The serious expression on the face of the old Commander-in-Chief Mormont also seemed to indicate that this matter was not a good thing.
The same was true for Ed Stark's weather-beaten face. Then the Northerner pondered for a moment and nodded slightly. His tone was calm and could even be mistaken for arrogance and indifference.
"In that case, let's go."
Ed briefly forgot that he was now a soldier of the Night's Watch instead of the high-ranking Duke of the North. He strode forward with one hand on the hilt of his sword. Under the gray wolf skin was a black cloak, which was slightly blown by the wind.
flutter.
Colin Halfhand, who was on the other side, saw this scene and quickly glanced at Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, and found that Mormont had no objection to this.
After all, old Mormont was once a vassal who swore allegiance to the Stark family. Now, although his status briefly surpassed Eddard, it would be a loss of honor to be so arrogant. Jeor Mormont
He is not a person of this character either.
"Lord Eddard Stark, here is the one we have met"
At this moment, Bachelor Pycelle, who had a chain around his neck, came over and spoke tremblingly.
The former Whitebeard Archmaester had been stripped of his bachelor's chain. However, Pycelle found a chain link from nowhere and put it on himself again. However, in a place like the Night's Watch, there are no rules of the city.
Likewise, no one cared about his Xiao Jiujiu.
However, when Eddard Stark passed by Maester Pycelle and heard his words, he just nodded slightly and said hello briefly.
"Grand Maester Pycelle, we have indeed met."
Then he continued to move forward without waiting for him to finish, leaving only the old man with a white beard who pretended to have inconvenience to chase a few people behind.
Eddard Stark, Commander-in-Chief Mormont, Maester Pycelle and other people came and went in a hurry and soon returned to the scene of the incident, but there were already many Night Watch soldiers surrounding them.
They looked inside together, making panicked sounds from time to time.
"Oh my God."
"It's terrible."
"Is this the enemy we will face in the future?"
Many of the onlookers of the Night's Watch were southern nobles who were sent to the frontier after the Judgment of King's Landing. Some of them had never seen the White Walkers, but had only heard of their names. However, now they saw the 'masterpiece' of these monsters.
It is inevitable that people will feel panic afterwards.
Relatively speaking, the soldiers in the north are calmer. Almost most of the surviving soldiers in the north have experienced the war against the White Walkers, and only a few are refugees from the north who were recruited later.
They had fought head-on with these 'monsters' before, but they had never seen such a terrifying scene. They couldn't help but look at each other and whisper to each other.
"Step aside!"
"Step aside!"
"Lord Commander Jeor Mormont!"
"Lord Eddard Stark!"
At this moment, Eddard and the old Commander-in-Chief Mormont arrived from behind.
‘Wandering Crow’ Yoren and other veterans of the Night’s Watch drove them away, and the crowd consciously made way for a passage to allow a few people to squeeze in and see the scene in front of them.
"hiss"
Ed Stark, who had just seen this scene, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and frowned with a pair of dark brows.
The scene in front of me was a bit shocking. There were corpses and broken limbs everywhere, and there was solidified and frozen blood on the ground, spreading wantonly on the land and snow.
The human arms and the horses' heads began to circle from the center of the circle, eventually forming the shape of a huge windmill. If viewed from the sky, it would be a strange giant formation, breathtaking.
"Are these damn guys doing 'art' again?"
Ed frowned, exhaled a white breath, then turned his head to look at Commander-in-Chief Jeor Mormont and said.
The two of them once fought side by side on the Great Wall and even Winterfell. The first White Walker killed in modern history was killed by King Robert himself, and Eddard and Jeor Mormont had met him at that time.
The 'art' created by the White Walkers.
They love to use human or animal corpses to create strange patterns, but their intentions are not very clear.
Intimidation? The White Walkers hope to scare away humans?
It was still some kind of dark sacrificial ritual that they didn't know about. The White Walkers piled corpses into a large array and then offered sacrifices to an unknown evil god.
"more than."
However, the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, who was bald and only surrounded by a ring of pale hair, shook his head and said.
"Torch!"
His face was still serious, and he called his subordinates to bring torches, then exhaled a breath of white air and walked towards the center of the formation.
"Follow me, Lord Stark."
Eddard was a little confused and didn't know what Old Mormont was up to, but he still followed him towards the middle area with his sword hilt pressed.
Soon, a Night's Watch soldier in black handed over the torch, and the old Commander-in-Chief Mormont took it, then walked to the center of the circle and shined forward.
Now that the sky has completely darkened, it was still unclear where the center of the circular array was from the outside of the giant circular array. But when he got closer, the torches dispelled the darkness, and Ed finally saw clearly what was in the center of the circular array.
.
It was a huge wolf head, and Ed was willing to swear that it was the largest wolf head he had ever seen.
Its once snow-white fur has now become a little dirty, covered with blood and dust. Its face is ferocious with its fangs spread out, its red eyes wide open, and it looks unwillingly at the two people holding torches in front of it.
It was as if it could suddenly open its mouth and bite them at any time.
"Is this... a direwolf?"
Ed walked in front of the wolf head, then knelt down and observed it carefully.
He held the dagger on the other side of his waist with one hand, fearing that the other party would suddenly bite him. You must know that this was not the first time that the White Walkers had played such a trick.
There was another time before that the White Walkers also arranged the corpses of humans and animals into a strange formation. Then when the human soldiers approached, the heads of these corpses suddenly began to open their mouths and scream in unison, scaring the group of soldiers.
I was so shaken that I even had a psychological shadow afterwards.
Eddard recognized the huge wolf head as the emblem of the Stark family, a direwolf that should not live south of the Great Wall.
"Do you think this is a warning? Lord Stark."
Commander Mormont, holding a torch, looked at Eddard who was squatting on the ground, and then asked.
However, Ed turned a deaf ear to his voice. Instead, his eyes were fixed on the wooden bow that fell next to the direwolf's head, and then he reached out to pick it up and looked at it carefully.
Then when Ed turned the small wooden bow over, he saw a small line of inscriptions on the place where the small wooden bow was held, written in a childish handwriting.