Chapter 388 Solve the doubts

Linde did not send the Reed siblings and others to the Great Wall. Just when they walked out of the Haunted Forest, they happened to encounter a patrol of Night Watch Rangers.

Linde handed over the Reed siblings and others to the patrol and sent them back to Castle Black. At the same time, he also wrote a letter asking Ye Zi to take it to the Sister of Redemption stationed in Castle Black, and asked the Sister of Redemption to arrange for someone to send them to Summer Hall.

After making these arrangements, Linde rushed to the Fist of the First Men without stopping to meet the elf and ghost who may have existed before the long night and eternal winter in ancient times, or a survivor of the ancient civilization. He I can't wait to learn from the survivors of this ancient civilization the questions that have troubled countless scholars around the world, such as who built the Great Wall, how did the White Walkers appear, and so on.

Since he didn't need to take care of other people, Linde chose to fly directly over the Ghost Forest. It only took him less than an hour to arrive at the Fist of the Ancients, and he saw sitting next to the ruins of the checkpoint. An elf lighting a bonfire.

Because the sky was clear and cloudless, the Elf and White Walkers had already seen Linde from a long distance away, and were extremely surprised that Linde could fly in the sky.

When Lind fell, the Elf and the White Walkers couldn't help but be curious, and asked in a deep voice: "With a mortal body, you can perform the power of gods and fly in the sky. How do you do it?"

"Compared to the fact that the White Walkers can resurrect the dead, me flying in the sky shouldn't be worth the fuss, right?" Lind replied calmly, speaking in a tone as natural as if he was talking to an old friend for many years.

"It's different, it's different!" The elves and ghosts shook their heads and said: "The sky, death and resurrection are all the realms of the gods. The corpses are not resurrected. They just look like they are resurrected. In fact, they are still corpses. . You should have seen Jon Snow. His state is resurrection. It is the power of gods, just like flying in the sky."

Lind retorted: "Where is Benyan? Wasn't Benyan also resurrected as a ghost by you?"

"Have you also seen Benyan? It seems that in that underground treasure house, fate has already seen you and me involved." The Elf White Walker looked at Lind with a slightly surprised look, and said: "Bunyan did not Not dead. When he was about to die, I converted him into a White Walker, just like my people were converted back then." As he spoke, he looked at Lind and said, "I didn't expect anyone to be able to become a ghost now. Ancient One, I thought the gods..."

The Elf White Walker stopped before he finished speaking. There seemed to be something restricting him from continuing. Then he looked up at the sky, an angry expression appeared on his face, but he quickly returned to normal and turned back. Next to the campfire, it seems that I want to let my cold body feel the warmth of the flame again.

"Are there any taboos in what you just said?" Linde also walked to the bonfire and sat down, asking.

"Don't ask me. Sooner or later you will find out for yourself. After all, you have already transformed to such an extent. It shouldn't be difficult for people like you to take another step forward." The Elf and the White Walkers did not answer directly, but kept telling the story. Zuo said something mysteriously, and then introduced himself to Linde: "My name is Penan. This is a simplified name in your language. If you use it in our language, it is a bit convoluted for you humans. ”

Lind also introduced himself: "Lind Tyra."

Peinan nodded slightly and said, "I know you must have a lot of questions, and I will answer them one by one. In addition, I will also help you deal with the White Walkers going south."

Lin De was quite puzzled and asked: "Why? Aren't those White Walkers your tribe?"

Peinan shook his head and said: "No, they are not my tribe. My tribe died before the arrival of the eternal winter, and died in the conspiracy of the gods."

"The conspiracy of the gods?" Lind asked curiously: "Can you tell me in detail how you became the White Walkers?"

"Sorry, I don't remember!" Peinan shook his head and said.

"Don't remember?" Linde couldn't help but frowned. He had just said that he would answer his questions one by one, but the first question turned out to be that he didn't remember.

