Chapter 1025
Crackclaw Point, by the bay, Dyre Den on the towering cliffs.
In the "Sept Cave" excavated in the mountain, Ser Eustace said with a frown: "It has been two years, the pine trees in the territory have been cut down, and it is too expensive to go further afield. Why don't you cross the Bay of Crabs.
Lord Devout, do you want to arrange for the Volunteers to escort the sled team to Vale to borrow food?"
Meribald walked to the window carved out of the edge of the cave. , overlooking the messy land below the mountain.
The once boundless sea of pine disappeared without a trace, leaving only the black soil covered with residual snow, trampled by countless people countless times, the white snow stained with black muddy water, and then formed into dirty ice.
The messy footprints are like pockmarks on the face, and the big holes left after the roots are dug out are like frostbite on the ground.
"Ai, unimaginable, when I came, I disliked the dense pine forest and organized refugees to burn the forest to repair the stronghold. Now..." Septon Meribald shook his head with a wry smile.
When I met Dragon Queen for the first time, he had mottled grey hair, but now it has all turned into silver threads, and his tall body of over 1.8 meters was under the heavy burden of taking care of millions of refugees. Bending down and hunched over, his stature even seemed a little short at the moment.
Only the dive light in the eyes is brighter, firmer and gentler than before.
"No matter how many pine trees there are, there will be no entry, so many people can't help chewing!
In the beginning, there were only refugees from the Riverlands and Crownlands. When Long Night comes, Crackclaw Point The Wildlings of the Dragon Queen were invited by Dragon Queen to bring their family and family to vote.
So far, nearly 1.3 million people...one person eats one tree, and also It will consume 1.3 million trees, and it is not unusual to eat up the forest within a radius of hundreds of kilometers." Dyre Den Noble looked helpless.
Septon Meribald hearing this, couldn't help but be stunned.
It's not that I don't know, but it's a shock.
In two years, a person must have more than one tree gnawed. The forest of Crackclaw Point was gnawed bald, and King's Landing and other places were spared?
Will Seven Kingdoms still have pines alive after Long Night ends?
"Thanks to the 200,000 tons of grain prepared in advance by Dragon Queen, and Little Sun to help with fishing, otherwise how miserable would it be now?" Old Septon said slowly.
"You can borrow food from Vale." Ser Eustace suggested again.
He explained: "During the Chaos of Four Kings, Vale had been stockpiling food for the winter. And Vale was mountainous and forested, and the Vale princes had not been wasted because of the Dragon Queen's 'Long Night Mass Production' order. The labor force, when logging for firewood this year, also accumulated tens of thousands of tons of bark surface.
But Vale changed owners one after another, and the Nobles led the soldiers of the territory to King's Landing to fight the civil war. The anti-ghost work has been done very badly. A large number of old and weak women and children have died, but the consumption of food has been greatly reduced.
In this way, Vale's food crisis index, Seven Kingdoms, is the lowest and has never been popular."
Septon Meribald walked back and forth in front of the window a few times, helplessly said: "I know what you said, but Ser, you are also a veteran, and you should understand some things better than me."
Ser Eustace is in his sixties this year, and even grandson and granddaughter are at the age to kill Others with swords. In his early years, he participated in the battle of Ruby Ford with Rhaegar. He also served Iron Throne in War of Four Kings. ".
Crackclaw Point belongs to Targaryen's ancestral Fiefdom, whether or not Dragon Queen eventually sits on Iron Throne, this is an unchangeable fact, just like North belongs to Stark and Westerlands belongs to Lannister.
It happens that the Vale princes are playing for Iron Throne, and Iron Throne is sitting on Stannis.
During the cold disaster and the disaster of Others, Vale lost millions of people and vacated a lot of food, but Crackclaw Point is short of food, King's Landing is even short of food, Second Stag is now relying on Vale's food to win people's hearts Woolen cloth!
"Actually, the Vale princes are willing to give their allegiance to the Queen," he emphasized, "the Vale nobles, headed by Bronze Yohn, have long wanted to join the Queen Your Majesty.
Now Maester's "Secret Record of the Gods" was circulated everywhere, and everyone knew about R'hllor's sinister intentions.
Even the people of King's Landing spontaneously boycotted the Red God priests and Stannis, and the princes could not bear to be 'The The Seven Kingdoms' service."
"But the Red God priests did help Westeros clean up the Others, and the food shipped to King's Landing was eaten by the Seven Kingdoms people. Stannis finally took care of King's Landing and Crownlands. In good order.
Long Night is long, and the main enemy of mankind is always Others! We have a feud, and the happiest must be Cold God and Others King." Meribald said solemnly.
Ser Eustace asked helplessly: "How to solve the food problem?"
Septon Meribald thought for a moment, then slowly said: "Since Gods' secret is no longer a secret, then , I don't mind letting you know about some news.
Long Night will last at least ten years, but two years later, the Seven Kingdoms stockpile has bottomed out.
We need a lot of Food cannot be obtained by conventional means, and can only rely on transcendent power.
The area of the ocean is several times that of the land. Even if the sun is lost, most of the algae and fish in the ocean will die, but in the deep sea, there are still many giant Sea creatures, such as the Great Kraken.
So, Queen Your Majesty intends to ally with the Drowned God, and then ask the Sea God to provide mankind with enough sea fish for the whole world to pass through the Long Night."
"This..." Even though Eustace had seen Maester's "Secret Record of the Gods", he was still shocked by Dragon Queen's great generosity.
Let Spiritual God help humans to fish, how bold is this?
"Is the Drowned God willing? I heard that he has a bad temper. After reading Ironborn's "Song of the Drowned God" (Holy Scripture of Drowned God), you can understand how cruel he is." He said worriedly.
