Wet, cold, silent,

The castle of Pike City is a combination of several sea reefs, like a group of sea peaks, with a unique structure, but it is also difficult to escape the severe water vapor in the sea.

Even the best rooms in the castle are hardly as dry as the ordinary dwellings on land in Westeros.

However, with a special bloodline, Lan Li didn't feel any discomfort about it, staying in it, but there was a strange feeling of comfort.

At this time, there were many people living in the castle, but the tower where he was located was very silent, and there were many guards, and the servants and attendants subconsciously kept whispering when they walked, not daring to make too much noise, so as not to disturb him.

The reason is just that Lan Li said that he should "retreat and cultivate" and not disturb him-

Obviously, the Greyjoy family attached great importance to him, even to the surprise of Lan Li himself, but he was relieved to think that the current person in charge of the Greyjoy family was the female iron man who greeted him.

But in fact, Lan Li didn't need the environment to be quiet in the room, and even if it was noisy, it didn't matter, just because the changes in his wrist didn't need him to control it, and it didn't cause him too much trouble.

Of course, if there is no certain influence, he will not be closed in this situation.

The effect is not strong, but every once in a while, it is as if an illusion is growing around the body, and the room that should be very quiet will be transformed into something else, surrounded by schools of fish in the sea. Or ships drifting along, iron people sleeping on their beds, or killing in the battlefield, and many other visions.

The main reason for the change was the fusion mark on his wrist, which was supposed to be a mess of dark blue light, flickering, and seemed to breathe between breaths and moments.

This change is very unique, Lan Li, who is sitting on the velvet bed, has asked the spokesperson of the Seven Gods, but the other party does not know why this is the case, and only claims that it must have something to do with his chaotic mark.

Lan Li was not surprised by this, because most of the strange and incomprehensible changes were always related to the chaos mark, the appearance of the ancient path seed, the communication of the spokesperson of the seven gods, the resurrection of the drowning god, etc., without the existence of the "bug" of the chaos mark, he would not be able to do these things at all.

Lan Li was looking forward to what this situation would turn out to be in the end, but it had been going on for three days so far, and nothing other than the flickering illusion had yet to appear.

But Lan Li believes that the time for real change to happen should not be far away.

……

On the other side, while Lan Li was closed, the team of messengers who had come with him was contained in other towers.

Unlike the attitude towards the Blue Rites, the servants in the castle did not treat the visitors of the Green Lands very well, and even if it weren't for the Blue Rites, the gang would not have wanted to live in the castle of the Greyjoy family.

But not waiting to see it doesn't mean that you will be embarrassed, it's just that you have a cold attitude, and in normal times, you basically eat and drink a lot. Greyjoy had even visited here once.

In addition to the main personnel of Lan Li, there was also a deputy and some clerks on this mission, the deputy was called Kalman, who was born in a small noble family in the royal leadership and was quite calm.

It's just that this kind of composure is becoming more and more difficult to maintain these days when Lan Li doesn't show up.

After coming to the Iron Islands, they were "locked up" in this castle, and they naturally had no way to know what happened to the Iron Islands at this moment, and although they saw the attitude of the Iron People towards Lan Li on the road, those people were a minority after all, and it was still unknown how the people of the Iron Islands would think of Lan Li.

At the same time, Kalman was also worried about the disappearance of King Balon, and felt that the trip would not come to fruition.

"The gods hold on, hoping to get out of it all." He prayed secretly.

This probably represented the thoughts of most of the envoys, for upon arrival in the Iron Islands, all they felt was coldness.

Former intelligence chief Varys, who was a prisoner but was not imprisoned, had even guessed that Nabaron's "disappearance" was just a ploy by the Iron Islands to deal with their arrival.

Therefore, he also did not think that this mission would be effective, unless Lan Li had a way to persuade most of the nobles of the Iron Islands to succeed, but that seemed unlikely.

It's not to underestimate Lan Li, but to carefully analyze the existing situation-

Normal methods simply cannot make the Iron Islands do things that harm themselves and others, and they are not normal methods...... If Lan Li really had the abnormal means to affect hundreds of people at once, wouldn't the war that took place in Westeros be over a long time ago?

The contact along the way, coupled with the many events he had learned, Varys thought that he had roughly figured out the upper limit of the Blue Rite, which also eased the uneasiness in his heart.

"It's not that scary."

Thinking of someone secretly, Varys, who was in the middle of the tower room, suddenly saw the daughter of the Sea King, who was also a captive with him, hurrying past under the tower, and couldn't help but frown.

Since the Blue Rite was closed, the girl who took the title of King of Targaryen these days has also rarely gone out, and has hardly even been seen.

Because Lan Li's attitude towards this girl is not quite the same, no one restricts the girl's freedom, but as an intelligence officer, Varys thinks that there may be something that he does not understand.

"Trapped in this Pike City, you can't go out, what can you do?" He was secretly strange, but he never had a clue, so he was a little wary.

If the existence of Lan Li made him unable to see through, then the daughter of the Sea King gave him the feeling that he was like a weakened version of Lan Li, who understood it, but he could not see his "true face" clearly.

The Lady of the Moon, the Favored of the Gods, the Shadow of the Sea King, and the Born Conspirator...... These titles were widely circulated in Braavos and even in a small circle of free trade city-states, and the girl who looked delicate and beautiful like a doll was actually a very simple fellow.

Although it is not noticeable in the usual chats, Varys has always been wary of her presence.

It's a pity, just as he couldn't figure out how Lan Li got those powers, he also couldn't figure out the heels of the daughter of the Sea King, and unlike facing Lan Li, he couldn't even guess the other party's purpose at this time.

Somehow appeared in Westeros, and took the initiative to come over as a prisoner - if it weren't for the special status of the daughter of the Sea King, Varys would have suspected that she was a spy that Baratheon had cultivated since childhood.

"The world is getting harder and harder to see." He sighed, suddenly thinking that he was just a prisoner now, and it was useless to think so much, and he couldn't help but feel gloomy.

……

Rhaenys didn't know that someone had treated her as the same person as Lan Li, or that she cared very little about what others thought of her, and that she cared little about anything other than a few things.

At this point, she was confused by the change in the box.

During this time, she had been researching Lan Li's chest, and the contents of it.

Toys - flesh and blood, these objects that change back and forth without finding a pattern, and the number that is constantly replenished, aroused her great curiosity, but after many days of research, it has never yielded results.

At the same time, due to the limited conditions, she was unable to carry out the research on the pharmacy that she had planned before.

I thought that after coming to the Iron Islands, this kind of restriction could be alleviated, but I didn't want to come here for a long time, and Lan Li, who had a "close relationship" with the Iron People, closed his door, and without his care, the Iron People didn't take the rest of the envoy group seriously at all.

At the same time, a strange change in the box made it impossible for her to continue her research—

It began to glow bloodily outward!

Because Lan Li agreed to Rhaenys' research, the box has been kept by her, and the flickering blood light shines in her bedroom, and the atmosphere is eerie.

At the same time, with the flickering of light, she could also see some strange visions around her for a long time.

The sick and dead in the house, the storms raging at sea, the criminals in the cages......

This illusion was actually nothing, Rhaenys could have created it by her own means, it just required a lot of materials and energy, but she didn't underestimate it.

It's just because this box is related to the gods.

However, several days passed, and she didn't see anything else happening except for flickering visions, and she couldn't help but wonder very much.

"Isn't it time yet?"

Suspicious, the girl waited patiently.

Three-day, five-day, seven-day......

It wasn't until the tenth day of the illusion that a new change was suddenly born—

The storm is coming.