Iger had many things he wanted to do, but keeping out the strangers was undoubtedly a top priority, a prerequisite for all work and planning.

Melisandre confirmed that she did feel the magic that existed in the Wall, which Egg guessed was mostly from an unknown number of giant fish beams growing beneath the ice walls, and that their presence prevented the hordes of Strangers and the Dead from launching a direct assault.

But the magic of the Wall, though vast and majestic, is scattered over a distance of at least a hundred leagues in length and of unknown height and width, and its effectiveness is greatly diluted by spatial scales, and its intensity seems to remain constant, and the night watchmen do not know how to manipulate or enhance this power.

However, the power of the "Rahlo's old enemy" in the mouth of the red-robed woman, that is, the aura of ice magic that permeates the heavens and the earth, is increasing more and more as the temperature drops, and the change range does not even slow down. This undoubtedly means that the Wraiths are getting stronger, and the effect can be extended to the Ghouls as well - one day, the Great Wall's repelling effect will not be able to suppress the Wraiths' determination to go south.

And the most disturbing thing is that no one knows when this time will come.

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The Rangers' patrols have long since ceased, but the Night's Watch now has the shapeshifters who can control birds. As soon as Iger became commander-in-chief, he ordered the Transfigurees to come to the Great Wall and conduct aerial reconnaissance outside the walls.

Soon after returning to Houguan Town, the results of the reconnaissance gradually returned to him from the various fortresses.

It was no accident that Jon Royce's adventurous off-wall delivery half a month earlier was completed safely—the shapeshifters did their best to control the animals to scout into the distance, but there was not the slightest trace of the dead army or the strange spirits within ten miles of the Great Wall.

Either they're hiding under the snow, or they're really not near the Wall.

What the hell are the strangers waiting for?

Or maybe it's another possibility—they're not waiting for anything, but planning something bigger out of sight of the night watchman?

......

Most of the area connecting the Land of Eternal Winter and the Seven Kingdoms is separated by the Great Wall, but at the westernmost point there is a Grand Canyon and the mouth of the Ruhe River that divides the Frost and Snow Fang Mountains!

This glaring "loophole" is certainly impossible to ignore, and Iger asks the Shadow Tower to conduct a high-density patrol of the southern side of the Grand Canyon, which undoubtedly requires a lot of manpower. Therefore, while Houguan Town racked his brains to build, he also had to constantly think of additional troops to support the western end of the Great Wall.

And the reality can't make him devote himself to his work - Houguan Town seems to have become a concentration camp for land-giving non-ordinary people, full of troublesome spirits and bad things.

First up is Melisandre.

The priestess of the Lord of Light has moved here with her followers, in the name of Auxiliary Commander-in-Chief. Although it is something that many men covet to have such a stunner witch by her side and secretly communicate with each other from time to time, Iger knows very well - the woman in the red robe has never been "his woman", she just uses her body to stabilize the relationship with her "allies", and by the way, she can also get some fun from it.

It's reassuring to have such a transcendent being in the same camp, but if this person is always muttering something in his ear...... Prophecy...... Heroes born in the boiling sea...... Nonsense about the magic dragon hatched in the stone, that's really annoying. And she took advantage of the convenience of dense personnel to preach in Houguan Town, which did bring little but real interference to the normal work of the logistics department. However, after several attempts, she also grasped the bottom line of the new commander-in-chief's tolerance, and the edge ball became more and more slippery, so that Egger, who "took other people's hands and inserted others to hang soft", couldn't attack at all.

and Jaime and Cersei's two illegitimate sons.

Because of the rules of the aristocratic game, Robert's two "sons" had to wear black clothes if they wanted to save their lives. Tomman is honest and obedient, while Joffrey is completely disobedient, and he spends his days venting his endless grievances at the people and things around him, as he was reduced from prince to night watchman recruit. Without Jaime, Egger could have taken tough measures against him, but he, the new commander-in-chief, still needed the allegiance and obedience of the kingkiller and his loyal westerners, and even more so to give Tywin, who was still alive and well in the west, a few thin faces, and he couldn't beat or scold him, and it took a lot of brains to come up with a barely proper way to deal with it.

Finally, the adoptive brother of the Guardian of the North, Theon Greyjoy.

The Iron Islands boy, who hadn't had time to do anything stupid, certainly didn't know what he was going to do in another timeline, and he felt that he was loyal to the Stark family but ended up with the Great Wall, and Egg took some trouble to talk to him, write him a few attractive blank checks, and arrange a job of "Houguan Town Archery Training" to divert his attention, so that he could settle down.

......

After Egger arranges the above roles, at least he can be out of sight. And the biggest trouble - a girl who refuses to go home even if she dies is really a big head.

The "Land Grant Capital", which is developing rapidly under favorable policies, has become a paradise for the second lady of the Stark family, and she does not walk in Houguan Town on the grounds that the way home is flooded by snow and is difficult to walk, and runs around all day long. One would go to the industrial area to see the workers burn charcoal and smelt copper, and they would be covered in ashes; one would go to the school and abuse the wild men with wooden swords on the training ground with their excellent talent and the teaching of a famous teacher; and then they would go to the warehouse to get obsidian and say that they would also contribute to this war between man and ghost...... In the end, it was natural to toss blindly for a long time and throw away the mess for others to clean up.

Egger had a headache to find that it was probably too long since she had played the role of a teacher to reprimand or really teach her something, and the majesty she had built up in Jun had been lost unconsciously. "Master" slowly began to change from an elder role to an affectionate title for a good friend for Arya...... Gradually, she began to play with the word, and Iger even quickly summed up the experience.

For example, "Master, Master, Master!" several times in a row, urgent, crisp and crisp, often with an excited tone, it must be that she has some new discovery or good idea to share with Egger.

And if "Division~~rot~~" is so loose and weak, dragging a long tail and weird, it probably means that she is bored, and I want Egger to quickly find some way to have fun for her to relieve her boredom.

These are not outrageous, and sometimes the following weird conversations occur between the two:

"Master—Master. ”

"What's wrong again?!"

"It's nothing, I'll call you, hehe. ”

I can't catch up, and it's not good to kill her...... This kind of day lasted for only a few days, and Egger's scalp tingled when he heard the word master.

Fortunately, the unexpected savior appeared in time.

A few weeks after his successful victory as Commander-in-Chief, a team from the Industrial Park of Southern King's Landing arrived to deliver a new batch of supplies and helpers to the Night's Watch, and Iger was pleasantly surprised by the leader.

......

Hearing the news, he rushed to the unloading square at the gate of Houguan Town, and Egger saw at a glance the figure in the crowd who was one size smaller than everyone else. I haven't seen her for a year, and the young girl in the past seems to have fully adapted to the identity of the person in charge of the night watch industry in the south, wearing a black trench coat that is warm but still showing her slender figure, and a pretty face with a little powder and lipstick...... The "black-robed woman" who had just arrived and had just taken off her hood was standing in the venue calmly directing the loading and unloading of supplies, without the appearance of "crowning the town for the first time".

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