Chapter 22 The Star of Weeping Blood and the Son of Prophecy
"After all, he is not a pure horseman blessed by the old woman at the foot of the Holy Mother Mountain. Blue-eyed Hago has martial arts that are not inferior to any great khal, but he does not have their courage.
Just like those people who live in stone houses are good at using poisons and tricks, he is contaminated by Watson's blood and is also accustomed to using shameless means to attack the enemy."
Old Avanti showed a shameless look on his face, shaking his head and said: "Sending people to sneak into the other side's khals to kidnap the son of a khal is something that has never happened in the Great Grass Sea for thousands of years.
Everyone knows that we Dothraki people all ride on fierce horses and solve problems with scimitars in our hands."
Dany couldn't help but sigh after hearing this. That blue-eyed Hago was too unlucky. If his father was not proficient in the art of spring cry, but in the art of war and political tactics such as the Thirty-Six Stratagems or Guiguzi, with his flexible mind and the awareness of doing shameless things, he is very likely to create a golden family.
While chatting, the group slowly caught up with the large army.
Even if the hot wind would bring up red gravel and obliterate any traces of the team walking on the Purgatory Plain, that process would still take a day or two.
Dany and her team were only an hour's ride behind Karls. On the gravel and red sand, there were still traces of horses' footsteps. Under the blood-red light of the Bleeding Star, the tiny traces were like a shallow river on the red Gobi Desert.
It was very eye-catching.
The Avanti was old and experienced. After several conversations with Dany, they found that she was a very peaceful and kind Khaleesi. Gradually, they became bolder and said to her in a rebellious way: "The comet in the sky makes it convenient for us to travel at night, but the red color that looks like the blood of the gods is also full of ominous signs.
Especially in this Purgatory wasteland, the red sand, the dark sky reflected by the Bleeding Star, is like a red hell. It seems that something bad has happened without our knowledge."
"Yes, yes, I think so too." The old man in his ten-man team echoed, and gradually, even Dany's blood guards became uncomfortable.
How dare this old fellow to deceive the people in front of me? Dany was very angry and scolded him: "I ask you, did the comet appear before Khal Drogo was buried?"
The old man was frightened by her stern tone and said, "No"
"Let me ask you again, is the bleeding star a symbol of Khal Drogo?"
"Yes"
"Is the khal's horse as red as coal?" She asked again in a forcing tone.
"Yes"
"Is the khal accompanied by 500 brave warriors who died in battle?"
"Yes"
As Dany shouted loudly, the horsemen around her turned from fear to confusion, and gradually, some enlightenment appeared on their confused faces.
At this time, Dany concluded: "Our khal is riding a steed in the flames and ascending into the kingdom of night. The comet is Drogo riding a red horse. The bloody trail across the sky behind the comet is his bloodriders leading five hundred roaring warriors who shed blood on the battlefield, following behind the khal just as they did in life."
"Their heads have been cut off, how can the sky not be dyed red?" she questioned Avanti.
"Because Drogo knows that we travel by night and hide by day, and that we are struggling to cross the red wasteland, he has been reluctant to leave and has been leading his men to protect us. When we are completely safe, Drogo will truly enter the kingdom of night."
Dany's words are simply impeccable. The comet will leave sooner or later, and when it will be completely safe is up to her, the big boss, to decide.
Sure enough, the horse people were convinced by her words, and each of them showed a look of sudden enlightenment, looking at her with eyes full of awe and admiration.
The old horseman Avanti was also convinced sincerely. After all, it was "known to everyone" that the khal rode his steed into the starry sky in the flames, and Dany's words were flawless. Everything was too coincidental, as coincidental as fate.
"Khaleesi, you are as wise as the old woman in Horselord City," he exclaimed.
The old woman in Horselord City was the leader of the dosh kalein.
Dany didn't like to hear this. She didn't want to be a dosh kalein, although she was already a dosh kalein in theory.
"Avanti, Hua is sick and can't drink water. Your share of mare's milk should be allocated to him." Dany said, and rode away without listening to his reply.
"I" Avanti opened his mouth wide, looking confused and aggrieved, "I am also an old man, I need mare's milk!"
After returning to the large group of khals, Dany's explanation of the bleeding star quickly spread. The horsemen secretly looked at Khaleesi at the front of the team and whispered to each other. Although some of them exaggerated, they were basically the same rhetoric.
"Alas, even his son died, how could the khal not 'cry blood'? Khaleesi must have secretly cried blood, right?"
"Yes, hundreds of soldiers died on the battlefield with the young master. How tragic, the blood dyed the sky red."
"Now we can rest assured, I was scared before, and it left a bright bloodstain in the blue sky in broad daylight. I thought it was an ominous sign."
To a large extent, the superstitious horsemen reduced their worries and strengthened their confidence.
In fact, not only Dany and her khals were affected by the bleeding star, because it became increasingly brighter. At night, it dyed the sky red, and the brightness was as bright as dusk; during the day, it was as bright as the sun, as if it had cut a knife on the face of the god of the sky.
The entire world of ice and fire was in panic. Like Dany, they tried their best to describe it as a sign that was favorable to them.
