In the dim light of the night, a group of Dorne riders from all directions surrounded the two Lan Li, each dressed in black cloaks, covered in brass scale armor and leather armor, and their spears shining sharply in the moonlight.

Lan Li didn't expect this group of people to appear suddenly, and he couldn't figure out why they were able to know the route of the two in advance.

However, he had no time to pay attention to this question at this time, and in the face of this group of hostile Dorne riders, the dark-haired young man who was tightly surrounded in the center had a fast heartbeat, and the center of his mind was racing, and he looked at the big man who had just laughed.

"You know me?"

The man on horseback with shaggy black hair and olive green skin was clearly the leader of the group, and Lan Li noticed that the other riders were all olive-skinned......

"Why, when you become a chameleon, you're not ready to recognize your old enemy?" The other party smiled, rode his horse closer, and the spear in his hand gestured a few times towards Lan Li's whole body.

"But it doesn't matter, I'm ashamed to be a traitor like you. Do you think I'm going to stab you in the neck or your eggs? ”

This caused the surrounding Dorne riders to laugh, and their eyes were full of excitement and hatred as they looked at Lan Li and Rhaenys behind him.

"If you don't resist, we'll make you die a happy death." Another old man in a cloak with emaciated cheeks spoke grimly, he didn't look like a soldier, but he was consciously protected by his side.

Lan Li noticed this, but he ignored it for the time being, looked at the big man with brown eyes, and said with careful language: "Are you sure you know me?" If you really know, how can you not know what kind of person I am? ”

"Of course a traitor!" The big man chirped, "Who else could it be?" You used to be very despicable, and you had to play tricks to grab women with me. Only a coward would do that! ”

This one did not give the order to do it directly, and the people around him also maintained a posture of surrounding, as if they were afraid, but they may just be enjoying the pleasure of victory.

However, this gave Lan Li a glimmer of opportunity, even though he felt that it was a bit bad.

"Do you think I'm really going to betray my own blood people?"

"The truth is, you betrayed us." Under the moonlight, the big man held the horse rope and sneered: "But I really didn't think you would do this, the blood feud is in your body, and no one who is more despicable than you has betrayed us, you?" ”

He shook his head and spat in Lan Li's direction again, and the bloodshot liquid instantly melted into the dust. After glancing down, Lan Li suddenly raised his voice.

"I didn't betray Dorne! The truth is, I didn't betray Dorne, much less you! ”

This sudden shout made the surrounding riders subconsciously clench their spears, and one of the horses neighed and was ready to move.

However, none of this affected Lan Li, who had determined his train of thought, and although his heart was pounding, he put on a solemn posture on the surface, his eyes scanned the surroundings, and he said in a high-pitched tone: "The demon dragons of Valyria have risen again, and six of the seven kingdoms have been occupied by them, and Dorne will not be spared. Unless I can go to the Lorne Mother River and sacrifice this woman with the blood of the Dragonlord to our great mother, yes, that's the only way to save Dorne. ”

"Don't delay the big thing!"

When the words fell, the surrounding riders were stunned, and then stared at him like fools.

"What is he talking about?"

"He said Lorne's Mother River."

"What does this have to do with the Mother River?"

……

The Lorne Mother River in their mouth is a river and a faith.

There are three main human races in Westeros, the ancestors, the Andals, and the Royna, all of whom are outsiders, who arrive in this land of the sunset in turn and expel the children of the ancient forest and other races from the stage of history.

But unlike the Ancestors and Andals, who had traveled across the continent, the Loynards who were the last to arrive chose to stay in Dorne, where they had first landed, and blended in with some of the indigenous peoples.

Over time, the Dornas have generally had a mixture of the Roynars, most notably the Salt Ones, a race of olive-skinned and dark-haired people.

And the god they believe in is the river called Lorne, which they reverence as the Mother River of Lorne.

However, that was the belief of the ancient Loyna people, and it was likely that the half-blooded Dorne salters in front of them had long forgotten it. But when Lan Li heard the tone of these people's mouths calling Mother River, he quickly calmed down, and then spoke to the big man again.

"I dreamed of the Mother River, and I learned of His will, so I will take this woman to be sacrificed to Him. You don't understand this, so I can forgive you for misunderstanding me. But now, get out of the way, and prepare me a boat and oars, and the day I make it back will be the time when you are free of the dragon scourge once and for all! ”

The black-haired young man spoke arrogantly, but unfortunately he did not achieve his wish, and his words made all the riders pay close attention to him again, and they were ready to move with the weapons in their hands one by one.

"Even if you are a traitor, you must not joke about our mother river!" The black-haired man with a big waist and a round waist at the head said disdainfully: "Or are you a northern mongrel?" ”

"I'm not kidding!" After hearing this, Lan Li immediately opened his mouth to refute, and the solemnity on his face gradually turned into anger.

"I have Royana blood in my veins, and my elders have taught me the greatness of the Lorne Mother River since I was a child, and I will never joke about it!"

As he spoke, he spat on the ground and said fiercely to the enemy leader, "I thought you could understand, but now I realize that I was wrong. You humiliated me, you threatened me just now, wait and see, I will take revenge on you! ”

These words made the people around him angry again, and one of the long-faced young men raised his spear and was about to charge, but he had just taken a pose when he was dragged by the man with messy black hair.

He then looked at Lan Li suspiciously—

The main reason is that this person is too unscrupulous, not at all like being surrounded, and there is no shame of a traitor at all, but full of scorching arrogance.

Under normal circumstances, he would never let go of such a provocateur, but at this moment, this traitor behaved completely abnormally, and in the past, the big man did know something about the person in front of him, although he was a little despicable and loved to use poison, but he didn't look like a person who would suddenly rebel.

