Chapter 423: Judgment (I)
Li Lingyi didn't expect that he was a step too late, the little wolf girl had already escaped, he searched around the castle, but found no trace of her, it was estimated that he had fled to another place.
After thinking about it for a moment, he gave up looking for Arya, and by this time it was already getting dark, but the streets of King's Landing were full of golden robes and king's guards, sternly scanning passers-by, obviously looking for the escaped little wolf girl.
In the dungeon, Li Lingyi easily infiltrated the dungeon, most of these guards were weak-willed, and a little hypnotization with their eyes made them ignore the existence of the intruders. Going underground, in one of the innermost cells, Ed was sitting in a cloaked hair.
"Your Excellency. Li Lingyi's voice made Ed raise his head suddenly, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the person coming, then stood up and strode to the prison door, and asked in astonishment: "Ive, how are you..."
"I'm here to save you. Li Lingyi said, "Now you should understand how Cersei and the others treated you, it's still too late to escape, if it's too late, I'm afraid everything will be irreparable." ”
“…… Ive, I thank you so much. But—" Eddard said with a tired and feeble expression, "I have made a pact with Chief Warris, and I will go to the Great Wall in black. ”
“……”
Li Ling's breath was stagnant, it seemed that the eunuch eight-clawed spider had already come, and used Sansa's life as an excuse to make Ed surrender.
I have to say that this is a very heavy blow to Ed. After all, he is an upright and proud northerner, but now he would rather admit the charge of treason and go to the Great Wall to be a night watchman, just to save his daughter's life.
"But... Do you really think Joffrey will let you go north?" "You know that guy's violent temperament, and you have to understand that Cersei may not be able to control him when he becomes king. ”
Indeed, in the original plot, Cersei didn't want to kill Ned, after all, this would mean an official war with the North. But who knew that Joffrey's sudden order to be beheaded at the execution ground was completely unexpected by everyone, and even Cersei herself couldn't stop it.
Ed was silent when he heard this, and after a moment said in a bitter voice, "I have no choice, Sansa must be under strict guard now." As he spoke, he looked at Li Lingyi seriously, "Ivey, I want your help to find Arya, she shouldn't have been caught yet." She..."
"Don't worry, Lord Duke. Li Lingyi immediately said, "Needless to say, I will find her and send her back to Winterfell safely." After all, she's my only apprentice, and I can't let her slip up. ”
"Thank you very much. After Ed finished speaking, he looked outside, "I don't know how you got in, but it's better to leave quickly, otherwise it will be difficult for you to escape once you are discovered." ”
"That's... Lord Duke, are you really not going to escape?" Li Lingyi made one last attempt.
Ed shook his head in silence.
Li Lingyi didn't ask any more, since Ed had made a choice, then he could only respect. However, the stakes have been made clear, and Li Lingyi can be regarded as benevolent and righteous to him.
Leaving the dungeon, as Ed said, it is unlikely that he will be able to rescue Sansa, who is being held in the Red Keep as an important hostage, even if Li Lingyi sneaks in at night. He can kill and come and go as he pleases, but to bring out a lady who can't fight? Even if the enemy finds out that they can't keep Sansa, they will most likely kill her with an arrow than let her be rescued.
As for Arya, it's not easy to find her, although it's definitely still in King's Landing, but King's Landing is so big, Li Lingyi can't find every alley.
But tomorrow should be Judgment Day, when the time will be in front of Baylor Cathedral, there will be a trial of Eddard Stark, and Arya will definitely appear in the crowd at that time, and it will be much easier to find it at that time. So Li Lingyi was not in a hurry, he took advantage of the fact that the sky was still dark, changed into civilian clothes, and then found the night watchman team.
Because in the original plot, Arya was taken away by Yuren, that is, the night watchman's "wandering crow" recruiter, because he also had a bit of a friendship with Ed, so he also wanted to send Arya back to Winter. It's just that he was caught up by the golden robes halfway, and in the end he ended up dead, and Arya began a long period of wandering.
Therefore, if there is any accident tomorrow, as long as the location of the night watchman team can be determined, Li Lingyi can easily find it.
At dawn, he finally found the team of night watchmen at the end of an alley, a group of criminals and soldiers, undisciplined, all lying lazily, not even aware of Li Lingyi's arrival.
Noting the location, he went to the Basilica of Baylor, which by noon was full of people, and the bells rang incessantly, the sound of judgment and the shedding of blood.
The crowd rubbed shoulders and crowded, and countless voices mixed out, forming a huge noise throughout the square.
"It's long overdue to behead, traitor!"
"Stupid! They won't behead him. How could a traitor's beheading be in the Great Church?"
"Well, that's not going to make him a knight, is it? I've heard that this Stark was the one who killed our old King Robert. He slit His Majesty's throat in the forest, and when he was later discovered, he pretended to be fine, lying that His Majesty had been killed by some old wild boar. ”
"That's not the case, it was his brother who killed His Majesty, the first-born blue with golden antlers!"
"Stinky woman, shut your broken mouth for me! Don't talk nonsense here, Lord Lan Li, he's a good and upright person. ”
There are countless speculations about all this, but the vast majority of them are invusing at Ed, who has confessed to treason for his own daughter.
Li Lingyi stood in the crowd, wearing a rag hat with his face covered, and like Arya, he was now on the wanted list because he had also committed treason, and even Cersei offered a reward of 10,000 gold dragons for anyone who could catch or kill him.
I have to say that everyone is also quite speechless, the champion of the martial arts competition just compared to him became a traitor in a blink of an eye, so most people don't believe it very much, besides, the latter is the champion! Even the magic mountain has been killed! Even if you can really touch it, I'm afraid that there will be fewer people and you won't dare to do it, right? After all, it is more important than the golden dragon or the small life.
As for Ed at this time, he also looked haggard, and there was a golden robe on the left and right to support him. He wore a thick gray velvet tunic with a white wolf embroidered with beads on his chest, a gray wool fleece-trimmed cloak on his shoulders, and a long face full of pain. He could barely stand, supported by two guards, and the plaster on his broken leg was ash, and the whole thing was rotten.