Chapter 1: The Traveler Night's Watch
Woo woo woo –
The trumpet sounded and sounded again.
One for the brother coming home, two for the wild man coming, but today, why is it still going on?
It had been thousands of years since the Night's Watch had sounded the horn so much that the confused Black Brothers had almost forgotten its meaning, but Iger had not. When the third blow, a higher-pitched, long, low-pitched howl pierced through the icy air from the top of the Great Wall and reverberated into his ear canal and struck his eardrum, he just drew the lottery that was on the top of the Great Wall. Trembling and holding on to the ice wall, he looked down from the northern edge, and he saw a horrific scene that he had never seen in his life, and his soul was scattered.
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Egger woke up, and his back was already drenched with sweat.
The nightmare of the Stranger has haunted him for a long time, from the time he joined the Night's Watch as a recruit to become a full-fledged Ranger to the present day. It was ridiculous to be so frightened of a legend from thousands of years ago, but unlike those around him, he knew that many of the accounts of the strange spirits were true.
Iger is a timetraveler, a "timetraveler night watchman".
A visitor from another world has come to this colorful and magical world...... If you don't open a harem and don't fight for hegemony, you will run to the desperate Great Wall, a ghost place where birds don't, and swear not to marry a wife, not to have a fief, not to have children, and to become a guard on the Great Wall and a strong shield to protect the kingdom...... Defend the people of Westeros against threats from the Far North. What a great sentiment is this, a dedication across the world?
But the truth is that he didn't put on black of his own volition.
Things have to start a year ago, Egger is actually not called Egger, he is originally from the world of an ordinary college graduate, after leaving the campus to work in the quality inspection department of a large state-owned enterprise, doing "a little bit of technical content and slightly related to the major" work. Relying on that small but stable salary that can easily support himself, he lives a life without passion day after day......
Until one day, he suddenly woke up from freezing and found himself lying in a wilderness in his pajamas. After walking for most of the day to find an inhabited village without finding a way at all, I was dumbfounded to find that all the villagers I saw had Western faces, and I couldn't understand what they were saying.
Driven by hunger and cold, he stole potatoes and clothing to keep him warm, and when he passed by a family's chicken coop, he wondered whether to steal two eggs, and was unfortunately caught red-handed and delivered to local officials.
Stealing a little thing is not a great crime, but unfortunately because he can't communicate, the village official who looks like a peasant impatiently puts two things in front of Egger: a machete and a black coat. And use body language to tell the hapless traverser: he has two choices, get a hand chopped off, or put on a black coat.
Someone was not mentally prepared and intended to become disabled on the first day of the crossing, so he was sent to Castle Black as a criminal and became a "glorious" night watchman, and as for "Egg", the code name casually given to him by the villager who captured him, it became his name.
He still remembers that he was almost suffocated when the tall and majestic figure of the Great Wall of Desperation, as tall and majestic as the edge of the world, appeared in view. With no slope, the two-hundred-metre-tall man-made structure looks more majestic than any mountain Iger's previous travels. The visual impact of this landmark was so strong that he instantly determined what he had encountered: he had traveled into the world of a song of ice and fire, or Game of Thrones, and he had not had enough information to judge as he was trapped in prison on the Great Wall.
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"Awake?" Gary, who was in the same room as him, was already sorting out his package by the window, and glanced at him when he heard the movement, "Then get up and start preparing early, lest you always find out that you are missing this and that before leaving." ”
The speaker was a veteran of the Night's Watch, who had joined the Night's Watch as a child after his parents had died, and who had served in the army for forty years before he was fifty, one of the few people in the Legion who could truly call himself "The Legion is my home". Although the appearance of putting on a veteran display all day long is annoying, it does provide a lot of care for a hapless time-traveler as he integrates into the world—and Egg can't turn a deaf ear to his words.
Nodding helplessly, he crawled out of the quilt, lifted the quilt to release the moisture, and the young man slowly began to put on his clothes.
As a good young man of the new era, a highly educated young man, Egger is certainly a person who is very adaptable and able to learn, and a year is more than enough time to get acquainted with and integrate into the world, except for the typical oriental face that makes it slightly different, he can already have smooth daily communication with the other night watchmen around him...... Speaking of which, I have to mention one thing that makes him very unhappy: in this hellish world, the "lingua franca" of Westeros is not the British English he is used to hearing in the TV series, but a language with a slightly similar grammar and alphabet to English, but unfortunately very low relevance.
If it weren't for that, how could he end up like this with his level 6 English proficiency?
After dressing up, having breakfast with Gary, and everything was ready, they and the other two Rangers who were about to go on patrol this time, and the four of them went to the stables and rode their mounts to the entrance of the tunnel through the Wall, ready to go.
......
The iron door "clicked" under the pull of the winch and rope, revealing the deep, dark tunnel behind it, into which Sir Wilmar Royce led the way with his head held high and kicked his horse without saying a word.
