Chapter 972
The gloomy north wind blows the shadows of the trees, like a ferocious living thing, Mormont looks around hastily, breathing white: "I feel very bad, I always feel that something is peeping at us."
Gerold Dayne flutters huge aquiline nose, frowned: "I smell human excrement, there should be a lot of living people here."
"There are caves in the pit, before Brotherhood Without the Banners living, the snow covered their traces," Dany said.
This is a high mountain, and a thousand-mile-high steep mountain rises abruptly from the fertile Riverlands plain, like a chimney in the ground.
The mountain is full of old pine trees, birch trees and iron trees, and occasionally there are small Weirwood with a few red palm leaves, and the green is a little red.
At this time, a thick layer of snow fell on the trees, and the leaves were wrapped in a layer of glittering and translucent ice crystals, like jade tree silver flowers.
A gust of north wind blows, and the branches and leaves collide with each other, making a crisp sound of dīng líng líng.
This is High Heart.
Dany led the two White Cloaks through the Space Gate, one step, from Acorn Hall 20 kilometers away to the top of the soft snow.
The top of the mountain is slightly flat, and there is a huge crater with a diameter of more than 50 meters in the center. Even though it has been snowing intermittently for several months, the huge crater has not been filled, and the general outline of the crater can be seen.
People who don't know the situation will even mistakenly think that this is an extinct volcano when they first see this huge crater.
If there is no snow, you can clearly see that the giant pit is just an ordinary dirt pit, but there are many white giant python-like Weirwood roots in the pit.
There are rare vine-like Weirwood branches at the bottom of the mountain, but no giant Weirwood trees, and now there are densely packed wrist-thick roots on the top of the mountain, which is very unusual.
But if you know something about High Heart, there will be no more doubts.
Eight thousand years ago, Dragon Queen came to this time in another way. Once, there was a towering Weirwood tree growing in the giant pit. shrouded in shade.
The whole essence of Weirwood was later transferred to a branch with fresh spores, and the remaining branch dried up and died. Children of the Forest and First Men planted 31 Weirwood saplings around the dead stump.
Thousands of years have passed, and the once saplings have grown into pavilions, and this noble place has always been the Holy Land of Old Gods believers.
Until one day, the Andals arrive.
They went one after the other, felling the forest like a demon, slaughtering the Children of the Forest, and burning the Heart Tree, especially Weirwood.
Hundreds of years and thousands of years of conflict, the First Men King gradually compromised, they gave up the Old Gods belief, and merged with Andals in bloodline, culture, tradition and belief through marriage.
The final moment has come, and only High Heart and Old Gods believers are left to the south of The Neck.
Those believers include the Children of the Forest, the First Men, and even the Greenseer. Their power is extremely powerful, and large groups of ravens and wolves are summoned.
However, Andals has an iron sword and a more advanced Knight system, and the Old Gods believers with wooden lances and bronze weapons are completely no match for them.
The battle lasted for several generations, and the Andals lost a lot, but there was an endless stream.
It is said that the corpses of all the dead animal companions are half the height of the High Heart mountain when piled up.
Greenseer, Children of the Forest, and First Men were slaughtered, and Weirwood was felled and burned, leaving a huge pit and 31 tree stumps.
But the Andals King who captured High Heart didn't end well either. That guy became a Kinslayer and died in a terrible state. The kingdom was also occupied and divided by others.
"It's really embarrassing," Dany's expression suddenly became weird, "The Children of the Forest's guardian array is still running. When Andals won the final victory, it didn't damage the array arranged by Children of the Forest at all. No wonder there aren't a single Wights here."
High Heart is the Holy Land of the Children of the Forest, and of course has an array guard.
However, this array has only two effects, warding off evil spirits and concentrating on the mind.
The Andals in those days were not able to detect the ancient guardian array, and naturally it was impossible to destroy it.
"Are you going to enter your last home?" An old woman suddenly emerged from behind a sentinel tree under the hillside, as if she were escaping.
Crone was hunched over, hunched over, less than 90 cm tall, with a wrinkled face, leaning on a lumpy black cane, jumping over the thick roots hardened by ice and snow, slowly But he walked steadily towards the Dragon Queen on the top of the mountain.
The north wind whistled, and Crone's white hair, which was almost dragged to the ground, fluttered in the sky like a white cloud.
Her eyes are eerily red, similar to Children of the Forest's cat eyes.
In Children of the Forest, only Greenseer has red eyes.
"You are the Ghost of High Heart?" Big Bear frowned and looked at the strange-looking, strange-looking old woman, and asked, "Where is the last home?"
"Stay here and don't disturb me talking to King of Gods." the old woman hissed impolitely.
"The Divine King?" Darkstar glanced at the Dragon Queen and wondered: "Are you talking about the Queen? Why the Divine King?"
"End and unify the New Gods and the Old Gods The king." There was a hint of fear in the red eyes of Darkstar, the old woman.
"You were supposed to be a Demon King who brought darkness to the living," she muttered.
"What are you talking about?" Gerold frowned. The old woman babbled. He understood everything he said, but he didn't understand what the other party wanted to express.
