264 The war began
Dragonstone Island was very lively at this time, because it was located at the narrow entrance and exit of Blackwater Bay, and it naturally belonged to a critical line of defense in the King's Landing, so since the beginning of war, it had been "requisitioned" by Stannis's royal fleet, and now the island is busy arranging maritime defenses inside and outside.
However, Lan Li is not the Minister of the Sea, and the defense of the sea has nothing to do with him, and the reason why he returned to Dragonstone Island is that the "Kans" on the island informed him that he has some new clues about the war.
In other words, someone came to inform the enemy of some preparations for battle.
"Braavos' fleet is preparing to attack the northern Castle Bay, Valantis' fleet is targeting Qingting Island, and your main enemies will be the combined fleet of other city-states, as well as the Dothraki, and their destination is to land in the Riverlands."
A middle-aged man with a bald head told Lan Li like this.
He is a Kohor person, but he claims to belong to the red-robed woman Melisandre, and naturally he will not forget Melisandre's blue ceremony, but he is hesitant about it.
Although he had reached a basic verbal cooperation agreement with the red-robed woman, as far as he knew, the red-robed woman was just an ordinary priest in the Lord of Light faith, with no status, how did he learn about these strategic situations?
Lan Li didn't ask, because he could feel that the person in front of him was just a simple microphone, but this matter was important, so after thinking about it, the night he arrived at Dragonstone, he took a clipper boat and sailed beyond Westeros.
The things in King's Landing didn't need him to pay much attention to for the time being, and there were no particularly important things to keep an eye on, and at the same time, Pantos, one of the nine free trade city-states, was not far from Dragonstone, and it wouldn't take him even ten days to sail back and forth, so he was ready to take a personal look for himself and take a personal cross-examination if necessary.
As a result, I ran over and took a look, but I directly ran into the enemy and was about to set sail!
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The shallow waters are warmed by long-term sunlight, and a strange coolness rushes into the body from all directions.
Floating beneath the surface of the sea, staring at the black bottom of the ship in the distant harbor area, and the trance of human heads on land, Lan Li squinted in the water.
The feeling of being around him for a long time made him feel a little over, but the scene he saw at this time made this overstep quietly dissipate.
Without him, there were too many ships moored in the harbor, and even more so than the Dothraki who boarded the ships.
The Dothraki are a nomadic people, mostly bronze-skinned and dressed in light leather armor. Aside from the memories of his previous life, Lan Li's current impression of the Dothraki is that of the overlord of the Essos Continent.
That's right, although the nine free trade city-states are very powerful, the strongest military power in the continent of Essos is not the major city-states, but the war race of Dothraki, which is all soldiers.
Lan Li had known beforehand that the Dothraki had also reached a cooperation with the Targaryens, but he had not expected that there would be so many of them—he lurked beneath the ocean, and from morning to night, the dense crowds of people kept pouring into the boats, but they still seemed endless, as if endless.
At this moment, he believed in the news of the red-robed woman even more, the Dothraki people were born cavalry, so many Dothraki people, if they didn't take it to the hinterland of the continent to plunder and make trouble, it would be a complete waste to send it directly to attack the city, and it would be half the effort, because the Dothraki would not attack the city at all.
Lan Li had a headache because of this.
It's the Riverlands and the North, and Qingting Island, and the increase in the battle front means that the war has become more complicated, and if it is just a battle in King's Landing, there is no need to think too much, but now it is necessary to make urgent adjustments.
Thinking about it, Lan Li didn't act rashly.
Although he didn't fully believe it before, he also didn't forget to pass the news to the Iron Throne, and now that the war was about to begin, Lan Li believed that the Iron Throne would also know about it without doing anything himself, because the Iron Throne had set up an intelligence point outside of Westeros - there were ravens to deliver the news, much faster than if he ran to inform it himself.
Lan Li waited quietly—
He was going to see if he could trigger the curse effect on his body here.
The feeling of being in the sea for a long time is completely different from that on land, and the humidity envelops the body all the time, but in contrast, Lan Li prefers the situation in the sea at this time.
The continuous cooling sensation around him was no longer able to cause him any freezing damage at this time, but instead magically turned into the nutrients he needed when he entered his body, and the hunger that was born with the passage of time was constantly soothed by this special power, and the spirit of long-term observation never tiredly emerged.
Lan Li in the sea is like a tireless perpetual motion machine, not eating or drinking, but always in good spirits. At the same time, there were schools of fish gathering around him, more and more, closer and closer, which caused serious trouble to his observation, and also made Lan Li have to keep sinking his body because of this, for fear that he would be discovered by those troops on the sea because of this.
The huge school of fish finally blocked all directions, and the black pressure around the sight was full of all kinds of fish heads, ugly, slender, and hideous, which looked very terrifying at first glance, but this did not affect Lan Li's "line of sight".
At this time, his eyes were closed, but his perspective was not limited to the ocean, but was above the sky—
If someone had been specifically observing at this time, they would have noticed that above the surface of the sea where Lan Li was diving, there was a white seagull constantly soaring in the sky, observing the dense fleet in the harbor at the end of the line of sight under the bright sky, and the Dothraki who were denser than the fleet.
At the same time, it is also observing the changes in the sky.
One, two, three......
Time passed, and the white gulls focused on observing, their surroundings, and the harbor, in addition to their normal foraging.
On the fourth day, the situation changed, and the army at the harbor finally finished boarding, and the huge merchant ships began to set sail one after another, heading for Westeros, preparing for a war that was destined to kill and wound countless people.
However, because of this, Lan Li's observation came to an abrupt end.
It wasn't that he took the initiative to end it, but that the seagull that was soaring in the sky suddenly set itself on fire from the inside out!
This sudden situation caught Lan Li off guard, and the thoughts that existed in the seagull's body felt the sudden burning sensation along with the bird, and even he couldn't help but feel the pain on his face in the sea. Faintly, the miserable birdsong and the faint sound of the fire burning reached the "ears", and when I opened my eyes again, the world was left with only the dark and lightless seabed of the sea.
After unconsciously clenching his fists, Lan Li looked up, and at this time, the top of his head was still tightly covered by fish, but he seemed to be able to see a red-robed figure standing on the deck with a scepter through the fish and the ocean.
The last thing the bird saw was the figure raising the scepter in his hand and pointing to the sky.
"The spell of the red-robed monk?" Thinking secretly, Lan Li turned around and swam in the other direction of the ocean floor.
The eyeliner was eliminated, but Lan Li's purpose was also achieved-
What the seagull saw before dying was not only the red-robed figure standing on the bow of the ship, but also the gloomy and windy sky.