So he was a little skeptical.

"What proof do you have when you say that?"

"Nope!"

Lan Li on horseback said angrily: "But why should I betray my own people? For selfish desires? Or is it for money? Fools can see that I can't survive after betraying all of Dorne! Even if I flee to the free trade city-state, the Assassins of Dorne will find me sooner or later. You think I'm a fool? ”

This is true, it doesn't matter if you offend one or two Dorne Lords, but the consequences of offending the whole of Dorne are not something that anyone can afford.

According to the history books, when the First Dorne War was at its worst, the two sides sent assassins to assassinate each other's leaders, and Aegon the Conqueror was nearly stabbed to death in King's Landing, which led to the birth of the Kingsguard, a protective organization to protect the king.

Although the surrounding Dorne riders did not understand this, they always had a blind confidence in their own side, so they glanced at each other when they heard this, and their hostility became much weaker.

Even the leader was lost in thought, but at this moment, the thin old man beside him spoke gloomily.

"Who knows what you think? Maybe you're in love with this dragon bitch, maybe you have another reason. I warn you, boy! If you deceive us again in the name of the Mother River, I will make you taste how much it hurts to be angry in the true Mother River! ”

As he spoke, all the riders around him looked at him, even the leader, who seemed to be in a more important position. However, Lan Li did not stop because of this, although his heart was beating fast, he was furious.

"You old idiot! If I really wanted to save her, why didn't I hide? Wherever you go, and ask Aegon for help when he comes to get revenge on us? Instead came here? Run into the hands of you idiot! ”

These words made the old man's face sink, but Lan Li's words did not stop, but the more he spoke, the smoother and more energetic, as if he had really become an authentic Dorn, and his mouth was full of fanatical piety when he mentioned the word Mother River.

"That's the best rescue route, what's the use of me running here? It's because of the people here, it's because of you! Because you have the blood of the Roynars! Because you know the greatness of the Mother River! Because you can help me get it done! Why else would I want to come here? Why? Yes? Tell me why!? ”

These words made the Dorns hesitate again, and they looked at each other, looking at the leader and the old man beside him, only to find that the two were also hesitating at this time.

The Dornish were heavily influenced by the Roynar civilization, so their cultural practices were distinct from those of other places, and this influence was especially pronounced among the salt people who lived by the sea, so although they may no longer believe in the gods they once had, it was impossible to ignore them entirely.

Without looking closely, Lan Li noticed that these people were shaken, but it was not yet time to really relax, so he took advantage of the fact that the people around him did not react, and opened his mouth again.

"Most of the Dornes never knew about this, and the blood of the ancestors and Andals took over all of them, and there was no Royna. So I'm going to stay away from them! Because they will stop me, they have been blinded by hatred, and they will bury Dorne in the fire of the dragon! ”

"The dragon king of Valyria has risen again, and he wants to get his hands on our last home, and he does have the ability to do so. Only the Mother River can save us! You idiots, sacrifice this woman to the Mother River so that we can be saved. Stand in the way of Lorne's Mother River, and you are true traitors! ”

He had already thrown away the weapon in his hand when he spoke, and he looked fearless, but the more arrogant his attitude was, the more it seemed to prove the correctness of his words, and even Rhaenys on the side looked at him in dismay.

At first, she thought it was a ruse by Lan Li, but the more she listened, the more she felt that it was like that.

The Targaryens originally came from another continent, a country called the Valyrian Fortress of Freedom, and the Targaryens were originally just one of many dragon families in that country, and they became the last dragon kings in the world after the destruction of Valyria by natural disasters.

The rise of the Valyrian Fortress of Liberty was accompanied by the fall of many other civilizations, and the Loynards were one of them, and the most stubborn of the resistance. In other words, the Valyrians and the Loynars are essentially rivals.

So Rhaenys naturally knows something about the history of the Royna.

Possessing a special water spell inherited from the River Lorne, this civilization even battled the Valyrian dragon in its heyday, and although it had to abandon its homeland and flee to Westeros, it also took a heavy toll on Valyria.

As a Valyrian, it is impossible for Rhaenys not to understand this, but it is precisely because she understands that she knows that what Lan Li said is not false, and that the sacrifice is indeed true.

And what sacrifice could be more powerful than the bloodline of a Valyrian dragon king who once brought the destruction of Royna?

……

So is that what he's really for?

The little queen was suddenly annoyed and desperate at this, and felt that she had been really naïve and ridiculous before, and believed the words of this cunning Dorn.

Relatively speaking, although most of the surrounding Dorne riders were illiterate, they had also grown up listening to the great achievements of their ancient ancestors, and it was naturally impossible not to know some of the true and false doorways, and even the emaciated old man had always claimed to be the sacrifice of Lorne's mother river.

The old man does have a special power, not to mention anything else, praying all day has allowed him to faintly gain a kind of prophetic ability, such as the ambush in advance tonight because he dreamed that there was a silver dragon coming down the river, and because of his special status, he also knew the true result of the incident in Fort Prison before.

It's just that the priest bumped into a guy who claimed to be a messenger of the Mother River......

The atmosphere became a little strange for a while, and although the riders did not rush forward, they did not completely agree with Lan Li's words, but kept hesitating and lingering in place, looking at the old priest in the lead and the black-haired man.

However, the two of them were standing there frowning and silent, as if they didn't know what to do.

Lan Li gritted his teeth when he saw this.

"I know you idiots doubt me, but it's okay, the Mother River has given me strength, and I can show it to you, and then you know what to do!"

These words raised the eyes of the pensive old priest, and his cloudy eyes were mixed with anticipation and doubt.

"What power do you have to show?"