Earl Karstark volunteered to be the first Northern nobleman to go down the shaft, and Robb Stark then cautiously stepped over the edge of the well and stepped on the stone bar. After taking a few steps down, he suddenly remembered something and turned around: "Sir Rodric, watch Arya, don't let her come down." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

"Ahh What she didn't expect was that he had behaved so well, and he still hadn't forgotten himself. "I miss Bran too, I'm going to find him too!"

"There's no reason, this step is not easy to walk, you slip and fall, who will be responsible? I don't want my brother to not find it, and break another sister!"

"I'll be careful!" Arya hurriedly promised, but seeing that Robb didn't change his mind at all, she turned her pleading gaze to Egger again, hoping that he could say two words for himself, "Master~~"

The Stark family parents are all here, what kind of onion is he a night watchman, and what position do you have to meddle in Stark's family education?Iger shook his head: "Your brother is good for you, obedient." ”

Fearing that his young lady would still be disobedient, Sir Rodric put his hand on Arya's shoulder, and stepped between her and the well. The girl stomped her foot in annoyance, shook her shoulders and snorted away.

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The stone strips protruding from the wall of the well are only less than half a meter long, and there are quite a few gaps and drops between them, which does look dangerous. According to Toganhen Flinter, it was originally slippery to step on, but he sent someone to remove a layer of moss and dirt from the surface of every stone strip on the entire staircase, so that it became the current state.

One by one, the nobles of the northern realm cautiously stepped over the edge of the well and stepped on this passage that seemed to lead to hell, as a half-landlord, of course, Iger could not stay on it, and when the people were almost down, he also stretched his limbs to warm up, and stepped into it without giving up.

The staircase is so narrow, as long as someone is up or down, no one can walk in reverse, but after really walking up, you will find that it is not as scary as it looks - I don't know whether it is designed so or the construction is too rough, there will be a stone on the wall of the well every other distance to shrink into form a groove, just to fill the spiral staircase without handrails, so that people's hands have a place to place and borrow, as long as they are close to the stone wall hand and foot together, the safety is quite guaranteed.

The footsteps echoed among the damp stones, and the light leaking through the hole in the roof of the old kitchen faded away, and soon became a gloomy cloud overhead.

With each turn, the surroundings become darker and the environment becomes more bleak...... The stone strips that make up the staircase are gradually shortening at an imperceptible rate, and the enclosure of the well is also shrinking by a similar amount. Finally, when the well, which was more than four meters wide, shrunk to about three meters wide and the stairs at its feet were nearly a foot long, the light of the torches shone on the dark floor of the well.

Everyone went down to the bottom of the well one after another, and Iger looked up to see that the mouth of the well had become a distant bright spot like a full moon on the horizon.

A black dot emerged from the edge of the "moon", and Arya's voice came from above, passing through the continuous reflection of the well wall: "Robb ~ Robb ~ Robb, master ~ master ~ master, you guys are okay ~ it's okay ~ it's okay ???"

"It's okay~It's okay~ It's okay, don't come down!" Robb looked up and began to look at the bottom of the well.

There was no imaginary mud under the soles of the feet, I don't know whether it was dry or frozen, it was quite strong, and under the light of the two torches that were taken down, only three of the four walls were illuminated.

To be precise, there are only three walls.

At the bottom of the well was the wall of the well on three sides, and on the other side was a rather wide and tall tunnel leading to what Togengen Fillint said, probably the largest heart tree in the Seven Kingdoms.

That's right, it didn't even take old Flint to introduce it, everyone saw it for the first time. Because it's so conspicuous that it's hard to ignore - on the miserable white fishbeam, there is a face taller than a person.

The face was pale and wrinkled, and looked more dying than even the frail Maester Aemens: his mouth and eyes were slumped, his cheeks sunken, his forehead shriveled, and his chin flabby...... If a person has been aging but does not die, and lives for a thousand years, then his face is probably like this.

