"Your Majesty, you have to be careful. There are three ships with ten stonemen infected with the Gray Scale Disease in their cargo hold.
The stonemen were transported from the Lorne River.
The allied spies wanted to smuggle the stonemen to the three cities of Slaver's Bay with the intention of triggering the Gray Scale Disease, which is a hundred times more terrifying.
The Mermaid is only one of them. Please seal off the docks of Meereen and Astapor immediately. Do not let any foreign ships enter the ports. "
The sturdy black-haired youth had been tortured by the disease until he was deformed.
His eyes were no longer black and bright. His black hair with a few strands of silver had become dry and gray. His once short and strong body was thin and stooped. His bright and lively skin was sallow with small gray spots.
Moreover, even though they were two meters apart, Danny could smell the rancid vomit on his body and the rancid smell of feces on his clothes.
However, the Dragon Queen only increased the density of the fire mist around her, isolating the air and the virus from her body. Her expression was still as kind and amiable.
Even if the Dragon Queen did not show any signs of discrimination, Quentin still felt a sense of inferiority when she saw such a dazzling Dani.
He had come to propose marriage, but now he was in such a sorry state where he didn't even know if he was alive or dead. Not only was the other party not the "ten feet tall monster with a ten feet waist" that the slave master had described, but she was exquisite and charming, completely in line with all the legends and fantasies of a beautiful princess and queen.
The youth's expression darkened. He quietly took a few steps back, distancing himself from the queen. The oil lamp in his hand hung down, hiding his face and the disappointed expression on his face in the darkness.
"Your Majesty, please be careful and keep a distance from us. I … I and the people on the ship are infected with the Gray Scale Disease. Please don't get too close." He said in a dry voice.
When Dan Ni saw this, she had a good impression of this young man.
Well, it was not a romantic feeling, but she felt that this honest-looking Quentin's personality was not bad.
In terms of first impressions, he was much better than her eldest nephew who always had his eyes glued to the Iron Throne thousands of miles away.
The Dragon Queen comforted him, "Don't worry, the two Barbarian Wizards have already developed an antidote for the Gray Scale Disease. You will be fine."
"What, there's an antidote for the Grey Scale Disease?" Quentin was surprised.
His two companions and a few sailors also had looks of disbelief on their faces. At the same time, they were filled with anticipation.
The extinguished light in his eyes was once again as bright as the stars, flashing with the extreme longing and desire for life.
Danny nodded and said with certainty, "The two ships that were transporting Astapor have been seized. Through interrogating the spies, I found out about the alliance's evil plan.
Meanwhile, the spies who went to Meereen had already completed their mission. They had placed the stone men in the well of the commercial street and caused a small outbreak of the Greyscale Disease.
So, since half a month ago, I've been leading people to research and develop an antidote for Grayscale Disease. Now, the antidote is almost complete. "
"Your Majesty, are you sure?"
A tall, golden-haired young man stumbled out from behind Quentin.
The Queen took a closer look at him and recognized that he was a half-acquaintance she had met once before, "What's there to be sure about? Your ship should be heading to Kaiyuan City, right?
My royal fleet has been searching the outer seas of Kaiyuan all this time. I didn't expect you to come to Astapor. "
"Plop!" The tall, yellow-haired youth fell to his knees.
"That's great, we're saved." He covered his face and wept.
"What's wrong with you? How did you become spies transporting the stone men?" Danny asked curiously.
"Sigh!" Quentin sighed and said, "Do you still remember the meeting at the Merchant's House in Volantis? We were sitting in the courtyard waiting for the 'Widow by the Waterside' to summon us?"
"Oh, the Widow by the Waterside is very resourceful. You asked her about the merchant ships heading to Slave Bay?" Danny understood.
"Yes, we asked her for help and even brought her a sapphire hairpin. However, she accepted the gift but refused to help us," said the burly, barrel-bellied, tree-legged bald man.
The burly bald man was also present at the Merchant's House that day.
"Why? Other than you and me, Tyrion was also there that day. In fact, Tyrion was ranked before me. "
"Tyrion? Which Tyrion?" Quentin and the others were confused.
"Little Devil, Tywin's dwarf son," Danny said.
"He's also in Volantis … Ah!" The yellow-haired youth exclaimed. "I remember now, the one who fought with the female dwarf in the hall … the noseless male dwarf. I didn't expect him to be Tyrion. He's uglier than a devil. "
"Damn it, we didn't recognize him that day." He punched the deck and cursed in frustration.
"Tyrion's goal is the same as yours. The Widow by the Waterside did not hesitate and quickly arranged a ship for them," Danny said.
"This …" Quentin thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "The Widow said that we hid our goal and were not sincere and respectful to her."
"What happened after that? I seem to have seen you join the mercenary group, the Ragged Prince's Wind Blowing Team. "
"Ah, you saw it?" Quentin was shocked and nodded with a bitter smile. "That's right, we signed a contract with the Wind Blowing Team. In fact, there are more than ten Wind Blowing Team mercenaries on this' Mermaid '!
We originally planned to follow the mercenary group to Slaver's Bay and find a chance to slip away halfway.
But half a month after you burned the black wall, Danzo … the Wind Blowing Team's vice leader Danzo came to me with a few Volantis nobles.
They asked me if I was willing to be a spy for the alliance and disguise myself as a Dornish wine merchant to enter Kaiyuan. I told everyone that I was the son of a Dornish wine merchant.
