Chapter 510
2021-01-06
Chapter 510 Escape or expel"Where is my uncle? Tell him, go!" Climbing up the side of the Shanghai Song with the help of a tug and push, the first thing Asha did was to shout, "This is a trap, and Euron's goal is to get rid of us both in one fell swoop!"
"Raise the anchor, raise the sail, drop the oars!" The chief of Hal Luodao calmly and decisively ordered the crew in an orderly manner, and when the sailors on the whole ship began to work, they walked out of the crowd and supported the almost unstable The niece, who seemed to be a little nervous, hugged her firmly in her arms... While stroking her back, she comforted her softly: "Don't be nervous, dear. I expected it from the moment I received Euron's letter. There may be a scam, so I have made all preparations when I came to Pyke this time. I promise: at least tonight, both of us are safe. Now, be obedient, go to the cabin to eat something and take a bath, after enough rest , let’s talk about what we should do next.”
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In the dark, silent night, the sound of alarm bells and war horns became more and more shrill, but the sea song However, he has quickly adjusted his direction and started to speed up his escape. Pyke has no port. Even if Euron finds that the prisoner has escaped, he has to board the ship or send a battleship from the King's Harbor not far away to pursue it. Asha, who realizes that oneself is indeed safe in a short period of time, is relieved, and immediately tired and hungry, nodded , let the uncle enter the cabin with oneself, fill the stomach a little and climb into the bathtub with the help of another woman.
"scholar" Roderick's original plan was to let Asha sleep and refresh himself before talking, but the two days Asha stayed in the dark dungeon under the blood castle, despite all aspects of it. The treatment was extremely poor, but she was not tortured and harassed—which meant that she lacked nothing but sleep. After eating a big bowl of hot soup and then taking a warm bath and putting on clean clothes, Asha regained her vitality in an instant, and the whole person was like a new born. Sleep well?
She declined the suggestion of a private cabin, drying her hair and walking straight onto the deck.
On the dark surrounding ocean, there are no intercepting ships that suddenly appeared. It seems that the "trap" is mostly just an imagination generated by oneself's excessive tension. Asha is also an experienced captain. By feeling the wind direction and observing the stars in the sky, she found that the Sea Song is not heading in the expected northeast direction, but sailing in the south-east direction.
frowned, she found the uncle who was directing the ship to get rid of the possible pursuers by asking the sailors: "Uncle, where are we going?"
"Back to Hal Luo There may be an interception in the direction of the island, so let's go to Banefort."
Asha fully understood the idea of avoiding a straight course to avoid being ambushed, but the second half of the sentence left her completely confused.
"Banefort?" She didn't hide oneself's confusion: "I remember correctly, the Iron Islands are at war with the Westerlands, right? Did you take this castle while I was away? now?"
"No, Banefort is still in the hands of the Banfort family, still loyal to Tywin Lannister."
"Then what are we going to do!"
"Where do you want to go, what do you want to do? Go back to Halo and rise up against Euron's rule?" Scholar asked his niece, "We discussed this as early as the day of Kingsmoot - you are involved in Kingsmoot, you have to respect it As a result, the Ironmen chose Euron as their leader, then he is our rightful king. I came to Pyke to save you, out of love for you and your mother, because you are my own niece and half-daughter, But I will never raise a rebellion and let the Ironmen kill each other, or for a war with no chance of winning!"
"This time is different, I have strong foreign aid, and I have found the Iron Islands. The real way out..."
"I'm not negotiating with you!" Roderick interrupted Asha indisputably, "Euron Greyjoy took the Iron Islands down a Road of No Return— - On this point, we do agree, but Crow's Eye is not stupid, he knows that the Iron Islands are not a unified enemy of Westeros, and the response strategy is to deal with the major forces to ensure that the war will never stop, and the Seven Kingdoms will never stop. A day of no peace. This is dancing on the tip of a knife. Sooner or later, there will be a day when you will stumble and be impaled, but the terrible thing is: we know that day will come sooner or later, but we don't know which day it will be. More importantly: even if Retribution is destined to come, and it must not be brought by you and me!" He sighed long: "Asha, I don't know who the foreign aid you are talking about, and I don't want to bet on whether the real way out you found is right or wrong, this time , I adhere to the principle of oneself, please forgive me."
Asha felt her uncle's determination, and was stunned for a moment, and no longer insisted: "Then after I go to Banefort?"
"I have prepared a small sum of money and horses for you, and I will send a boat to take you ashore when you are close to the coast. As for detouring castles and villages to be a lonely traveler, or surrendering directly to the Westerlands and claiming asylum - I Personally, I recommend the latter - it's up to you to decide."
