Chapter 311 Linde’s decision

"Tell me what you think." After everyone sat down, Linde asked directly to the night watchmen in front of him.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one planned to speak first, so everyone's eyes fell on Old Xiong.

Old Xiong couldn't help but roll his eyes, and couldn't help cursing these cunning guys in his heart. It was hard for him to speak, so let him do it.

But in this situation, he could not continue to remain silent, so he thought for a while and asked: "Master Linde, do you want us to accept the savages?"

The reason why Jeor Mormont said this was not a random guess. It is no secret that Daisy Mormont transported a large number of wildlings beyond the wall to Bear Island in the past few years, and he also knew that most of the wildlings transported were transferred to Midsummer. The remaining parts were placed in the Bear Island and integrated into the army and residents of Bear Island.

"Yes." Linde nodded and said without hiding his thoughts.

Everyone around was immediately in an uproar. Most of the commanders of the castles here were noble children from the Seven Kingdoms. All the information they had come into contact with about the savages since childhood was without exception that the savages outside the wall were barbaric and cruel. They could only treat them as barbarians. They are treated as beasts and not as human beings.

The other commanders, without exception, are residents of the land whose families were destroyed by the savages who crossed the Great Wall. They all have an unforgettable hatred for the savages, so when they heard Linde's decision, they had the biggest reaction. If he said It was not Lind who said this, they might have already drawn their swords against each other.

As the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont had to stand up and express their thoughts on behalf of everyone, saying: "My lord, the Night's Watch has been fighting the wildlings beyond the wall since its establishment, and the hatred between the two sides has lasted for thousands of years. For a long time, it has always been the glory of the Night Watch to keep the wild people outside the Great Wall and protect the southern countries from them. Now you ask the Night Watch to let the wild people escape the Great Wall. This..."

"Is the glory of the night watchman to fight against the wild people outside the Great Wall?" Linde interrupted Mr. Xiong, looked at everyone, raised his hand to signal everyone to quiet down, and then asked in a deep voice: "I have a question to ask. Everyone, why were the Night Watch and the Great Wall established?"

Everyone present was stunned. They looked at each other for a while and didn't know how to answer.

"Can't you answer such a simple question?" Lind's eyes swept across everyone, and finally landed on Jeor Mormont, and said: "Who is it that you know the answer in your heart, but you can't say it out loud. In this case, I will say it for you! It is the White Walkers. The Night's Watch was established and the Great Wall was built all to fight against the White Walkers. It was only because the White Walkers retreated to the land of eternal winter further north that the target was changed. Now that the White Walkers have reappeared, they are gathering north of the Great Wall, ready to go south to attack the Great Wall. The most important thing for the Night Watch to do now is to return to their duties, and all actions and thoughts must be focused on fighting against the White Walkers. All that has to be put aside, including hatred of the savages.”

Some commanders couldn't help but questioned: "The White Walkers may appear the same as last time. They were just a test, and then returned to the north. There is no need for us to let the savages pass through the Great Wall."

Linde looked at the commander, then at the others, and said, "Do you think the same as him?"

The commanders hesitated for a moment and nodded. Only a few did not nod, including the commander of Ice Mark City.

Lind pointed directly at the commander of Ice Scar City and said, "Tell me why you didn't think like others that the White Walkers were just testing this time."

Everyone's eyes fell on the commander of Ice Mark City, who hesitated for a moment and said: "Lord Vilas told me that this time the long summer will be followed by the long winter, and it will last for a very long time. Maybe It will take hundreds of years, so the White Walkers’ move south this time is definitely not a test, but they really want to go south.”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this and didn't know how to react for a moment.

Vilas is a very special being in the Night Watch Legion. He did not join the Night Watch Legion or take the oath of the Night Watch, but he is a very important part of the Night Watch Legion.

At first, everyone only regarded him as a sponsor of the Night Watch Legion, but later they discovered that Willas was unusual. He not only found the secret of the Great Wall of Despair in ancient times, but now it has become a part of the Great Wall. Anyone who goes to Ice Scar City Anyone who sees Vilas will be shocked by such a scene.

