17 chapter 17

Leaving behind the singing and dancing music In the hall, the cold wind blew in his face, and the empty courtyard was extremely quiet. The guards on the battlements of the inner wall tightened their cloaks to resist the cold. The night watchman turned his head and looked around, found the young man's figure, and walked towards him.

"Boy." A strange voice sounded. Edgar didn't see the speaker, but he knew from memory who that distinct voice belonged to, and he was proven as he caught the sight of blond Lannister. "Is that guy next to you a wolf?"

"It's a direwolf, his name is Ghost." Jon turned around and found the speaker. At the same time, he also saw Egger walking out of the door. He turned back to prevent them from seeing his tears. "What are you doing there? Why didn't you attend the dinner inside?"

Edgar walked around the pillar beside the door and saw Tyrion Lannister along the direction of Jon's subconscious line of sight just now. The dwarf was sitting on the protruding ledge above the front door of the hall, looking down at the two of them. If he could stay still, he might be able to disguise himself as a statue.

"It was too hot and noisy inside, so I decided to get a fresh air drank more wine." The dwarf answered Jon's question. "Also seeing that wolf of yours I was a bit curious, they don't have those in the south I dear say, so why not have a closer look?"

Jon hesitated for a moment, then nodded slowly: "Can you come down by yourself? Or do you want me to get a ladder?"

"Are you looking down on me?" said the little man. He pushed back with both hands, and his whole body tumbled into the air. He nimbly shrank his body in the air, landed lightly on his hands, and then stood up with a backflip.

The little direwolf subconsciously took a few steps back. Even Egg had to admit that Tyrion's move was quite impressive considering his size.

The dwarf patted the dust on his body and said with a smile: "I think I must have scared your little wolf. I'm so sorry." "

He was not scared." Jon said as he bent down and called: "White Spirit, come here, come here quickly, be good."

The little wolf strolled over and rubbed his nose against Jon's cheek affectionately, but he always remained wary of Tyrion Lannister. When the dwarf reached out to touch it, it immediately pulled back, bared its sharp teeth, and let out a silent growl. "Are you afraid of strangers?" Lannister said.

"Ghost, sit down." Jon ordered, "That's it, sit down and don't move." He looked up at Tyrion, "You can touch him now. He won't move unless I tell him to move." I'm training him."

"That's it." Lannister scratched the white fur between Bai Ling's ears, "Good boy."

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Egg stood aside, always looking for a way to interrupt and quickly A way to attract the dwarf's attention. At this moment, Tyrion shut up and rubbed the direwolf's head. He finally got the chance to speak: "Jon... I don't know if I can call you this, but I must tell you that your uncle doesn't want to You joined for your own good."

"For my own good?" The young man was still a little angry. "For my own good, he should have taken care of his brother back then. Don't let me be born in this world!"

"Ah..." Tyrion on the side listened to the conversation between the two and looked at the over-proportioned star. The big head showed an expression of sudden realization. He looked Jon up and down and said, "You are Ned Stark's illegitimate son. You wanted to be a Night's Watcher, but Benjen rejected you?"

The dwarf guessed the real situation based on just one sentence of dialogue between the two, and thought The speed was not unpleasant, but unfortunately the words he said were just like adding salt to the wound. Jon pursed his lips and stood up, and his little wolf avoided Tyrion's touch almost at the same time.

"Uh...I apologize if I offended you." The little Lannister immediately realized something, "But why...the Great Wall doesn't care about family background and only values ​​ability. One way to deal with it - uh, I mean, to place illegitimate children Isn't it a good place?"

"Wait until you see the continuous tents set up by the hundreds of thousands of wildlings who have gathered to attack the Great Wall, the giants who are tall enough to tear people into two pieces with their hands, and the pale White Walkers with glaring eyes. If you pierce the bodies of your comrades with an ice sword under the blue light, and the killed people stand up again after being cold... you won't think it is a good place.

"A somewhat attractive introduction." Tyrion also stood He stood up and looked back at Egg. "First of all, I have to express my attitude. I respect the Night Watch Legion very much and admire your behavior of sacrificing yourself to defend the kingdom... Although I will never swear your oath, I do admire you." The

dwarf paused and then He continued: "However, I don't believe those legends about giants, corpses, and other monsters and monsters. The difference between savages and us is that when the Great Wall rose from the ground, they happened to be on the north side of the Great Wall."

" Lord Tyrion, have you been to the Great Wall? Do you know that the Great Wall is the largest structure built by mankind?" "

This is a recognized fact." Tyrion shrugged: "Not only the largest, there is no doubt that , is also the most useless building."

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"The most useless building?" Iger resisted the urge to hum with disdain. The dwarf in front of him may be friendly and easy to talk to, but in this country where there is no concept of equality for everyone. In this world, the gap between his and his identity is too huge. On the first day of acquaintance, it is better to be cautious: "My lord, do you know how big the Great Wall is?"

