章 13: Chapter 13: Big Spider and Little Finger
"What? He ran away!"
The Greatjon slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground, then grabbed the Smalljon by the collar and pushed him against the wall.
When he learned that things had gone wrong, he knew that the Amber family would become a laughing stock among the entire northern nobility for a long time to come - they couldn't even catch a fifteen-year-old child.
"I'll go chase him back now."
Realizing the possible impact of this incident, Smalljon immediately expressed his intention to head south to hunt down Jon.
"Alright! Why are you going? Do you want the entire Seven Kingdoms to know that Lord Stark's son broke his oath, or that we, the Umber family, can't even catch a fifteen-year-old child?"
"Lord Stark's son did not break his oath. He showed Kent the Night's Watch's permission to leave."
Smalljon said aggrievedly, his body huddled like a giant bear.
"No one else will care!"
The Greatjon angrily drove his son away, and had no choice but to go to the maester of Last Hearth and ask him to write a letter to Winterfell to tell him that Jon had continued to move south.
As for Jon, after running for several hours, he was sure that he had finally shaken off his pursuers, so he found a sheltered place to take a rest.
"If it weren't for this system, this level would have been difficult to pass."
Jon rejoiced in his heart and wanted to see if there were any changes in the system, so he closed his eyes and saw the familiar Chinese characters reappear.
[Recognition Points (Going to King's Landing): 16/300; admiration Points (Leaving the Great Wall): 242/300]
"What is this so-called admiration point? It seems that I have almost collected all of them, but I haven't done anything."
Jon was very confused and began to analyze.
First of all, no matter the previous points of Recognition or admiration, they must come from people, there is no doubt about that.
But he clearly remembered that he had almost failed to collect dozens of recognition points before, but now he had more than 200 admiration points, which made him very puzzled.
Suddenly Jon touched the address book on his chest and thought that maybe because he had promised some Night's Watch soldiers that he would visit their families, they had placed their hopes and expectations on him?
'If we wait until some new soldiers are sent to the Shadow Tower and let the Night's Watch stationed there know about this, perhaps the admiration points will increase further.'
Jon was originally in a bad mood because Dom's family repaid him with ingratitude, but he unexpectedly gained something from the system, which made him feel better.
But now Jon still faces a hidden danger, that is, whether Robb, the agent of Winterfell, knows about this, and what is his attitude towards his leaving the Wall.
The best case scenario now is that Winterfell knows nothing and I can pass through quickly.
The worst outcome is that Robb has set up checkpoints, waiting for Ned to fall into the trap. Once he is locked up, Ned will be doomed. He is powerless and no one will believe what he says.
After thinking it over carefully, Jon decided that he should strive for the best result now. It would be best if he could pass through the Stark's fiefdom and leave the North before the news reached Winterfell.
Of course, we also have to accept the worst outcome, which is that Robb has received the news in advance and set up checkpoints, and then we will have to find a way to break through again.
So Jon decided to reduce his rest time and travel as quickly as possible.
He had thought that the hardest part about going south to rescue Ned would be leaving the Great Wall, but he hadn't expected that the real difficulties would only begin after leaving the Great Wall. This made him sigh helplessly that the inertia of the development of things was so strong that it was not something he could change casually.
At this time in King's Landing, two ambitious men were sitting together talking about Ned.
Varys, who had served as the chief of court intelligence since the time of Aerys, had his own intelligence network. When Robert ascended the Iron Throne, he spared his life, allowing him to survive.
In Robert's opinion, a castrated foreigner would not pose any threat to him, so he let Varys continue to serve as the chief of intelligence.
However, no one knew that he had been plotting the restoration of the Targaryens. Known as the Spider, he always appeared as a fat and slow-moving man. He always wore loose clothes and soft-soled slippers. If it were not for the incense on his body, he would be silent wherever he went.
He is also proficient in various disguises, and even his expression and steps can completely change into that of another person.
Sitting opposite him was a thin middle-aged man with a handsome face and gray-green eyes.
This person is Petyr Baelish the Littlefinger. He also has his own ambition, which is to improve his title and class as much as possible and sit as high as he can. If there is a chance, he will not refuse the famous chair.
He was just over thirty years old and had a small moustache on his chin with a hint of white in it, which made him look a little evil.
Petyr played with the empty wine glass in his hand and asked tentatively, "I heard that our Hand of King recently received two letters from the North."
Petyr knew that Varys had used his position to place his little bird among the servants of the Red Keep, and no one knew the secrets of the palace better than him.
It is also said that when he was loyal to Aerys, Aerys told him many secret passages in the Red Castle. The huge Red Castle seemed like a big nest to him, and he, as the big spider, was in control of all the movements here.
Varys smiled modestly, or rather he was always smiling, for it seemed as if it was a permanent feature of his face. He looked at Petyr and said, "It is only a letter from the Wall."
As the only person Ned chose to trust in King's Landing, Littlefinger naturally knew what had been bothering Ned recently. He just wanted to take this opportunity to test to what extent Varys had grasped the situation in the court.
At the same time, see if I can exchange some information with him.
Littlefinger also has his own intelligence network, but compared to Varys, who has been operating in King's Landing for many years, it is still a bit simple and inefficient, and can only grasp some information outside King's Landing and some individual areas in the city.
Varys asked, "I heard that the Hand of King has been investigating Lord Arryn's affairs recently, and it seems that he has made some other discoveries."
Little Finger put down his glass, raised his eyebrows and replied, "Are you referring to that matter? Indeed, it seems that the Hand of King has temporarily suspended the investigation on this matter because of the letter."
The two men were playing charades with each other, and what they were talking about was the matter of the king's three children, or to put it more bluntly, the knight they were discussing was the incest between Queen Cersei and his brother Jaime.
Although both of them said they had some doubts about this shocking secret, they were not sure enough. Besides, even if they investigated it, it would not do them any good, so they chose to wait and see tacitly.
Now that Ned has arrived, Littlefinger, who is determined to create chaos and fish in troubled waters, can no longer hold back, so under Ned's guidance, Ned begins to investigate the matter.
He wanted to see what kind of situation would arise between a country's Hand of King and queen.
It's just that recently, it seems that Jon's "interruption" has distracted Ned and he didn't continue to act according to Littlefinger's guidance, so he has to find a way to deal with this "episode" of Jon.
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