Chapter 628 Unpredictable People

"The head of a direwolf... this is no doubt a warning to us from the White Walkers."

"I remember that Your Majesty visited the North a long time ago. Didn't His Majesty see this great formation?"

Looking down from the sky can only see the whole picture of this head formation. If Viserys flew through the sky on a giant dragon, he should have seen this head formation, however.

"Don't talk about your majesty!"

Then someone's guess was scolded by others, and the command tent of the Night's Watch Legion's camp was in a mess, and people were talking about this head array.

In particular, the direwolf head, which is a naked warning from the White Walkers to humans, seems to know that the people of the Stark family are destined to embark on this road back home.

In the cluttered crowd, Eddard Stark himself seemed very calm, with a pair of gray eyes looking at the map in front of him, which was a full-scale map of the North, but in the center of the map was the map he had just seen. The little wooden bow I found.

It was the practice bow his sister Lyanna used as a child and he was very impressed.

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"This array is freshly made. Although the icy and snowy climate north of the neck has delayed the decay of the corpses to a certain extent, their death time is not very long."

"The teams we sent out to patrol have all returned, and there are not too many attritions. According to speculation, they may be expeditions organized by the Free Trade City-states and were killed by the White Walkers."

The person who spoke was the leading Ranger in the Night's Watch, Colin, the former deputy commander of the Shadow Tower, who was considered a powerful faction in the Legion.

He can live alone for a winter outside the Great Wall, and then come back safe and sound.

His name is well known among the savages, and even many savages hate him to the core, and can be called the maker of widows and orphans.

Based on his years of experience outside the Great Wall, it is inferred that these people did not die for too long, perhaps just in the last few days.

According to other people's guesses, this group of people is likely to be the people sent by the trading city-state on the other side of the narrow sea.

After all, this cold winter has also had an impact on the other side of the Narrow Sea. In addition to that snow disaster, Braavos has had more than one heavy snowfall, because Braavos and Neck are on the same line in latitude. , the seasons are roughly the same, but the neck has never been so cold in previous years, almost like outside the Great Wall.

Moreover, the people of the trading city-state are also particularly concerned about the wars and disasters that occurred in Westeros, and the deserted north has become a place for them to explore.

But the courage of these people is commendable, but it is a pity that they found the wrong opponent. The White Walkers collapsed the hundreds of thousands of human coalition forces and lost consecutive battles, but it was not just fear.

However, this group of expeditions or mercenaries from the trading city-state was not a pity to die, but the words of 'Broken Palm' Colin made everyone present horrified, including the most popular northern chief, Rickard Karstark, etc. people.

Rickard Karstark is now the de facto ruler of the Army of the North.

But nominally it still has to obey Mormont, commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch.

Otherwise it is rebellion.

The next day, His Majesty will ride the Black Death to the top of his head, and a dragon flame will send him rolling into the seven layers of hell.

Rickard himself knew this well, and his power came from Viserys' imprisoning Robb Stark in King's Landing.

Although the young master is still the governor of the north in name, he is just a servant for a day without coming back. If your majesty detains him for a lifetime, then Rickard can be the 'governor of the north' for a lifetime.

This can be regarded as a finishing touch, laying the hidden danger of 'discord between the ruler and the minister' for the northern border.

When he first tasted this kind of power, the Count of Kaho City was deeply immersed in it, a feeling he had never felt before.

Including the nobles of the northern realm surrounding him now, they were still raising their glasses yesterday, sitting around him touting and celebrating his becoming the chief of the northern realm.

And once these people were surrounded by the Lord Eddard Stark, and the Lord Stark faced his vassals with a cold attitude.

Stark.

Karstark

In fact, Karstark is also a Stark, and they have the same blood of the wolf running in their bodies, but they only established a branch at the beginning.

The ancestors of Karstark were canonized to Kaho City, and then the name of 'Kahor City' and 'Kahor City' was finally renamed Karstark.

Since Stark can sit, why can't he?

What's more, the times have changed. Except for the North, Dorne, and the Iron Islands, the governors of other places have changed their seats, even people like Littlefinger...

Thinking of this, the urge in his heart was even more unstoppable. The strong man with a gray beard heard the words of 'broken palm' Colin, and then secretly glanced at the emperor he used to be loyal to. Now he has put on black clothes. .

Eddard Stark naturally didn't know what happened to his once most loyal old subordinate when he tasted the taste of power, and whether it would be that he left a 'trusted minister' to his son that he could rely on.

People from the north have a straight mind, they are rarely flexible, and they don't understand the principles and rules that power is well-versed in. Otherwise, they would not have encountered a bloodbath in the history of going south.

At this moment, he is thinking about the words of 'Broken Palm' Colin. According to the words of the deputy commander of the Shadow Tower, it means that the White Walkers were still on this land not long ago, and they have just left. This is also the moment when everyone in the tent became quiet. reason.

"Didn't you say the White Walkers have retreated north of the Wall?"

"How would we fight the White Walkers without dragons?"

There was a lot of noise in the tent of the Night's Watch. Whether it was the southern nobles who were assigned to the Night's Watch or the northern nobles, they all became dependent on the dragon.

"Should we ask for help, Your Majesty?"

They have lost the courage to fight the White Walkers without the support of the dragons. In their opinion, only the human soldiers with the dragons in front of them can fight the White Walkers.

"The White Walkers won't come out to fight us!"

At this time, Commander-in-Chief Mormont, who was in the center of the crowd, looked at the messy tent, and couldn't help but speak loudly.

"Otherwise they would not have retreated, and only one leader was left in an attempt to scare us off."

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone fell silent. No matter how Mormont, the commander-in-chief of the entire army, came here, he was the commander-in-chief in name, and no one dared to disobey. After all, behind him stood the Iron Throne. The people of Commander-in-Chief Mormont are tantamount to rebelling against the Iron Throne and setting off a rebellion.

And everyone knows what happened to the last man who started the rebellion.