"The Towering Tower is one of the Nine Great Man-Made Miracles."
Danny turned her head and saw that the one who spoke was a young man in a gray robe who was about 18 or 19 years old. He had an ordinary face and a normal height.
Only two things caught her attention. The young man had brown eyes that were a little cross-eyed, and there was a white mark of an open book on the chest of his gray robe.
This cross-eyed man was an apprentice of the City of Knowledge!
And he was the kind of apprentice who was not smart and had bad grades.
From the style of his gray robe and the mark of the City of Knowledge on his chest, Danny knew that he was a scholar apprentice. But he was already so old, and he still called himself "our old town". He had stayed in the old town for a long time, which meant that he had been studying in the City of Knowledge for several years.
After several years, he did not have a scholar necklace on his neck. If he was not a bad student, what was he?
"A scholar apprentice? How many years have you been studying in the City of Knowledge? "Danny asked with a smile.
"Five years." Looking at Danny's smiling face, the young man blushed and unconsciously looked away.
It was really miserable. After five years, he still could not forge a single chain from his master. A chain chain represented a graduation certificate of a certain subject.
The scholar necklace meant that the scholars were Westeros servants. Even when they were sleeping, they would not take off their necklace.
The necklace was made of links made of different metals, and each metal represented the knowledge of a certain field.
Repeated metals were allowed to appear on the links, which meant that the scholar had a deep understanding of the field.
For example, black iron represented Raven Studies, and stainless steel represented military studies.
If the necklace of an enemy scholar had two or more stainless steel links during a war, you had to be careful.
At the very least, he was a Zhao Kuo who could talk on paper.
"What's your name?" Danny asked again.
"Pater."
"Pater, I can tell you clearly that the Towering Tower is definitely not on par with the Nine Great Man-Made Miracles. You can read Lomas' Long Legs' book as a travelogue, but you can't take the ranking of the buildings in it seriously. "
There was no printing in this world. If a book was written by hand, the distribution range of the book was often very limited. If you randomly took a book from the bookshelf and threw it into the furnace and burned it, there was a 50% chance that it would be completely lost.
However, Lomas was an exception. According to the ranking of Qidian writers, he was a top author.
The fellow had been to almost every corner of the known world except Soros, and had written two extremely popular travelogues, "Seven Natural Sights" and "Nine Man-Made Structures".
Because he had traveled to so many places, he even got the nickname "Long Legs".
Among them, the Nine Man-Made Wonders are the most famous: the Avenue of Valleglia, the Great Wall of the Impasse, the Titan of Braavos (stone sculpture), the Triple Wall of Kars, the Three Great Bells of Novos, the Long Bridge of Volantis, the Palace of a Thousand Rooms in Shanas, the Great Pyramid of Gith (the old Gith now in ruins, 210 meters high), and the Tower of the Old Town.
Obviously, he was born before the destruction of the ancient Valleglia civilization. Otherwise, he would not have listed the Nine Wonders.
Danny, who has traveled to Valleglia through the tributary of time, can responsibly say that except for the Great Wall of the Northern Region, Valleglia Avenue, and the old Great Pyramid of Gith, the others are just to make up the numbers.
"Miss, have you been to those places?" Pater asked enviously.
Danny nodded and said: "I have been to some places. The relief on the surface of the Triple Wall of Kars has some artistic value, but it is not very exquisite. The Long Bridge of Volantis and the Tower of the Sky here are not as difficult as the Avenue of Valleglia in terms of engineering and technical difficulty.
In fact, you will understand if you think about it carefully. The people of Valleglia can build a long bridge, can build a Avenue, can build a Triple Wall, and can build three bells. How magnificent is the place they live in? "
"This …" Pater seemed to have never thought about this question before. He was stunned and said: "That's right, most of the Nine Wonders are related to Valleglia, but they are only considered the outer buildings of Valleglia."
"My lord, there it is." At a fork in the road, the old knight pointed to a small island in the river. "The strong cider there is famous, you can try it."
"You want to go to the Feather Wine Bottle? That's right, except for the price, the accommodation there is very good. It is clean and tidy, spacious and comfortable. It is close to the Honey Wine River, the scenery is beautiful, and it is convenient to travel. "Pater was surprised and enlightened.
"You have been there too?" The white knight asked curiously.
The cross-eyed young man nodded and said: "The Feather Wine Bottle is very close to the City of Knowledge. We often go there to drink. I am about to go there now."
After a few words, they found that they were going the same way as Pater. Danny and the old knight were too embarrassed to ride on the horse, so they turned around and led the horse while chatting.
Danny explained her background to him: Her father was a great noble in Westeros, but her mother's ancestral home was in the continent of Ursos. She died in childbirth when she gave birth to her, and she had never seen her father in her life.
Well, her name was Leila Vesuvius. She was a female knight with money and leisure, traveling with her knight attendants.
Pater sympathized and envied this poor bastard daughter. He sympathized with her background and envied her for being able to travel freely.
Except for her name, Danny did not lie. But naturally, the apprentice thought that she was an illegitimate daughter of a noble family in the King's Territory.
"My biggest wish is to save money to buy a donkey and take turns to ride it around Westeros with Rosie." The young man could not help but reveal his dream to the young and beautiful female knight beside him.
"You don't want to be a scholar anymore?" The white knight asked curiously.
