Mans Reid, the "king of the Great Wall", is a middle-aged man of medium build except for his slender legs and strong physique. The ragged red and black cloaks were flying in the wind, and so were the grayish brown hair. He stood at the edge of the forest, his eyes sharp, staring at Zhao Mai and Jon.
Jon saw several "Acquaintances" beside him, who "took care of" him when he was still undercover at the camp. "Dog head" Hamath hunched back, eyes narrowed into a slit, fierce light flashing, standing on the right side of mansred. "Six shaped man" valamir stands on the other side of the Great Wall, with a black shadow bobcat and two lean gray wolves beside him.
"Jon Snow, you are either very brave or very stupid." Man said, "you came back to us in your black cloak!"
"What else can a night watchman wear?" Jon replied quietly, standing still.
"Kill him, throw the body back, and let the night watchman send someone else to talk! Or feed it to the wolf! He's not trustworthy. "
Mans Reid raised his left hand and motioned to both of them to shut up. Then he looked at Zhao Mai: "you must be long Huo Mike. Your voice is big enough. Don't you know you can blow the horn? "
"It depends on the horn." Zhao Mai replied.
"The horn that can make the Great Wall fall." Mans Reid took the lead, then he reached out and made a gesture of invitation: "come on, look in my tent."
They were speechless all the way to the tent area. It's a typical camp for savages, with bonfires and urinals laid out by heart, and children, dogs, goats and pigs running around together. Women are picking up horse skins and hanging them to dry. Others are mixing horse meat, bones, viscera and large pieces of meat, and the grey bubbles rise above the boiling water.
This is a three no camp with no planning, no order and no defense. There are men, women and animals everywhere. If you have a cavalry, you can take this place away. Unfortunately, Jon thought, the night watchman has no cavalry.
They went through it. Everyone stopped to look at them except the one with the injured eye who was still busy. They're all looking at my black suit, Jon thought. It's a black suit that has killed countless of their relatives and children for thousands of years. Jon tries to keep his manners. He represents the night watchman now. So far, the night watchman has not been defeated in the battle with the savage, not once. He must have a corresponding appearance.
Mans set his camp a little higher, at least to avoid the dirt on the ground. As he walked, he said to Jon, "when you see our camp, you must think it's not so good here. Your black castle is not so good. We can see clearly through the eagle's eyes. We know how few people you have. Even with reinforcements, it's not enough for 150. We know that the quantity of your supplies is shrinking. You can't transport much if you rely on iron cages. Except for the black castle, the whole great wall is full of loopholes. We know that, and you know it now. We know it. " He opened the door of the tent and said, "please come in. The rest will wait outside."
"What, even me?" He said.
"Especially you. Always talkative. "
It's warm in the room. Mans's wife, who is about to give birth, is in the camp. Her sister is taking care of her. Zhao Mai looked at their situation, stretched out his right hand, and condensed a potion full of natural force with psychic powers. "For pregnant women, it can make the birth more smoothly."
"It worked. I used it to save yegoret." Said Jon.
Mans looked at the potion with puzzled eyes, slowly reached out to pick it up and threw it to his wife: "Dana, I don't think it's a big problem, but you have to make up your mind in the end."
Dana was pale and sweating. "I can take the pain. Through the pain, our children will be strong enough to survive this winter. "
"Free woman." Said Mans. He went to the corner of the tent, where there were many weapons, daggers, swords, javelins, axes, bows and arrows. Mans lifted a piece of gray cloth, under which lay a huge black horn.
"Wow, how beautiful!" Zhao Mai sighed. The curved line of the horn is as long as two and a half meters. The opening part can erect the small arm and insert it, and the hand can be easily straightened. In the opening and blowing mouth, the horn is inlaid with gold. The ancient gold is carved with runes, which have gradually faded to brown because of their age.
"This is the horn of winter, which was once sounded by the king of northern China, Joe man, to wake up the giants under the earth." Said Mans.
"That time, he awakened the giant to fight against the night king and his ghost wife. That time he joined hands with the night watchman and the stark family in the north "If this is the horn, then it's just in time," Jon said
"You're not a stark, you're a snow. But you are a night watchman "This horn can also bring down the Great Wall, remember that," mans said
"Yegoret said you've been looking for it, but you can't find it." Said Jon."You think you're the only crow to lie?" "I used to be a night watchman, too, and I know how bewitching that oath is," mans said. I've never fully believed in you. My trust needs to be won. "
Jon asked, "are you sure it's Joe's horn? Why not? You send out siege hammers, giants and countless people to sacrifice their lives, but as long as you blow it, all the problems will be solved? "
"He can't blow." Zhao Mai said: "maybe it can make a sound, but it can't wake up the giant and blow down the Great Wall. You don't have real power. "
"And you do, don't you?" Asked Mans.
"Yes, I think I can really blow it." Zhao Mai nodded: "this is indeed a powerful magic weapon. There is no doubt about summoning giants, but I really can't see any Rune saying that it can destroy the Great Wall."
