Iger swallowed.

Bran spoke exactly what Luce Bolton had whispered to himself that night in Deeplimburg, and to be honest...... Even if he's mentally prepared, it's still a little creepy — and that's not entirely bad, at least he doesn't need acting skills to make a really shocked face now.

Of course, it's just a surprise, I didn't really plot with the old skinner to overthrow the Stark family, and I can't talk about it...... Whether it's this inexplicable phrase "Leave opportunities for those who are prepared" or the later gratitude to himself for "taking care of the Starks", they are actually doing the same thing - proving to Iger that he can see everything.

Iger didn't need to prove it, he knew what he was capable of better than anyone else in the world except the Green Prophet himself.

"Very well, then ......" the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch pretended to swallow nervously, and made a convincing serious expression, "Please tell me where the strangers are now, and what kind of conspiracy are they planning?"

"We'll get to that later, but before that, we'll have to settle a little bit personally. ”

The boy sat up straight from the chair, his expressionless face began to show some seriousness—seeing this, Egger also straightened up from the back of the chair, tensed his muscles vigilantly, and touched his hand to his waist......

Reason told him that the Green Prophet could never deal with him by face-to-face combat, but the soldier's instinct was uncontrollable.

"I don't know where you came from, by whom, or for what purpose. While it would be interesting to study how and how you suddenly appeared, now is not the time...... I would love to believe that you are a hero sent by Heaven to save mankind, but unfortunately in some people's stories, I am Heaven—no one knows better than me that there is no God in the world. The only thing I know for sure about you is that for a reason that you probably can't explain to me, you seem to know a lot of things you shouldn't know, and you have a lot of knowledge far beyond this world. Bran said in an obviously immature voice, "So mysterious, wise, and erudite Commander-in-Chief, you might as well think about this question: Is I a Brandon Stark who drives Brandon Stark's mutilated body, who remembers everything that happened when I was Brandon Stark, who has all the memories and emotional tendencies of Brandon Stark, who loves my parents, siblings, and close friends as much as Brandon Stark before becoming the Green Prophet?"

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Suddenly, from the exchange of information on the battlefield, it cut to philosophical thinking!?Iger was indeed wondering if this person in front of him was Bran after all, but the Green Prophet didn't seem to have the ability to read minds, right?

He instantly thought of a very classic question: Did Zhuang Zhou become a butterfly in a dream, or did a butterfly become Zhuang Zhou in a dream?

Wait a minute...... It's ridiculous, it's hard enough to think about how to deal with the army of the dead, this kind of mental gymnastics should be left to the idlers to do!Ig quickly decided not to be led by the other party's nose, but the next moment a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately understood the subtext of the other party's words: the Green Prophet was not trying to think about it for himself at all, but was reminding or demonstrating—he couldn't find any way to prove that he was not Bran...... Even, in a way, he is Bran.

Between the older Green Prophet and Brandon Stark, who can say whether the former invaded the latter's body, or the latter gained the memory of the former, or both? What matters now is not to analyze the essence of the Green Prophet's lineage, but to use his abilities first to win this battle of ice and fire!

Looking at the contemplation of the night watchman in front of him, the boy tugged at the corners of his mouth and made a not-so-bright smile: talking to a smart person is to save trouble.

"I don't want your answer, I just want you to understand: I am on the side of the living, that is, the Night's Watch, and can be trusted. ”

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The speed of this conversation was completely beyond Egger's expectations, and he tried hard to hide his inner activities: he was going to pretend to be stupid to hide his identity as a traverser, but the other party was unceremonious, directly revealing his identity and thoughts, and opening the skylight to say something bright.

Bran's actions exceeded all of Egger's predictions, and he couldn't figure out how to respond for a while, so he could only hum, nodded, and continued to stare at the other party, waiting for his next step - although he broke the previous horn, whether Bran could be trusted now depends on his performance. He, Iger West, was able to get from a time-traveler pawn to his current position, but not by virtue of blood and innocence.

"You can think about it when you go back, and for now, let's continue with the topic we just had. The call and a smile seemed to drain the boy's strength, and he fell back into his chair limply, regaining his old limp appearance and sickly tone: "The shapeshifters of the savages are now under your control, you ought to know something about them, right?"

