Game of Thrones: Knight of Glory - Chapter 386

c384 Benjen

Lind had known from Willas that the White Walkers owned the city a long time ago. When Willas was influenced by the Three-Eyed Crow and attached to the crow, he went to the more distant Land of Everwinter and saw him there. Arrive at the city of the White Walkers and the Queen of the White Walkers.

However, he himself has not really seen the White Walkers’ city or castle, but now he has seen it. On the ice field in the distance, a huge ice and snow castle that is not much smaller than King’s Landing but much larger in volume stands standing. over there.

It is no exaggeration to say that the moment Lind saw this castle, the shock he felt was beyond words.

You must know that King’s Landing is a city with a large number of bungalows. The real castle is only the Red Castle, but what Lind sees now is a castle, a huge city with hundreds of meters high walls and countless towering buildings inside. Castle, if people with poor eyesight see this castle, they will think they are seeing a mountain.

From any point of view, this ice and snow castle is an architectural miracle. Let alone building such a castle, even designing such a castle is difficult with the current architectural level of human civilization.

However, contrary to the huge, majestic and exquisite appearance of this ice and snow castle, there is a group of ugly corpses extending to the north on the snowfield outside the castle, with no end in sight.

When Linde first estimated the number of ghouls, he had already estimated the maximum number. That’s why he believed that if the ghoul army moved south, it would be absolutely impossible for the approximately one thousand Night Watchmen on the Great Wall to resist the zombies. The attack of the ghost army is difficult to defend even with the help of the Great Wall of Despair.

However, now when Lind saw the ghouls surrounding the huge castle in front of him, he found that his estimated number of ghouls was still too low. The number of ghouls that Lind could see alone was probably in the millions. , and continuing to extend north, the number of corpses will increase, and only a lot more.

For thousands of years, the White Walkers have been preparing to go south. Even if they create a thousand ghouls every year, the total number will be millions. As for where the people who create these ghouls come from, they are naturally from outside the Great Wall. Savage tribe.

The Night’s Watch has always had the habit of investigating and recording the wildling tribes outside the wall. Based on these records, it can be easily analyzed that the number of wildling tribes outside the wall was in the tens of thousands at its maximum, and each tribe had at least several hundred people. From close to desperate situation In the forests of the Great Wall, there are houses and ancient camps left by the savage tribes, which shows how strong the savage tribes were at that time.

According to the records of the Night Watch Legion at that time, the Rangers of the Night Watch did not even dare to go out of the Great Wall and patrol outside the wall. They could only huddle inside the castle and rely on the natural danger of the Great Wall to resist the savage tribes.

The population accumulated by so many savage tribes for thousands of years, both living and dead, have been accepted by the White Walkers. The dead have become wights, and the living have become White Walkers. Calculated in this way, the army of wights owned by the White Walkers and The number of human White Walkers will be astronomical.

And more importantly, the materials used by the White Walkers to make zombies are not only humans. Among the White Walker army that Lind sees now, there are a large number of giants, mammoths, giant bears, etc., and even some There are relatively small animals such as direwolves. Now they have all turned into ghouls, and they are even more threatening to humans. Once there is a close encounter with the human army, these animals or ancient races will transform into ghouls. Will be more lethal than human ghouls.

“Fortunately, no zombie dragon appeared, otherwise this battle would have been difficult to fight.” Looking at the shocking scene in front of him, Linde couldn’t help but feel a little lucky.

Different from previous episodes, in the real world of ice and fire, it is impossible for the White Walkers to transform ghouls into wight dragons, because even if the dragon dies, its blood, muscles, skin, internal organs and bones all contain With the mysterious power, this power naturally restrains the White Walkers, and also restrains the corpses. In this case, the power of the White Walkers cannot have any effect on the dragon.

Linde was considering whether he should continue to investigate, such as sneaking into the ice and snow castle to see what was going on there, or continuing to move north to see how many corpses there were, etc., and suddenly in the distance The sound of horse hooves trampling on the snow pulled him out of his thoughts. He immediately picked up the keel bow, attached an arrow, and aimed at the place where the sound was heard.

