The king on the Great Wall

"It's true." The corners of Bunyan's mouth were slightly raised, he picked up the wine glass, filled himself with wine from the nearby jug, and took a deep breath.

"Daeron Targaryen was only fourteen when he conquered Dorne."

"That battle lasted all summer," Bunyan shook his head. "The young king you mentioned sacrificed 1 people in order to capture Dorne, and another 5 people died in order to defend it. Someone should Tell him, war is no joke." He took another sip of his wine and wiped his mouth, "And Daeron Targaryen died young, you won't forget that part, will you?"

"I haven't forgotten," Jon's face turned rosy, whether it was because of alcohol or blood, he raised his chest to make himself look taller, "Uncle, I've already made up my mind, I want to serve in the Night Watch."

The table was quiet. Indeed, many young people were yearning for the stories about patrolling outside the Great Wall and fighting the wildlings told by Iger, but he was the only one who decided to join the Night Watch immediately... The background of the attendants may be They are not tall, but most of them are the legal heirs and heirs of their respective families, unlike someone who, as they grow older, seems more and more out of place with their brothers and has nowhere to go.

Bunyan smiled: "Jon, I'm afraid you don't know. The Night's Watch is a group that treats death as home. We have no family bonds and will never have children. We take responsibility as our wife and honor as our concubine."

"Honor as a bastard," Jon said. "I'm ready to be sworn in."

"You're just a 14-year-old kid," Bunyan said unmoved. "Before you get in touch with a woman, I'm afraid you can't imagine the price you will pay."

"I don't care about women!" Everyone could see that Jon was so angry that he felt insulted.

"If you knew, you would probably care about it." Bunyan still looked like a kind elder, "My child, if you knew what the consequences of taking this oath would be, you wouldn't be so eager to join gone."

"I'm not your child!"

"It's a pity that you are not my child." The chief ranger stood up, and he patted Jon on the shoulder. "Come to me after you give birth to two or three illegitimate children outside, and see what you think."

"I will never give birth to an illegitimate child outside!" Benyan Stark may be mature enough, but he has never experienced the feeling of being an illegitimate child after growing up in a family with a loving father, filial piety and respectful brothers and sisters. Braving the fire, he said word by word like a poisonous oath: "Never!"

Not only this table, but even the people at the next table fell silent, and everyone stared at Jon.The illegitimate boy felt tears fill his eyes, and finally he stood up.

"Forgive me to leave first." The boy said with the last ounce of dignity, and then ran away like a whirlwind before tears fell.When going out, he bumped into a waitress and knocked over a bottle of wine.The four seats suddenly burst into laughter, and Jon shook off the kind hand of a servant in yellow robes sitting in the same seat, and ran out without looking back.Ghost followed, slipping into the low night.

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Iger almost covered his face and sighed, he finally understood what the pattern Tucson was broken, and he racked his brains to get rid of his identity as a night watchman, but a certain middle school boy sharpened his head and tried to get in.Bunyan's well-intentioned reminder is obvious enough that the Chief Ranger wants to tell Jon: Join the Night's Watch and you will have nothing but honor.But not only did the young man not understand, but he thought his uncle was questioning and humiliating him.

Call you embarrassing. I don’t understand anything... I really didn’t wrong you at all, Iger thought a little funny.But suddenly, he suddenly remembered something and stood up: "I'll go see him."

"Don't worry about him, let him calm down." Benyan Stark waved his hand, but quickly changed his mind: "Forget it... that's fine, go and have a look, don't let this drunk young man mess with you." hurt yourself."

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Chapter 17 Tyrion Lannister

Sheng, singing, dancing and music were left behind by Iger in the hall, the cold wind was blowing, and the empty courtyard was extremely silent.The guards on the battlements of the inner wall drew their cloaks tight against the cold, and the night watchman turned around, found the figure of the boy, and walked towards him.

"Boy." An unfamiliar voice sounded. The traverser didn't see where the speaker was, but he knew that his memory was correct, and this step was correct. "Is that guy next to you a wolf?"

