Chapter 986: The Night Watch (Part II)

"Hey, come out and see! Colin has brought back a stranger!"

"Oh my God! there are so many hams and sausages in the carriage!

"Shut up, idiot, put the coins back, stay away from the carriage, or I won't mind chopping off your hand!"

"Could it be that those princes and nobles of King's Landing finally remembered us poor creatures and sent someone to send the much-needed military expenses and supplies?"

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Due to their isolation from the outside world, the night watchmen have endured unimaginable loneliness and pain for a long time, so they are extremely excited every time they see strangers, especially when they bring much-needed meat and money.

As the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, Geo Mormont heard the noise of shouting outside, hurried out of the tower, and shouted, "Quiet!

"Your Excellency, I met a stranger on patrol who claimed to be a curious traveler who wanted to see our Night's Watch Legion with his own eyes, and brought with him a whole cart of hams, sausages, and five thousand glittering gold coins. Colin rolled over and dismounted, and came to the front of the commander-in-chief and whispered.

"What? five thousand gold coins!" Jao Mormont's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

You must know that not long ago, he sent someone to King's Landing in the hope of asking for a little military money from the newly enthroned queen, but who knew that he was directly driven back by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and only gave less than 1,500 gold coins.

But now, there is someone who is willing to give five thousand gold coins at once, which is even more generous than any king or duke.

In order to confirm the authenticity, the old man, who was as strong as a bear, hurried to the carriage and ordered his men to count the gold coins piled up in the wooden box, and then bent down and bowed deeply and said, "Thank you for your generous donation, stranger. On behalf of all the night watchmen, I would like to express my highest respect to you, who have solved our most pressing needs. ”

"You're welcome, Commander-in-Chief, it's an honor to make a modest contribution to the Night's Watch. Warrent gave full play to his specialty of seeing people and talking about people, and his eyes revealed a trace of sincerity.

"Hahahaha! I didn't expect that in this day and age, there are still people who respect us night watchmen. Bowen Marcy, tell the kitchen to make dinner a little more sumptuous, and we will welcome our friends in the most solemn way. Jao Mormont laughed and gave the order to the General Affairs Chief.

After all, with the strong purchasing power of gold in the North, five thousand is enough to sustain the military expenses of the Night's Watch for a long time.

Soon, thanks to Warrent's superb acting skills, the soldiers of the Night's Watch gradually let down their guards, held their wine glasses high, and drank freely, munching on delicious ham and grilled sausages that they would not normally eat.

The rich aroma of meat echoed through the noisy hall, and some of them even sang with their voices shutting their voices.

When the atmosphere of the banquet reached its climax, he finally couldn't help but take the initiative to ask: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, I heard that there are many published stories circulating north of the Great Wall of Desperation, among which there is a kind of monster called a strange ghost, do they really exist?"

"Stranger?" Jao Mormont subconsciously frowned.

Not only him, but also several senior night watchmen all changed their faces slightly.

Jon Snow, in particular, opened his mouth several times to say something, but finally closed his mouth again for some reason.

All of a sudden, the air around me became a little heavy.

After a full minute, the Commander-in-Chief took a deep breath and replied, "No! I've never seen any strange ghosts, and those are horror stories used to scare children." Compared to the strangers, the ferocious barbarians are the real threat. Over the course of hundreds of years, they have attacked the Great Wall again and again, trying to seize the land that belongs to us. If you're interested, I can have someone take you around beyond the Great Wall. ”

"Really, that's amazing!" said Warrent, deliberately pretending to be elated.

But he was already sure in his heart that the strange ghost must be real, and it was not a horror story to scare children.

It's just that I don't know why, those who know the inside story are reluctant to tell the truth.

Confirming that the threat of the Wraiths was real, Warrent joined the Ranger Patrol early the next morning and began to leave the protection of the Desperate Wall and head towards the endless ice fields.

For a week, he hadn't noticed even the slightest paranormal phenomenon, and the biggest threat was the hungry predators and a dozen wild people who looked like they hadn't eaten in days.

In this frozen land, food is so scarce that it is simply not enough to feed many people.

The cruelty of nature has opened the law of survival of the fittest, allowing life to kill each other and obtain the resources necessary for survival from each other.

Of course, these scenes were not so strange that Volente had seen them in Northern Europe a long time ago.

What's really strange is that a wild man named Custer seems to be trying his best to hide something.

He could feel that there was an extremely strange magical energy around the house.

"What, you're interested in that old fellow?" asked Colin as he looked at the slightly older Custer out of the corner of his eye.

Warrent nodded with a serious expression: "It's really interesting! But it's not that he's incestuous with his daughter, it's his inexplicable attitude." According to the women, every baby boy was born and was sent to the woods to be sacrificed to the gods. But so far, no one had ever seen the corpses of those babies, not even a single trace of blood or the bite of wild beasts, as if someone had taken them away silently. ”

"So you mean that the gods he believes in are real?" Colin sneered and pouted.

He may be a great scout and warrior, but he is by no means a smart man with a good brain.

"No, I mean, maybe the god he believed in was the legendary ghost, and the sacrificial baby boy was not killed at all, but was taken away by the ghost. Warrente spoke meaningfully about what he had observed from the future footage.

As someone who likes to hide secrets, he never tells anyone that his ability to predict the future is actually limited by many things, one of which is to get the corresponding triggers in advance.

This condition may be something, or it may be the other person's blood, energy, clothing, books, etc.

Obviously, it is impossible for Warrent to see clearly what the other party looks like, where it was born, and whether it will pose a threat to the human world in the future until he encounters the real stranger or touches what they have left behind......