"It's been nine years of long summer, and it's true that winter is coming. Ed's expression was as cold as frozen ground.

"It's a strange ghost, my lord, a strange ghost is coming. ”

Edmure looked at the Magic Mountain with playful eyes.

"Before coming to King's Landing, my lord personally beheaded a fleeing Night's Watch on the execution log outside the Wolf Grove, his name was Will, a thief from Seafrontier City in the Riverlands, and a very experienced Night's Watch Ranger. ”

Edmure's eyes widened, and his eyebrows furrowed.

This was to be expected by the Magic Mountain.

The Magic Mountain is in the Western Realm, and there is absolutely no reason to know about this.

"He was caught in the wolf forest by the free rider of the adults, and he looked like an incoherent coward and nervous in the eyes of the adults, did he tell the adults that he saw the white ghosts?"

Edmure was completely speechless!

*

A small mound appeared in front of his eyes, and a manor had been built on the knoll, but it was not a manor, but the Stark family's execution ground. There was a pit in the middle of the black execution wood, which was where the neck of the condemned prisoner was placed. The execution wood was not black, but the blood of the prisoners infected it year after year, and finally turned this huge piece of execution wood into a black with a fishy smell.

In front of the execution log stood an old man—but he wasn't very old—thin, withered, not much taller than Robb, with his hands tied behind him. He lost both ears to chilblains in the bitter cold. His clothes were pitch-black, identical to those of the Night's Watch brethren, but tattered and full of abscesses.

Ed ordered the prisoners to be loosened, and every time people exhaled, a white mist formed on the end of their noses, and it was too cold. Ed glanced at the children: Robb and Jon stood tall and saddled their saddles, while Bran rode a pony between them, Bran had watched the execution for the first time, and he tried hard to show the maturity that a seven-year-old child did not have. A breeze blew through the gates, and the banner of House Stark of Winterfell fluttered overhead, with the Icefield Running Wolf painted on it.

Eddard Stark took off his gloves, and his adopted son, Theon Greyjoy, immediately handed over the sword. The name of the sword is "Cold Ice", and it is the clan sword of the Stark family, and its body is wider than the palm, and it stands taller than Robb. Forged from Valyrian steel, the blade has been blessed with spells and is as dark as black smoke. There is nothing sharper than Valyrian steel.

Ed raised his sword in both hands and said, "Before the execution, deserter, what else do you want to say?"

"My lord, I'm not a bad breed, I'm from Haijiang City, and I have an older brother and a sister at home, if possible, please tell my family by a message, I didn't insult the honor of the family because of cowardice, I saw the white ghost, really, they killed my companion, I didn't lie, my lord, they came, the white ghost came. ”

No one believed the words of the deserter, including Ed himself. Before dying, people don't know what they're talking about because of fear.

Refusing to listen to the poor deserter's whispers any longer, Eddard said aloud, "In the name of Robert I of House Baratheon, King of the Andals, Loynar and 'Ancestors', Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Guardian of the Realm, I, Lord of Winterfell and Guardian of the North, Eddard of House Stark, hereby condemn you to death. With that, he raised his greatsword above his head.

The deserter put his neck on the execution wood and whispered, "White ghost, white ghost is coming, escape, everyone run away...... Head south...... The white ghost is coming...... White Ghost ......"

Cha!

The Ice Greatsword fell, and the deserter's head fell to the ground, rolling at Theon Greyjoy's feet, and the guy flew up and kicked the head far away. Eddard noticed Theon's actions, much to Jon Snow's displeasure.

*

The Demon Mountain stared at Ed's face as cold as the frozen soil of the north, and said slowly: "The white ghost that Will said in his mouth is a strange ghost, he saw the white ghost with his own eyes, and he was so frightened that he fled from the desperate Great Wall. The three of them went out on patrol, accompanied by a seventeen-year-old commander named Weima Royce, the youngest son of Bronze Jonn of the Vale, who volunteered to be a night watchman at the Wall of Desperation because he refused to fight with his brothers for land and property. A veteran named Gary who has been on the Wall for forty years, is the most experienced ranger, a Ranger who has served on the Wall for four years and has unparalleled stealth skills, Will, the three of them were ordered to enter the Ghost Forest, Weimar and Gary were killed by the White Ghost, Will was so frightened that he fled over the Wall to the south, he should have gone back to report to Commander-in-Chief Mormont, but he didn't, he was terrified, my lord. ”

Ed's throat kept swallowing. He remembered that the deserter's name seemed to be Will, and the guy kept talking about white ghosts and white ghosts.

