The green line of fire at the end of the horizon faded.

Arya Stark looked up at the night sky and saw many constellations she was familiar with.

As eye-catching, it is the constellation Ice Dragon. There is a blue star on the head of the constellation Ice Dragon, called the Knight's Eye, which points due north, and following the Knight's Eye is the direction home.

But now, Arya couldn't go home, so she had to head south, in the direction that the end of the ice dragon was pointing at.

The oncoming wind and snow hit his face, and it was cold to the bone.

But Arya's heart burned with fire.

Although she is a girl, Arya has had a heroic dream since she was a child.

The person I admired the most was, of course, the queen of the Roynard warriors who had crossed the narrow sea to Westeros with her people, Nymelia.

She named herself Icewolf after that, because deep down, Arya longed to be a heroine like Queen Nemelia who made a name for herself on the battlefield.

Now, it seems, there is such an opportunity.

So, even though her mother was adamantly opposed, Arya sneaked out.

Anyway, this is not the first time she has been willful.

The Icewolf suddenly stopped and let out a whining roar.

Arya came to her senses and was on guard, but after waiting for a moment, she saw no enemies, only a village that was almost completely buried in the snow.

To the west of the village was a huge fishbeam tree, with only a bare pale trunk carved into it, a blood-weeping face, which looked rather terrifying in the dim starlight.

Arya wasn't afraid, though.

To the people of the North, the Fish Beams are sacred trees, and some even believe that they are the embodiment of the old gods in the world, and of course they are not associated with terror.

"Nymelia, what do you see?" Arya had just asked, when she heard a hoarse crow call.

"Quack-quack-"

For a while, the temperature seemed to drop by several degrees.

Even Arya's special physique is a little unbearable.

At the same time, a large shadow paced out from behind the fishbeam.

It was a spider larger than a mammoth, its whole body crystal clear, reflecting a faint blue light, and on its back sat an elegant figure, wearing an ice crystal mask, and a pair of star-cold blue eyes staring at Arya quietly.

"Strange ghosts!" She was slightly startled, and immediately raised her vigilance and prepared for battle.

But the other party didn't seem to have any intention of doing it at all.

The strange ghost on the back of the ice spider opened its mouth and made an eerie sound like ice breaking.

Something seemed to be being said, but Arya didn't understand anything.

However, she felt that the strange ghost did not seem to be hostile.

After a brief moment of confusion, Arya came to her senses.

That's a ghost!

The murderer who destroyed the North!

It is the public enemy of all mankind!

She jerked out the thin sword [Sewing Needle] at her waist and commanded the giant:

"Big guy, get on! Kill him! ”

The giant replied sullenly, and then rushed forward with overwhelming momentum.

Rumble!

Huge fists slammed into the snow, splashing countless fine pieces of ice and gravel.

But the ice spider had already deftly dodged it.

Just as the giant was about to pursue, hundreds of draugr suddenly appeared out of the snow, and they let out a high-pitched roar and pounced on the giant.

Although compared to the size of giants, ghouls can only be regarded as small ants, but there are many ants, and they can bite elephants to death.

"Roar!!

The giant let out an angry roar, trying to scare off the rushing ghouls.

Unfortunately, fear never came to the minds of ghouls, who swarmed towards the giants like sharks smelling blood.

Even if they were crushed by a giant kick, even if they were easily knocked away by a punch, they still followed one after another, climbing towards the giant, opening their mouths to bite the giant's hairy toes.

The Icewolf was chased by the ghouls and had to climb onto the giant's body to dodge.

The ghouls climbed up as well, only to be knocked down by the giants a few times.

Arya was a little anxious when she saw the ghouls gathering more and more, but when she saw the strange ghost sitting on the ice spider, her heart suddenly moved, and she shouted:

"Big guy! Go kill that guy on the Ice Spider! Kill him! ”

The giant roared, and no longer entangled with the ghouls at his feet, and rushed towards the ice spider next to the fish beam.

Rumble!

The giant clenched his hands into fists and slammed into the earth, setting off a storm of ice and snow that spread out like ripples in the water.

But the ice spider had already gracefully dodged it.

In the face of the giant's attack, it let out a high-pitched hiss.

