The Night's Watch disarmed and led the Grey-robed guard who had informed them of the Red Keep. But instead of making it to the Prime Minister's Tower, as Iger had expected, the group stopped at a small square on the road leading to Megar Tower, where Eddard Stark was waiting for them.

As Prime Minister, Ed has a lot of important things to do today, and in order to save time, it is nothing to deign to leave the office. Hopefully, the Night's Watch who claimed to have brought him a "ghoul" weren't joking, otherwise, Eddard Stark would be willing to tell them that he had a temper too.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister. The night watchmen greeted the hand of the king, who had come out to receive him himself.

Ed nodded, and instead of responding to the greeting, he walked straight to the reinforced wooden cage on the carriage and observed the objects inside.

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Ghouls don't know what exhaustion is, and they don't know how to stratagon without the command of a ghost...... It always cooperated with all its strength to pounce on the nearest living creature with body temperature, roaring and sparing no effort to make the whole carriage tremble, but fortunately the cage was fixed with a rope, and it was an old horse that pulled the cart too steadily...... Otherwise, on the way from Linhemen to the Red Fort, they don't know how many times they have to overturn.

"Is this a ghoul?" Eddard Stark is also a human, one of the few people born into a high-ranking nobleman, educated, critical and skeptical in the world of Fire and Ice, and he quickly developed the same doubts as Tyrion had before: "I think this is like a sick madman." ”

This question can be easily solved, as long as a random person performs the "ghoul examination" scene before entering the door, but now the weapons of the night watchmen have been confiscated.

Fortunately, the guard who watched the play outside the door was still there: "My lord, the brothers in black have demonstrated outside the door just now, this person ...... Can't be killed. ”

Ed is a man of action, he didn't talk nonsense, he reached for the guard's steel sword, held it in his hand and stared at several night watchmen: "If I stab this person with a sword......"

"Leave it to your lordship. ”

(If this thing is still alive in front of you, it would be a mercy to kill him.) Eddard Stark thought so, and without much hesitation, he found the location of the ghoul's heart through the cage and stabbed it with precision.

The white knife entered, the white knife came out, simply and quickly, and there was only some oily translucent viscous liquid on the blade, with an unpleasant smell, I don't know what substance.

Eddard Stark looked at the steel sword in his hand, and then at the human form that was still alive in the cage, and after waiting for half a minute, he didn't see the slightest appearance of "death", and his face, which had been bitter and hateful all day, became more and more gloomy, and he stood motionless, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Maybe there is some disease in the world that can make people immortal by the sword, but ghouls have a trait that a living person can never have. Elisha chased after and added, "Your Excellency can cut off one of his arms." ”

"Chop off an arm?"

"You can cut anything, even if it's your head, and you can continue to move without your body until it's completely rotten. "But it's easiest to cut off your arm, and it's right outside the cage...... One for the Prime Minister and one for King Robert. ”

Without further ado, Ed raised his steel sword and slashed down at the outstretched arms of the ghoul at the edge of the cage. The people of the North, who claim to be descendants of their ancestors, believe that those sentenced to death must do it themselves, and as the guardian of the North, Ed is quite skilled at cutting people...... He struck with the same cleanness as an executioner's execution, and one of the ghoul's arms fell to the ground with a thud.

He handed the sword back to his guards, and bent down to take the severed arm that had fallen to the ground in his hand. The amputated limb seemed to be unaware that it had left its main body, and it continued to bend its fingers to grasp the air, and the scene was extremely strange.

Ed has been on the battlefield, and he has seen a lot of stumps and broken arms, and there are limbs that can still move after leaving the torso, but they are generally only twitch-like weak reflex movements, at least they will never make reciprocating, powerful and complete like the current part of his hand...... It even feels as if there is a purposeful grip.

He had never grasped a piece of "living creature" like this, and accidentally let the palm of the severed arm grab the arm, and shook it a few times without shaking it off, so frightened that another guard quickly pulled out a dagger and pried open the five fingers of the corpse's hand, pulling the severed arm away from Ed's body.

It's not thrilling, but Eddard Stark's face has become extremely ugly.

"This is the ghouls, north of the Great Wall, in thousands?" Eddard turned blue, and immediately thought of the same thing that his soldiers were thinking - the northern border was the closest to the outside of the Seven Kingdoms, and was facing a direct threat from this ghost. "Why haven't you found it after so many years of Night's Watch Ranger patrols?"

"They've only started to emerge in the last year, right after the appearance of the stranger. "The most troublesome thing is that large animals can also become ghouls. Now, as long as every one more person, a wolf, and a bear die north of the Great Wall...... There is only one more thing in the number of this. ”

Faced with the ironclad evidence in front of him, Ed didn't dare to ignore it anymore, but became serious for the first time: "Isn't this thing completely impossible to kill, and the night watchman hasn't found a way to deal with it?"

