King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 139 winter has come
winter has come.

It was dark and cold, and the chill in the air silently crept into the gaps in clothing and armor, making one's teeth chatter. While there's never been a summer day beyond the wall, it's still noticeably colder than it was a few months ago.

The snow did not stop, and these white light solid objects scattered all over the ground, covering the original clear footprints on the ground, and the whole field of vision was white.

"Why don't we just stay in Castle Black and keep warm in this hellish weather?" Zeit angrily kicked the bitch at oneself's feet, the bitch whined, but squeezed back Next to his trousers, so as to rely on the warmth radiated from human clothes to retain a little heat: "Fuck him, the ghoul, can you grab that thing back and make soup!"

"Commander Your lord has said that you should send the ghouls to King Robert to see them in King's Landing, so that you can ask for help!" Lack said, "This is the idea that Igor gave the commander, didn't you hear it at the mobilization meeting, or do you still think Which bitch went?"

"It's Igor again! With a mouth and licking ass for that shorty at House Lannister, managed to run to the south to have fun, only to write back and ask Mormont to send us out. To death! I dug up his ancestral grave?" Chit's mouth was twisted into a ball, and his boils were red with anger: "Next time he goes back to the Wall, I promise to put him on the ground and put the frozen hard feces sticks. Put him in his ass!"

"Put him to the ground? This guy is tall and strong even among the rangers, with your body that can't even hold a bitch down. ...I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Dolorous Edd interjected: "Also, thinking about how to beat someone in the leather jacket and cotton pants sent by someone doesn't seem very good. I suggest you take it off first and then think about it, at least it looks like And some more ambition."

"Seven Hells! It's just a few clothes and some pants, should I get down on my knees and ask Gods to bless him?"

" How many times have you eaten his meat, and have you forgotten? Kneeling down and praying is no use, it's easy to wet your pants, and it will be colder." Edd shrugged his shoulders and said: "And, personal advice, you'd better not go. Looking for trouble. When he and Will and Gary left the Waymar Royce guy to feed Others oneself and escaped back to Wall, which one of Castle Black didn't think he was dead? But people are still alive and well. , and also used the means to send Waymar's little idiot nobleman Yohn Royce to Wall. This is a really cruel character... The whole Night's Watch is up and down, and I am now dissatisfied with no one but him. If he ever Back to Wall, I must obediently and honestly call him 'Master Chief Logistics Officer', what he tells me to do. If he is happy, get me a new set of clothes, so that I can eat meat every day, and even put I got into the logistics department and took it to the south...that would be so cool."

"Chief logistics officer of the dog-girl, dog-girl Jon Snow, dog-brother Sam Tarly! ' Zeit growled, kicking the bitch away from the oneself again.

Then the horn rang.

One, two, three, and finally... three long and one short , the fourth horn of Night's Watch never blew, and the operation began.

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Night's Watch Legion has been sending Rangers since more than two months ago Attempts to catch ghouls alive have succeeded at least twice during the period, but in the end they failed to bring the spoils back to the Wall because of Others: the first time, the successful Night's Watches succeeded in a fierce battle and succeeded in chasing the pursuers. The Others was shot to death with an arrow equipped with obsidian arrows, but the ghoul he caught turned into a corpse; the second time, Night's Watch was surprised to find that the Others were not only covered with a layer of Dragonglass arrows impenetrable The Ice Armor, and also began to cautiously keep a distance from the Night's Watches, as much as possible to use only ghoul cannon fodder to participate in the battle... The Rangers lost a lot in that battle, and finally were forced to throw before the dead army completed the encirclement. The ghouls that had been caught fled on horseback.

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A hundred thousand wildlings had set off from Frostfangs, dragging their families, grandiose, slowly and without pause along the Milkwater Marching through the Haunted Forest and heading south - in another ten days or a fortnight, its vanguard will approach the Wall, and by then it will be difficult for the ghouls to be captured.

before Two failed operations, the Night's Watch's attempts to capture the ghouls were fortunately undetected by the Others, but it was only three... Blind attempts will not only cause more casualties, in case they are accidentally caught by these intelligent Magic creatures Find out the intention and take precautions, and the plan to bring the ghoul to King's Landing to prove its existence will be completely in vain.

There is not much time left for the Night's Watch, and the Blackshirts must take effective measures immediately. Action.

Through the scouts' reconnaissance and the confessions of the wildling captives, the Night's Watch commander learned an important piece of information: Winter gradually awakened the evil spirits north of Wall, and the transformation of corpses into ghouls gradually began Becoming more common - whether it's human or livestock, no matter what the cause of death, no matter how deeply buried... as long as it's north of the Wall, a corpse that's not completely decomposed, fast or slow... will eventually transform itself For the ghouls - and face the dead that are continuously spawned everywhere The army, the smaller number of Others, did not have time to appear anytime and anywhere and gather them under their command.

The time lag between the formation of the ghouls and the time when they joined the Others provided an opportunity for the Night's Watches to attack. So Jeor Mormont finally gave a new order: look for the scattered ghouls in the Haunted Forest who are not with the Others, and start with these easy targets.

If the horn beeps three times, it means that the scouts have found traces of Others, and to avoid casualties, everyone needs to evacuate south quickly...and one more sound means that the whereabouts of ghouls have been found, and No Others exist around!

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Everyone was nervous. Due to the heavy casualties of the Rangers, some craftsmen and service officers... These people who have never been out of the wall were also drawn to participate in the ghoul capture mission, although the Rangers have already heard about these strange enemies north of the Wall. , but most people still have never seen either Others or ghouls... When the horn rang, their backs shivered and they felt like peeing.

The Hounds also seemed to understand the chill in the horn's sound, and they roared uncomfortably. Zet had just kicked away one of the ones that kept squeezing, but now he had to struggle to get it out. Several dogs were pulled by the reins.

Dolorous Edd took the hilt of his sword and called out to the tree, "Will, did you see something?"

"They're here." The poacher's voice From overhead: "What's the matter, there seems to be a bit more!"

"Look if there are Others in the mix, these cunning things may not ride on horses to confuse the scouts' judgment!" Dolorous Edd urged Said: "Don't miss any of them, look carefully, you are the one with whom we have the most contact with them!"

"There are about twenty in the north and a dozen in the northeast... There are a lot? Didn't see Others, I have to come down! It's too late."

A manned horse rushed over the snow to the Night's Watchers who were waiting here, the successor was missing Benjen Stark becomes Chief Ranger's Jeremy Lake Ser: "Beware, Ranger brothers are getting a little too much, plan on a second set of plans, all on horses!"

"Look there, in the woods!"

The ghouls emerged from the shadowy trees in the Haunted Forest, rushed through the heavy snow and stepped on the slippery forest floor. Because they had no body temperature, most of them brought snow and ice on their bodies. The camouflage, and the surrounding environment are almost fused together, if it is not moving, it is difficult to distinguish, blurred, and there is not much at all.

"Get on the horse!"

"Wait, don't leave me!"

"Will, stay in the tree and don't get down, you're all relying on it This trick has survived twice, it's not bad this time!" The chief ranger ordered loudly: "Don't hesitate, it's over when you are surrounded, save your Dragonglass arrows and use them again at a critical time!"

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(end of this chapter)