Tyrion glanced at Egger with a strange expression, thinking that this night watchman was talking. The method is very strange:

"One hundred leagues long, seven hundred feet high, and the top width is enough for twelve fully armed knights to pass side by side... As for how wide this is, I really don't know."

Egg nodded: " Yes, this is the official data given by the chief craftsman. But I bet you have never seen a wall a hundred leagues long, nor a building seven hundred feet high... The towering sky in Old Town The tower is also very high, but there is still a gap compared with the Great Wall. If you have the chance, you should go and see it in person and measure it. But it doesn't matter if you don't have the chance. I can now let you understand what the Great Wall is like through more intuitive calculations and comparisons. A building." Egger said in a confident tone: "Seven hundred feet high, and the width is about one-tenth of the height, so let's assume it is seventy feet wide. And what we have in front of us now is the inner wall of Winterfell. The tallest part is a hundred feet high and about ten feet thick. I've heard that your lordship is very clever, but did you know that the Wall is seven times as tall and as thick as the walls of Winterfell? What does that mean?

"What? Tyrion frowned. He was rarely asked questions. He thought for a while and understood what the other party meant: "This shows that the amount of materials required to build the Great Wall of Desperate and Winterfell of the same length is greater for the former than for the latter." Seven times seven, forty-nine times."

"My lord's mind is truly well-deserved." Egg flattered the dwarf without any shame. "Then the Great Wall is a hundred leagues long. What does that mean?"

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The dwarf's frown deepened, while Jon Snow looked at the two of them in confusion as they made calculations, completely speechless. In terms of sword-wielding and riding skills, he may be better than the two people in front of him combined, but in terms of arithmetic, he is not even as good as Tyrion, let alone Egger, who has received higher education in another world.

"Let me tell your lord, this means that if the Great Wall is demolished and rebuilt into a wall as high as the inner wall of Winterfell, its length can reach five thousand leagues. This length can easily cover the entire Northern Territory. Enclosing or isolating the entire King's Road from King's Landing to Winterfell from the fields on both sides, the weight of the Great Wall is greater than the walls of all the cities in Westeros combined.

But the Great Wall is Made of giant ice blocks." The dwarf made a rough estimate and realized that the night watchman in front of him was not talking nonsense, but still argued unconvincingly: "The walls of Winterfell are made of stone blocks." "The same volume of

stone blocks weighs about It's just over twice that of Bing, but considering the difference in construction difficulty and amount of work between building a 700-foot-tall Great Wall and a 100-foot-tall city wall, I suggest that the two sides get even." Ige quickly turned his brain, He quickly brought the topic back to his own route: "My lord just said that the only difference between the savages and us is that they are on the north and south sides of the Great Wall. I agree with this statement. Borrowing your idea, can I say that the people in the north are different from us? Is the difference between southerners just that they live on the north and south sides of the Neck?

"Most people in the north have the blood of their ancestors flowing in their bodies.

"The illegitimate child had long forgotten the grievance of being "humiliated" by his uncle in the hall. He felt After listening for a long time like a fool, he finally found a chance to interject.

'The First Men' means the first humans to arrive in Westeros. It is neither an independent race nor older than any other race." Tyrion corrected Jon's misconception, "In terms of human race Look, the First Men are very close to the Andals or the Rhoynar, and there is no essential difference. Therefore, the "bloodline of the First Men" is actually meaningless. It is not so much about blood, but more about inheritance and culture. Faith."

"Agree." Egg agreed. "Lord Tyrion, after going through the winterfall library, I learned that the Great Wall was not built in one generation. Brandon Stark, the 'Builder of the wall' did it eight thousand years ago, and only built Winterfell and the Great Wall. The stone base, which has an astonishing height of 700 feet, was built by thousands of Night's Watch craftsmen over decades or hundreds of years by slowly stacking large blocks of ice from the Ice Lake in the Ghost Forest."

" Isn't the Great Wall made entirely of ice?" Tyrion raised his eyebrows. "It seems that I didn't read carefully enough... but it makes sense."

"It has nothing to do with what it is built of." Egger said nonchalantly, "I don't understand military, but I also know that such a giant fortification , built to the Ningze, even if the southern princes had thousands of troops, they would not be able to threaten the northern border. But the city builders chose to build it in the far north... Even if the first generation of Great Wall builders were crazy, why did they Will their descendants continue this project? Is it because the northerners have brain problems, or is there another reason?"

"Hmm..." the dwarf touched his chin.

"In addition," Egger continued without stopping: "According to records, at the peak of the Night Watch, there were more than 5,000 soldiers stationed in Castle Black alone, and the entire legion alone had more than 10,000 combat troops, not counting servants and attendants... That was 8,000 years ago. Both inside and outside the Great Wall, the population was much smaller than today. At that time, the number of savages living north of the Great Wall was probably not as large as the Night Watch. What on earth made the people in the north build and keep raising the height? The Great Wall, and at the same time dispatching such a large standing army to guard it?"