Although Vilas never interfered with the affairs of the Night Watch, his words may be more effective than those of Mr. Xiong in the eyes of the Night Watch Commander. Just like now, after the Commander of Ice Scar City said Vilas' words, everyone here No one questioned, but seriously thought about the meaning behind these words.

After a moment of silence, Lind spoke again: "When the world falls into eternal winter, the White Walkers will be the enemy of all life. What we have to do is to unite all the forces that can be united to fight against the White Walkers, including the wild people beyond the Great Wall. "

Dennis Mallister, the commander of the Shadow Tower, stood up and saluted Lind, and said seriously: "If everything is really as Lord Lind and Lord Vilas said, the world will fall into eternal winter. , then we are indeed willing to accept the Savage Tribe, but what about the Savage Tribe? Are the Savage Tribe willing to be included by us and fight against the White Walkers with us? Based on our understanding of the Savage Tribe, they will never accept it if they cross the Great Wall. Our settlement will definitely wait for the opportunity to go south and plunder the towns along the way. In that case, we will be the main culprits of the savage disaster. "

Lind nodded towards Denis Mallister and said: "I know very well what the habits of the savages are like. There are no fewer savage tribes in my territory than there are outside the Great Wall, so I am not asking you to accept the savages now." Tribe. I think the Night's Watch Legion must beat the barbarian tribe hard and let them know that they will die if they don't accept the incorporation, so that they can let the barbarian tribe cross the Great Wall."

After hearing Linde's words, everyone's eyes lit up. They changed their previous doubts and agreed with Linde's proposal. They also hoped that Linde could stay and preside over the battle against the savages.

However, Linde rejected everyone's proposal and expressed the hope that their battle with the savages would not be too severe. His purpose was to suppress the savages, not to eliminate them.

After that, he discussed with everyone about building savage settlements behind the castles of the Great Wall. These settlements are not long-term settlements. After the savages accept the recruitment of the Night Watch Legion, those savages who cannot become warriors will After being taken to the Summer Hall by Linde, he would not stay in the settlement, so Linde also said that he would send people to build the settlement, and all the expenses would be borne by the Summer Hall.

At the end, he said that he would give the Night's Watch a batch of weapons specially used to deal with the corpses and white ghosts, and would dispatch a team of Chosen Sons to the Great Wall to assist the Night's Watch in the battle, but he emphasized that the Chosen Sons would not participate. The war against the wildlings will only take part in the battle against the white walkers and wights.

After making the decision with the Night Watch to take over the savage tribe, Linde did not participate in the subsequent discussions about the battle. He refused everyone's farewell and left the meeting hall alone, walked through the courtyard and came to the outside of the city.

At this time, Maester Aemon was still standing not far from the lava dragon, asking his assistant maester in a low voice various details about the shape of the lava dragon.

"Lord Linde, have you already discussed the matter with the Commander-in-Chief and the others?" Although Maester Aemon's eyesight is not good, his ears are extremely sensitive and he can easily identify the person from the footsteps.

"Yes, the discussion has been completed." Lind walked to Maester Aemon and said.

"Are you going to take over the barbarian tribe?" Maester Aemon said as if he understood everything.

"Yes." Linde responded and said, "But not now, but after a few battles." After that, he looked at Maester Aemon and said, "The battles that the Great Wall will face in the future will be very fierce. , Maester Aemon, it’s too dangerous for you here, so you’d better go to my Summer Hall for now…”

"Your Excellency, you have forgotten that I am also a Night Watchman." Maester Aemon shook his head, turned back to look at the Great Wall, and said, "I also have the responsibility to stay on the Great Wall and protect it."

After hearing this, Lin De did not continue to persuade, so he walked onto the dragon's back, sat on the dragon's saddle, and prepared to ride the dragon away.

However, Academician Aemon suddenly spoke again: "Lord Linde, if the descendants of my family in the Essos continent..."

"Maester Aemon, you don't have to worry. I guarantee that Daenerys will become part of the force against the White Walkers, not the enemy." After Lind gave Maester Aemon a guarantee, he motioned to the assistant maester to help Maester Aemon leave. Stay far away before ordering Neltharion to take off.

After the lava dragon flew up, Linde did not immediately go south and return to Summer Hall, but turned around and headed to Ice Mark City.

