Chapter 525: Little Sword Stained with Blood (I)
Messira is too divine.
Arya sighed in her heart, the palm of the hand holding the little sword under her sweated slightly, and her heartbeat began to accelerate sharply: Egg, this bastard, is really as his little sister said - he sent it to the door!
Her ears and hairs stood up, and she imagined herself as a predator—while continuing to cover her sword-holding left hand with her body, the little wolf girl kept her breathing steady like a real wolf, avoiding panting and affecting her senses, trying to sense the every move of the person entering the door without looking back, so as to strike at the best time.
With a slight squeak, the man closed the door and said he wanted to talk to himself. Hehe, they've all entered Winterfell, and they still have the face to see themselves! This guy, if you really think that you can do whatever you want if you have been liked by yourself, because you can be forgiven for anything you do if you sleep with her, then you will treat the wolf as a stupid dog!
(Arya Stark and you have nothing to say, Needle would be happy to open up with you to "talk"!)
There was a rather imposing line in my heart, but unfortunately I couldn't say it, the good news is that at least now there are only two people left in the room, and everything is going according to expectations...... Today, he has to pay for his stupidity and betrayal!
"What's there to talk about, get out. ”
Although she is talking about chasing people, in fact, Arya is secretly accumulating strength to prepare for the most critical blow. With what she knew about Egg, this guy would never run away with a word from herself, but would just stick to it and try to fool herself with her lips - as she had done so many times before. Last night, she was trained by the captain of her own guard to make her realize her own shortcomings: the huge power gap between the girl and the adult man is a huge gap that cannot be made up by a little swordsmanship, Egg may not be as powerful as outsiders think, but after all, he is a ranger, and if he wants to assassinate successfully, the safest plan is to wait for him to approach unalertly and then suddenly attack and stab him by surprise.
She even thought about how to say goodbye to the person she once liked with tears after Yijian went out, but Egger stood by the door and continued to speak several meters away: "Robb is fine, he has been slightly injured, I have sent him back to his original room and arranged for someone to take care of him." ”
Not a single Stark was killed in this battle, which was the bottom line premise of effective communication and the important confidence that Egger dared to enter this room with his bare hands, and he had to throw this out before he dared to continue to get closer.
"Hmph. ”
Arya's heart moved when she heard this, and her hand holding the sword loosened and clenched it again.
The eldest brother may be fine, but that doesn't change the fact that her castle is surrounded, breached, and occupied by the people she has always loved. The negative man is more hateful than the enemy, I don't know how many loyal guards and retainers who watched him grow up were injured or killed in the melee last night, and the initiator actually thought: Robb is okay, he can expose this matter?
Not only did she not lose her anger, but she became more and more angry.
"Do you dare to tell me how many people died in Winterfell last night!"
"Counting the civilians who were trampled to death in the chaos, less than a hundred. Egger took a slow step in the direction of the girl, silently closing the distance by half a meter. Eighty is indeed less than a hundred, but under the attack of the bomb, the number of wounded is actually much higher, and the total casualty figure in the end seems to be large, but at this moment to be honest is obviously a bit out of place: "But Arya, you have to understand - no matter what the number is, it is Luce Burton who really kills them, not my land-giving soldiers. ”
"Do you dare to be shameless again?" Arya said angrily, her trembling voice uncontrollably sharpened, "You ordered an attack on Winterfell, and after you were done, you still want to shirk responsibility by talking nonsense?Even if I was blind before, I am now your captive and hostage, but don't you want to force me to pretend to believe your nonsense...... Get out of my room!"
"You can believe it or not, but I have to finish. Seeing Arya's awkward appearance of being angry but having to sit motionless on the edge of the bed because she held the sword in the bed, Egger's various feelings welled up in his heart. It's a pity that this little girl who once drilled into her bed now wants his life; the bitter thing is that the trouble to this point is basically because she is unwilling to be a night watchman; the relief is that as long as this girl still plans to wait for herself to walk over, she can only sit on the sword and wait if she is vigilant and does not fulfill her wishes......
People can't quarrel when they are sitting, and such a distant confrontation just gives themselves words...... Little by little, she stripped away the hostility and murderous opportunities she had accumulated in her heart.
......
"According to the plan, I was supposed to be on an expedition outside the fortress at this time, chasing down the remnants of the strange spirits outside the desperate Great Wall. The reason why I am here and leave behind my duty is that one day not long ago, I was visited by a secret messenger from the Castle of Terror, and Count Bolton sent me to inform me that the Starks pretended to agree to my request for neutrality in the north, but in fact they were secretly plotting to subvert my command of the Legion and the dominion over the land grant when the main force of the Night's Watch went on an expedition, so that I could not return to the Wall alive......"
