Chapter 163: The Day of Chaos (Part II)
It's like a night away. When Egger stepped out of the gate of the Linhemen garrison and onto the street, the world had changed drastically - he was the absolute protagonist of the entire night at Linhemen, the core figure of the round-up and pursuit of the other, but as the farce ended at dawn, he suddenly became a passerby that no one cared about.
From the office of the captain of the riverside garrison barracks, he went down the stairs and walked out of the small building along the aisle, past the training ground in the barracks, until he stepped out of the camp gate and came to the street facing the riverside gate, no one looked at him, no one said a word to him, let alone attacked or assassinated him.
Jaime Lannister came and went as fast as he could, as if he were only there to relieve his brother, countless gold-robed men were running up and down the streets in front of the barracks of the Riverside Garrison, lined up to be counted and returned to their respective stations, and Ser Bywatt, the Iron Hand, was nowhere to be seen, and Iger looked around to find that he was gathering the soldiers of the Riverside.
What is this going to do, do you still have to raid the garrison East Camp? But it doesn't take so many people.
Tyrion stood under the walls of the barracks of the street garrison with a team of young guards and a team of ghouls, making way for the flow of people into the city, which was easily recognizable as the crowd walked around them.
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"Sir Elisha. Although they didn't get along well with each other, after a night of life and death, they could see their own people in a sense, and Egger couldn't help but feel cordial. And as he connected with the ghoul escort team, someone passing by finally noticed him: "I only received the letter a few days ago, I didn't expect you to arrive so soon." ”
A young voice came: "It was originally a fast warship, smooth wind and water, and two groups of more than a dozen people took turns rowing every day, can it not be fast." ”
"Domi!" said Egger with genuine pleasure to high-five the speaker, who had joined Castle Black's recruit training with him, had a good relationship, and had been assigned to the East Sea after graduating from Arishana - the obsidian dagger he had used to kill the strangers had been the original material he had obtained from the merchant who visited the Night's Watch Harbor, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was half his life-saver.
"I heard that this scene is all because of you? Lord Egger is such a man of the art in King's Landing. Alyssa didn't want to see the two little cubs she had taught reminisce, so she interrupted their conversation and said something heavy on the word adult: "What's that on your shoulder, and it's still hanging the lottery?"
"A small injury, not enough to worry about. The wound ached faintly, but Iger looked unconcerned, looked at the members of the ghoul escort team, who were half bare-chested, and realized that he was a landlord, so he had to receive the heroes: "Nina, go and get someone to get twenty sets of black summer clothes......
"Let's talk about this when we're done with business, the most important thing for now is to send the ghoul to the Red Keep before King Robert, if this ghost rots on the last stretch of the road, Mormont won't spare us. ”
It makes sense, and Egger doesn't want to make any more trouble: "Nina, just put the clothes in the office, and divide them when you get back, and I'll go to the Red Keep with Sir Alyssa first." ”
"Yes, sir. ”
Before Slint's henchmen could be cut off, Egg assigned two guards to accompany Nina to the Night's Watch summer clothes, only to find Tyrion whispering his name. When he walked over, he lowered his voice and said, "Egg, the situation is a little wrong, I'll go back to the city now and pack up...... Return to Castle Rock today. ”
"Something is wrong, what did you find?" After a lot of twists and turns, he finally got rid of Slint, he didn't have to die, Tyrion didn't have to change his surname, and it was time to celebrate the successful defeat of the first opponent under the Night's Watch industry, why did he have to run away?
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Avoiding the crowd, Tyrion quickly informed Iger of what Slint said when he was captured, Jory gagged the prisoner, and Jaime's reaction to immediately turning back to the Red Keep...... These things don't have any special significance when viewed individually, but when analyzed together, they are quite problematic.
Could it be that Robert is going to do something to Cersei today, but what does it mean to break Jaime apart at this time, the monarch killer alone can't sweep the Red Keep, let alone Barristan's martial arts are only above him...... Egg's eyes rolled, and he vaguely figured out the ins and outs of the matter, and realized that the situation was really wrong: "Your promise to bring down Slint in three days has been fulfilled, and you can indeed go, go back immediately, don't hesitate." ”
"Well, there are still some things that I haven't explained, I will write them down when I go back to the industrial park, I hope we scare ourselves. ”
"Be careful all the way. ”
"You too, remember to always take the guard squad with you in the city, don't take it lightly. ”
After whispering, saying goodbyes, and exhorting each other, Tyrion said goodbye to Jack and a large group of unarmed security recruits, and walked back to the riverfront gate.
This day finally came, Egger felt his scalp tingle, this kind of matter between the top nobles, the current self really has neither the means nor the ability to change, but now that Eddard's captain of the guard controls the garrison, no matter what, at least the worst consequences of "Cersei is in power" are impossible.