"It's really big. Count Amber only glanced at the wooden face from afar, and realized that what Patriarch Flint had said was not an exaggeration...... If the wooden face in front of you is really carved into the main trunk of a fish beam half-buried in the ground, and the small sapling that emerges from the stone slab on the ground of the ancient kitchen above its head is the end of its branch...... The size of this heart tree can be described as terrifying.

And looking at the almost identical white color and subtle location of the "sapling" in the kitchen, it's really possible.

"Great?" Luce Bolton snorted, "You're on the wrong track, Lord Amber. That face was still a few dozen feet away from us, and at the bottom of this black hole, we shouldn't have seen it so far away—the torch was extinguished. ”

The latter sentence was addressed to the two attendants with the torches, and they obediently did so, and when the orange-red glow burning on the torches disappeared, the people understood what the Earl of Bolton meant by "the wrong focus."

The white color of the wood does not come from the reflection of fire, but from its own emanation!

It was a color like milk mixed with moonlight, so faint and faint that it could not illuminate anything in the passage except the door itself, but against the dark background, it seemed so clearly recognizable that it could never be an illusion.

"Lord Bolton was so thoughtful that he saw something unusual about it at a glance. Old Flint smiled, "But if you approach it, you'll find something more remarkable about it." ”

It must be said that everyone did get a little interested, and after standing at the bottom of the well for a few seconds to get used to the darkness, they walked towards the big face together, ready to study the reason for the glow of its wood. But just then, something terrifying happened.

Wooden Face opened his eyes, and there were still white eyeballs under his eyelids, and at the same time, his lips squirmed slightly, and a voice came out.

"Who are you~Who is ~Who~Who~Who?"

With some distance from the vertically hard stone wall, the echo of the wooden face was much lower than that of those shouting down from the well, but it was still clear enough for everyone to hear...... In the underground of this black hole, when everyone opened their eyes wide and their ears were pricked up, this unexpected accident that no one expected scared everyone at once, even if Egger was mentally prepared, his heart was beating...... In an instant, someone even pulled out their weapons.

"What the is this?" said Jon Amber, who took two steps back, swallowing his spit, resisting the urge to draw his sword as well.

"I don't know, but what is certain is that as soon as someone comes within three feet of this face, it will do this - open your eyes and ask who you are. Patriarch Flint replied, "We've tried all sorts of answers, but we haven't gotten a response, so we guess something like a code is needed to trigger the next step." ”

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Toganheng Flint was stupid, but he had a brilliant brain—and of course it could have been someone in the Flint clan who had guessed the truth correctly. He was right: to get this wooden face response, you need a code...... And Iger even knew what it was: "We are the guards of the Great Wall, the flames of the cold, the light of dawn, the horn that awakens the sleeper, the shield that guards the kingdom." ”

After a brother who had taken an oath to recite this passage, the wooden face, known as the Black Gate, opened its mouth and slowly opened a passage leading to the other end of the wall.

It is a secret passage for people to quietly cross the Great Wall...... More accurately, if Iger had to guess - it was the Green Prophet who had prepared a way out for his heirs, especially in the case where Bran was the case that the chosen one's guardian would not allow him to leave the Wall north.

Thinking deeper, Iger could even boldly guess that this so-called code to open the door was just a disguise.

In the original plot, Bran and his party escaped from Winterfell, and after a hard trek to the empty Long Night Castle, sleeping in the kitchen to avoid the wind and snow, they "coincidentally" ran into Sam and Gilly, who were rescued by Bunyan Stark, who had turned into cold hands, and climbed up from the well through the Great Wall, and indirectly learned the secret signal to open the door from their mouths, so as to successfully arrive outside the Seychelles and continue the journey to find the Green Prophet.

This kind of bizarre coincidence is really unreasonable, and if you think about it, it must be the arrangement of the Green Prophet.