"The Great Wall was built by the giant, the son of the forest and the builder Brandon. The giant can destroy it." "I just need to know that the horn is real," mans said. Even if you don't help me, I can always find someone who can blow it
"It's hard to be human, but it's OK to be a ghost." Zhao Mai said, "if you can't cross the great wall and the ghost comes, you'll use this horn for a chance to live, won't you?"
Mans turned pale and nodded slowly and heavily: "that's a conspiracy against a tiger, but I can't watch my people become corpses; I can't watch them die and have no peace. If I fail at the Great Wall, I can only survive in failure. " He rubbed his hand along the curve of the trumpet: "we free people need places where we can resist winter and the God of winter, and we know that the only one who can do that is the Great Wall. How can I use it if I don't have to? What's more, I didn't expect that you are so stubborn! But don't think you can stop us. We can keep attacking all the time, and then draw 10000 or 20000 people to climb up from various places. We can even cross the sea by boat from the dangerous storm glacier, bypass the great wall and attack donghaiwang. I have lived in the shadow tower for 20 years. My baby teeth, my human teeth and my false teeth are all obtained in the shadow tower. I know everything there. Don't think I can't attack it. And I can do all these things at the same time. "
"Then why didn't you do that?" Jon didn't understand that. He didn't understand it when he was defending from the Great Wall. But at the moment when he asked the question, he had already thought of the answer.
"Yes, I will win, but I will bleed. My people have shed enough blood. We can't bear the ghosts. Before the Great Wall, the kings wanted warm land in the south. They were wolves and bears in the north. I'm different. I'm just a rabbit running away with its tail between its legs. I want to hide behind the Great Wall. My men, some of them are determined to blow the horn. "
"But Once the great wall falls down, "Dana said," what else can stop the ghosts? That's what we're worried about. "
"A wise queen." Zhao Mai said, "your children will be just as smart."
With a gentle smile, Mans said, "night watchman, I want you to open the gate and let us pass. If I do, I will hand over the horn and the Great Wall will stand forever until the end of the world. "
It's easy to say. Open the gate and let them pass. so what? Tens of thousands of savages came to the north, many of them were cannibals. What would they do? Robbing Beijing, stealing Baigang's daughter, robbing shenlinbao's wife and killing his son who came to Dongcheng? "You say you are the king of the Great Wall. Can you control your subjects?" Jon asked, "if I let your people pass, do you have the ability to restrain them to keep the peace of the Kingdom and abide by the law?"
"The law? "Winter city or King City?" Mans said with a bitter smile, "if we need the law, we will make it ourselves. We are free people, you keep your own decrees and taxes, we only hand over the horn, not freedom. We're not going to kneel. "
"What if we refuse?" Jon needs to know what mans Reid does.
"If you refuse, in three days I'll let tormond blow the horn of winter. If he can't, then I'll let every savage try, or even the ghost try. You can't try to destroy the horn. It's indestructible. You can't even leave any marks on the steel sword. "
"If you don't abide by the law, it will only make the northern border a mess, and we will have no strength to defend the great wall of desperate situation!" Jon said, "how long do you think you can hide behind the walls without the support of the northern border? Do you want your people to continue to fight with the Knights of the seven kingdoms and shed more blood? "
"We are free people. We can't kneel down." Mans looked at Jon and said, "you know what we have."
"Are you free people, too?" Zhao Mai gave a smile. He knew that if it went on like this, Mans Reid and Jon would fall apart. In addition to consensus, they need to have an appropriate course of action.
In the original "normal" world, the two sides did not reach an agreement. Stannis baratheon killed the savages, defeated and dispersed them, captured some of them, forced them to kneel, and then took some of them to the south of the Great Wall. But now, there is no news of Stannis, so Zhao Mai must find a way to make up the gap immediately. He does have an idea, but we have to try whether it can be realized or not.So he said, "you are not free, you are just refugees who have been driven away from their homes and want to go to other people's homes to hide. What is the custom in the north? When you come to the eaves of your master, you have to abide by his rules, isn't it? "
Mans frowned. He wanted to retort, but he couldn't ignore this sacred tradition. Even "crow" Jon to the savage's territory, also abide by the savage's habits. He had been a night watchman, and knew that when the Rangers of the night watchman were at castor's fort, they had to abide by this rule even if they couldn't stand castor's behavior any more, even old Mormont bear. Those who do not obey will be cursed and die, without exception.
"You say you never kneel, but it's not like that." Zhao Mai said: "you will kneel in front of Yu Liang mu, you will kneel to the ancient god. Well, do you want to meet the son of the forest or Brandon the builder? Can you kneel down to the ancient gods and the earliest ancestors? I can arrange that. "
Then, he changed his words: "if you think it's not enough, that the God of ice is the most powerful, and you are willing to kneel down to strange ghosts, I can arrange it. Don't say that you don't kneel down, and don't say that you are really free. Be realistic, let's follow the northern rules that everyone can agree with. "