"It's a direwolf, called Bai Ling." Jon turned around to find the speaker, and at the same time saw Iger walking out of the door, turning his head to prevent them from seeing his tears. "What are you doing there? Why aren't you at the dinner party?"

Iger bypassed the pillar by the door and saw Tyrion Lannister along the direction of Jon's subconscious line of sight just now.The dwarf was sitting on a ledge protruding above the front door of the hall, looking down at the two of them. If he could keep still, he might be able to disguise himself as a statue.

"It was too hot and noisy in there, so I drank more wine." The dwarf answered Jon's question. "I learned a long time ago that it is not polite to vomit on your brother. I Can I take a closer look at your wolf?"

Jon hesitated, then nodded slowly: "Can you come down by yourself? Or do you want me to get a ladder?"

"Go, look down on me?" the little man said.He pushed his hands back hard, and his whole body rolled into the air.Dexterously shrunk in mid-air, lightly touched the ground with his hands, and then did a backflip to stand up.

The little direwolf subconsciously took a few steps back, and even Iger had to admit that, considering his size, Tyrion's move was pretty good.

The dwarf patted the dust off his body and said with a smile, "I think I must have scared your little wolf. I'm so sorry."

"He's not scared." Jon said, bending over and calling, "Ghost, come here, come here, my dear."

The pup strolled over, nuzzling Jon's cheek affectionately, but kept his guard on Tyrion Lannister.When the dwarf reached out to touch it, it drew back immediately, bared its sharp teeth, and let out a silent growl. "Quite shy?" Lannister said.

"Ghost, sit down," Jon ordered. "That's it. Sit down." He looked up at Tyrion. "You can touch him now. He won't move unless I tell him to move." moving. I'm training him."

"I see." Lannister scratched Bai Ling's down between his ears, which was as white as fine snow, "Good wolf wolf."

……

Iger stood aside, looking for a way to interject and quickly get the dwarf's attention. At this moment, Tyrion shut up and rubbed the head of the direwolf, and he finally got the chance to speak: "Jon... I don't know if I can call you that , but I have to tell you that your uncle doesn't want you to join, it's for your own good."

"For my own good?" The boy was still a little angry. "For my own good, he should have taken good care of his brother back then, and don't let me be born from this world!"

"Ah..." Tyrion on the side listened to the conversation between the two, tilted his over-proportioned head, and showed an expression of sudden realization.He looked Jon up and down, "You are the illegitimate son of Ned Stark, you want to be the night watchman, but Bunyan rejected you?"

The dwarf guessed the real situation just based on a sentence between the two of them. The speed of thinking is not bad, but what he said is like adding salt to the wound. Jon pursed his lips and stood up. His little wolf was also at the same time. He avoided Tyrion's touch.

"Uh... If I offended you, I apologize." The little Lannister immediately realized something, "But why... Great Wall doesn't care about one's family background and only pays attention to ability. Is it a good place?"

"Wait until you see the continuous tents built by the [-] savages gathered to attack the Great Wall, the giants who are tall enough to tear people in two with their hands, and the pale white ghosts with blue eyes and stabbing with ice swords. Putting on the bodies of comrades-in-arms, slain people standing up again after freezing...you don't think it's a good place."

"A somewhat attractive introduction." Tyrion also stood up and looked back at Iger. "First of all, I have to express my attitude. I respect the Night's Watch Legion, and I admire your behavior of sacrificing yourself to defend the kingdom... Although I will never take your oath, I do admire you."

The dwarf paused before continuing: "However, I don't believe the legends about giants, ghouls, and other monsters. The difference between the savages and us is that when the Great Wall was erected, they happened to be in the Just north of the Great Wall."

"Lord Tyrion, have you ever been to the Great Wall? Did you know that the Great Wall is the largest structure ever built by humans?"

"It's an accepted fact." Tyrion shrugged. "Not only the largest, but without a doubt the most useless building."

