Chapter 1121
The Neck is scarier than it was before Long Night.
That area was still covered by wetlands and marsh, and the temperature was even hotter. When I reached out and squeezed it, it seemed that I could hold a puddle of water out of thin air.
The sky is hot and humid, the air is wet, the leaves are wet, the flowers gather rainwater, and the tree trunks are also soaked by frequent rains and become black and wet. I feel that oneself is wet, like wearing a cotton jacket in a sauna.
The dense bushes are soaked in rotten swamps for many years, and there are curtain-like gray-white mycelium and dark green vines hanging from the trunks.
The forest is forty-fifty meters high and almost forms two sealed walls along the narrow causeway.
Giant flowers bloom in the bubbling marsh, withered petals falling into the water and becoming part of the sweetness of the bubbles.
Asha felt dizzy and vomited after one sip.
apart from this , as well as the lizards as large as the carry and the boa constrictors as thick as the waist.
The lizard looks like an alligator, but has a stronger bite, camouflage and hunting intelligence.
Before the attack, they were no different from the black dead wood floating on the water. Asha was almost dragged into the marsh by a lizard and lion, and the others did not have time to rescue. Fortunately, the unicorn itself was also extraordinary. The two hooves were beating drums, knocking out the teeth of the lizard and lion.
The lizards and pythons aren't The Neck's most terrifying things yet.
Asha has seen two calf-sized plush spiders that mate next to each other.
Halfway, the mosquitoes that covered the sky came towards them, and then Sansa Crown Princess quickly chanted Dragon Language Magic, and the summon covered a giant flame cover with a radius of ten meters.
She also saw rotting corpses peeping at them from behind the big trees with vicious eyes.
Seeing gnolls besieging a three-meter-tall giant orangutan...
It wasn't until they arrived at the Crannogmen's home, Greywater Watch, that they were alert to their exhausted spirits. Take it easy.
Greywater Watch is a wooden castle that keeps moving in the marsh, and the diminutive Crannogmen follow Greywater Watch in The Neck on a raft.
But now Greywater Watch has stopped, near the middle of the causeway, to protect North workers who are building the railroad.
Now Asha understands why Eddard said: At least two hundred years before North and King's Landing open to traffic.
It's really bad road conditions.
“How did The Neck become like this?” Asha held the coconut shell and stood on the wooden castle overlooking the construction site not far away.
"The North hasn't seen snow in a hundred years, Winterfell has changed its name to Summer Palace, and The Neck has no reason to stay the same." Howland Reed Earl sighed.
He's actually a Stark too, his ancestor is Bran and Meera's youngest son, a true Stark.
Half a day off at Greywater Watch, Asha and the others hit the road again.
One day later, Squad entered North, a completely different world from North in Asha's impression: there are green plants and bright flowers everywhere, and vines full of melons and fruits can also be seen on the roadside. Wearing colorful shorts and skirts.
"It's changed, completely changed. Back then, the North was full of desolate snow-covered fields, but now sugar cane, olives and coconut trees are planted everywhere.
Once North people The hair is thick, the sturdy like a bandit, and the eyes are always shining.
Now they are all puffy, their faces are full of laziness and carelessness, and they seem to be able to sleep all the time. It seems that they are asleep. Now, tomorrow's dinner can be left in the sky."
"It's not as exaggerated as you said, we North people are still very hardworking, and half of the living materials in North's Ice Kingdom come from North." Eddard scolded said with a smile.
"That's because the old and new land grants still belong to Night's Watch!" Princess Sansa said indifferently.
Arriving outside the Summer Palace, Asha once again sighed: "Now Winterfell reminds me of Highgarden, a city of flowers, Knights and white towers."
"Yeah. , the current summer palace really makes us old people not used to it!"
Asha turned to look, but it was a hair grey-white Crone, leading a few teenagers Maiden, from the direction of White Knife Harbor come.
"You are..." Asha was a little puzzled, the man on the other side's clothes stood a roaring golden huge bear, which she didn't know at all.
"Ah, it's Grandma Lyanna." Dany, however, expressed congeals, greeted her in surprise, and enthusiastically supported Crone's right arm.
"Asha, don't you know me? A hundred years ago, we were old rivals. Just half a year ago, we met at God-on-Earth's birthday party." Eye's Crone laughed.
"Mormont at Slaver's Bay." Sansa whispered behind Asha.
"Ah, you, are you Maege's youngest daughter?" Asha was startled and embarrassed.
She did lead the Ironmen to attack Bear Island in the early years, but it was not to loot Bear Island. The place was too poor and there was no oil and water, mainly to prevent Bear Island from rescuing Deepwood Motte next door.
Recalling the past of the female pirate made her very embarrassed.
Six months ago, she went to Slaver's Bay, and theoretically she did meet the old Lyanna, but she was sitting next to the Dragon Queen at that time, and she was so excited that she was so excited and proud that she ignored the palace other guests.
This made her even more embarrassed.
Fortunately, she was not embarrassed for too long. Duke Stark, who got the news, brought a family out of the city gate.
Brandon Duke is like "wild beast" Eddard, tall and burly, In his early two-meter-three, he looks like a little Giant.
Contrary to his fierce appearance, he has a very kind personality. After meeting old Lyanna, he insisted on giving her a few kowtows.
"My mother is from Bear Island, I should kowtow to you." He said cheerfully with a big smile.
After the greeting, Asha and Lyanna, two contemporaries "old men", talked about the changes in North.
