King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 175 Jaqen Farewell
Divide the "eggs" into baskets, and the Night's Watch industry begins to prepare for the upcoming The Seven Kingdoms are coming in great turmoil. This chaotic night and day made Igor physically and mentally exhausted. After ordering a lot of things, he placed a dozen Night's Watch brothers from afar. Igor brought Jaqen, Nina siblings, and oneself's "guard class"... ...all those who accompanied oneself through this ordeal, went to have a big meal to celebrate the victory.

Go back to the house and fall asleep.

This sleep is extraordinarily sweet, and I have no dreams all night. It wasn't until early in the morning that he was woken up by a cough.

Opening his eyes, it was still dark outside the window, but the interior of the house was illuminated by the rays of light of the oil lamp. Igor's mind turned and he was most awake immediately - he never had the habit of sleeping with a lamp on, No matter how lazy or tired you are, you will close your eyes after turning off the light. This light must be lit by someone else!

Igor stood up and sat up from the bed—oneself on the stool by the table in front of the bed, there was a man sitting in front of the bed.

"Who?" Igor asked, quickly touching his hand under the pillow, holding a small dagger that was placed there, but in the next second he recognized the uninvited guest: "Aquan! You are here! What are you doing?"

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Anyone who wakes up in the middle of the night and suddenly finds a Peak killer sitting beside the bed will feel a chill... but Igor quickly reacts: If Jaqen was trying to kill oneself, oneself is definitely cold now, with his eyes still open.

"Someone apologized for waking up the adults from a good night's sleep."

"What's the matter with you?" Igor frowned, he noticed that the other party was not wearing Night's today The black uniforms of the employees of the Watch industry, but put on a featureless clothing that oneself has never seen before.

Still holding the dagger under the pillow, Igor just sat on the bed and made eye contact with Jaqen, the scene was weird.

"Someone is here to say goodbye to the adults." Jaqen said, still at a moderate pace, "I wonder if the adults remember that on the day you first met someone, you had to let you know before you left. "

"That's what happened." Igor recalled that he had been confused about Jaqen staying in King's Landing for a long time, and finally decided not to worry about it anymore. On the contrary, the other party suddenly said goodbye at the most unexpected moment: "But...why can't you say goodbye to Heavenly Dao and wake me up before dawn?"

"Again, please forgive me, but a certain People have to be so rude because they have to take the first boat out to sea today. Time is running out.”

(What an upright guy, just leave a note, it must be pitch black It's scary to run over.) Igor secretly complained, a little regretful, no matter what the purpose of Jaqen staying by his side, but with such an expert as his sidekick, oneself is actually much safer... Such a strong bodyguard is leaving, What a pity.

Released the hand holding the dagger under the pillow, Igor rubbed his head: "Since you are in a hurry to leave, I will not force you to stay. If you say it earlier, I can still practice it for you. Yes. Anyway, thank you for saving my life the night before."

"It's my job, but before I leave, someone has one last thing and I want an honest answer." Faceless Men said quietly Sitting quietly on the stool, looking at the speaker: "The 'ghoul' that Night's Watch brought into King's Landing yesterday, there are really thousands outside the Wall? Others are the lies fabricated by Night's Watch to deceive support. , or does it really exist? Can the Night's Watch Legion stand up to these enemies?"

Why did the Faceless Men care so much about this news? Igor became puzzled, and when he thought back carefully, Jaqen seemed to have changed since the moment he saw the ghoul yesterday. Just put on your clothes and say goodbye, and ask oneself to confirm the matter in person before leaving. What is the relationship between the situation beyond the wall and the top spy of Braavos?
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Igor thought for a while, and soon figured out this question: the situation outside the Wall really has something to do with Braavos... Iron Throne is the biggest customer of Braavos Iron Vault And the debtor, if the human predators of beyond the wall invade the Seven Kingdoms through the Wall and turn Westeros into Hell on earth, then Braavos will never be able to recover the loan made in Westeros.

In this era of low productivity, several millions Golden Dragon is a huge sum of money that cannot be described as amazing. Without this money, the capital chain of the Iron Vault will have extremely serious problems.

In a nutshell: If the predictions of Long Night and Others are confirmed to be true...then Seven Kingdoms, which is only separated by a Wall from beyond the wall, is definitely a "high-risk customer" that banks can't avoid. , Braavos may not only not give Iron Throne or Westeros any more loans, but even the original debt...maybe try to get it back as soon as possible!
Is it possible that Jaqen saw the "living" ghoul, experienced rumors about Prince's identity, and witnessed the scene of the Red Keep civil unrest, and then found that the "loan risk" of the Iron Vault to Westeros had seriously exceeded the standard, Had to go back in person to report to Braavos?
This is just a guess made by Igor from a businessman's point of view. I am afraid that only Jaqen oneself knows the specific reason. Maybe, Braavos just wants to study ghouls, and it is also possible to create dead armies.

