Chapter 329: Voting and Savage Entry
"It's... This is a ghoul? Sir Thorne, Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, asked with a trembling voice.
"That's right!" Li Nan pointed at these two terrible ghouls and said to everyone, "They are undead creatures transformed by strange ghosts with magic, you can try them now with weapons and see if you can kill them." ”
Ser Thorne and the Onion Knight each drew their swords and came up to the ghouls and began to slash, but no matter how hard they tried to attack the ghouls, they could not kill the two undead creatures.
As the two returned in vain, other people who did not believe in evil also stepped forward to test it, but the result was still the same.
The thought of fighting this kind of thing made all the nobles and lords in the hall gasp.
Seeing that no one stepped forward, and that all of them had a heartfelt fear on their faces, the red-robed priestess Melisandre suddenly spoke, "May I try it?" ”
"Of course."
With Li Nan's permission, Melisandre came to a ghoul with a finger of her white hand, and an orange flame burned on one of the ghouls' arms.
The ghouls were undead, so they didn't feel pain, and they were firmly chained, not caring about the flames burning on their arms, and still scratching and biting frantically at the red-robed priestess standing in front of them.
"Humph! It's really looking for death! Melisandre snorted coldly and made a few strange gestures, and the flames burning on the ghoul's arm immediately turned blue.
When the flame is orange-red, it is only about 3,000 degrees, and when it reaches yellow and white, it represents 4,000 degrees, and a cyan and blue flame like the current one is a high temperature of 5,000 to 6,000 degrees.
It doesn't matter how hot the temperature is for ghouls, as they are neither painful nor frightening.
As the flames burned, the ghoul's body was covered with a silvery cold color that was burned away by the flames, and without this protection, its dry and rotting body was immediately burned to the ground, and finally the ghoul turned into flying ashes and piled up on the floor.
After burning the ghoul, the red-robed priestess Melisandre turned to the crowd and said in an aria, "In the face of the fire that the Lord of Light has bestowed upon humanity, all evil will cease to exist!" ”
Seeing the unkillable ghouls burned to ashes, the originally depressed and frightened people in the hall cheered happily.
Ser Thorne immediately came to Li Nan's side and said to him, "Lord Leo, we can burn these monsters with flames with the help of the sturdy Great Wall of Desperation, so we don't need to risk letting the wildlings in. ”
"I know you've been fighting the wildlings for most of your life, and many of your comrades have died at the hands of the wildlings, but ......"
Li Nan paused and asked, "But these ghouls are just puppets controlled by the aliens, and do you know the number of undead creatures who have gone south this time?" ”
Sir Thorne used his imagination to the best of his ability and gave a number: "One hundred thousand? ”
"Nope." Li Nan shook his head and said, "According to the Transfiguration Scouting sent by the King of the Outer Gates, their number has reached millions, not counting all kinds of undead animals. ”
It is not uncommon for a million people to appear in the Chinese War, but in this world, it is rare for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people to participate in wars, and even the War of the Five Kings not long ago was less than 300,000 people.
Li Nan pointed at the ghouls, at Sir Thorne, and at everyone, and asked, "Millions of ghouls, and other undead creatures, how much oil should we take to burn them?" ”
The crowd that had just become excited was quiet again, and everyone was thinking carefully about it.
Seeing that everyone was worried, Li Nan spoke: "I suggest that the savages come in, on the one hand, we can reduce the number of undead troops, and on the other hand, we will have more than 100,000 defensive forces. Not to mention that you can defeat these monsters, you can also hold out for a little longer, what do you think? ”
Embracing the brutal wildlings is a difficult choice for every Northerner and Nightwatchman.
In the end, we should give up the hatred of thousands of years, shake hands with the savages, and fight the great enemy together. Or watch more than 100,000 damned wildlings die at the hands of strangers?
Listening to the discussion of everyone around him divided into two factions, Academician Emon, who had been sitting in his chair silently, said: "The Night's Watch has a rule that when there is a major matter and everyone disagrees, they can vote to decide. Since there are people who are willing to accept the wildlings now, and there are people who want to see them die, then we might as well vote. ”
In the current situation, voting was the best option, so everyone agreed.
Scholar Aemon asked the two night watchmen to take a few things from his room and put them on the table. These are two slender poles with bases, and two bags filled with wooden blocks of different shapes.
"The circle represents the acceptance of the wildlings, the square represents disagreement, so let's get started."
Li Nan came to the table, took out a round wooden block with a hole in the middle from the bag, handed it over, and the night watchman, who was in charge of counting the votes, took it and put the wooden block on the long pole.
With Li Nan, the king of the northern realm, taking the lead in voting, the others also came to the table in turn to choose wooden blocks according to their status.
As time passed, round blocks of wood could be seen, far more numerous than square ones, and basically the generals of the Night's Watch who chose the square blocks were the generals of the Night's Watch Legion, and it was evident from this that they hated the wildlings the most.
When all the nobles, lords, and generals in the entire shield hall have voted, the final result is also clear at a glance, and there are many times more people who agree than those who oppose.
Scholar Aemon touched the height of the wooden blocks on the two counting poles and announced in a loud voice, "The vote is over, and the majority of people agree to admit the wildlings into the North!" ”
The Undead Legion was still approaching the Savage Tribe and the Great Wall of Desperation, so Li Nan quickly contacted the King of Saiwai, and the two sides negotiated all the conditions as quickly as possible.
The wildlings were obliged to help defend the Great Wall of Desperation after entering the North, and Li Nan promised that they would receive steel weapons and armor, and that the fertile land near the Great Wall would be given to them to plant, and that all the wildlings would be punished according to the laws of the North if they killed and plundered again.
After everything was ready, a very important day in the history of the North finally came, and more than 100,000 wild people all walked out of the Ghost Shadow Forest and entered the North through the passages under the nineteen castles.
Watching these savages walk by their side, the hearts of all the people in the north are extremely complicated at this moment.
When the last wild man reached the North, the passages of the eighteen castles were blown up and sprayed with water, and when they froze, no one could come and go freely.
Li Nan stood at the door of the passage of Castle Black, looked at the king of the outside of the city standing not far away, and asked suspiciously, "Mance, why haven't you come in yet?" ”
Mance, the king of the Outer Gates, smiled and said, "I am a man who yearns for freedom, otherwise I would not have changed from a night watchman to a wild man in your mouth." I once swore that I would never bend over anyone again, so I had my own choice. ”
After saying this, Mance ignored Li Nan and turned back and walked towards the Ghost Forest, where a flame burned in a short time......