?"
"Of course we wanted to, but Captain Jyck wouldn't allow it. He was the Volantis officer, and most of the sailors on board were him.
By the way, there were two ships that set off from Volantis port that day, one Mermaid and one Sparrow.
Sparrow broke the mast in the storm, above The surviving sailors were all transferred to Mermaid.
Because there were too many people, it was too crowded, and the cabin became wet and wet. It didn't take long for sailors to get infected with Greyscale.
Then When I asked Captain Jyck to immediately abandon the stone men, he sternly refused me, only killing the Greyscale patients and throwing them into the sea."
"At most, there were five hundred and fifty crew members on the Mermaid. ," Quentyn pointed to the sparse sailors, and then gestured the size of the ship, said with a bitter smile: "Your Majesty, look, such a ship, with so many people, can the infection be prevented?
As more and more people were infected and thrown into the sea, the sailors who were loyal to Captain Jyck began to be attracted by me.
Well, the mercenaries of Westeros have already joined me
When I first entered the Gulf of Grief, I finally had enough sailors for the uprising.
It was a bloody melee that lasted three days and killed more than 200 people. , Captain Jyck finally compromised and promised to throw away the stone men.
Maybe The Seven is cursing us, maybe too many people died, and the corpses didn't have time to clean up... Finally, Greyscale evolved into the horror Grey Plague.
Nothing to say, everyone has a share, and everyone is infected.
And then, Captain Jyck turned most of the people around me against me.
He persuaded everyone - we're dead anyway, let's go to Yunkai and overfulfill the mission given by the Allies."
As if worried that the Dragon Queen didn't understand, Quentyn explained: "The spies are very determined. Great, very loyal to the Allies. In fact, except for our group of mercenaries placed on the surface, the other sailors are all carefully selected loyal soldiers."
Dany nominated and sighed: "I know. Last time at the Astapor pier, the spies were trying to cover their mates on the other boat, so as not to expose the 'stone men plan' , not even oneself life. "
Quentyn had a fluke on his face and said, "Captain Jyck is very prestigious and has a lot of appeal, and he once again controlled the ship."
But he didn't know who I was, and he didn't know that I didn't want the Allies to succeed.
He only thought that we mercenaries would revolt because they were afraid of death. In order to appease people's hearts, he didn't kill the revolting mercenaries.
More fortunately, he was over 60 years old, and his body was very weak. Not long after he entered Slaver's Bay, he couldn't hold on and died of the epidemic.
My companions and I then took control of the Mermaid again.
Kill a group of rebellious Allied loyalists and identify the rest, promising you will save me, save us.
They have hope of living--even if a sane person knows how bleak the hope is, they'd better turn the course and get the boat here. "