The blizzard covered the world like a cold fog, obscuring the view, so that Jarman Buckwell could not see anything outside the window, except for the rough sound of the rocks being scraped outside the tower.

The simple stone tower could not stop the invasion of the cold wind from the outside world, and the fireplace behind it had been cooling for a long time because the firewood had run out, and the black embers of the charcoal rose quietly with a trace of gray smoke, which fit the simple and thin furniture in the tower room, and seemed extremely empty.

"How long can we make it out?" A very weak voice came from behind him, and Jarman Bookwell turned his head to see that Carter Pike, a companion in the black robe of the Night's Watch, was now slumped on a wooden bed, tightly wrapped in a grizzly bear fur bedding, which looked thick, but it could not make Carter Pike's pale face and trembling body much better.

Carter Pike, the commander of the Night's Watch here, was born in the Iron Islands and had a reputation for being strong and healthy, but even the strongest man who didn't eat a full meal for five days in a row would become a weak burden, not to mention the cold and fever.

"Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow? It was so sudden that we had no new food to replenish and no contact with the outside world. ”

Veteran night watchman Jarman Bookwell tried his best to keep his voice flat, but the bitterness of his hoarse voice could be felt by anyone who listened to it.

"Well, it looks like I'll see my bitch soon." The sarcastic sneer could not hide the weakness, and the words of the Iron Folk Commander, who was wrapped in a bear skin and chattering on the bed, became weaker and weaker the further he went.

"She didn't tell me who I was until she died, as if it was some great secret. This time I have to ask clearly, otherwise I won't be happy even if I go to the Flowing Water Palace-Drowning God is above, why didn't the son of the Dog's Drowning God come to our side to save me, a poor man? If you want to be pious, who can compare to Carter, the bastard son......"

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Built on the Great Wall, the Donghaiwang Station is quite cold on weekdays, but it has never been as cold as it is now. And the reason for this is not just the huge blizzard that seems to fill the whole world.

The strange ghost came, and with a seemingly boundless cold, swept from the land of eternal winter beyond the Great Wall.

As a barrier to the civilized world, the Great Wall of Desperation, which stood on the edge of the northern border, tore a hole in the engulfing catastrophe with little resistance.

And Castle Black, the stronghold of the Night's Watch, is in the heart of that opening!

It's not hard to imagine how much the Night's Watch has befallen as a result, but the specifics are beyond Jarman Bookwell's knowledge.

The Great Wall of Desperation is very long, stretching across the entire continent, and although Donghaiwang, which is located on the eastern border of the Great Wall, is also one of the Night's Watch stations, it is far away from the main station, Castle Black, and the sudden outbreak of disasters has completely cut off the connection between the two places.

It seems that before he felt anything, he was suddenly engulfed by such a natural disaster, and after difficult exploration and some escaped companions these days, a trace of truth gradually hatched to the surface, but this kind of truth will only make all those who know sink to the bottom-

The war in the Westeros River Lands ended in defeat for the Targaryens, but not all of the defeated enemies returned, and a large number of them withdrew from Westeros and instead poured into the vast northernmost expanse beyond the Wall, as if something was constantly attracting them.

Jarman Buckwell couldn't know what it was, but the consequences of the influx of outsiders into the Land of Eternal Winter were very obvious—

They brought out the legendary monsters of the Stranger!

According to the survivors of Castle Black, as well as the three or two wildlings who survived in the Land of Eternal Winter, the wraiths were covered with a special kind of ice crystal armor that was invulnerable and could not be killed at all, but the humans killed by them would strangely respawn and become ghouls like walking dead.

The ghouls then kill humans to create new ghouls...... In this way, under the continuous influx of defeated outsiders, as soon as the shadow of the monster of the strange ghost appeared, it grew rapidly at a rate that exceeded everyone's expectations.

The wildlings living in the land of eternal winter were the first to notice the birth of this disaster, but they could not organize an effective means of defense, so they were killed and fled in a hurry, countless wildlings died tragically, a large number of villages were emptied, and after a large part of the wildlings became the nourishment of the monster wave, the other part of the wildlings who had escaped temporarily merged together and fled towards the Great Wall.

This team numbered in the tens of thousands, but under normal circumstances, they would not be too much of a problem for the Night's Watch, because of the Great Wall, it would be difficult for the wildlings to cross.

However, the unexpected happened.

As the monster ranks grew deeper and deeper in the depths of the Land of Eternal Winter, the number of wildling refugees gathered under the Great Wall grew, and just as the Night's Watch higher-ups hesitated because of this, the sound of a horn from the wildling camp tore the desperate Great Wall that had stood for thousands of years in two!

Jarman Pickwell, who heard about this from his fleeing companions, did not have the opportunity to see the scene at that time, and it was difficult to imagine how spectacular it was for those companions to say that the ice wall had collapsed, and there were huge fish beams and pale branches twisting and struggling in the depths of the ice wall and then tearing the Great Wall apart.

All he knew was that with the tearing of the Great Wall, it was the frenzied influx of fleeing savages, and the ranks of night watchmen numbering less than a thousand could not stop the tide at all, and they were shocked and collapsed.

Within a few days, a frigid blizzard came from outside the Great Wall, along with the terrifying army of ghouls!

Standing on the eastern shore of the sea, Donghaiwang is too remote and far enough away from the breach of the Great Wall to seem to have escaped the catastrophe, but it cannot escape the lack of resources due to the blizzard.

Such a manic climate completely blocked the night watchmen stationed in the East Sea Lookout inside the building, making it impossible for them to go out to find supplies, and could only be trapped in place.

Overall, the scale of this catastrophe is huge, and I can't think of how to resist it.

But at this time, Jarman Bookwell was worried about what to eat tomorrow, and he didn't have the heart to think about the influx of wild people, and the terrible strange ghosts that could not even sleep after the wild men, would affect the North, and indeed the whole of Westeros.

As for the strange war that had been fought in the North and the Riverlands before the Plague, which had caused the Night's Watch to talk so much, it was more like some small thing that had happened ten years ago, so distant and vague that it could no longer induce even the slightest thought in him.

"It is said that people are very comfortable when they freeze to death......"

Feeling the empty hunger in his abdomen, Jarman Bookwell, who was staring out the window at the white expanse, had this thought in his mind inexplicably.