As Tyrion disappeared into the riverside gate, Egg turned around to find Jaquin watching the ghouls by the cage, and remembered that he hadn't actually seen a ghoul himself...... It's just that as a night watchman who knows that it does exist and has killed "strangers" who are more advanced than them, I don't have high expectations and curiosity about it, so I don't even think to look at it even if it's right in front of me.
"The man is dead. I don't know how Jaqun judged it, but he said affirmatively in a statement rather than a questioning tone. He rarely took the initiative to speak, but this thing in front of him was beyond his cognition, and he had to ask clearly: "There is no anger in him, how did you make him move?"
"We didn't let him move, he was already dead, and then he was pulled up by evil magic and turned into a bloodthirsty and warm light sensitive monster. Domi explained, although he didn't know Jaquin, he still kindly reminded him: "You'd better stay away, this is a whole corpse that hasn't started to decompose, it will have a lot of strength, if you give it a chance, it can break people's necks." ”
"North of the Great Wall, it's all this?"
"Thousands. ”
Not that much, not so much, at least not yet, but the Night's Watch in King's Landing had long since come to the same page—"thousands" when asked. Exaggerating the threat of the enemy is the instinct of the caller, and the more terrifying ghosts cannot be caught by the king, and the night watchmen can only rely on the number of ghouls to frighten people for the time being.
Elisha glanced at Jaquin impatiently: "Don't look at it, let's go to the Red Fort first, show it to the big guys, whatever you want to study, chop off an arm and take it home to play slowly." ”
Jaquin left the cage and stopped staring at the ghouls. I don't know if it's an illusion, but from the way he looked back, Egger saw a fear that didn't seem to be fake. It's hard to imagine that the Faceless One, with all his powers, would be afraid. Perhaps, for him, who believes in the god of death and takes killing people as one of his main businesses, "the enemy cannot be killed" and "the fallen dead get up again" are the most terrifying things in the world.
The gold-robed men had been roughly assembled, and a few teams were the first to set off to return to their respective stations, while Eddard's former captain of the guard and the current "Acting Garrison Commander" Jory stayed where he was to meet and meet the officers of the remaining three Iron Gate, Aegon High Hill and Rivergate garrisons and knew each other - three hundred soldiers said that it was not much, but entering the small Red Fort was an armed force that could completely eliminate the suspense of victory or defeat.
Great changes are coming to King's Landing!
Unable to delay any longer, Iger quickly ordered Nina and Neil to finish a bunch of menial work, while he took Jaqun and the remaining four personal bodyguards to accompany the ghoul escort team, and took the lead in heading to the Red Keep before Jory finished the garrison.
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Dragging the ghouls through the city, the group arrived at their destination under the various eyes of the residents of King's Landing. The gates of the royal castle were closed, and two Stark soldiers stood guard by the gate and stopped them.
Iger stood up: "Two soldiers, please help inform the Prime Minister that the night watchman has something important to report to the Prime Minister." ”
The two guards shook their heads: "I'm sorry, a few brothers of the night watch, the Prime Minister has an order to carry out an overall renovation in the Red Keep today." Don't meet visitors, don't deal with government affairs, come back another day. ”
(Sure enough.) Now there is no need to doubt that Robert and Ed must be going to do it today, Egger took a deep breath, and was about to find an excuse or stuff a red envelope to persuade the two in front of him, Alyssa Thorne pulled him away: "I'll talk to them." ”
The head of the Black Castle drew his steel sword, and under the vigilant gaze of the two gatekeepers, he sang again the good show of "checking the body" of the ghoul outside the river gate not long after. He poked three more holes in the cage before he grabbed the sword and handed the hilt to the guards, asking them to confirm that it was a real sword: "Now, north of the Great Wall, thousands of these ghost things are threatening the night watch, and we are almost unable to resist them. Once the Great Wall is breached, the entire north of the Neck, and even all of Westeros, will turn into hell on earth, and we have rowed for a few days and nights to rush to King's Landing, but you will let us come back another day?!"
The Stark guards were all from the North, and the two gatekeepers lived near Winterfell, and Elisha's threat hit them to the core...... Among them, the man who took the steel sword turned over and checked it, and made sure that it was a murderous weapon in his hand, and he and his companion looked at each other, and couldn't help but shake and become nervous.
After whispering a few words to each other, the two guards returned the steel sword to Elisha, and circled around the cage on the carriage twice to observe, and finally nodded: "You wait here for a while, I'll report it, but I can't guarantee whether the Prime Minister will see it or not." ”
One of the two guards knocked his fist on the gate of the Red Keep a few times and shouted a few times into the door, and the guard behind the door quickly opened a crack for him, and he quickly slipped in.
After a while, the door reopened, and the man who had been told appeared before the night watch: "Come with me, but leave all your weapons before you enter." ”
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