A certain sword soul's infinite journey

Chapter 26 A feast of crows

"Let's take a detour..."

Yoren said with a sigh.

"Once there is a conflict, the casualties are secondary. There is a high probability that the animals in the team will not survive..."

You Lun seemed to be explaining to Lin Yi that he knew that Lin Yi's strength was really shocking, so he was afraid that he would not be satisfied with such a decision.

But in fact, Lin Yi didn't care about it.

"I see."

Lin Yi nodded, then turned serious, looked at You Lun and said.

"However, the speed of the convoy is too slow. I am worried that something will happen on the other side of the wall over time, so..."

really……

Hearing Lin Yi's words, You Lun sighed inwardly.

"I'm going to take you across the Trident, and then take Arya to her brother."

"...Huh?" Yoren was taken aback.

"There should be someone in the northern army who knows how to get to the Great Wall. With my strength and status, I don't think Robb will refuse to help me with this favor." Lin Yi explained.

Yoren knows that the identity here refers not only to Arya's teacher, but also to the kingslayer and the red-handed demon.

Lin Yi has never been a naive person.

Yoren was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Well, your decision is correct. Compared with those idiots in the southern border, the lords in the northern border really care more about the Great Wall of Desperation, but I still want to take these boys to the Great Wall, so...you can only go on the road alone gone."

Lin Yi laughed, and then smacked Youlun's chest.

"Old man, are you still worried about me? Don't worry, when I kill those damned dark creatures, prepare wine for me at Castle Black."

"Haha!" Yoren also laughed, "No problem, I have the best beer in Mole Village!"

"Then I'll just wait for that day."

……

……

Tyrion's team moved faster than Lin Yi imagined.

Fortunately, the convoy turned the corner early, and the two sides narrowly passed each other. Only Lin Yi and Lannister's scouts met face to face.

Fortunately, Tyrion didn't want to be nosy, so he didn't care about the scout's report.

In the evening, the convoy was already not far from the small town that Yoren mentioned. If they were in a hurry, they would probably arrive before the sky completely darkened.

However, God doesn't seem to want them to arrive in the town today.

Lin Yi was riding on the horse, frowning slightly, looking at the red light on the horizon ahead.

"Ha! If we didn't go the wrong way, then the sun is setting from the north~"

He was also assigned a horse, Kos, who Yoren arranged to be a scout, said with a smile.

"Do not……"

Lin Yi shook his head, looking at the red light that seemed to be flickering and flickering in the distance, which was completely different from the "red sword".

"It's fire."

Yoren said something, and then rode his horse to a side slope, looked towards the north, then licked his thumb, and held it up in the air.

When all this was done, Yoren rode back again.

"There is a fire in the north. According to the current wind direction, it shouldn't burn to our side, but for safety's sake, don't move forward. Let's camp on the slope here."

Everyone nodded.

As time went on, the sun had completely set, but the sky was not as dark as it used to be.

The flames in the north were getting brighter and brighter. At the end, the entire sky seemed to be burning. Even in the camp on the southern slope of the mound, one could smell a smell of burnt smoke.

Although the fire is getting bigger and bigger, but fortunately the wind direction has not blown this way, the convoy is still safe.

The raging flames burned like this all night, until the sky gradually brightened, and then gradually extinguished.

Arya opened her eyes on time, sat up from the ground, her thick dark eyebrows were tightly knit together, and her eyes were bloodshot.

People in the convoy woke up one after another, but no one spoke. Everyone got up in silence, washed their faces in silence, and buried the pot in silence to cook.

No one slept well that night.

Arya buried her face in the water, feeling the coolness of the water.

She raised her head, but her eyes couldn't help but look at the figure on the slope looking north.

teacher……

Alia watched Lin Yi's back silently, and didn't choose to walk over as usual.

You Lun walked behind Lin Yi with the wine jug, and said in a slightly hoarse voice.

"Let's go and see if there are any survivors."

Lin Yi turned around, his eyes were calm, he couldn't see the expression under the mask clearly, but Yu Lun, who had been with him for a long time, knew that this guy was in a bad mood.

