Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 28
There was nothing in the big room except straw mats, so after Ian asked Rolle to pile most of the straw mats in a corner, he went outside and moved a table and three stools in.

The environment here is a bit bad, and the smell inside even makes Ian wonder if the bedding here has never been changed.

But even if you haven’t changed it, it’s normal. This is originally provided for farmers who travel to and from nearby villages and castles. It only costs one copper cent a night, and the charge is less than one-eighth of a normal single room, which is basically equivalent to free prostitution. , while prostitutes usually have a high degree of tolerance.

After all, if you have money, you can also live in a single room.

Of course, Ian didn't choose such a big room to save money, he just simply felt that living in the same room with the two knights would make him feel safer.

What he didn't want to admit was that the shadow of the battle and massacre in the salt mine had not dissipated.

After they arranged everything properly, the proprietress Martha also came to the door of Ian's room.

"Sir, your food is ready." Her voice sounded quite sleepy, and Ian guessed that she complained about being pulled up to cook in the middle of the night.

"Come in." Ian responded, he didn't care whether Martha complained, he only cared about Martha's cooking skills praised by Caitlin Tully in the original book and Tyrion Lannister praised in the tavern Old ale.

After all, the day's journey had already made him exhausted and hungry.

After receiving Ian's consent, Martha and the two maids pushed open the door of this large room.

Soon, a big meal consisting of whole wheat bread, potato bacon, onion beef soup, roast lamb, roast quail and ale was delivered to Ian's table.

Ian didn't rush to gobble it up, but looked at the proprietress Martha who stayed in the room and didn't leave.

"My lords."

"We don't need other services, thank you, you can go to rest." Ian probably knew what she wanted to ask, so he dismissed her first.

But it didn't work. Martha quickly shook her head: "I didn't mean to ask about this. I'm sorry, Sir."

"Relax and speak slowly." Ian put down the fork in his hand and looked at Martha.

"Thank you, my lord." Martha nodded hastily and adjusted her mood, "You are knights of the Lannister family, right?"

"Yes." Ian admitted directly. Anyway, he had already dealt with all the members of the Carmel mercenary team, so he didn't intend to give up this disguised identity for the time being, so he didn't hide the heraldic sword.

The proprietress probably asked this question because she saw the lion head on Ian's sword.

Martha received Ian's affirmative answer, and she immediately smiled, showing her teeth stained red from chewing tobacco all the year round: "So you are from King's Landing?"

"How did you come to this conclusion?" Ian asked as he tore off a leg from the grilled quail.

"Hey, I've been here for so many years, and I've basically seen all the knights of the Seven Kingdoms," Martha pointed to Rolle, "The black armor on this knight has complicated patterns. , this is the style of King's Landing or Highgarden, and you are a Lannister knight, and King's Landing is... half Lannister, so I guess you are from King's Landing."

"Yes, you guessed it right, I am Sir Lucian Lannister, and they are my subordinates," Ian raised his eyebrows, continued to stuff food into his mouth, and took another big mouthful of thick soup, " So, what are you looking for us for?"

"Oh, yes, if you're not in a hurry"

"Coincidentally, we are relatively free during this time." Ian nodded directly, and his intuition told him that Martha's words would trigger the task.

As it happens, he is trying to do some tests on the trigger mechanism of optional missions.

After all, according to the organizers, they will not interfere in any way after the game server is launched, which means that the so-called trigger task is most likely to be triggered automatically by the system according to a certain preset mechanism when the aborigines ask the player for help. Generated tasks.

In this real world, if the task trigger mechanism is fixed, then Ian, as a former game planner, can say responsibly that as long as the operation is done properly, bugs can definitely be stuck in it.

Of course, that can only be considered after he has tested the complete trigger mechanism.

What he wants to test now is just the simplest question-whether the mission will be triggered as long as the player is asked for help by the aborigines.

"So." Ian continued, "how can I help you?"

"That's right, Sir Lucian, recently a group of bandits appeared around here. They robbed houses and did all sorts of crimes. Because their dens were near the former Whitewall City, we called them 'Whitewall Ghosts.'" With Ian's approval, Martha said this.

"The ghost of White Wall City." Ian repeated Martha's words, and searched for relevant information in his memory, but unfortunately, he did not find any information about such a bandit group, and he had never even heard of such a name.

In other words, there is no mention of such a thing in the original and derivative works of Ice and Fire.

"Have you heard of it?"

"No, I've never heard of it." Ian shook his head, "But since they are bandits, I think you want us to help wipe them out?"

Wandering bandit, Ian secretly smiled, may I ask which medieval game with quest function lacks such a quest to suppress bandits?This is simply the most traditional hydrological routine (strike out).

"No." Unexpectedly, Martha denied this, "It's not me, in fact, it's Sir Wilder and the others."

"them?"

"They're a confederacy of the landed knights around here, and they're the ones who need help."

"You mean, in order to deal with the bandits you mentioned, the property knights around here formed an alliance?" Ian was a little puzzled.

"No, this alliance has always existed, but this time they really gathered to deal with the ghosts of White Wall City."

"How many are they?"

"Including Sir Wilder, Sir Willy, and Sir Kahn, there are a total of seven property knights, and of course, their attendants and guards."

This was completely beyond Ian's expectations. In his mind, since the original book didn't mention the so-called "White Wall City Ghost" at all, then this should be a group of little thieves with little strength.

He originally thought that Martha would directly give him a trigger task, and then he could directly recruit a team of mercenaries on the spot to wipe out the opponent, but he didn't expect that in order to deal with this group of people, the local property knights had already formed alliance.

"Since there are already so many jazzes ready to deal with them, why are you looking for us?" Ian couldn't help being speechless.

"That's right. Sir Wilder was very worried that they were short of manpower, so he asked me to help him pay attention to the reliable foreign knights who passed by here in the past few days. He hopes to get your help."

"Outlander knight?" Ian's eyes narrowed involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)