Ice Mark City is not far from Black Castle, with three castles in between. Soon Lind flew over Ice Mark City, but unlike Castle Black, Linde directly let the lava dragon land in the square of Ice Mark City. .

Because of Willas's relationship, Icescar City has the largest number of permanent troops among all the guardian castles on the Great Wall, even more troops than Castle Black, because the troops stationed here, except for a member of the Night's Watch Legion, In addition to the thousand men, there are also 3,000 men sent by Highgarden to protect Willas. The total strength of 4,000 men is more than a thousand more than the permanent strength of Castle Black.

However, the people sent by Highgarden to protect Willas do not belong to the Night Watch, but follow Willas' orders. Therefore, these three thousand people usually do not live in Icemark City, but outside Icemark City. After building a town, he usually only stays in the town. Only under some special circumstances will he enter Ice Scar City and guard the city with the night watchman. The commander leaving Ice Scar City is one of the special circumstances.

When Linde and the Lava Dragon landed in the square of Ice Scar City, the surrounding night watchmen were frightened and fled away. On the contrary, Highgarden's army occupied the high ground and aimed their bows and arrows at them. As long as Linde made the slightest move, they would attack without hesitation, showing no fear of the lava dragon.

Linde looked at the bows and arrows around him, and his eyes paused on the Highgarden soldiers for a moment, with a thoughtful look on his face.

It was obvious that the reaction of these Highgarden troops was abnormal. They did not show the fear they should have when facing the ferocious dragon, as if the emotion of fear had been cut off. This also made Linde couldn't help but think of his acceptance. Silent monks and nuns of redemption who have completed various trials in the Redemption Temple.

"Put down your weapons! Everyone put down their weapons! It's Lord Lynd Terra. This is Lord Lynd Terra." At this time, the commander of the Highgarden army recognized him through the dragon and Lind's iconic Homeless Knight armor. He revealed his identity as Linde and shouted loudly to the people around him.

The tense atmosphere around them dissipated instantly, and the archers lowered their bows and arrows, but did not put the arrows back into their quivers, and still showed great vigilance.

Lind didn't pay much attention to these Highgarden soldiers. He stood up and walked off the dragon's back. He came to the deputy commander of Ice Scar City and said, "I want to see Vilas. You lead the way."

The commander's deputy was stunned when he heard this, and without much thought, he led Linde from the ice cave on the side of the main castle into the interior of the Great Wall of Despair.

I saw that there were still some warriors from Highgarden guarding the ice passage leading to Vilas's location. Without exception, these warriors were all wearing heavy armor and were too tall. They looked like they had experienced hundreds of battles. .

When Linde walked past these people, he could clearly look at himself from these people with a scrutinizing eye, as if he was determining whether Linde was a threat.

Soon Linde came to a huge and empty ice cave in the center of the Great Wall of Despair.

I saw an extremely eye-catching icicle in the middle of the ice cave, connecting the ground and the top of the ice cave. To outsiders, this was just an ordinary icicle, but in Linde's eyes, this icicle In fact, it is more like a rune pillar. A large number of mysterious runes are superimposed together, completely wrapping the icicle from the inside out. The runes above the head and the runes on the ground are also connected to form a whole.

The most eye-catching thing is not the icicle itself, but Veras, who is frozen in the icicle and is the core of the entire rune system.

Vilas was completely trapped in the icicles at this moment, without any cracks showing. A normal person would have died long ago in this situation, but Vilas is still alive and well, as if he is not affected by the cold. , and there is no need to breathe like normal people.

After Lind saw Willas in this state, the first thing he thought of was the White Walkers.

"You're here! Lord Linde." Before Linde could speak, Vilas greeted him first, but the way he spoke was not directly, but rather imitating human voices through the vibration of the surrounding ice.

Lind walked to the icicle, stared at Vilas who was sealed inside, and said, "Lord Vilas, your current state surprises me."

"My current condition is very good, better than expected, you don't have to worry." Vilas saw through Linde's thoughts and expressed a few words of relief. Then he didn't want to say too much on this matter, so he took the initiative and said: " Did you come to see me today for the White Walkers or for the Three-Eyed Raven?"

"No." Lind shook his head, looked at Willas, and said, "It's for Euron."