Chapter 1 Linde of Baicun

Linde, who had adapted to the pain in his back, walked out of the house where he had been lying for more than a month with the crutches made by Bain two days ago. Although it would take at least half a month for his injuries to be fully healed, It no longer hinders his normal walking.

However, his top priority now is to get familiar with the people and things in Bai Village as soon as possible, so as not to expose his flaws and let others see any problems.

After all, he didn't inherit many memories. Apart from knowing that his name was Linde and that he was a hunter, the rest were fragmented memories that didn't provide much useful information. He didn't even know why he was so seriously injured.

While walking in Bai Village, he quickly realized from the surrounding houses that the place he was in was very backward, probably somewhere in the ancient West.

Although he had made some guesses based on Father Bain's clothes and some of the furnishings in his house, he still felt a little lucky.

"Bear hunter?" After Linde walked for some distance on the only street in the village, he finally met the person from the first village. However, when this person saw Linde, he couldn't help but say a nickname, and at the same time revealed He felt very obvious fear, and then hurriedly walked past Linde with his head lowered, as if Linde was some kind of savage beast.

Although Linde was curious about why this man had such a strange reaction and why he called himself a bear hunter, he did not reach out to hold this man and ask, because now he wanted to speak as little as possible, do as little as possible, and listen as much as possible. See, this way he can avoid revealing that he and Linde are completely different people.

As he walked further down the street, he encountered more and more people, some calling him by his name, others calling him Bear Hunter, and each with a look of awe or fear on their faces. The difference in expressions is just the intensity of the emotions corresponding to the expressions.

Although the village was not very big, Linde, who was feeling unwell, still walked for a long time before arriving at the tavern at the entrance of the village.

Through this month and a half, he already knew that Father Bain had opened a tavern in the village. Although the village was a completely unfamiliar place to him, he still found the tavern accurately. , after all, this tavern is the only one in the village.

"The injury hasn't healed yet, why did you come out?" When he walked to the door of the tavern, Father Bain, who had already heard the noise outside, came out and said with concern the moment he saw Lind.

Father Bain has a thick brown beard and hair with obvious features. He is fat and looks like a large wine barrel. His left foot is gone and has been replaced by a wooden stick. Three fingers are missing from his right hand. , it should have been chopped off with a sharp weapon.

Linde smiled and explained: "I have been lying down for more than a month. Come out and walk around to recover faster."

For Linde, Father Bain can definitely be regarded as his benefactor, because during the more than a month when he was injured and lying in bed unable to move, it was Father Bain and only Father Bain who took care of him. Because of this, he almost regarded Father Bain as the father of this body.

After hearing his explanation, Father Bain didn't say anything. He reached out and patted his arm, and then motioned for him to sit in the tavern.

"Hey! Bear Hunter!" The moment he walked into the tavern, the people in the tavern unanimously raised their wine glasses and shouted towards Linde. Although their shouts were also filled with awe, but But they were much more enthusiastic and less fearful than the people in the village he had seen before.

Linde knew nothing about these people and didn't know how to respond so as not to reveal his flaws, so he just nodded towards them.

These people did not show any dissatisfaction with Linde's reaction. Instead, they thought it was normal. This also made Linde realize that his body must have been a withdrawn person before.

He walked to a table by the window and sat down. Father Bain brought a glass of wine and placed it in front of him, and then went about his own business.

Linde picked up the wine glass and took a sip. The sour and vinegary wine in the glass was a bit unpleasant to drink, but he still resisted the urge to spit it out and swallowed it without showing any inappropriate emotions on his face. .

The atmosphere in the tavern did not change because Linde joined, but the topics they talked about seemed to gradually become skewed, and there were more contents related to Linde.

Perhaps because of the presence of the parties involved, the voices of their conversations were much lower. It is difficult for ordinary people to hear clearly the content of these people's conversations in such a noisy environment. But Linde was different. After more than a month of integration, , although his body did not become stronger as a result, his other senses became more sensitive than ordinary people. It took him a long time to adapt to this, and now it comes in handy.

By collecting information from the conversations between these people in the tavern, Linde quickly understood where he was now and what had happened to him. Although he had tried his best to restrain his emotions, there was still some surprise on his face. expression.

During the period of recuperation, he had guessed where he would be reborn countless times, but he had thought about countless ancient Western countries, but he never imagined that he would be reborn in the ice and ice world written by George R. Martin. In the world of fire.

Although he has not read the novel written by that author, he has watched the TV series adapted from the novel. After all, the world of ice and fire was so famous that it was difficult for people to not pay attention to it at the time. He even got involved because of a certain I have visited many Game of Thrones forums and looked through the discussion posts regarding the questions brought about by these plots.

Even though he watches these things with the mentality of an ordinary viewer, the TV series and forum posts provide him with a lot of useful information.

For example, the Usurper's War that most people in the tavern were talking about that ended last year was probably the war that saw Robert Baratheon ascend the throne. This also made him realize that the time he was currently at was in before the start of the TV series.

This is definitely not good news for him, because now he will not be able to use all the information provided by TV series and discussion posts.

And according to his understanding, the system in Westeros is very rigid, and it is difficult for ordinary people to stand out. Bloodline and inheritance are the cornerstones of the world's powerful people, and the body he is reborn in is just an ordinary person. What's even worse is that he is now in the Reach.

The nobles of the Reach have always been known for their antiquity. The family heritage of any lord here can be thousands of years old. As the guardian of the South, the Tyrell family is not even ranked among the top three in terms of family heritage. This shows that these people in the Reach The antiquity of nobility.