It's also thanks to following the Dragon Queen's self-cultivation over the past few years. According to his violent temper, he slashed the Woods Witch who was dressed up as God and playing the Devil earlier.
Dany's eyes flashed, said with a smile: "I heard that you are very good at predicting, and your brother will often come to you to inquire about the outside world, just because you can predict the world's affairs without leaving home?"
"I'll just have another drink." Crone sighed.
Dany's eyebrows can't help but twitch a few times, it's pretentious...
Ordinary people don't even know she's acting cool, well, maybe old The woman didn't even want to pretend.
But Dany knew that the brother would use trifling a pot of wine to know in advance a series of prophecies that would change the situation in the Seven Kingdoms, such as Second Stag killing his brother, Euron killing his brother, Red Wedding, Purple Wedding, etc.
However, the brothers are not satisfied. They don't understand and have no interest in analyzing the slightly obscure prophecy. Instead, they want more direct information, such as how many enemies are, where they come from, and our troops. Where are we...
"How about we take a bet?" Dany pointed at Big Bear without waiting for the old woman's answer: "Let's make a prediction about Ser Jorah's future together."
She's shameless enough. As Queen's White Cloak, isn't she in charge of Big Bear's future?
But the hunchback Crone didn't even think about it, didn't even go to see Big Bear, and blurted out: "In a few days, he will be very unlucky, full of rotten peach blossoms, and be in a dilemma."
"Hahaha!" Dany laughed.
Big Bear and Gerold both sneered and looked disdainful.
“Now that Holy Land belongs to me, your duty of protection has been completed, do you want to change the environment?” Dany asked with a smile: “I can send you to Dragonstone, have you been to Dragonstone? With Jenny of Oldstones."
Evidently, she thought that Crone had lost the predicted bet, and it was impossible to say that Crone surrendered to her on purpose.
Humpbacked Crone didn't talk about Big Bear's fight with the gambler anymore, and said with a wistful look: "I miss Jenny very much, but I feel very uncomfortable hearing her name from your mouth.
You omniscient people are all voyeurs on the River of Time, watching our lives as a drama, with keen interest pleasure, and leaving comments from time to time, but I don’t know how painful we are as the parties.”
“Every time you meet a singer and Bard at High Heart, you ask them to sing Jenny of Oldstones, it is known, no need to spy on you,” Dany said.
"How do you know I like that song if you don't peep at me?" Crone said hunchbacked.
"The person who enters my sight now is not just him at this moment. His past and future are the same as this moment, and they will be shown in front of me together." Dany said proudly.
"You go, I'm in High Heart and I'm not going anywhere." Crone shook his head, not wanting to talk to Dragon Queen any more.
"You don't want to see the savior you predicted? Last time you ran to the Red Fork hundreds of miles away to find me." Dany asked with a smile.
"I've seen him, through the eyes of the trees." Crone's shriveled cheeks twitched a few times, his expression complicated: "He's making a huge mistake, and he shouldn't be messing with the Red God believers. Staying together, you shouldn't go to King's Landing, you shouldn't leave you, you should help him stay away from danger, stay away from Red God's child."
"You said Stannis was going to be bad for him?" Dany asked in surprise.
"Besides Red God's child, he will be in danger." Crone nod and said.
Dany frowned and thought, "I'll warn him, but Stannis gave his life to support Winterfell, and he probably won't leave King's Landing."
Without Crone's prophecy, And without Dany's reminder, Bran had warned Jon countless times: beware of Red Woman, beware of Red God R'hllor.
But there are some things that you know you can't do, and you have to stick to them.
Second Stag bled and killed for Winterfell, Jon impossible to leave before "Battle of King's Landing".
Well, the plans for the "King's Landing War" haven't quite fizzled out.
Now the Red God Church in Free City is gathering in King's Landing, isn't it just waiting for the day when Others King returns and leads millions of Wights to besiege King's Landing?
"Your Majesty, you're talking about Jon Stark?" Gerold Dayne finally made a line after listening to a bewildering amount of words.
"Is he the savior of Asshai's prophecy?" he asked in disbelief.
Big Bear also looked unimaginable, "Why Stark?"
"He's Rhaegar and Lyanna's seed." Dany's expression flatly exploded with a thunderbolt.
Now that she has become omniscient, she can no longer pretend to be confused, so she might as well speak out.
In case this wave of dwarf fails and hangs up, it's time to step up to the front desk!
Darkstar and Big Bear looked at each other in blank dismay, and after a while, cautiously asked, "You mean your brother has an illegal child with Lyanna Stark, Jon Stark?"
“Do you think it makes sense?” Dany asked rhetorically.
Gerold struggled for a moment, then said with difficulty: "After breaking it, it seems as if it should be by rights."
"All doubts are solved. I didn't understand it back then. How can someone as stern and serious as Eddard Stark have an illegal child?
And I've been with him in the battle of Usurper, and I've never seen him flirt with any other woman." Big Bear said suddenly.
Dany turns to face the crater. With a wave, the Weirwood cane floated into the right hand.
"Boom!" High Heart swayed a few times, and a pitch-black Space Crack shaped like lightning cracked above the giant crater.
"This is the Holy Land of the Old Gods, are you going?" she asked the two White Cloaks.