151 Caves and Dried Corpses
At first glance, the oval stone that blocked the entrance to the cave was an ordinary stone, gray and black, and covered with solidified snow, but if you wiped the snow off and looked closely, you would realize that it was actually a huge block of ice!
Dark, blackened ice cubes. Vertex Says X 23 U OM
Melisandre, dressed in a red robe, touched it lightly with her hand, but hurriedly shrank back, and then faced Charles's gaze, she said helplessly: "It is full of cold power. ”
"The power of the cold?"
Charles raised his eyebrows, and also reached out to touch it, and a cold feeling like freezing into the bone marrow hit his fingers in an instant!
"Good ice."
He frowned slightly.
The hint of the True Eye showed that the large stone that sealed the entrance was extraordinary, but he didn't know much about what was so extraordinary.
However, when I touch it now, what I come into contact with is like a stone or an ice cube, which is simply the liquid oxygen that has been cooled down in my memory.
After staring for a moment, he looked behind him.
At the moment, there are not many people around the two.
Some of the soldiers thoroughly cleared the snow around and checked for other traps. Some ran to the foot of the mountain in front of the pit, or looked down, or lowered their eyebrows to wonder if there was a way to cross the place, or just wandered around.
The mountain is not small, and it is relatively sparse when the people are dispersed.
Charles and Melisandre remained halfway up the mountain, with only a group of guards in their place.
There are only a dozen of them, but they are basically "enough".
At Charles's signal, the guards leaned in and began to pry the cold stone with their swords or other hard objects.
In fact, it's not easy.
More than a dozen guards gritted their teeth with their weapons, but after half a day, they only pried open a gap.
Because the place is only so big, and there are too many people, they can only hold their strength and hold on, and there is no way to call for reinforcements.
However, the hard work paid off, and after repeated efforts, they finally moved the big stone away.
The boulder rolled with a rumbling sound, breaking through the snow and charging downward, and the soldiers on the road had already been warned, so they hid to the sides and watched the stone roll and roll, and finally rushed into the deep sinkhole at the foot of the mountain with great force!
The sound then disappeared, and after half a day, a dull roar came from within the blue abyss. The sound was loud, as if there was an earthquake all around.
"That's too deep." Silently estimating the landing time, Charles was silent.
Then he ignored it, turned his head to look at the entrance to the cave that had been opened, and then he noticed a rather peculiar situation.
Melisandre couldn't get into it!
As Charles observed the boulder, the red-robed woman began to try to enter the cavern, but no matter how hard she tried, an invisible wall blocked the entrance, preventing her from entering.
Charles tried, but he got into it without any obstacles, and then he looked out from the dimly lit hole**, and the slightly annoyed expression of the red-robed woman came into view.
"It looks like you're not welcome."
"This only proves that the dark gods are afraid of the coming of light." The other party replied with a soft snort, and simply gave up his plan to enter this place.
"Be careful." She admonished, then turned away from the entrance area and walked towards the abyss, as if ready to study.
Charles beckoned the other guards to come forward, but as with the red-robed woman, almost everyone could not enter, except for Jon. Snow.
"Why am I ......?" the delicate night watchman boy was surprised by this, and he reached out and touched the hard, blackened edge of the cavern entrance, but found nothing in the way.
"Because he loves the Starks." Charles replied, then turned to look down at the road below.
"Let's hope our allies aren't killed."
Muttering, Charles took out a piece of secret paper, and after chanting a few incantations, the flames immediately ignited from his left hand for illumination, and then he carried a one-handed sword in his other hand, and slowly walked down the deep tunnel that spread downward into Snow and silently followed him.
Charles wondered if there was any danger involved. So it is essential to come up with weapons.
But he seemed to be overly concerned about this, because he had not taken a few steps before someone came in the darkness.
[Children of the Forest, Earth Elves Close to Nature in the Middle Ages]
[Her age is about 200-500 years old]
[She has a certain kindness towards you]
……
Before I could see the person who was coming, the hint of the True Eye drifted in front of me.
Looking closely, the person who came was not tall, and he could even be said to be like a child, about the height of Charles's belly.
Under the light of his hands, the other party was wearing a cloak of green leaves, and his skin looked very strange, dark brown with spots, and it looked like elk skin.
At this moment, the little elk-like creature was staring at Charles's burning left hand with her golden and green eyes.
"You're able to unleash fire magic here?"
The sweet female voice came out of the other party's mouth, the voice was completely inconsistent with her appearance, not like a child at all, but there was a special maturity and vicissitudes, and when she said this, her voice couldn't hide her surprise.
"Hello."
Charles greeted her kindly. Then he saw that the other party was holding a torch in his hand, so he shook his hand and extinguished his magic.
This surprised the other party even more, but she didn't say anything more, but silently made a strange salute to Charles, and then said sadly: "We thank you for coming, the white ghost has been locked down here for several days, and we have not been able to get out." ”
"But you've fallen into their trap."
The matter was obvious, so Charles just shrugged his shoulders, but the tone was still sad.
"The white ghost is blocking here, we can't get out, and we want to warn you, but we can't speak."
"Do you have a way to deal with the sinkhole outside?" Charles asked, "Bridge, or something"
"Nope." The Children of the Forest shook their heads, "It's full of cold and death, and our power can't come close. ”
"Do you have enough supplies here?"
She still shook her head: "There is no ...... either"
So that's the problem.
Charles sighed and thought for a moment, but he wasn't too worried.
If it really doesn't work, he can still use the shuttle door to transport food here, and no one will starve to death. Of course, the Shire will not use this method unless they have to.
As she pondered, the childlike Son of the Forest whispered in her peculiarly sweet voice, "But perhaps the Green Prophet will have a way." ”
As she spoke, she winked at Charles.
"Let's go, the Green Prophet is waiting for you inside."
Naturally, Charles had no problem with this, he had come here to find the so-called Green Prophet, or the Three-Eyed Raven.
He motioned for Snow to follow, and he followed the Children of the Forest deeper into the cavern.
……
The narrow tunnel at your feet winds its way downward, sometimes steeply and sometimes gently.
The surrounding black rocks are very hard, covered with moss and glowing fungi.
The light of the torches shone brightly, and it was dark except for the limited road ahead, and the light of the entrance behind was fainter and narrower.
Charles had expected to walk the road for a long time, but it wasn't long before they reached their destination.
This is a cave hall located in the depths of the hills, many of the little people who look similar to the children of the forest in front of them are in the hall at this time, staring at the people coming from the entrance without blinking, and at a cursory glance, there should be no less than fifty figures.
And in the depths of the dark hall, a dried corpse sitting in a fishbeam was staring at him with a deep gaze.
The corpse was ragged, with a withered face, pale hair covered in dark red leaves and mushrooms, and its body was entwined with branches, one of which even poked out of his hollow left eye and plunged into the carotid artery of his neck.
When he saw Charles looking at him, he met him quietly with his only remaining red eyes, his withered, slender pale lips opening and closing, and slowly exhaling a greeting.
"Long time no see, Charles. Cranston. ”