The Mountain of Ice and Fire

Chapter 183: Reversal of Fortune (3rd Update, End of Month Plea for Votes)

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Night.

Scholar Lu Xiu, with the help of his apprentice, helped up the hunting dog. He mixed the detoxifying liquid with poppy milk and gave it to the newly awakened hunting dog to drink.

Poppy milk has a very good taste.

The hunting dog's physical autonomy was still very weak, and his hands and feet still could not be lifted, but his food intake was much better than during the day.

As soon as the poppy milk was put to his mouth, he sucked it down like a baby.

This greatly relieved Scholar Lu Xiu.

The look in the Demon Mountain's eyes when he left still lingered in the scholar's mind.

The scholar was very sure that he had to rely on poppy milk to help him sleep tonight.

He had never seen such a terrible look, like an ice blade made of cold piercing his heart.

Scholar Lu Xiu regretted it. He shouldn't have gotten involved in the Demon Mountain and the hunting dog's fight. The hunting dog tricked him out of his venom. His best choice was to acquiesce and forget, rather than bear a grudge. He was so silly and naive to run and tell the Demon Mountain, thinking that the Demon Mountain would be grateful to him for it, and then behead the hunting dog.

Obviously, he was wrong, very wrong.

The most heinous Demon Mountain in the Seven Kingdoms was not someone of his level who could easily 'befriend'!

When others saw the Demon Mountain, they couldn't avoid going around him, but he actually ran into him himself. This was really a stupid mother opening the door for stupidity, stupid to the extreme.

The hunting dog only tricked him out of a small bottle of paralyzing venom, but the Demon Mountain threatened to take his life. In fact, this was not a threat, but a fact—as long as something happened to the hunting dog, the Demon Mountain would definitely take his life. As for how he would die, anyway, the primary option for death was burning.

Although he was a scholar accompanying His Majesty the King and was respected by many courtiers, he realized that he simply did not have any capital to provoke the Demon Mountain.

Even if His Majesty the King wanted to uphold justice for him, it would be after he was tortured to death by the Demon Mountain. Before that, the Demon Mountain's death threat to him could not be used as any evidence to accuse the Demon Mountain.

The Demon Mountain's eyes and words often had disrespectful anger towards His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen, let alone him, who had only received a scholar's necklace with nine metal pieces.

Scholar Lu Xiu didn't want to exchange his miserable death for the delayed justice against the Demon Mountain at all. And most likely, his death would be in vain!

If the hunting dog's tricking him out of the venom was merely relying on strength, then the Demon Mountain's death threat to him was purely evil.

If anything happened to the hunting dog, the Demon Mountain would take Lu Xiu's life in exchange. This kind of Demon Mountain-style tyrannical evil was a nightmare that Lu Xiu had tried his best to find.

He, a mere scholar with no power to restrain a chicken, would actually think of approaching the Demon Mountain and hoping to use the Demon Mountain's hand to kill the hunting dog.

How naive was he to think of this idea!

In the future, never touch notorious villains in anything; it's like a pit on the ground, a thicket in front. If you don't want to fall into the water, then go around it, and never jump in.

Unfortunately, none of Scholar Lu Xiu's dozens of bottles and jars contained regret medicine.

The hunting dog was extremely hungry.

He didn't even open his eyes, but he had already drunk two bowls of poppy milk.

Because of the nightmare of the Demon Mountain's deadly threat hanging around Scholar Lu Xiu's neck, the hatred in Scholar Lu Xiu's heart for the hunting dog became very faint and light. Without comparison, there would be no harm. In comparison, he felt that the hunting dog was already a very good person, only tricking him out of a small bottle of venom, and did not threaten or harm his life.

Scholar Lu Xiu decided to correct his hatred for the hunting dog and turn over this bill of grievances with the hunting dog in his heart.

So, he and his apprentice fed the hunting dog several bowls of liquid 'nutritious soup' with antidote until the hunting dog burped and stopped drinking.

Then, Scholar Lu Xiu saw the hunting dog raise his finger, not raise his hand, but his finger, asking him to move the candle to his bedside.

This was a signal that made the scholar feel uneasy and puzzled, because the hunting dog was actually very afraid of fire. This morning, Joffrey's missed candle lit the hunting dog's hair, and he almost died of fright because of it.

But now he actually asked to move the candle on the wall closer, to the bedside of his bed.

Scholar Lu Xiu didn't know if the hunting dog was crazy. He asked his apprentice to light a candle on the hunting dog's bedside table.