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"The most useless building?" Iger resisted the urge to snort in disdain. The dwarf in front of him may be friendly and easy to talk to, but in this world where there is no concept of equality for everyone, the identity gap between him and him is too huge. On the first day of acquaintance, it is better to be more cautious: "Your Excellency, do you know how big the Great Wall is?"

Tyrion glanced at Egger with a strange expression, thinking that the way the night watchman spoke was very strange: "One hundred leagues long, seven hundred feet high, and the width at the top is enough for twelve fully armed knights to pass side by side... As for How wide that is, I really don't know."

The traverser nodded: "That's right, this is the official data given by the chief craftsman. But I bet, my lord has never seen a wall that is [-] leagues long, nor a building that is [-] feet high... …The towering tower in the old town is also very high, but it is still a bit far behind compared with the Great Wall. You should go and have a look and measure it yourself if you have the chance. But it’s okay if you don’t have the chance. You understand what kind of building the Great Wall is." Iger said in a confident tone: "It is seven hundred feet high, and its width is about one-tenth of its height. Let's assume it is seventy feet wide. And now we are facing Winterfell The inner wall of the city, the highest part is a hundred feet high and about ten feet thick. I have heard that your lord is very clever, so do you know that the Wall of Impassion is seven times the height and thickness of the walls of Winterfell, which means What?"

mean what?Tyrion frowned, he was rarely asked, thought for a while and understood the meaning of the other party: "This shows that to build the same length of the Great Wall and the Wall of Winterfell, the former requires as much material as the latter Seven times seven, 49 times."

"My lord's mind really lives up to its reputation," Iger flattered the dwarf indiscriminately, "Then what does it mean that the Great Wall is a hundred leagues long?"

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The dwarf's frown deepened, while Jon Snow watched the two of them do their calculations in a daze, completely unable to speak.In terms of swordsmanship and riding, he may be better than the two in front of him combined, but in terms of arithmetic, he is not even as good as Tyrion, let alone Iger who has received higher education in another world.

"Let me tell my lord, this means that if the Great Wall of Impassable is torn down and rebuilt into a wall as high as the inner wall of Winterfell, its length can reach five thousand leagues. This length can easily take the entire North Territory Surrounding, or isolating the entire King's Road from King's Landing to Winterfell from the fields on both sides, the weight of the Great Wall is greater than the walls of all the cities in Westeros combined."

"But the Great Wall of Impossibility is made of giant ice blocks." The dwarf made a rough calculation and realized that the night watchman in front of him was not talking nonsense, but he still protested dissatisfiedly: "The walls of Winterfell are built of stone blocks."

"The weight of stones of the same volume is about twice that of ice, but considering the difficulty of construction and the difference in the amount of work between building a [-]-foot-high Great Wall and a [-]-foot-high wall, I suggest that both parties draw Ping." Iger turned his head quickly, and quickly pulled the topic back to his own route: "Just now the adults said that the difference between the savages and us is that they are on the north and south sides of the Great Wall. I agree with this statement. Borrowing your ideas, I am Can't it be said that the difference between people from the north and people from the south is only that they are on the north and south sides of the Neck?"

"Most people in the northern border have the blood of the ancestors." The illegitimate son had long forgotten the grievance of being "humiliated" by his uncle in the hall, and felt like a fool after listening for a long time, he finally found a chance to plug in talk.

"'Ancestors' means the first humans to arrive in Westeros. It is neither an independent race nor older than any other nation." Tyrion corrected Jon's misconception, "From the race Look, the ancestors are very close to the Andals or the Rhoynar, and there is no essential difference, so the "bloodline of the ancestors" is actually meaningless. It is not so much a bloodline, but rather a heritage and culture Belief."

"Agreed." Iger agreed. "Lord Tyrion, after consulting the literature, I learned that the Great Wall was not built in one generation. The 'builder' Brandon Stark 8000 years ago only built Winterfell and the Great Wall." The stone base, the astonishing height of the latter [-] feet, was built by thousands of night watchman craftsmen over tens of hundreds of years using the large ice blocks in the frozen lake of the ghostly forest to slowly increase the height."

