Chapter 767
"You don't know the difference between Others and Wights?"
Dany's tone was even more strange in the face of the strange looks from everyone.
The soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay , not sure why.
It was Crussi and Eddard Umber, Captain of the Guard, looked thoughtful.
"The first time we met the real living dead, the previous summons sounded as far away as Old Nan's story." Ser Crussi smiled wryly.
"Others news came out years ago, right? I've been promoting the 'United Front Against Ghosts', Last Hearth is the closest prince to the Wall, and I'm not prepared at all?" Dany felt unimaginable.
"How to prepare? We only know that Dragonglass weapons can deal with Others, but Dragonglass is so expensive, so much more expensive than white bread, that we can't store it on a large scale!" Earl Eddard said in frustration.
This is the truth.
Don't look at Dany digging Dragonglass at Dragonstone, but Dragonglass mines only appear around volcanoes.
How many volcanoes are there in the world?
Song of Ice and Fire's world is larger than Earth, but where there are active volcanoes, only Dragonstone and Valyria!
Volcanoes have also appeared in other places, such as Children of the Forest's Dragonglass weapons from beyond the wall, such as the East-West trade, Asshai Dragonglass has always been one of the most important export commodities.
This shows that Asshai and beyond the wall once had volcanoes. But thousands of years have passed, the fire in the center of the earth has decreased year by year, and the volcano has gradually extinguished.
"Actually, even if we have Dragonglass weapons, we can't defend the castle. In War of Four Kings, Hearth's men were almost hollowed out a few years ago, and the troops are insufficient!" The captain of the guard said bitterly.
This is also true.
At the first harvest banquet after Robb led the army south, the two Acting City Lords of Hearth even asked Bran Stark for lack of strong men (after Robb left, the eight-year-old Bran became the Winterfell Acting City Lord) Send men to help them harvest grain and resist the Wildlings who are bypassing the Bay of Seals.
Also because the War of Four Kings was delayed for too long, large tracts of golden wheat in the North were rotten in the fields and no one was harvested.
To put it bluntly, more than 90% of the North Warriors that Robb took away were farmers.
"You said before, it's a small town outside the city wall. Hearth has 15,000 people." Dany frowned.
"A thousand soldiers enlisted, leaving at least 3,000 family members." Ser Crussi's face was so bitter that he could almost squeeze out a large bowl of bitter gourd juice, "We sent a total of 3,000 soldiers to accompany King Robb went to war, they all went but never returned, and the rest were old and weak, women and children."
Earl Eddard also said in a rough voice: "Queen Your Majesty, you may have misunderstood, not around Fort Hearth. Fifteen thousand subjects.
It's the entire domain of our Umber family, all the commoners have moved to Hearth for the winter, only fifteen thousand people."
Umber's domain How big is it?
At least it is bigger than South Korea.
In such a large area, there are only 15,000 people left? ! (ps)
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"You have to leave," Dany's tone became more determined after learning about Hearth's situation, "As you said, this time to attack Hearth's Wights number 40,000, but that's only a tiny fraction of the total number of Wights...perhaps, only one percent.
If you don't leave, you'll be killed sooner or later. The Wights who returned in a swirl of dust were swept away."
"One percent?!"
"Impossible? If 40,000 Wights are only 1%, then the total will not exceed 4 million? Four million, Gods!"
Eddard Umber's photo also The immature face with fine fluff was white as snow in an instant.
"Maybe there were only a million originally, but..." Dany looked around, "Are you all used to burials?"
"Are there even corpses in the tombs? , they don't let it go? Is there still humanity?" the chief guard Crussi ugly complexion said.
"How do you think they're human?" Dany wondered.
"How could Gods allow monsters like that..." Ser Crussi murmured.
"Now that they appear, we can only accept the reality and study their habits and weaknesses.
The living dead raised from the dead are Wights, and Wights raised by Others are also affected by Others control, kill an Others, and the Wights it controls will all die, um, turn into rotting corpses again."
"Ah, I see," Young Earl Eddard suddenly realized, "Your Majesty I should have killed one Others before, and then the Wights controlled by it in the entire Hearth died!
I said, hundreds of Wights on the second floor before, and most of them died suddenly after the explosion."
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Dany nods, said with a smile: "It was almost like this. At that time, there was a Others just and honourable standing on the platform in front of the castle, with a proud look, as if savoring the fruits of victory.
But it stood there alone, so stark that I couldn't help throwing a Dragonflame Fireball at it.
But it was only one of the Others who attacked Hearth, and the other was in Outside the city, saw that the situation was far from good, immediately disbanded the Wights army, and hid separately in the ice and snow forest.
I was worried about the ambush, so I only cleaned up the remaining Wights in the castle, and did not catch up.
As you can imagine, when I leave, it will be very difficult for you to survive with only the others that escaped."
Eddard Umber reluctantly expressed his gratitude to the Dragon Queen, Then agreed to leave her hometown as per her arrangement.
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Now that they've decided to leave, the Hearth people are starting to pack their bags.
