At night, the moonlight is hazy.

The large southbound group chose to camp near a valley with a stream.

Song Zheng was lying on a grassy field, holding a blade of grass in his mouth, and was looking at the knights around him from the corner of his eye.

The knights roamed around him and Thrall all the way, giving them no chance to break away from the group.

As the knights brought over a large plate of roast meat and wine, he felt even Thrall's gaze look at him with deep doubt.

"I'm really not Gianna's entourage, I originally ......wanted to deceive the knight captain, so I made it up temporarily," Song Zheng explained to the orcs beside him in a helpless whisper.

However, the preferential treatment he has received so far makes his explanation extremely weak.

A light rain began to fall in the sky, and it was pouring down.

Although the rain was not heavy, it also forced people camping in the wilderness to scramble to pitch their tents or shelter their goods.

Song Zheng was used to walking in the mountains and forests, but he didn't care much about the light rain, and immediately went to help the merchants behind him pack up their things.

As soon as he walked to a carriage, Sal behind him pulled him with a sharp hand, causing him to take a big step back.

"Be careful!" Thrall's voice was low and strained.

Song Zheng was puzzled.

With a muffled sound, a long arrow burst through the air, and then slammed into the wall of the carriage next to Song Zheng.

"This is ......" Song Zheng was stunned, if it wasn't for Sal pulling him just now, I'm afraid he would have been pierced through the chest by that sharp arrow at this moment.

But before he could think too much about it, the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air was heard again.

At the same time, there were already people around shouting 'enemy attack'!

The whole camp was suddenly thrown into chaos like a fryer.

The knight's shouts of command, the screams of someone wounded, and the cry of panic echoed throughout the wilderness.

"Anyone would dare to attack Gianna's convoy?" Song Zheng was very shocked in his heart, and this sneak attack still took place in Lordanlun's territory.

However, in the face of the crossbow arrows shot from the darkness, everyone could not fight back for a while, and Song Zheng could only hide under the carriage with Sal, while Sal grabbed a large bag of grain and used it as a shield to resist those crossbow arrows.

Perhaps because of the hidden effect of the thief's profession, Song Zheng also has good eyesight at night, and at this moment he can clearly see that those crossbow arrows are coming from both sides of this valley...... In other words, they may well have fallen into someone else's trap, and someone has already laid an ambush in this valley.

"It's a syndicate! Protect Princess Gianna! Someone shouted, but the sound was soon drowned out by screams and cries.

"Syndicate? It turned out to be those thieves ......" Song Zheng was stunned when he heard this, in his impression, those syndicate thieves were at most just robbing passing passengers, and the team in front of him only guarded as many as five or six hundred knights, not to mention that once the news of the attack on Gianna came out, he was afraid that Kurtilas and Lordaeron would immediately carry out a large-scale cleanup of the syndicate.

"This is absolutely impossible, those syndicate thieves were just formed by the broken nobles of Alterac, if they had this courage, they would not have surrendered to the orcs early when the orcs invaded, so that the country was ruined in the end...... Could it be the cursed church? Song Zheng felt a chill in his heart, he definitely didn't believe that the syndicate thieves would have the courage to take the initiative to attack Gianna's team, thinking of the previous hunt for himself and Bridget by the syndicate thieves, most of the scene in front of him was still controlled by the cursed church in secret.

Just when Song Zheng was hesitating in his heart, Sal next to him quietly pulled him and said in a low voice: "Let's go, now is the best time to leave." ”

Now the whole camp was in chaos, and the knights of the guards were all concentrating on the dozen or so carriages in front, which should be where Gianna and some nobles were located, and the merchants who followed behind were completely unprotected, and most of them died in the rain of arrows from the sneak attack.

Seeing that the rain of arrows in the air has become sparse, it should be that the first wave of attacks of those syndicate thieves has ended, and this is indeed the best time to escape.

However, Song Zheng chose to refuse, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "You go first, I'll ...... Can't go, can't go. ”

"Why?" Sal looked at Song Zheng in surprise.

"Because...... Those syndicate thieves must have come for me. Song Zheng smiled bitterly, although there was no direct evidence to prove this, but his instinct as a thief told him that things should be like this.

It's just that he really didn't expect that the Cursed Church would be so crazy that in order to hunt him down, he would dare to attack Gianna's team.

"They're here to kill you?" Thrall was also surprised when he heard this, obviously he didn't think that the syndicate thieves were just here to kill the young human next to him.

"Yes, remember what I told you about the Church of the Damned?"

"Remember, you said they wanted to turn everyone into undead and thus control the whole world." Sal hesitated for a moment before saying.

"Yes, it's those crazy guys, this attack is likely to be planned by the people of the Cursed Church, you take the opportunity to leave, now my side is estimated to be the most dangerous place." Song Zheng said helplessly.

There was a hint of hesitation on Sal's face, but he quickly made a decision, and said in a deep voice: "You saved me, now that you are in danger, I must not leave like this, don't worry, I will protect you." ”

Song Zheng was speechless for a moment, although the future chief of the tribe was righteous enough, but his orc's green appearance was extremely conspicuous even in this dark night, if he left, he could still find a chance to hide in the chaotic crowd and escape, but with such a conspicuous target as him, it was impossible for him to pretend to be dead.

At this moment, the rain of arrows in the darkness had completely stopped, and some swift black shadows began to rush out of the dense forests on both sides of the valley, and were rapidly approaching the temporary camp, apparently preparing for a frontal attack.

"Let's go to the carriage ahead." Song Zheng immediately made a decision, if he continued to hide under the carriage at this time, he could only wait for death.

Hundreds of knights had gathered near the carriage in front, and they had erected their heavy shields and put up a defensive posture, which should be the safest place at present.

Although Song Zheng tried his best to avoid getting close to Gianna all the way, so as not to expose his identity, he couldn't care so much at this time.