Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 30 Super Tool Man
Just tell her the characteristics, anyone who enters this area, can she give me clues? ! !
Hey!
Isn't this the net I want?Then I still care about the optional task of a hammer!

Originally, Ian only had a rough idea on how to hunt at the Crossroads Inn, and he hadn't figured out how to deal with many specific problems.

For example, how to find reliable mercenaries, how to keep the mercenaries secret, and how to explain to the mercenaries that they are here to arrest people?

Another example is when they find a guy with very suspicious equipment, how to identify whether he is a player or not.

The point is, how do they avoid being discovered by other players when they attack a suspected player, and how do they prevent their battle from being seen by other aborigines from spreading the news and causing panic?

Ian didn't have a clue about these details, and he was still thinking about it later.

Didn't expect a super tool man to be delivered to your door like this?Ian looked at Martha, staring at her hairs.

"Sir Lucian? About my proposal?"

"Oh, Martha, my friend," Ian shook his head with a smile, "I think you should be able to help me more than asking for clues."

"A bigger favor?" Martha was puzzled.

Of course it is a bigger favor, you are familiar with the local mercenaries, you can recruit a bunch of good ones for me.

You have your own intelligence network, which can monitor the entire area and lock every strange and suspicious person who moves in or simply passes by.

You are the proprietress of the inn, you can put medicine in the food, sneakily turn the unsuspecting players to avoid alarming the enemy.

What a big baby you are!
"Of course, it's a bigger favor." Ian pushed the golden dragon on the table in front of Martha, and just as Martha reached out to grab it, he covered the golden dragon under his palm again.

"You just said that as long as anyone enters this area, you can give me clues. I want to know how much exaggeration is in this sentence?"

"Exaggeration? You suspect I'm lying? Oh no, sir, I'm not lying at all!"

"How are you going to do it?"

"I know a man, 'Black Falcon' Morgan. He has a mercenary regiment under him. From Harrenhal to Qianyudu, the mercenaries and hooligans on both sides of the northeast of God's Eye Lake have a good relationship with him. Do you want Track down someone who has entered this area, and ask him to be sure."

'Black Falcon' Morgan?Ian frowned, this is the second time!
First, there was the so-called ghost of the White Wall City. According to Martha, this bandit group set up their dens near the White Wall City.

But the knights were worried about lack of manpower, so they asked her to help recruit some passing foreign knights to help in the inn.Obviously that is a bandit group with certain strength, but it never appeared in the original book.

Unexpectedly, here comes another mercenary leader who has a huge influence on the north bank of God's Eye Lake that is not in the original book.

This is a very unusual phenomenon.

Because there is only a little over a year left before the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings, it stands to reason that once the war breaks out, it is impossible for such a large-scale bandit group and powerful mercenary leader not to show up.

But none of them appeared in the original book!

"Introduce me to this. Black Falcon."

"What do you want to know?"

"everything."

"I actually don't know much about him," Martha said with an embarrassed smile. "He came here seven years ago. In a drunken dispute, he killed the original leader of this area with one against two. The twin brothers of the mercenary team then made a name for themselves and became the new leader."

"that's it?"

"That's all, sir, how dare I hide it from you?"

"Then what's your relationship with him?"

"Ordinary partnership. He uses my inn as a stronghold for the mercenary team. I provide them with drinks and food below the cost price, and they protect my inn from being ransacked by robbers."

Your inn was ransacked after all, Ian swears.

During the War of the Five Kings, Duke Tywin personally brought a Lannister army of 2 people here. He used this inn as his headquarters, and hanged you to death as a token of what you did to Tilly. Ang's kidnapping by Caitlin takes revenge.

Even if your Black Falcon is the Heavenly King Lao Tzu, don't try to protect your inn in this situation.

After thinking about it, is it because this guy didn't appear in the original book because he was also hanged by Tai Wen directly?Or was he worried that he would be retaliated by the Lannister family because he stood aside from Tyrion's kidnapping, so he fled early?
If this is the case, it is reasonable that such a person does not appear in the original book. After all, with Tywin's status, it is not necessary to specifically mention the mercenaries who were hanged or scared away by him.

Wait, although this Black Falcon is not worth mentioning in front of Tywin, it can be regarded as a force that cannot be ignored for the local knights and the Whitewall Bandits. Don't you want to find this mercenary leader?

Is it because you can't pay?
Or is it that the bandit group was created by Black Falcon?After all, there must be robbers and mercenaries in order to find work, otherwise there is no war, what do they eat?
If this is the case, the two doubts are explained in the same way.

One is that after Black Falcon was hanged (frightened away) by Tywin, the Black Falcon Mercenary Group and the Ghost of White Wall City disappeared at the same time and did not appear in the original work.

The second reason is that most of the local mercenaries are related to the black falcon, so Sir Wilde emphasized that he must ask the 'outlander knight' for help, so as not to leak information about the operation
But what role does Martha, the proprietress of the inn, play in this?While she was cooperating with Black Falcon, she was also helping Sir Wilder recruit people, and neither of them suspected her?

How can this be? !
"Sir Lucian?" Seeing Ian's delay in replying, a lot of cold sweat broke out on Martha's head.

Hearing Martha's call, Ian broke away from his contemplation, and then he sneered, why bother with them so much?As long as Black Falcon's mercenaries and intelligence network can serve me, I'd better not mix their secrets.

"Where can I find this black falcon?" he asked.

"Boss Morgan is in our inn. He arrived this afternoon."

So you just said you'd have an answer by noon tomorrow? "Can you convince him to do something for me?"

"This." Martha hesitated, "I'm afraid this is very difficult, he is very arrogant, we can ask him for help, but we need him."

"Look at this first," Ian interrupted Martha, while slowly moving his right hand away from the golden dragon on the table, "Look at these golden dragons, look at them, I guess you've never seen such dragons at once. How much money?"

"Yes, never." Martha's gaze was instantly attracted by these little golden things like a magnet.

Of course, she had never seen so many golden dragons at one time. Although the Crossroads Inn was located on a major traffic road, in this era of underdeveloped traffic, there were almost no opportunities for her to entertain nobles here.

Usually the people staying here are a group of poor mercenaries and those traveling merchants who search and search. The former spend money generously, but they don't have much money at all, while the latter have money, but they are not willing to spend it.

Over time, all the pretty girls went to Junlin to find opportunities to make a fortune, and there were only a few broken flowers and willows left in the inn, and the income was even more difficult to describe.

What?Normal business you ask?How much money can you make from food and drink in this day and age?This little profit still needs to pay the tax of the local lord and support some mercenaries who eat and drink for nothing. It is not bad if there is no loss.

(End of this chapter)