Such an ancient family inheritance naturally represents the conservatism of the system. Bloodline is the only criterion for weighing a person's status here. Even if there are a few exceptions, this conservative tower cannot be shaken.

An ordinary person who wants to get ahead here has only two choices. One is to go to Oldtown Academy and become a bachelor, and the other is to stand out in a tournament held by various lords in the Reach and be taken over by a knight. Be a knight's squire, or directly gain the favor of a knight and be canonized as a knight, just like the former captain of the Kingsguard, Ser Duncan the Tall.

In addition, Linde also learned that the village he was in now was called White Village. It was located on the edge of the Red Lake Forest in the River Bend. It belonged to the territory of the Klein family and was not very far from the Red Lake City of the Klein family.

The reason why this place is called White Village is because after the houses were built here, the locals used to plaster the walls with a nearby white plaster, so the whole village is white.

This village is the direct territory of the Klein family and belongs to Red Lake City. Most of the people in the village are hunters, but they are different from those hunters who specialize in hunting. The hunters in Bai Village mainly work for Red Lake City or other rivers. Qiu Shou, a noble man from the Bay Area, serves as a guide.

Although the Red Lake Forest around the Red Lake is not the largest forest in the Reach, it is home to the largest number of deer, bears and other animal groups in the entire Reach. Therefore, every time in autumn, Klein The family will invite nobles from the Reach to come here to hunt and exchange feelings. The hunters in White Village are a hunting village specially established by the Klein family for the annual autumn hunting event.

Also, Linde also knew why he was so seriously injured and lay in bed for more than a month? Why do people in the village call themselves bear hunters and are so in awe of them?

Speaking of which, the matter is also related to the Usurper's War that ended last year. As the guardian of the Southern Territory, the Tyrell family took the wrong side in the war. Although they were not punished by King Robert, who became the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, the Tyrell family I always felt uneasy, so I wanted to collect all kinds of rare treasures in the Reach and give them to King Robert, so as to improve the relationship with King Robert.

Although the Klein family has an ancient heritage, it has declined. It is very difficult to maintain the rule of Red Lake City. They even had to marry into the Florent family, a great noble of the Reach, to keep the family from declining.

Under this situation, the Crann family naturally wanted to have more help, so when they learned that the Tyrell family collected rare treasures from the Reach, they also wanted to use this to build a good relationship with the Tyrell family.

It’s just that the Klein family has declined, and most of the precious treasures inherited from the family have been sold off in the past. The remaining ones have obvious family characteristics and must not be sold, otherwise they will become the Reach. The laughing stock of the nobles, so they can only collect valuable treasures from other sources.

Fortunately, their territory has the richest animal resources in the Reach, including some extremely precious animals, so they targeted and offered huge bounties.

The father of Linde's body was the best hunter in Bai Village. He took a fancy to the reward offered by the Klein family, so after obtaining the permission of the Klein family manager, he entered the Red Lake Forest to hunt mountain bears.

The mountain bears in the Red Lake Forest are different from ordinary bears. They are twice the size of ordinary bears and several times stronger. They also have a layer of brown-red hair that is comparable to armor, which makes them It is a nearly invincible existence in the Red Lake Forest.

In the past, more than a group of knights who tried to show off their bravery by hunting mountain bears died in the attacks of mountain bears. You must know that knights do not exist alone. There are many knights and attendants beside them. guards and mercenary warriors.

So when Linde's father entered the Red Lake Forest, no one thought that Linde's father could successfully hunt mountain bears.

In fact, as everyone thought, Linde's father died in the forest, and his body had been torn into pieces by mountain bears. When the hunters in Bai Village found it, only half of his head and some incomplete pieces were left. of broken corpses.

After collecting his father's body, the former owner of Linde's body did not give up hunting mountain bears. Instead, he planned to fulfill his father's last wish and avenge his father.

In the next year, he continued to enter the forest, looking for traces of mountain bears, and spent a lot of money to make hunting traps that were lethal enough. He finally completed the preparations more than a month ago, and then took the traps into the Red Lake Forest. .

In this revenge hunt, Linde's predecessor both succeeded and failed. Success meant that he did hunt a mountain bear alone, but failure meant that the mountain bear did not kill him. His father's mountain bear, and he was seriously injured by the mountain bear's counterattack. There was almost no intact skin on his back, and his spine was almost broken by the bear's paw.

If Father Bain, his father's life-and-death friend, hadn't taken the risk to take him into the forest, find his whereabouts, carry him back from the forest, and take care of him for more than a month, he might have died in the forest, and this is also The origin of his nickname as bear hunter.

In addition to being physically injured, a mountain bear he hunted did not bring him any benefit, but instead caused him trouble.

Because he entered the Red Lake Forest to hunt without the permission of the Klein family, the owner of the Red Lake Forest, his hunting behavior was equivalent to stealing the property of the Klein family, and the Klein family could execute him in accordance with the law.

However, I don’t know whether it was because he got a mountain bear in vain, or because Lind was already very close to death and there was no need to continue to execute him. Therefore, the head of the Klein family said that he would no longer pursue his private hunting behavior, and even Five golden dragons were left behind as a reward for hunting mountain bears.

Compared with the 500 gold dragons offered by Klein a year ago, these five gold dragons are really pitiful. But in the eyes of ordinary people, five gold dragons are already considered a huge sum of money, and holding this huge sum of money The man was a bedridden wounded person who could die at any time, so the people in the village came up with the idea of ​​these five golden dragons.

However, these villagers who were dazzled by money had to give up their greed under the strong intervention of Father Bain. That's why the villagers whom Lind saw before showed such expressions. Obviously they were afraid that their injuries had already occurred. Linde, who had almost recovered, retaliated.