"Where's my uncle, tell him, get out of here!" The first thing Asha did as she climbed the side of the Sea Song with the help of a tug and a push, "It's a trap, and Eurolen's goal is to get rid of both of us in one fell swoop!"

"Lift the anchor, raise the sails, drop the oars!" the chief of Harlow Island calmly and decisively ordered the crew in an orderly manner, and only when the sailors on the whole ship were engaged in their work did he step out of the crowd, and took his niece, who was almost unsteady on her feet and looked a little overly nervous, and hugged her forcefully into his arms...... While caressing her back, he comforted her softly: "Don't be nervous, dear. The moment I received the letter from Euron, I had anticipated that there might be fraud, so I was fully prepared when I came to Pike Island. I promise: at least tonight, we're both safe. Now, be obedient, go to the cabin for a bite to eat, take a shower, and rest enough, and then we'll talk about what to do next. ”

......

In the darkness in the distance, in the silence of the night, the sound of alarm bells and battle horns became more and more terrible, but the Sea Song had already adjusted its direction and began to speed away. There was no port in Pike City, and even if Euron found that the prisoners had escaped, he would have to board a ship or send a warship from the nearby Port of Kings to pursue him, and Asha, who realized that she was indeed safe for a short time, breathed a sigh of relief, and then nodded and let her uncle carry her into the cabin, and after filling her stomach a little, she climbed into the tub with the help of another woman.

The original plan of the "reader" Rodric was to let Asha sleep and recuperate before talking, but the latter spent two days in the dark dungeon under the Blood Keep, although she was treated poorly in all aspects, but she was not tortured or harassed - which means that she lacked nothing and no sleep. After eating a full bowl of hot soup, and then taking a hot shower comfortably and changing into clean clothes, Asha instantly returned to a large tube of vitality, and the whole person was like a new life, plus there was something in his heart, where could he still sleep?

She declined the suggestion to have a private cabin to rest, wiped the water off her hair, and walked straight onto the deck.

There were no interceptor ships on the dark surrounding ocean, and it seemed that the "trap" was probably just a conjecture of one's own overnervousness. Asha is also an experienced captain, and by feeling the direction of the wind and observing the stars in the sky, she realizes that the Sea Song is not heading in the northeast direction as expected, but is heading southeast.

Frowning, she found her uncle who was directing the ship out of possible pursuers by asking the sailors: "Uncle, where are we going?"

"There may be interceptions in the direction of Harlow Island, so let's go to the calamity. ”

Asha fully understood the idea of avoiding a straight course so as not to be ambushed, but the second half of the sentence made her completely confused.

"Woe to you?" she didn't hide her confusion, "If I'm not mistaken, the Iron Islands are at war with the West, right?

"No, the bastard is still in the hands of the Bamverts, and they are still loyal to Tywin Lannister. ”

"So what are we going to do!"

"Where do you want to go, what do you want to do back to Harlo Island and rise up against Euron's rule?" the scholar asked his niece rhetorically, "We discussed this as early as the day of the Election - you participated in the Election of the King, and you must respect its results, and the Iron Man chose Euron as the leader, then he is our rightful king." I have come to Pike Island to rescue you out of love for you and your mother, because you are my own niece and half a daughter, but I will never start a rebellion and let the Iron People kill each other, or for a war that has no chance of winning!"

"This time is different, I have strong foreign aid, and I have also found a real way out of the Iron Islands......"

"I'm not talking to you!" Rodric interrupted Asha without question, "Euron Greyjoy is leading the Iron Islands on a path of no return - we do agree on this, but Raveneye is not stupid, he knows that the Iron Islands are not the enemy of a unified Westeros, and the strategy is to maneuver between the major powers to ensure that the war never stops and that the Seven Kingdoms never have peace." It's dancing on the tip of a knife, and sooner or later we will stumble and be pierced, but here's the killer thing: we know that day will come sooner or later, but we don't know what day it is. More importantly, even if retribution is destined to come, it must not be brought by you and me!" He let out a long sigh: "Asha, I don't know who you are talking about foreign aid, and I don't want to bet on whether the real way out you found is right or wrong, this time, I stick to my principles, please forgive me." ”

Asha felt her uncle's determination, and was stunned for a moment sadly, and no longer insisted: "Then after I go to the calamity?"

"I have prepared a small sum of money and horses for you, and I will send you a small boat to take you ashore when you approach the shore. It's up to you whether to circumnavigate castles and villages as a lone traveler, or to surrender to the Westlanders and claim asylum, which I personally recommend. ”

"Well, I'll make another decision when I'm ashore. Asha clenched her fists, she knew her uncle, if he said to stick to principles, then the matter was non-negotiable. "There's another thing I want to ask you, uncle—do you know what's going on with that eye under the blindfold?"

