Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 236 Interlude
The tunnel at Castle Black's gate was colder than an ice cellar.

Hoarfrost covered the gravel and froze the iron railings.

As Jon led his Night's Watch brothers down, he felt a chill running straight into his bones.

boom!
boom!
boom!
One after another, rumbling sounds shook the ice walls of the Great Wall Tunnel, accompanied by teeth-grinding creaking sounds.

The entire huge Great Wall seemed to be shaking.

But this is actually an illusion caused by the sound in the tunnel.

When Jon arrived with a large number of men, the black brothers who were guarding between the two layers of fences had collapsed. Three crossbowmen and three spearmen slammed the iron fence frantically: "Open the door! Open the door! Let us in!"

Originally, Donal Noye's behavior in guarding the tunnel during the first siege had greatly inspired the Night's Watch brothers, so the six well-trained and determined black brothers continued to volunteer to stay in the tunnel and wait for the next round of attack. The Great Wall was short of personnel, and there was not enough time for the Night's Watch to deal with the piled-up bodies in the tunnel, so after brainstorming, they blocked the bodies in front of the tunnel gate and poured buckets of water on the bodies.

Originally, they thought that in just one night, the frozen corpses would block the front of the tunnel like thick stones, and the defenders here only needed to ambush in the killing hole between the two fences to replicate the effect of guarding the gate during their previous sieges.

However, they never expected that the savages' attack had just been repelled, and less than three hours later, the corpses under the city began to mutate into zombies.

However, their original strategy of blocking the door put themselves in danger.

The night watchman was standing between two layers of heavy iron bars, while the zombies piled at the door were fearlessly ramming into the first iron gate bar.

The three crossbowmen shot a dozen arrows at the first moment.

Rows of arrows nailed the bodies of the things that turned into zombies, but they could not stop them at all.

Corpses do not have human bodies like savages. Even if arrows pierce their hearts and heads, they still maintain their momentum and keep ramming into the iron bars.

It looked like the first iron railing was about to collapse.

"fire!"

Jon shouted, and the dozen or so Night's Watch brothers who followed him threw the oil cans and torches in their hands at the wights who were crowding together and attacking the iron gate.

The oil from the oil tank splashed out and poured in front of the first fence gate, and then as the torch fell on the oil light, flames suddenly rose.

The oil-stained corpse instantly burst into flames, and the flames instantly burned the tunnel into a bloody red.

"come on in!"

Someone took the opportunity to open the second fence gate, and several Night's Watch brothers who had originally planned to fight the wildlings to the death retreated to the back.

Then they quickly closed and locked the iron gate.

Under the burning flames, under the gaze of many night watchmen separated by two iron fences, the eyes of the corpses flashed with an inhuman blue light. There was neither screaming nor shouting, nor was there any chaos or retreat.

The corpses that were not burned simply took a few steps back and stood there silently, staring motionlessly at the corpse that was rushing in the front, with a twisted body hanging on the fence, its flesh dried up, and black pus and blood oozing out.

A total of ten zombies were set on fire by oil cans and torches.

But they did not retreat a single step. They just struggled to keep their bodies pressed tightly against the iron fence. The blue light in their eyes gradually dimmed until it disappeared.

There was an uneasy silence, the only sound being the crackling of burning bodies.

The blacksmith Donald reacted quickly and cried out in surprise: "Oh no! They want to use the corpses of the zombies to soften the iron gate. Those things are flammable and can be burned to death by fire, but they will also destroy the iron gate when they burn."

hiss--

Upon hearing this, the night watchmen realized what the zombies were doing.

Someone exclaimed: "Seven levels of hell, they have a commander?! They are organized and have a strategy!"

Someone screamed and asked, "Put out the fire?"

"Don't destroy them!" Jon shouted, "Donald, don't destroy them." Donald was the most prestigious person in the garrison. As soon as he returned, Jon's command was automatically handed over to him - Jon's command on the wall was given by Donald. Jon pointed out, "There are only one or two hundred corpses at the door, and Mance Rayder is outside to block more for us. We must block them here and burn them all with fire, otherwise, they will continue to bang their heads against the door desperately. Once the door is broken open, the wights can go directly into the wall. There is only one hour before dawn, and there is no snow on the wall! They can't move during the day!"

