"Lord Petyr. The little devil stared at the straight-waisted Petyr Berish, "I want you to get as much food as you can, if there are more and more hungry people in the city, we need to distribute some food at certain critical times." ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister is right, when the hungry people can't bear it anymore, opening a warehouse and putting some grain is indeed a good way to solve the despair of the hungry people. Petyr smiled.

"So can an adult do that?"

"Do your best, Prime Minister. But I can assure you that if I can't, no one in King's Landing will. ”

The little devil was silent, and after a long while, his tone softened, and his eyes softened: "Lord Petyr, the country needs your talent now, and I hope you can do your best to serve the country and the people." ”

Littlefinger smiled: "It is the Prime Minister who serves the country and the people, and I am just under the banner of the Prime Minister, loyally carrying out the orders of the Prime Minister." So, Prime Minister, can you ......"

"I'll give you four people to keep you safe. ”

"Thank you, Prime Minister. Littlefinger smiled, and his tone was sincere.

"What's that?" said a child.

"Oh my God, what a bright meteor. Another child's voice.

Littlefinger felt it, too, and suddenly, the light around her was brighter. The little devil also felt it, and the light around him suddenly became a little brighter, which was very strange.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

A bright red fist-sized star with a long red flame tail was sweeping across the sky, as if a bleeding wound had been cut open by an invisible knife on the purple-red sky, and the bloody flame tail spread behind the flying star, like blood gushing from the wound.

"Oh my God, a comet!" said the little devil, who had always kept his book in his hand.

No one had ever seen a comet so bright and bright, let alone a terrifying mixture of blood, flame, and sunset red.

Petyr Berish, the little finger, had always been calm, but his face had changed color.

"Prime Minister, it is rare for this comet to be so clearly visible even during the day, does this indicate that summer is coming to an end and a bad omen is coming?"

The ninth year of Westeros' long year is about to pass, and in less than a month, it will usher in the tenth year of the continent's long summer. According to the ancient law of the seasons, the winter is as long as the long summer is, and the winter is as cold as the long summer is warm.

"Comets are a normal natural phenomenon, and the movement of celestial bodies has nothing to do with bad omens. The little devil said,

"But the people don't think so!" said Littlefinger, smiling narrowly, pointing out to the streets, where many of the people were looking up blankly, others kneeling and kowtowing, and many more clasped their hands together, closed their eyes, and muttered words in their mouths.

The little devil shrugged his shoulders: "People always like to blame God or omens, but I have always believed that God is unreliable, and that omens, not from the outside world, come from people's inner thoughts and not from the outside world. “

Littlefinger tilted his head and looked at the little devil: "Prime Minister, I believe that most of the people in Shoemaker Square are kneeling, are you interested in going and seeing?" They don't think it's a sign or not. ”

*

The comet swept across the sky for a long time, pulling out a long red tail of flame in the sky, as if crying blood.

Almost everyone on the continent of Westeros is looking up at this strange sight that appears during the day.

In King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, the Shoemaker's Square was crowded with people looking up, many looking terrified, some kneeling and kowtowing, and many more clasping their hands in prayer.

On the city walls, the soldiers of the garrison looked up at the sky and were dumbfounded.

In the Red Keep, upstairs in Megour, Joffrey took Sansa's hand, fingering the comet and saying something with great interest, as if he had seen the comet before his name day, which was a sign of his royal prosperity, and Sansa nodded in agreement.

In the Queen Mother's room, Cersei stood at the window, looking up at the sky with a grim face, and the courtiers gathered on the lawn, pointing at the sky and talking about it.

*

On the bitter bridge of the High Court, in the martial arts arena, Lan Li sat on the throne, beside his new wife, Margaery Tyrell. She was sixteen years old, beautiful and dignified, and her finger comet asserted that this was a good omen for Lan Li to be the emperor.

The courtiers and generals around Lan Li complimented the king, and the comet in the sky passed by, which was the harbinger that Lan Li Baratheon would enter the city of King's Landing.

*

On Dragonstone Island in the middle of the sea, the old scholar Clison was never superstitious, but he couldn't help but fall into deep uneasiness and crankiness. He thought this was a bad omen for the people of Dragonstone, since the arrival of a Red God wizard Melisandre on Dragonstone, the people of the island have not been quiet, and the king and queen have been bewitched by this witch and abandoned the Seven Gods in favor of the Red God, which is a blasphemy that the Crisson University Scholar cannot accept.