"Okay, I'll make another decision when I get ashore. Asha clenched her fists. She knew her uncle, and if he said he was going to stick to his principles, then there was no negotiation. What's with the eye down there? "
"I don't know, isn't it because of injury or blindness? "
"No, that eye is completely different from the original. Before being driven out of the Iron Islands by my father, Euron had one black and one blue eye, but at that time, the two eyes Apart from the difference in pupil color, there is nothing abnormal, and now, black... the one under the blindfold, the white of the eye has completely turned bloody! "
"So what? He wears an eye patch, isn't it just to cover the troubled eye? "scholar didn't understand what the niece was trying to say.
"It's not that simple. A few days ago in Pyke's hall, he took advantage of the moment when a group of leaders were discussing my request and forced me to watch. That eye... and then I felt like he had invaded and robbed my brain again, it was sorcery! Asha described anxiously, finding that oneself lacks vocabulary: "After Kingsmoot, you brought the Hal Luo Family's fleet to fight with him. Haven't you found anything unusual about him? "
Roderick sighed, obviously disapproving of what his niece said: "There are many anomalies, but isn't that why the leaders chose him?" Euron claims to have sailed the entire known world from Ibben to Asshai, deep into the fireworks of Valyria... Where do you think the 'Dragon Horn' he gave to Victarion and the Valyrian Steel armor he wore came from? If his experience is not bragging, and it is recorded in many books - there are devils in the ruins of Valyria, and Asshai gathers all the Sorcerers in the world, it is not false, then he has a few Magic props in his hand, and even learned A little bit of Magic...a little bit will not come as a surprise. ”
Asha fell into silence, and after being reminded by her uncle, the picture she saw when she looked at Euron that day was immediately explained: those strange creatures that appeared in Crow's Eye's field of vision were most likely his. The devil he encountered during his adventure in the ruins of Valyria, and some other guys who were obviously human, but had an unspeakable sense of strangeness, was the Sorcerer he saw when he visited Asshai. Through the ruins of the apocalypse Expeditions, deals with Asshai's Sorcerers... Countless fortuitous encounters and luck have made Euron Greyjoy today!
No wonder his entire ship's sailors are dumb, Euron is through this extreme way, Come and keep oneself's adventures and the fact that he knows Magic!
"Asha, that eye under Euron's blindfold is weird, so what? Ironmen worship the strong, and even if you convince the entire Iron Islands to convince them that the king has a mind-reading eye, it won't convince everyone to support you against him, it will only make him more popular!
That magic eye can do more than read minds, Asha wants to argue aloud, ever since she met that eye and passed out, she has been vaguely feeling that there is something in her head, even after being rescued and escaped , After eating and drinking and taking a bath... This foreign body sensation in consciousness has not subsided. But her uncle regarded the experience stated by oneself as a lie that she did not want to give up. It doesn't make sense to dwell on Euron's eye.
"You misunderstood, Uncle, I just want to remind you so that you can be more vigilant when you meet Euron in the future...especially when he takes off his blindfold, so as not to be in danger." Asha stopped After discussing this topic, I quickly remembered another really deadly question: "Uncle, are you going back after you have sent me to the shores of the Westerlands? When the time comes, how are you going to explain to your king that you have rescued me and saved me?" Sending this matter away?"
"Tell him the truth, confess everything, and tell him...I would like to take the initiative to 'retire', in order to give up the identity of the captain of the sea song, the lord of the Ten Towers and the Island Lord of Halo Island , allowing him to designate any of my sons and nephews as his successor in exchange for your life and freedom. Halo is the richest and most populated island in the archipelago - but for me it's the Seastone Chair he has the most control over The weak area, now, I don't need to use any tricks to force my disobedient stab in the eye to take it into my pocket... This deal is a great deal for him."
It's really a good deal, but if this is the case, it means that Euron's overall control over the Iron Islands will be further enhanced, and it will hopefully be close to a complete 100%. Oneself wants to rely on its internal strength to regain the position and avenge the death of the father 's calculations will be completely in vain. oneself seems to be escape alive, but in fact it is exiled from oneself's home!
"Uncle—"
"Take care of your oneself, child. Without the status of captain and lord, in the eyes of ordinary people, you are just a mess and wait for the rest of your life to die. But for me as a 'scholar', I can spend all my time reading - I can't wait to live like this. It's you, homeless... the road ahead is very difficult." Rodrik Halo shook his head and comforted his niece in return: "Okay, my dear little Asha, if there is nothing else, I ask you to go back to the cabin to rest. The ship will be docked around noon after dawn. Kishi, whether you choose to travel alone or admit your identity, there will be a long journey waiting for you, a rare moment where you can sleep peacefully!"
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(end of chapter)