"Isn't the Great Wall made entirely of ice?" Tyrion raised his eyebrows. "It seems that I haven't read carefully enough...but it makes sense."

"It has nothing to do with what it is built from." Iger said indifferently, "I don't understand military affairs, but I also know that such a huge fortification is built to the neck, and even the southern princes have thousands of troops. To the north. But the builders of the city wanted to build it at the northernmost point... Even if the first generation of Great Wall builders were out of their minds, why did his descendants continue this project? After all, the northerners have brains Is it a bug, or is there another reason?"

"Hmm..." The dwarf stroked his chin.

"In addition," Iger continued without pausing, "according to records, when the Night Watchman was at its peak, there were more than 8000 soldiers stationed at Castle Black alone, and the entire army had more than [-] combat troops, not including servants... That was [-] years ago. Both inside and outside the Great Wall, the population was much smaller than today. At that time, the number of savages living north of the Great Wall might not have been as many as the night watchmen. What is it that made the people in the north build and continue to heighten the Great Wall? , and at the same time send such a large standing army to guard?"

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Chapter 18 There is no picture at the beginning, the story is all made up

"Fear." The traverser concluded, "The largest fortifications and standing army must be used to deal with the most terrifying enemy. It is fear that allowed the ancestors thousands of years ago to build such a high wall, form and support a whole army There is an army of over ten thousand, not engaged in production and not accepting transfer. Apart from this, there is no other reasonable explanation.”

"Well, what you say makes sense." Tyrion admitted frankly, "but please forgive my little persistence. I will never believe in the existence of any legendary monsters and ghosts until I see them with my own eyes."

"It's your right not to believe." Iger spread his hands, anyway, it's not his purpose to convince the other party to believe that the ghost exists: "Actually, I was fighting a ghost with my own hands, and watched it hit it like broken glass with an ice sword. Before the steel sword in the broken hand, I don't really believe it."

"Just now I thought you were the accountant of the Night Watch Legion, why did you go out to fight with the White Walkers in a blink of an eye?" The dwarf showed a curious expression: "Are you an officer or a ranger?"

"Ranger, oh..." Iger looked at Jon: "Young man, do you want to know why your uncle doesn't support you to join the night watchman? Come with me to see the steel sword that the White Walker shattered. You will understand soon , the swordsmanship and skill you are proud of are vulnerable to that kind of enemy."

The bastard followed Iger's pace without the slightest hesitation, and Tyrion hesitated a little, and followed closely behind with two short legs.This made the traveler feel relieved: he was nominally going to show Jon something, but in fact he wanted to find an excuse to get closer to Tyrion, so as to bring out the topic he wanted to talk about.

Lannister and the bastard turned around seven times and eight times, and followed Iger to the room arranged by Benyan Stark.The night watchman took out the evidence he brought from the Great Wall to Winterfell to show Eddard Stark to ask for help, put it on a small wooden table in the room, and showed it to the two guests.

"Wymar Royce's one was even more broken, but it was left to your father by Lord Bunyan to pass it on to the family of the victim, that is, the Earl of Runestone City." Iger introduced while placing the broken sword , "The two in front of me are the swords of me and my comrade-in-arms Gary."

Tyrion raised his eyebrows: "The version I heard is that Waymar Royce disappeared on patrol and is confirmed dead?"

"I saw him fight with the other ghosts and was killed with my own eyes." Iger lied, he just heard it, but Waymar Royce was indeed dead anyway, and the two people in front of him could never tell that he was He said: "Originally, another ranger and I would die, but the dragonglass dagger saved our lives. It's that black thing, no, I made it myself... If you are interested, you can Put these two swords together and see, not everyone has the opportunity to see the steel sword cracked by ice magic."

Jon has a young heart, after hearing what he said, he couldn't help but start to do it, and Tyrion was not interested in weapons... or broken weapons, so he walked around the room with his hands behind his back, but he didn't find the wine jug and wine glass, so he had to go back to the house again. Walk back to the traverser and look up at him.

"Your name is Iger, what is Iger?"

