The "King of the Outside World" Mance Rader is ordinary-looking, except for his slender legs and strong physique, he is just a middle-aged man of medium stature. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info red and black torn cloak fluttering in the wind, and so is gray-brown hair. He stood at the edge of the forest, his eyes sharp, staring at Zhao Mai and Jon.

Jon saw several "acquaintances" around him, who "took care" of him when he was still working undercover at Camp Savage. "Doghead" Harry stood on Mansred's right with his hunched back, his eyes narrowed into slits and a flickering fierce light. The "Hexagram" Valamir stood on the other side of the King of the Outer Fortress, with a black shadow bobcat and two lean gray wolves by his side.

"Jon Snow, you're either very brave or very stupid. Mance Rader said, "You're back to us in a black cloak!"

"What else can a Night's Watch wear?" Jon replied calmly, standing quietly.

Harry and Valamir clamoured, "Kill him, throw the body back, and let the Night's Watch send someone else to talk!, or feed it to the wolves! ”

Mance Rader raised his left palm and motioned for the two of them to shut up. Then he looked at Zhao Mai: "Presumably you are the dragon roaring Mike." Are you loud enough to know you're capable of blowing the horn?"

"It depends on what the horn is. Zhao Mai replied.

"A horn that can bring down the Great Wall. Mance Rader struck first, and then he reached out and made a gesture of invitation: "Come on, take a look in my tent." ”

They didn't say a word all the way to the tent area. It's a typical savage camp, with campfires and urinals set up as you like, and children, dogs, goats and pigs running around together. The women were packing up the horseskins and hanging them to dry. Others were boiling horse meat, bones, offal, and chunks of meat mixed together, gray foam rising above the boiling water.

It was a three-nil camp with no planning, no order, no defense, full of men, women and animals. If you have a cavalry, you can take this place away. Unfortunately, Jon thought to himself, the Night's Watch had no cavalry.

They wore through. Except for the person with the injured eye, who was still busy with himself, everyone else stopped to look at them. They were all looking at my black clothes, Jon thought to himself, and this black clothes had killed countless of their relatives and friends and children for thousands of years. Jon tried to keep his demeanor, he now represented the Night's Watch, who had not lost a battle with the Wildlings so far, not once, and he had to look accordingly.

Mance set up his tent a little higher, at least to avoid the dirt that flowed across the ground. As he walked, he said to Jon, "You must have thought it wasn't good when you saw our camp. Your black castle isn't good either. Through the eyes of an eagle, we can see clearly. We know how small your men are, even with reinforcements, not enough for one hundred and fifty. We know that your supplies are dwindling, that you have lost the ladders, and that you can't get much up and down in iron cages. The entire Great Wall is full of loopholes except for the Black Castle. We know that, and you know now that we know. He opened the tent door: "Please come in, the rest wait outside." ”

"What, even me?" said Tormond.

"Especially you. Consistently talkative. ”

It was warm in the house. Mance's wife was in the tent when she was about to give birth, and her sister was taking care of her. Zhao Mai looked at their situation, stretched out his right hand, and used his psychic ability to condense a potion full of natural force. "For pregnant women, it can make the birth go more smoothly. ”

"It worked so well that I used it to revive Ygritte. Jon said.

Mance looked at the potion with puzzled eyes, slowly reached out and picked it up and tossed it to his wife: "Dana, I don't think it's a big problem, but you have to make up your mind in the end. ”

Dana's face was pale and sweating, "I can bear the pain. Through these pains, our children will be strong enough to carry through this winter. ”

"Free woman. Mance said. He walked to the corner of the tent, where many weapons were stacked, daggers, swords, javelins, axes, longbows, and many arrows. Mance lifted a gray cloth, and a large black horn lay underneath.

"Wow, it's so beautiful!" Zhao Maidu sighed. The twisted lines of the horn are two and a half meters long, and the opening part can be tucked into the forearm vertically, and the hand can be easily straightened. In the opening and blowing mouth, the horn is inlaid with gold. The ancient gold was carved with runes, which had faded to brown because of age.

"This is the trumpet of winter, which Joman, the king of the Outer Fortresses, once sounded and awakened the giants of the earth. Mance said.

"On that occasion, he awakened the giant to fight against the Night King and his wives of the Stranger. That time he teamed up with the Night's Watch and the Stark family of the North. Jon said, "If this is the horn, then it came at the right time." ”

"You're not a Stark, you're a Snow. But you are a night watchman. Mance said, "This horn can also bring the Great Wall down, remember." ”

"Ygritte said you've been looking for it, but you haven't been able to find it. Jon said.

"You think you're the only raven who lies?" said Mance, "I was also a night watchman, and I know how demagogic that oath is. I never fully trusted you, and my trust was something to earn. ”

Jon asked, "Are you really sure this is Joman's trumpet? Why not? You send battering rams, you send giants, you send countless people to sacrifice their lives, but just blow it, and everything will be solved?"

"He can't blow it. Zhao Mai said: "You may be able to make a sound, but you can't wake up the giants and blow down the Great Wall." You don't have real mana. ”

"And you have, don't you?" asked Mance.

