As far as the eye can see, everything is covered in silver.

Hull, deck, mast ...... They were all covered with frost, the sea, the people who fell into the water, and the debris that the wind blew...... All of them are frozen in ice. Even the cold wind that was originally howling turned into a gentle breeze as if all its strength had been drained by the strange storm just now.

The chunk of ice that had been trying to be dragged away a moment ago was now the only thing in view that seemed normal - at least it was flat. Elsewhere, the surface of the ocean was frozen into ripples in this intense but swift storm – yes, the surface of the sea was blown by the wind and then quickly dethermogenated and frozen in the extreme cold, resulting in this wonderful and rare state.

Jon felt like he was in the middle of a huge, wrinkled white blanket, but it was clear: the blanket was much softer than ice, and it was impossible to get the ship stuck in it.

The flagship of the de-icing fleet, his own mermaid, probably because of its early orientation adjustment and heavy enough, was able to avoid capsizing in this epic storm, and only rolled sideways and stuck on the ice at a small angle, like a snow-carved ship model embedded in a white marble table. But the rest of the ships were not so lucky: the Blackbird stood on the ice head-on-top like a candle stuck diagonally in the snow, and the lower part of the ship was already frozen in the ice; the Eel" turned over and buckled upside down in the ice, and the upper part of the hull was frozen in the ice; and the Talon and the Raven, two small open-air oars, capsized and frozen, with no more than half of them alive, including the soldiers who had not had time to escape into the cabin......

At least a few dozen figures were scattered in a narrow strip of land hundreds of meters from north to south...... Some were frozen in the ice, some were blown away by the wind and smashed on the ice, and none of them could still move, and they all became the first victims of this sudden disaster, the first victims of this grand song of ice and fire.

With just a gust of wind, half of the hundreds of personnel of the de-icing team were lost in an instant. Only those who take refuge in the cabin and close the door when the wind blows will survive the storm and the cold wave that can freeze the sea in an instant!

Shocked, there was a noise behind him, and the rest of the living people on the same boat also got out of the cabin one by one with their heads covered, and looked at the whole world in front of them in a daze, like a ghost.

"Don't stand stupid!" Jonn also came back to his senses at this time, and shouted to catch the soldiers' thoughts: "This storm is coming strangely, most of it is a trick made by strange ghosts, the enemy may have been coming on the ice, and there is not much time left for us!

After some scrambling, the Mermaid found nine bodies frozen to death by the cold wave because they were unlucky enough to be hit by furniture and the door was not closed in the storm...... The corpses of the strange causes, the six seriously wounded who were no longer able to move, the missing people who were missing, and the twenty-three lucky ones who were basically unharmed.

After some trial and approval that the ice was thick enough to move freely without fear of falling into the water, Jon began to give orders to distribute the work: the living who could move freely were divided into three groups—two were responsible for dragging the dead who were not frozen in the ice together and burning them as much as possible, one of the six lightly wounded was responsible for dragging the seriously injured back to the East Sea with an improvised sled, and the remaining fifteen, with the commander, walked with various tools to the other two sailboats that could still have living people, ready to rescue the robe.

The assistance to the Blackbird in the ice went well: most of the survivors were able to climb out on their own, and even the stern compartment frozen in the ice was alive - they were lucky: the icy waters froze so quickly under the effect of the cold wave that they didn't even have time to pour into the cabin through the cracks in the door and drown. Rescuers outside can only chisel through the ice and smash open the jammed door panel to get the person out.

Every time a group of seriously wounded people came out, Jon sent the same number of lightly wounded back to Donghai Wang, and after dozens of minutes of busyness, all the living people on the Blackbird were rescued.

But the Eel, which was caught upside down in the ice, stumped everyone: the opening of the cabin was completely sealed under the ice, and the only way to save people was to chisel open the hull. However, this brand-new warship donated to the Great Wall by White Harbor, the hull is made of thick and solid fine wood, and it is covered by a thin layer of ice, which is cold and hard, how can it be so easy to destroy?

......

With the small number of wildfires carried with the ship, the burning of the bodies was barely carried out, but the progress of the shipwrecked rescue was stuck on the upside-down wooden coffin. As the sky turned dark, tension and fear pervaded—the thought that the ghouls might be coming on the ice strained the nerves of the exhausted crowd after the boat was dug in turn, and this tension finally stretched to the limit and broke completely as the ice beneath their feet shook more and more clearly.

"My lord, in a few moments, we will be overwhelmed by the tide of corpses, the brothers in the boat are safe for the time being, let's go!"

"Yes, if we are chased and killed by strange ghosts, the brothers of Donghaiwang will have dozens of more enemies, even if we consider the safety of the people of the Seven Kingdoms, we should not continue to be heroes!"

"Stuff the tools to the brothers in the boat and let them ask for more blessings, we can't suffer any more losses, my lord, it's too late to go back to the East China Sea!"

"Damn it......" Looking at the hull of the ship, which was already half-chiseled and could break through the hole in another ten minutes, Jon gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, and finally gave up: "No, hold on a little longer, there are a dozen brothers in the boat! The two who have nothing to do - take the horn, go to the north to guard everyone, and when you see the dead man, blow it immediately, and then we will withdraw!"

The two who were pointed stood in place, looked at each other and did not take a step, and neither of them would take such a big risk to save the dozen brothers who were still in the boat.

"Go, just blow the trumpet, don't you stop you!"

Jon glared angrily at the two disobedient soldiers, and shouted loudly, gradually using the majesty that he had cultivated for a long time as the "Earl of Runestone City" to force them to start shaking, but the next second no one expected - in a muffled "bang", the commander of the de-icing team fell headlong and fell from the hull of the ship, and the blood flowing from the back of his head instantly merged on the ice and froze into red crystals.

