Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 39
"Black Falcon is wearing a piece of plate and chain armor. The chest part is covered by a large piece of iron. The thickness of the iron piece is two millimeters, which is about equal to an ordinary wrought iron breastplate. This steel crossbow bolt penetrates the black armor from the front. The two layers of defense on the falcon's chest pierced into his heart, "This requires more than two hundred joules of energy," something that can only be achieved by a military crossbow with an armor-piercing arrow.

He also took an arrow in the leg, and the bolt penetrated the outside of his right thigh, where he was defenseless.

There was a large bloodstain at the door of the room, and there were traces of dragging from there to the black falcon's body, which indicated that the black falcon was attacked at the moment the door was pushed open. "

Ian stood at the door and repeated the action of pushing the door,

"Judging from the incident angle of the crossbow on the corpse, one of the two attackers at that time should be standing in front of the gate, and the other was squatting in the corner of the wall over there. Both of them were holding military crossbows, waiting for the Black Falcon Push the door of the room open."

Opening the eyelids of the corpse, Ian further inspected the condition of the corpse.

The pupils were slightly cloudy, the plaques on the back had begun to fuse, the corpse was completely stiff, and the victim had been dead for more than 6 hours.
"The time of death was probably between ghost time and wolf time [Note 1]." After examining the corpse, Ian looked at Black Falcon's adopted son Dorian,

"The situation at that time should be that Black Falcon came to the room of this suspected Grafson family knight in full armor in the middle of the night yesterday. When he opened the door, he was immediately attacked deliberately by the other party. He didn't even Before he could cry out, he was already dead. Then the knight and his servant dragged the black falcon's body from the door into the room, and fled here at night after closing the door.

What puzzles me is why Black Falcon brought 10 of you to this inn, but why did he choose to meet each other alone in the middle of the night?
Moreover, since they made an appointment to meet alone, why didn't they say anything? The situation at the scene was obviously like this. The murderer didn't intend to talk to him at all, and he came here just to kill him from the beginning.

Black Falcon was attacked as soon as he opened the door. What kind of hatred is this?Black Falcon went to see the other party in full armor, which showed that he did not trust the other party, so why did he go to the appointment alone?It's weird, isn't it? "

"How did you know all this? I didn't see anything." The 'adopted son' Dorian was dumbfounded after hearing Ian's words, and asked in a daze.

(The names of these foreigners are hard to remember, so Ian subconsciously added nicknames to those guys who don't have nicknames, Dorian is called 'Adopted Son', Sir Granson is called 'Sir Two-Five Boy', 'Spiked' Denzel called 'the Dornishman beaten by society')
"You are watching, and I am watching." Ian quoted a famous quote from Sherlock Holmes.

"No, who the hell are you?" Adopted son Dorian finally woke up from his stupor, yelled at Ian, and then looked at Granson, "Who is this person? Your new A different master, sir."

"Boss Morgan wouldn't talk to me like this when he was alive, kid." Granson choked back immediately.

That word 'boy' instantly angered the young adopted son, just when he sought support from his adoptive father's two assistants 'Knife Face' and 'Lame', those two also used the word 'boy' to humiliate him, Then walk away.

Just when Dorian was about to draw his sword, Ian stopped him with a voice.

"I think you have misunderstood Sir Granson. Didn't you realize that he was the only mercenary captain who stayed here after the death of your adoptive father to avenge him? Which of the other guys didn't immediately Want to rush back to your station and compete for the position of the next head?"

"This..." Dorian let go of the hand that had just touched the hilt.

"It was at Sir Granson's invitation that I came to help," Ian cast a warning look at Granson, signaling him not to speak, "Or do you think it's just a few of you who can Have the strength to avenge Black Falcon?"

"This…"

"I am the only person in this world who can avenge you, if you are willing to share with me everything you know." Ian said while washing his hands in the basin that Jane handed him.

"Really?" Dorian subconsciously believed it. He looked at Ian, and then at the twenty-five boy Granson.

"Uh, of course." Granson probably understood Ian's thoughts, but still nodded unnaturally.

"So, should you apologize to Sir Granson? We are all working together for the same purpose, and we should maintain unity." Ian said immediately.

"Yes," adopted son Dorian nodded, unaware that he and Ian had become a 'colleague' relationship before he agreed, and he said to Sir Granson in a very formal tone , "I'm sorry sir, I ask your forgiveness for my behavior just now."

"I shouldn't use the word child to describe you. In fact, you are already a good fighter. One day you will become the new boss of Morgan." Granson also cooperated, and then added in his heart, you will never Will be the new Morgan Boss, brat, yuck!
"Then, please solve my doubts next. This is very important to find out who is behind the murder of your adoptive father." Ian walked to the door, "Shall we find another room and talk while drinking?"

Dorian agreed to Ian's proposal, and soon the group moved to Ian's big room.

"What wine do you want?" Janet played her proper role at this time.

"Golden wine from Arbor Island." Ian directly said the name of the best wine in Westeros.

"Oh, sir, how can there be such a good wine in a small shop? Our best wine is only Dorn's summer red, and the rest is our own wine."

Donne's horse urine, Ian couldn't help but think of someone's evaluation of Xia Rihong in the original book, "Okay, then Xia Rihong." Ian responded, and then looked at his adopted son Dorian, "So we are now Do you want to start or wait for the wine to come?"

"Could you tell me who you are first, sir."

"Ser Lucian Lannister."

"A member of the Lannister family? You are also here for the Blackfyre treasure?" Dorian immediately felt a trace of vigilance.

"Could it be that he was the one who killed my adoptive father? At that moment just now, you had such an idea, right?" Ian said in an extremely exaggerated tone.

Dorian stood up abruptly, taking a step back.

"Relax, my friend, I didn't know your adoptive father before. I came here to catch a group of fugitives from King's Landing, and they can all prove that."

Dorian looked around, only to see Sir Granson and Jenny who just brought the wine nodded.

Note: Ghost time and wolf time are both Westeros' descriptions of time. Ghost time is around 0 o'clock in the middle of the night and wolf time is around 3 o'clock in the morning

(End of this chapter)