Arya couldn't help but cover her ears, but she still felt the sound dig into her heart like a sharp blade.

She felt a strong urge to vomit, but she tried to hold back.

The giant also seemed to hate the sharp sound, and let out another roar of rage, and at the same time uprooted the fishbeam wood on the side and swept it violently.

Bang bang bang –

The circle of ghouls that gathered around was swept away by the thick trunks.

In the hands of giants, the more than 10-meter-high fish beam wood has become a quite competent weapon.

He swung it so hard that he was about to smash it at the ice spider again.

But the next moment, the giant's footsteps staggered, and he almost fell on his heels.

Arya screamed, and quickly grabbed the hair on the top of the giant's head to keep herself from falling.

She steadied herself and looked down, only to notice that the giant's right foot seemed to be entangled in something.

At this moment, the ice spider silently approached and let out a sharp hiss again.

Arya covered her ears as she keenly noticed what appeared to be something erupting from the Ice Spider's mouthparts and striking the giant's right hand.

Spider silk?

In the dim starlight, Arya could faintly see a thin line connecting the ice spider and the giant.

It seems that it was this thing that got tangled in the giant's feet.

"Roar!"

The giant roared in anger and tugged with his right hand, pulling the ice spider up from the snow.

Bang!

The ice spider was grabbed by the giant with one hand and then slammed into it!

Poof—

The blue juice splashed in all directions, and the ice spider was pinched and exploded by the giant.

The strange ghost fell to the ground and ran away.

"Don't let him run!" Arya shouted excitedly, urging the giant to chase after her.

In a few strokes, the giant tore off the spider silk that was wrapped around his right foot, and then chased after him.

The ghouls were still chasing the giants, even if the giants didn't bother to bother with them.

In the midst of the pursuit, Arya suddenly realizes that she seems to be going in the wrong direction.

Instead of continuing south, she chased the strange ghost to the west.

After a brief hesitation, Arya decided to continue chasing the stranger.

She's going to get rid of this damn monster!

Whew-

Suddenly, the wind and snow went violent.

Even the stars in the sky are covered.

Arya stared at the strange ghost in front of her, with a kind of undying persistence.

Suddenly, she smelled a disgusting breath.

It was the breath of decay and death.

Rushing in the face, almost suffocating her.

"Slow down, big man!"

Arya sensed that something was wrong, and caused the giant to slow down.

The Icewolf leaned over and whined at her feet, as if afraid.

A lonely, ruined tower appeared in front of her, and as she got closer, Arya spotted a familiar pattern on it—

It was two long, crossed axes with a black crown on them.

She knew that it was the coat of arms of the Dustin family, the lord of Aratsuka Hall.

Arya wasn't surprised by this.

Between Winterfell and Carlin Bay, there is a vast moorland hill, which is called the Pioneer Mounds because of the large number of graves of the ancestors remaining.

This is the domain of the Dustin family, and it is not surprising that its coat of arms appears.

But in the next second, Arya froze.

Because she saw a terrifying picture on this barren mound:

Countless dense ghouls were lined up in a neat line, with no end in sight, and were slowly heading south.

Among them, there are ghosts riding skeleton horses, ghosts riding ice wolves, ghosts sitting on mammoths, and a very small number of ghosts sitting on ice spiders.

It's the ice spider that was killed by the giants just now.

Although Arya was impulsive and naughty, she was not stupid, seeing this scene, where did she dare to continue the pursuit, and hurriedly whispered in the giant's ear:

"Run! Big! Run! ”

The giant also realized that something was wrong, and turned and ran.

But they still alarmed the army of strangers, and they looked at them one by one.

After the giant had run a long way, Arya dared to look back, and was greatly relieved to see that only a group of ghouls had chased after her, and there were no strange ghosts.

But before she could rejoice for long, she suddenly felt the giant beneath her unstable, and quickly fell forward.

Boom!

Although the giant lost his balance, he did not forget to protect Arya and the ice wolf in his arms, and led them to roll on the snow several times before stopping.

Arya was dizzy from the fall, and finally managed to stabilize her vision, only to find that three ice spiders had surrounded her with a group of ghouls.

They hissed sharply at the same time, and translucent threads erupted from their mouthparts.

