Chapter 0004: Underground Secrets
Huren and his riders chased Bran after Jon and the others, while Ed and Jory Cao Dali turned to another path, crossing King's Road and turning onto a path parallel to King's Road.
They will enter Winterfell through the North Gate, as the Sacred Wood Forest is close to the North Gate, right next to the warm glass garden. And Hu Lun led the team to the south gate and put the horses back in the stable, so that the young masters could enter the main castle from the school grounds.
Half a day away, Cao Dali saw a towering round tower from a distance, and when he got closer, he saw that the top of the round tower had collapsed inward, dilapidated, but it was still the tallest building in Winterfell, it was like an old stubborn giant who refused to fall. The stone walls of the remnant tower bear traces of being burned by fire.
This is the remnant of Winterfell's tower, destroyed by a fire caused by lightning a hundred years ago. This remnant tower will witness the tragedy of Bran being pushed down by Jaime Lannister from above, breaking his back and legs.
Cao Dali suddenly snorted.
Both Ed and Jory turned around and saw Cao Dali's pale face and straight eyes.
"What's wrong?" Ed asked in a deep voice.
"I've seen images of the remnants of the tower in the glimmer of hallucinations, faintly, a figure falling from it, but maybe it's not a human figure, or maybe it's the shadow of a bird. When I saw this tower just now, my hallucinations returned, and I felt stinging in my eyes and disgust in my chest. ”
Ed's heart moved, he knew that Bran loved nothing more than to climb this remnant tower and look into the distance from the remnant. This remnant tower was originally a watchtower built by Stark's ancestors. It's just that after being struck by lightning and causing a fire a hundred years ago, it has never been repaired.
Jory was also moved in his heart, this Will has been on the Great Wall of Desperation for several years, naturally he doesn't know that Bran likes to climb, if his illusion fragment is an oracle, it means that Bran will be in danger if he climbs this remnant tower again.
Eddard doted on Bran, and he never stopped Bran from climbing in Winterfell, but Lady Caitlyn was very worried about Bran's misstep. Since the oracle has hints, it is better to believe it than to believe it, and it is better to tell Bran not to climb this remnant tower recently.
Ed waited for a moment and said, "Will, are you feeling better?" The cold tone was much softer.
Cao Dali didn't answer, just nodded.
Cao Dali liked Bran, Bran was so beautiful, that face was simply a perfect masterpiece, and he didn't want Bran to fall from it again.
When the three of them entered the north gate, Cao Dali found that inside the tall city wall was a moat about twenty meters wide, and on the other side of the moat, there was another wider city wall.
Sandwiched between the twin walls was a moat.
Cao Dali was in Winterfell for the first time.
In the past, when Will was a thief, he had never been here, but had just spent his days in the winter town outside the South Gate. Winter towns are rarely populated in the summer, but in the winter, the whole town is packed.
The soldiers defending the city had already lowered the drawbridge, and Cao Dali followed Ed and Jory across the drawbridge, and found that the inner city wall was wider and thicker, but it was not as high as the outer wall.
Ed dismounted, Jory and Cao Dali dismounted, and the guards guarding the gate had already come to lead the horses. On the right-hand side is a large glass garden, and when you approach the garden entrance, you can feel the heat inside. The garden is planted with flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees, and is like a little spring-like paradise. In the cold north, there are hot springs heating under the glass garden to keep the vegetables and flowers at the temperature they need.
The level of civilization that can produce glass still makes Cao Dali's heart move. It seems that the iron-making and glass-firing processes in this fantasy world are still relatively mature.
After passing through the glass garden, entering through a large iron gate, there is a sacred tree forest that covers the sky and the sun. A smell of rotting leaves and damp and cold wafts through the air, giving an oppressive gloom.
Walking into the sacred forest, the light in front of you is dim, the head is twisted and twisted branches and branches and tree trunks block the light, the tall sentinel trees, oak trees, ancient iron trees, and black-brown cypress trees The leaves are dark green steel needles one by one, which fall when the breeze blows, and pierce the human skin and cause pain.
This is a world of individual trees, many of which are 10,000 years old. The huge tree is like a black wall.
The ancient woods were very quiet, and Cao Dali felt as if he had heard the wriggling sound of earthworms and insects under the thick rotten leaves.
Is it because my divine consciousness has become particularly powerful after fusing two souls?
Maybe it's possible!
After walking for a while, a small lake appeared in front of it, which was covered with green moss, and a faint white mist floated from the green moss. Then there is the second small lake, the third small lake, which is steaming and the water of the lake is hot springs. On the edge of the lake with three heart-shaped hot springs, Cao Dali saw the mysterious heart tree that he had been fantasizing about in his heart.
