Chapter 32 Dany's Dream
Five days of leisure passed, and the group of knights that Dany had sent to the Third White City came back.
Although Aggo looked tired, he was very excited. He said, "Khaleesi, I walked west for half a day and saw the mountains in the distance. Because you told us not to leave the plains at will, I only walked around the periphery.
There are sparse woods and endless mountains, with antelopes and elk roaming in between. I hunted a deer with a bow and arrow, and planned to bring it back for you, but the weather was too hot, and maggots appeared in the red sand plains half a day later."
"Half a day's ride." Dany looked thoughtful. "Scouts don't have to worry about horsepower. One person and three horses can run about 100 kilometers in half a day. This distance is a bit awkward. It's not far and not close, but the dragon's food problem is mostly solved."
She can ride a horse and take the dragon to the western mountains to hunt.
"Can you see traces of human existence?" she asked.
Aggo didn't know how to estimate time. He thought for a while and said vaguely: "We set out before the sun rose. When the sky became hot but had not yet risen to its highest point, we encountered collapsed stone houses. The houses were low and there were not many of them. Now they are half submerged in the wind and sand."
Dany nodded. It should be the village of White City. There is no wall to block it. The wind and sand and time are about to erase their traces.
Jorah interrupted and said: "Princess, if I am not mistaken, after crossing the western mountains, we will enter the Slaver's Bay."
"Sir, we have discussed this issue before." Dany looked at him seriously and said: "I will not leave here until the current life can no longer be maintained."
"Yes." Jorah promised.
"What about you?" She looked at Rakharo.
"There are no traces of people, and no large animals. The further south we go, even the devil grass begins to become sparse." Rakharo's lips are cracked and his skin is dark red. It can be seen that he must have had a very miserable life these days.
"Finally, we know that the environment in the south is harsh. We can focus more on developing the western mountains." Dany comforted.
"Khaleesi, the south is not completely worthless. Look at this."
He untied the long "charcoal" hanging from the saddle and said excitedly, "Khaleesi, guess what this is?"
"Isn't it the charcoal used to filter muddy water?" Dany took the long stick in surprise. "Oh, it's so heavy, no, so light."
She said two contradictory words in a row.
From a distance, it looks like a gray-black charcoal, but it is much heavier than charcoal in the hand; when you take it closer and take a closer look, it has a metallic luster and the texture of black iron, but it is much lighter than an iron stick.
Suddenly, the name of a weapon flashed through Dany's mind, the dragon bone bow that she fished out from Drogo's funeral pyre.
"Is this a dragon bone!? The original dragon bone that has not been processed, but how is this possible? Did you find a dragon corpse?" She said in horror.
"Oh, you guessed it," Rakharo was very surprised. Seeing the surprise on Dany's face, he was very proud. "It's a dragon corpse. Only a skeleton bigger than a stone house is left, and most of it is buried by the wind and sand. But the corpse is too big, and the sand can't bury it completely. I think it's bigger than Balerion, the Black Death."
"Impossible!" Before Dany could react, Jorah Mormont seemed to be insulted and shook his head repeatedly to deny it. "You haven't seen Balerion. In addition to the old legends, I have also seen its skull in King's Landing. Its mouth is so big that a horse can fit in it."
"Hahaha, I rode my horse through the mouth of that dragon skull myself." Rakharo laughed triumphantly.
"Oh my god, by the Seven Gods." Dany opened her mouth wide and said in disbelief: "That must be the dragon that fell on the Red Plains during the ancient Valyria period. Among the dragons of the Targaryen family, the Black Death is the largest."
"Not to mention the significance of dragons to the Valyrians, dragon corpses have always been the most precious wealth. Why didn't the Valyrians recycle them?" Jorah asked in confusion.
"I have an idea!" Dany's eyes flashed with a gleam, and she said faintly, "He is the sixth dragon to escape the Cataclysm of Old Valyria."
The Targaryen family was originally one of the dragon kings of the Valyrian Freehold. Before the volcanic eruption destroyed the Long Summer Land where Valyria was located, the virgin girl Daenerys of the Targaryen family received a prophecy in a dragon dream: Old Valyria would be destroyed.
The current head of the family, that is, Daenerys's father, believed his daughter's prophecy. Despite the ridicule of the Valyrian nobles, he sold all the castles, manors, and shops in Valyria, and led all the people and five dragons to leave the Long Summer Land by boat.
In the Cataclysm, the dragons and Valyria all died in the hot magma that spewed out from the center of the earth.
Even the dragons could not resist the high temperature and poisonous smoke of the magma. As a result, the Targaryen family was the only one in the world who owned dragons, and Targaryen became the last dragon king.
Now, after hearing Rakharo's description of the dragon's corpse, she immediately thought, will there be a dragon that escaped the Cataclysm?
He was seriously injured, struggled and flew to the Red Waste, and soon died in pain, leaving only a huge monster for future generations to mourn?
After listening to Dany's guess, Ser Jorah nodded in approval and sighed: "As long as there is enough food, the dragon's body will continue to grow. Balerion grew to the limit and died of old age, so there is almost no dragon larger than it, unless..."
