After five leisurely days, the group of knights that Danny had sent to the third White City had returned.
Although Agger looked tired, he was very excited. He said, "Kalixi, I walked west for half a day and saw the mountains in the distance. Because you told us not to leave the plains, I only strolled around the periphery.
There were sparse forests and endless mountains, with antelopes and elk roaming in between. I hunted a deer with a bow and was going to bring it back for you, but the weather was too hot, and maggots grew in half a day after entering the Red Sand Plains. "
"Half a day's ride …" Danny looked thoughtful. "Scouts don't have to worry about horse power. Three horses per person … About 100 kilometers in half a day. This distance … is a bit awkward. It's neither far nor near, but the food problem of the dragons is mostly solved."
She could take the dragons to the western mountains to hunt.
"Did you see any traces of human existence?" she asked.
Aggo didn't know how to estimate time. After some thought, he said vaguely, "We left before the sun rose. When the sky became hot, but before the sun rose to its highest point, we encountered collapsed stone houses. The houses were low and there weren't many of them. Now, they are half submerged in the wind and sand."
Danny nodded. It should be a village in White City. Without a wall, the wind and time were about to erase their traces.
Chora interrupted, "Your Highness, if I'm not wrong, after passing through the western mountains, we will enter Slaver's Bay."
"Sir, we've discussed this problem before." Danny looked at him seriously and said, "I won't leave here before the current life can no longer be maintained."
"Yes," Chora replied.
"What about you?" She looked at Rakarlo.
"No traces of humans or large animals. The further south we go, even the Devil's Grass becomes sparse." Rakarlo's lips were cracked, and his skin was dark red. It was obvious that he must have had a hard time these days.
"At least we know that the southern environment is harsh. We can focus more on developing the western mountains," Danny comforted.
"Kalixi, the south isn't completely worthless. Look at this …"
He untied the long "charcoal" hanging from the saddle and said excitedly, "Kalixi, guess what this is?"
"Isn't this charcoal used to filter muddy water?" Danny took the stick in surprise. "Oh, this … is so heavy. No, it's so light."
She uttered two contradictory words in a row.
From afar, it looked like a piece of grayish-black charcoal, but it was much heavier than charcoal in his hand. Taking a closer look, it had a metallic luster and the texture of black iron, but it was much lighter than an iron rod.
Suddenly, the name of a weapon flashed through Danny's mind. It was the Dragon Bone Bow that she had fished out from Zhuo Ge's crematorium.
"These are dragon bones!? Primitive dragon bones that had not been processed, but how was this possible? Could it be that you found a dragon corpse? "She asked in shock.
"Aiya, you guessed it." Rakarlo was very surprised. Seeing the shock on Danny's face, he was very proud. "It's a dragon corpse. Only a skeleton bigger than a stone house is left. Most of it was buried by the wind and sand. But that corpse is too big, and the sand can't completely bury it. I think it's bigger than the Black Death Bellerion. "
"Impossible!" Before Danny could react, Jorah Mormont shook his head in denial as if he had been insulted. "You haven't seen Bellerion. Other than the old legends, I also saw its skull at the King's Landing. Its mouth was so big that a horse could be stuffed in."
"Hahaha, I personally rode through the mouth of that dragon skull." Rakarlo laughed as if he had won.
"I bought it … Oh, the Seven Gods above." Danny opened her mouth wide and said in disbelief, "That must be the Megalosaurus that fell on the Red Plains during the Ancient Valleglia period. The Black Death Bellerion is the biggest dragon of the Targaryen family."
"Not to mention the significance of the Megalosaurus to the people of Valleglia, the dragon corpse has always been the most precious treasure. Why didn't the people of Valleglia recover it?" Jorah asked in confusion.
"I thought of a possibility!" A glint flashed in Danny's eyes as she said faintly, "He is the sixth Megalosaurus to escape the Great Cataclysm of Ancient Valleglia."
The Targaryen family was originally one of the Dragon Kings of Valleglia's Freedom Fortress. Before the volcanic eruption destroyed the land of Long Summer where Valleglia was located, the virgin girl of the Targaryen family, Danny Si, received a prophecy in a dragon dream: Ancient Valleglia was about to be destroyed.
The current head of the family, who was also Danny Si's father, believed his daughter's prophecy. Ignoring the mockery of Valleglia's nobles, he sold all the castles, manors, and shops in Valleglia and led his entire family and the five dragons to leave the land of Long Summer by boat.
During the Great Cataclysm, the dragons and Valleglia all died in the hot magma that spewed out from the earth's core.
Even the Megalosaurus could not withstand the high temperature and poisonous smoke of the magma.
As a result, only the Targaryen family had the Megalosaurus left in the world, and the Targaryens became the last Dragon King.
Now that she heard Rakarlo's description of the size of the dragon's corpse, she immediately thought, Could there be a Megalosaurus that escaped from the Great Cataclysm?
He was heavily injured and struggled to fly to the Red Wasteland. Not long after, he died in pain, leaving behind a huge creature for future generations to pay homage to?