"There is a way. Probably due to the presence of this 'corpse oil' stained on the sword, the ghoul is very flammable, and once it is lit, it will burn out in a very short time, and it will naturally die. So, fire is the best weapon against ghouls. "But the same tactics have not worked against another kind of enemy, the Wraith, and Egger has reported that he killed an Wraith with an obsidian dagger, which was later confirmed by the Rangers who were involved in capturing the Ghouls—who also succeeded in killing one with a Dragoncrystal Arrow." We later tried to use obsidian against ghouls, and found that it worked, but only with limited effect. ”

Eddard turned his head to look at Egger with a complicated look: ever since the stranger had followed Bunyan to Winterfell and claimed to have killed a stranger, he had the impression that he was a slippery man full of lies. Although with the follow-up understanding, I gradually found that this is actually a flexible mind and a capable person who is very good at doing things...... But deep down, I still believe that this is a guy who must not be completely trusted.

Could it be that he was wrong from the beginning, this kid is really a "ghost killer"?

......

"It's limited? What does that mean. Iger interjected and asked, "Can Obsidian kill the ghouls?"

"Yes, but only if you hit the nail on the head...... The problem is, we don't know exactly where the ghouls are. Domi also took over the conversation, he had gone out of the wall to face the ghouls, and had the right to speak: "Just from the analysis of actual combat examples, hitting the head and chest can generally kill." However, the Rangers of Castle Black have reported that after the giant or other large animal ghoul is ghosted, it cannot be killed quickly if it hits the head and chest. In addition, ghouls led by strangers are more difficult to kill than wandering ones...... Rockets, on the other hand, are usually the most effective weapon against ghouls, usually killing with a single shot. ”

"But rockets are not like dragon crystal arrows, so you can't prepare in advance. After igniting the fire, you have to wait for the torch arrow to heat up, otherwise it will be extinguished immediately...... It doesn't matter if you defend the city, it's simply not realistic to go out of the wall to fight in the field. Elisha shrugged her shoulders and took out a letter from her body: "This is Mormont's handwritten letter to Your Excellency and Your Majesty, instructing me to hand it over after you have seen the ghouls, in case the letter is delivered by ravens, because the Bachelor does not believe in the existence of ghouls and strangers. ”

Ed took the handwritten letter from Mormont and looked at it with a frown.

As the Prime Minister began to read the letter, Jacquin asked Eddard's guard if he wanted the severed arm, which was still moving, and looked at it with a look of disbelief in front of him, while Iger pondered in the silence.

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Obsidian is effective against ghouls, but the killing effect is not ideal?Egg frowned suspiciously, due to the incident last night, he rushed directly to the Red Keep after connecting with the ghoul escort team in the morning, and he and Alyssa had never communicated with each other, so he only knew this information...... He struggled to recall the information he had spoken to Melisandre about the Stranger while on Dragonstone.

The Wraith's body is almost entirely magical, which makes them unafraid of physical attacks, while the only physical body makes them immune to fire magic that is not strong enough...... And what about the ghouls?

Iger had already thought about it. Ghouls were not created by the Night King, but were more like they were pulled back up by necromancy and turned into biochemical weapons, and their forms of existence are exactly the opposite extremes of the Aliens - almost entirely made of entities, or corpses, but invaded and controlled by a trace of ice magic or necromancy, thus forming a connection with the Aliens and becoming loyal subordinates of the latter.

Ghouls have no point of interest, but the Night Watch will have the feeling that "obsidian weapons can sometimes kill ghouls when they hit key points", and unless the ghouls are going to play dead, it is definitely not the damage caused by the obsidian itself...... Eggers thought about it, but came up with only one reasonable explanation: it was the fire magic contained in the obsidian weapon that hit the so-called "vital point", which happened to neutralize or dispel the wisp of evil magic that made the corpse a ghoul, and destroyed its connection with the god of cold or the Night King, resulting in the phenomenon that "obsidian weapons can kill ghouls"!

As for why the ghouls who are larger and led by the strangers are not easy to kill by obsidian - it may be that the large ghouls contain more mana in their bodies, and the ghouls around the strangers are constantly replenished by energy from the strangers around them, resulting in the micro-mana contained in the dragon crystal is not enough at all.

The above is just speculation, what is going on, I'm afraid only the Night King and even the "Cold God" know...... But Egger thought about it and suddenly a strange thing happened: if his guess was right, two new questions arose—first, could this ghoul captive, who had been far away from the Land of Eternal Winter and the Wraiths, face the possibility of returning into a corpse at any time when the ice magic in his body was exhausted?

Just as he was in shock, a neutral male voice came from far and near, and Barristan walked over with an anxious face: "Ed, I've been looking for you for a while, what are you doing here?"

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