Chapter 42: A Changed History?
Song Zheng originally just wanted to introduce the situation of last night's battle, so that Karen and the others could be prepared for battle, but he didn't expect it to directly make the knight captain from a noble family scared to move forward.
"I shouldn't have said too much if I knew it......" Song Zheng regretted a little in his heart, it seemed that the knight captain's courage was not too big.
Of course...... Perhaps he underestimated the impact of the undead on the secular people, ordinary people must be afraid of those who have come back from the dead, this is the case on Earth, and in this world of Azeroth, it is estimated that it is similar, and it is estimated that only those strong-willed paladins can calmly face the undead disaster!
"Those undead should not be able to exist for a long time, if the color is bright today, the dark and rotten aura has long since dissipated, most of those undead have become corpses again, if we wait here for the Paladins of the Church to come, we are likely to miss the best rescue opportunity, if there is an accident with Her Royal Highness the Princess...... I am afraid that responsibility is not something we can afford to bear. Song Zheng hurriedly whispered.
Karen's face changed, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword loosened and clenched, obviously hesitant.
"What's more...... If we can successfully rescue Her Royal Highness the Princess, it will be a great credit, even if we can't win, but as long as we rescue Princess Gianna......" Song Zheng continued.
"Rescue Her Highness Gianna...... Okay, let's go and get back quickly! Karen gritted her teeth, finally made up her mind, and rode again.
Song Zheng hurriedly followed, but when they arrived at the valley where the battle had taken place last night, they could only see a mess as far as the eye could see.
A large number of goods and wagons had been abandoned here, and there was a lot of blood on the ground, but there was not a single corpse, not even the carcasses of animals.
"That's where we were attacked last night, when we had just set up camp." Song Zheng pointed to the goods scattered on the ground in front of him, most of which were grains such as rice and flour, which were scattered at the moment, causing white everywhere around, and some were even stained reddish-brown with blood.
"What about Princess Gianna?" Karen asked with a worried look on her face.
"They fled south, and here I have separated from them, preparing to return to Talenmir for help." Song Zheng said that he didn't dare to say that he ran north just to escape faster.
"Fled south? Alas, it would be nice if they ran north. Karen sighed heavily, clamped her legs between the horse's belly, and then continued to lead the troops south to find Gianna and the others.
Song Zheng also sighed in his heart, if Gianna and the others had chosen to flee to the north at the beginning last night, maybe they would have met Karen and the others on the way like himself.
However, if this is the case, those Church of the Damned and the Syndicate thieves will probably continue to pursue north, and he and Sally may not be able to escape.
As we descended south, more and more corpses appeared on the ground, most of them knights of Lordaeron and Dalaran, and the scars on their bodies were densely packed, and some of them even had their armor completely twisted, all of which showed everyone how cruel the battle had been last night.
The faces of Karen and the others also sank completely, these knights must be the knights who escorted Gianna south, according to the current situation, it seems that Gianna and the others were pursued by the enemy, and suffered great losses along the way, so they had to keep sending the most heroic knights to break off.
Eventually, the group came to the vicinity of the bridge, and the tragedy caused many of the accompanying knights to vomit on the spot.
Song Zheng was also shocked when he looked at the scene in front of him, the bridge was not too big, it was completely filled with corpses at the moment, and even the river under the bridge was blocked by the falling corpses.
Among them were the corpses of knights, the corpses of syndicate thieves, but more often the corpses of merchants and adventurers...... These are the resurrected undead, but after participating in the great battle here, these undead are not known whether they were killed by Gianna and others, or if they have exhausted the power of darkness, and they all fell here.
"It was the syndicate thieves who intercepted Her Highness Gianna here, and then Your Highness and they are probably caught between the front and back......" Karen immediately deduced the general situation of last night after seeing the large number of syndicate thieves' corpses at the other end of the bridge.
"Charles...... What is the name of this place, and is it out of the territory of Tarummir? Karen immediately looked at the adjutant beside her with a gloomy face.
"Captain...... Over here...... It's still in our Talummere territory, and I patrolled the river with my troops last year......," replied the adjutant wistfully.
"Damn it!" Karen scolded in a low voice, looking at the expression on his face, it is estimated that he has the heart to eat people.
"Let's find out if there are any survivors." Song Zheng hurriedly shouted.
He felt a chill in his heart, judging from the tragedy of the battlefield in front of him, Gianna and the others were almost wiped out, and even those exquisite carriages with the Eye of Dalaran were abandoned by the river.
And these people should have been implicated by him!
"What the hell is going on...... Could it be that Gianna died like this? This...... This is too far from the history of Warcraft, isn't it, is it because of my appearance that the historical course of the entire world has been affected? Song Zheng's heart throbbed, and he couldn't help but think of the so-called butterfly effect.
If Gianna had died in the wilderness of Tarenmere, then Arthas would not have been able to make another trip to Stratholme......
"Quick, find Her Highness Gianna!" Karen screamed, and even he didn't care about the blood on the ground, and hurriedly jumped off his horse, and then rummaged through the piles of corpses near the bridge.
Song Zheng also got off the horse to help find him, he was still pretending to be Gianna's entourage at the moment, so he naturally had to be more anxious than others, and even more sad.
However, to everyone's relief, after turning over all the corpses, Gianna's corpse was not seen here.
"There's no Carl's body here, he's a paladin next to the princess, they might be out of the encirclement!" Song Zheng was overjoyed in his heart, but then he thought that there were no mages and knights of the Cursed Church among the corpses here, and I was afraid that those people would also chase them all the way.
"Push all the bodies out of the bridge, let's go find ...... Go to the rescue of Her Highness Gianna! Hearing this, Karen hurriedly mounted her horse and then led her troops to continue south.
"I hope Gianna and the others are okay......" Song Zheng frowned as he followed him across the bridge...... There are indeed marks of horses' hooves here, but there are no traces of a large number of knights passing!