"Another point, the Red Waste is next to the Slaver's Bay, and the west of the Slaver's Bay is the Land of Long Summer. Ancient Valyria is at the mouth of the Slaver's Bay, very close."
The dragon's body fell a little far from the Third White City, nearly 300 kilometers, and another 200 kilometers to the south is the sea.
Dany let the two blood guards rest for three days, and then left the maid and the carls in the White Cloud City, and personally led Jorah and 30 centaurs, also one person on three horses, to set off at four or five in the morning, and arrived at the Third White City at 8 am before the sun drove away the last trace of shade.
When they passed the second "Devil's City" on the way, Dany stopped to check it out.
Outside the white city wall, there was a circle of two-meter-long iron spears, like guards protecting the White City. The tips of the spears were pointed at pale skulls. As the breeze passed through, the skulls made a crisp sound of "clicking, clicking, as if smacking their lips?
No wonder her bloodriders were shocked. Dany herself felt a chill down her spine when she saw it.
Fortunately, the air in the Red Wasteland was dry and water-deficient. After hundreds of years, the iron spears only had a layer of reddish-brown rust, but did not completely decay into rust powder.
"It's really a bit weird," Dany turned her head and asked Ago, "Do the horse people have this custom?"
"No." The bloodriders said uncertainly.
"Khaleesi, each khal has different habits and different ways of doing things. This kind of thing does not violate our tradition." Avanti interrupted.
Well, the old man also came with him and was responsible for the horse breeding work these days.
"Maybe the residents of this city resisted too fiercely, causing great casualties to the khal's khals." Jorah said softly.
Before leaving, he suggested: "Even if the horse people don't want to settle in this city, we should send people to clean it up. Maybe we can find a lot of valuables, such as the opal bracelet."
Qiao Ge shook his head and shouted: "We can't take the devil's things."
"Then what about you last time..."
"I picked up the bracelet in another white city. I didn't even go into this city." Jhogo explained hurriedly.
"The purpose of our trip this time is to explore the dragon bones. Let's put the other things aside." Dany decided.
From the outside of the city, the third white city is almost a smaller replica of the white cloud city, but Dany who entered it was keenly aware of the difference.
First of all, the density and height of the houses are not as good as those in the white cloud city, and secondly, this city does not have a "luxurious" palace. There were originally seven or eight horsemen left in the third white city. When Dany and her party arrived, they had already prepared food.
Well, three dragons flew over the city in advance. When the horsemen saw the dragons, they knew that Khaleesi was coming.
During the lunch break, Dany also went to the "library" that Jhogo mentioned to see that it was actually the office of the city lord's mansion.
Like the parchment found in the white cloud city, the books cannot be read, and only a few scrolls can be viewed.
Through one of the pictures, Dany roughly judged the significance of the existence of these white cities.
The Silk Road of the Other World!
Qarth, the pearl on the strait connecting the Jade Sea and the Summer Sea, has a status similar to the Suez Canal on Earth.
Meereen, the largest and most prosperous city in Slaver's Bay, is also the largest slave trading market in the world.
At this time, on the map, Meereen, White Cloud City, and Qarth are connected in a straight line.
Compared with the sea route that takes a long detour, crossing the Red Wasteland reduces the journey by 70%, and the land is safer than the unpredictable sea. So for a while, White City was very prosperous, just like those famous cities on the Silk Road of the Celestial Empire.
"So, there is an ancient road between Meereen and White Cloud City?" Dany's fingers slid gently on the map, and her thoughts turned rapidly.
If White Cloud City can't support three dragons in the end, she can go northwest along the "Silk Road" and eventually build a city in the mountains near Meereen.
She can be sure that only by following the road on the map, she will definitely encounter the fourth and fifth White City. Maybe it's not as magnificent as the White City, but at least she can find small villages and towns for travelers to rest hundreds of years ago.
In this way, she can carry out her plan to farm to the end.
Entering the Red Wasteland does not seem to be a dead end, but a "fairyland" arranged by God. No one pays attention to her, and no one knows that she has a dragon.
What prophecy, what white walkers, what Jon Snow, what the game of thrones in Westeros, go to see the white walkers!
Waiting for the moment when the dragon grows up, she will ride the dragon, first go north to sweep across the Dothraki Sea, and be crowned as the only female khal to unify the eight wastelands.
Then, relying on three dragons and hundreds of thousands of roaring warriors, I can do whatever I want in the world, and the whole world will tremble under her leggings and riding sandals!
Qin Shihuang, Genghis Khan, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, they are all her, but they are not as good as her.
"Hehehe" Thinking of the wonderful things, Dany couldn't help but giggle.
"Khaleesi, Khaleesi, what's wrong with you?" Ago's shouting woke her up from her dream.
"What do you want from me?" She yelled back in a bad tone.
Ago didn't care about her attitude at all. He just widened his almond-shaped black eyes and shouted, "It's getting dark."
"It's dark. Oh, it's time to set off." Dany understood this time.
Their action this time would be like crossing the wilderness before, hiding during the day and traveling at night.
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