Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 55 The Shadow of the Ghost

"So are the traces of the camp new? Was the camp just abandoned or has it been abandoned for a long time?" Ian asked.

"Not long after it was abandoned, when our horse team first arrived, the bonfire inside was still smoking."

"Shouldn't it? According to what you said, after the patrol team in Taman Village reported to you, you immediately sent a light cavalry team to check, but only found an empty camp. Even if the other party has a ghost among you, It’s impossible to evacuate in such an orderly manner so quickly, right?”

"Sorry," Sir Wilde smiled awkwardly. "The 'immediately' I said earlier was just an overview. In fact, it took us a little time to send the cavalry out after we received the news."

"How much time is a little time? I want accurate information."

"One hour. Probably right, just one hour." Looking at the serious 'Sir Lucian', Wilder inexplicably felt that he was the opponent's subordinate.

"This time is still too short," Ian shook his head. "The inner ghost needs to report after receiving the news, and then the other party has to pack up everything and evacuate, and disappear from your sight when your horse team arrives."

"It's a raven," Sir Wilde explained. "At that time, we held a combat meeting to discuss this matter. Sir Simon thought that the other party used a raven to report."

"Raven?" Ian understood Wilder's meaning. If the inner ghost and the ghost of Whitewall City communicated using ravens, such a time difference could indeed be created.

And if the ghosts of Whitewall City were really people looking for Blackfyre's treasure, it wouldn't be surprising that they could find someone who could raise crows and be literate.

"You haven't found their temporary camp since then?" Ian continued to ask.

"No." Sir Wilde said, "We conducted a thorough search of that area, but we have never found any other camps of the Ghost of Whitewall City."

"Wait. A thorough search? How dare you say that you have conducted a thorough search of such a large area with more than 500 people?" That's an area of ​​over a thousand square kilometers!

"Well, of course it's not just our people. At that time, the patrols and hunters of more than 20 nearby villages helped us. Many of them are fiefs of our alliance members, such as my Feilan Village, Wo the villages of Taman and Ngal, the Taman and Yoka villages of the Darry family”

"Where does the Darry family still have a fief?" Ian was a little surprised.

"There are only a few left. At its peak, the Dai Rui family owned nearly 60 villages from the east bank of God's Eye Lake to the south bank of the Trident River. Now there are only four left."

Not all deprivation is already very good, I am afraid that only Robert has this measure, Ian complained.

"At that time, with the help of local patrols and hunters, we searched the area where people were most likely to hide, but found nothing in the end." Sir Wilder continued.

Ian fell silent. He always felt that there was a big problem here, but he couldn't tell where the problem was.

"Forget it, let's stop here for the time being," Ian sighed inaudibly, "continue to talk about the ghost camp stronghold you found."

"Their base is in an abandoned fishing village on the south bank of the mouth of the Trident River, 6 leagues (about 29 kilometers) north of here."

"Abandoned fishing village? Why was it abandoned?"

"It was originally a small fishing village built on a small natural harbor, but during the Robert Uprising (that is, the usurper war), it was ransacked by the army of which side I don't know." Almost no one survived.

After the war, the Hean family, the Darry family, and the Mooton family of Maidenquan Town all lost their power because they stood on the side of Targaryen, so the entire crossroads fell into depression, let alone That fishing village was gone, and at least 40 villages in this area were deserted after the war. "

"Sad story," Ian commented, but there was no sadness on his face. "Go on, tell me what you all found?"

"We suspect that the ghost of Whitewall City has found the treasure of Blackfyre and is transferring the treasure there." Sir Wilder said surprisingly.

Even though Ian had already guessed that Wilder and the others had found the key clues about the Blackfyre Treasure, when they heard the news, they still couldn't be fooled.

The elusive bandit group called 'ghost', the bandit group that barely left you with a temporary camp, was not only found this time, but also on the way to transfer the treasure?

"Can you tell me the basis for your conclusion?" Ian expressed reservations about Wilder's conclusion.

"The truth is that" Sir Wilder thought for a while, "We found that the ghosts of Whitewall City have basically stopped all looting activities in the past two weeks."

"They just ransacked the salt mine in Earl Harroway's town three days ago!" Sir Willy, who had been silent all this time, interrupted Wilder this time.

Ian couldn't hold back for a moment, and laughed out loud, that's right!It was the ghost of Whitewalls who did it!All the bad things are done by them!
"What are you laughing at?" Wilder looked at Ian suspiciously.

I thought of something happy, "It's nothing, it's just that he refuted your words just after you finished speaking, I think it's quite interesting."

So you're still a young man after all, right?Wilde breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably: "The salt mine in the town of Earl Holroway was indeed attacked three days ago, and I heard that many people died there.

But according to the foreman's description, he took the salt workers and left the salt mine temporarily and lent the mine to a traveling merchant. The ghosts should have nothing to do with it, but the ghosts of White Wall City have been doing evil for a long time in this generation, and everyone likes to push the blame on them. "

"Okay, then let's assume that the ghost of Whitewall City has nothing to do with the attack on the salt mine in Earl Harroway's town three days ago." En added in her heart, "And then?"

"The ghosts of the White Wall City seem to have disappeared suddenly, so we are very worried. They have found the Black Flame Treasure and are preparing to evacuate."

"So why couldn't they choose to give up after realizing that they couldn't find the treasure at all?" Ian asked.

"Of course, this possibility also exists, but in any case, their sudden disappearance is not a good thing for us." Wilder explained.

Isn't it a good thing that the bandit group that can't be dealt with disappears?You are really a competent and good lord, Ian complained in his heart.

"So we dispersed people and tried to find out where they were."

(End of this chapter)