Looking up, you can see the dense branches and leaves of the heart tree that can barely be seen, and the whole tree has endless branches, and it seems to be an independent world when it spreads out. The white bark that looks like human skin, the five-fingered leaves that look like the palm of a human hand, the middle of the huge trunk, a very long ancient human face, about several meters high, a pair of compassionate and silent huge eyes on the human face, Cao Dali and those eyes are paired, and his heart jumps.
He felt the silent and eternal life in those eyes, which seemed to have a magical power to suck his soul into. Cao Dali's spirit was in a trance, his gaze sank into Xinshu's eyes, and in the pupils of those eyes, there was a pair of gray-brown eyes looking at him.
"My people, you have such a powerful soul. Cao Dali saw the mouth of the human face opening and closing, and the voice was old and desolate, as if it was coming slowly from ancient times.
Then, he felt himself float up, out of his body, towards one of the eyes of the Heart Tree. Cao Dali was shocked, turned around, and saw himself standing in a daze, his eyes were dull, his expression was dazed, Ed beside him was kneeling on one leg and praying, and Jory was also kneeling beside Ed, bowing his head and closing his eyes, chanting words.
"My soul has been stripped out?" Cao Dali was startled, but he couldn't control himself from floating into a giant eye, what did he see? wind, rain, thunder and lightning appeared in the giant eye, countless giants appeared, several hovering dragons appeared, and strange people with green skin and legs with plant tentacles on their hands and feet, these strange people were like plants.+Man, and then he saw the stranger, the blue-eyed, frosty-bodied stranger, densely packed, vegetative tentacles like vines wrapped around the stranger, the giant's war hammer swept and smashed the stranger to pieces, the dragon roared and flew, and the flames poured from the sky into the stranger......
This scene is completely absent from Cao Dali's memory of this world.
"Child, this is the Battle of Dawn, and the last battle between the Ancestors and the Children of the Forest, the Giants and the Dragons against the Strangers. The ground beneath your feet, under Winterfell, is buried the bones of countless Sons of the Forest, giants and ancient dragons, and beneath the bones lies a great secret. The purpose of Winterfell was to hide this secret, and people who did not have particularly strong soul power could not resist the coercion of many yin spirits underground, and could not enter the underground to break this secret. ”
The voice of the ancient old man was slow, like the sigh of the ancient giant god before he died: "Child, you are the person with the strongest soul power I have ever seen, I finally waited for you, but with your current soul power, if you want to go into the ground and take out that great treasure, you can't do it, winter is coming, don't struggle, child, enter my eyes, I can make your soul power stronger." ”
Cao Dali was shocked by the change: "Is the trajectory of this fantastic and cruel world beginning to change because of my own appearance? I have strong soul power? Is it because my soul is fused with Will's soul?"
Cao Dali's body involuntarily floated into the right eye of the heart tree.
The scene of the decisive battle between the flame flying dragon roaring in front of him and the ancestors of the giant clan and the sons of the forest and the strange spirits changed, Cao Dali floated in the blue sky, and saw the giant ancestors and the sons of the forest building a city under the command of one person, and everyone called this person Brandon Stark. The city walls, watchtowers (now the remnants of the tower), the main fort and other buildings were all completed. Outside the moat, there were no walls.
It turns out that the walls outside the moat of Winterfell were built by the descendants of the Stark family. When Winterfell was built, there was only one wall, which is now the inner wall.
The scenery changed again, Cao Dali flew up, like a giant humanoid bird, he flew into the air, flew to the north. He came to the sky above the Great Wall of Desperation, the cold wind was biting, about to blow away his transparent humanoid soul, Cao Dali fought against the cold wind like a knife with all his strength, and his soul power became stronger and stronger.
However, the cold power of heaven and earth was not something he could compete with after all. Just as his transparent humanoid soul was about to be blown away, an invisible and qualitative heat enveloped him, relieving him. He looked down and saw that the Great Wall of Desperation, which was hundreds of miles long and seven hundred feet high, was gone, and the strong man named Brandon Stark appeared again, leading the Giant Clan of the ancestors, mining boulders, mixing with solid ice, and with the help of the dragon, starting from both ends, building this Great Wall of Desperation.
It turns out that the Great Wall of Desperation and Winterfell were built by a man named Brandon Stark with his ancestors, sons of the forest, and giants, and with the help of dragons.
Brandon Stark, the Builder of the City, was a great hero to bring together the Ancestors, the Giants, the Children of the Forest, and the Dragons to build the Great Wall of Despair.
It turns out that the dragons were not brought by the Targaryens from the Narrow Sea, and they had already appeared on this continent during the Dawn Era.
Cao Dali was relieved in his heart, such an extraterrestrial divine object as the Dragon Clan had existed for at least 10,000 years, and naturally it was far from being comparable to the Targaryen family, which was only a few hundred years old.
Stark, the city builder of the Dawn Age, is the same as the ability to control the dragon, and the uniqueness of the Targaryen family, which is only a few hundred years old, because of its special bloodline, may not exist.