Gary Weimar Weir did not say the names of these two men before he died.

"The Lord caught Will, and Will told the Lord that he had seen the White Ghost, but the Lord didn't believe it, just like the Lord didn't want to believe in the Demon Mountain now. Winter is coming, my lord, the White Imps are coming, and if they break through the Great Wall, the first to be slaughtered will be the people of House Stark. Why was the Great Wall of Desperation built, think about it, why build a thousand-mile-long Great Wall?"

Magic Mountain paused and carefully examined Ed's facial expression: "The Great Wall of Desperation was not originally intended to cut off the wild people from going south, so what does the Great Wall want to cut off?" My guess is that Brandon Stark, who built the city, must have written the secret into the family tree, but eight thousand years have passed, and the secret has finally evolved into a family motto, and now there is only one proverb left: Winter is coming!"

"How did you know the White Ghost was coming?" Ed stared at the Demon Mountain, his eyes uncertain.

He didn't know that Will was patrolling the Ghost Forest with Gary and Weima Royce, and the frightened 'old man' couldn't ask a lot of questions clearly, he couldn't understand, and the only thing that was repeated was the white ghost, the white ghost, the white ghost.

"Don't ask me how I know, Lord Eddard, you should check to see if Will, who was beheaded by you, still has two companions, who are missing and have not been found. Send a raven to the Wall, and Commander-in-Chief Mormont will write back to you. Magic Mountain stood up and looked at Ed condescendingly, "My lord, I suggest you don't check Jon Arryn, your concern should be in the north." The white ghost is coming, and the wild people in the north will march south in order to escape, and storm the Great Wall. If you continue to check Jon Arryn, you will die, and all your guards, the grooms, the treasurer, Sister Modan, the blacksmith, and Mikay the butcher boy, all will die, terribly. ”

Ed's eyes burned with fire, and he jerked to his feet: "Sir Gregor, the Lannisters have finally sent you to the door to threaten in person. The people of the north would rather die than give in, and never fear. ”

Demon Mountain chuckled, "My lord, I repeat, I wasn't sent by the Lannisters. As for the fact that the people of the North would rather die than be afraid, I believe this. It's just that after you die, what will happen to your two daughters? There are liars and conspirators everywhere in the Red Fort, who can they trust? My lord, the place you should focus on is the northern border and the Great Wall of Desperation, because winter is coming, and the white ghost is coming. ”

"Sir Gregor, please get out!" Eddard's face turned pale, and his tone was as sharp as a knife.

Magic Mountain stared at Eddard Stark, turned and walked out, he lowered his head and went out of the room, stopped, and burrowed his head into the door frame: "Prime Minister, maybe soon you will meet a brother in black, he is a recruiter who has come to the dungeon of King's Landing, and ask Will and Gary about Weir Royce. ”

"Lord Gregor, what I should do and how to do it is not for Lord Gregor. Tell your master that whoever dares to touch my daughter will regret it. ”

Demon Mountain shrugged his shoulders, snorted, and turned away.

Listening to the footsteps of the Magic Mountain, he went down the spiral staircase, out of the corridor, into the compound, out of the gate of the Prime Minister's Tower, and finally the footsteps were completely inaudible, and Ed was still standing, motionless.

Lannister was so arrogant that he dared to send the Magic Mountain to threaten him directly, and hinted that he would threaten him with his two daughters. Ed's heart was full of anger, if it weren't for Gui's status as prime minister, he couldn't bear to draw his sword directly.

Lannister ...... It's really ...... It's so arrogant!

It's just that, how could the Magic Mountain know about the beheading of the deserter?

On that day, there were only twenty followers, and they were definitely loyal guards in the family.

What Will said that day, if it hadn't been mentioned by Magic Mountain today, he would have almost forgotten it!

Magic Mountain, how do you know...... Will and the white ghost?

Is he implying that I have a mole around me? Or is there a wizard who said a ...... to the Magic Mountain? The Great Prophecy?