The traveler was overjoyed, but was worried that he would not have the chance to continue his performance, so the dwarf gave him a step.

"My name is not Iger. Iger is just a name given to me by some Westeros farmers. I don't even know what the meaning is." The traverser made a wry smile, "I don't have a surname in your usual sense either. The place where you come from, the way you call and name people is a little different from yours..."

"I just said that you look a little different, so you're not from Westeros. Where are you from, Essos or the Summer Isles? It can't be Sossos, right?"

"Neither, I come from what you said...a continent west of the Sunset Sea called Zana. Zina means the land of Middle Earth, because my people have always thought that we The place where I am located is the center of the world, surrounded by a boundless sea, and there is no other land except islands."

***

"Take it?" Tyrion originally just asked about the origin and identity of the night watchman in front of him when he had had enough to drink and had nothing to do. Interest: "Never heard of this place, how did you come to Westeros to be the night watchman?"

"That's a long story." Iger didn't expect everything to go so smoothly, and managed to attract the other party's attention in a few words.But next, he has to try to grasp the results: "After a series of astronomical observations, calculations, and conjectures, our academics have come to a conclusion: the world is a sphere, and if we send ships out to sea and sail in one direction, It will return to the place of departure after circling the world. In order to test this theory, the ruler of Zaina decided to send a fleet to sea for super ocean voyages. Sailing out to sea in four directions, north and south..."

"Build a ship with steel? How is it possible?"

"Will an iron bowl sink if you put it in the water? The same is true for ships made of steel. It is its displacement, not its material, that determines whether a ship sinks or sinks. The technology adopted is much more advanced than that of Westeros. Opportunities, I can describe them in detail.”

"Iron bowl... displacement." Tyrion is a smart man, and he figured out the truth after a little thought, but soon had a new question: "But how do you make an iron bowl that can carry people? As long as If there is a leak in one place, it will sink faster than a rock."

"We use a process called 'welding' to melt the joints between the steel plates to make them one. I'm not an expert in the specific details, so I really can't explain them in detail."

"Sounds great, let's continue your story." The dwarf was thinking about the scene where the steel plates were connected to form a ship. For the first time, he felt that his imagination was so lacking, so he stopped talking and motioned for Iger to continue.

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"As a well-known adventurer, I certainly couldn't pass up such an interesting expedition. After sponsoring the project with a large sum of money, I was given a cabin, and with the fleet sailing east from Chana set off and, after months of sailing, arrived in Westeros."

"I haven't heard of any foreigners landing from the Sunset Sea. Where's your ship?"

"Sinking, we found land, and encountered a storm while looking for a place to land. Originally, our steel ocean-going ship was designed to withstand the storm, but the huge waves threw the ship on a reef... …As you suspected just now, although a ship made of steel is strong, it sinks faster than anything else if something goes wrong. I was lucky not to be brought into the bottom of the sea because I was enjoying the huge waves on the deck. After drifting at sea for a few days, I went ashore."

"And then." Tyrion urged, "Could it be that the people in the north are crazy enough to grab anyone they see and send them to the Great Wall?"

"I've been floating on the sea for a few days. I was starving to death. Of course, the first thing I did when I landed was to look for food. Unfortunately, I finally found a place where people lived along the road, but I couldn't communicate because of the language barrier. The villagers couldn't understand me. I also refused to help... A living person can't be suffocated by urine, so I decided to take it myself." Iger sighed: "Obviously, I am not good at this, and I was caught before I was full. My people gave me a choice between cutting off a hand and wearing black, and I became a Night's Watch."

"Uh..." Tyrion's eyes widened. "As the first Zerar in history to arrive in Westeros, you were captured by the Night Watch?"

"you can say it this way."

"This is the most nonsense story I've heard this year." The dwarf had a weird expression on his face. "If I had to choose, I'd rather believe that the White Walkers do exist."

