Chapter 183 The Traitor

After the corpse turns into a ghoul, the blood coagulates and the corpse will no longer rot. This revived monster has blue eyes.

Piper told Cole that the Night Watch speculated that this monster retained some memories before death, but no longer had reason and humanity.

When Jeff Flowers was resurrected as a ghoul, he killed five brothers of the Night Watch in a row. No matter whether his palm or head was cut off, his separated parts could still move.

In the end, Jeff Flowers was chopped into pieces, which ended the disaster.

And the Commander's Tower was burned to ashes by another ghoul named Oser.

"Ghouls are afraid of fire." Glenn was very sure.

Cole didn't stay on the Wall for long. Glenn and Piper walked with him on the Wall, and then they came down from the Wall in an iron cage.

They walked to the hall, where the brothers of the Night Watch gathered.

When Cole walked in from the door, the hall, which was unusually noisy just now, suddenly became quiet, and the brothers in black looked at him one by one.

The Eastwatch Night Watch brought by Janos Slynt and Alliser Thorne gathered together, while the brothers from Castle Black dispersed. Maester Aemon also sat in the hall, with Clydas, who was taking care of him, beside him.

After a round of inspection, the wooden hall gradually overlapped with Cole's memory, but unfortunately, things and people had long since changed. The table in the right corner was Cole's favorite place to sit, a little further away from the fireplace, but from there, he could see all the fights of the Night Watch brothers in the hall.

He remembered the old bear sitting in the main seat, and the weapon master Donal Noy. At this time, the seats they usually sat in were empty and scattered there.

People in the hall thought he would go to the main table, but Cole just returned to the familiar position. From time to time, someone greeted him on the way. Cole responded all the way to the table. He reached out and touched the oak square table, which was covered with knife marks and holes.

"I'll get some food." Piper said.

Sitting in a familiar position, Cole did not feel very at home. The hall of Castle Black only made him feel out of place. When he left the Wall, he no longer belonged here.

Pyp brought roast pork and onions, garlic sausage, blueberry pudding and a pot of wine. Cole knew that this was definitely a luxurious lunch for the Night's Watch. Only on some major events or naming days would the Chief of Staff "Bowen Marsh" give the brothers of the Night's Watch a delicious meal.

When Pyp put down the plate, Grenn picked up the roast pork and ate it. Cole had eaten much better food than this. At the wedding of the King of King's Landing, seventy-seven dishes feasted his eyes.

Cole only tasted a few bites of onions and blueberry pudding, and then he kept drinking wine slowly.

Grenn chewed the garlic sausage and asked them, "Should we send some to Jon?"

Pyp glanced at Cole.

"The Pomegranate Man should prepare it for him." This is the nickname of the Chief of Staff.

"I always thought he was just a bastard of the Stark family, but I didn't expect him to be a prince of the Targaryen family." Grenn swallowed the sausage. When he was rescued, Lord Eddard Stark was still interested. He wanted to see Jon, but Jon Snow himself was unconscious at that time. Later, he asked the captain of the guard, Harris Moran, to write his will and words to Jon. Many brothers of the Night's Watch were present at the time.

"It should be a bastard." Pyp corrected. He had been a performer and visited many places in the Seven Kingdoms. He knew more about the story of Prince Rhaegar than Grenn. "Jon's mother, Lyanna Stark, was born by Rhaegar's arrogance."

"What should his surname be?" Grenn asked puzzledly.

"Weishui, the surname of the bastard of the king is Weishui." Cole explained for him.

"Jon Waters?"

"Of course he can continue to be called Snow, just like Bloodraven Brynden Rivers and Froststeed Aegor Rivers." No one has made it clear that bastards must follow their father's surname. "If the king is willing to correct his inheritance, Jon's surname can be changed to Targaryen."

"Jon can be king?!" Grenn exclaimed in disbelief.

"Fool, Jon has joined the Night's Watch and can no longer be king." Pyp reminded him.

"Just because of that brat?" Grenn's voice was heard by Ser Alliser Thorne. He stood up and said loudly, "Lord Chameleon not only wants to be a wildling, but also wants to sit on the iron throne? Does he want a wildling to be his queen?"

"That's ridiculous!" Slynt, like a barrel, responded loudly, "Does this chameleon want to be a usurper? How can he trample on the sacred oath again and again? In my opinion, he must be punished."

"I'm not a chameleon, nor a usurper!" A hoarse roar suddenly came from outside the hall. Jon Snow, who was leaning on a cane, stood in the cold wind with indignation.

His leg injury had already healed for the most part, and he had not suffered any new injuries in the battle outside the Great Wall.

"Lord Chameleon is finally here." Alliser Thorne said with a mocking face.

The sound of the cane knocking on the floor was thumping.

"You keep saying you're innocent, so let me ask you, who killed Qhorin Halfhand?" Slynt questioned him.

"I killed him," Jon admitted, "but it was his order. He was worried that Mance Rayder had found the Horn of Winter, so he asked me to go among the wildlings to find out."

"Horn of Winter? This nonsense is as absurd as those who saw the dragon in Eastwatch. Then I ask you, have you seen the Horn of Winter?" Alliser asked.

Jon bit his lips tightly, but still shook his head. There was no Horn of Winter at all.

"Then do you deny that you have slept with a wild woman?" Slynt pressed.

Jon still shook his head, he did not deny it.

"So you admit that you are a breaker of oaths?"

"I admit that I broke my oath of not being close to women." But half of the people in Castle Black will go to the brothel in Mole Village to "dig for treasure".

"My lords, if you want to judge whether Jon is guilty or not, it must be decided by the Lord Commander of the Wall." Maester Aemon interrupted their difficulties with Jon, "and Donal Noye and I have accepted Jon's explanation."

"You are not the Lord Commander, Maester." Slynt told him.

Maester Aemon raised his head slightly, "I have sent ravens to Eastwatch and the Shadow Tower. The Night's Watch will be here soon to elect a new commander-in-chief."

"I hope so, maester." Slynt glanced at Jon and sat down.

"I swear, I have never betrayed." Jon said loudly, "I have never taken up arms against my brothers or the kingdom I protect. I swear."

He turned around with a crutches, limped to the door, and gradually disappeared into the wind and snow.

It was snowing in the sky, which was very inappropriate.