Chapter 53: The Heart Tree and the Green Prophet
With a loud bang, the tunnel under the Great Wall of Desperation was pulled up by pulleys.
Lin Yi walked out of the tunnel with a single sword, under the gaze of Master Aemon and the night watchman who stayed behind him.
"Will he come back alive?"
Donner asked in a low voice.
"I bet he won't live for two days." "He didn't even bring a loaf of bread." β
"He'll be back."
Maester Aemon turned and walked towards Castle Black with Donner's help.
The cobbler shrugged, noncommittal.
The night watchmen whispered as they lowered the heavy door and followed behind Donner.
Walking out of the Black Castle, Lin Yi glanced back at the Great Wall of Desperation.
Looking at the towering Great Wall, Lin Yi pursed his lips.
It was a mistake to forget to run to the top of the Great Wall to make a card, or to pee on the Great Wall like Tyrion.
Lin Yi thought so in his heart as he walked into the gloomy ghost forest in front of him.
The Ghost Forest is the only forest on Westeros where you can see more than two Fish Beams in the same place.
It is a red-leaved tree with pale bark and sap as red as leaves, and a human face carved into its trunk, which is said to have been carved by an ancient son of the forest.
The ancestors of the North, who not only inherited the belief in the Old Gods, but also the tradition, planted a fish beam in the sacred forest, carved a human face into the trunk, and sometimes dyed the carved eyes red with the sap of the tree.
Such a fish beam wood is called the heart tree by them, and the heart tree is very sacred to those who believe in the old gods, and they will take vows and marry in front of the heart tree, because they believe that no one can lie in front of the heart tree.
Originally, Lin Yi thought that only the descendants of those noble ancestors in the north had such exquisiteness, but now he found that these savages north of the Great Wall actually had the same customs.
Standing next to a fish beam wood, Lin Yi carefully looked at this very terrifying tree face.
"Seriously, adults don't forget it, don't children have nightmares when they see this?"
Lin Yi complained while taking out his mobile phone and taking a photo.
Just as he was about to leave, a sense of peeping came to his mind.
Lin Yi frowned, suddenly drew his sword and turned around, and the tip of the sword pointed at a crow standing on a branch of Yuliang Mu.
"Shapeshifter? Or the Green Prophet? β
Lin Yi frowned and looked at the crow that was still agile under his sword intent.
"Do you have anything to say?"
Lin Yi inserted the [Monarch Killer] back into his waist, looked at the crow and asked.
Regardless of whether the crow in front of him was a shapeshifter in the wildling team or a green prophet hiding in a cave, it was good news for Lin Yi.
The Ghost Forest was so big, he had been here for a long time.
If this is a shapeshifter in the Wildlings, it means that the Wildlings are not far from here.
If this is the Green Prophet, based on his performance in the play, he should be willing to guide himself out of the Ghost Forest and hunt for strange ghosts.
The crow on the branch flew up, and Lin Yi stretched out an arm to make him stand on it.
Looking at the curious Lin Yi, a hint of surprise seemed to flash in the crow's smart eyes.
This is the north of the Great Wall, where the cold winds howl all year round, and the glaciers are frozen, and ordinary humans may not even survive a night if they do not wrap themselves in a thick layer.
But the person in front of him was only wearing a black suit, and he was still ruddy and moved freely.
This is an incredible thing for people who live north of the Great Wall all year round.
This is definitely not an ordinary human being!
It made a judgment, then shook its head and flew up, and its sharp beak pointed at Lin Yi's forehead.
In the next second, Lin Yi keenly felt that something seemed to want to enter his mind.
No, it was more like a gentle knock on the "door" outside Lin Yi's mind than entering, as if asking to communicate with him.
Can you still communicate?
Lin Yi was overjoyed.
But before he could make any moves, an aura full of tyranny and chaos suddenly emerged from behind Lin Yi's "door", and he swallowed the "person" who knocked on the door without saying a word......
Morsel...... Gulp...... Finish......
Lin Yi's smile froze on his face.
This action came too fast, and Lin Yi didn't even have the slightest chance to react.
The crow in front of him, who had bright eyes, rolled his eyes and fell on the spot.
"What the hell!"
The corners of Lin Yi's mouth twitched and caught the crow that was weakly planted in mid-air, and he couldn't tell whether he should complain about Kazan being too naΓ―ve, or if the green prophet was too weak......
That's right, feeling the idea of wanting to communicate just now, Lin Yi could already be sure that it was the Green Prophet who was controlling this crow.
Only one in a thousand people can change shapes, and only one in a thousand shapeshifters will have a Green Prophet, and the shapeshifters in the Savage team can only control animals, and do not have the strange ability to communicate.
The only one with such a singular means should be the "Last Green Prophet".
Lin Yi guessed that the Green Prophet just now should have wanted to use this crow to communicate to him, and the approximate means should be like a dream for Bran.
But Lin Yi was not Bran after all, and there was a terrifying ghost god sealed in his left arm that couldn't even be named.
It seems that the green prophet of this world has been invincible on the spiritual level for too long, and he has no idea the horror outside the well.
Lin Yi looked at the unconscious crow in his hand with some confusion, thinking about whether to keep it or serve it as dinner tonight.
"Forget it, let's keep it for now. Perhaps, this guy will recover after a while? β
Lin Yi sighed and vetoed the latter option with great perseverance.
He took the raven into his arms and continued on his way.
β¦β¦
On the other side, in a cave in the Ghost Forest.
In the tangled fishbeams, the last green prophet suddenly withdrew from his vision, and red blood flowed from his eyes.
"That's... Be...... What the?! β
The Green Prophet spat out a few words in a dry voice, his heart full of astonishment and horror.
It had been a long time since he had spoken with this body, but it was impossible to express the horror in his heart without spitting out these words at this moment.
How could there be such an existence in this world!
Compared to that tyrannical and chaotic aura, the Night King, whom he had always been worried about, was simply a cold cat!
"What's wrong, Green Prophet!"
A short girl in a cloak of leaves ran over and looked worriedly at the Green Prophet, who had become one with the fishbeam.
The little girl had large, clear eyes, the pupils were generally golden yellow, mixed with a little turquoise, and under the cloak were speckled fur like a hind.
It is clear that she is not human, she is a child of the forest.
"It's alright, kid."
The Green Prophet didn't speak, and his words came straight into the little girl's mind.
"I just saw a very strange person who could be the key to this long night."
"But you bleed."
The little girl's big eyes looked at him worriedly.
ββ¦β¦β
The Green Prophet was speechless for a moment, but he could only comfort the little girl.
"It's okay, it's just that the crow that was manipulated was accidentally hunted."
Hearing the words of the Green Prophet, the little girl breathed a sigh of relief.
The Green Prophet had died in the past while manipulating the minds of animals, but it had little effect on him except for a slight pain.
The little girl knew this, and she relieved herself, and walked up with the cloth she had collected from the corpse of the savage, and wiped the blood and tears from the corners of her eyes for the Green Prophet.
Looking at the little girl who stepped forward, the green prophet smiled on the surface, but in fact, his heart was extremely solemn.
Previous deaths have had no effect on his abilities except for pain, but this time it was different.
This time, he completely lost an "eye"!