"Ai, now there are millions of people in North! They all have to thank Daenerys Your Majesty, the custom of old people going out to hunt in winter has completely disappeared from North.
Just soaking every day In the honeypot, the North people have become the Knights of Summer who were most despised by us back then. Alas, there must be gains and losses!" Lyanna said with emotion.
"In the end, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Now everyone has become a literate and civilized person." Asha sighed.
"Civilized people are not necessarily civilized," the old lady rambled, repeating the purpose of oneself's trip.
The original Second Young Lady Nicole of Bear Island Mormont had a sacred marriage contract with Oldtown Hightower Eldest Young Master Jordan in her early years.
Later Jordan's biological mother died, and the father continued the string. With a stepmother, there was a stepfather. The two were not very good to him.
So, the little boy came to Yue Family by boat at the age of eleven to ask for help from his future father-in-law.
Earl Mormont is a good man, and gave him money to help him go to college in White Harbor, but Mormont Second Young Lady disliked her fiancé's poor and uncertain future, wanted to break off the marriage, and even found another boyfriend at school.
Well, Miss Nicole is also studying at White Harbor University.
"How can you violate the divine marriage contract?!" The old lady stomped her feet angrily, "We House Mormont have been very noble from generation to generation, and the children of the family have great abilities, at least all of them are loyal, brave and virtuous, how could it come to me? It's about to fall into the ground, and such a thing pops out!?"
"Modern people like to pursue free love." Asha comforted.
"Not only is love freedom, Nicole thinks Jordan has no future, thinks he is poor, and is obsessed with North's debauched life, and refuses to go to Oldtown to live a serious life."
"North people are also serious people." Duke Lady on the side said naively.
"Women raise actors at home, men raise Red Graces outside, how can they be serious? Now North is more degenerate than the city-state of Essos. Is it a must to be a nouveau riche when you get rich?
If Duke Eddard was still alive, he would have to carry Ice out to behead every day." The old lady sighed.
"There is no drama at the Summer Palace." Duke Lady said quickly.
Not waiting for the old lady to reply, she quickly brought the topic to Bear Island Second Young Lady, "Nicole really likes Thoros, and Thoros' status is not bad.
Braavos is new to the water. The chief engineer of the Titan is his father."
"That girl is only the second daughter, and Jordan is the eldest son. What a blessing that the second daughter can marry the eldest son?
When she got engaged, her parents must have thought about her happiness.
In order to love freely, do you have to live up to the kindness of your parents?
Well, those are your parents, you can I don't care, but what about the honor of the family?
When you want to take advantage, you are the lady of House Mormont, and when you are responsible for the family, you start to clamor for freedom of love.
Don't worry Think about it, without the identity given by the family, the object of her free love can't look down on her!" The old lady's mouth was like pressing the wheel of a car, and she ran fast.
Only half a day later, Bear Island Earl Mormont rode the Wyvern to the Summer Palace, which was another lively event.
But the different world expedition squad didn't stay in the North for long, and it was set off immediately after a night of repairs.
On the way to Wall, Asha saw many thriving towns and villages.
Recalling that when she and Stannis marched into Winterfell, and there were no people for hundreds of kilometers, she couldn't help but sigh again: "Dragon Queen is too powerful, and a random and unintentional move can easily change the world."
Dany Ya shook his head and said: "It's not an unintentional move, the equator passes through the North, which can ensure that more human settlements are in a habitable zone.
Before Long Night, the equator was in Summer. Sea, there is no light in the north, and the Sothoryos with few humans have been wasting the excellent climate.”
After arriving at the Wall, Asha was shocked again, and the Wall, where the ice layer disappeared, almost shrunk by 2/3/2022.
"No Night's Watch?"
There are continuous farms near Wall, and the castles of Night's Watch have become prosperous towns.
"The ownership of this place remains with the Night's Watch Legion, taxes and crops will be shipped by sea to the North's Ice Kingdom, where the new Night's Watch will be located," Eddard said.
"What's the use of keeping this city wall?" Asha wondered.
"This is the last line of defense in our world. Wall, is the starting point of our journey, and the real test begins now." Sansa Crown Princess sighed.
She was right.
From leaving Wall to finally arriving at North's Ice Kingdom, a group of ten of them walked for three months!
beyond the wall doesn't even have a muddy road, they have to find the way with a map oneself, and if there is no way, they walk with a unicorn.
Fortunately, Targaryen's name is better than Asha imagined. In any First Men tribe, as long as Danyya and Princess Sansa report their identities, let the clan people know that they are descendants of the Dragon Queen. Get the highest standard of reception.
"Every ten years on Old Ancestor's full life, hundreds of clans send representatives to Slaver's Bay to offer gifts. Even if they return to the gate, they only recognize Old Ancestor as their king." Sansa said with a complicated expression .
"Only some of the Wildlings are back, right? I also met Queen's Point's Free Folk at King's Landing," Asha said.
"Well, thirty years after the end of Long Night, the number of Queen's Point Free Folk exploded, and they couldn't live anymore, so they migrated to beyond the wall with the horse men, and we will meet Dothraki soon.
Lei Er Khaleesi is my second aunt and Sansa, of course, Ramon Khal is also Targaryen, Targaryen of the Five Colored Dragon." Dany said.
To Asha's surprise, she originally thought she would see a nomad living in a yurt, but was surprised to see a city under Snow Mountain bigger than King's Landing.
There is even a huge steel mill and Wildfire processing plant. The buildings in the city are not as tall as King's Landing, but they are clean, spacious and comfortable, far better than King's Landing.