"What?"

"What!"

Two voices rang out at the same time, one skeptical, the other shocked.

Young Master Royce glanced at Egg, who looked like a ghost, strangely: "What did you see, tell me carefully, don't miss any details." ”

"The camp was two miles away, over a small snowy slope, next to a stream. Will replied, "The campfire has been extinguished, and only a pile of embers is smoking." The wild men lay on the side in an irregular manner, and I counted eight in all, about the same as I had estimated, but there were no children in sight...... Everyone remained motionless, including the one in the tree, and I snuck as close as I could, and watched carefully for a long time, but no blood was seen, but a living man would never lie so quietly. ”

"The living don't let the campfire go out at all. Gary said, "The temperature has dropped so much in the past two days, maybe I was not prepared to freeze to death?"

"Perhaps," Will shuddered cooperatively, "My lord, what shall we do now?"

"Wear more clothes when it's cold. Little Royce snorted, "When we set off nine days ago, the Great Wall was dripping. This past week has had a bit of frost and occasional snow, but it's definitely not cold enough to freeze a litter of savages. What's more, they wore warm fur to keep out the cold, and the terrain was enough to shelter them from the wind and snow, and they also lit fires. ”

......

Listening to the discussions and conversations between the three Night's Watch teammates, Iger only felt a chill seeping into his bone marrow inch by inch - how could this be? Ten thousand grass and mud horses rushed through his heart, secretly greeting the eighteenth generation of the Royce family's ancestors.

No matter how bad his memory is, this scene with a strong sense of vision also makes him wake up: he is facing the plot at the very beginning of the story of Ice and Fire, this damn Weimar Royce, who led his brothers on his first patrol to bump into a strange ghost. The only difference from the original is that this time there is one more of yourself!

"Now that the wildlings are dead," Gary said with some trepidation, frowning, "let's go back." ”

"Did the dead scare you?" said Weimar, turning his head and smiling with contempt as he continued the traverser's familiar lines.

"Dead people are not scary," Iger realized that he could no longer remain silent without a sense of existence, and now he was faced with a matter of life and death: if Weimar Royce and his party were allowed to go to investigate the scene of the slaughter of the wild people, they would meet the strange spirits head-on, and he did not think that the three-person lineup in the original plot plus one of himself could deal with the terrifying existence that almost wiped out humanity thousands of years ago: "What I am afraid of is what killed those wild people." ”

"If you can kill a wildling, you don't have to kill a night watchman. The young knight said confidently, but he was a little surprised that Egger rarely spoke out in public. "And, are you sure they're really dead? ”

"Will may not be a warrior, but he doesn't lie, and since he sees it, I believe it. Gary looked at the group with a heavy face, "The higher authorities ordered us to investigate the whereabouts of the wildlings, and we did so, and now they won't harass us anymore......"

"Do you think the Commander won't ask us about the cause of our deaths? Weimar unceremoniously interrupted the veteran, "Get on the horse and take me to see it." ”

Gary looked indignant, but eventually did not speak, and turned to his horse.

"I'm not going. "Egger can't go with the flow this time, it's a life-or-death moment," I just freak out if you call me a coward or a coward." For the past few days, I've been feeling something horrible and maliciously staring at us...... The savages must have been killed by that thing, and we can't be opponents. ”

"I feel that way, too. Will had always been unassertive, but someone took the lead and quickly stammered in support of Egger.

"It's getting dark. Gary looked at Egger with some doubt, he could occasionally argue with the captain of the parachute with his veteran qualifications, but where did the young man who rarely had a confrontation with himself have the confidence to openly disobey?" ”

"Interesting, Night's Watchman, afraid of the dark?" Weimar's expression distorted slightly, Gary was used to contradicting him, but the first time the three soldiers were unanimously opposed to him, it completely aroused his rebellion: "I have made up my mind, now- immediately get on my horse and go to the scene, I will not say it a third time." ”

"Nope. Egger instinctively felt that even if he was talking about lotus flowers at this moment, he would never be able to convince the stubborn young knight in front of him, and he made a final struggle in some despair. He looked at Gary, hoping for the support of the Night's Watch veteran. It's a pity that the other party looked at him suspiciously for a while, but gently shook his head and signaled him not to fight with the chief. "I have a strong premonition that there is a high probability that I will die this time. ”

"I don't believe your hunch. Weimar narrowed his eyes, "If you insist on not going, then run, but before leaving, hand over your weapons, and don't ride a horse, confident that I won't stop you if you can run back, go?"

Egg looked at him as he put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, his eyes clashing, and he finally bowed to reality.

Leaving and turning into a deserter, Westeros has no place to stay, and this place is a hundred miles away from the Great Wall, although the ranger's training program includes survival in the wild, but theory and practice are two different things after all, even if the beasts and strange spirits do not come to embarrass themselves, hunger, cold, and getting lost are enough to swallow him as a small mortal. And revolt ...... Even if it is assumed that Will and Gary are watching from the sidelines and have little actual combat experience, it is absolutely impossible for this noble child who is a few years younger than him, but has been guided by a family sword instructor since he was a child.

He had no choice, it seemed that he could only hope that the little life-saving preparations he had made before would come in handy.

"Get on the horse, you go to the front with Will. Egger's softness made Weima breathe a sigh of relief, and he pursed his lips with pretended disdain: "Don't think about doing anything, I'll keep an eye on you the whole time." ”

......

The four of them mounted and set off, and Will took Iger as a striker, and both of them nervously and carefully steered their horses forward. There was a light snowfall last night, and there were many rocks, roots, and puddles under the thin, soft layer of snow, which could have caused horses to fall if they were not careful. Egger suppressed the fear in his heart, grabbed the reins in one hand and reached into his bag with the other, fumbling and grasping the obsidian dagger that he had worked so hard to obtain.

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Obsidian, also known as dragon crystal, is called frozen fire in ancient Valyrian. This thing is actually a natural glass formed during geological movements...... In the world where Egger originally came, there was naturally nothing special about this thing, but he guessed that perhaps it was in this world of magical existence that this crystal had a special effect on some unknown energy, which gave it unique abilities.

The wraiths have disappeared for thousands of years, and the supposedly sage-killing sleeks are often sold in the market as an ordinary low-grade gemstone, and because of their fragile and black color, they are not as popular as corundum-like gemstones—they are not precious, and naturally they do not sell for a good price, so few people do this business.

As a result, although obsidian is neither expensive nor rare, it is not easy to get hold of. It took Egger a long time before he was assigned to a fellow Night's Watch recruit who had been assigned to the East Sea Lookout after completing his training, and had bought it from an overseas merchant who traded with the Blackshirts, and it took him several months to pay for his allowance.

When it first arrived, it was just a strip of ore the thickness of his forearm, and it took Egger a few more weeks of training to slowly carve and polish it into the shape of a dagger, wrapping the lower half of the cloth and placing it beside him as a talisman.

For this thing, he couldn't even pay for a dish at dinner for a long time, and he was laughed at by the other brothers around him for a long time.

If this thing can finally save his life today, then at least this hard life of eating soil is worth it.

Man is inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. Egger wasn't a coward who was mad enough to die, but he wouldn't accept it: in this nameless corner of the far north of the otherworld, under the code name given to him by a few peasants, he died in obscurity from something that the world did not believe existed.

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