Chapter 487: A Rough Divine Gift
Sure enough, it was a dream.
This was the first thought that came to Egg's mind after opening his eyes, and there was no unexpected emotional element in it, only a faint relief.
Any lucid dreamer who is skilled enough to have this worry must have had this worry: will one day in the future, after venting the dark side of human nature in the dream he thought he thought he had done as usual, only to find that he could not wake up - go crazy and turn reality and dreams upside down?
Because of this, every time he woke up from a lucid dream, Iger would breathe a sigh of relief in a state of confusion: at least this time, he wasn't crazy.
But this time, before he could finish his breath, he smelled a burning smell, and when he looked down, it turned out that his quilt was on fire.
"it!"
The confusion was swept away in an instant, and he flexibly kicked off the quilt and jumped off the bed without exploding, standing on the ground and looking back, only to find that it was only a small flame on the surface of the quilt, and the open flame had been blown out with the violent action of kicking it away, leaving only a little spark and half a wisp of green smoke.
He didn't have time to think about what was going on, so he took the safest way to deal with the fire: rushed over, turned over the other half of the quilt and covered the still glowing red spark, and completely killed the possibility of its re-ignition by blocking the air.
At this moment, there was also a loud and eager footstep outside the bedroom door, and the two guards on duty outside kicked open the door and rushed in, until they saw that Egg was safe, and then stepped on the door panel and stood a little embarrassed.
"Your Excellency...... Belch...... There was a loud bang in the room just now, and then you screamed. ”
"We thought something was wrong and we barged in. ”
Iger didn't reproach the dutiful guards, nodded his head to indicate that he understood the situation, and looked around the room to find the cause of the quilt on fire.
The oil lamp was hung on the wall instead of above the bed, and it was never lit when sleeping, so it could not be the cause of the fire; the doors and windows were also closed well before being kicked open by the guards, and there was no trace of invading, which should not have been caused by the outsider's artificial ignition......
He couldn't immediately figure out the cause of the fire on the quilt, but after looking through every corner of the room, he first found out where the guards called the "loud noise" came from: a fist-sized hole appeared on the roof directly above his bed, and he could clearly see the already bright sky outside from the inside of the house.
It was only then that the frightened Egger realized that the stinging pain he felt in his dream before waking up was also present in his chest in reality.
He reached for his chest, and felt a small burning hole in his underwear at the sternum slightly above his heart, and under the skin inside the opening...... A piece of hard object.
Red God's Scales?!
His awake mind instantly helped him reconstruct the whole story: Rahlo had promised an "advance" in his dream, and a piece of her half-dragon scales had fallen from the sky in reality, smashed through the roof of his room, pierced through his bedding and pajamas, and was embedded in his skin. And the weirdest part is that this violent way of delivering it penetrates a sturdy building shell, lights a quilt and almost causes a fire, and penetrates into one's body as if it were skin...... But it didn't kill him or burn him, and he couldn't even find the wound, only a slight tingling pain.
This is a 100% fresh miracle, a demonstration of the power of the Red Fruit!
This madwoman!
Egg took a deep breath, suspecting that he was still in a dream.
He resisted the urge to scold, wanting to go out and see if there was anything unusual in the sky, but he subconsciously knew that he would never see anything...... After a few seconds on the spot, Leng gradually realized that Lahlo was definitely not making such a reckless move without thinking, on the contrary, it was a deliberate decision.
She could have allowed the scales to appear silently beside her, and no matter how bad she was, she could have chosen to let the scales fly in through the windows and doorways to reduce the damage to the building, but in the end she chose the most high-key, crude and undisguised way: to destroy the most critical and least porous part of the house - the shelter from the wind and rain.
Not only is it cool, but it's sending a strong signal that convinces everything she says in her dreams.
......
No matter how plausible and unquestionable the story told by the goddess in the dream, Iger never believed it completely, not only because the place of the conversation was in a dream, which naturally reduced the credibility of everything, but also because there were too many people, or non-people, who had reason to deceive him in the same way.
Not to mention, there were at least two of them that he could think of right away.
One is the enemy he defeated in the previous war, the cold god.
The woman in the dream said that the cold god "already has the strength to take back the world, but he doesn't know it yet." This sounds like the same thing, but it is entirely possible that the reality is completely opposite: the cold god has really been defeated, and the power he has accumulated for thousands of years in the land of eternal winter has been reduced overnight, and now he is so weak and decadent that even a mortal expeditionary army can rush to the land of eternal winter to destroy him, so he is eager to forge a dream to dispel such thoughts and save his own life.
The second is that in this Houguan Town, the green prophet who is obviously dressed in black and is his own person, but he doesn't know what weird thoughts he has.
Bran revealed Jon Snow's true identity to himself through Catelyn's mouth, causing a lot of trouble and trouble to Egger, who was completely confused, and the latter had actually become vigilant and began to secretly plan to guard against him...... He also had every motive and reason to fabricate a dream to disrupt Egger's train of thought in order to cover up his real plot of evil.
And now, this rough and domineering appearance of "prepaid" has completely shattered the above suspicions.
As the office and residence of the Commander-in-Chief, the top of the building is double-layered, windproof and rainproof, and even able to withstand a certain degree of long-range attacks, and Iger does not feel that his bones can be stronger than the roof at all—the scales that fall from the sky and enter the house contain power, if acted on him, he could easily kill himself a few times...... If your enemy has such power, isn't it the easiest and safest way to physically destroy yourself? Why bother making up a lengthy and self-consistent lie, and go to the trouble of sending something to yourself, just to keep going on without changing your original plan?
And if the Green Prophet or other transcendent beings with ulterior motives fabricate an image of Rahlo, try to mislead their own perception and perception of the world, and then induce themselves to do something that suits their interests...... Then the question is interesting: what should the deceived person do if he can kill you with the flick of a finger and go to the trouble of tricking you into acting according to his ideas?
Of course, he pretended to believe and did what he said, and tried to get out while stabilizing the situation.
To sum it up—the power of this miracle from the sky simplifies the mathematical model of the whole thing to the extreme: if this Rahlo is real, everyone is happy, and even if she is fake, Egger can only assume that she is real, and should never think about it.
Intellectually, Iger gave up his doubts, but emotionally, he really believed: it was...... It's like a goddess who can blow up her own house.
Egger's mind raced as he touched the piece of his chest embedded in his skin, which was noticeably warmer than the surrounding one, while the guard who kicked in looked up at the roof, completely unable to understand what was happening: "What's the matter, it looks like something smashed through the roof and fell in, but it's sunny outside?"
Guard B also deduced that most of the matter had been restored, but he was smarter to focus elsewhere: "Are you okay, my lord, do you want to call a healer to take a look?"
"I'm fine. Iger put away his chaotic thoughts, realizing that the most important thing at the moment was to keep the secret that he had obtained a piece of dragon scales, and find out how useful and useful it was as soon as possible, "Inform the craftsmen, let them get ready, repair the roof and door in the afternoon, go out first, I'll get dressed and come out." ”
The two guards nodded and retreated, kicked open the door panel of the bedroom that had been lifted on the ground, hesitated a few times and put it back into the original doorway, clapped their hands and left the door...... After making sure that they were all far away, Egger approached the window, tore open the hole in his underwear on his chest, and began to observe the dragon scales embedded in his skin through the bright light from outside.
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