Chapter 73: Abnormal

Joining the Night's Watch is equivalent to saying goodbye to the past. Jon cannot avenge his father Eddard, but Genos has a good relationship with Alliser and now serves as one of the leaders of the Night's Watch.

Jon felt a headache when he thought about how these two people would judge his behavior of joining the wildlings secretly.

Jon put on his clothes while enduring the pain and came to a hall where Maester Aemon, Alliser, and Janos were already sitting at a long table waiting.

"Lord Jon, do you admit that you killed Quorin Halfhand and defected to the wildlings, recognizing the wildling king Mance as your king?" Seeing Jon come in, Alliser asked Jon with his usual sarcastic address.

"I did kill Colin, but that was his request to me when he was seriously injured. Only by killing him would Mance believe that I was truly loyal to the wildlings." Jon defended himself.

"Who can prove that Colin instructed you to kill him?" Genos asked from the side.

Jon hesitated and said, "No one can prove it. It was just the two of us at the time."

"Very well, then why didn't you stay with Mance but instead sneaked over the Wall and returned to Castle Black?" Alliser glanced at Maester Aemon who was listening attentively, wanting to hear how Jon would defend himself.

"Whether you believe me or not, the wildling king Mance has united all the wildling tribes outside the Wall to prepare to attack here. Moreover, the wildling deputy leader Tormund and the Thenns are already inside the Wall. They may have met each other now. They will attack the Wall together with Mance from inside and outside."

"Mance has united a hundred thousand wildlings. We cannot stop their attack with our limited manpower. Once we let them cross the Wall, they will plunder all the areas they pass through like locusts. The Northern Army will not be able to stop their migration."

After hearing Jon's report, the three people behind the long table were all shocked. Although Alliser had always been prejudiced against Jon, he believed the words of the illegitimate son of Duke Eddard.

This boy was deeply influenced by Eddard. He had a strong sense of justice since he joined the Night's Watch and looked down on his own mixed group of Night's Watch.

The hostility that had been cultivated for a long time made Alliser not want to let Jon go easily, and asked again: "How can you be sure that Mance will trust you completely and let you, a former Night's Watcher, know such important news?"

"Because I killed Quolin Halfhand, revealed the secret that the Night's Watch knew about Craster but turned a blind eye to it, and... I slept with the wildling woman..." Jon answered through gritted teeth, the scene of Craster giving the newborn baby to the White Walkers still emerging in his mind.

After listening to what Jon said, Maester Aemon, who had originally raised his head slightly as if listening, suddenly turned his head to look at Alliser. Genos also looked at Alliser at the same time, wanting to confirm whether what Jon said was true.

Alliser's expression immediately turned ugly. He lowered his eyes unnaturally and changed the subject. "You said you broke the oath of the Night's Watch that you cannot marry?"

"If this is considered a violation of the oath, then the Night's Watch would have ceased to exist long ago!" Maester Aemon turned his head away from Alliser and said, "looking" forward.

Alliser felt uneasy and didn't respond, but Genos was very concerned about the news about the White Walkers, which was related to his life and death. He asked: "Are the White Walkers really unkillable? How many of them are there?"

"They can be killed with a dragonglass dagger or Valyrian weapons. Their exact number is probably ten thousand or tens of thousands. Since they can resurrect corpses, their numbers are increasing all the time. It is not certain how many they are now." Jon glanced at the man who had betrayed his father and said after a moment of hesitation.

After Genos arrived at the Wall, he heard rumors about the White Walkers. At first, he thought it was a lie made up by the Night's Watch to promote their own greatness.

Later I gradually realized that it was not a story to scare disobedient children, and that the White Walkers really existed.

He originally planned to use his identity as the former commander of the garrison to bully the Night's Watch, but he never expected that he would face the siege of the wildlings not long after arriving, and in the future he would have to resist the even more terrifying army of White Walkers. He has now come up with the idea of ​​escaping from the Wall.

However, he knew that the nobles had the right to arrest any escaping Night Watchmen they found, and now was not the right time for him to escape.

"Maester Aemon, what do you think should be done with Jon?" Alliser looked at the old man beside him.

"Now is not the time to deal with Jon. Instead, we need to find ways to resist the wildlings and deal with the White Walkers. These are the responsibilities of the Night's Watch."

Aemon finished his words with some hesitation, but no one objected to the words of this centenarian, silver-haired man from the prestigious Targaryen family.

Jon can move freely. Aemon called Sam and asked him to feed the raven and prepare paper and pen. He wanted to deliver the message to the nobles again and ask for support.

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Eight days later, the huge pyramids of Meereen came into sight. The guards and grooms were delighted but also reluctant to leave. The ten days of happy and thrilling escort were about to end, but these days were an unforgettable journey for them.

Getting out of the carriage and looking at the towering pyramid ahead on the road, Shireen's eyes widened with excitement. She had never expected that a small town in Slave Bay would have such a spectacular pyramid.

Tyrion and Shae also got out of the carriage and looked at the city built on a huge hill in the distance. This would be where they would live in the future.

As they approached the gate of Meereen, the carriage suddenly stopped and the guard told Tyrion that the gate of Meereen was closed and he could not enter.

Tyrion frowned slightly when he heard the report. Closing the gate in broad daylight? It seemed a little abnormal. Drogon, who was watching Shireen reading boredly nearby, was also a little surprised when he heard the report. Meereen had never closed the city gate during the day before.

Before Tyrion stepped out of the carriage, Drogon opened the curtain and flew out. He glanced at the gate and found that it was indeed closed. There were still many Meereenese residents and merchants waiting outside the gate to enter.

No matter what happened in the city, Drogon could not wait outside. He flew above the city gate tower and hissed twice at the Unsullied guarding the city wall.

The Unsullied had just seen Drogon coming out of a carriage outside the city. The officer on duty saw Drogon fly to the top of the city wall but did not enter the city. He immediately understood what he meant and ordered the soldiers guarding the city to open the city gate.

The queen's order was that the city gates should not be opened without special circumstances, but with Drogon here, the queen would never blame him even if he opened the gates to let the carriage in.

The city gates were opened, but the residents surrounding the city were not in a hurry to enter the city. They also saw Drogon and the two carriages together. Besides, it was Drogon who opened the city gates, so they naturally did not dare to compete with Drogon to enter.

After Drogon entered with two carriages, residents and vendors followed slowly into the city gate, and the guards closed the gate again.