"So, you brought back two broken swords to prove that you and Gary were not deserters, but heroes who killed the strangers?" After listening to Egger's account of the whole journey to the north, Commander Mormont stared at Iger with a serious expression, as if to find evidence of his lie in the face and eyes of the traverser.

Iger took a breath, "I won't claim to be a hero, because I did flee from the site of the battle ten days ago, and neither rescued Sir Weimar Royce nor brought back his body. But I think it's more important and meaningful to go back to the Wall to relay the important warning signs of their appearance than to fight the strangers and then get killed. ”

"Obsidian does kill ghosts, and many legends say so. The already invisible Maester Aemon, trembling with the homemade obsidian dagger that Iger had handed in, was clearly interested in his statement: "If I'm not mistaken, you're a foreigner, and you've only recently been studying Westeros' writing, how can you know these legends so well?"

"There is also a legend in my hometown, and I used to think of it as a mythical story, until I came here by chance and saw the Great Wall of Despair......"

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The ghoul ridden by the Wraiths was still hanging oats as food for the horses, and after killing the Wraiths, Egger retrieved his frightened fleeing horse a few hundred meters away. After feeding him all the oats and resting for a while, Iger led the mortally wounded Gary back to the Wall.

Now, sitting in a conference room warmed by the fire, he was meeting so many of the Night's Watch legions face-to-face for the first time. For a whole year after he was forced to join the garrison of the Wall, he had tried his best to attract the attention of the higher-ups of the Night's Watch, and now he finally got his wish, but he was tried as a deserter: "Maester Amon, you are a learned man, and you should understand that if the legends and tales everywhere have similar accounts of an event from a long time ago, then it is very likely to be true. The Alien does exist, and it's back now. ”

The blind old man nodded, although he didn't know exactly what was going on, but at least the second half of the night watchman soldier in front of him made sense.

"Hmph, in my opinion, it's just that I deliberately made a wound in order to avoid punishment, and then found something to break the sword, so as to make the illusion that I had gone through a hard battle. Standing aside, Alyssa Thorne, the night watchman's recruit instructor, snorted coldly, "This guy slipped his head when he was training, he was lazy when he got the chance, he could kill a stranger, even if this thing really existed?"

Iger didn't refute, of course the recruit instructor didn't mean to target him, as a detection engineer who was engaged in technical work before the crossing, although he was not powerless, he was probably more "pampered" than many nobles in this world, not to mention those night watch soldiers who were born at the bottom. When he first came to the Great Wall of Desperation, he really couldn't accept such a high-intensity training, and he was lazy a lot, although he still passed the training in the end, but there was no doubt that Elisha Thorne left a bad impression.

Then again, the nobleman who had been forced to join the Night's Watch because of the fall of the Targaryen dynasty he supported was a cynical, mean-spirited, and unsympathetic man, and his tone of voice and tone full of contempt were not liked by a few soldiers up and down the Night's Watch, and Iger would not have been able to gain his favor even if he had been honest and even desperate in training.

"Sir Elisha, have you ever seen a broken sword?"

"More good swords than you've ever seen. ”

"Then please take a look at the breaches of the two broken swords I brought back. Although the recruit instructor is considered a superior, he is now a ranger, and his fate is not up to Elisha, and Egg is not going to be polite to him: "The sword of the Night's Watch is made of steel, and the characteristic of steel is that it is strong, it is not as brittle as glass or ice, no matter how strong you break the steel sword, No matter how fast it is, the fracture of it will inevitably be deformed, but the breach of these two broken swords is not the case, I deliberately brought back all the fragments and the upper and lower sections, if a few adults put them together, you can find that these fragments can be reassembled into a complete steel sword without careful observation, and you can't even see where the broken place is. ”

Commander Mormont raised his eyebrows, and as he said, he put the broken sword together, and as Iger said, except for a few small gaps in the broken blade that could not be recovered, the whole sword was still straight and sharp, and it was almost impossible to tell that it had been broken into two and a pile of fragments.

"How so?" asked the Commander-in-Chief, very eloquently.

Low temperature will reduce the binding force between metal atoms, and increase the rigidity or brittleness, simply put, the colder it is, the less able it can withstand stress and deformation...... Of course, these words cannot be explained to the "ancients" in front of them who have never studied physics, and besides, in this hellish magical world, who can guarantee that what they know is everything?