"Oh, didn't you hear? I have a lover, Rosie. "Danny laughed.
Scholar, White Knight, Night Watcher, Friar, these were the four major eunuch occupations in Westeros.
They could not marry, had no right to inherit, and gave up everything in the world, dedicating their life to serving: Scholar – Lord, White Knight – King, Night Watcher – The Wall, Friar – The Seven Gods.
"Not … not yet, not a lover." Pater stuttered with a red face.
Rosie was a waitress in the Feather Wine Bottle. When the hotel waiter came to help them with the horse, Pater said goodbye and pulled the girl with the sweet dimples to a corner of the hotel.
The front hall of the Feather Wine Bottle was a three-story wooden building that tilted slightly to the south. On the open platform at the top of the building, there was a basin of torches that guided the river boats. The boats that came and went would also stop by the island to bring in passengers, wheat, turnips, smoked meat and other supplies.
There was a green grass field in the backyard of the wooden building. A few two-story courtyards were distributed among the grass field. They were considered the best houses in the world.
Because she was not sure how long they would stay in the old town, Danny paid a high price, ten silver deer, to rent a small courtyard by the river for half a month.
The courtyard was less than thirty square meters and there was a garden of Chinese roses. The two-story wooden building was quite clean. On the first floor was a large living room with a fireplace. It was about fifty square meters and looked a little spacious. On the second floor were two bedrooms.
After putting down their luggage, they came to the front hall of the restaurant. The dining hall was the size of two basketball courts. There were tallow candles that were as thick as a child's arm on the four walls. There were also kerosene lamps hanging from the ceiling. Under the dim light of the candles, there were thirty to forty rectangular wooden tables that were filled with people. Half of them were scholars and apprentices in gray robes.
They found a table with only one person and sat down. When the waiter served the dishes, Danny looked around and asked curiously, "This house is a little crooked. Why didn't they renovate it?"
"Anyway, there is no sign of it collapsing." The old knight shrugged and said uncertainly, "It is said that this wooden house has a history of six hundred years. It has lasted for hundreds of years. Maybe it can last for another one or two hundred years."
"Bullsh * t. Won't a wooden house rot?" Danny sneered.
"Are you from another place?" The gray-haired scholar with a necklace on his neck sneered, "You must not know what kind of wood the beams and pillars are made of."
Danny looked at the pillar next to her. It was pale white under the mottled green paint. Her heart skipped a beat and she exclaimed, "Weirwood?!"
"Oh, you are quite knowledgeable." The old scholar was surprised.
"Oh my god, how much weirwood was used!"
If the dragon was the most miraculous animal, then the weirwood of this world was the most miraculous plant. Not to mention its relationship with the old gods, just look at the characteristics of this material.
First of all, all trees had a lifespan. Weirwood was the only one that could live forever without external interference.
Secondly, weirwood of wood, and Valleglia steel of steel, both of them had immortal characteristics.
Valleglia steel would not rust or wear out, and weirwood would not decay.
Therefore, even the people of Valleglia used weirwood to build the door of the Black Tower. The immortal Black Tower, the immortal wooden door, the true legacy of thousands of generations.
The gray-haired scholar took a sip of green cider. The high concentration of alcohol made his nose shine like a light bulb.
After taking a breath, he explained with hazy eyes, "In the early years, weirwood was everywhere in the Westeros. After the invasion of the Andals, the monks of the Seven Gods thought that weirwood was a symbol of the old gods, so they chopped up all the weirwood south of Neck, burned it, or collected it to make wood."
Danny was speechless. The Seven Gods, a "fake religion" without gods, had successfully expelled the true gods.
This was almost a god's version of the Lisbon Incident. A wild mercenary without any supernatural power stabbed the "number one of the young generation" of the Western supernatural world to death with a knife.
Dinner was a castrated chicken stuffed with leeks and mushrooms, crispy fried pork ribs dipped in plum sauce, and crab shark soup.
It was very sumptuous. Danny had a great appetite and ate until she was full.
Leaving the old knight to drink and inquire about the Seven Kingdoms, she went back to take a bath, changed her clothes, and sat cross-legged on the mat. She took out a glass candle from the wooden box and began to activate the "beacon" on her right wrist.
Uh, there was no response at all.
The gray light that filled the bedroom seemed to have a life of its own. It first shrunk into a ball the size of a fist, then the room dimmed. Without any warning, it suddenly exploded and scattered. Strange gray light rays bounced back and forth on the wall like soft silk.
Her spiritual power could not contact Kui Xi through the gray light.
"Blocked me?" Danny had a strange expression.
Kui Xi left a soul imprint on her wrist. The imprint was part of Kui Xi's soul. Therefore, through the imprint, she could find Danny at any time.
Her unpredictable whereabouts and ambiguous prophecies made Kui Xi very pretentious every time she appeared, until Danny cracked her "mark" witchcraft.
With the same principle, Danny could also locate Kui Xi through the mark. Last night, she encountered a problem with magic. She planned to find an old friend to teach her from a distance tonight, but found that she was blacklisted.
Well, just like how she blacklisted Kui Xi.
"Huh, whose signal is this?"
Just as Danny was about to urge the Shadow Binding Knight again, she was shocked to find that she had inexplicably found a new "communication channel."
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