Chapter 2: The Night Watch
With the gradual forgetfulness of the legend of the Long Night for 8,000 years, the meaning of the existence of the Great Wall of Desperation and the Night Watch in people's hearts has also changed from defending against the invasion of strange ghosts to defending against the southward movement of the savages in the north. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The importance of the Night's Watch was also greatly reduced, and the number of troops was severely reduced, limiting the daily maintenance of the Great Wall. At the beginning of the story of A Song of Ice and Fire, only three of the 19 fortresses built on the Great Wall still house the Night's Watch.
The Night's Watch was stationed in the 19 castles at the base of the southern wall of the Wall, with regular patrols by rangers between the castles and sentries stationed on the walls in shifts. The craftsmen stationed in the castle also regularly inspect the freezing conditions of the walls and strengthen the walls by watering and adding ice.
Winch lifts and huge plank stairs were built on the sides of the Great Wall where each castle was located, so that people and supplies could be transported to the walls at any time.
At the top of the Wall, in addition to the Sentinel Tower, there are Mill's Eyes (telescopes), trebuchets, ballistas, and cranes, but because most of them are fixed to non-rotating chassis, the wildlings have begun to learn to avoid the landing area of the arrows.
In addition, the Night's Watch was severely undersupplied and manpowered, and many of the catapults were disassembled and repaired before being reassembled because the parts were frozen.
The Night's Watch would never allow the forests of the northern part of the city to extend within half a mile of the Great Wall, and would periodically send craftsmen out of the city to cut down trees, in case the enemy would use the cover of the trees to approach and attack the Wall.
However, as the power of the Night's Watch has weakened year by year, wild woods have crept into the city where the abandoned castle stands, and ancient dangers have quietly descended.
The Great Wall of Desperation stretches for 300 miles, about 700 feet high, and is made of solid ice and boulders. Depending on the weather conditions, it can be seen gray or blue even from miles away.
The Great Wall was wide enough at the top for twelve heavily armed knights to ride side by side, and even wider at the bottom.
According to mythology, ancient spells were woven into the walls of the Great Wall to fortify it against mysterious species such as strangers and ghouls. The Great Wall stretches straight like a sword from Castle Black to the east to the East Sea, and bends like a snake to the Shadow Tower to the west. In the summer sun, a small amount of snow and ice sometimes melts on the sides of the Great Wall, and from a distance it looks as if the Great Wall is crying.
The Great Wall of Desperation has no real gates, only a few tunnels that run through the walls. Several of these tunnels are blocked by iron fences locked with heavy chains, and the side walls of the tunnels are also defenced with shooting holes and murder holes.
If the castle needs to be abandoned, or if the castle is in danger, the tunnel will be permanently blocked by craftsmen with ice, snow and gravel.
In the book "Man-Made Miracles" written by the famous traveler "Long-legged" Lomas, the Great Wall of Desperation is listed as one of the "Nine Man-Made Wonders", along with famous buildings such as the Valyrian Avenue, the Braavos Titans, the Valantis Long Bridge, the Triple Wall of Quells, the Three Great Clocks of Norfos, and the Palace of a Thousand Chambers in Shanas.
Looking at the tall Great Wall of Desperation and the jungle he was in, if Ye Siyu didn't guess wrong, his current location was outside the northern border, and it was also the place where the magnificent plot of A Song of Ice and Fire began.
While Ye Siyu was thinking about the information of the Great Wall of Desperation, the plane watch shook slightly, and the mission light curtain appeared in front of him.
Mission World: A Song of Ice and Fire
Main quest 1 (uncompleted): Winterfell, go to Winterfell, 20 ratings.
Main quest 2 (uncompleted): Trust, trusted by a member of the Stark family, 20 ratings.
Main quest 3 (uncompleted): Lord of the Iron Throne, help a member of the Stark family sit on the Iron Throne and become the Lord of the Iron Throne, 50 ratings.
Looking at the three tasks on the light curtain, Ye Siyu's eyes narrowed and he directly turned off the light curtain, when he knew that this time the task was a song of ice and fire, he had already expected the mission of this world, and sure enough, it was similar to the task he guessed, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Squeak!"
Suddenly, the sound of stamping on the snow came from a distance.
Hearing the sound, Ye Siyu shrank into the tall tree next to him, and shrank directly to the back, hiding his figure.
Through the gaps between the branches, you can see a tall horse dressed in feathered black, and seeing this person, Ye Siyu knows that this is one of the members of the night watch team that began to be killed by strange ghosts in the plot.
The Night's Watch is dedicated to defending Westeros' territory, is a garrison on the Great Wall of the North, existing to stop the wildlings and legendary creatures north of the Wall, a noble legion known as the "Black Knights" in ancient times, and now a refuge for exiles and criminals of the Seven Kingdoms, still guarding the North.
The gloomy north wind blew the shadows of the trees, like hideous creatures.
Will, who was walking slowly on horseback, kept looking around, knowing that this snowy jungle was full of all kinds of dangers, fierce and cruel beasts, and cunning wild people outside the Cypriots, who could die if they were not careful.
"Don't be afraid, kid." Will whispered to the horse under his crotch, but only he knew that he was just trying to give himself some courage.
Although he had patrolled the jungle countless times, Will's heart was nothing but fear in this snowy jungle, and he knew very well how dangerous this jungle was.
"Shh Suddenly, Will patted the horse's head on the crotch to silence it, and dismounted from his horse, for he saw a trail of smoke rising from the snowdrift not far away.
He knew very well what the smoke meant, and immediately took the reins and walked cautiously towards the place where the smoke rose, and he didn't dare to breathe.
When he was about to reach the place of smoke, he fell to the ground and crawled forward little by little.
Before becoming the Night Watch, Will used to make a living by hunting, and his stealth skills were first-class, and no one could match the silent stealth in the forest, and it was the Night Watch brothers who discovered his strengths and made him a patrol ranger.
Slowly he crawled to the place where the smoke rose, and when he peeked out, a terrifying image came into his eyes.
The moonlight shone on the clearing, shining on the embers of the campfire, the snow-covered rocks, the half-frozen stream, and the countless fragments of mutilated corpses, especially those nailed to the ground, which terrified him.
He had never seen such a terrible picture, and he immediately scrambled to his feet, and he wanted to tell his companion the news, but as soon as he got up and turned around, he saw a little girl and a wild man crucified in a big tree behind her.
Especially when he saw the little girl's godless eyes, a bone-chilling chill rushed from his tail vertebrae to his head, making him feel cold.
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