The hunting dog silently watched the candle flame, his eyes not calm.

This morning, Joffrey's candle lit the hunting dog's hair, causing him to be frightened to the point of suffocation. After Eddard Stark put out the flame on the hunting dog's head, he punched the hunting dog unconscious for fear that he would convulse and die.

The hunting dog was not completely unconscious, his mind still retained consciousness. He still had perception, and also perception of light, shadow, color, and sound.

He suddenly realized that even if the flame was burning on his head, it was not as terrifying as he had imagined, and he did not even feel hot, nor did he feel the pain of being injured.

It doesn't seem as terrifying as I imagined!

The end of fear either makes people sink from then on, or makes people reborn.

Reversal of fortune!

Fear what, face what, and you will find that overcoming fear is not that difficult. This is also the only correct way to overcome fear.

Fear what, do what. You will find that fear may only come from your heart.

These two sentences were said to the hunting dog by the Demon Mountain!

After the first duel between the two brothers, the Demon Mountain earnestly made a statement, hoping to reconcile with the hunting dog, but was resolutely rejected by the hunting dog.

The Demon Mountain said that the witch helped the Demon Mountain out of his past rage and evil, and he was no longer the Demon Mountain of the past. The witch taught him a way to overcome fear, which might allow the hunting dog to try it as well.

The Demon Mountain knew that the hunting dog was afraid of fire!

Then the Demon Mountain said these two sentences, the core meaning is: Fear fire, face fire!

The hunting dog naturally did not listen at all. The hunting dog hated the Demon Mountain, and it was impossible for him to listen, so, there was the second life-and-death duel between the two brothers.

Now, with the malicious help of Prince Joffrey, the hunting dog was burned in the hair again. After the incident, he realized that the flame that he was so afraid of did not take his life, and did not even leave a little bit of trauma.

He was safe and sound!

He decided to try to truly face the flame: First light a candle at the bedside.

The next day, the hunting dog was able to get out of bed and walk. That night, he returned to his residence, and on his bedside tables on both sides, he lit two large candles.

On the third day, the hunting dog was walking on the streets of the town. When he returned to his residence at night, he lit a small candle. He held the candle in his left hand, and tried to drip a drop of the candle's 'hot tears' on the palm of his right hand. His mood was not calm, and his eyes were not calm. He nervously found that the candle oil in his palm was not scalding, and he trembled slightly to confirm that he was not injured, and there was still residual heat from the candle tears in his palm.

For the first time, the hunting dog felt the other side of the flame from the depths of his heart: warmth.

Is it possible that the brutal Demon Mountain really has another side? Just like this flame!! Now the witch has helped him flip to the other side?!

Absolutely impossible!

The hunting dog stood the small candle on the bedside table, shook his head, and drove the Demon Mountain out of his mind.

The Demon Mountain cannot have another side! He heard a voice in his heart say to himself.

The hunting dog looked at the dark ceiling.

He didn't want to think about the Demon Mountain anymore, but he saw the Demon Mountain's face in the void. Suddenly, a sword ruthlessly pierced this fierce face, right in the middle, blood splattering everywhere, and the person holding the sword was himself.

The Demon Mountain had left the town and returned to the West, without saying goodbye to His Majesty the King.

Although Prime Minister Eddard Stark wrote a letter to Duke Hoster Tully, believing that the arson in the Flowing Plains was not related to the Demon Mountain himself, the hunting dog did not think so.

Some things, your absence does not mean that it has nothing to do with you.

Eddard Stark is still too upright!

The Demon Mountain is a super scumbag, and also a person with a talent for doing bad things. If the plains arson was not done by the Demon Mountain, then who did it?

The hunting dog couldn't figure it out!

There were quite a few people who had the same idea as the hunting dog, such as Sir Edmure Tully, Prime Minister Eddard Stark's brother-in-law.

He led a thousand family warriors to hunt down the arsonists. After a few days, he did not catch anyone.

Although Duke Hoster Tully showed Edmure Tully Eddard Stark's letter, there was a key question: If the plains arson was not done by the Demon Mountain, then who did it?

Edmure couldn't figure it out either!

Since he couldn't figure it out, then Edmure believed that the answer was obvious: It must have been done by the Demon Mountain!

Edmure, a twenty-five-year-old youth the same age as Little Devil Tyrion Lannister, was full of vigor, and he decided to personally ask the Demon Mountain when the Demon Mountain passed through Riverrun.

The conceited and brave Edmure Tully did not realize that his idea was very dangerous!

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