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"There is no lie, beyond the wall is only more serious than words can describe - ghouls are not only made of human beings, there are more Creatures that are more terrifying and powerful than humans... The most troublesome thing is that there are hundreds of thousands of wildlings outside the Wall, and they are the reserve source of ghouls. As winter comes, their number will soon increase from 'thousands to thousands' 10,000' turned into 'hundreds of thousands'." Igor sat on the bed, facing the Faceless Men in his pajamas, always feeling as if he was being forced to confess: "Ghouls and Others can't cross the Wall on their own, but with Rin When winter comes, the sea outside Eastwatch will be frozen, not to mention the Gorge to the west of Shadow Tower... The Wall is indeed an extremely reliable defensive building, but Night's Watch troops, supplies and battle strength are seriously insufficient, and it is difficult for Wall to completely If not, do you think the Night's Watch Legion Lord Commander will make an exception to send people to leave the Wall for business and military training?"

Jaqen sat on the bench and was silent for a few seconds. After nodded said he knew, he stood up. Get up: "Someone understands, then, my lord, let's say goodbye. Let's meet again by fate."

See you again by fate? I'm afraid we won't see each other again. Watching Jaqen walk to the door, Igor suddenly had an intuition: this will be the last time oneself sees Jaqen H'ghar in this life, and when his heart moves, he can't help but stop him: "Wait a minute, I answered you a question. , I take the liberty to ask one, you don’t have to answer.” This question has nothing to do with profit or the future of the Night’s Watch industry, it is purely a personal curiosity: “You ran over from Lorath and sneaked into the Royal Library, what are you doing? "

"Someone once answered that he was looking for books about dragons, not deceiving adults." Jaqen stood at the door and turned around slowly: "But someone also admitted that there are indeed It is not someone who is curious about dragons, but a friend of someone... A widely circulated prophecy once claimed that the Demon Dragon in the stone was about to be awakened, and this friend of mine happened to be referring to the prophecy. I got a dragon egg around the time, and I firmly believe that this dragon egg can hatch a dragon. So, I asked someone to come to Westeros to find a way to hatch the dragon egg left over from the Targaryen Dynasty."

A friend? Even people of this era know how to use friends as an excuse? If you guess correctly, this so-called "friend" is actually the black and white courtyard of Braavos. It seems that the analysis that Euron Greyjoy hired Faceless Men to assassinate Balon Greyjoy for the price of a dragon egg...is that true?
"But unfortunately," Jaqen continued, standing by the door, "the prophecy of the awakening of the Demon Dragon in the stone was finally fulfilled in a House Targaryen girl, rather than continuing the futile search for the Dragon Hatching egg. , but someone feels that it is much more important to bring the news of the ghoul's reappearance back to their hometown and warn everyone."

"so that's how it is ... I wish you a smooth journey."

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"Thank you sir." Jaqen showed a shallow smile for the first time since he met: "Your Excellency rescued someone from the prison car going to the Wall, according to the agreement, someone has to be oneself when they leave. Paying a ransom, someone always promises to do it, within a few months, it will be delivered."

"No, you save me once, the debt has been paid."

"The debtor is Jaqen H'ghar, who was caught breaking into the Red Keep, and the one who saves you is Jaqen H'ghar, an employee of the Night's Watch office. These are two different things." Faceless Men turned around and pushed open the door: "It's almost dawn, someone has to go to the port before the boat leaves, no more talk, goodbye."

Jaqen turned and walked out of the house, disappearing into the gray morning light, and Igor sat on the bed stunned. After a while, I subconsciously touched my body, except for the wound on my shoulder, there was absolutely no injury. Thinking about it, Jaqen stayed by his side for several months, and the words between the two were not as much as what they said today... Although he still did not confess the identity of the "Faceless Men", the killer of the black and white court, but he did tell it within the scope of permission. oneself a lot of information.

Igor couldn't help but think, if someone wanted to bribe Faceless Men to assassinate oneself, what price would the Black and White Court offer?
Although it was still early, he couldn't feel sleepy at all, so he simply put on his clothes, went out to exercise in the yard, and ushered in the second day after the drastic change of King's Landing.

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The people who came to invite him for "tea" came much faster than expected, just told Nielina and the others about Jaqen's departure, and hadn't gone out yet Going to the Night's Watch office... Several golden robes came to Igor's house, claiming that the Prime Minister wanted him to go for questioning.

Being mentally prepared for this, Igor tidyed up his clothes without panic, calmly ordered a few words to the few people who were sharing breakfast with oneself, and then followed the visitor calmly and left, full of style. It looks like the golden robe who came to catch him is a little at a loss.

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(end of this chapter)