The further north you go, the more the farmstead becomes less and less inaccessible.

When I set up tents again, took care of the horses, and lit a fire to keep warm, I could already see the majestic figure of the Great Wall of Desperation in the distance.

Viewed from ten miles away, this gray-blue straight line across the northern horizon stretches uninterrupted to the east and west until it disappears into the distance, as if to announce that this is the end of the world.

"It's the largest building I've ever seen in my life. Lyanna sighed.

Lynn scoffed, "I've seen a much bigger Wall than this." ”

Lyanna doesn't believe it at all," nonsense. ”

Lynn didn't bother to explain.

At noon the next day, we set out from White Harbor and marched for about ten days. The expeditionary force finally reached the outside of the Black Castle under the Great Wall.

When the sun lifts the clouds and reveals its face.

Lynn turned his back to the sun and raised his gaze to the Great Wall, watching the walls glow blue in the sunlight.

Countless generations of wind-blown sand sludge have left marks on the city wall, like a covering membrane, so that the city wall sometimes becomes light gray, like a haze in the sky......

But when the sky shines directly on a sunny day, the Great Wall shines as if it has life, like a blue and white cliff that cuts across the sky for half a day.

"Here we are, sir. ”

Hearing the sound of the bull, Lynn poked her head out of the carriage and looked at the clutter of buildings covered in a layer of hoarfrost outside.

Lynn had a hard time believing that this was the legendary Black Castle.

There were no walls and no gates.

It's simply an illegal building built against the ice wall of the Great Wall of Desperation.

In front of him was a small open space, like a simple training ground.

Behind the training ground, the wooden castle tower and stone tower look like toy building blocks scattered in the snow.

The ancient fortress of the Night's Watch was nowhere near as good as the Twin Towns or White Harbor Towns that Lynn had seen, and it wasn't even a decent castle.

The key point is that it does not have walls.

Unable to defend itself against attacks from east, west, and south, the Night's Watch forces were only concerned with the north, and it was the Great Wall of Desperation that towered north of Castle Black.

Lead Advisor Maester Aemon Targaryen, Castle Dark's head Erisha Thorne, waited in the cold wind for a long time.

The Chief Advisor of the Night's Watch, Maester Aemon is an old maester with the blood of the dragon king, who traveled to the Wall of Despair when he was young to serve the Night's Watch in order to avoid a dispute over the throne.

Maester Aemon was old and strong, with gray hair but very energetic, not at all like an old man who was nearly a hundred years old.

He was the first to greet him, "Lord Earl Lynn de Rothschild, oh, and the little girl of the Mormont family, welcome to you, you have added a lot to Castle Black. ”

Lynn smiled and nodded, "The old bachelor doesn't need to be polite, because of the ancient and sacred sense of mission, the bachelor resolutely joined the night watch, which makes Lynn deeply admire." ”

Lyanna also saluted Maester Aemon, "Thank you Maester Aemon for your compliment, I don't know what the situation is outside the Cypriots now, and what other families have come to receive a message from the Night's Watch and rushed to Castle Black?"

Maester Aemon smiled bitterly and said, "Commander Geo is preparing to go and talk to Mance with an army of three hundred Night's Watchmen, and we received a raven message from your uncle Jeo ten days ago, and Mance, the king of the Outer Gates, has gathered an army of 100,000 savages in the Fang of Frost and Snow.

I heard that there is a serious shortage of food outside the Saiwai this year, and there are rumors of eating human flesh among the wild people. If the situation worsens, the wildlings may challenge the Great Wall of Desperation, and this place will surely become a land of corpses and blood.

Now the Great Wall has been under martial control since a few days ago!"

Lyanna the bear girl was surprised, "Didn't my uncle Jeo Mormont send a message recently?"

Maester Aemon shook his head solemnly and said, "Geo led the army to the Ancestral Fist Peak, a defensive point stuck on the path of Mance Red, and we don't know anything about the situation outside the Great Wall now. ”

Arisha Thorne, the head of the Castle of Black, sneered: "Maester Aemon has released all the ravens of Castle Black, and the Night's Watchman's letter asking for help was sent to the Seven Kingdoms ten days ago, but you are still the first guests of Castle Black. ”

Saying that, he said with confidence on his face: "Now in the Great Wall, counting the batch of recruits that Youlun recruited from King's Landing, there are barely 300 people to defend, if it weren't for the fact that the food and grass are not ready, with these 300 people plus the Great Wall like a moat, even without the assistance of the Seven Kingdoms, no matter how many savages he has, he will not be able to climb the Great Wall." ”

Three hundred men defend against one hundred thousand savages.

It seemed like the confidence of a madman, but Lynn knew that it was the Night's Watchman's incomparably strong confidence in the defense of the Great Wall of Desperation that they were guarding.

Lynn thought for a moment, but still reminded: "It's not so easy for a wild man to climb over the Great Wall, but if you come in by sea, it won't be necessarily. ”

Alyssa Thorne shook her head categorically and said, "Carter Pike is stationed in the East Sea, so many wildlings can't enter the northern realm by sea......"

Lynn frowned when she heard this, and didn't bother to say anything more.

At this time, Maester Aemon answered, "I wonder why Earl Lynn is leading your army here?"

Lyanna, the little bear girl, also looked at Lynn suspiciously.

Along the way, Lynn has been secretive about the purpose of his visit to the Great Wall.

Now that he has arrived at Castle Black, I don't know if Lynn will confide in him.

She knew that Lynn hadn't received a letter from the Night's Watch for help before she left, so he must have had another purpose for his trip.

Seeing a few inquiring glances, Lynn breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and said to Master Aemon, "I'm going to take a trip to the outside of the city." ”

Hearing this, Master Aemon sighed and said, "The outside of the city is now in chaos and dangerous, and it is better for the Earl to dispel the idea of continuing to go north." ”

Elisha Thorne also warned, "Outside the Fortress is no better than the warm North, where the wildlings can easily tear you apart, no matter how many troops you have." And in the dark night, fortunately, even more terrifying monsters appeared, a hundred times more terrifying than savages......"

The first time someone described the northern border as a warm word, Lynn was slightly stunned at first, and then smiled, compared to here and outside, isn't the northern border as warm as spring?

"You're talking about a blue-eyed stranger, right? I've seen this thing, and I've killed it myself. ”

Lynn spoke very seriously, but was taken as a brag by the three of them.

Even Lyanna stared at Lynn with a pair of blue eyes, full of suspicion.

Alyssa Thorne said solemnly, "Count Lynn, what we call blue-eyed monsters are monsters with blue eyes that are full of aggression, not blue-eyed beggars. ”

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