"yes, I feel like I can really blow it. Zhao Mai nodded: "This is indeed a powerful magic weapon, and there is basically no doubt about summoning giants, but I really can't see any runes that say that it can destroy the Great Wall." ”

"The Great Wall was built by Brandon, the Giant, the Son of the Forest, and the Builder, and the Giants could destroy it. Mance said, "I just need to know that the horn is real." Even if you don't help, I can always find someone who can blow it. ”

"People are choked, but ghosts can. Zhao Mai said: "If you can't cross the Great Wall, and a ghost comes, you will use this horn for a chance to live, won't you?"

Mance turned pale and nodded slowly, heavily: "That's a tiger skin, but I can't watch my people become corpses; If I fail at the Great Wall, I will have to survive in defeat. He rubbed his hand along the curves of the trumpet, "We freedmen need a place where we can withstand winter and the gods of winter, and we know that the only thing that can do so is the Great Wall." How could I use it if it wasn't in case? And I didn't expect you old and sick to be so tenacious! But don't think you can stop us. We can keep on the offensive all the time, and then draw out 10,000 or 20,000 men and start to climb up from all over the place, or even take a boat to cross the sea from the dangerous storm glacier and bypass the Great Wall and attack Donghaiwang. I've lived in the Shadow Tower for twenty years, and my milk teeth, my human teeth, and my dentures were all obtained in the Shadow Tower, and I know everything there, don't think I can't attack it. Moreover, I can do all of these things at the same time. ”

"Then why didn't you do that?" Jon hadn't figured it out, he hadn't figured it out when he was defending the Wall. But at the moment when he asked the question, he had already thought of the answer.

"Yes, I'm going to win, but I'm going to bleed. My people have shed enough blood that we can't stand the ghosts anymore. The previous kings of the outside wanted the warm land of the south, and they were the wolves and bears of the north. I'm different, I'm just a rabbit running away with my tail between my legs, and I want to hide behind the Wall. My men, some of them are bent on blowing the trumpet. ”

"Yes...... Once the Great Wall falls," said Dana, "what else will stop the Strangers?" ”

"A wise queen. "Your children will be just as smart." ”

Mance smiled softly and said, "Night's watchman, I want you to open the gates for us to pass through. If I do, I will hand over the trumpet, and the Great Wall will stand forever until the end of the world. ”

It seems easy to say, open the gates and let them through. And then, tens of thousands of wildlings come to the North, many of them cannibals, what will they do? Ransack the North, steal the daughters of White Harbor, take the wives of Deepwood, and kill the sons of Winterfell?" "You say you are the king of the Outer Frontiers, can you control your subjects?" Jon asked, "If I let your people through, would you have the power to restrain them to keep the peace of the kingdom and obey the law?"

"The law, Winterfell or King's Landing?" Mance said with a wry smile, "If we need the law, we'll decide it ourselves." We are free people, you keep your decrees and taxes, and we give only the trumpet, not freedom. We're not going to kneel. ”

"What if we refuse?" Jon always knew what Mance Red was up to.

"If you refuse, in three days I will have Tormund blow the trumpet of winter. If he can't, then I'll let every wild man try, even the stranger. Don't try to destroy the horn, it's indestructible, not even a steel sword can leave any nicks. ”

"If you don't obey the law, you'll only make the North chaotic, and you won't have the strength to defend the Great Wall!" Jon said, "How long do you think you can hide behind the walls without the support of the North?" Do you want your people to continue to fight the knights of the Seven Kingdoms and shed more blood?"

"We are free people, and it is impossible to kneel. Mance looked at Jon and said, "You know ours." ”

"Are you also considered free citizens?" Zhao Mai laughed. He knew that if this continued, Mance Red and Jon would fall apart. In addition to consensus, they also need to have a suitable course of action.

In what was supposed to be a "normal" world, the two sides did not come to an agreement, and Stannis Baratheon killed him, defeated and dispersed the wildlings, captured some of them, forced them to kneel, and then brought some of them south of the Wall. But now, there is still no news from Stannis, so Zhao Mai must find a way to fill this gap immediately. He did have an idea, but it was up to him to see if he could make it happen.

So he said, "You are not free, you are just refugees who have been driven from their homes and have to take refuge in other people's homes." What is the custom in the north, when you go to the master's roof, you have to obey the master's rules, isn't it?"

Mance frowned, he wanted to refute, but he couldn't ignore this sacred tradition. Even Jon "Raven" went to the territory of the savages and followed the habits of the savages. He had been a night watchman, and he knew that when the Night Watch Rangers were in Custer Fortress, they had to abide by this rule even if they didn't like Custer's behavior, even Old Mormont the Bear. Anyone who does not obey will be cursed and die, without exception.

"You say you never kneel, but that's not the case. Zhao Mai said: "You will kneel in front of Yuliangmu, and you will kneel to the ancient gods." So, do you want to see the Children of the Forest, or Brandon the Builders?Can you kneel down to the Old Gods and the earliest ancestors, I can arrange for that. ”

Then, he changed his words: "If you think it's not enough, think that the power of the Ice God is the most powerful, and are willing to kneel to the ghost, I can also arrange it." Don't say you don't kneel, don't say you're really free, let's be realistic, let's follow the rules of the Northlands that everyone can agree on. (To be continued.) )