"I was on a business trip to King's Landing the other day. Guess who I met?" Meribald said with a smile.
"Dragon Queen?" As soon as the words came out, the old Ser oneself immediately shook his head and said with a smile: "Dragon Queen is in Dragonstone, if you want to see her, just go directly to Dragonstone."
Old Septon did not sell any more, and said directly: "On behalf of the Church of The Seven, I met with Iron Islands Duke Yara Grejoy, and Tarle the Thrice-Drowned.
On behalf of the Dragon Queen and The Church of The Seven, proclaiming a pardon for Ironborn's crimes against Westeros, acknowledging House Greyjoy's rule over the Iron Islands, and accepting Asha to replace Euron as the full Duke of the Iron Islands.
In return, Duke Asha and Cleric Tarle agreed to persuade Drowned God Your Majesty to accept the Queen's goodwill."
Well, the Dragon Queen was terrified.
She was fiercely stimulated by the Storm God incident, and she was afraid that the Drowned God would be violent, and she would rather be broken than perfect.
So, Dany didn't force Watery Halls right away.
At least you have to be polite before soldiers.
Let the oneself little brother communicate with the Drowned God little brother first, and explain the benefits and interests.
And then offer an alliance contract that Dany thinks is very reasonable, and also allows the Drowned God to bargain with her through the Drowned Men.
"Queen Your Majesty is going to be sister and brother with Drowned God, Queen is sister, Drowned God is brother, sister and brother join forces to spend Long Night together." Septon Meribald said dryly.
"Drowned God is the True God that has existed for more than 10,000 years, right? Is it appropriate for him to be the younger brother?" Eustace said in disbelief.
“Half a month ago, the natural phenomenon of weeping and crying, do you remember? It was a sign of the fall of True God. The Dragon Queen slashed the disobedient Storm God to death with a sword.” Meribald low sound.
"Mother!" Eustace's eyes widened, "Are you kidding me?"
"I was shocked too, but it's the truth. The Queen also asked me to tell Drowned God's High Priest explained that she is not a vicious person and just wants to invite Storm God to join the alliance, but Storm God is bewitched by Justice League, abandon righteousness and follow evil, Demonic Will is too deep and hopeless.
Even though In this way, Queen Your Majesty also embraces a benevolent heart. When slashing with a sword, try to avoid the key points as much as possible, and the purpose is to injure but not kill.
However, Storm God can't hold back when he only suffers from pond fish. , on the verge of annihilation, and then his servants crow backlash Lord God..."
Meribald's expression was mixed, with pride, shock, and slight contempt for Storm God.
"The Queen hopes that Drowned God Your Majesty will not misunderstand, and will not be afraid or do anything drastic, and even if the alliance fails, she will not rashly attack."
"This can be Really..." Eustace's expression became more complicated, his old face was contorted out of shape, "Can't even resist a sword?"
Meribald nods.
"I think I'm a little older, but if I compete with Queen, I should be able to last two rounds. Well, Queen don't use Magic."
Looking at the old man with gray hair and heavy black eye bags, Meribald's mouth twitched, "Trust me, you can't even draw a sword in front of Your Majesty."
The old Knight was dissatisfied: "In Honeywine, Ser Dickon Tarly also held several rounds under Your Majesty.
I met him in Maidenpool, he is a good guy, but the sword technique is not as good as me.
He also asked me for a martial skill.
Also, on the earlier Harrenhal Tourney, I played Prince Rhaegar by one move and lost. Prince Rhaegar was better than Ser Dickon Strong?"
"Ai, how many years have you been with Old Huang?" Meribald was helpless.
"It's only been four years."
Old Septon was stunned, it was really amazing!
Four years ago, Dragon Queen was still competing with mortals, and she couldn't win with one move. Four years later, she could chop True God with a sword.
"Do you think Spiritual God fights like mortals, slashing each other with swords?"
"You just said that Queen killed Storm God with one sword."
"That sword—"
"Sigh—" Suddenly, a dragon cry came from the sky.
Old Septon didn't want to talk to Knight anymore, so he trotted out of the cave Sept immediately.
The visitor is White Cloak Mormont.
Big Bear brought a map and pointed to a plain near Reach at Crackclaw Point, "Your Majesty is going to use this circle to test the Holy Light Shelter.
Please Lord Devout and Ser Eustace cooperate with me to complete the migration of 10,000 refugees in two days."
"What Holy Light Shelter?" Meribald strangely said.
"I'm not quite clear, first choose ten thousand farmers who know how to farm, and I'll know in a few days."
Dragon Queen's chosen plain is not far from Dyre Den Far away, before Long Night, there is the main food producing area of House Brune. Counting the low hills and the lakes on the edge of the farmland, it is seven to eighty square kilometers.
10,000 prime-age farmers, 300 volunteers, and a dozen Septons, including Meribald and Ser Eustace, watched the Dragon Queen teleport to the sky above the camp, without speaking to them, very directly. Grabs out of pocket...a handful of green beans?
azure's beans are scattered, "xiū xiū xiū", and the beans are still in the air, and they swell into giant blue-gray-skinned Giants.
"Children, hand in hand, walk one after the other, in a circle like a ball, hand in hand, children..."
Under the stunned gaze of everyone, two Ten dumb Giants sang nursery rhymes, held hands, formed a circle, and then accelerated in circles.
"huhuhu " the wind blows.
Giant's body swells and fuses together, forming an azure wind ring.
Then, the wind ring is like mud in the hands of a craftsman. The inner ring expands to cover the five-kilometer plain below. shrink.
Giant's ballad has disappeared, a giant translucent bowl, upside down over everyone's heads.
Everyone just didn't know why, Dragon Queen waved again, the sky was bright, and a sun the size of a water tank was hanging in the air.