With food and belongings sealed in the deepest basement, the Wyvern has a limited load capacity, and they can't carry anything but warm clothes.
Eddard Umber and the captain of the bodyguard were busy in the basement, Dany climbed up the city gate tower, faced the cold wind, and closed his eyes for cultivation.
With Little Gold Dreki, her consciousness returned to the strange space in the Wall, and the Principle of the world opened to her, just like the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the world, listening directly to the Principle Song.
Before this, she also let three dragons spit fire along the city wall, melting all the snow more than ten meters into water and flowing into the nearby Mojiang River.
So, even if the Others go and return, the city wall can hold them back for a while.
Half a day passed like this, Dany in the retreat was awakened by the sound of the city gate opening.
Looking down, it was a team of more than 100 people, holding lances, carrying bows and arrows, and seemed to be preparing to go out to fight?
"What are you doing?" Dany asked loudly, overlooking the crowd below.
"Ah, it's the Dragon Queen!"
There was a commotion in the crowd below.
It seems that they originally wanted to avoid her to do bad things, but they were caught and panicked.
Dany's eyes narrowed. Those people were both male and female, but they were all hair grey-white.
Not a single adult, not a single child.
She's getting weirder.
A jump, like a piece of fluff, fell from the 18-meter-high city wall, causing a burst of exclamations in the crowd below.
"Where are you going?" Dany glanced sternly at the old men in tattered furs.
They bowed their heads in embarrassment.
Finally, a lame old man with azure eyes stepped forward and gave a salute to Dragon Queen, saying: "Queen Your Majesty, let's go hunting, maybe, you can eat fresh roasted venison tonight. ."
"Damn, where did the deer come from in this weather? And there are Others hidden in the woods, are you going to die?" Dany indifferently said.
"Ah, Others..." Someone whispered as if awakened: "There are Others outside the city, we can't become the living dead."
"Ai, How can this be done?" An old Warrior stomped Lance and lamented again and again.
"Your Majesty, I'm Tucas Umber, Greatjon's cousin, can you take a step to speak." The lame old man approached Dany and whispered.
There was a faint pleading in his voice, which Dany could not bear to refuse.
Then they made their way out around a black snowdrift scorched by the Wights fire, out of sight of the crowd.
"Ai, frankly, we really go hunting, but the North people's hunting in winter has a different meaning." The old cripple said bitterly.
Dany suddenly woke up and remembered something Big Bear said: When the winter comes, the old North will pick up the bow and arrow and tell the young people to go out hunting, but they never come back after going out.
They didn't go hunting at all. They left the village just because there was not enough food at home for the winter, so they left the food for the young people.
"Isn't that enough for you?" Dany frowned.
Old cripple eyes shined, sighed in relief: It appears that this mysterious mighty Dragon Queen also knows the "honorable tradition" of the North.
"If Hearth can hold on, we can hold on for a few more years, but as you said before, Wyvern can't carry that many people at once.
And, go to Winterfell, Or somewhere else, there's always not enough food.
I've lived long enough to know better than anyone that Chaos of Four Kings, North has no food at all, even without Others, more than three years Changdong also has to starve seventy adults in North to death.
Now, Long Night is here, we have enough to live, let’s leave more chances to survive for the young people!” The old cripple sighed.
Listening to a story is not the same as experiencing it in person.
Dany didn't feel anything from what Big Bear said at the time. Now an old man is standing in front of oneself, saying the most desperate words with the most calm attitude. She was deeply shocked and even more stimulated.
"Ridiculous, ridiculous, I won't allow this to happen in front of me! You go back to me, take them all back.
I'll stay in Hearth more In a few days, Wyvern will ship you to the south in batches." She blushed and pointed to the city gate loudly said.
Dragon Queen's voice was too loud and her tone was too intense, which attracted the group of Old Guys under the city gate to lean over quietly and watch on tiptoe.
Old cripple quietly glared at the peeping old friends, then turned to Dragon Queen, fixedly looking at her firm purple eyes, said with a bitter smile:
"Such a Things happen every winter in the North, you can stop this time, can you change everything in the past? Can you stop everything in the future?
At this time, I guess the old people in other castles are also Start taking action, you can't change all this."
"The past cannot be changed, the future is uncertain, and it is impossible to say that the North people will completely abolish this bad habit in the future!
But I only care about Now, as long as I can change the tragedy that happened in front of my eyes." Dany said seriously.
"Tragedy? You stopped me, that would lead to tragic events. Thousands of years of history have proved this. Either one lives or the whole family dies.
This is not a bad habit either. , we North people can reproduce for thousands of years, all rely on the old people's fearless sacrifice."
There is a strong pride in the old cripple's tone, as if to fulfill the mission of sacred glory.
Dany waved his hand and said beyond doubt: "Follow me to Crackclaw Point, to Dragonstone, I'll take care of you!
I've been helping victims in the Three Rivers basin, saving thousands Tens of thousands of people, and there is no shortage of you Old Guys."