Zit, who had killed Jon with a single hit, threw away the blood-stained hammer in his hand, and the boils on his face seemed to turn red with anger, and he slid down the curve of the bottom of the ship to the ice, and spat at Jon Royce, who was lying on the ground: "The old thing who doesn't know whether to live or die, he was exiled here because he offended the commander-in-chief, and he dares to act as a threat to his brothers? Everyone remember, he fell to his death because he accidentally slipped and fell! If you have an opinion, come and fight it alone, and if you have no opinion, throw it away quickly and run away!"

The soldiers, who were still trapped inside the ship, sensed the movement outside, shouted desperately and knocked on the hull...... But the dozen or so remaining Night's Watch soldiers looked at me and I looked at you with frightened eyes, and the fear of the unknown and death finally prevailed over courage and a sense of justice—and no one said a word, and all the survivors obediently threw down their tools and ran towards the East China Sea a few miles to the southwest.

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The harbor fortress is also in chaos at the moment. With the obstruction of the Great Wall extending nearly a mile into the sea, the terrifying storm naturally did not directly hit the fortress, but a sentry who was carelessly blown down from the top of the Great Wall and smashed on the field in the middle of the fortress was instantly frozen to the surface of the ocean where there was no end in sight...... After the trebuchet on the top of the Great Wall tried to drop a hundred-pound boulder without breaking the ice, everyone realized that the decisive battle that they had been "thinking about" for several months broke out suddenly and inadvertently.

Three horns sounded, and the new landgoers who lived around the fort flocked to the fort. Pike roared in a thunderous voice, and everyone went about their job according to the plan: anyone who had the strength to pick up a spear or wield an axe had to take part in the defense, wildfires and asphalt barrels were pulled out of the warehouse and transported to the city walls, dragon crystal weapons were dragged out and piled up in a prominent position in the center of the school yard and distributed to each of the soldiers who had been formed, and rows of obstacles were piled up in the fortress as if they were under his command—sawn firewood, hardened stakes, and sacks of grain......

Thanks to these arrangements, even if the enemy breached the wall, the night watchmen still had the opportunity to light the wall of fire and engage in several rounds of desperate street fighting, in order to guard the huge zigzag wooden staircase used to climb the Wall, and to buy time for the old and young to go up the wall to evacuate and destroy the ladder of the people who were broken.

With the full cooperation of commanders at all levels, Donghaiwang quickly switched to the final state of battle, but in this chaotic situation, there was a group of people who felt helpless - the book collection team that had arrived at the Great Wall on the same day at Daenerys' orders.

They had planned to rest all night in Donghaiwang, and the next morning they rushed to Houguan Town to meet their queen, but no one expected that they would "coincide" with the attack of strange ghosts, and the soldiers of the Unsullied and Free Militia were naturally not in the defense plan, and no one came to tell them what to do in this chaotic preparation situation, so they had to gather together in the whole team under the order of the commander, and stood in the courtyard and waited.

And among them, the red-robed monk Machiro is the most confused one.

From the fire communication with Melisandre while on the ship, he had learned the good news that the plan had worked, that the queen had been tricked into giving land and being retained, and that the ship he was on had arrived at the Wall today—while both himself and Daenerys had come to the front and the prophecy was fulfilled, the Lord of Light's old enemy suddenly launched an attack ahead of schedule, forcing a final battle before his own strength was at its peak.

Either the being had a brain glitch and knew that it was impossible to win, so he gave up on himself, or somewhere in the world, a sudden change occurred that he didn't know about, and the enemy didn't hesitate to waste his magic and start attacking early.

After retiring from the house and casting a spell on the brazier alone to get in touch with Melisandre, he soon learned the bad news from the other party - in the afternoon, the queen who learned that she had arrived in the East Sea by boat suddenly decided to go back to the south, and after a short conversation with the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, she left directly, and when she found that the situation was wrong, she had already taken off and left Houguan Town, and Melisandre did not even have time to stop her!

This little queen is not at all worry-free!

Macchiro immediately left the brazier, collected his nervousness and regained his composure, and then left the house to find the crow keeper who accompanied the team: "Tie all the crows with the 'news that the strange ghost is attacking and need the support of the magic dragon', and release them all!"

As the letters had already been written, the crows flew out of the fortress with flapping their wings - these selected and well-trained creatures were so strong in strength and eyesight that they could fly back to the crow's nest in King's Territory and Dragonstone Island in just one day, and the flapping of their wings was accompanied by a short trumpet sound from the eastern fortress wall: the last surviving soldiers of the de-icing fleet also fled on foot from the ice back to Donghaiwang, demanding to open the door and enter.

Carter Pike led people to block the new group of people entering the city, and soon found that Royce was not there, but now that everyone was under threat, he really didn't have time to ask the whereabouts of only one nobleman's subordinate: "Is there anyone behind, do you see what's going on?"

"It's us, the dead! the dead are ...... It's less than a mile behind us......! Close the door!"

Commander Donghaiwang waved away the surviving sailors who had almost run away, and turned his head to look at the chief affairs officer of the fortress: "What about the Longjing bomb? It's the round thing that was transported from Houguan Town two days ago, and it was pulled over by Lao Tzu......! And those Valyrian steel arrows in my room, some bullshit Lightbringer, bring them too!Imet?Ain Imet! Pick three of the best archers from your men, follow me all the way, and if you find any trace of the ghost, shoot the fuck!"

"It's coming! It's coming!"

"Oh my God...... Seven gods bless!"

As the final arrangements were being made, the soldiers on the eastern wall shouted one after another, nervous roars and trilled prayers suddenly converged - although the sky was completely dark, the tide of corpses came from the sea, and against the backdrop of the white ice, the black sea of ghouls was more conspicuous and conspicuous, not to mention the rumbling sound of thousands of them!

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