"But even if we hold on today——"

Donald interrupted angrily: "Shut up!" He looked at Jon, "Go on."

Jon glanced at his panicked brothers and said, "That fence hasn't fallen yet. We still have enough time. Prepare fuel and rockets. We'll guard the last gate. When they get close, we'll burn them with rockets and torches. When they avoid the flames and wait for the corpses of the wights to burn, we'll use spears to push the corpses away from the fence. This is a test of patience. We just have to hold on until dawn! We can hold on until dawn!"

Jon turned his head and saw Donald baring his teeth, while the other brothers had different expressions, most of them were filled with surprise and panic.

Obviously, when the enemies turned into zombies, zombies that they could not understand and could not be killed with ordinary swords, they all felt fear.

Donald made the decision: "I agree. Eddie, Grenn, Pyp, wake everyone up quickly and bring down the fuel, rockets and torches." The few people Donald pointed out seemed to still have fighting spirit after hearing Jon's words. Seeing that they would be sent up and come back, "Jon and the rest of the brothers, stay here with me."

In the strange tunnel battlefield, the fire at the first iron gate opposite was still burning, and the smell of burnt barbecue filled the tunnel. On the other side of the iron gate, there was an unsettlingly silent team of zombies waiting without making any sound.

As Eddie, Grant, and Piper climbed up the city wall along the tunnel, someone began to recite in the dead silence, trembling: "The long night is coming to me. I will start my watch from now on." His voice gradually became lower, as if no one responded.

but.
".I will watch from now on until I die," Jon took over.

".I shall take no wife, no land, no son." Donald followed. Finally, more and more voices joined in. ".I shall wear no crown, nor seek honor. I shall do my duty, live or die. I am a sword in the dark, a sentinel on the wall, a fire against the cold, a light at dawn, a horn to wake the sleepers, a shield to protect the realm. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."

This is the oath that recruits of the Night's Watch take in the sept or before the Heart Tree when they meet the requirements to wear the black garb of the Night's Watch.

It was fate that made the Night Watchmen at the Great Wall take the oath they had made to deal with the monsters they saw today. But over the long years, the Night Watchmen had long forgotten what they were defending against. When they appeared, the Night Watchmen almost subconsciously thought of running away.

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"Have you ever been to any of the brothels in Braavos?"

As soon as Tyrion arrived in Braavos, he was drunk and dazed when he questioned Dareon, the crow who was responsible for escorting him as a night watchman.

A Wavecrow is a special officer in the Night's Watch who is responsible for recruiting personnel. When the Night's Watch's ship sailed south to Dragonstone, Glendon Hewitt brought more than one Wavecrow with him and sent them to King's Landing, Gulltown, White Harbor and other major cities in Westeros along the way to recruit new soldiers.

One of the ravens was sent to White Harbor when the Night's Watch ship passed through Braavos, and Dareon was another ravens officer sent to King's Landing.

Originally, Glendon hoped that Darien could impress the lords of King's Landing with his handsome face and beautiful singing voice, and recruit a group of new people in King's Landing to go north by land. If King's Landing was unwilling, he would ask for a document to go south to lobby the lords of the castles in the south. Who knew that Dragonstone Island gave so much, and the harvest was huge, and Glendon could not wait to go north.

Coincidentally, King's Landing did not refuse and also sent a group of murderers and thieves to the Longcrows who went to recruit manpower. Among the murderers was Tyrion Lannister, the "King Killer".

Although Tyrion himself denied it, he was persuaded by Jaime and Varys and chose to back down after learning that if he wanted a trial by combat, Cersei would let the Mountain take the field. He finally chose to put on black clothes reluctantly.

Jaime paid the Night's Watchman Dareon, and he and Varys found a Braavos merchant ship for Tyrion and his crew, asking Dareon to take good care of Tyrion.

This Dareon was once an apprentice singer in the Riverlands, not a Night's Watchman who valued honor. After a visit to Dragonstone and King's Landing, and after being stuffed with money by Jaime, he quickly became corrupted by bread and mead. Especially after the team failed to catch up with Glendon, and he himself became a recruiting officer, he was taken by Tyrion on the boat to drink and eat meat with the money given by Jaime, and he became more and more casual day by day.