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Chapter 19 Lies and Redemption

Iger is talking, but not bullshit.Martin once said that the world where the continent of Westeros lives is a planet, which is spherical, slightly larger than the earth, and has a larger land area... The personal experience of the traverser confirmed this statement.Judging from the air pressure and gravity felt by the body, the planetary environment of the world of ice and fire is very similar to that of the earth. If the setting of the original author really takes effect in this world, since "the land area of ​​the world of ice and fire is larger than that of the earth", Navester In the ocean to the west of Luoxiang, there might really be land or larger islands.

The identity of the time traveler, no one will believe it if he tells it, and knowing the plot and understanding of the important characters is the biggest reliance for him to survive... These two secrets cannot be told to others, what is wrong with the west coast of Westeros The vast "sunset sea" that most local residents have no understanding of has become an excellent choice for my fictional origin.

What I have to add is that the statement that I am from the other side of the ocean was not played by Iger on the spot. He used this set of statements when he introduced himself to the brothers of the Night Watch. Its biggest advantage is: no one can expose it. When adding some settings to yourself, you can even use customs and cultural differences as an excuse to add whatever you think of.

As for traveling around the world, Iger really conceived it while eating and drinking at the dinner party.However, although it was improvised, it was not made up. The source of inspiration naturally does not need to be explained, and the purpose of telling this story is also quite clear: to give the core of the Lannister family in front of you Impressed, the members managed to find a way out of him and break away from the Night's Watch.

How many people in the world are more interesting to a handicapped dwarf with big dreams and a desire to learn more about the world than an adventurous explorer from across the ocean?And claiming that he funded this round-the-world trip is to make Tyrion feel that the eloquent night watchman in front of him is not from the bottom of the common people.

After traveling for more than a year, Iger has understood: in this world, birth is one of the most important factors that determine the attitude of others, and raising one's status a little is an important plus in dealing with people.And using the hint of "unintentionally leaking the truth" to make others involuntarily have the illusion that they are "rich and free" is much more credible than directly declaring that they are from the upper class.

This camouflage can not only partially eliminate the sense of distance brought about by the difference in identity between each other, but also lay a more equal foundation for the next interaction between the two, and can also incidentally provide for their own Asian faces that are different from others and obviously far ahead of those around them. People's knowledge and quality upbringing provide a reasonable explanation, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Iger has never been a person who loves to lie, brag or pretend, but if it is for the safety of his life, he has not lived enough...even if he deceives everyone in the world.

***

Someone who wanted to escape from the Blackshirt Legion racked his brains to pack himself up, but the illegitimate son who wanted to join had already quickly assembled the Broken Sword and keenly discovered the problem.

"This sword is broken very strangely." Jon Snow looked at the broken sword that he had basically restored to its original state, and noticed the abnormality, but suffered from not having enough words to describe it: "If a weapon made of steel is to be broken, It won't be like this."

"Yes, under normal circumstances, there will be obvious deformation of the fracture." Iger took over the conversation and said what he wanted to say for the boy.He has finished speaking the information that should be conveyed, and there are some topics that he cannot speak on his own. "The break is exactly where the blade collided with the alien weapon. Under the effect of ice magic, the steel lost its toughness and became more brittle than cast iron. It couldn't bear the impact during the impact, so it broke into two pieces. cut."

Jon stared blankly at the two swords he had put together on the table, and finally understood why Uncle Benyan said those words.

"This is simply a farce!" Tyrion was not interested in the broken sword on the table. He didn't know and didn't want to know what a broken steel sword would look like under normal circumstances. He cared more about the legendary New World.Although I don't fully believe Iger's words, I instinctively feel that the other party's explanation of my origin is true, and subconsciously fight for him: "You come from a continent we don't know, and you should be the most important guest in Westeros for thousands of years. , but just after going ashore, he was caught by a group of Yankees to see the Great Wall!? Are you willing to spend your whole life in the cold and remote north of the northern border?"

"Not reconciled, but what can I do?"

"I'll try to help you leave."

Brother, you are too generous.Iger suffocated for breath and almost choked on his own saliva. This was exactly the result he wanted, but it came too easily and quickly. Could it be that he had suffered enough and had to change his luck?