This time the giant was not easy to deal with, his hands and one foot were entangled in spider silk at the same time, and he wanted to twist, but he was exerted by the three ice spiders at the same time, and it was pulled into a "big" word.

Arya's heart was not good, and she quickly drew the sword at her waist, as if she was going to help the giant cut off the spider silk.

But when her sword slashed at the spider silk, she realized that this thing looked slender, but it was extremely tough.

Not only did her sword fail to cut off the spider silk, but she was overturned by the force of the shock, took a few steps back, and sat on the snow.

The giant roared and struggled to get back to his feet.

But the ice spiders staggered quickly on the snow, spitting out spider silk and wrapping the giant tighter and tighter.

Arya swung her sword in vain, but she couldn't help the spider silk, and could only watch as the giant was wrapped in a large rice dumpling.

"No!" She looked at the immobile giant, and her heart was extremely sad, but she didn't have much fear, but raised her sword and shouted at the strange ghosts who surrounded her,

"Come on! I'm not afraid of you! ”

A bolt of spider silk shot out, winding Arya.

The rapier fell to the ground, and Arya fell on her back, bouncing on the snow like a fish out of water.

A strange ghost leaps down from the ice spider and approaches slowly and gracefully.

"My father will avenge me! His Majesty Caesar will avenge me! My companions will kill you all! Arya shouted, venting her anger and fear.

She thought she was ready for death, but instead of killing her, the stranger picked up Arya, returned to the back of the ice spider, and headed west.

Arya felt like pins and needles on the back of the ice spider, but there was nothing she could do.

Caught in the sturdy spider silk, she couldn't move, her weapon was lost, and her fellow giants and ice wolves were not known for their lives......

Arya was so angry that she wanted to cry, and a wave of remorse welled up in her heart.

I shouldn't be so reckless, I should listen to my mother's instructions......

While her thoughts were spinning, the strange ghost had already taken her back to the ancestral desolate grave.

Arya saw once again a dense army of ghouls, as well as maverick strangers.

They also turned their heads and cast a dark blue gaze at her.

Arya always felt that there was something strange about the strange look at her, a strangeness that she couldn't explain herself.

Are they going to kill me, or are they going to eat me?

Or turn me into a brainless ghoul?

Arya thought desperately.

If she really wanted to be that horrible and filthy ghoul, she would rather die a complete death.

Unfortunately, it seems that this is no longer up to her to choose.

The Ice Spider made its way through the army of ghouls and continued westward.

The wind and snow are getting heavier and the temperature is getting colder.

It was so low that even Arya, who had never been afraid of the cold, felt unbearable and shivered.

Finally, the ice spider stopped.

Arya was also carried by the stranger and jumped off.

She twisted her body and looked up, and saw more than a dozen terrifying ice spiders surrounding a high platform.

There was nothing on the high platform but pure black.

A cylindrical black that leads from the high platform to the night sky.

It was as if the light had been thoroughly transmitted from that space, leaving only complete darkness.

What is this weird thing?

Arya was wondering when she saw a tall strange ghost standing in the most prominent position in front of the high platform.

His whole body was shrouded in ice crystal armor, revealing only a pair of dark blue eyes, and he wore a crown of dark ice on his head, looking noble and mysterious.

Is this the king of the strangers?

Arya speculated to herself.

I don't know why, this strange ghost king always gave her a faint sense of familiarity.

"Hey!" She grinned, "What are you going to do with me?" ”

Before the stranger could answer the question, Arya suddenly heard a roaring roar from the sky.

She perked up and hurriedly turned around.

Sure enough, a white dragon appeared in the night sky.

Behind it, two other dragon shadows, one black and one green, could be faintly seen.

"Haha!" Arya exclaimed excitedly, "You're done! His Majesty Caesar and his dragon have found you! Hurry up and surrender! Otherwise, the dragon's flames will burn you monsters to ashes! ”

The strange ghost wearing the crown of Xuan Ice ignored the little girl's arrogant declaration, and just quietly watched the white dragon in the night sky.

As the swooping white dragon grew larger and larger in its field of vision, a loud voice also came from the dragon's back:

"The Night King! I've finally found you! ”

(End of chapter)