The flames in the fireplace beside him burned quietly, illuminating the shadows of the old bachelor and Lan Li in a narrow and trance-like way. Holding a parchment letter in his hand, the young figure standing by the fireplace fell into deep thought.

The current situation in the entire continent of Westeros is actually very bad.

The people in Dragonstone may not be aware of this, but in fact, the people of the Seven Kingdoms, both commoners and nobles, are already in a panic.

The catastrophe that erupted from the far north snowballed in a short period of time, and letters for help kept flying from the north, and those black wings never brought any good news.

The northern territory is vast, but as of now, nearly half of the place has fallen into the wave of monsters.

In the face of the growing army of ghouls, the more they resist, the more they resist, the more they resisted, the lords of no place in the north could fight against them, and in the face of disaster, a few castles were strong enough to hide in the buildings and survive, but most of the ordinary people in the villages and towns outside the castle were basically unable to escape being swallowed up, and then turned into ghouls to eat the fate of mankind.

Two days before Lan Li received the letter for help from King's Landing, news of the fall of the castle closest to Winterfell of the Stark family in the North had already been reported, and it was not difficult to guess at this moment that the army of ghouls had probably spread across the boundaries of Winterfell.

This situation is dangerous.

Can the hope in that episode in the memory of a previous life still be born?

Lan Li didn't have any hope for this, and he didn't believe that the ghouls would die in Winterfell, in fact, despite its geographical location, that castle was only for human military operations, and for the monster wave, there was no reason for them to be delayed there, after all, Winterfell was not a dangerous hurdle that could not be opened.

It is foreseeable that it will not be long before these monsters will cross the northern boundaries and enter the river, and even the royal realm adjacent to the river, which is the area of King's Landing.

So in general, it wasn't too surprising for him to have a letter of help flying to Dragonstone, after all, many of the things he did = were obviously not something that normal people could do.

But the letter of plea was a bit subtle at the moment, as the army of ghouls had not yet broken through the important checkpoint between the North and Westeros.

The Neck is a vast swamp that stretches across the continent between the North and the Riverlands. Relying on this for millennia, the northerners never saw the powers beyond the north as a threat, until the Targaryen dragon descended.

Before the Targaryens, no one had ever been able to force a breach of the natural barrier of the Neck, and no matter what the purpose, all enemies who invaded the North would return in the Neck.

It only takes a small number of troops to garrison the towers in the swamp to withstand dozens or hundreds of times the enemy invasion, and the neck is a natural umbrella for the northerners, and for the undisciplined aliens, this natural barrier is obviously more effective.

Without having to investigate, Lan Li could also guess that what the lords of Westeros outside of the northern realm were looking forward to most at the moment was that the army of ghouls would return in the Neck Valley, and then be confined to the northern territory and unable to spread outward. Knowing a certain situation, the probability of this possibility is still very high, and even Lan Li himself holds this idea.

In other words, it seems that no one will despair of this catastrophe until this hope is lost.

So why is this letter of help being delivered right now?

Lan Li groaned.

If it's a good relationship, it's fine, the problem is that the two sides had a big unpleasant quarrel not long ago. Being able to take the initiative to "lower your face" and write this letter with a gesture of praying for humility has quietly revealed some special news.

"Something happened that we didn't know about?" He eventually came to a conclusion.

"With all due respect, my lord, I don't think anything worse could have happened." The old scholar at the desk commented, "Unless the strange ghost appears under King's Landing." ”

Lan Li was noncommittal.

……

Overall, there was still no clue about this matter, and Lan Li didn't plan to pay attention to the letter.

It's not because of personal vendettas, but in the face of those ghouls, he doesn't have any effective way to fight-

Although there is a large amount of dragon crystal ore in the Dragon Stone Island at your feet, the dragon crystal mine is effective against strange ghosts, but it is unlikely to be of any use against a large number of ghouls.

And it is obvious that as the core of the control of the ghoul army, any strange ghost will not be actively exposed, but can only hide in the belly of a huge number of ghoul army, in this case, it is not easy to dig it out of the massive enemy and then use the dragon crystal weapon to fight.

The seven gods on his wrist became silent again, and the spokesperson had no clue at the moment, and he couldn't count on it at all, and with Lan Li's own ability alone, it was also impossible to resist the monster wave.

In this case, it is a wise choice to retreat into Dragonstone Island to think about it, he is rumored to be a god, but he is not a god, and there is nothing he can do, Lan Li does not want to run out and mix with an enemy who is destined to be a friendly army.

However, he didn't want to, and what happened next had to be forced for him to think about it.

The day after the first letter for help, another letter flew back, and the thing written in the letter was simple but deadly—

Hordes of monsters can wade across the sea and bypass the Neck Barrier that stands in the way.

Scattered ghouls have already appeared in the Riverlands!