Then, they saw a human White Walker riding a horse walking out from behind a snow hill. Just when Lind was about to deal with the human White Walker, the human White Walker suddenly spoke to Lind and said: “Lord Linde , please don’t do anything.”

Lind was stunned when he heard that the human White Walkers actually knew him and knew how to talk in Common Language. Then he took a serious look at the human White Walkers who were riding over. Soon, he had not changed much. The appearance identified who he was.

“Benjen Stark, why is it you?” Lind asked in surprise.

The human White Walker in front of him was Benjen Stark, the former chief ranger who had been missing for a long time. While surprised, Lind also vaguely remembered that the books from his previous life seemed to also record Benjen Stark’s transformation. Became a strange ghost with human consciousness.

“Long time no see! Lord Lynde.” Benjen Stark came to Lynde and saluted Lynde.

Looking at Benjen Stark, who was no different from a human except for the appearance of a white ghost, Lind couldn’t help but curiously asked: “How did you become like this?”

“This is not the place to talk. Let’s talk somewhere else!” Benjen Stark looked in the direction of the Ice and Snow Castle with great vigilance, and then suggested.

Lind nodded, put away the dragon bone bow, and motioned to Benjen Stark to lead the way. He was not afraid that this was a trap, and even expected it to be a trap, because in this way he would have the opportunity to capture someone who truly possessed wisdom. , and can communicate with the White Walkers.

The two left the outskirts of the ice and snow castle, walked around a snow hill, and walked towards the mountains at the end of the Frost and Snow Fang Mountains to the east.

“How did you find me?” On the road, Lind asked Bunyan while controlling the whirlwind to push his body to slide and follow Bunyan’s corpse horse.

“He told me.” Bunyan pointed to the sky.

Lind thought at first that Bunyan was talking about gods, but soon he saw clearly that there were several ravens flying in the sky.

“Is it the Three-Eyed Crow?” Linde confirmed.

Bunyan nodded, shook his head, and did not give a clear answer, but only accelerated his speed.

Lind asked: “Are we going to the weirwood cave where the Three-Eyed Crow is now?”

Benyan was stunned, then turned to Lind and asked, “Lord Lind, have you been to the Weirwood Caves?”

Linde shook his head and said, “No, but I know there is such a place.”

“No, we are not going to the Weirwood Caves,” Benyan replied: “The White Walkers are targeting that place. We will alert the White Walkers if we go there, and it is too far away from us. We need to cross the Frostfang Mountains. Only then can we get there. We are going to an ancient ruins. White Walkers and corpses will not go near it. It is safe there.”

Lind looked at Benyan and said, “What about you? Aren’t you a White Walker now? Can you get close there?”

Benyan, who no longer needed to breathe, sighed habitually and said: “I don’t know what I am now. It may be a White Walker, because the ancient ruins also make me uncomfortable, but I still remember who I am. What I should do is very different from those human ghosts. Any human who transforms into a ghost will forget everything in the past, and only the crazy thoughts that the ghosts put into his mind will be forgotten.”

Having said this, the look on Bunyan’s face became a little ferocious, as if he was resisting something invisible. It took a while before he recovered.

Bunyan looked at Lind with lingering fear and said: “Lord Lind, if you have any questions, wait until we get to the ruins to discuss them. The mysterious power in the ruins can suppress the power of the White Walkers in me and prevent me from answering. Your question triggered something bad.”

Linde nodded in agreement, and then the two of them stopped talking. After walking for more than an hour, Linde saw a black city on the edge of the mountains in the distance. It looked very eye-catching on top of a vast white snowfield. .

“That’s the ruins we’re going to.” Bunyan breathed a sigh of relief and said after seeing the ruins in the distance.

“Black stone?” The moment he saw the ruins of the city, Lind immediately understood why the White Walkers would not come near this place. Obviously, the black stone here still retains its original power, just like the city of dead corpses, Steia. Only this kind of power can interfere with the magic power of the White Walkers themselves.