When I heard that they would arrange a ship to send me to Slaver's Bay before the war broke out, I was more than happy to do so.
Then, I became the owner of the Mermaid and led a group of sailors arranged by the alliance to Slaver's Bay. "
Danny's eyes flashed coldly and said in a low voice, "Does the Wind Blowing Team know the secret of the stone men?"
The yellow-haired youth sitting on the floor smiled bitterly. "Then you'll have to ask who it is. We are also from the Wind Blowing Team, but we didn't know that there were stone men on the ship.
If we knew, we would have thrown them into the sea long ago. How would we have ended up in this mess?
That old turtle Danzo only told us to find out about Kaiyuan's military situation and secretly set fire to the wheat fields outside the city when it was ripe.
Yes, the alliance knows that you're doing the Great Leap Forward, and they want to destroy your grain production. "
"They're dreaming. Not to mention the fact that there are farmers guarding the wheat fields, under the strict household registration system, it's impossible for foreign merchants to leave the city silently." Danny sneered.
Under the Queen's rule, there were village elders, village chiefs, and centaur patrols who were also postal workers.
As mentioned before, in the early days of taking down Astapor, in order to avoid conflict between the nomadic centaurs and the farming villagers, even the centaur patrols were not allowed to enter the village without the village chief's permission.
This system continued to this day, and the three cities of Slaver's Bay were all like this. Each manor chose a village elder, and several manors combined to form a village. The village elder took turns as the village chief. There were militia within the village, and centaur light cavalry outside the village. The village was connected to the city by relay stations.
Not to mention spies, even the Meereen farmers who wanted to visit their relatives in Kaiyuan had to obtain identification from the village elder.
Quentin shook her head. "We don't know about the household registration system. The Volantis told me that I'm a Dornishman, and that I might receive preferential treatment.
To match my identity, the Windblown Group even prepared a dozen Westeros mercenaries to be my subordinates. "
At this point, Quentin turned to look at the sailors on the deck, and said with a complicated tone, "It's fortunate that they're here."
"How did you get infected?" Danny asked.
"When we went around the Valleglia Peninsula, we encountered a fast-moving Wall of Storm. The ship in the storm was like a rattle in the hands of a naughty child, and most of the cargo in the hold fell over. Then, a sailor found a stone man in the oil blanket. "
"The stone man is alive, and it's still moving!" Quentin emphasized with a pale face.
Of course, the stone man had to be alive, and living stone men were the source of infection.
The dead stone man would slowly become a real stone man, and the Grayscale Disease virus could not survive on stone.
"And then, you threw the stone man into the sea?"
"Of course we wanted to, but Captain Jack didn't allow it. He's a Volantis officer, and most of the sailors on the ship are his men.
By the way, there were two ships that set off from the port of Volantis that day, the Mermaid and the Sparrow.
The Sparrow's mast was broken in the storm, and the surviving sailors were transferred to the Mermaid.
Because there were too many people, it was too crowded, and the cabin became wet with water. Not long after, there were sailors who were infected with the Grayscale Disease.
At that time, I had asked Captain Jack to immediately abandon the stone man, but he sternly rejected me, and only killed the Grayscale Disease patients and threw them into the sea. "
"At its peak, there were 550 crew members on the Mermaid." Quentin pointed at the sparse number of sailors and gestured to the size of the ship. She smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, take a look. There are so many people on such a ship. How can the infection be stopped?
As more and more people were infected and thrown into the sea, the sailors who were once loyal to Captain Jack began to be recruited by me.
Yes, the Westeros mercenaries had long since joined me.
When we first entered the Bay of Sorrows, I finally gathered enough sailors to revolt.
It was a bloody battle that lasted for three days, and more than 200 people died. Captain Jack finally compromised, and agreed to abandon the stone man.
Perhaps the Seven Gods were cursing us, or perhaps too many people died, and there was no time to clean up the corpses … Finally, the Grayscale Disease evolved into the terrifying Grayscale Disease.
Needless to say, everyone was affected, and everyone was infected.
Then, Captain Jack persuaded more than half of the people around me.
He convinced everyone that since we are going to die anyway, we might as well sail the ship to Kaiyuan, and complete the mission given by the alliance. "
As if worried that the Dragon Queen would not understand, Quentin explained, "The spies were very determined, and very loyal to the alliance. In fact, other than us mercenaries on the surface, the other sailors were all carefully selected loyalists. "
Danny nodded, and sighed, "I know. Last time at the Astapor Pier, the spies sacrificed their own lives to protect their companions on the other ship, and to not expose the 'Stone Man Plan'. "
Quentin revealed a look of relief, and said, "Captain Jack's reputation was very high, and he had a lot of charisma. He once again took control of the ship.
However, he did not know my identity, and did not know that I did not want the alliance's evil plan to succeed.
He only thought that we mercenaries were afraid of death, and that was why we revolted. In order to appease the people, he did not kill the mercenaries who revolted.
Even more fortunately, he was over 60 years old, and his body was weak. Not long after he entered Slave Bay, he could not hold on and died of the disease.
Then, my companions and I once again seized control of the Mermaid.
We killed a group of loyalists who revolted, and revealed our identities to the remaining people, promising that you would save me, save us.
They had hope of survival — even if the rational people knew how slim the hope was, they still changed the course and sailed the ship here. "
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