"I don't know, isn't it because I'm injured or blind that I wear an eye patch?"

"No, that eye is completely different from the original, before my father was kicked out of the Iron Islands, Euron had two eyes, one black and one blue, but at that time, there was nothing abnormal in the two eyes except for the difference in the color of the pupils, and now, black...... That is, the one under the blindfold, the whites of the eyes have completely turned blood!"

"So what? He wears an eye patch just to cover this problematic eye?" the reader didn't understand what his niece was trying to say.

"It's not that simple, a few days ago in the halls of Pike City, he took advantage of the fact that the leaders were discussing my request, and he lifted his blindfold and forced me to look at that eye...... Then I felt like my brain had been invaded and ransacked by him, it was witchcraft!" Asha described uneasily, realizing that she lacked vocabulary: "After the Election of the King, you fought with him with the fleet of the Harlo family, and you never noticed anything unusual about him?"

Rodric sighed, apparently unimpressed by what his niece had said: "There are many anomalies, but isn't that why the leaders chose him......?" Where do you think the 'Dragon's Horn' and the tile armor he gave to Victalion came from? If his story is not a boast, and it is true that many books have documented that there are demons living in the ruins of Valyria, that Asha has gathered all the wizards in the world, and so on, then he has a few magic items in his hands, and even learned a little magic...... It won't come as a surprise at all. ”

Asha fell silent, and after being reminded by her uncle, the image she saw when she looked at Euron that day was suddenly explained: most of the strange creatures that appeared in Raven's eye vision were the demons he encountered when he was adventuring in the ruins of Valyria, and the other creatures who were obviously human but had an indescribable sense of weirdness were the wizards he had seen when he visited Yasha. Make deals with the wizards of Asha by exploring the ruins of the apocalypse...... Countless adventures and luck have made Euron Greyjoy what he is today!

No wonder his entire ship's sailors were mute, and Euron used this extreme way to protect his adventures and the fact that he knew magic!

"Asha, that eye under Euron's blindfold is weird, so what? The Iron Folk worship the strong, and even if you convince the entire Iron Isles to convince them that the King has a mind-reading magic eye, it won't convince everyone to support you against him, but will only make him more popular!

The magic eye could do more than just read minds, and Asha wanted to argue loudly, since she had been in a coma after making eye contact with that eye, she had been vaguely feeling something more in her head, even now that she had been rescued, fed, drunk, and bathed...... This sense of a foreign body present in consciousness has not subsided. But my uncle took his account as a lie that he refused to give up, which is really ......

However, after thinking for a while, she had to admit that what her uncle said was right, and that the eye that she was entangled in was meaningless to the overall situation.

"You misunderstood, uncle, I just wanted to remind you to face up to Euren in the future...... Especially when he uncovers him, he can be vigilant so as not to fall into danger. Asha stopped the conversation, but quickly remembered another really fatal question: "Uncle, are you going to go back after sending me to the western shore?

"Tell him the truth, confess everything, and tell him...... I am willing to 'retire' on my own initiative, in exchange for your life and freedom in exchange for giving up my status as Captain of the Sea Song, Lord of Ten Towers, and Lord of Harlow Island, and allowing him to appoint any of my sons and nephews as successors. Harlow is the richest and most densely populated island in the archipelago - but because of me, it is also the area where he has the weakest control since he sat on the throne of the sea, and now, without any more effort, he can force my disobedient eye to take it in...... It was a great deal for him. ”

It is indeed a good deal, but if this happens, it means that Euron's overall control over the Iron Islands will be further strengthened, and he will be expected to be close to 100%, and his plan to rely on his internal strength to regain his position and avenge his father's murder will be completely frustrated. He seems to have escaped, but in fact he was banished from his homeland!

"Uncle—"

"Take care of yourself, kid. Without the status of captain and lord, in the eyes of ordinary people, I would eat and wait for death to live the rest of my life, but for me, a 'scholar', I can spend all my time reading—I wish I could live a life like this. It's you, homeless...... The road ahead is not easy. Rodric Harlow shook his head, and in turn comforted his niece: "All right, my dear little Asha, if nothing else, I ask you to go back to the cabin and rest." The boat will dock around noon after dawn, and whether you choose to travel alone or admit your identity, there will be a long journey ahead of you, and you will have a rare moment to sleep peacefully!"

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