Now that they have arrived in Braavos, Dareon, who had never had a strong heart to begin with, has been fooled by Tyrion and has forgotten everything else.

Tyrion praised his song, saying that his song could bring back red lips and kisses from women in brothels. Darion's heart was pounding, and he forgot his duties and followed Tyrion to the Secret City, searching for brothels along the alleys and canals.

Although his heart was already in the air, Darien did not agree immediately: "I think we should buy some bread and wine, and then find a ship to the East Sea. The Wall needs us."

"The Wall cannot be defended without a singer and a dwarf?" Tyrion asked. "Or do you think the Lord Commander of the Wall is waiting for you to join me and your brothers - murderers and thieves?"

To be honest, Tyrion has realized that going to the Wall might be a good destination. Tywin and Cersei both wish he was dead, and going against King Targaryen would only bring him a dark future. Old Bear Mormont said that the Night's Watch needs people like Tyrion, and King Targaryen seems to value the Wall very much.
But when the ship passed Dragonstone, Tyrion heard in the warehouse that Stannis was sent to the Wall by King Targaryen, and Tyrion began to think about fleeing overseas.

Lord Commander Mormont might still be here, and Stannis might be a fair commander. But besides Stannis, there was Janos Slynt on the Wall—that butcher's son would never forget who had brought him to the Wall in the first place. And, Tyrion wondered, did he really want to spend the rest of his life on the Wall, guilty of regicide? Eating bacon and gruel with murderers and thieves, fighting wildlings and White Walkers?

Moreover, once Stannis left, the commander of the Wall would be Stannis. Tyrion could feel that his remaining years there would not be long. Stannis and Janos hated him to the core. And Tyrion had nothing to rely on.

"Damn fat eunuch." Tyrion cursed in his heart.

Then he began to imagine with resentment the scene of Tywin dying under the flames of the Targaryen dragon. He wondered whether Lord Tywin would become incontinent when he was burned to death, and whether what he excreted was gold.

It's a shame he can't be there, Tyrion.

But no matter what, Tyrion made up his mind that even if he died at the Wall or in Essos, it would be after hearing the news of Tywin's death.

Then he thought of Jaime. That guy, Jaime, might be burned to death by dragon flame along with Cersei.

He still had feelings for Jaime, but he knew that Jaime with a broken hand would not be able to survive the upcoming war with the Targaryen king.

All you need to do is collect a few more pieces of intelligence from Varys to know how terrifying dragons and Targaryen kings are.

These days, Tyrion occasionally thinks about discussing the riddle of power with Varys.

Three nobles are sitting in a room: a king, a monk, and a wealthy man. Between the three stands a common soldier, and each noble orders the soldier to kill the other two. Who will live and who will die?

Haha, Tyrion knows the answer now.

The one with the dragon will break open the room and let the king, the monk, the rich man and the soldier choose to live or die.

But in fact, it is just an illusion that their lives are in their own control, and their lives are still in the hands of the man with the dragon.

It's just that people are willing to follow the rules.

Tyrion sometimes wondered: Who would own Casterly Rock in the future?

Tyrion imagined various possibilities and finally found that the future of Darry might be the future of Casterly Rock. The Darry family was wiped out by Lord Tywin during the attack on the river. In the end, Darry was given to Kevan's son Lancel. Lancel married a daughter of the Frey family who had Darry blood to show inheritance.

Lannister Tyrion thought of several cousins ​​and nieces, and guessed that when all the male members of the Lannister family died out in the future, King Targaryen would grant Casterly Rock to a meritorious official who married a Lannister girl.

Perhaps it was some Martell kid and the Martells got their revenge.

Tyrion felt a wave of sadness.

Tyrion shook his head as the wine confused his mind. Tywin never treated him as a Lannister, and the life and death of a Lannister had nothing to do with him. He poured himself a sip of wine: "Daeron, believe me, there is nothing better in this world than wine and women."

They ended up at a place called Happy Pier, where the best hookers were.

At this point, although still half drunk and half awake, Tyrion's mind began to wander: if he went to the Wall now, he would die faster than anyone else, so it was necessary to find some fun for the ravens escorting him. As for whether to escape to Essos or continue north to the Wall, he would wait and see tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)