The white direwolf left without looking back. The knight in black, who was half-kneeling on the spot, watched its figure disappear into the snow. His heart felt a little heavy, and then he slowly stood up.
This black knight is none other than Benjen Stark, who was released from prison not long ago. He left the Great Wall alone to follow the traces of the White Walkers, hoping to find his sister Lyanna Stark.
However, the dangerous situation outside the wall was more serious than before. The chief ranger of the Night's Watch, who had experienced many battles, encountered danger in less than a day.
He encountered a snowstorm and wanted to find a place to spend the night before setting out on the road the next day. However, when he arrived at Baishu Village, the savage village closest to the Great Wall, he was suddenly attacked by a ghoul.
There were many wights, but Benyan only had one person. In the end, he was outnumbered. Benyan killed all the wights, but fell unconscious in front of the huge weirwood tree in Whitetree Village.
I don't know how much time passed after that, but when Benyan opened his eyes again, there was no trace of the wights he had killed around him, and he was the only one still lying alone under the weirwood tree.
Bunyan thought he had escaped with luck, but it didn't take long for him to discover a fatal problem.
Bunyan suddenly realized that he seemed to be unable to feel the cold anymore.
Then he realized that his body had lost any warmth at some point and had become bone-chilling cold, and his skin had also turned livid, unlike a human being, and had lost all its color.
The chief ranger of the Night Watch felt an unprecedented panic for the first time. Then he found a clean ice surface, wiped off the snow on it and looked down.
Bunyan saw the familiar face that belonged to him, and a pair of ice-blue eyes.
Is he really dead and turned into a corpse?
The knight in black sat under the weirwood tree in White Tree Village and spent most of the day thinking about this matter.
And after a fierce psychological struggle, he was finally able to accept this fact, instead of directly drawing his sword and committing suicide while he was awake.
He sat under the weirwood tree for most of the day, but he did not feel any coldness. If he had been in such a harsh environment outside the Great Wall during the human period and had been inactive for a long time, he might have frozen to death long ago.
However, Bunyan was now calm and did not feel any discomfort.
And he didn't know how long he had been without food or water, but he also didn't feel anything.
Bunyan finally discovered the advantage of becoming a wight. He could move freely outside the wall without being affected by the harshest climate conditions here.
He no longer has to endure the biting cold and spend a lot of energy looking for food.
The only price he paid was his life. From now on, he could no longer call himself a living person. Although his stance and camp had not changed, even though he became a dead person, he was still willing to fight for the living.
However, despite Bunyan's careful thinking and complicated inner feelings, he still discovered an important loophole in this.
Is that why he can still stay awake after so long?
Under the command of the White Walkers, the Legion of the Dead launched a charge against the human coalition forces without fear of death. This scene left a deep psychological impression on Benyan.
The other wights are just slaves of the White Walkers. They should have no thoughts of their own, otherwise Benyan believes that although most of the wights are dead, they are still willing to fight for the living.
However, Bunyan still does not feel that he is any different from when he was alive. He remembers his name and his mission. He can still run, jump, and have his own thoughts.
Are you a special case?
The chief ranger of the Night's Watch couldn't help but think of this.
However, there is another possibility that Bunyan himself does not know that he has actually forgotten most of the things. He now feels that being able to control his body is just an illusion of being manipulated.
However, perhaps he had been frozen for too long, and Bunyan's mind was not as active.
Afterwards, he thought deeply for a long time and decided not to return to the Great Wall to meet his brother. He was afraid that Ed would strike him with a sword in a fit of excitement.
Instead, he continued his mission and headed north, using the advantages brought by his current identity to track the traces of the White Walkers and find his sister Lyanna Stark.
Just do it.
Bunyan himself was also a resolute character. He did enough ideological work and figured out what he should do. Then he stood up, picked up his sword and continued to move towards the north step by step.
However, not long after, Bunyan was lucky enough to find his lost war horse. This yellow and black war horse was an old friend of Bunyan's. He and his horse had fought side by side many times outside the wall.
But now this war horse has become a skeleton horse when Bunyan passed out, but fortunately it still seems to remember its owner.
At first, the skeleton horse was still resisting, opening its rotten mouth with its gums exposed, trying to gnaw on Bunyan's head.
However, when Bunyan grabbed its reins and stroked its mane, the skeleton horse stopped struggling and allowed Bunyan to ride on its back again.
Then one person, one horse, and one sword moved toward the north again alone in the white wind and snow. I don’t know how many days and nights had passed. Bunyan had passed through the Fist of the Ancients and arrived at the location of Fengsheng Gorge.
, and then met this equally lonely direwolf.
Bunyan originally wanted to go on the road with him, but the proud wolf king rejected him. Although his group was destroyed, he did not need a human partner.
It can continue to wander in this vast ice field, and it can also face death head-on.
After the direwolf left, Benjen climbed back on his horse, and then continued heading north, one man and one horse.
However, not even half a day passed before he encountered an unexpected situation again.
But this time Bunyan's heart was no longer calm, but gradually became hotter.
Because he met a strange ghost.
The other party was riding a skeleton horse like him, but the horse's reins were made of a bunch of frost-covered iron chains. It made a constant sound of metal friction when walking, which was particularly eye-catching in this snowy night.
Benyan discovered the White Walker, and he strangled the skeleton horse under his crotch and looked at the other person, and the white-haired White Walker obviously also discovered him.
But his cold eyes just glanced at him coldly, not finding any clues.
The skeleton horse under his crotch did not stop at all, but continued to move forward unhurriedly, and then disappeared into the wind and snow.