"Nonsense. Arya interrupted, "Robb never intended to kill you!"
"Oh, never intended to kill me?" said Egger in a playful tone, letting go of his nervousness. The biting dog doesn't bark, and the little she-wolf who really wants to kill him won't quarrel with him, and his strategy of boiling frogs in warm water has made some progress. He took a step closer and stood at the small round table in the room. "That means that at least he plans to take advantage of my departure north out of the Great Wall to subvert this part of the land grant order?"
The girl realizes that she has slipped her mouth and answers in silence, but at the same time suddenly discovers that it is not only Egg who has deceived everyone, but Robb has also thought about fooling him, but in the end it has not succeeded......
"I didn't believe it at the time, and rejected Bolton's offer to join me in the North, overthrowing the Starks. Iger didn't dwell on the subject, he only quickly and fluently told his improvised, half-truth-and-half-truth story—not trying to convince the girl at once, but only to make her hesitate a little to achieve his goal: "Not only out of trust in Robb's integrity and honesty, but also because, even if it were true, I would have something else to deal with, and I would never be caught." I don't need Burton's support at all, and I don't intend to be used as a sword by him. ”
Arya didn't say anything, not because she had nothing to say, but because she realized that it was really hard to quarrel, and if she yelled a few more times, she would have no strength and accuracy to carry out the final killing stab.
Instead of saying too much and making mistakes, it's better to let him talk nonsense, anyway, even if this bastard says the sky, he will kill him today!
Step by step, Egger stood at the head of the bed, less than two meters away from the girl who was sitting, and finally did not dare to continue approaching: "But then I suddenly realized that since the Bolton family has become unsubordinate, even without my cooperation, they will definitely plot their own tricks against Stark." Perhaps, Robb will take advantage of Robb's army to the north to deal with the Queen and the Night's Watch, and raid the empty Winterfell, and after succeeding, he will attack the north and south, defeating and destroying the Stark family in one fell swoop!"
Although it was nonsense, while lying to Egger, he suddenly realized that he should have expected that Bolton would take other measures, but the opponents he had dealt with before: whether it was the wildlings, the strangers, or other night watch commanders, were really not enough in terms of stratagem and insidiousness, and he was too confident in the results of his own information blockade and the speed of the lightning raid to the south, which led to the dilemma of having to storm Winterfell today.
"I'll be honest with you, what I really thought at the time was: if Burton was lying, then I didn't care about him, and if Robb really reversed his previously agreed promise of neutrality and went to war against the land grants, then the Castle of the Terror took the opportunity to turn the tables in this situation, and your brother paid the price for his own untrustworthiness, and he deserved whatever the consequences. Egger held back his numbness and said in a deep but firm tone: "But, I don't care about everyone in this castle, but there is only one person, who is different from anyone else—that is, my smart, lovely, kind and brave little apprentice." No matter what happens, at least she, I can't leave it alone!"
Her eyes were sore, and tears were almost overflowing, but Arya choked up: "Phew, if you don't bring the Mad King's daughter here, who in the north will have two hearts? It was your allegiance to her that sparked the idea of the Bolton family, and it was you who came to take over Winterfell, killed the people of the north, and broke into my house, and actually ...... And the face said it was for me!"
If Daenerys is not brought in, the north is now a corpse...... No, there are ghouls everywhere, and he, the commander-in-chief of the night watch, must be more than lucky, why is it still wrong?
Egger had the intention of telling the girl that it would be difficult for the Night's Watch to win that battle without Daenerys' help, and tried to fool her into saying that he supported the Queen because he supported her to unite the Seven Kingdoms and build a powerful kingdom of Westeros, so as to ensure that the Night's Watch would have strong support from the King's government in the event of the next attack by the Wraiths, not just from the North......
But a bunch of nonsense swirled around in his throat, and he finally swallowed it.
Under her repeated hints, the little she-wolf seems to have a little belief in Bolton's rebellion, but when she mentions the Mad King's daughter, she is actually more concerned that she is an enemy of the Stark family for another woman, but he can't think of an excuse at this point.
"Arya, I can't say too much fleshy talk, but you see—I'm here at the moment, with you and not with the Queen, and who I care more about, can't you tell? ”
The heat eventually gushed out tear ducts and filled her eyes, but not because she was moved, but because she was wronged: she really hoped that Egger was telling the truth, but a voice in her heart told her that it was just another rhetoric made up by a stinky man to stabilize her and re-woo her family. I don't know if I sensed the danger, Egger came a few steps away but stood still and didn't come closer, he should have continued to wait for the best time to do it, but the truth is: let this guy go on talking, he can't help but believe him.
"With me, but for her!"
Arya screamed, and before the tears fell, she swished — pulling out the sewing needle from under the quilt in a flash of lightning.
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