After listening to Danny's guess, Sir Jorah nodded in agreement and sighed. "As long as there is enough food, the dragon's body will continue to grow. Because Bellerion reached the limit of his growth, he naturally died of old age. As a result, there is almost no Megalosaurus that is larger than him, unless … "
"There is one more thing. The Red Wasteland is next to Slave Bay, and to the west of Slave Bay is the land of Long Summer. Ancient Valleglia is at the mouth of Slave Bay, so the distance is very close."
The place where the dragon's corpse fell was a little far from the third White City, close to 300 kilometers. Another 200 kilometers to the south would be the sea.
Danny let the two Blood Brotherhood Guards rest for three days. Then, she left the maid and Khalasar in White Cloud City. She personally led Jorah and 30 Centaur Warriors, each riding three horses. They set off at four or five in the morning, and arrived at the third White City at eight in the morning before the sun had driven away the last bit of shade.
When they passed by the second 'Devil's City', Danny purposely stopped to take a look.
There was a circle of two-meter-long iron spears outside the white city walls, like the guards of the White City. The tips of the spears were propped with pale white skulls. As the wind passed through, the skulls made a crisp cracking sound, as if they were smacking their lips?
No wonder her Blood Brotherhood Guards were shocked. Even Danny felt a chill down her spine when she saw it.
Fortunately, the air in the Red Wasteland was dry and dehydrated. After hundreds of years, the iron spears had only developed a layer of reddish-brown rust, and had not completely rotted into rust powder.
"It's really a little strange." Danny turned to ask Aggo. "Do the Centaurs have such a custom?"
"No …" the Blood Brotherhood Guard said uncertainly.
"Kalixi, every Khal has different habits, and they do things differently. This kind of thing doesn't go against our tradition," Afan interrupted.
Yeah, the old man came along too. He was in charge of taking care of the horses for the next few days.
"Maybe the residents of this city resisted too fiercely, and caused a lot of casualties to the Khal's Khalasar," Chola said softly.
Before leaving, he suggested, "Even if the Centaurs don't want to live in this city, we should send someone to clean it up. Maybe we can find some valuables, like that opal bracelet."
Qiao Ge shook his head when he heard that, and shouted, "We can't take the devil's things."
"Then last time you …"
"I picked up the iron bracelet in another White City. I didn't even enter this city," Qiao Ge quickly explained.
"Our goal this time is to explore the dragon bones. Let's put everything else aside for now," Danny decided.
Looking from outside the city, the third White City seemed to be a smaller replica of White Cloud City, but Danny who had entered the city keenly noticed the difference.
Firstly, the density and height of the houses were not as high as White Cloud City, and secondly, there were no "luxurious" palaces in this city.
There were originally seven or eight Centaurs left in the third White City, and when Danny and the rest arrived, they had already prepared food.
Yeah, three dragons flew above the city in advance, and the Centaurs knew that Kalixi was about to arrive when they saw the dragons.
During lunch break, Danny went to the "library" that Qiao Ge mentioned … It was actually the office of the city lord.
Similar to the parchment found in White Cloud City, the books could not be read, and only a few scrolls could be read.
Through one of the pictures, Danny could roughly determine the meaning of the existence of these White Cities.
The Silk Road of another world!
Queers, the pearl of the strait that connected the Jade Sea and the Summer Sea, its status was similar to the Suez Canal on Earth.
Meereen, the largest and most prosperous city in Slaver's Bay, and also the world's largest slave trading market.
At this time, on the map, Meereen, White Cloud City, and Queers were connected in a straight line.
Compared to the long sea route, crossing the Red Wasteland reduced the journey by seventy percent, and the land was safer than the unpredictable sea. So for a period of time, the White City was very prosperous, just like the famous cities on the Silk Road of the Celestial Empire.
"So, there's an ancient road between Meereen and White Cloud City?" Danny's finger slid lightly on the map, her mind racing.
If White Cloud City could not support the three dragons in the end, she could follow the "Silk Road" to the northwest, and finally build a city in the mountains near Meereen.
She was sure that as long as she followed the path on the map, she would definitely come across the fourth and fifth White Cities. Maybe they would not be as grand as White Cities, but at least she would be able to find the small villages that were used for travelers to rest a few hundred years ago.
Then, she could carry out her plan to farm to the end.
Entering the Red Wasteland did not seem to be a dead end, but an "otherworldly paradise" arranged by God. No one paid attention to her, and no one knew that she had dragons.
Prophecies, Deviant Ghosts, Jon Snow, and games of power in the Westeros could all go to hell!
When the Megalosaurus grew up, she would ride the Megalosaurus to the north, sweep through the Dothraki Sea, and be crowned as the only female Khal to unify the Eight Barrens.
Then, with the three dragons and hundreds of thousands of roaring warriors, the world would be hers to roar, and the whole world would tremble under her strappy riding sandals!
Qin Shihuang, Genghis Khan, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, they were all her, and they were all inferior to her.
"Hehehe …" Thinking of the beauty, Danny could not help but giggle.
"Kalixi, Kalixi … What's wrong with you?" Aggo's shout woke her up from her dream.
"Why are you looking for me?" she roared back in an unfriendly tone.
Aggo did not care about her attitude at all, and only widened his black almond-shaped eyes, shouting, "It's getting dark."
"So be it … Oh, it's time to go." Danny understood this time.
Their operation this time would be like when they crossed the wasteland, traveling at night.
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