Scholar Cresson decided to meet King Stannis Baratheon and take the opportunity to advise him to drive out Melisandre and abandon the evil faith of the Red God. He then sent someone to the king's younger brother, Lanli, to persuade the two brothers to put aside their old suspicions and work together to deal with the Lannisters of King's Landing.

*

In the Riverlands, Duke Tywin, whose soldiers had been reduced by his rapid march, immediately looked up at the sky vision, and his heart was shocked. Not knowing whether this march was a bad or bad one, he ordered the army to stop, camp on the spot, and then come to the rear to meet the witch queen in the carriage

In Riverrun, hundreds of miles away from Tywin, the soldiers of the city looked up at the red comet in the sky, while Robb Stark and his death squad soldiers marched along the path of the Western Mountains to a halt, all looking up at the sky, all with strange expressions on their faces.

*

As soon as the comet came out, the seven kingdoms of Westeros were alarmed, the Iron Islands in the sea, the Eagle's Nest in the valley, the people of the north, the night watchmen on the Great Wall of Despair, the freedmen in the Ghost Forest and the Thern Mountains, the southernmost Dorne, the farthest Midsummer Islands, whether they were princes and generals, or mountain villagers, all looked up at the sky, some were surprised, some were frightened, some prayed, and some were uneasy......

And in Harrenhal, the Magic Mountain and his soldiers are no exception, looking up at the sky in the same way. The soldiers talked a lot, but they were only amazed, not afraid or uneasy.

The mountain was calm, he knew what this portended, it was a sign that Princess Daenerys Targaryen on the other side of the Narrow Sea had sent away her beloved man, Drogo Kao, and the witch who was bent on killing Drogo Kao. After the fire, Daenerys hatched three dragons.

In this world, the dragon that has disappeared for more than a hundred years has returned.

Through the Mother of Dragons, who is to be ally between Varys and Illyrio, Daenerys Targaryen has since started the plug-in mode - and the three-headed dragon she hatched will assist her in conquering the continent of Essos and becoming the most powerful queen of the generation.

And the Magic Mountain, because he raised the butcher's knife against the people of the Targaryen family in the palace massacre sixteen years ago, the blood feud linked the two people who were thousands of miles apart in some invisible form: Magic Mountain and Daenerys, will they be friends or enemies in the future?!

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Chapter 0334-2 Dragon Hunting Crossbow

The Magic Mountain courted Daenerys through Varys and the Governor of Pantos, Illyrio Mopatis, with an unknown outcome. As a precaution, Magic Mountain is also preparing its own new weapon: the Dragon Hunting Crossbow!

Dragons are also flesh and blood, and they are not invincible!

Where there are dragons, there are warriors who hunt dragons.

For the giant beasts flying in the sky, the best weapon is naturally the bow and arrow.

Bows and arrows are good for long-range attacks, armor-piercing arrows can break through the protection of armor, and dragon's scale armor is not as hard as steel.

Normal bows and arrows can also deal damage to dragons, but not much damage and limited range.

However, the dragon hunting crossbow can solve the problem of short distance and weak lethality of ordinary bows and arrows.

The Magic Mountain led the troops out to fight, and the secret construction of the dragon hunting crossbow was handed over to his wife Jane Westerling.

*

While the Magic Mountain looked up at the comets flying by in the sky, Jenny Westerling was also looking up at this rare spectacle in the sky.

Different people have different opinions about comets flying across the sky.

Janie Westerling is surrounded by Petter, the Bachelor, Lady Allen, the Officer, Tobe Mott, the Master of Weapons, and Gendry, the Blacksmith's Apprentice.

"Madame, ...... in the sky What's that?" asked Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Allen thought that Lady Jenny's knowledge and insight were superior to that of the young Bachelor Potter, and she asked Jenny about anything.

"It's a comet!" replied Petter, "it's a natural phenomenon, like a spring flower, an autumn fruit, a natural phenomenon." ”

"I don't know much about astronomy," said Janie, "so I'd better ask the bachelor to answer the question." ”

Maester Potter was recognized by Lady Jenny, which gave him the confidence to demonstrate his knowledge: "Those who believe in the Seven Gods will think that this is some kind of omen. But this is actually a movement of celestial bodies. “

"And what is the force that drives it to move, where does it come from, how is it formed, and why is it red?" said Gendry, still with a hammer in his hand.

