Chapter 8: The Crisis in Nanhai Town
The night was shrouded, and Song Zheng's heart was also full of shadows.
Although he had long known the dangers of the world of Azeroth, when the crisis of this undead catastrophe came, he couldn't help but feel a trace of fear rising in his heart.
This is no longer a game world that can be played at will, but a real world, where you may be able to experience the horrors of the desperate plague and the army of the undead!
And he is still just a first-class thief at the moment, and it will be very difficult to survive this huge crisis.
Song Zheng carefully put away the secret letter, and since Na Gu Xin was a mage of the Cursed Church, the black gem in his money bag and the green liquid in the crystal bottle were probably not good things.
"The green liquid in this bottle can't be related to the plague, right......" Song Zheng's heart moved slightly, although he couldn't be sure, but he didn't dare to have too much contact with this bottle, after all, the undead plague was still unbroken for many years after the war, he hurriedly refilled the crystal bottle and black gems into a money bag, and then hid them in the dark compartment in the corner of the room.
Song Zheng didn't sleep well that night.
The next morning, he left his lodgings early in the morning to find a new target near the docks to increase his income, and then went to buy some useful supplies to stock up on in the face of the impending crisis of the dead.
Song Zheng has been in Nanhai Town for a long time, and he is very familiar with the environment here, and everything on the surrounding streets looks no different from usual, but as a professional thief, Song Zheng is faintly uneasy.
There always seems to be some strange eye patrolling the streets......
Out of the thief's instinct, Song Zheng immediately gave up his plan to go to the dock to increase his income, and instead went to the gold-encrusted rose tavern he used to frequent, ready to inquire about what important things had happened recently.
However, as soon as he entered the tavern, he was immediately surrounded by several men with fierce faces, who did not look like people who often came to this gold-studded rose.
"Boy, where did you go yesterday afternoon?" One of the men, with two distinct scars on his face, asked coldly.
"Yesterday afternoon...... It seems that I have been to many places......" Song Zheng's heart sank a little, and he hurriedly looked at the other people in the tavern, only to find that the adventurers who were very loud on weekdays were deliberately curled up to stay away from these people, and the fat boss kept glancing at him with those small eyes, signaling him not to move.
"Have you ever been to the West Trade Zone?" The scarface asked coldly.
"I didn't ...... No, I was hunting in the forest outside the city yesterday and also encountered a hungry wolf with a wound in my left hand, thanks to a passing priest who took me back to the church for treatment. Song Zheng said and hurriedly stretched out his left hand, under the treatment of the holy light, the wound had already healed, but there were still some scars.
The scarred face looked at the scars on Song Zheng's hands, and immediately turned to look at a tall and thin man next to him.
The tall and thin man hurriedly stepped forward and took a closer look at Song Zheng's left hand, then nodded, "From my previous experience as a trainee priest, this guy does have traces on his hands that have just been treated by the Holy Light...... And I've heard that this guy has been hunting outside the city lately, and that the wolf skins we got our hands on recently were all bought from him at a low price. ”
"Hmph, it turned out to be a poor ghost hunter, so let's go to other taverns." The scarface snorted coldly, and finally waved his hand to signal the rest of the people to let go of Song Zheng, and then walked out of the tavern without looking back.
"What's going on?" Song Zheng rubbed his twisted shoulder, and hurriedly asked the fat boss in a low voice.
"I heard that a big man lost something very important after coming to Nanhai Town, and now several powerful gangsters in the city are helping to find it everywhere, and almost all the thieves in the city have been caught by him." The fat boss said resentfully, obviously the other party's actions had affected the business of his tavern.
Song Zheng felt a chill in his heart, and immediately thought of the money bag he got yesterday, and hurriedly asked, "What did you lose, it is worth them to be so excited?" ”
"It's probably the son of a big aristocratic family who lost something important or something like a title deed, otherwise he wouldn't be so excited...... someone next to him guessed.
Song Zheng shook his head slightly and said, "Great noble...... I didn't seem to see any missing notices when I passed by the city hall. ”
"It's definitely not a noble, if those big families lost something, the army in the city would have started to search door to door, how can these gangsters come to find it, I think most of them have lost something shady, and they don't dare to alarm the city hall, so the gangsters will come forward to find it." The other immediately retorted.
"You know a fart, you know how to guess, let me tell you, the one who lost the thing is a mage, it is said that he just arrived in Nanhai Town and lost something important, maybe it is some precious magic material, the city hall did not send the army to search for it just because he was afraid that the thief was too scared and would destroy the thing." An old man who was fairly well-informed snorted coldly.
Song Zheng couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard this, at this moment he was basically sure that this matter must have been caused by the money bag he accidentally stole.
The mage named Guxin had a huge power behind him, but he definitely didn't want his identity as a cursed sect to be exposed, so he didn't let the officials of Nanhai Town handle the matter, but entrusted those gangsters to find it.
Although he was very nervous, in order not to show his feet, Song Zheng still stayed in this tavern and drank two glasses as usual, and chatted absentmindedly with a few more familiar adventurers.
However, during this time, three groups of people broke into the tavern to conduct searches, and all of them were related to previous events.
"It seems that I really lost something very important this time, seeing that those people just now didn't have them, they were the people of Baron Fernand's family, and the power of the Baron's family in Nanhai Town was very great, and most of the docks were controlled by them." Someone whispered.
Song Zheng became more and more worried in his heart, the plague had not yet broken out at this time, and the Cursed Church should not have been wanted by the Lordaeron Kingdom, even if he took the letter to report it, it would be useless.
What's more, there was no concept of the undead at all during this period, even if the last Guardian, Medivan, ran as a prophet to King Terenus of Lordaeron. Minethil II issued a warning, but he was still regarded as madness, and if he went to warn of the invasion of some undead scourge, he was afraid that he would immediately be imprisoned as a madman or a god.
"I don't know what kind of scale the Cursed Church has secretly developed in Nanhai Town, but Baron Fernand is likely to have been affected by the Cursed Church, it seems that it is better to leave Nanhai Town for a while......" Song Zheng secretly thought in his heart, although he had never shown his ability to steal in front of outsiders, and no one knew that he was related to thieves, but there were various possibilities in this world with all kinds of mysterious magic, maybe there was some kind of tracking magic that could find some clues, If you continue to stay in Nanhai Town, you will probably be in trouble.
Song Zheng immediately thought of Bridget before. If Abidis's invitation is accepted, although it will be more dangerous to hunt in the northern Alterac Mountains, he will be able to get rid of the dangerous vortex of this South Sea Town immediately.
But he'd already rejected Bridget before. Abidis's invitation, if he offered to go with her to the Alterac Mountains, would be a bit unspeakable, and he would have to find a better reason.