Ho, the channel is jumping so fast, but fortunately, Egger's brain is not sluggish, and he quickly keeps up with the rhythm: "I know a thing or two, what I do know is that the shapeshifters have some kind of talent, and they can control some animals through magic to complete operations such as scouting, carrying, and attacking. ”

"That's pretty much it. Bran glanced at him faintly: "You asked me where the strange ghost is now, and I have always been concerned about this. It was easy to satisfy this curiosity: they were scattered throughout the Shadowy Forest and the Lands of Eternal Winter, searching for still useful corpses in their area of responsibility, attacking and killing living creatures to bolster the ghoul army—one of the reasons why they had been slow to attack the Wall since they awoke. But no matter how big the plug is, there is an end, and after they come together, things get troublesome. ”

The boy sighed like an old man, and then kept his expression as if he were regaining his strength for a moment before he spoke again: "It starts with the way I see the world. I can see everything, but it's not the same thing as 'knowing everything directly'. I wanted to know the truth about something, either by knowing exactly when and where it happened, and then going back to the time and place through magic, spiritually, or, like a shapeshifter, controlling a creature and staring at the person or thing it was trying to track. But when the Wraiths finished preparing for battle and began to move south, I discovered that one of them had a special being who played the role of 'commander' or 'king' - the legendary Night King - with the ability to counter my surveillance. Whether I was possessed by a living creature approaching, or peering out of thin air through magic, he would quickly spot and interrupt me. Not only that, but the Night King was able to reverse my discovery in an unbelievable way, causing irreparable damage to my body and spirit...... After several losses, now I can only tell the general direction of the ghosts, and I don't dare to easily try to pinpoint the location. ”

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Regarding the principle of the Green Prophet's "omniscient" ability, Iger has actually speculated and conjectured for a long time:

The space-time system composed of this magical plant is like a monitoring network all over the place where it grows, recording and archiving everything that happened in the past and present within the "field of vision". The ability of the Green Prophet is to penetrate into this network with the spirit and realize the knowledge of the past and what is happening like "retrieving monitoring records".

Yet, no matter how inexplicable this miraculous talent may be, the brains of the Green Prophets, the limits of human physiology, lie there: they are like lone staff members left behind in a surveillance center, confronted with an entire wall of astronomical information, only to pick and select a fraction of it. What the Green Prophet wanted to know and investigated, he could find out thoroughly, but if he had not touched or heard of people or food at all, he would not be able to do anything.

The all-seeing ability is indeed extremely strong, but it is also very limited: the Green Prophet must first know or have a strong enough connection with one thing before he can go down the ladder and explore more - for example, if Iger hadn't tried to stop Little Bran's fall under the main castle of Winterfell three years ago, and three years later he didn't return to the land grant and took control of the Night's Watch Legion and carried out drastic reforms, thus becoming the supreme commander of the living against death...... Most of the Green Prophets would not have thought of it until the end of the world...... Look through the origin and life of an ordinary night watchman, and find that he has appeared out of thin air and his identity is a mystery.

The world is like a large strategy game without a small map for the Green Prophet, although all the pictures are interjected and the whole picture is recorded, but at the same moment, the player can only see a small piece of the screen framed. If the Green Prophet wants to deal with the Strangers and the Dead, he must focus on the Great Wall and its north face, and never have the heart to turn his head every now and then to peek at others, especially allies...... See if Egger, the traverser, or the others are thinking about themselves.

Egger is certainly guarding against Bran, who may no longer be Bran, and the Green Prophet is not even more afraid of him, a mysterious outsider, but now is not a good time to be suspicious and wary of each other, the final battle is just around the corner, if the big thing is ruined because of inconsequential details, who should be counted?

Like Sir Dennis Mellister, the big picture is the reason why Bran, or the new Green Prophet, is here today, openly discussing occult issues with Iger in order to gain mutual trust!

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Egger nodded casually, but his mind was spinning rapidly: even a casual word from this transcendent being could reveal a huge amount of information. Bran's explanation at least confirms his own assumption that the Green Prophet's ability is not directly omniscient, but conditionally "all-seeing".

Since speculation and explanation do not contradict each other, he intuitively believed what Bran said. Although what the other party said may be seven points true and three points false, and he does not always follow his instincts, but for a Stark who has abilities that he cannot understand, but has a special identity, and he is not good at thinking crookedly, even if he still has doubts, it is impossible for him to show it to his face: "Okay, Your Excellency Green Prophet, at least you can still roughly judge, better than us - I don't know if it is inconvenient for you to estimate now, where are the strangers at the moment, what are they doing?"

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