It seemed that they felt the inexplicable atmosphere that enveloped the team. This morning, the team moved most swiftly in recent days, and even accelerated their pace when they were on the road.

After walking for about an hour, the convoy arrived in the small town.

This little noble property that Yoren said was nothing but a piece of scorched earth.

There is a surrounding fence around the fields, but this has proven to be of little use.

The farmland with a radius of several miles has long been a piece of red land. All the crops have been taken away, and what is left is only burnt ashes. The charred livestock and human corpses are scattered all over this shocking land.

Even now, one can still see puffs of thick smoke coming out of the town and drifting into the sky.

Before approaching the town, Yoren stopped the convoy, and then ordered a few more reliable adults and children to stay in the convoy, and took a few people in to investigate.

But Lin Yi didn't obey You Lun's order, he didn't stop at all, holding the rein with his strong right arm, urging the horse under his crotch to run towards the town.

When he really got close to the town, Lin Yi discovered that there were charred corpses stuck on the sharpened wooden stakes in the town.

The color of the corpse and the scorched wooden stake under it seemed to be one, the face had already been blurred, and the figure was also extremely distorted.

Even though one night had passed, Lin Yi could still feel the pain and despair of being slaughtered.

war...

Lin Yi looked at all this calmly.

When Lin Yi walked into the town, a cloud of black crows flew up inside the wooden walls of the town. They croaked and flew layer upon layer from the charred and rotting corpses like black blankets. Fly.

【A Feast for Crows】

This is the first time Lin Yi has truly realized the meaning of this subtitle.

Swah——

A flash of sword light flashed, and those crows who dared to provoke Lin Yi, who did not hide or dodge, suddenly fell in large groups, black feathers fluttered all over the sky, and the smell of blood stimulated the crows in the town to quack strangely.

Lin Yi remained unmoved, shook the Tang sword in his hand, and rode forward along the road. The sudden sharp sword intent aroused a larger group of crows.

But this time, none of the crows dared to approach Lin Yi. In the blink of an eye, there were no crows within 20 meters of Lin Yi.

You Lun led the two of them through the dilapidated gate, followed Lin Yi, and walked into the town.

The houses in the town were dilapidated, whether wood or stone were burnt, leaving only a piece of scorched and broken walls.

This is a hell full of fire and killing.

You Lun was a little silent. Although he also had some fluctuations in his heart, he was far inferior to Lin Yi.

Yoren understands that war is always accompanied by massacre and rape, whether it is Lannister or the army of the North.

After all, Lin Yi came from an era of peaceful (nuclear) peace. The deterrence of high-end force has shifted wars to areas where there is no gunpowder smoke. All armed forces and arms races are nothing but deterrence.

Even if some weak and small countries become chessboards for the game of great powers, Lin Yi always only reads relevant news from the Internet, and has no real sense of it.

Therefore, the shocking tragedy in front of him had an incomparable impact on Lin Yi's heart.

Before, he was like a traveler who came to this world by accident, admiring the scenery of a foreign land without hesitation, watching the vicissitudes of this era with a casual attitude, and intervening in the fate of the aborigines at will.

Seemingly gentle and humble, but in fact extremely arrogant.

Even taking Arya as a disciple is more impulsive than thoughtful.

But at this moment, looking at the tragic situation in front of him, the thoughts in Lin Yi's mind gradually changed——

He suddenly wanted to do something he wanted to do...

Lin Yi tugged at the reins and urged the horse under his crotch to turn around.

"Yuren."

Lin Yi looked at You Lun calmly.

"Take someone to search the town to see if there are any living people. If not, you can find something that can be used. Axes and sickles are always indestructible."

"Understood." Yoren nodded, "I'll let them search separately."

"There is also a pier, which is close to God's Eye Lake, and there may be remnants of boats that can cross God's Eye Lake."

Lin Yi continued.

But You Lun didn't reply this time, he frowned, looked at Lin Yi, and asked seriously.

"What about you... what are you going to do?"

Lin Yi glanced at him, then kicked his horse and passed Yoren.

"Do what I have to do."

(End of this chapter)