For example, the court of King's Landing called it the "Red Messenger" to announce the new king to the world.
Well, Robert Baratheon, who took the throne of Dany's family, was killed by his own wife, and his "really someone else's" son, Joffrey, inherited the throne.
However, due to the rebellion of the four lords Stark, Tully, Tyrell, and Baratheon, prices in King's Landing soared, and people were hungry. The news of Queen Cersei Lannister and Jaime Lannister was made public by Stannis Baratheon, and Joffrey was as cruel as the "Mad King".
Several reasons combined led to the boiling public resentment in King's Landing at this moment, and the common people called the comet the "Red Sword".
The red sword of blood and fire is a sign that God will punish Cersei and her son.
After the great victory in the Whispering Wood, the Greatjon pointed to the red track across the blue sky and laughed to his lord, Robb Stark, saying: "That is the flaming banner of revenge for Ned that the old gods have unfurled."
Edmure Tully, the young master of the Tully family, was delighted and thought that it was the family emblem of the Tully family - a white fish on a blue background, a trout jumping out of the river.
Well, what Edmure saw was a fish with a long tail, with a blue sky as the background and a fiery red.
In the Iron Islands, Balon Greyjoy was in high spirits and said to his vassals: "That is a good omen for us Ironmen, a burning torch, the same as those held by our people in ancient times.
The torch brought by the Drowned God from the sea indicates that the tide is about to rise. Now we should assemble our fleet and let swords and fire come to the world, just as he did in the past."
In Dragonstone, the home of the Targaryen family, the birthplace of Daenerys, and the westernmost outpost of the Valyrian Freehold,
Melisandre the Red told the current Duke of Dragonstone, Stannis Baratheon, "This is the dragon's breath, the bleeding star, and the ancient prophecy will be fulfilled in you."
Then she spoke the... uh, prophecy that represents the core content and final prophecy of "A Song of Ice and Fire".
"After the long summer, the stars will weep blood, and the cold darkness will cover the world. In this horrible moment, a warrior will pull out a burning sword from the fire. That sword is 'Lightbringer', the red sword of the hero. The one who holds this sword will be the reincarnation of Azor Ahai, and he will drive away the darkness."
"Now, the long summer is coming to an end, and the bleeding star has appeared. Azor Ahai will be reborn in the land of smoke and salt and awaken the dragon in the stone.
Your Majesty, you are the man prophesied, the reincarnation of Azor Ahai. God has destined you to save the world."
"Alas, why me!" Stannis gritted his teeth, "I just want to be a good brother and a good subject. Why must I be king and have such a responsibility?"
Renly Baratheon of Storm's End, Martell of Dorne, the Night's Watch on the Wall... everyone saw the red comet in the sky, and they all had their own understanding of this vision that had never appeared since ancient times.
At this moment, in the distant Westeros, no one knew that when the stars wept blood, someone had been reborn and awakened the dragon in the stone.
It seems that Dany is definitely not the reincarnation of Azor Ahai. She is just the last layer of the nesting doll.
On the third day of the Red Wasteland South, Dany's car walked about 130 kilometers, and the three days added up to about 300 kilometers.
The food consumption is not big. They have at least one horse per person, so they are not short of horse meat. The key is drinking water and the extreme living environment.
"Khaleesi, the bitter water pits we encountered today are more than half less than yesterday, and many of our water bags are empty." Quirrell said with a bitter face.
Dany wiped her face and forced herself to cheer up. At this time, she had stationed the team for the third time. Like yesterday, she built a low curved stone wall.
After arranging the affairs of the camp, the eastern sky was already pale.
After thinking for a while, Dany said solemnly, "Drinking water is essential for people and horses. Quiro, I will teach you a new way to get water."
She took Quiro and a dozen other centaurs to a high ground and pointed to the plain below. "Have you noticed? Some places are overgrown with weeds, but most places have no plants at all. If you look far away, you can see that the most prosperous places with devil grass can almost form a line."
"Maybe there is an underground river there, or it used to be a river."
By now, the riverbed of the stream they first encountered had long been unseen, with only a handful of regularly distributed reddish-brown devil grass, which constantly gave people some hints and guesses.
Dany's method was very simple. She divided the team into two, and the strongest warriors rode forward for dozens or even hundreds of kilometers. They walked along the place with the most devil grass, digging pits along the way. Dig deep pits, the kind that can seep out groundwater.
Even if there is no water, it will wet the sand - the soil that can squeeze out water, and then the second batch of knights who get water will also filter it with wet soil on gauze.
Compared with puddle filtration, this method is slower and less efficient. The pit cannot be dug too large, otherwise there will be no stone or tree trunk blocking the hole.
You can only dig more holes and dig deeper holes.
Dany also demonstrated it in public. After scooping out the water from a bitter water pit, she put the sludge dug out in a cloth bag supported by the tent cloth.
Drops of sewage dripped from the bottom of the cloth bag, and the holes where the sludge was dug out began to seep water visibly.
Seeing this, the horsemen cheered and seemed to have defeated this terrible red wasteland.
Jorah pulled Dany aside and said worriedly: "Your Highness, you are sacrificing the energy and life of strong warriors to feed the useless old and weak."
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