It was quiet all around, with only the faint sound of breathing, no light, and no one could see his fingers.
A man in black clothes with long dark brown hair was holding a sword and wearing a wolf skin, leaning against the cellar wall and sleeping soundly.
But at this moment, he suddenly frowned slightly in his sleep, and then his breathing suddenly became rapid.
One of the companions leaning on him was not asleep yet. He had rich experience and extremely fast reaction speed. Perhaps because there were too many terrible things recently, he would suddenly wake up at the slightest disturbance.
He suddenly covered Bunyan's mouth, causing him to swallow the exclamation in his mouth back into his stomach, only making a dull sound.
"Woo——"
However, just this weak sound made everyone in the cellar suddenly wake up and make a slight commotion. At the same time, there was also a slight sound from the upper floor of the cellar.
"Oops."
In an instant, everyone's hearts were in suspense.
Fortunately, there were no other sounds after this small sound, and everyone hiding deep in the cellar breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?"
"You know you almost killed us all, Benjen!"
The person who spoke in a lowered voice was Alliser Thorne, the master of the Night's Watch at Castle Black.
He has rich combat experience and is now in his forties. It was his quick reaction that saved everyone's lives. Otherwise, once the demons from outside were attracted, the last safe place in Winterfell would also be destroyed.
Fall.
When she was young, Alliser Thorne fought for the Targaryen family in the Usurper's War, and refused to surrender when King's Landing fell, fighting until the last moment until she was captured alive.
Lord Tywin Lannister asked him to choose between the noose and black clothes. He chose to wear black clothes, and then he came to the Night's Watch.
The frightened long-faced man was also breathing heavily at this moment. He also realized that what had just happened was extremely dangerous. His chest was heaving, but his eyes still seemed to be filled with fear.
He had a nightmare, he was Benjen Stark, the chief ranger of the Night's Watch.
However, after taking a few deep breaths, Bunyan gradually calmed down.
"Sorry, Ser Alliser."
Then Bunyan glanced at his fellow Night Watchman gratefully, not knowing whether the other person could see him in such a blinded situation, and apologized to him.
Then he took a deep breath, calmed his mind again, and spoke in the same low voice.
"I'm fine, I just had a nightmare."
"Nightmare?"
The middle-aged knight with somewhat gray hair held a long sword in his arms and turned his head to look at Benyan.
He originally thought that Bunyan was already a battle-experienced warrior and should not have nightmares in such a situation. However, he did not expect that he still looked down upon him and turned out to be a coward.
Alliser Thorne sneered, then shook her head and said.
"It's okay, I understand."
It seemed to him that Bunyan was frightened.
However, what has happened in the past year is indeed terrifying, from the first contact with the appearance of the White Walkers, the terrifying array of corpses, to the war with the savages, the collapse of the Great Wall, and then the White Walkers
The army arrived, the Wall fell, and the coalition forces were defeated and retreated to Winterfell.
A month ago, the coalition forces were ready to launch a full counterattack in Winterfell, but they were defeated. After a night of hard fighting, the coalition forces were defeated and fled to the Neck.
They were surrounded by corpses and could not escape, so they had no choice but to flee into the cellars of Winterfell in panic.
During this month, the zombies from the outside world have heard the noise and rushed in several times. After constant dealings, sacrifices, and fighting, there are only so many people left.
Fortunately, Winterfell is built on a hot spring, and the temperature in the cellar is not too cold. Moreover, the cellar of Winterfell was once temporarily requisitioned as a place for the coalition forces to store supplies, so they had no worries about food and clothing.
However, now there is not much food left that the coalition forces have hoarded, and for everyone trapped here, it will be a moment of decision-making.
"Huh~"
Bunyan naturally heard the sarcasm in Alliser Thorne's words.
But he was no longer a young boy in his teens or twenties. He just glanced at the other person and said nothing.
After all, he had just made a mistake, and the other party saved everyone present.
The brief conversation ended, and the entire cellar of Winterfell fell into silence once again.
Bunyan was leaning on the wall behind him, his eyes flashing slightly. Although his mentality had calmed down, he could no longer fall asleep.
Although he couldn't see it now when he opened his eyes, he knew that opposite him was the statue of 'King Snowbeard' Edric Stark.
Because he used to often play in the cellar when he was young, and his sister Lyanna would also tell him some stories about his ancestors.
‘King Snowbeard’ Edric is considered the distant ancestor of the Stark family and one of the earliest kings in the north. The outer walls of Winterfell were built during the last period of his reign.
Because they have learned bloody lessons since the cellar was breached by the dead, they survivors have now fled to the lowest level of the cellar, and below that is the area that has collapsed.
But these are not the point. The point is that Bunyan had a nightmare just after he accidentally fell asleep.
Benyan dreamed that the king of the winter kingdom appeared in the cellar of Winterfell. His cold eyes were locked on him, and then he strode towards him.
The stone direwolves on both sides of the cellar roared at him, seeming to tell him to run away. His father Rickard Stark, eldest brother Brandon and sister Lyanna were all shedding tears of blood telling him to leave here quickly.
Benyan ran away desperately, and the Night King chased after him slowly, but then something even more terrifying happened, which made Benyan's hair stand on end, and he was instantly horrified!
That is, the tombs of the kings in the north that the Night King passed by exploded one after another, and the kings in the north who were once all-powerful and left a mark in history climbed up from their graves.
He pulled out the rusty swords on their statues and turned them into transparent ice swords with a touch of his hand.
Ice-blue flames danced in their eyes, and then they all looked at Bunyan, who was lying on his side at the end of the cellar, and together they let out soul-shaking roars.