Penan sighed and explained: "If I had just woken up from the holy coffin, I should be able to answer your question, but now it is difficult for me to answer, because the side effects of body alienation will become more and more obvious, and my memory It is also declining rapidly, and many memories have disappeared. Maybe when my memory disappears completely, I will become those strange ghosts who hate all life. "

"Then how much do you remember?" Lin De believed Peinan's words and asked again.

Peinan was silent for a moment, thought seriously and said: "I still remember the arrival of the long night and eternal winter. I remember that the people in the north gave up everything and moved south. We performed the largest sacrifice in recorded history, offering sacrifices to the gods and praying. To get a solution to the long night and eternal winter, the gods finally responded to us and gave us a way to ask for help from a mysterious existence that would only wake up in the long night. From that mysterious existence, we got a way to live forever. It's just that this eternal life is completely different from the eternal life we ​​want. In the end, we become the immortal things we are now, suffering forever." As he said, he looked at Lind and said, "I want to be with you. Let’s form an alliance to destroy those strange ghosts together and end the suffering of our people.”

"Pain?" Linde asked curiously: "What kind of pain?"

"It can't be described, but I can let you feel it." Peinan stretched out his hand towards Linde and motioned for Linde to take his hand.

Lind looked at the hand stretched out in front of him, hesitated for a moment, then took off his gauntlet, stretched out his hand, and touched the hand of the White Walker.

Lin De immediately felt that his whole person fell into an extreme emptiness, and an extreme desire for the breath of life suddenly expanded, suppressing all emotions and becoming the only emotion, and this emotion also made Lin De At that moment, De had the urge to destroy all life.

And this was not the most uncomfortable thing for Lind. What made him uncomfortable was that he felt like he was being burned by hot flames like a furnace all the time. Even though he was prepared, he was still in unbearable pain. He groaned.

This extreme burning pain came and went just as quickly. When Peinan let go of his hand, the pain disappeared, as if it had never existed.

Linde took a few deep breaths to allow himself to recover from the extreme pain. Then he looked at Peinan with lingering fear and asked, "The White Walkers feel this burning pain all the time. No wonder Will hate all life, if it were me, I would be the same."

Peinan shook his head and corrected: "No, the burning pain you feel due to physical reasons is much stronger than mine. In fact, what really makes me suffer is the extreme emptiness and desire and hatred for life. On the contrary, the burning pain makes me feel that I still exist.”

After hearing this, Linde was silent for a long time and did not continue the topic. Instead, he asked: "What is that mysterious existence that only wakes up in the long night? Is it a god?"

"No, it's not a god." Peinan immediately denied it, and then said with a hint of confusion: "I don't know what it is, I just remember that He is in the center of the land of eternal winter, and the long night is caused by His awakening. Eternal winter is his footprints as he travels the world, and R'hllor regards him as his eternal enemy."

Lind then asked: "R'hllor should be one of the gods, right? Since R'hllor regards that mysterious being as his eternal enemy, why did he allow the gods to frame your clan and make you fight against that mysterious being? Sacrifice and turn yourself into a ghost?"

Penan explained: "R'hllor will fall into a deep sleep during the long night and will not appear among the gods."

"Why do the gods want to frame your family?" Linde asked in confusion.

"I don't remember." Peinan shook his head blankly and said, "I just remember that we were engaged in a very great cause at that time. As long as we complete that cause, our people will get true immortality, which is not the case now. The immortality of the White Walkers is the same as the gods. Perhaps this is why the gods want to frame us, because we have touched the taboos of the gods. "

Lin De frowned when he heard this, and said with deep emotion: "From your words, I feel that the gods are like people with powerful power, and they also have emotions and desires. What is the difference between them and the ancients? Is it just a matter of strength?"

"I can't answer your question. I am neither one of the gods nor an ancient one." Peinan answered while looking at Linde enviously and said, "Maybe you can answer this question in the future. After all, You are already an ancient one and may become a god in the future. If you become a god by then, please tell me the answer in front of my grave. Of course, if I still have a cemetery at that time."

Linde did not respond to the other party. After a moment of silence, he asked again: "Did Yongdong move south to the Sothoryos continent at that time?"