Here's the problem: In this timeline, the Ranger expedition didn't happen because of their own efforts to dissuade them, and all the Oath Brethren who could open the door stayed in the fortresses along the Wall...... And the ghoul Bunyan Stark can only wait at the end of the passage, unable to meet them through the Great Wall, how did Bran and his party go through this wooden door to the outside of the fortress?

If you think about it on your toes, the Green Prophet will naturally take steps to solve this problem.

He had been preparing for this inheritor for so long, how could he have watched Bran and his party arrive at the Long Night Castle, only to be trapped in front of the black gate - unable to leave because they didn't know the code, or because they weren't the night watchman?

Whether it's sending someone else to replace Sam's vacancy, telling Nine Gym or even Bran the code through Dream, or opening the door directly through magic manipulation when they get to the door...... For a transcendent being where the existence of the mortal fish beam wood is the ultimate in perception and ability, it is a piece of cake.

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Iger knew the code, but he wasn't going to expose it - it was easy to make up a reason why he knew the order to open the door, but if it did...... Robb Stark wants to take someone north to find his brother on a whim, so will he accompany him or not?

"This ...... What a miracle!"

"How does it grow when it's buried in the ground and can't get sun?"

"That's not the point at all, I should ask why it shines!"

The people of the north waited for a few seconds, stayed away from the ground a few times, and after making sure that there was no danger, they began to talk about the fish beam tree that they had never seen before.

"There's one more detail I'd like to tell you. Toganheng was not surprised by the gaffes of several northerners, and when he and the warriors of his clan first discovered the tree, they were no more calm than these guests: "Have you noticed the relationship between the well and the position of the tree?"

Everyone stopped discussing, looked back at the bottom of the big well that had just come down from above, and then looked at the big face on the fish beam wood, and couldn't answer any of them - after a spiral staircase went down dozens of meters, turned around more than a dozen times, and was under the darkness, everyone had lost their sense of direction.

After hesitating for a moment, Egger was the first to react: the "seedling" of the fish beam on the kitchen floor was growing at a south-sloping angle, if it was really part of the giant underground tree......

"We're on the north side of the bottom of the well now?"

"Lord Egger is worthy of being born as a Ranger, and his sense of direction is really good. Look again, how far are we from the bottom of the well?"

About a dozen meters, what's wrong?Iger narrowed his eyes, it was obviously impossible for the other party to ask a meaningless question...... It didn't take much thought for him to realize the meaning of "direction" and "distance": the building, which was used as a kitchen by the ancient night watchmen, was next to the Great Wall of Desperation, less than ten meters from the foot of the ice wall.

So......

"We're under the Great Wall now?" Egger shook his body, this is a detail that Filint did not mention in his letter, if this is the case, then this tree is probably more than just a secret passage!

"That's right, if this fish beam tree had grown on the ground, it would have to be at least a hundred feet tall, but now it's crushed under the ice wall, then...... Isn't it supposed to be a huge canopy that grows all over the Great Wall?" said old Flint with a hint of pride, and seemed proud that he had discovered this first: "But on the other hand, why 'the Great Wall held down this heart tree', and not—'It held up the Great Wall'? at least this section?"

The Northern Princes whispered, and Iger was utterly stunned and speechless, and Togengen Flint probably didn't even know what his guess meant...... But as a time-traveler and night watchman, he had more information than the people in front of him. Almost instantly, Egg thought of an impressive key point in the original story: the ghouls could not break into the heart tree where the Green Prophet lived, and those who forced their way in would immediately fall apart and turn back into corpses or broken bones.

Coincidentally, the information provided by the wildlings revealed that the Strangers and the dead under their control did not like to be near the Wall. And the Night's Watch also discovered one thing in the actual battle against these living enemies: the closer they got to the Wall, the weaker they became.

In the past, the Night's Watch explained this series of phenomena in a general phrase, "Magic is woven in the Wall", but today, Iger thinks he may have discovered the truth: the magic of the Wall may come from this or N oversized fish beams that exist beneath it...... It is their existence that makes the Great Wall of Desperation more than just a two-hundred-meter-high ice wall!

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