The power existing in the Blackstone not only affects the White Walkers and corpses, but also affects the climate. There is no ice or snow in the entire Blackstone ruins, and the temperature is much higher than outside.

However, this place is not suitable for ordinary people to stay for a long time, because the power here will penetrate into the human body, affect the human mind, and gradually make people fall into madness. There are more than a dozen frozen corpses around the Black Stone Ruins. Judging from the bronze armor worn by these corpses, they should all be members of the Thern tribe. It seems that the temperature here in the past should have been much higher than it is now, otherwise, the Thern people would not be active here.

Although the power of the Black Stone affects the mind, it is of no use to Lind. On the contrary, it has a considerable effect on Bunyan. Bunyan can still maintain the memory of the past and is not affected by the power of the White Walkers in his body. The extreme hatred for the living may be related to the power shrouded in this ruins.

After the two entered the ruins, Bunyan tied his horse to a stone pillar and casually found a place to sit down.

“Now you should tell me why it’s like this, right?” Lind walked to the opposite side of Bunyan and asked.

Bunyan nodded, and then told Lind his experience.

That day, he was on routine patrol and was attacked by a savage tribe. He was seriously injured and fell into a coma. He was led by his horse and ran towards the north. When he woke up, he had become a white ghost, but he still maintained his past. His memory did not turn him into a white ghost that hated all living things, but the person who turned him into a white ghost was an elf named Demoria.

“Demoria?” When Lind heard this, he couldn’t help but show doubts, because there were some problems with the situation described by Bunyan.

Because, according to Lind’s understanding from the literature of the Night’s Watch, the zombies can directly transform the corpse with the magic power of the White Walkers, but the White Walkers cannot be transformed by the magic power of the White Walkers alone, and they also need to be transformed through sacrifice. , and the success rate of infant transformation is greater. It is very difficult for adults to complete the transformation of White Walkers.

“Were there altars around you when you woke up?” Lind asked.

Bunyan didn’t understand why Lind would ask such a question, but he still answered truthfully: “No, I just woke up in an ordinary forest.”

“What happened next?” Linde continued to ask.

Benyan continued: “Later, Demoria taught me how to control the things inside my body…”

Lind interrupted Benyan and asked, “Wait a minute! Can that elf and the alien ghost talk to you?”

Bunyan said solemnly: “Yes, I was very confused at the time, but in fact that is the case. I can control the power in my body and maintain normal human thinking. Even this ruins is what Ah told me.”

After hearing this, Lind hesitated for a moment, and suddenly remembered something that might be related to the elf named Demoria, so he immediately asked: “Do you remember what Demoria looks like?”

“Remember.” Benyan nodded and then described Demoria’s appearance in detail.

After listening to Benyan’s description, Lind had a look of surprise on his face, because he already knew who the elf who helped Benyan become a White Walker was. He was the man Euron stole from Braavos. The corpse of the ancient race in the crystal coffin that walked away seemed to have become a white ghost through some method, and woke up in this immortal way.

Lind’s doubts about how Benyan became a White Walker immediately disappeared, because with the knowledge possessed by that ancient race, it should be possible to mutate Benyan, who was seriously injured and on the verge of death, into a conscious White Walker. It’s not a difficult task.

“Did the elf give you any tasks?” Linde asked curiously.

Bunyan shook his head and said: “He just handed me a map beyond the wall drawn on the bark of a tree, and left without saying anything.”

“What’s next for you?” Linde continued to ask.

Benyan slowly narrated: “I continued to patrol in the Haunted Forest, monitoring the movements of White Walkers and corpses.” Benyan thought about it for a moment and said, “Later, I met three people, one was a wild man beyond the wall, The other two are siblings from the Reed family in Graywater, one named Meera Reed and the other named Jojen Reed. They are going to the Three-Eyed Crow, and I escorted them all the way there.”

“So you got to know the Three-Eyed Crow through this method.” Linde nodded, and then asked: “How is the Three-Eyed Crow doing now?”

Benyan sighed and said, “The Three-Eyed Raven is dead.”