The passage was dark and cold all the year round, only the whirring sound of air flow, and under the light of the torches, they passed through three iron fences in a row, and as the last barrier slowly rose, everything in front of them suddenly opened up - they set out from the night watch base camp behind them, the material and manpower center and the novice village "Black Castle", and crossed the ice wall to carry out daily patrols outside the Great Wall, investigating and tracking the wild tribes that have frequently appeared in the north of the Great Wall recently.
In front of them is the Ghost Forest, and the Night's Watch regularly sends craftsmen out of the city to cut down trees to ensure that the forests in the north of the city do not extend within half a mile of the Great Wall, and prevent the wildlings from using the cover of trees to approach and attack the Great Wall. As the power of the Night's Watch has been declining year by year, the entire barrier has been shrinking in size, with the exception of three castles still manned, which can barely maintain this tradition.
Egger looked back at the tall Wall of Desperation and saw that the ice wall was "crying" - this was good news, indicating that the temperature was around freezing at the moment, and if it didn't change, the patrol would at least not have to worry about freezing in the night.
The horses marched in broken steps, and the four of them crossed the barrier to approach the forest, which was the second largest forest in Westeros due to its almost uncut and extended north to the Land of Eternal Winter. Iger had been on patrol several times, but every time he stepped into the forest, he still felt a tingling in his scalp and a chill in his back.
It is the 297th year of Aegon's conquest. Jon Arryn hasn't been assassinated yet, Eddard Stark is in Winterfell muttering "Winter is coming" while enjoying his wife and children's hot kang heads, and Robert Baratheon is still on the Iron Throne and drunken and ruined...... The dragon mother is still a wretched maiden on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and the wraiths are still cowering in the Shadow Forest, constantly attacking small groups of wildlings and growing their own legions of the dead.
The plot that fans of the original world drama or book fans are familiar with has not yet begun, and the duel between ice and fire and the power struggle in the political center of the kingdom are still in the undercurrent stage. To be reasonable, it's not too bad to travel to Westeros at this time when the summer isn't over and the world is at peace - the problem is that Egger is a goddamn Night's Watch Ranger. This means that not only can he not avoid the human predators north of the ice wall and find a place to enjoy life in the other world, but he also has to go out of the Great Wall every once in a while and send himself under the nose of the alien ghosts!
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All Night's Watch are combat-ready fighters, but only the Rangers will make it their daily routine to go north out of the Great Wall. What made Egg vomit blood was that he still didn't become a Ranger out of his own volition. During the months that Castle Black was training as a recruit and awaiting his assignment, he tried to demonstrate his nimble mind and vast knowledge as a science student, hoping that he would be noticed by Commander-in-Chief Mormont or Maester Aemon and become a close confidant...... No matter how bad it was, even if he could be a clerk or a craftsman in Castle Black, all his plans fell through, and after a commotion, he was assigned to Bunyan Stark, and became the last thing he wanted to be, the best of the best, the Ranger.
Of course, it wasn't any commander who deliberately wanted to fix him, in fact, many people still wished they could switch places with Egger. Although the Rangers had to leave the city from time to time, the summer temperatures hovering around freezing were not cold, and the task was only to patrol and reconnoitre, and as the Night's Watch organization continued to weaken and the number of personnel became increasingly tight, the commander usually asked the Rangers to prioritize their lives and try not to risk field battles with the enemy—for many years, far fewer Rangers died in battle and patrol than Craftsmen and Clerks who froze to death or died in accidents.
But winter is approaching, and the strange spirits may have awakened, and the king of the outer part of the fortress has gathered all the savages to prepare for the invasion of the south, and since a few months ago, there have been sporadic casualties in patrols...... Iger knew that the Rangers weren't going to be as comfortable as they had been in the past few years.
After the initial hesitation and injustice, Egg quickly figured out why: he was no longer the only child and the top student in the original world, and he did not have the noble surname of Chief Ranger Bunyan Stark, nor the aura of Jon Snow's illegitimate son of Duke Winterfell. No matter how much he knows the materialization reaction in astronomy and geography, in the eyes of the commanders of the night watch, he is just a "foreigner" who has committed the crime of stealing, and in the army of night watchmen with nearly 1,000 people, who has the kung fu to pay special attention to and take care of him? As a young man with a height of 1.8 meters, healthy and strong, and his training performance is not bad, he is destined to be picked by the rangers no matter how he chooses.
No one cared if he wanted to be a Ranger or not, and he was even certain that if he had disappeared while patrolling north, the Night's Watch would not have gone out of their way to find him, as they had done with Sir Weimar Royce or Bunyan Stark...... Here, he is just a night watchman soldier, and it is conceivable that in the next battle between humans and ghosts, he who barely learned to use a sword and ride a horse is probably just cannon fodder.
If you don't want to end your career as a time-traveler here in a daze, you must try to change your fate.
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