"Uh...... It's like a shooting star...... It's just bigger than a meteor...... Of course, meteors don't leave a red tail flame. The young bachelor said.

"It's an omen, some kind of catastrophe or some kind of opportunity, but it takes the Green Prophet to interpret it. Tob Mott asserted that there was no room for question.

"Uh...... This is the movement of a comet ......"

"Comets are also miracles, and the movement of comets must be God's prophecies, but we are dull and mortal, so we naturally cannot interpret them. Master Tob Mott insisted on his opinion, and looked at the young scholar with obvious disdain.

The young bachelor's knowledge of astronomy was indeed limited, and although he knew that it was a comet, he could not explain the movement of such celestial bodies, and the bachelor blushed.

Jenny smiled slightly: "Science has a scientific understanding of comets, the occult has a mystical statement about comets, and the interpretation of comets by dark magic is different, I believe in the Seven Gods......" But Janine has unknowingly believed in witch gods because of the influence of her grandmother Witch Queen, but she can't show her faith in a group of people who believe in the seven gods, "I personally think that the color of comets like blood probably represents war." “

Gendry nodded, "Madame's opinion is always the one I agree with the most!" he said loudly, as if he was afraid that others would not know his opinion.

Gendry struck iron at Fort Klegane to make weapons, and the most convincing person was not Magic Mountain, not his master, only Janie.

Jenny is beautiful and kind-hearted, she doesn't have the frame of a big nobleman, and she respects people like Gendry like a general, which is why Gendry stands with Jenny no matter whether she is right or wrong.

He really thinks that Jenny is such a good person, one of a kind!

"I agree with Madame, isn't it the time when the war is going on? The red color of the comet represents blood, the blood of the enemy, and our own blood. Master Tob Mott affirmed.

"Listening to what the master said, I also agree with Madame's opinion. Mrs. Allen said.

Young Master Potter opened his mouth, and finally closed his mouth. He didn't think that the red comet represented war and blood, but he couldn't tell why the comet's flame tail dragged in the sky as red as blood, long, and long.

Tob unfolded the mechanical drawings in his hand and said, "Comet weeps blood, this war looks like it has time to fight. Hey, I don't know how many people will die - ma'am, this is a revised drawing?"

"Yes, I think the dragon hunting crossbow I tested a few days ago is very good, the distance and strength are very strong, I thought about it for a few days, and I felt that there were two shortcomings, so I revised the drawings, and asked Master Tob to see if it was okay first. ”

"Master, have you barely slept these nights?" said Lady Allen, her tone full of loving reproach.

Tob Mott squinted at Potter: "This mechanical knowledge must be known to the Bachelors." ”

"I'm a little bit more proficient in medicine, writing, mathematics, planting, and farming. Master Potter coughed to hide his ...... Embarrassed.

Jenny smiled, "Master Tob, don't embarrass our Bachelor. ”

Gendry stood beside the master and glanced at the drawings: "Uh, with the gear design, it's like the gear of a noodle machine?"

"Yes. A few days ago, I saw you try firing crossbow arrows, and it took a lot of effort to pull the bowstring into position, so I thought of the gears of the noodle machine, which is driven by gears, and children can make noodles by hand-cranking. If the dragon hunting crossbow can also pass through the gears, adding a hand crank handle will make it easy to pull the bowstring into position. ”

"This works, ma'am!" said Tob Mott, looking at the drawings, "but it takes a certain amount of strength to shake the handle on one side, and if you want a child or a lady to fire a crossbow arrow, you can install a gear crank on each side of the ballista bed." In this way, the force of pulling the bowstring will be reduced by half. “

"That's great. "Jenny was overjoyed.

The range of the dragon hunting crossbow is several times that of ordinary bows and arrows, and the two-meter crossbow arrows are made of iron spears, if children can pull the bowstring through the crank, this is a scientific and technological innovation in the history of weapons, once put into the battlefield, it will play a decisive role at a critical moment.

Gendry leaned over again to look at the drawings and said, "Madam, what do these two dotted lines on the crossbow bed do?"

"Folding, like the hinge of a door, the crossbow bed of the dragon hunting crossbow is very wide, like a carriage, if you don't need it, it can be folded, the first is convenient to place, and the second is that it is more convenient to march when folded. Whether it is in the plains, hills, or mountains, a bullock cart can be loaded with several dragon hunting crossbows. ”