"Legend has it that the wraith used ice magic, and the steel sword was frozen and cracked. "I don't know exactly why, but I can guarantee that no matter who the adults seek or what method they use, they won't be able to break the same steel sword like this...... The Commander-in-Chief may show the Broken Sword to the Chief Craftsman, the Chief Officer, or the Blacksmith Donner, and if anyone can restore a similar broken steel sword, treat me as a deserter. ”

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Donner Noi: A one-armed blacksmith at Castle Black, he was the personal blacksmith and soldier of the Baratheon family who joined the Blackshirts after losing an arm during the siege of Storm's End. Before that, he followed Stannis Baratheon to fight in the north and south, traveled all over the seven countries, ate delicacies from the mountains and seas, tasted women from all over the world, and fought hundreds of battles large and small. It is said that Robert killed Rhaegar Targaryen on the Trident River, and that the hammer was forged by him. In the battle of the wild man attacking Castle Black in the original plot, he died in battle with the giant king "Strong Marge" in the tunnel under the Great Wall, which can be regarded as a legendary character.

Iger's past is nothing to praise if he didn't kill a stranger, but he was engaged in materials testing before he crossed over, and there was a whole bunch of metal performance testing equipment, including impact testing machines, next door to his old office. When it comes to striking iron, he can't compare to the blacksmith Donner, but compared to the theoretical knowledge of metal materials, all the blacksmiths in this world together are not his opponents.

To make the steel sword look like this, it must have a low temperature environment of at least minus 200 degrees Celsius, such conditions, even in the modern world before Egger crossed over, only quite expensive equipment can provide, so that a medieval blacksmith can make a temperature of minus 200 degrees or even 2,000 degrees Celsius easily, and it is easier to catch a strange ghost and come back and let it perform the splitting steel sword......

Egger's determined expression and confident speech infected the night watchmen sitting behind the long table, they were all of extraordinary origins, but Egger was not a hillbilly from some horn...... He is a night watchman soldier, and these noble lords in front of him may be able to decide his life and death, but don't try to scare him with the so-called "nobility".

"I sent someone to check Gary for the wound on his chest. Maester Aemon broke the silence, "It's strange that the wound was caused by a sharp object, but it showed the typical symptoms of severe frostbite, and it was confined to a very small area inside and outside the wound...... It took a few people half a day to remove all the necrotic parts. I don't know if Donner can break the steel sword like this, but I know I can't make such a wound. ”

Among the three people who have the right to speak, one is the first to believe in himself. Egger's face was silent, but he was greatly relieved in his heart: no matter what era or place he went to, it was always easier for a learned and knowledgeable person to communicate with him, and his life was mostly saved.

The commander-in-chief glanced at the silent chief ranger beside him: "Bunyan, this is your man, what do you think?"

The leader of all the Rangers, the only Stark member of the Night's Watch Legion, looked up. The lanky but sharp-eyed man had been studying the evidence that Iger had brought back all along, and when he was asked by the commander-in-chief, he knew it was time to speak for himself.

"We are the Night's Watch, guarding the northernmost point of the kingdom. "But we don't know much more about the vast and unknown realm north of the Great Wall than the southerners...... I've never seen a ghost, but I don't dare to assert that it doesn't exist. Seeing is believing, and in a few days I will personally lead the elite rangers north to find the ghosts that Sir Weimar Royce and Iger have spoken of, and as for the moment......"

Under the staring gaze of the traverser, Bunyan paused for a moment and made a verdict: "The most important thing at the moment is to inform his family of the disappearance of Weimar Royce first, and try to give them an explanation." As for Egger, lock me up first, and I'll let you lead the way on my next patrol north, and it's up to you to prove whether what you say is true or not. ”

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Sure enough, he was going to lead the way, and Gary guessed correctly.

Egger secretly admired the veteran's divine prediction, and was helped up and led out of the conference room by the two black-clothed brothers, and before leaving the door, he heard the last words of Maester Aemon and Bunyan Stark: "Before you take people north, there is something to do." The Raven has brought news that the Prime Minister is dead, and that the King is on his way to the North, and Lord Eddard has asked you to take time to return to Winterfell and meet him with him. ”

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