"Sothoros continent?" Peinan hesitated for a moment, and soon realized which continent Linde was talking about, and replied: "It's close, but not yet. We expect that we may eventually move south to that continent. On the continent, it will eventually cover the entire world, so we will pray and make sacrifices to the gods.”

"Has even the continent of Sothothros become unsafe?" Lind frowned. Originally, he thought that the extremely cold climate of long nights and eternal winter would only invade the continent of Westeros and Essos. Now from the front of his eyes, According to this ancient race, the eternal winter that had occurred in the past and affected the entire world was already approaching the continent of Sothoros, so his migration plan may need to be modified.

Linde asked: "Why didn't you become a White Walker with your people and go to the land of eternal winter, but instead lay in a crystal coffin in an ancient ruins on the continent of Sothoros?"

Peinan explained: "Because I found out that it was the conspiracy of the gods, so before I completely transformed into a white ghost, I hid in the Eternal Sacred Coffin, sealed myself away from the prying eyes of the gods and that mysterious existence. According to normal circumstances, I should have woken up after the long night, but I underestimated the power of sacrifice. Even in the holy coffin, the transformation of my body was still not over. My body was completely changed in the holy coffin. , the Holy Coffin could not recognize my identity, and finally locked me up forever, until the God-hate appeared, destroyed the Holy Coffin, and released me."

Linde looked at Penan in confusion and asked: "Euron, why does the god-hater you call you know your existence? And also knows how to destroy the holy coffin? If the holy coffin is so easy to destroy, it should have been destroyed a long time ago. Has it been destroyed?"

"These questions of yours are also what I want to know, but the God-hater didn't tell me the answer." Peinan shook his head, smiled helplessly, and said, "Even in my era, the God-hater is very mysterious. existence, no one knows what they are thinking in their minds, and no one knows what they are going to do. The only thing that is certain is that the God-haters are the enemies of the gods, and their purpose in life is to destroy the gods. "

"Destroy the gods? He wanted to get the method to destroy the gods from you before he rescued you?" Linde guessed.

"Yes." Peinan nodded and admitted.

Linde asked again: "Do you have the method to destroy the gods?"

"I do know a way to destroy the gods." Penan admitted.

Linde guessed again: "Is this method related to the city of dead corpses, Steia?"

"Is this the name of the city of corpses, Steia, now?" Penan hesitated and said, "After we built that city, we named it the City of Shadows. Yes, that's what I know. The method of destroying the gods is indeed related to the City of Shadows."

"Can you tell me about that method?" Linde asked curiously.

Peinan hesitated for a moment and said: "It's very simple, just use the ancient sacrificial ritual of the Shadow City to summon the Lord of Black Stone to come."

"Lord of the Black Stone?" Linde looked at Peinan doubtfully.

"In the ancient times, when the gods were still walking in the world, in order to own the world, the Lord of the Black Stone outside the starry sky separated a part of his body, and then put it into the world, creating black stone nodes one after another. Preparing for the world.”

Peinan threw a few firewood into the fire and narrated eloquently: "But the gods noticed the Lord of the Black Stone's plan, so they left the world, went to the sky, turned into stars, and blocked the Lord of the Black Stone. The black stones left by the Lord of the Black Stones have not been cleared away, and have remained until now. Over the long years, some of the black stones have been damaged, and some of the power contained in them has been consumed, but the core role of the black stones remains unchanged. Find the black stone whose power has not disappeared and complete an ancient sacrifice to summon the Lord of the Black Stone to this world. The Lord of the Black Stone will take the initiative to destroy the gods. "

Lind thought for a while and asked: "Did you create this method of destroying the gods yourself, or was it passed down from ancient times?"

Peinan replied: "It has been passed down from ancient times. Many people in my tribe know this method."

"Such a method should be regarded as taboo by the gods. How could it be spread and let so many people know about it?" Linde thought of Euron's last figure and said, "Will this method be possible?" The meeting is also a conspiracy of the gods, which is to attract people who want to destroy the gods, such as those who hate God and fall into the trap. "

Hearing this, Peinan was stunned for a long time, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.